i'm christine romans. >> i'm will ripley. >> good to see you.come to new york. >> in the same country for once. donald trump preparing to take a victory lap. the president-elect heading to the carrier plant in indianapolis today along with vice president-elect mike pence. pence and unknown incentives were key to convincing the company to keep about 1,000 jobs here instead of moving to mexico. >> reporter: will and christine, donald trump will take a victory lap when he tours the carrier factory in indiana. the same company he railed in the campaign for shipping the jobs to mexico. now after the president-elect and vice president-elect, they are keeping some of the jobs in the u.s. steve mnuchin says it is an example of trump making good on a promise. >> carrier, i think it is terrific. the president-elect picked up the phone and said we want to keep jobs here. i can't remember the last time a president did that. >> reporter: the transition is not offering details on the carrier deal. later in the day, trump will appear in cincinnati, ohio. a sta

i'm will ripley in for john berman. >> good to see you.after the hour. up first, donald trump ready for a hero's welcome in indiana along with mike pence. pence and unknown incentives were key to convincing carrier to keep 1,000 jobs in the state instead of exporting them to mexico. we get more from jim acosta. >> reporter: will and christine, donald trump will take a victory lap of sorts later today when he tours a carrier factory in indiana. the same factory he railed during the campaign for shipping jobs to mexico. donald trump and mike pence say they are keeping jobs in the u.s. steve mnuchin says this is donald trump making good on the promise. >> the carrier deal, it is terrific. the president-elect and vice president-elect picked up the phone and called the ceo of united technologies and said we want to keep jobs here. i can't remember the last time a president did that. >> reporter: the transition is not offering details on the carrier deal. later today, trump will appear in ohio. his staff is calling it part of the thank you tour

will ripley, cnn, manila. >> really strange from president duerte there. you, will ripley. >>> the process of peace in the middle east seems perpetually bleak, but u.s. president-elect donald trump is making big promises. >> especially in the wake of the u.n. resolutions, the one calling on israel to stop building settlements in palestinian territories. while donald trump says he will be strong for israel, critics say he could hurt a future peace deal. warren lieberman joins us live in jerusalem. good to have you. i know many israeli leaders are counting down the day for donald trump to take the oath of office and are expecting a change. >> very much so. there's no doubt prime minister benjamin netanyahu can't wait for the next three weeks to go over. he has made it clear he is done working with president obama. trump said he would like to work on an israeli/palestinian peace deal. that's not uncommon. but he made big promises, saying he could be the one to put forward or seal the ultimate deal essentially, bringing the two sides together. yet the palestin

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bringing in will ripley for more on this. will, why visit pearl harbor? what is the purpose for the trip for the japanese prime minister? >> it's personal for shinzo abe. his grandfathered visited, but those visits were not publicized give ton how close the two countries were to the end of word war 2. 75 years later, president obama visited back in may and gave a speech where he talked about the importance of a world without nuclear weapons. shinzo abe expected to deliver a similar message, and this is the last opportunity for these two leaders to put this kind of public image forward before the incoming donald trump administration, and a marked shift in rhetoric where donald trump talked about an arms race, mentioned during the campaign. japan potentially arming itself with nuclear weapons, much to the horror of many in that country who remember hiroshima and nagasaki. this is a peaceful gesture and the last opportunity for abe to do so before he focuses on moving a partnership forward with the united states under the trump administration. >> is think an

all right, will ripley, thank you so much.ant report for us from manila. >>> that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 eastern on the situation room. i'll see you then. ne "newsroom" starts right now. >>> we are following news out of berlin where police say they arrested the wrong system and now this manhunt is under way after that truck plowed through a crowd of shoppers at a busy christmas market just about 24 hours ago. police revealed today they had the wrong person in custody, it's not the driver. so this person has been set free. this means, of course, that the killer behind this chilling ram pain is at large. the attack happened around 8:00

