Anis amri. German police are certain that he was behind the wheel of that semi truck. They say they found amris fingerprints in the cab and on the door of the truck. We have newly released dash cam footage that shows the fatal moment when the truck plowed into the arcade. A few moments later, shoppers run for their lives. Lets bring in journalist chris burns in berlin for us. Chris. Reporter good morning. We are finding out more through some nearly 350 pages of german intelligence papers that cnn managed to get a hold of. What we have seen is he had ties to the Organization Led by a hate preacher called abu wala. This is an organization that recruited and trained young people in this country to wage different attacks. This group has also has a boot camp where they hike for ten miles with backpacks and this is what he is connected to. These papers also suggest that he talked about waging a terrorist attack and suicide attack. Authorities did not arrest him because they did not think he was a serious fish or suspect. We may learn a bit german this morning. This is the hiding place of anis amri after the attack. We have grainy video that shows him staying there after the attack. He has fallen through the cracks. Thank you, chris. Breaking overnight, police in western germany foiled a terror plot. Police arrested two brothers, ages 28 and 31. The brothers are suspected of planning an attack on the europe largest Shopping Mall in the city of oberhausen. Police are trying to determine how far along the plot was. In australia, seven people under arrest as they investigate a plot to attack melbourne. The Prime Minister says the suspects plan to detonate explosive devices in that citys business district. The plot has been thwarted. Officials say the suspects, six men and a woman, were self radicalized and inspired by isis. Here in the u. S. , a whirlwind thursday before christmas. Weighing in on the United NationsSecurity Council condemning the settlement. The white house voted it might not veto the resolution and may vote in favor of it. Experts say interference by a president elect is practically unprecedented. They say it puts the white house in a bind since whenever it does on the peace process, trump might undo. An assertion the state department disputes. Again, without previewing what we may do if and when this resolution comes to a vote, nobody here felt boxed in by a tweet from the president elect. He is perfectly entitled to express his views on these things. There was no boxing in of our purview or how we deal with this going forward. Egypt postponed the showdown vote after israel and trump called president sisi and weighed in on the matter. Trump joining with the president in a nuclear rattling. In a speech, russia must enhance the combat ability of nuclear forces. Trump fired back in a tweet. He said this, the United States must greatly strengthen and expand the nuclear ability at a time which the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. He said president elect was referring to the threat of Nuclear Proliferation and need to prevent it. Particularly to and among terrorist organizations. He emphasized the need to improve the deterrent ability as a way to pursue peace through strength. The president elect also puts finishing touches on the top of the white house staff list. Including messaging shop. Mr. Trump named sean spicer as the White House Press secretary. Jason miller will become director of communications and hope hicks has been named secretary of communications. Giving shape to the love hate relationship with the media. Go ahead. Ill do it. One final name to the west wing, Kellyanne Conway will join team trump as counselor to the president. Conway telling cnn her duties will be whatever the president wants them to be. Will probably include communications, data and strategy. After the victory, conway wanted to serve the administration somehow, but concerned about having time for her four young children. Donald trump taking another shot at government deferment. Hitting two fighter jets. Tweeting quote based on the tremendous cost overruns of the f35, i asked boeing to price out a comparable f18 superhornet. It comes the day after he met with the executives. Lockheed martin declined our request for comment. Boeing is looking forward to meeting the requirements. It is the largest Government Program estimated to cost 400 billion to carry the fleet. 285 jets have been purchased. Another 2,000 could be added. The f35s technology pushed it past deadlines and over budget. The corporate and military leaders say the worst is behind them. These are massive programs. It is hard to believe you can turn one around and start a new program and have it make sense. On behalf of taxpayers, he will not just accept big costs for the big programs. You have bigger costs if you would create another program to build up the different plane and scrap. Not to mention lobbyists in d. C. To make money where the manufacturing gets done. The president elect talks about expanding the Nuclear Arsenal after Vladimir Putin talks tough about his own nukes. Will the russian president speaking right now up the ante . We are watching that. More than a dozen letters surfacing of president elect berating the scotland minister. Outraged over the proposal to build a wind farm close to the golf course. Mr. Trump attacked the Prime Minister before switching to a softer tone. Cnns ian lee has the story. Reporter its not personal. Its business. Except if you are president elect donald trump. 