[protesters chanting] john and that is a live shot outside The Gates of Columbia University in new York City where right now dozens of antiisrael protesters are Holding Signs and chanting, all while other students are trying to attend their first day of fall classes. In just the last few moments, there have been some arrests. Im John Roberts in washington, as we kick off a Brandnew Week in the fall season. Good day to you. Gillian good to have you, or good to be with you, i should say, john. Excuse me. You know what i mean. Sandra is off today. This is america reports. Right now we are getting these new pictures into our newsroom. They are also showing columbias famed Alma Mater Sculpture covered, you can see there, and red paint. The statue sits very prominently on the steps of the School Library on the main quad. John the protest came after israeli forces recovered the bodies of six hostages, including israeli american hersh goldbergpolin, executed at close range in gaza. Gillian rea
Have last night on msnbc, well leave this to take you live to the White House Press conference. Well have update after the hamas acceptance of a ceasefire deal negotiated by qatar and egypt. Good afternoon, everybody. As was noted there has been a response by hamas to the hostage deal and were currently reviewing that response and discussing it with our partners in the region. Director burns is there and working this real time on the ground. I wont be able to comment any further on this until we know where things stand. I hope you can understand that. I know everybodys curious about whats in the response and what the israeli reaction is to it. Im not getting ahead of the process. We want to get these hostages out and a ceasefire in place six weeks and increase humanitarian assistance and the last thing i want to do is say anything at this podium that will put that process at risk. Regardless, as we said before, we still believe reaching an agreement is an absolute best outcome, not onl
That was very cool. All right. Thank you so much for joining me today. Amphoteric a whitfield, the cnn newsroom with jessica dean starts right now your ms cnn newsroom, im Jessica Dean In Washington and we begin with Breaking News Police at the University Of Virginia. I just broke up a propalestinian encampment after declaring it and Unlawful Assembly seen as his full sandovals joining us now, what well, whats the latest on this . So just go over witnessing right now play out in charlottesville, virginia on the University Of Virginia campus is really just the latest example of tensions rising on American University campus control room. We may or may not have some pictures. I believe of what has transpired over the last hour or so just to set the scene for viewers here as we hopefully queue up some images for you, so you could see yourself whats played out over the course of several days, we have seen propalestinian demonstrators on the Uva Campus Assembling there for several days, alth
You breaking News Coverage continues this are good afternoon everyone im Martha Maccallum and this is clearly the story of the afternoon. We are about one hour past the deadline where students were supposed to leave the encampment at columbia. They were supposed to pack up and get out of there as sandra pointed out classes are remote there is no reason for any student to be on campus right now at columbia. That was their original wave try to break this up but they are defiant. As we just heard from some leadership a little while ago pack they feel that they are the ones who have rights. They talked about their right to graduate. They talked about how the sea their rates been trampled on by the university. Stunning statements we heard a few short minutes ago. They will face suspension columbia says from this Ivy League School if they dont follow the rules of the university which they dont seem to have any regard for at this point. We are also seeing packets but this puts me know, univer
Two years. Hes expected in court tomorrow. Norah. Wow e thats some good work by the fbi. Elise preston, thank you so much. Turning to the war in gaza today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared no force in the world will prevent Israeli Forces from entering the besieged city of rafah. It comes as Vice President Kamala Harris today met with families of several americans taken hostage by hamas, assuring them that the Biden Administration is doing all it can to bring them home. Cbss debora patta reports from tel aviv. Reporter rafah has become a tense city of mostly women and children who have been running from war for months. Once again, they fear the worst as israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubles down on his plans to invade rafah despite the u. S. Warning that would be a mistake. This woman sought refuge here with her nine children after her husband was killed in an israeli air strike. [ speaking in a global language ] reporter what hurts me the most, she said, is ive