hello, welcome to our viewers joining us here from the united states and all over the world, you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead, heavy snowfall along the west coast leaves hundreds of residents stranded, and the situation across the northeast does not look much better. we will bring you the latest on extreme weather pummeling parts of the united states. a stunning admission under oath, the chair of the fox corporation, rupert murdaugh, acknowledges that fox news anchors pushed a election lies on air. reports of crumbling morale and desperation within the russian military. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. we begin with extreme weather in the united states, as a winter storm is pummeling parts of the country with heavy snow and rain. nearly 50 million people are under winter weather alerts, across the northeast. new york s governor says parts of the state could see up to a foot of snow. schools in connec
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m alex marquardt in washington alongside kaitlan collins in tel aviv. jim acosta is off tonight. thank you for being with us. we are continue with our breaking news coverage of the war between israel and hamas. a nightmare that began seven weeks ago has finally ended for several israeli families. today a third group of hostages was finally released from the gaza strip. in just the past few hours, we ve watched as they arrived at hospitals in israel to be reunited finally with their loved ones. and for the first time tonight, we re also seeing some of those emotional moments. families inside hospitals finally embracing after weeks of heartbreak and uncertainty. these are 13 of the 14 israeli hostages released today, women and children. 13 of them ranging in age from 4 to 84 years old. there was a 14th israeli who was also a russian national, and then three more foreign nationals also freed today, bringing the total to 17. today we saw the
to reach places like the dead sea, to go visit jericho, and apparently, he was essentially shot while driving. he died of his wounds. he is now the 14th israeli that has been killed in just about a month. this has been a very violent three days and of course, we have had more than 60 palestinians killed since the beginning of the year. his death comes after sunday night where we saw israeli settlers essentially rampaging through palestinian towns, setting fires to homes and houses. one palestinian man killed, those are being called both revenge attacks, and also act of terror by the israeli military, which is rather unusual for the israeli military to be in essential agreement with many palestinians . those were called revenge attacks for what happened earlier on sunday where two israeli brothers were also killed in a shooting attack while they were driving. these two israeli brothers, 19 and 21 years old, killed along