More than 60 hours since the collapse took place. Rescue teams are battling fires which greatly complicated the effort to find survivors. We are facing incredible difficulties with the fire. The fire has been going on for awhile. It is a very deep fire. It is extremely difficult to locate the source of the fire. There are new concerns about the condos sister building, nearly identical building located a block away from the collapse. Officials are saying that building should be evacuated until a structural investigation can be done. Has the same name, same developer, probably had the same materials. Probably had the same plans. And people are asking me is the building safe. I cant tell them it is safe. I cant tell them that. One of the Big Questions thats outstanding is how this could happen. Were getting details today about exactly what may have been happening in the pool deck of the building. Structural field survey was done in 2018 and warned of cracking in certain columns. An engine
hi, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, december 23rd. i m amara walker. and i m danny freeman in for victor blackwell. great to have you here. the eve of christmas eve. that is correct. there is more legal chaos involving donald trump heading into 2024. the supreme court rejects a request for justices to quickly hear arguments on whether the former president has immunity from federal prosecution. we ll walk you through what that means for his legal cal tar. plus, authorities at the southern border report a record number of migrant encounters every day. cnn is there. finally a cease-fire passes. we ll speak to an official about the humanitarian crisis in gaza. have yourself a healthy little christmas. it feels like i should be singing. does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now? we ll talk to a doctor about how to steer clear of the respiratory viruses that are out there. we re three weeks away from the iowa caucus and donald
And canadian coast, just hours ago, lee, hurricane lee, weakening from a category one to a post Tropical Cyclone. But it is still posing serious threats, including strong winds and heavy rain, Meteorologist Derek Van Dam is live for us in cape cod. The National Hurricane center issuing a new advisory, just moments ago, on this major storm, was a hurricane, what is going on now . We have all of the latest information to pass along to you, and our viewers, were on cape cod, on the coast of massachusetts, still getting beard by the occasional Tropical Storm force gusts here. And that information, you want to hear is, that this storm is only a matter of hours before making landfall, somewhere as according to the National Hurricane center, between the border of canada and the United States. So it is well north and east of where im at, but were still feeling the impacts. Thats the idea that weve been stressing for several days now, that this wind field is just so large. Speaking of winds, 75
Yesterday you saw the nikkei ended that 16 session winning streak this morning stocks are closed higher the nikkei was up by 32 points to 21,739. Hang seng down by a third. The shanghai was up by a third of a percentage point. The early trading in europe, things are in the green across the board. Gains for germany, france and london up by a third stocks in italy and spain also higher treasury yields, check this out, yields at 2. 43 . Crude oil prices which have been above 50 comfortably for quite some time are now up about 8 cents. 52. 26. Here are the big stories were watching new comments out this morning from the saudi crown prince. He says the aramco ipo will take place next year and valuation of the company could top 2 trillion the crown prince said saudi arabia is working with all Oil Producers to rebalance the global oil market. On the wall street agenda, weekly jobless claims out at 8 30 a. M. Eastern, followed by september pending home sales at 10 00 a. M. In europe, we are go
We start with breaking news this morning. Investigators are on the scene of a shooting near decatur and hayes. Heres video from our traffic cams near charleston and Decatur Metro says reports of shots fired came in just before 2 oclock this morning when they arrived on the scene they found a person, dead, slouched over in the seat of their car. Officers do have any information on a suspect or details on a motive for the shooting. Please, be aware lane closures may be in effect, as you head out the door this morning. 2 men shot near doolittle park. It happened around 830 saturday night near owens and h street. Both victims were taken to umc. One of them has died. No word yet on the others condition. Police have not said if any suspects were arrested. Or a possible motive. Red rock search and rescue teams, training new field crews this, just a day after a new bill was passed in congress to help locate missing theodros reports if youre ever in the out doors and in a bind nats these are th