Negotiating through back channels for their freedom. In exchange isis wants the release of a failed suicide bomber in jordanian custody a woman. All this raising serious questions about talking at all with a group that does not just take and kill hostages but also publicly revels in it. Chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto joins us with new information. Whats the latest on this ultimatum . What do we know . Reporter thats right, this was released on an isislinked twitter account which has previously released other hostage videos and audio recordings. This one a recording purputters to be the voice purports to be the voice of the surviving hostage, kenji goto. He presents an odd exchange really and ultimatum saying if by sunset tomorrow mosul time about 9 30 a. M. Eastern time tomorrow if the convicted terrorist held now jordan al rishawi, is not at the Turkish Border then the jordanian pile captured when his f16 went down last month over syria would be killed. Again, the j
52 women and children who were evacuated immediately after the blast and plus the seven who have been reported dead. But again, were still trying to figure out how many people were inside at the time. Are you hearing anything from your sources about the potential cause of the explosion . Yeah it appears to be and what officials have said this is an accident that happened when a gas truck was fueling the hospitals gas tanks. There appears to have been a leak from the hose that ran from the truck into the hospital and up to its tanks. So apparently there was an accumulation of gas in the hospital. It was somehow set off which is why were seeing such a devastating images with a third of the hospital collapsed. Michael o boyle of reuters stay safe. That building in very bad shape. Well bring you updates, everybody at home. A deadline passed just hours ago in the middle east is sis set the deadline for jordan to release a prisoner a woman on death row for attempting to blow herself up insid
Says has been negotiating in back channels. And this is after a failed negotiation for custody of a jordanian prisoner. This after a group who says they have not reveled in taking hostages and celebrating it. So what is the latest on the ultimatum ultimatum . Well, this is tweeted out, and this is the latest audio recording which purports to with be the surviving hostage voice of kenji who says that by 9 30 a. M. Tomorrow mosul time that if they are not at the Turkish Border with the jordanian hostage, they will not release the hostage. For jordan, this is a hard prisoner to give up, because she is a prisoner, and attempted to give part of the terrorist attack and the vest did not go off. Yes shgs, and this was devastating in iman,r and the capital of jor dap and this is an operation ordered by the then leader of iraq al zarquawi and the only reason she did not kill anybody is because the suicide vest didnt go off and the jordanian view is twofold, it is a Prisoner Exchange and she is
Right. You are saying this new york that you agree with President Trump that under this Plan Everyone will be covered, no one is losing their insurance . Everyone will have access to the coverage that they want. Meanwhile, office of management and budget director Mick Mulvaney clearly up with a joke that he liked this morning to discredit the cbo. First i want to say good morning from washington whereas you can see according to the Congressional Budget Office its sunny and 7 good morning from washington were where according to the cbo its sunny and 75 degrees this morning. We have kasie hunt, who is not quite with us yet. We also have Peter Alexander had the White House Briefing room. Resident trainham, and harold ford jr. Peter, you are in the White House Briefing room. The white house is sending out Mick Mulvaney and tom price to defend this bill. Are they going to be sticking with it themselves, though . I think whats been striking is the language weve heard from both mick mull vaby
Of snow. Five states have declared a state of emergency. And the weather has delayed or cancelled thousands of flights across the country. We have Team Coverage today just outside of boston. Were gonna start with chief meteorologist rick in our fox extreme weather center. Rick, whats next . We still have a long ways to go with this storm, primarily heading towards new england and upstate new york. Already over two feet of snow across parts of the poconos and in throughout pennsylvania and parts of upstate new york. Then were starting to see this really nasty mix here moving across parts of connecticut, down the i 95 corridor in toward new york city. New york city will probably get a foot of snow. It is very slushy. Less been a lot of freezing precipitation, lot of ice pull lets going on, so the roads are incredibly dangerous. The snow thats on the ground is incredibly heavy. For those shoveling, it will be a big problem. Lot of ice is coming off of the building so be very careful. This