welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kristin fisher in for christine romans. disturbing new details about the suspect accused of attacking three new york city police officers with a machete in times square on new year s eve. the officers have now been treated and released from the hospital. last night investigators searched the teen suspect s home in an ocean resort town in maine. more from new york. reporter: we re learning more about the suspect behind the attack on three officers at the new year eve celebration. we can now confirm the suspect is trevor bickford. 19 years old from wales, maine. that s according to multiple law enforcement sources who also tell cnn he was carrying a handwritten diary and in it he expressed his desire to join the taliban in afghanistan and die as a martyr. investigators also believe bickford arrived in new york city on thursday and checked into a hotel in the lower east side. he then traveled to the times sq
it, it s today. good to see you. kaitlan is on assignment. so we re going to start with catching you up on the five big stories on cnn this morning. we re looking more about the suspect in the new year s eve machete attack. sources say the 19-year-old wrote of his desire to join the taliban in afghanistan and diaz a martyr. he s currently in custody in a new york city hospital where he s recovering from a gunshot wond. the three officers injured in the machete attack have all been treated and released. also, this morning, the suspect charged with murdering four university of idaho students will appear in a pennsylvania court tomorrow. his name is bryan kohberger. he faces four counts of first degree murder and a charge of burglary in moscow, idaho. he s accused of killing four college students as they slept in their home in idaho. we ll speak to one of the students who was in one of his classes, co-burger s classes. he ll join us in a minute. tens of thousands of mour
yours in everyone at home watching us. i am brian llenas and for eric shawn, western new york is no stranger to severe winter storm, but this blizzard hit with a vengeance dropping more than 3 feet of snow officials blame them for multiple deaths and the region, the storm causing chaos for air travelers coast to coast , millions are stuck at packed airports with thousands of flights canceled and delayed at one of the busiest travel times of the year. anita: we have fox news team coverage, meteorologist michael on whether any relief is in sight. charles watson is in atlanta on travel grinding to a halt at the nation s busiest airport but first to fox weather max gordon in the hard-hit buffalo suburb of hamburg new york, max, the other day you spent the night in your car because of the weather and now it looks like you re in the middle of a blizzard, tough duty for you over christmas my friend. merry christmas to both of you, a very white christmas for folks and western ne
the price spike is top of mind once again for voters. the white house says this, listen. the president was responsible for gas prices coming down. is the president responsible for gas prices going up? so it s a lot more nuanced than that. there have been global challenges that we have all had dealt with. pandemic and putin s war. putin s war has increased gas prices at the pump. despite white house efforts opec agreed to cut oil outputs by 2 million barrels a day. it could spur a more dramatic rise in price over the coming weeks. this is really bad news for american consumers. the truth of the matter is the dependency on foreign countries for american oil and gas is a choice. it is a choice of this administration has made repeatedly unfortunately with the policies that they have pursued so far. policymakers can reverse that choice if we do the right thing. there is also the national debt. the nation s tab now higher than ever as the new fiscal year kicks off. more t
the news out of georgia, is, to some degree, heartening, i m not sure. but herschel walker s hypocrisy is staggering. we ll have more on that later in the hour with jon highlands and claire mccaskill. so, we are covering it all tonight. it is must-see tv. thank you. goodnight. tonight, the appropriately titled case of donald j trump versus the united states of america is in the hands of a new judge, a judge who has been publicly exposed as having a dramatic conflict of interest in all matters related to donald trump thanks to the now publicly exposed urgings by his wife to violate the law to overturn the results of the last presidential election. clarence thomas s wife, who is a lawyer, urged republicans in state legislatures around the country to change the outcome of the presidential election in their states without any legal means to do that. during what clarence thomas s wife was urging them to do would have been a crime. same with the frantic urgings virginia t