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perry high school who acted heroically to save students in a maz shooting, died today from injuries he received in the attack. he was shot multiple times after trying to save students by talking to and distracting the shooter as the deadly attack unfolded at the high school near des moines on january 4th. a sixth grade student was killed and seven others were wounded. marburger's wife elizabeth said in a post on their gofundme page, quoting now, he fought hard and gave us ten days that we will treasure forever. end quote. iowa governor kim reynolds ordered flags lowered to half staff today. and 100 million americans are under windchill alerts right now as bitter cold stretches all the way from canada to the mexico border. this video is from west seneca, new york, which is near buffalo. several feet of snow can be seen covering cars in a parking lot there. new york mayor eric adams urged
i'm not going back to that." >> that is the number one argument. the president himself is fond of saying, don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. when the alternative is donald trump, they like their chances. there's polling that suggests a lot of americans don't believe the final two will be biden and trump. it may not be until the spring or summer when americans start paying attention, because many simply are not paying attention. when they do, the biden camp believes even if they're lukewarm on the president, have reservations about his age, whatever it might be, they'll not want to go back to the chaos of donald trump. to pick up on elizabeth's point, because that's something the biden campaign says a lot, people simply haven't heard donald trump in a while. he's become background noise. his reach is so much smaller than it used to be. we can't overlook the fact of the downgrade from the audience he had on twitter to now truth social. no one hears that. those tweets don't break through. his campaign is more disciplined but he is not. the crazy doesn't break through
course that brings it all home as outside busy waterways. and of. course that brings it all home as to how it might affect people at home and in the high street. elizabeth, thank you very much for taking us through the story. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. the uk economy grew by more than expected in november, according to new official figures. the office for national statistics said the economy grew by 0.3%, after falling the month before. the grown was driven by the services sector, —— the growth... including a boost to retail from the black friday sales. a woman and her former partner have been given life sentences, for the murder of her 18—month—old son. alfie philips died in a caravan in kent in 2020, with more than 50 injuries, and traces of cocaine in his body. sian hedges, will spend at least 19 years injail, while jack benham, won't be considered for release for 23 years. a ferry has had a rather bumpy crossing in the north—western state
that's a record number because it's important to see -- to see how bidenomics is working, he's going to talk about bidenomics. if people are starting small businesses they must have some confidence in the economy. so he's looking forward to being out there tomorrow and talking again to directly to the american people. >> so he did a three-day swing. but for the last three days, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, none of his constituents have seen him doing anything. who decided that the american people are best served by seeing less of the president? >> i would disagree. i would not say they saw less of the president. he was out there, a couple of states in three days. i think that's important to note as well and give the american people the full information here and yesterday we noted this. he met with paul whelan's sister elizabeth, a commitment when it comes to american hostages, bringing them home the president is committed to doing that and we have brought home more than
you know his working office as well as his personal residence as well and president biden and his team take all of this very seriously. we take rules concerning the white house and re-election seriously and so, and we are proud of that. proud of taking those rules seriously. i don't have anything else to add. >> on that meeting the president had with paul whelan's sister, did anything prompt that meeting -- >> sandra: so that was peter doocy's exchange with karine jean-pierre, obviously some big questions over the president's daily activities, sort of falls into the discussion we are having here, robert. i'll ask you this. it was a question put to karine jean-pierre what is the president doing today and karine jean-pierre sort of struggled to answer that question. you could put that so the economy. what is the -- they say day after day the biggest focus is bringing down prices for this president and focusing on the middle class and the lower earners in this country. if that's the biggest focus and the priority, what he's doing
30 people, 30 americans held hostage across the globe and so the president is committed, he wanted to have a conversation with elizabeth, he did that. met with his national security team as he does regularly. he did that. he had lunch with the vice president yesterday, important partner in everything that he's trying to get done on behalf of the american people, so the president is active, the president is doing what he needs to do to deliver for the american people, he'll continue to do that. >> axios that president biden was advised by the white house counsel to stop give big dollar donors tours of the oval office. while he's been out of view of the public for the last three days, has he given any wealthy campaign donors tours of the oval office? >> so, speaking to that particular point, the stories out there, so as many of your outlets have covered it is typical, it is typical for all presidents, regardless of party, to host supporters at the white house complex which is both as
of give away everything in order to dispose of their cases. >> what are you going to do if you were a judgeose of their and to sentence this guy for superman ing over the bench and attacking this judge andten one of your colleagues. >> what would you sentence a guy like this for? >> well, you can take intointo c account everything that they do in front of in front of the court. and in fact, you know, it's possible that she wouldn't have to disqualify herself only because if it's like iff bs a defendant acts up during the trial, well, they can't get a mistrial because of their own beca. ory caa mist so it's perhaps perhaps she would have been able to sentence him more harshly certm mored on his actions. and certainly another judge could take that into consideration. this is obviously a person who's unhinged and, you know, this whos the community needs te protected from. >> absolutely. well, not throw the book at hi m . and i think everybody needs the book thrown at them because book thisn thisn booksrow th country for decades. >> elizabeth, thank you so much for joinincountry g prime time