Scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. Im Edward Lawrence in for neil cavuto. This is a Special Edition of your world. The first of 2023. More on the tax hikes in just a moment. First to chad pergram where the Leadership Drama is unfolding. Chad . Edward, its been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. Kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but theres five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. Kevin doesnt have the votes. Theres more than five people. Youll see that as we go into the election on january 3. There was 36 people that voted against Kevin Mccarthy on the conference vote. Mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. They demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speakers election in the middle of the congress. He agreed. Some members still have reservations. Rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. You think the package has moved any votes to yes . Yes. What will you
she lost her bid for re-election last night failing to finish in the top two in a runoff election. it is the first time in more than three decades that chicago has voted a sitting mayor out of office. i m eternally grateful to everyone who gave us their time, support and money and prayers. thank you from the bottom of my heart. god bless you. god bless this incredible city. long time public schools chief paul vallas ran a tough to crime campaign. he will face brandon johnson a cook county commissioner in an april runoff. fbi director christopher wray says the bureau believes the covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a lab exteacciden wuhan. this comment is just days after the tent of energy low confidence assessment that covid most likely originated from a lab leak in china. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. we step back for a second, the fbi has agents, professionals,
time frame. todd: steve harrigan life in the ground on kiev one-year anniversary of the war, steve. ukraine has already been out and about downtown performing a ceremony with soldiers saying ukraine will do everything possible to win back the war against russia within this year. in the meantime, u.s. g7 nations expected to announce a new series of economic sanctions against russia. this comes as the u.s. is also announcing $2 billion more in military aid to russia and since provided since the war began $50 billion of economic and military aid to ukraine. that is $113 billion that has been authorized. some military analysts are beginning to express cautions about president biden s message that the u.s. would support ukraine as long as it would take. when we say, like the president said, listen, i applaud them coming to ukraine. i applaud the speech he made reaganesque like in poland but we will be there until the end. that is playing into putin s end? he wants the end to
thank you for joining us. right now, more than two dozen states and 65 million people are on alert as a powerful winter storm hits coast to coast. conditions are slamming flagstaff, arizona, and this man was barely able to stand as the wind gusts whipped the binding snow around him. in 29 states they are in the path for this storm. the snow warnings stretching to southern california. flakes even possible on los angeles beaches. and in utah, miles and miles of dicey driving. you can see cars stranded as crews worked to clear the roads. in minnesota the national weather service is warning of historic snow possibly the most in decades. meteorologist jennifer gray is standing by for us. but first, cnn s adrian brodas is in minnesota. what s happening where you are there? i see some really ice eye streets behind you. reporter: there s a break right now when it comes to snowfall. the plows have been moving along this stretch of highway behind us. but we saw the first phase of thi
effect at this hour in multiple mississippi counties. those warns are bound to pop up in alabama as well as the storm system keeps moving east. we ll have breaking news, updates on what transpires across the south as the show goes on. tension with the teheran are growing for r the second day in a row. u.s. forces were under attack by irairanian proxy group. an american contractor was killed and several u.s. forces were wounded. our chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, is live on how the u.s. is responding. good evening, the u.s. still has troops in syria. they have been there since 2015. there are around 900 troops on t tthe ground and they are und attack once again tonight. fox news learned there had been injuries in these new rocket attacks in eastern syria. believed to be carried out with iranian weapons. on thursday, a drone attack again using iranian equipment killed one u.s. contractor and wounded several u.s. troops. prompting retaliatory strikes by american forces