Late news, Fox News at night. Breaking tonight, the ceo of meta, Mark Zuckerberg with a huge admission saying his company was, in fact, pressured by the Biden Harris Administration to Censor Americans on facebook, something republicans say is clearly illegal. First amendment says that the government will not be involved in bridging your Freedom Of Speech and thats exactly what they did by pressuring zuckerberg to censor speech. Trace the confession comes after years of silence from the Social Media giant, Denial Or Defence from the Biden Harris Administration, but all the while political views were being shut down or tampered with and conservatives were being targeted. We have promoted responsible actions to protect public Health Safety and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic and foreign attacks on our elections. Trace there is the denial appeared meantime major news from the Trump Campaign saying x. Democrats Tulsa Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy junior, who en
Smarter, which won by morning. Got it. Got abbas, daughter, youve got this is cnn Breaking News youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We do begin this hour with Breaking News out of the middle east. Israels military says it has rescued a hostage from a hamas tunnel in southern gaza. He had been held captive since the Terror Attacks of october 7. The father of 11, and spent the last 320 six days as a prisoner there he is in the hospital right there a short time ago reuniting with his brother, cnns jim sciutto joins us now from tel aviv jim, the details of been trickling in whats the latest that youve learned . Well, first of all, certainly youre happy fomin moment for, for him and for his family after these painful days, weeks, and months captivity. But this has also been quite a rarity for the idf of the close to 250 hostages taken on october 7, only aides have been freed alive via Military Operations. And this is the first one based on the details provided to us
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Outside. Them widespread rainfall moves in for early next week. We are looking at sunshine this afternoon after all of that rainfall with our atmospheric river. Just to show you the dry conditions. A beautiful view. You can see that snowfall out there over Mount Hamilton and some blue skies as well. Over san francisco. You can see that sunshine. As we head through the day, we are looking at some sunshine. High temperatures in the low to mid 50s. We did pick up a lot of rainfall with this atmospheric river. The santa cruz mountains. About 2 1 2. Up to 3 1 2 inches of rainfall. Tracking our next weather system. I will let you know when we can expect to see this where you live coming up. Monitoring a couple of big news conferences. First lets go live down to san jose right now where it is a couple of unfortunate milestones. They just surpassed 100,000 cases of the coronavirus. Is mall is the first cases. Right now, santa cruz officials are about to provide some updates regarding vaccine d
Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re