the national weather service says a day care in alabama was also destroyed. four people who were using it as a shelter were critically injured. >> that is going to be a tough day, for sure, for many. roxana saberi in new york, thank you so much. >>> there are at least seven confirmed fatalities from the wildfires that ransacked east tennessee. more than 400 homes and buildings were destroyed or damaged near the town of gatlinburg, just outside of the great smoky mountains park. search and rescue crews continue to look for survivors or victims. rain has helped suppress the flames but the danger is not over. >> we are concerned about a lot of the families that may not have been insured, a lot of the families that don't know where -- where to go or what is next. >> reporter: dolly parton's theme park dollywood escaped mostly intact but she made a very generous offer and pledged wednesday night to pay $1,000 a month to families who lost their they get back on their feet. >>> president-elect trump travels to indiana today to announce a deal to keep hundreds of job

i have so many friends from alabama, but to thank the people of alabama. we are really the people that love this country. we have so many people that love this country all over. i went -- i went to a little victory tour but really they were thank you tours in pennsylvania all over, but this is alabama, and if you don't mind, we're thanking the people of alabama and we're thanking the people of the south because boy, did we do well. boy, did we do well in the south. so, i don't know if you noticed, i added that on. the people of the south, because i'll tell you, in fact, i said if i lost, i think i'm going to move to alabama or some place in the south. because we won -- we didn't win, like, okay here. we won at a record setting -- nobody's ever had the numbers that we had. so i just want to thank you. this is our last stop. and i'll tell you what. there is no better place to celebrate than right here, okay? so, thank you. you propelled to victory a grass roots movement the likes of which the world, frankly, has never seen before. and you know if i were sayi

right now alabama, who hoy state, clemson and washington are in the top four spots but there's no way you can keep out the team who wins the best conference in all of college football. penn state wins the big 10 10 championship game against wisconsin they'll be 11-two and nine-game winning streak that would be tied for the longest winning streak out of all of the top 10 teams. with the exception of course alabama and oh, by the way, penn state would have beaten two of the top six teams in the count country. also, team in the big 10 is lot for impressive than a one loss team in the pack 12. they have four teams in the top seven the lions faced three them to get to where they are now. alabama is a lock but after that at least two teams from the big 10 should get into the college football ranking ohio state and the winner of the big 10 championship game who i believe that will be penn state. of course, that game will be right here on fox saturday 8:00 o'clock. get your popcorn ready, lucy. >> yes. >> it will be great one. >> love that popcorn and bloody mary, thank you very much sean bel

and, again, alabama, i know because i get so many letters from the people in alabama in every form of communication, including tweets. [ laughter ] they are so proud. they are so proud of him. and we're proud of him. so thank you. thank you, jeff. fantastic. so great. you know, jeff talked a little bit about the election and his endorsement and i think -- if you want, you want me to discuss that evening one more time because this will be it. should i? yes or no? because i could give you a beautiful rhetorical flowing speech and we can all fall asleep together, right or we can discuss it and this is our last stop, as i said. and i'm really here because i promised you during that wild day that we had in august, long time ago, it seems like a long time ago. and just a lot of things came out of that day and opened up the eyes of the media. even the media that dislikes us all. it opened up -- no, but it opened up their eyes. and it began to a certain extent here, it began on june 16th. remember the escalator, coming down the escalator with mylania and i talked about crime, i talked about b

and nowhere was hit harder than here in rosalie, alabama. i'm standing inside what used to be the town's only shopping plaza. the owner climbed out while several of his neighbors did not survive. barrelling through the southeast, dozens of tornadoes reported from florida to mississippi. late today, pictures showing a possible funnel cloud near atlanta. threatening a major metropolitan area. >> it's devastating. i mean, it breaks my heart. >> overnight the town of rosalie, alabama, devastated. the one shopping plaza, reduced to piles of wood and bricks. the owner, greg day, astonished to be alive. nearby, another survivor, bob wright, hoping to find pictures of his family members, who did not make it. >> i lost two, my brother's boy, his daughter, and that boy's, his boy's girlfriend. >> their mobile home tossed across the highway. three people died, two hospitalized. including cynthia wright. >> how do you remember them? how do you hope people >> good old people. that's about all i can do, buddy. >> 31 reported tornadoes in two days. the pat