bringing in will ripley. this sounds like some sort of film. duterte's previous comments. >> reporter: i told the president's communications secretary yesterday it feels like a live version of scar face, huge drug problem in the philippines. you have the president openly boasting about killing several people when he was a mayor. he even said this week that he threw someone out of his helicopter and then back-tracked from that remark. then you have the former hitman. we had to drive to a secret location. he is in hiding because he said he will be killed if he is found. he says he and a small army of assassins were operating on the direct orders of the man who is now president. edgar matobato says he and philippine president rodrigo duterte have something in common, they both have blood on their hands. i want him to pay for what he did, for the many killings he ordered, he says. if we bring back the death penalty, i hope duterte is the first to hang, and then i will follow. decades before the president took his bloody war on drugs nationwide, mat

this happened last week on the 2300 block of ripley street. no injuries were reported. if you recognize this guy, police want to hear from you. >> the man accused of shooting a folcroft borough police officer will stan trial for attempted murder. that ruling came from a judge in delaware county this afternoon. >> officer christopher dorman did his talking on the witness stand during a preliminary hearing today. but his grateful parents spoke before and after court. bruce gordon was there. >> reporter: 34 year old donte island did not know it as he was led into diss trig court in shackles but the mother of the man island is charged with trying to kill was watching him through a courtroom window. said jean dorman -- >> i just needed -- i wanted to see him. i wanted to see him in the flesh. >> reporter: 26-year-old folcroft patrol officer christopher dorman had arrived at court moments earlier not withstanding a facial scar from bullet wound he look good for a man shot seven times in the line of duty. >> i'm very pleased and proud and luckiest father in the world. >> repor

. >> will ripley reporting live from manila, capital of the philippines.much indeed. >>> close in life and reunited in death. up next, how fans are mourning loss of two screen legends, debbie reynolds and her daughter carrie fisher, who died just a day apart. >>> plus the uber driver who drove from one end of manhattan to the other without once hitting a red light. how he did it after this. ok, let me explain. this is your tax return. ok. now, there are many right ways to fill out this tax return. and the irs will accept them all. one of them gets you the most money back. isn't that the one you want? that's the one i want. that's the one you want. mmm... you touched all these. don't just get your taxes done, amy. get your taxes won. you can see the flower and candles at one of reynolds' stars on the hollywood walk of fame and of course princess leia will be missed. the billboard tribute went up in wisconsin. it simply says, "i love you. i know." if driving bliss is an unbroken chain of green traffic lights, just imagine wherever you live an unbroken chain

and cnn's will ripley has the exclusive interview. >> reporter: edgar says he and philippine presidentgo duterte have something in common. they both have blood on their hands. i want him to pay for what he did, for the many killings he ordered, he says. if we bring back the death penalty, i hope duterte is the first to hang and then i will follow. dazed before the president took his bloody war on drugs nationwide, he says he was part of a group known in the philippines as the devout death squad, a 2008 u.n. investigation found the shadowy band of assassins was committing hundreds of rders, targeting street children and criminals, all during duterte's decades-long run as the southern city's gun-toting, crime-fighting mayor, beginning in 1988. i personally killed around 50 people, he says. he shows us a journal with names and dates of some of his victims, written by his wife, because he can't read or write. he also showed his davao city i.d. he said he was a ghost employee, earning just $100 a month to murder on command. >> who was ordering the death squad to kill all these people? we go

i'm will ripley in for john berman. >> i'm christine romans.nald trump in vintage form on the first leg of his thank you tour. the president-elect delivering an america-first message to thousands of supporters at a rally in cincinnati last night. he called on the country to come together. he seemed to be revelling in this moment after hunkering down for three weeks of meetings at trump tower. >> this is the moment. this is our chance. this is our window for action. this is the hour when the great deeds can be done and our highest hopes can come true. we're going to do it, folks. we're going to do it. >> that rally in cincinnati felt and looked a lot like the campaign events that propelled donald trump to victory. the president-elect clearly in his element, clearly enjoying this as we get more from senior white house correspondent jim acosta. >> reporter: true to form, donald trump pulled no punches at this rally in cincinnati,

