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to earth cam, thousands of revellers are expecting a soggy countdown. well go live to the big apple later in the show. gillian: first to our top story this hour, the world is now mourning of loss of a historical religious figure. the vatican is announcing death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. and charles has more on his long lasting legacy. >> what a story he had. pope benedict xvi had an impact on catholics across the world in a position he never imagined himself in. for decades cardin...

wild pigs, the super pigs. all right. 7:00 in new york city. hour two of "fox & friends" for this wednesday starts right now. >> a search is underway after a u.s. military aircraft with six people on board crashed off the coast of japan. >> ainsley: japanese fishermen found three of the crew members. >> lawrence: one of the engines looked like it was on fire. >> more hostages released set to begin again. >> there was a direct link between ground operations and pressure on hamas. >> mor...

In sight the more that it tighten around donald trump, the mor extreme and crazy is going to. b and all the, while you hav the republican party jus singing along as backgroun singers as part of that course as well, going down with the ship >> speaking, of course, let talk about someone who just wo the residential republican primary caucus former arkansas governor asa hutchinson announced today o abc that he is indeed joinin the race for president jennifer, what lane is he goin to occupy. can he ...

Now the republican presidentia primaries about to get a littl bigger here is former arkansa governor, eta hutchinson, this morning, on the abc. >> earlier this year you sai you are thinking about running for president, have you made a decision, are you running? >> ive made a decision and my decision is yes, i am runnin for president of the unite states the formal announcement will b later, but i wanted to mak clear to you, jonathan, but i going to be running. and the reason is that i hav travele...

Winner who inspired generations of journalists across the globe. for more details on her life and legacy we have media buzz host with us howie kurtz. walk down memory lane, what strikes you the most? >> people talked about her as a trail blazer. thee kicked down walls as a woman and scary to look back when she was a today show girl, thats condescending and then a co-host. she couldnt ask a question until the other co-host asked three questions. she j ups to abc and harry reasoners co-host, and h...

A monologue about comey. >> tonight, comey is already in hot water after comparing the president to a mob boss. >> reporter: thats apparently how he described the president to abcs george stephanopoulos and the interview kicks off sunday. >> appalling analogy and remind comey what a real mob boss looks like and you would think he would understand that. >> reporter: the president didnt always think so poorly of comey. from this hand shake early in the administration to the glowinging words on the...

Everything will come up from the clinton years, but again its a different demographic voting and, you know you have to sort of gauge how important that is and we dont -- we just dont know the answer to that yet. >> brian, to your point fredricka, yes, it does reach young people but at this point pretty much every generation is either on facebook or twitter or knows how it works, so i do think its intended to reach all americans. there was interesting sent misfrom staffers you dont we dont have t...

Been done by cbs for john miller? >> lets talk about john millers career. this is a problem that i have, this revolving door between journalism and the federal government. he started out in local news. he was a spokesperson for the nypd. then he went on to abc where he sat on with peter jennings in 2011. then he went back to the lapd where bill bratton went, then he went to the fbi in public affairs. then he went back to cbs. now, according to mike allen from politico, it is expected that hes go...

Miller? >> lets talk about john millers career. this is a problem that i have, this revolving door between journalism and the federal government. he started out in local news. he was a spokesperson for the nypd. then he went on to abc where he sat on with peter jennings in 2011. then he went back to the lapd where bill bratton went, then he went to the fbi in public affairs. then he went back to cbs. now, according to mike allen from politico, it is expected that hes going to jump to the nypd wh...

Of -- made upwards of $16 million at cbs before she moved on to abc. no word on what shes making at yahoo, but we can only imagine. >> we can only imagine and speculate and add the zeros. thank you very much. and now this. >> this very minute, the long-awaited report of the shooting inside of sandy hook is revealed. but is it really worth it to release all this information when it hurts these families? im brooke baldwin. the news is now. this week is going to be a nightmare for millions of a...