you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. after days of violence, israel and the islamic jihad agree to a cease-fire. we ll go live to see if the peace is holding. plus, the latest from the u.s.-mexican border and the latest fallout from trying to house migrants in cities. a hug 42 years in the making. he reunites with his sister after he discovers he was stolen as a baby. reporter: live from cnn news center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5 a.m. here in atlanta, noon in israel where a cease-fire with islamic jihad appears to be holding. palestinians celebrated the cease-fire. many are skeptical it will hold. at least 35 people were killed. listen to what one person has to say. translator: the truce is good. we want truce built on a good basis. there is a truce and then after a month there are people who die. we want a truce based on a good basis. the idf says its oper
good monday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just moments ago, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy arrived in the united kingdom. he s meeting with prime minister risch she sunak who plans to announce hundreds of air missiles for ukraine as it prepares a corner offensive against russia. cnn s clare sebastian joins me from london. clare, zelenskyy on the german leg of that tour, he said he vowed to reclaim all of his country from the russians. what more are we learning about the support he s getting? yeah, christine, it s been a productive weekend for ukraine. he got the biggest ever pledge to date in his war to germany, $3 billion, and included another 30 leopard 2 tanks crucial for ukraine. france also pledging tens of armored vehicles as we hear the meeting gets under way at chequers outside of london. and the ukraine will be pledging more missiles attack drones with a range of 200 kilometers. this is som
Im andrea roane. House republican scheduled a vote for the plan to repeal and replace obamacare. After months of negotiations, gop lawmakers now said they have enough yes votes to push through the legislation. As weijia jiang explains, still, it faces an uphill battle in the senate. Reporter it ends today it will and today reporter lawmakers started debating on the house for the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. House leaders called for a vote after winning over lastminute holdouts. We will have the boat. This will pass. Reporter the bill would reduce subsidies for low income americans and eliminate taxes on the wealthy that pay for them. It would try to encourage young people to buy insurance by offering an agebased tax credit for people making less than 75,000 a year. States can choose to allow insurers for people with preexisting conditions, but only if the states set up high risk pools to help with the cost. It is still in there. The Insurance Company can charge what
Child and they know other options exist. She then will say i will be a strong advocate for great Public Schools. Other topic shell hit upon as i where up is this discussion nationally about forgiving College Student loans or making it easier tore people to repay college loans. She is also expected to say that one of the problems with our current Education System is its set up to try to get everyone to go to college. But that a fouryear degree is not appropriate for everybody. Then shell talk about the every student successful act. And president elect trumps vision of using the 20 million in the community where our children are educated. David Teachers Unions out in full force blasting and trying to influence the president elects pick for education secretary. Melissa the democrats questioning devos have received over 700,000 from Teachers Unions compared to ,000 the republicans have received. Will this have an effect on how the dim krats press devos . Jim, let me start with you. Among t
Pensions committee the topics include School Choice, vouchers, Student Loan Debt and Education Program funding. This is three and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the hearing of the Health Education labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. This hearing today is to consider the nomination of betsy devos the United States secretary of education. Senator murray and i will make an Opening Statement. I will introduce the nominee. We welcome senator scott a member of this committee senator lieberman a distinguished former member of this body who will make introductory remarks and following the nominees comments we will have a fiveminute round of questions. One note we have capital officers here today who will remove anyone who attempts to disrupt