madis needs a special waiver from congress to work. >>> and roberts f. kennedy jr. the meeting to head up the vaccine safety commission. he met yesterday and told reporters he was asked to chair a commission on safety. again, it's not made a final decision on whether there's a committee and who will head it up. >>> the transition team is trying to tamp down rhetoric with hispanics, in a call to build the wall. get with hispanic leaders who say the trump team message was the war is over. officials made it clear they're ready to collaborate on an array of issues. >>> publishing giant harpercollins has decided to stop selling a book by monica crowley after a cnn k-file uncovered 50 passages that were plaguerized. crowley's 2012 book "what the bleep just happened" appeared to lift work published by columnist news reporters and think tanks. >>> 51 minutes past the hour. volkswagen close to reaching an enormous settlement. we'll tell you how much the company will pay for that horrible emissions scandal and the rare move it's making to accept responsibility. that's next. t

. >> to oppose a policy -- >> madis is really establishing himself as a person unafraid to differ with the president in these hearings, that he supports the iran deal but when america gives its word we have to keep it. reporting live from washington, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> general madis is getting attention for his stance on lgbt members in the law enforcement. he has no intention of reversing the repeal of don't ask don't tell. allows gay and lesbian and transgender to serve. and betsy devos also this afternoon. we inview the you to stay with the white house transition leading up to donald trump's inauguration nest friday. >>> and a lot of damage in philadelphia. one car flipped over and the other slammed into a traffic light and crash nood a tree. it happened before 7:00 this morning at caster avenue. and we are working to find out how badly the victims were hurt. >>> a driver is facing dui charges for hitting an unmarked police vehicle on the roosevelt boulevard and the suspect's car hit the police car and fled the scene at tyson avenue at success this morning. t

madis abruptly cancelled his hearing with house members. mike pompeo is scheduled for today. and they have pushed back nominees for more vetting including education pick betsy devos. >>> new jersey senator cory booker opposed senator jeff sessions nomination yesterday saying he's unfit to serve as attorney general. booker became the first senator to testify against a colleague. >> the next attorney general must bring hope and healing to this country. and this demands a more courageous empathy than senator sessions' record demonstrates. >> senator sessions has strongly denied any hints of a racist past. the senate will vote early next month on whether to confirm as the next attorney general. >>> president-elect donald trump has named a philadelphia native to run the department of veterans affairs. dr. david shulkin will be taking over the va that's been understand fire for years now for long wait times and too much paperwork. shulkin currently serves as an under secretary to the va. >>> 56 degrees outside this morning. three teenagers are in custody after police say they commi

also on the hill, general james madis, trump's nominee for defense secretary, madis needs a special waivererore he can head to the pentagon. and attorney general jeff sessions, one of trump's more controversial picks is running into opposition. more than a dozen members of the naacp stages this sit-in at the senator's office last night. the president of the naacp brooks was arrested and handcuffed by police. brooks is calling on sessions to withdraw his name from the selection process. >>> hill and hillary clinton both will attend donald trump's inauguration later this month. also attending, former president george w. bush and his wife laura. george h.w. bush will not be there because of health issues. jimmy carter will be on hand. it is always good to see the former presidents and also former opponents at these inaugurations. a peaceful transition of power in the united states. a truly remarkable thing. >>> new york governor and drew cuomo wants to make free tuition a reality at his state's public colleges. the governor making that announcement he was joined by free tuition champion senator

a confirmation hearing is said to open today for james madis.dis abruptly cancelled a different hearing with house members. and for cia director mike pomp pio is rescheduled for today. and upcoming nominees for more vetting including education pick betsy devos. >>> new jersey senator corey brooker made an unprecedented plea against jeff sessions yesterday. he became the first ever to testify against a colleague's nomination, criticizing him for alleged racism. >> the next attorney general must bring hope and healing to this country and this demands a more courageous empathy than senator sessions' record demonstrates. >> senator sessions has strongly denied any racist past. >>> president-elect donald trump has picked a philadelphia area native to run the department of veterans affairs. >> dr. is david shullken. he has run penn, drexel and we talked to his parents yesterday by phone. >> never been more excites in his life. >> when he sees pain, he wants to be right there and be part of the healing process. >> local veterans learned about the pick

