i m jim sciutto in again for anderson tonight. that s how much a texas jury awarded punitive damages to the parents of a child killed during one of america s deadliest mass shootings. it comes a day after the same jury awarded $4.1 million in compensatory damages. shortly after, one of the parents, spoke to reporters about her son and spoke about the need for those lessons at this moment in time. care and concern is so important and we saw what happens when there is a lot of that. i hope that everyone who is reading these articles and choose love with your kids because you can, that means being present in the moment with them. looking into their eyes, giving them a hug and just moving from there. just every moment realize that you have a choice and your choice is love. that s good advice and they are brave words from a mother who lost who was most precious to her. now we should point out that the judge in this trial could reduce today s figure due to a texas law that will
conspiracy theorist alex jones has been ordered to pay even more to the parents of a 6-year-old little boy who was killed in the 2012 massacre at sandy hook elementary school. $45.2 million more in punitive damages on top of the more than $4 million in compensatory damages already award at the civil trial just yesterday for those deeply harmful lies that the shooting was a hoax among many other completely false and outrageous claims. now, under texas law there are limits on punitive damages of $750,000 per plaintiff. so it seems he won t be forced to fork over quite that much yet. he s still facing two more defamation trials, and one of them is in connecticut. but it appears the jury did listen to this plea from the attorney for the sandy hook family. we ask that you send a very, very simple message. and that is stop alex jones. stop the monetization of misinformation and lies. estimated to the jury that jones may have a net worth as much $270 million but has been trying
we ll look at the measure bringing a bit of inflation relief and what comes next to get it passed. and millions of people from the europe to the u.s. baking. the forecast is coming up. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with lynda kincaid. well, it s now 11:00 on saturday morning in gaza where israeli war planes have pounded militant targets for a second day. airstrikes hit islamic jihad in gaza. a as many as 19 were arrested saturday. israel says the militants have fired nearly 200 rockets toward israel in retaliation. most of those rockets were intercepted, fell short or landed in open areas. no israeli casualties have been reported. according to the palestinian health minister, at least 11 people have killed by israeli airstrikes, including a 7-year-old girl. our fight is not with the people of gaza. islamic jihad is an iranian proxy that wants to destroy the state of israel and kill innocent israelis. the head of islamic jihad is in tehran as we speak.
sanders said the bill does not go far enough, what does that mean? he represents the further left of the democratic party and wrangling all 50 of the democratic senators has been no small fete, getting senator manchin and kyrsten sinema on board. ultimately we believe this bill will move forward, the question is when. this is a very, very lengthy, complex, tedious process they re using, a specific budget process they re using to get it through. let me tell you about what s in the bill, a lot of climate provisions, about $369 billion in climate provisions, the biggest investment out of the senate ever. hoping to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030. also some tax incentives in there to push renewables. there s also some health care components in theory that would allow medicare to negotiate the price of some drugs, about 10 drugs by the year of 2026 and extending beyond that, the first time medicare would be able to do that. democrats wanted it to be bigger but this was ab
he followed escrowing the white house warning china s military drills near taiwan are quote an extreme reaction to speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan. president biden out trying to manage a crisis that s getting more dangerous by the day. he tested negative for covid today. but he will stay isolated in the white house until he has a second negative test. all this comes during a busy weekend here in washington for democrats on the verge of scoring a major political victory as a senate prepares for a marathon voting session on their new spending bill. arthel: straight hit reaction and analysis on china s rising threat when james joins us. live and we have fox team coverage chat is tracking the vote on capitol hill. lucas tomlinson is falling white house developments, jeff paul is at cpac for president trump will speak tonight. alexandria hoff gets us started on the latest taiwan crisis, alexandria. this morning officials in taiwan reported 14 chinese warships and 20 planes cond