Aired p ET. Tonight in Syria the U. We'll have a live report. Grand reopening. President-elect Trump back on the world stage in Paris tonight at the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral five years after that catastrophic fire, engaging in high stakes meetings on the sidelines with Ukraine's Zelenskyy and France's Macron.
We will take you there. And the manhunt intensifies. With new evidence in hand tonight investigators are taking their search for a killer beyond New York City. Why police now believe he's left town and how has no one recognized him and come forward. We'll take you live to the suspect's last known location. DEAN: Good evening to you. I'm Jessica Dean. We begin with breaking news tonight out of Syria where rebels may be on the verge of toppling President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The rebels keep pushing deeper south. They say they're now at the gates of Damascus. Of course, that's Syria's capital. And at this moment, conflicting reports about where President Assad actually is. Nic, what is the latest?
Sources I'm talking to are saying that rebels have essentially been looking for Assad in the capital. And he is not in the places that they would have expected him to be. This was not the sort of main bulk of their forces that we now see poised at the northern outskirts of Damascus, and we see rebel forces who've come from the south as well and some of the sort of southern suburbs. Damascus is a really, really large city. You know, you can travel an hour to get to the -- really the far outside of it if the traffic is heavy.
What we are seeing right now is the army deserting their posts, the police deserting their posts right around the capital, and the rebels converging on it. And these rebel elements that have already been inside essentially on reconnaissance efforts inside the capital are not seeing Assad, where they would expect him to see him or not seeing indications of him. They don't know where he is. They say that they're searching for him. They don't know if he is in Damascus still, if he is somewhere else in the country, or even if he has left the country.
