Tonight, a plot twist in a Hollywood blockbuster deal. Paramount, home to the CBS network and marquee franchises like Top Gun and Star Trek. Making a $18 billion hostile takeover cash bid offer to buy Warner Brothers Discovery in full to head off Netflix's purchase of Warner Brothers Studios, HBO, and HBO Max.Paramount Sky Dance CEO David Ellison on CNBC today making his case. We are offering shareholders $17.6% billion more cash than the deal they currently have signed up with Netflix. >> The offer from Pa ...

Garrett, let's start with the uh this sort of non-committal moment from President Trump on releasing any video of that so-called double tap strike on the Caribbean that has Secretary of Defense Pete Hegth uh really sort of backed in at least from pressure from Congress, if you will. The president first said that he never said he'd have no problem releasing the video. He did say last week he'd have no problem releasing the video.Now it sounds like he's being differential to Secretary Hegath on this front, Ga ...

Surge of Arctic air blasting across the Mid-Atlantic. A series of storms dropping rain and snow. In Wakaua, Wisconsin, I94 shut down for hours after an SUV rear ended a snowplow driver.In Milwaukee, a highway crash during the morning commute left this SUV close to going over the wall. No injuries were reported in either incident. The icy wet mess closing schools.Virginia slammed with up to 5 in in parts of the state. >> It's coming down pretty hard. All the schools are closed.>> Winter alerts in effect for ...

Breaking news in Japan. A tsunami advisory is now in effect following a powerful 7.6% magnitude earthquake. >> The quake struck about 50 miles off the country's northern coast.Thousands of people have been evacuated. >> The biggest fear is that this may not be over yet, that there could still be further tremors, further earthquakes. There are power lines down in some areas.Uh train services have been suspended. Some 90,000 people have been told to evacuate their homes. It's probably not until the sun comes ...

Ring camera footage captured the moment more than a dozen ICE agents raided this Burnsville home. >> They break in this one. >> Angel Alvarado says >> they they forced it.>> Four of his family members were upstairs. >> They don't they they were hiding here. >> Sophia Alvarado says her husband owns the home.She says she and the three others upstairs were eventually able to prove they're US citizens. >> Police come out with your hands up. Sophia says it started when a couple renting their basement was headed ...

Ukrainian President Voldemort Zalinski met with European leaders today in a show of support for Ukraine as Russia continues its bombardment. And as the White House appears to be pressing Ukraine to sign a peace deal that would include significant concessions. Here's President Trump last night speaking to reporters on the red carpet before the Kennedy Center honors.>> I have to say that I'm a little bit disappointed that President Zalinsky hasn't yet read the proposal. That was as of a few hours ago. His peo ...

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Let's talk more about this now with Congressman Tracy Man. He's a Republican from Kansas, a member of the House Agriculture Committee and also hails from a family of farmers. So, he is uh uniquely suited to talk about this conversation here today.Uh Congressman, talk to me right now about what farmers in Kansas, maybe even some of your family members are telling you right now about the state of their finances. Is it difficult. >> Yeah, absolutely.You know, it's tough times on the family farm. My dad is sitt ...

H how could this merger on either end change the calculus inside Hollywood. Yeah, when you when you talk to people who work in film and television right now, the vibes are pretty bleak because regardless of which one of these companies emerges victorious, there's going to be consolidation and contraction in Hollywood and that may lead to layoffs and it will certainly mean that there is one fewer buyer in this industry for television and film content. It's worth noting 10 years ago there were six major legac ...