Aleppo Evacuation Plan On Hold.
ROMANS: All right. (Video playing) Russia says Eastern Aleppo is back in the hands of government sources. The challenge now is to protect and evacuate the remaining civilians. Now, Russia is boasting of a newly hammered out ceasefire and evacuation plan but that agreement has yet to bear out. Buses stationed and ready to take injured civilians to medical care -- you can see them there -- they are empty. They have yet to take a single passenger. And now comes a claim from activists in Eastern Aleppo -- multiple activists in Eastern Aleppo -- they claim there are new attacks on rebel-held neighborhoods. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh is live in Amman, Jordan. She has been following all of these developments and monitoring what's happening on the ground here. And the concern here among people who support the insurgency against the regime is that these are the final moments of the rebel action. What are you hearing?</s>JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, these were supposed to be the final moments in this battle for Aleppo. As we heard yesterday, this Turkey-mediated deal between the Russians and the opposition fighters that would see the rebel fighters being evacuated out of Aleppo and also the evacuation of civilians who wanted to leave, this was supposed to begin -- the implementation of this was supposed to begin today but we're seeing delays. In the past couple of hours we are hearing from activists and residents in Eastern Aleppo who are describing intense shelling and bombardment of these neighborhoods where the rebels and the civilians still are. They're reporting some civilian casualties, injuries as a result of this artillery shelling. We're also hearing from the Syrian regime. According to state media, they're accusing the rebels of also launching artillery strikes against neighborhoods that are controlled by the regime, saying that there are people who have been killed and wounded as a result of this. We've also seen the delay of these evacuations that were meant to begin about five and one-half hours ago. That has not happened yet. We've heard from the Turkish foreign minister who is accusing the Syrian regime and some forces, as he said, of trying to break the ceasefire. A very complex situation. So many different parties involved on the ground in trying to implement this very fragile deal, Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right, we'll let you get back to working the phones and reporting on that for us. Thank you so much. Jomana Karadsheh for us in Jordan.</s>HOWELL: All right, now time to take a look at what's coming up on "NEW DAY". Mr. Chris Cuomo is on deck live for us. Chris, good morning.</s>ROMANS: Good morning, sunshine.</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, "NEW DAY": All right, my good friends. We're going to take some time on the Aleppo story that you were just covering because as if it being a humanitarian catastrophe were not enough, there are also very big geopolitical and strategic issues on the line. What happens next if Syria does complete its control of Eastern Aleppo? What does that mean for the United States? The president-elect seems to have a very different posture towards Syria. What is the future for those people there? What does it mean in terms of the profile for terror in that part of the world? So we'll take that all on. Also, the president-elect did take his thank you show on the road again, this time to Wisconsin, standing by his controversial pick to lead the State Department. Why controversial? We're going to talk about that today. And there's another beat on the Russian hacks that many believe certainly happened -- and everybody believes that in the intel community -- but also there's this idea about whether or not they had an impact on the U.S. election and how that is playing into Tillerson's selection and his potential nomination. We'll take that all on for you this morning.</s>ROMANS: All right.</s>CUOMO: And, Christine, you're going to come --</s>ROMANS: I am.</s>CUOMO: -- and help us understand why there'd be a rate hike with the stock market going so well. Some people think those two things go together. You'll tell us why they do.</s>ROMANS: You know I love to talk about money with you. I do.</s>CUOMO: Not your own, though. I use two coats of paint.</s>ROMANS: That's true. He knows I'm so cheap. He knows how cheap I am. That's why I'm qualified to talk about money because I am cheap. All right, thank you, Chris.</s>HOWELL: Chris, thanks.</s>ROMANS: Talk to you soon. It is Fed decision day, as Chris said. You can expect a rate hike. I will be talking about it with him in a couple of minutes. Millions of Americans are going to pay more for big purchases. This is one of those business stories that really matters. Some of you are going to save money, some of you are going to spend more. I'm going to break out the winners and the losers in the higher interest rate gain.