confirmÓ el viernes a los generales retirados john kelly como secretario de seguridad nacional y james madisdice mÁs que 1000 palabras y puede despertar una serie de incÓgnitas y este es el caso de esa fotografÍa del ahora ex presidente barack obama. un fotÓgrafo captó el momento en que obama observa desde el aire la casa en la que viviÓ los Últimos ocho aÑos, la mansiÓn presidencial donde tomó las decisiones que cambiarÁn el rumbo del paÍs y quizÁs tambiÉn del mundo. sÓlo sabe lo que en ese momento lo que le pasÓ por la mente. marÍa: tras la ceremonia, el ex presidente barack obama y su esposa michelle, fueron trasladados, obama dijo que pasarÁ unos dÍas tranquilos para reflexionar y poder reflexionar. leÓn: unos hombres armados con martillos causaron pÁnico. las ventanas de un bank of america,al igual que por matronas fueron destruidas. unas 200 personas fueron arrestadas en las protestas que iniciaron desde las siete de la maÑana en la capital del paÍs. marÍa: a nivel local, esta tarde, cientos de personas participaron en oakland para protestar por la posesiÓn del ahora presidente de los

also on the hill, general james madis who needs a special waiver before he can take the job.ttorney general nominee jeff sessions a more controversial because of his view on race relations. members of the naacp staged a sit-in at the alabama's senator's office last night. the naacp president brooks was handcuffed and arrested. brooks is calling to withdraw his name from the selection process. >>> bill and hillary clinton will attend the inauguration later this month. aides to both confirmed they have rsvp'd. and former president bush will be there and his wife laura will be there. george h.w. bush will not attend. and former president jimmy carter has confirmed he'll be on hand. >> number one, it's got to be hard for hillary clinton to sit there and watch donald trump to be inaugurated. on the other hand, it's great for america to see this peaceful transition of power. remember, al gore, after the recount had to stand up there and watch george w. bush be sworn in. you know, it's one of the great sights for our country. >> unique, heartwarming. i can't imagine how many thousan

so general madeis i wouldn't -- general madis i wouldn't presume to speak about. i spoke with miami served with him. a remarkable man and a remarkable choice and for people who are deeply skeptical atle mr. trump, very, very reaweout r shiring the defense department, the most important appointment that he will make, that the appointment is one that is universally praised. i think is very encouraging. george washington. i don't know if you have read this sex -- this section of my book. >> i heard many of your stories over the years and always face nestled i what they native americans said about george washington. >> correct. i have the entire story about that, which i called in the indian prophecy, and the story is unbelievable but a it's very complicated0. our sourcer is dr. craig, life-long friend of was and an eye witness to this story. the story is that apparently washington went out about -- before the revolution, eight years after a battle nonas brad dock's defeat one of the worst days in history of the british army. where basically they marched into a trap a

mady haines heard all the racket from her dorm room. >> i could see all the flashing lights. i was like yep, there's a crane and they're definitely breaking this building down right now. >> reporter: it was half done by 11:00 p.m. and they finished the job by the morning. the old building had become notorious in the neighborhood. >> boarded up, abandoned obviously but i think people kind of lived there. >> reporter: but why demolish it in the middle of the night? we couldn't contact the owner today, but he reportedly said a blight notice had been issued on the property because squatters had moved in, so he began the tear-down immediately. the property had become a battle ground for affordable housing advocates because the former 18 apartments were rent controlled and plans for a new building offer only 4 affordable units. what may be built here may still be a point of contention, but for now, no one seems to miss what was here. >> at least it's nothing. >> reporter: you don't miss the old building? >> nothing is better than what it was, yeah. >> of course we did want to talk

