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Saying goodbye to 2024, I'm Daria Albinger, Fox News. The clock is ticking down to the end of 2024, and that includes a big clock, the one in London, Big Ben, which helped to welcome in the new year. President Donald Trump is holding his own party at Mar-a-Lago, giving wishes for the new year. We're just going to have a great nation again. We're going to bring it back to it better than it ever was. I think we're going to see things, and it's going to go fast. We're going to see some amazing things, but...
We're going to bring it back at a level that a lot of people didn't think was really possible. Of course, the big party is in New York City. Fox's Nate Foy in Times Square. State, local, federal authorities all working to make sure this goes off without a hitch. We have the National Guard. They have bomb-sniffing dogs here with the NYPD. They also have drones and helicopters in the air. They have teams specifically designed for...
to catch pickpocketers, and we have an international crowd. They all entered at various checkpoints around Times Square. There's no alcohol, no backpacks, no duffel bags, and most importantly, no bathroom access. Once you're in here, you're here. If you leave to use the bathroom, you can't get back in. New York is the site of the biggest celebration in the U.S.
Preparations underway for the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter. This will all get started on Saturday. That's when a protege will take President Carter's remains through Georgia from Plains, past his boyhood home, a farm owned by his father. The caravan will pause there before heading on to the Capitol here in Georgia and then back to the Carter Center where the body will lie in repose.
And that's Steve Harrigan reporting from Atlanta, Georgia. Former President Carter died on Sunday at the age of 100 after spending almost two years in hospice care. America's listening to Fox News.
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President-elect Trump working on his transition ahead of the celebration at Mar-a-Lago. Fox's Matt Finn in West Palm Beach, Florida. Phone calls and meetings about H-1B visas, the northern and southern border, and of course, Speaker Mike Johnson. When the new Congress convenes this Friday, Speaker Johnson is...
hoping to hold on to the gravel. There's tight margins within the House, and if just a few Republicans vote no, Johnson faces a shaky road. Johnson may have got his key to re-election, Trump's endorsement. Johnson now tells Fox he hopes to be re-elected and work across the aisle. We're certainly open to bipartisanship and having Democrats come along to help us. So touching on the fun part, President Trump is scheduled to host his annual glitzy New Year's Eve celebration at Mar-a-Lago.
The president-elect also meeting with the mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, both of them praising how the conversation went.
The World Health Organization wants answers from China regarding the origins of COVID-19 five years later. The first cluster of cases was reported in Wuhan, China. At first, the thinking was it transferred from infected animals to humans at a market there. But a growing number of experts and officials pointed to a laboratory in Wuhan and assert the disease was created and escaped from there. The one thing all seem to agree on is China is holding back. The World Health Organization demanding Beijing come clean.
China fired back, claiming it had shared all information. Many asserted all the information is critical to preventing and avoiding another pandemic.
And COVID-19 is not gone. In a recent week, the WHO reported 50,000 COVID cases worldwide, 500 deaths, a major uptick in the U.S. In London, Greg Balcott, Fox News. The plea deals that had once been reached for alleged 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants are back on after a military appeals court ruled against Defense Secretary Austin's attempt to get rid of them.
I'm Daria Albinger. This is Fox News.