And prose and welcome to p p at the wharf. Thank you very much for coming and for braving this evening of storm warnings and wind and rain. These evening are getting to be too frequent here in washington, dc. Last august, john chapman, an air force combat controller, was posthumously awarded the medal of honor for his heroic actions atop a snowcapped mountain in afghanistan in early 2002. A few months of u. S. Forces began fighting na the done. Champman was the first airman to receive the medal of honor since the vietnam war. He had been attached to a navy seal team, assigned to establish a mountaintop observation post in connection with the major u. S. Sweep against al qaeda and Taliban Forces forces and the vn eastern afghanistan. Approaching the site, the helicopter carrying the special operations unit, came under heavy fire, and one of the team members were thrown from the aircraft. Returning to try to rescue their team meat, chapman and the seals batted al qaeda fighters, dug into
Welcome to cnn this morning. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett is live in tel aviv. A hostage released by hamas yesterday is now speaking. She is tell her story this morning at the hospital. 85yearold Yocheved Lifshitz told reporters how she was abducted and held captive underground for weeks. The grandmother says they stormed her kibbutz and took her away on a motorbike and beat her with sticks. She says they took her in hamas underground Tunnel Network and held had her with four other ginls. They had guards, a doctor and paramedics who took care of them. Hamas had a stockpile of shampoo and other toiletries for hostages to use. There are huge network of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spiderweb. When she first arrived, they told them that they are muslims and they are not going to hurt them. And that they share they ate the same food that the hamas was eating. They have released four hostages as israeli troops gear up to launch an assault by gaza by gr
Suicide prevention hotline. This is just under two hours. Good morning and welcome to the april 2024 open meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Madam secretary, will you please introduce our judges for today . Good morning to you, and good morning, commissioners. For todays meeting, you will be presented with two items and five Enforcement Actions for your consideration. First, you will consider a second further noticed of proposal making that would propose to require the implementation of one or more geo routing solutions for wireless calls to the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline, to make sure calls are routed a geographic location rather than the area code and exchange associated with a Wireless Phone. Second, you will consider a declaratory ruling, order, and order on reconsideration that would reestablish the commissions authority to protect consumers and safeguard the fair and open internet by classifying Broadband Internet Access Service as a Telecommunications Service
Maria welcome back. Good thursday morning, everybody. A thanks very much for joining us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. Im is thursday, may 16, 7 00 a. M. On the button on the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. We are talking about markets this morning. Take a look. Dow industrials up 20, nasdaq up 28, s p higher by 3 and a quarter. Were waiting on earnings from walmart and those numbers should be out momentarily. Well see if it lifts or moves rather other ra retail companie. I want to take a look at Interest Rates this morning as well. Interest rates are pulling back ton 10 year. Well bring that to you as well. Time for the hot topic of the hour, day 18 of former President Trumps so called hush money trial. Lydia hu is outside the new York Supreme Court with the very latest t. Lydia, good morning. Reporter good morning there, maria. Today the cross examination of former trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen will continue, this will be his third day in the witness chair
My own personal funds from the home equity line of credit. To avoid any money being traced back to him that can negatively impact his campaign. He kept on saying over and over again 1020 times i swear to god, bob, i dont have anything to donald trump. Trump is a con man. He asked me to pay off an Adult Film Star with whom he had an affair. He said specifically and i crossexamine him on this this was my idea. I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States. I did not want to go to the white house. When he was elected he took the whole trumps inner circle to washington with one exception. Michael cohen. They left him back in new york. Michael cohen was very unhappy about that. This will deftly get reversed but after the election probably if he gets convicted and thats what they want. Sandra former president Donald Trumps defense team getting other crack today question the prosecutions star witness and former trump lawyer Michael Cohen. It comes after c