We are expectIng reactIon to come In, but thIs Is the sItuatIon In SrI Lanka. Anura Kumara DIssanayake has one the fIrst presIdent Ial Poll sInce the country had to default on Its InternatIonal debts two years ago. He won second preference votes. When they were taken Into account when he won 40 In the InItIal round of countIng. The OpposItIon Leader came second. The outgoIng prIme MInIster TraIlIng In thIrd place. Anura Kumara DIssanayake heads the natIonal Peoples Power AllIance and It Is a party. That alIgns Includes hIs Peoples LIberatIon front party, a party tradItIonally backed, that has tradItIonally backed, that has tradItIonally backed stronger InterventIon and lower taxes. Its campaIgn for let thIs economIc polIcIes. WIth thIs wIn, SrI Lanka wIll see for the fIrst tIme, a government that Is headed by a leader wIth a strong left wIng Ideology. We are expectIng Anura Kumara DIssanayake to dIssolve the. To dIssolve the parlIament and then call for parlIamentary electIons after ha
with the hunter biden investigation. john: andy mccarthy has a brand-new op-ed and writes of course biden officials are interfering. why else has hunter skated? we talk to andy mccarthy new at 2:00 and whether or not the whistleblower will turn up the heat on biden s doj. sandra: welcome back as america reports heads into a second hour on this friday afternoon, it s been a heck of a week, john. john: continues to be a heck of an afternoon. john roberts in washington. also this hour, deflate-gate hits boston again. dozens of folks waking up to find the tires on their suvs slashed and ominous notes from a group calling itself the tire extinguishers. sandra: patting themselves on the back, a do-it-yourself movement. taking aim at suvs in the name of environmental justice. john: and in the next few minutes, the president will unveil his own environmental justice plan at the white house. we expect he will take aim at republicans. here is a little bit of a preview from
hello, again. thank you so much for joining us. i m fredricka whitfield in atlanta, alongside wolf blitzer in tel aviv. we re monitoring breaking news in the middle east, tense moments as families in israel await the release of a second group of hostages, who have been held by hamas for an agonizing 49 days now. and just moments ago, we learned of a diplomatic scramble happening behind the scenes, as officials from qatar, the u.s. and egypt are pushing to sort out the current situation. right now hamas says there is a delay in the handover to the red cross, the handover was expected to happen hours ago. they say there is an ongoing dispute about the amount of aid being delivered into gaza, and the selection of palestinian prisoners set to be released by israel as part of their brief four-day truce. israeli officials had told cnn that they were preparing for 13 more hostages to be released today, but so far that has yet to happen. for more, let s send it over to wolf blitzer i
over the coming days with all of our allies and partners is looking at steps they can take using the influence and ties they have to do just that, to make sure that this conflict doesn t spread. cnn s nic robertson has more on secretary blinken s visit. reporter: fred, the number one message that secretary blinken will be bringing to all meetings is that the united states does not want to see an escalation of tensions in the region. he wants that message to be pushed towards iran and to iran s proxies, and this is perhaps most tense along the northern border of israel at the moment. hezbollah today saying they fired 62 missiles at a monitoring station in the north of israel, a military monitoring station in the north of israel in retaliation for the killing of al aurora in beruit earlier in the week. they say they counted about 40
$15 million? alexis mcadams is on this. any suspects? no suspects. but they did interview the airport employees for hours. nearly $15 million of gold and other valuables disappeared. the high value items were inside of a big shipping container. the container was unloaded and placed in a warehouse. the airport said the thieves accessed the public side leased to a third party. it s not owned by the airport. emphasizing, it did not involve access to the toronto airport and didn t threaten passengers. people are wondering what happened here. this will go down as one of the biggest gold heists in history. two of the top three heists were in brazil and london. the $210 million in beruit. that is an amazing story.