16 letters obtained by the Huffington Post show trump berating the first minister between 2011 and 2013. The focus of his outrage, a proposed wind farm off the coast and in eye sight of the aberdeen golf course. In the letter, trump called the plan an ugly cloud hanging over the coastline of scotland. In another letter, he accused him of destroying the scotland economy predicting it will become a third world waste land that investors will avoid. Trump known for personal insults did not shy away saying ice try will remember him as mad alex. The man who destroyed scotland. When threats did not work, the president elect shifted gears, vowing he would be the biggest cheerleader if he changed his stance. Trump received a response saying i dont expect you to support the development, but i hope this letter helps you understand the importance we place on the industrys great potential. There is no love lost between the two. He expressed his views on trump to cnns max foster. Once, twice, three times a loser is mr. Trump. He fought this in the court and inner council. Now the highest court has now found against him. Trump is now a threetime loser. Reporter trump didnt let it go. After being elected as president of the United States, he brought up the wind farms according to media reports. The trump camp did not respond to cnns request for comment. This latest revelation doesnt give more insight about his business dealings, but raises the question if he is willing to stop advocating for the trump brand when he is the next president of the United States. The man forced off a jetblue flight after harassing ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner. He said his husband was kicked off after a Flight Attendant overheard a man slamming ivanka and jared. Another deleted tweet said his husband chased down the couple to harass them. A man sitting if front of trump told cnn the man seemed agitated and told the couple they ruined our country. President elect hitting the links with tiger woods. Transition source telling cnn trump will host woods today at the maralago resort. Trump tweeted about the hangout saying he cant wait to mix it up with the boys. Trump has hammered president obama who played golf with woods. Now get ready to see the radio city rockettes perform at the inauguration. You may remember the rockettes performed at the george w. Bush inauguration in 20001. We are told the mormon choir will be performing. And Vladimir Putin is delivering the 12th annual televised press conference. For how long he will speak is hard to say. Two recent press conferences lasted three hours and one last the four hours. Cnns Matthew Chance live in moscow for us. Matthew, you have covered these before. We watched them eagerly. Sometimes it is stagecraft and sometimes we get more personal questions about Vladimir Putin. Are you expecting questions about trump or the american relationship to come up today . Reporter im certainly hoping that will come up. Im hoping to hear Vladimir Putin speak with trump and the expectations for the presidency. I hope because there is a lot of talk about how these two president s have a supposed bromance and can Work Together to do deals with syria and nato and ukraine. You know, it may not happen. In the past, our expectations have been dashed when it comes to what we want to hear Vladimir Putin speak about. He is speaking about the economy right now. Talking about how the situation he hopes will improve in the year ahead. Pretty dry stuff. The russian economy is in crisis in the sense it is under sanctions from the United States and from the eu. A very low oil price which the russian economy is based on. We are listening for the fourth term. The elections due in the country next year. Sorry, in 2018. And so the speculation is now is Vladimir Putin going to stand or not for that next term. I personally think he will. We may get clarity throughout the press conference. I doubt he will be asked about it. Lets ask you about Nuclear Proliferation. All of a sudden, a concern these two countries are going in the wrong direction talking about nukes. Are we talking about the two countries talking about modernizing the Nuclear Arsenals or is that somehow code for ramping up Nuclear Arsenals or is this dark and menacing . Reporter i dont think. They both got something in the region of 1,500 Nuclear Missiles on the United States side and russian side. They have many more in reserve. You know, i dont get a sense they need more Nuclear Weapons. I think Donald Trumps point is he wants the u. S. To modernize arsenal of Nuclear Weapons. Certainly thats russias point. They are concerned with the antimissile defenses with the United States and other nuclear countries, that coukcould neutre the defenses. Putin is talking about making weapons and missiles avoiding antimissile technologies. Another really important strand of argument. It is not necessarily we all want Nuclear Weapons to go. It is not a bad thing for countries to spend money on modernizing. It is preferable to have modern Nuclear Weapons in store than old rusty ones. There are people who believe that is a legitimate way forward. Matthew chance, you are monitoring that for us. Maybe well find some news. Thank you for that. Well continue to check in with you. Thank you. Its the announcement that marks a major turning point if the syria bloody civil war. We will have that coming up. Way. Especially in my business. With slow internet from the phone company, you cant keep up. Youre stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. Switch to comcast business. With highspeed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. You wouldnt pick a slow race car. Then why settle for slow internet . Comcast business. Built for speed. Built for business. Breaking overnight. Police arrest a man in connection with the death of the toddler in arkansas. The man was taken into custody after turning himself in. He opened fire during a road rage incident. Police say the single shot ason king who was out on the shopping trip with his grandmother. A disturbing arrest caught