. >> will ripley, thank you so much. that's it for "the lead." turning it over to jim sciutto who is in for wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> president obama hits back at russia for its meddling in the presidential election. but will anything rein in russia's leader? >>> get on with our lives. president-elect trump dismisses concerns about russian interference in the u.s. election. >>> and eyes on isis. u.s. officials tell cnn they're aware of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi's recent movements. after years of hunting, is the military getting close to permanently removing him from the battlefield? >>> wolf blitzer is off. i am jim sciutto, and you are in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> and tonight we are following the breaking news. president obama ordering a sweeping array of u.s. actions to retaliate for russian's cyberattacks and meddling in the presidential election. an executive order slapping sanctions on russia's top two intelligence agencies and other companies and individuals. the u.s. tossing o

he's admitted killing suspects when he was the mayor of davao city and admitted it to our own will ripleyn a report that we'll have for you later. >>> the lure of big money and fame drives many baseball players to the u.s. major leagues. when it comes to cuban athletes, that desire can come with a sinister twist. >> their entrance into the majors is sometimes facilitytated by criminals -- facilitated by criminals who want a part of their contract. more on smuggling cuban baseball players into the u.s. >> reporter: cuban players are some of the best players in major league baseball. there's a dark side of the mlb that most people don't know about -- how these cuban players got here. over the past few years, federal investigators have uncovered a vast and vicious human trafficking network. one that supplies the mlb with its cuban talent. federal prosecutors say lots of these cuban players came in this way, include something big names like jose abreu. they're lucky to be alive. at least six smugglers have pleaded guilty or been convicted. this is how they describe it -- it starts in cuba whe

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all right, will ripley, thank you so much. a very important report for us from manila. >>> that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 eastern on the situation room. i'll see you then. ne "newsroom" starts right now. >>> we are following news out of berlin where police say they arrested the wrong system and now this manhunt is under way after that truck plowed through a crowd of shoppers at a busy christmas market just about 24 hours ago. police revealed today they had the wrong person in custody, it's not the driver. so this person has been set free. this means, of course, that the killer behind this chilling ram pain is at large. the attack happened around 8:00 berlin time so precisely this time yesterday. the tractor-trailer dragging some people as far as 80 feet. let's begin in berlin, erin mclaughlin is there live. how did they get the wrong guy? there was also a body in the truck. >> reporter: police are citing a lack of forensic evidence that was found inside that truck cabin. they said essentially there's no forensic eviden

he took her purse and groceries when he robbed her on the two had he hundred block of ripley street lastif you recognize this man, please call police. >>> there's a package thief on the loose in south philadelphia and police need your help catching him. take look at this surveillance video. captured the crook in the act in both incidents. he stole a pack casm from the 1100 block of morris street and also from the 100 block of carpenter street. if you recognize this guy call police. >>> now to story you first saw on fox earlier this week. we told you about the grinch who stole packages right off a woman's doorstep in northern liberties. >> well tonight we can tell that you story has a happy ending. we were at the cw childs elementary school in south physical as teachers helped unload donations. the packages that were stolen contained winter coats, hats and scarves for children in need. after viewers saw our story, more donation started pouring in. the woman who organize it all says before the theft, they hadn't reached their goal. guess what? now they have double it. >> philadelphia is li

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that's from ripley county in the middle of my state. and then the gem, the -- and then the gym, where the movie "hoosiers" was filmed was also in indiana's sixth congressional district. i'm going to throw a chest pass to my colleagues in indiana. here you go, mr. bucshon. nice. see, he -- let the record show he caught the ball. showing he's a hoosier. bring the house to order as they say. thank you, mr. clawson. this sunday we celebrate two centuries of statehood, history and tradition and accomplishment in indiana. we hoosiers have a great deal to be proud of in our state and in the sixth district they represent. the district is home to renowned architecture, historical landmarks, beautiful parks and famous americans. the wright brothers spent part of their childhood in our corner of indiana. wilber -- will burr was born in millsville and orville first took up kite building in richmond, indiana. richmond was also the home to je net records and they're -- there some of the earliest jazz recordings ever produced, earning richmond the nic

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