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Good evening. We begin the hour with new aftershocks from a phone call that on the face of it would seem pretty routine. A foreign leader calls the president elect to offer congratulations. No big deal, right . Unless its the leader of taiwan, in which case its something that hasnt happened for nearly four decades. You could say its recognizing the longstanding reality or its a destabilizing move. But theres no disputing what donald trump did was unprecedented. And now the Washington Post is rep...

Two women went inside there, took their tops off, made some antitrump type of statements. They were immediately arrested. Just a little drama here at p. S. 59. Thats the spot where donald trump is going to be casting his vote later this morning. He made five stops yesterday, five states, five stops. Going over many of the themes weve heard, talking about the rigged system, talking about repealing and replacing obamacare. Saying that he is the candidate of the working class and also today, carol,...

Sessions. He had accepted the nomination to become trumps attorney general. Sessions was the first u. S. Senator to announce his support for trump but he is dogged with decades old allegations of racism miken flynn is another one. General flynn often introduced trump on the campaign trail and then kansas congressman mike pompeo up for cia director. A source tells cnn the congressman doesnt know mr. Trump very well nor did he do much campaigning if for the president elect. Lets fill in the blanks...

Well in florida. Those are the two most important early states, arent they . Were going to do well in New Hampshire. Excuse me . Those are the two most important states, florida and North Carolina. Were doing very well there. Doing well in New Hampshire. Ohio is doing well. Just a great place. I mean, these are the people are just amazing in this country. Ohio were doing incredibly in. Were going to win iowa. Voting now underway across most of the United States. Were already seeing lines at many...

Press conference in alaska. Boris sanchez is in ft. Lauderdale. Dan first to you, what did we learn from the press conference . Well it seems like Law Enforcement is taking a defensive posture here. Saying that they acted appropriately. Just a few minutes ago. We heard from the head of the fbi office, here in anchorage, as well as the chief of the ampgampg Anchorage Police department. We heard that the fbi office had encounters with the suspect either for a domestic disturbance case or a physica...

Point. This building has totally went been ravaged and is unsafe for firefighters really to go inside. Theyre cautiously trying to clear out some of the debris. This has been described as an artist collective. They were having a party last night. Its a building where people were said to be living. And this is what the fire chief had to say a short time ago there was some type of party that was going on here when the fire broke out. Its been a report that theres been between 50 to 100 people poss...

It is 2 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. The newest threat from north korea, it claims to be ready to launch an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile anytime, anywhere. It was the quote. They said they were ready to Start Testing this longrange missile. Lets go to south korea, our Paula Hancocks is covering this story from seoul this hour. Help our viewers to understand the context here. Reporter well, george, this is something that weve been hearing for many years, even decades. North korea blami...

Taiwan since 1979. The u. S. Does not formally recognize taiwan as an independent state. And backs beijings claim that taiwan is a part of china. But chinese officials fear this phone call may have signaled otherwise. Trump is downplaying that call. And as having any further implications tweeting this, quote, the president of taiwan called me today to wish me congratulations on winning the presidency. Thank you. Meanwhile, trumps Senior Advisor Kellyanne Conway says this was no different than ot...

Lets show you that now. Here is Sergeant Ray Kelly of the Alameda County sheriffs department. The recovery and identification process inside the building. The billing is very tricky to work. We have water thats still coming down on top of our people. There are beams and all sorts of wre wreckage and debris. This is not an easy task by any means. Were asking people if you have no business at the family assistant center, please dont go there. Respect the privacy of those families for now. We will ...

People unknown at this hour. Fire Officials Say the building was full of clutter and obviously theyre dealing with a lot of debris right now. Just in to cnn pictures from inside of what it looked like before. This is where a lot of artists and musicians would gather. Were told by people that lived here it was a mixed residential and commercial space and a artist studio. While we wait for the mayor, lets go dan simon outside of the warehouse. Do we have any updates, dan, at this hour about a, if ...