and the nominee for defense secretary general madis, he took a hard stance against russia, we must defend ourselves when and where we must. >> we have a long list of times we tried to engage positively with russia and relatively short list with successes in that regard and the most important thing is that we recognize the reality of what we deal with, with mr. putin. >> and the issue of russia, both pompeo and mattis taking a different stance than what we heard from donald trump so far. and the senate will hold confirmation hearings including rick per and tom price to be housing and human services secretary. >>> a late night session kept the senate awake to pass a budget. a 51-48 along party lines the senate passed a budget resolution, the resolution will allow republicans to come to the floor with a reconciliation package meaning the affordable care act could be repealed of a majority vote instead of a super majority vote. now the white house where there is underway, president obama surprised vice president biden with a special sendoff and this has been an emotional one as we listen and

mad it abo madis abruptly cancelled a hearing. and lawmakers have pushed back nominees for more vetting including education pick betsy devos. >>> here at home this morning, three teens are in custody after police say they committed three separate robberies just a few minutes apart before 1:00 this morning in the city's brewerytown section. police say the teens took money and electronics from victims. >>> philadelphia police have the driver of this red car in custody. they say he hit a detective's unmarked car and took off. officers chased him down. the drive is now charged with driving under the influence. >>> it's 6:34 right now. we're learning new information about the 14-year-old girl who was raped and killed allegedly by her adoptive mother boy friend as her mother watched. the lawyer said she was abused and neglected in at least three other homes. the lawyer for grace packer's parents say they lost custody of grace some she was a toddler on allegations that other adults were abusing her children. it was confirmed to nbc10 new

. >> joining me now is lauren fox, phillip stetz and fernando madi. all right. a lot of talk about in few minutes. your response on donald trump and the latest tweet in that arch of emotion seems like it is more laid back now. >> look, john lewis is absolutely a hero. i don't doubt that. but in 2008 he compared john mccain to george wallace. he had said if mitt romney were elected we would go back to segregati segregation. he has the ability -- now he's saying, by the way, this isn't a legitimate president and he's fund raidsing off of it. and so trump has a right to defend himself. i agree with the vice president elect. funny thing is you look at what's going on right now and we're all talking about it, but the fact is this is a win for trump. we're not talking about his secretaries -- you know, the secretaries that are up last week that testified in congress. and frankly, republicans just passed in the house in the senate the ability to kind of defund obama care. we're not talking about that. >> i want to go to fernando. first off, i want to go to what's some

on the other hand on capitol hill, with madis.e's sending two different signals with those choices. >> there were discrepancies up and down with those nominee issues sent to the hill this week. let me ask you, we've got this senate intelligence investigation coming and the trump administration report that he promises within 90 dayses. do we know what that white house review, what report, will look like? have they put any meat on that bone? >> no, as far as i know, that he drived it as my people put out a report in 90 days. this is another thing that trump continues to do, wait a few days i'll give you a report on x and y. just wait, i'll tell you what nobody else knows about the russian hacking allegations. those days came and went, we heard nothing. >> one more thing before we let you go. the president-elect's inaugural committee has raised more than $90 million for the inaugural festivities coming up next weekend. that's private donations. it's a record. you impair that to roughly $43 million for president obama in 2013. $55 mil

>> i can tell you that general madis, and secretary of defense mattis who told trump that torture worksnumber one, there will be no change on torture from the department of defense. number two, mattis' position on torture has not changed and that's two-fold, one, torture does not work. it's not an intelligent way of extracting information. and number two, it's still illegal. on a practical level, it's not going to change anything. it's also, katie, not going to change anything, because the briefings we get here, i'd say we've had three in the last six days are about big american planes. big black planes in the sky dropping ordnance, dropping munition on high-suspected detainees. these are kill operations. when they have someone in their sight, they call these guys squirters, right. which is a bit of a crass term, that is to say, you see someone flee from reconnaissance, they're squirting from the scene. then they go after the squirters, those are kill operations not capture and intelligence, katie. >> it's not on the feel the battle if you will, where is the significance of it, does it