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three were killed in a mobile home park in alabama. at least a dozen others were injured. there were 13 confirmed tornadoes across f yesterday. alabama, louisiana, mississippi, and tennessee. >>> well, it's likely that president obama will leave office without fulfilling one of his original campaign promises, to shut down guantanamo bay. dozens remain locked up there. margaret brennan got a rare look at the prison. >> reporter: these are the remnants of guantanamo's notorious camp x-ray where hundreds of suspected terrorists were caged in the panic aftermath of 9/11. the 60 remaining detainees whose faces we were not permitted to film, lounge in modern, open cell blocks, eating and praying regularly. over the past eight years, 180 detainees have been released from guantanamo, leaving most of the prison empty. donald trump has vowed to reverse course. >> and we are going to load it up with some bad dudes. believe me, we are going to load it up. >> reporter: admiral peter clark who commands the detention facility says there is room for hundreds of more pne he vowed never to

live pictures out of mobile, alabama. president-elect donald trump landing there a short time ago for this final stop of his thank you tour. alabama senator jeff sessions, an early trump supporter, the first sitting senator to endorse then-candidate trump, now of course trump's pick for attorney general. he will stand alongside trump at this stop. >>> amid rising tensions between the united states and russia, there is renewed focus on the president-elect's pick for secretary of state, exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson, who has ties to russian president vladimir putin. he will be well-positioned to push back against current sanctions against russia, which would allow his former company to move forward with billions of dollars of deals. of course he would leave exxon should he become secretary of state. joining me on the phone, someone who knows rix tillerson and the oil business extremely well, t. boone pickens. thanks for joining me from the middle of a snowstorm in texas. >> sure, thank you. >> tillerson's nomination has draw

it's good to see our community come together in times like this " in alabama, the weather system also dumped more than 2 inches of rain in areas some people are protesting in charlotte, north carolina, after hearing that a police officer who fatally shot a black man won't face charges. a district attorney cleared officer brentley vinson, who is also black. he shot and killed keith lamont scott back in september. police say scott was armed with a gun but family members dispute the claim. last night, people took to the streets to protest the decision not to charge the officer. some chanted "stop killing black people," as they walked through the streets of charlotte. weather with meteorologist britley ritz. morning's weather, britley... welcome to the first day of meteorologic al winter! it sure will feel like it.a stray flurry may be possible early this morning; otherwise we're dealing with cloudy skies once again today. temperatures will start off in the low 30s, but warm into the middle to upper 30s again today. winds will also be strong again today, blowing out of the west at 10 to 2

the other new years eve semifinal features top seeded alabama against washington in the peach bowl. penn state plays usc in the rose bowl. the packers haven't played well at home, dating back to last november, winning just half of their games. but as 12 sports stephanie sutton reports, they took advantage of some classic green bay weather in today's 21-to-13 win over houston. seem to play well in december at lambeau. what made this victory over the texans even more fun? playing on this slippery, snowy field. >> i began played in maybe three or four snow games. you have to feel it out. everything is different. reporter: there was a lot of slipping and sliding out there. >> it feels better now since we got a win. >> it was more fun the difficult. just being out there and having that lambeau environment. it was more fun. i was not too cold at all. with adrenaline, you just go out there and play. it was a fun day. reporter: maybe no player had more fun than wide receiver randall cobb, who did a snow angel after he scored the sliding. i figured why not. that was fun. reporter: the packer

bodies were recovered in alabama look at this video in leesburg, mississippi. that's before it became a full floernlgd. many are just recovering, they are grateful to have made it out alive. >> it was like you were on a roller coaster going side-to-side on this sand right here. it was horrible. >> i feel really lucky and i feel so sorry for the people. some houses are destroyed. i still have, you know, a roof, but it's leaking, but you know i'm lucky, >> initial reports from the weather channel puts the total number of tornado in the last two days to 31. >>> i want to bring you breaking news, a tacoma police officer has died in the line of duty. the officer was shot multiple times and later died at the hospital. police say the scene is still active, the neighborhood is on lockdown. the suspect is believed to be as the procession took place. >> everyone on our police department knows everyone and, y yes, rev will feel it. >> officials have not identified the officer. he is the fourth tacoma officer in three decades to have been killed while responding to a do me

