President harris facing Big Bash lash over their response to the brutal murders of six hostages held by hamas terrorists. Some say they are both showing the world that america doesnt actually have israels back. This is the faulkner focus. Im john roberts in for harris. The idf found the bodies of the six hostages in a tunnel in gaza over the weekend. One of them, 23yearold israeli american Hersh Goldbergpolin, the deaths bringing fresh attention for the need for a deal to get those in captivity at home. Instead of blaming hamas terrorists, President Biden said this. Mr. President, do you think its time for prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue . Do you think he is doing enough . President biden no. Well netanyahu heard that and fired back during his own News Conference. Listen here. Its really an out rage that people say that. No one is more committed to release the hostages and fight more for them than i. I also served, so please let no one teach me a lesson about such act
Highest daily covert 19 death toll since the pandemic began. And well have a report from athens on the measures that some museums are taking to stay afloat during the pandemic. Police in hong kong of detained media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lai the outspoken government critic has been charged with defaulting government owned businesses will remain in custody until a court case in april earlier this year lie was among 10 people arrested on suspicion of violating beijings National Security lol. The japanese government says that it has grave concerns about the jailing of 3 hong kong activists. Child ivan lamb well found guilty of Unlawful Assembly on tuesday they received 1310 and 7 month jail respectively. Is fluent in japanese well known in japan says that its conveyed its concerns to china several times lets go live to hong kong all of this that lets start with jimmy lie whats he alleged to have done. This is a very significant move here thats being seen against hong kongs
Iraq to another frigid start this morning for those of you that are venturing outside early risers yeah youre getting some of the coldest of it too so we we understand each other getting up early like this looking outside at your berkeley cam you can see just how clear skies looking outside we do or have another set of not just frost advisories, but also freeze warnings those deeper blue purple areas are actually combination of both frost advisories and freeze warnings that we have going on this morning for portions of marine sonoma and napa and solano counties cities or remain in effect through 09 00am this morning as temperatures in these areas fall as cold as the mid 20s and some of our rural areas, especially in sheltered valleys where those temperatures get really cold in the mornings also areas like santa rosa you fell into the upper 20s yesterday susceptible to temperatures just as cool if not colder than that yet again this morning so 30s and 40s are your current temperatures r
In san jose has apparently ended peacefully. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson live at the scene shes been there for hours she has the latest for us sara. Marty im live on center road where those swat teams were position for 7 hours in a standoff with several people who took over a home and held a family hostage can tell you that this ended peacefully. They fully you know theyre still on scene right now investigating, but it at least has ended with the standoff has ended as well take a look at video its dark in the video because thats how long this went on for we know for we know for sure that at least 3 people have been taken into custody at a home on the 14 4200 block of center road. Swat teams and police have been here since 1238 this morning, someone called 911 reporting several people broke into a home and assaulted a family then taking that family as hostages when the police arrived, and when they did arrive on scene they put up a perimeter around the entire area shutting intersections making
But the way to deal with it was to get back to the table and see what you could do without before just getting out of the treaty the russian technically violated the antiballistic missile treaty by doing developing a 2nd site but we kept talking to them about it and never obligated until after the attacks of 911 president bush felt we needed a defense not against russian attacks but attacks by other other terrorist groups followed like the focus for a few moments on on china because there is growing concern about chinas arsenal many say that its not subject to any International Arms control treaties so 1st of all how worrisome is that and secondly how large is chinas arsenal nobody knows they refused to give vetoes they have a systematic refusal of transparency so that means. You cant even begin to discuss what numerical limitations would look like. Its i see estimates at this in the order of 3. 00 to 400. 00 its certainly growing but nobody knows and that says this that theres a pract