on camera. Take a look. You can see a ft. Worth officer grabbing jacklin craig. The officer breaks out a stun gun. It is unclear if he uses it. The officer was called to the scene by craig who said a neighbor assaulted her son. Thats when the pair got into a fight apparently about how to raise children. The unidentified officer placed on restricted duty status as the department investigates. For the first time in four years, the syrian city of aleppo is back under government control. It was the last urban stronghold for the rebels. This managerks a major turning t in the civil war. Muhammad lila has more. Reporter this is a decisive moment in the civil war. One of the most significant moments since the war began five years ago. Syrian state television breaking into regular programming to announce they quote liberated all of eastern aleppo from all armed terrorist groups. That is confirmed by rebel negotiators on the ground. Civilians and rebel fighters were evacuated from the city. Syria state broadcasters showing people celebrating in the streets and waving flags. This was a decisive victory for the government. The city of aleppo is no longer divided between the western side which was the government side and parts of the eastern side which were held by the rebels since they occupied the neighborhoods since 2012. The loss to the rebels cannot be under estimated. Eastern aleppo was their command center. They coordinated operations and had a network of operations on the ground who communicated across the country and in fact around the world. That base is no longer there. The city is no longer divided. Syr Syrias Bashar Al Assad is no long near control. Something that many people thought was unthinkable when the revolution got under way. Even more now is the fact that syrias president Bashar Al Assad is proving he may outlast americas president barack obama. This was unthinkable a few months or years ago. The question is being asked. What happens to the revolution . We know the fighters who have been evacuated from eastern aleppo have been taken to idlib. The problem with that province, there are other groups there. A strong isis presence there. A strong presence of al nusra and as well as the moderate opposition. The problem is these groups have been fighting each other the last several years. It remains to be seen how strong that sovereign is there. Once again, all of eastern aleppo now belongs to the Syrian Government and Syrian Government is celebrating it as a major victory. Muhammad lila, cnn, from the syrian turkey border. One lesuspect left a big pie of evidence on that truck in berlin. A live report straight ahead. Why are you checking your credit score . You dont want to ride the 13l forever, do you . [woman laughing] credit karma, huh . Yeah, its free. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. Police on the case of the berlin attacker. Another key clue found in the cab of the truck he used as a deadly weapon. Happening right now. Russian president Vladimir Putin speaking. What will he say about president elect and Nuclear Weapons . Welcome back to early start. Im christine romans. Im miguel marquez. Merry christmas to you. It is 29 minutes past the hour. New information about the tunisian man suspected in the berlin attack that killed 24 people. Anis amri, the target of the manhunt. Police are certain he was behind the wheel of the tractortrailer. They say they found amris fingerprints inside the truck and on the door of the truck. We have dash cam footage that shows the fatal moment that the truck plowed into the arcade. You see it on the left side of the screen. A few minutes later, shoppers run for their lives. We learned more about amris ties to the Terror Network in germany. Lets bring you the latest with journalist chris burns live in berlin. Chris, there must be a sense that amri is still in germany. They are banging down doors. Reporter they are, miguel. They are busting down doors to look for anis amri across germany and probably beyond germany. A search yesterday in denmark that turned up nothing. Hundreds of police active on this. At the same time, were looking at documents. Take a look at the headline. This is the perfect sense of irony the berliners have. Showing the gaps between the concrete blocks here behind me at the market, but also talking about the gaps in intelligence. We looked at 350 pages documents that show there were plenty of dots to connect showing anis amri was active with the group led by abu allah. He is known as a hate preacher. This organization was recruiting and training people with backpack trips ten miles long to like a boot camp to train them. That is what amri was part of. He also was, through surveillan surveillance, he was heard saying he is ready to be a suicide attacker in an attack, but not found to be a big fish or serious candidate for that kind of thing. Even though he was held for a while, by authorities, pending his deportation back to tunisia, he was released because of a technicality. Here we are now, miguel. What is public sentiment . You had the situation in france and belgium where people were on the radar and didnt act aggressively enough. Now you have this guy in the middle of obviously the concern over refugees across europe. What is the public sentiment across germany right now and will there be a price to pay at some point . Maybe not during the investigation. Reporter that is quite possible we will see the local elections coming up in the spring. Federal elections coming up in the fall. Definitely there has to be a lot of explaining before the elections to show yes we are on this case. They have to explain how he managed to slip through the cracks. Here is another one showing anis amri. A newspaper showing this is where he hid out at a mosque in northern berlin. Police