Breaking news situations unfolding. On capitol hill the House Republican conference is meeting right now and we are told this meeting could last all day with the intense pressure on them to elect a speaker of the house after Kevin Mccarthy lost the speakership in a recent vote. And without that top member of the u. S. House of representatives in place, Congress Remains at a stand still and is unable to act on a brutal war that weve been Covering Thousands of miles away. Were watching the latest developments from israel as they hit the embodiment of evil. Hamas terrorists. Thats where well start. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Five days of horror. Israel families missing, tortured, killed. The closer they were to the border with palestinianian territory on gaza, the closer that they were to hamas Serial Killers killing them. Loved ones taken hostage are now begging for help. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is set to be in israel today. This was near continuous r
and here in new york city 80 years later. here we have the president and first lady walking through the american cemetery and laying the wreath and honoring the heroes who made history on d-day. we ll take you through the next couple of hours together on this. welcome to america s newsroom, i m bill hemmer, dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. a pleasure and honor to spend this time with you, viewers and you these historical moments are important. 80 years since that day. so we have the first lady and the president in normandy. the president and first lady in france. we have a lot of the ceremony to come and you are going to have a chance to hear from macron as well. bill: we have a lot of great guests to get to relive the moments from 80 years ago with you. thank you for being here as we begin our broadcast. dana: we had just witnessed an extraordinary ceremony and a military band playing taps in honor of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. [tap
today s hearing comes weeks after authorities searched heuermann s home for a second time. this is the home where he grew up and also where he lived with his ex-wife and two adult children. investigators found a vault last summer with a big iron door that s big enough to walk into. they searched woods 40 miles from gilgo beach and where authorities found the remains of taylor and another woman named valerie mack. they are two of the 11 victims that authorities found overall, at least partial human remains in 2010 and 2011 on long island s south shore. the district attorney says the gilgo beach task force continues to make progress. there were a number of necessary investigative steps that were taken. you will see the fruits of that investigation. so authorities first arrested
proof room and the vault, that message got misconstrued. jonathan: suffolk county police commissioner rodney harris son clarified what investigators have and have not found in the basement of suspected serial killer rex heuermann. commissioner said that vault had a, quote, big iron door. over the weekend crews used an excavator, cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar in their search for evidence. investigators believe heuermann murdered at least one of his victims there. commissioner harrison said tomorrow or wednesday will likely be their last day collecting evidence at the home. now to a story we first brought you last week about a santa monica city councilman who was attacked in broad daylight by a homeless man on the third street promenade. that is a high end shopping district. the incident highlighting once again just how bad the homeless crisis has become in the la
to what authorities did and did not find in the back yard. listen to this. i can tell you that there were there was ground piercing technology used in the back yard. and specifically there was nothing of note taken from the back yard as far as remains. now, back out here live, sandra, another big thing we have been talking about in recent days is this vault that was found in the basement. the police commissioner rodney harrison described the opening to the vault as a big iron door. we learned 279 guns, specifically that number is new today, were removed from the vault and the d.a. elaborated a little bit about what that vault actually looked like. listen to him here. it was a large enough area for people to enter but like the