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CNN 5 Things

12 PM ET: Syria leadership unclear, Daniel Penny acquitted, Golden Globe nominations & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The White House has told CNN it’s unsure who is leading Syria right now. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director has a challenging week ahead of him. Daniel Penny has been acquitted over the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway. We’ll tell you about the real estate scam costing Americans billions of dollars. And, there were a few surprising Golden Globe nominations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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and use it for free. From CNN, I'm Charlie Drever, with the five things you need to know for Monday, December 9th.

0:23.6

We start with some news just in as we were recording.

0:27.9

Law enforcement officials say police are questioning a man in Pennsylvania

0:32.0

in connection with the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

0:37.1

One added that police stopped a man travelling by bus after they got a tip-off and recovered

0:42.3

a suppressor and a number of false IDs.

0:45.4

For more on this breaking news, you can go to CNN.com.

0:50.1

It's not clear who is running Syria right now.

0:53.7

That's what the White House told CNN this morning,

0:56.8

following the fall of the brutal Assad regime that ruled for more than 50 years.

1:02.0

Take a listen to National Security spokesman John Kirby.

1:05.5

Right now, the rebel groups are in charge of Damascus.

1:08.9

Yes, HTS sort of was the vanguard here, but they're not the only rebel or opposition group of Damascus. Yes, HTS sort of was the vanguard here,

1:11.6

but they're not the only rebel or opposition group in Damascus as we speak.

1:15.6

And I think they're trying to work that out amongst themselves.

1:18.6

But it is an open question.

1:19.6

CNN's Clarissa Ward is in the Syrian capital, Damascus,

1:23.6

where she says people have now moved past their initial celebrations. We're outside a bakery.

1:29.3

These people say they've been waiting more than half an hour, some of them.

1:33.3

They're waiting for bread.

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