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then we're going to continue tomorrow and wee ing to go over to pennsylvania d then to florida and alabama. wee ing to finouthe thank you tour with hi"that's hundreds of miles on the couple's 2007 lincoln...but pemberton says it's well worth it. "he's be more than for us."and clearly through freezing temper and many miles of travel, pemberton and his fiance will be out here trump. tonight 6... this crowd is not entirely trump supporters... i talk to a young woman who supported hillary inton in the election, but says she had to come see what the president elect had to say.live at state fair park, casey geraldo, today's tmj4. earlier today president-elect trump chose the ceo mobil to be secretary of state. rex tillerson has close business ties to russia. house speaker paul ryan supports the choice. ryan "tweeted" this morning "congratulations to rex tillerson, a proven leader and person of enormous accomplishment." outgoing wisconsin congressman, republican reid ribble is less enthusiastic. mr. trump has to recognize that russia's not necessarily states and has never been held accountae for

the world war ii veteran somehow made a detour to alabama. on monday he approached two officers at a restaurant and asked them where he was. >> man said i drove 900 miles. i don't remember. >> officers ran his driver's license realized that he had been reported missing days earlier. police contacted his family. they flew down alabama to pick him up. his daughter said he's never been diagnosed with dementia. she attributes his trip to old age and forgetfulness. >>> this morning some people are saying donald trump confirmed a new arms race through twitter responding to a speech by russian president vladimir putin. mr. trump's next tweet caused a huge defense contractor more than a billion dollars. edward lawrence explains. >> reporter: from a new arms race to corporate competition, president-elect donald trump used twitter to start a lot of people talking. mr. trump chimed in foreign policy, saying united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability. >> all during the campaign donald trump has dealt with nuclear weapons very

i have so many friends from alabama, but to thank the people of alabama, we are really the people that love this country. we have so many people that love this country, all over. i went -- i went to a little victory tour, but, really, they were thank you tours in pennsylvania, all over, but this is alabama, and if you don't mind, we're thanking the people of alabama, and we're thanking the people of the south, because, boy, did we do well. boy, did we do well in the south. [ cheers and applause ] so i don't know if you noticed. i added that on. the people of the south. because, i'll tell you -- in fact, i said if i lost i think i'm going to move to alabama, or some place in the south. because we won -- we didn't win like okay here. we won at a record setting. nobody's ever had the numbers that we had. so i just want to thank you. this is our last stop, and i'll tell what you. there is no better place to celebrate than right here. okay? so thank you. you propelled to victory a grass roots movement, the likes of which the world, frankly, has never seen before. and you know if i was sayin

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alabama did not fit into that. this was a red state that was always going to be in donald trump's column based on history but it's the home of his choice for the next attorney general of the united states, and that's alabama's senator, jeff sessions. that's part of why donald trump will be here. as we have been watching these events unfold he talked about a lot of events around the world, and he talks about his domestic policies but what has been noticeably absent from conversations in the crowds, he's not talking about russia and the hack on the u.s. election. the president-elect took his thank you tour to orlando, florida, friday night. >> i love this state, and i love the people, and i love -- >> reporter: but donald trump ignored the controversy over vladimir putin and russia's cyber attack on the u.s. election, and several hours late earlier, president obama urged trump. in a speech to clinton's campaign donors, clinton said her past criticism of putin's illegitimate election made her his target. >> vladimir p

all across this neighborhood, once home to families in alabama. >> we're all holding onto each other, crouched down on the floor, your god, please let me live through this. >> reporter: this is all that's left is the left of the daycare . so many homes and businesses here leveled. the aftermath, equally devastating anddresidents are just beginning to pick up the pieces. >> before the panhandle hit with powerful waterspouts off the coast. in georgia, strong winds ripped this large chunk of metal off the roof of this recycling center and tossed it a quarter of a mile away. over tennessee, this residents are surveying the damage of the rain helped put out some of the flames that was smoke still smoldering and destruction overwhelming, dolly parton who is from the area is ready to help. >> i've always believed charity begins at home. we want to make sure the dollywood foundation provides $1000 a month to all those families that lost their homes in the fires until they get back up on their feet. >> reporter: president obama reached out to the federal assistance is on the way. this is searc

we will have live coverage of that mobile, alabama rally tomorrow afternoon. for a clock, here on c-span. president obama held a year and white house news conference this afternoon. of me show you a portion that event where the president commented on republicans and their impressions of vladimir putin. obama: they do better, some of the people who have been historically very critical of me engaging with russians and having conversation with them, also endorsed the president-elect. that wehe was saying should stop sanctioning russia and being tough on them, or together with them. ouress our -- against common enemies. he was very couple memory of mr. putin personally. then't news, president-elect during the campaign said so. some people who had made a career out of being anti-russian did i say anything about it. then after the election, suddenly, they are asking why did you tell us that maybe the russians were trying to help our candidate? come on. there was a survey that some of , this is just one poll. it is a pretty credible source. approveepublican voters of