Defiance and determined to stay in office. Democratic senator bob menendez says he will be exonerated after hes indicted on Bribery Charges as members from his own party are calling for him to resign. Hes got time, money and options, House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy is ramping up the pressure on hardliners in his own party as the government moves towards a potential shutdown. And we have a tentative deal, the Writers Strike that has Paralyzed Hollywood for months might finally be over. What comes next. Were following the major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. Hes not going anywhere. A short time ago, democratic senator bob menendez made his first number comments about the federal Bribery Charges hes now facing amid mounting calls from his own party for him to resign, the embattled new jersey senator said this i understand how deeply concerning this can be. However, the allegations leveled against me are just that. Allegations. I recognize this
Breaking news this morning. Five americans are on a plane, one step closer to their freedom after being wrongfully detained for years in iran. We are live in qatar which is their first stop and where they are expected to touchdown any moment. In georgia, a hearing a under way for one of Donald Trumps codefendants where one of the defendants is asking his case to be moved from a State Court Into Federal court, and will it fail like mark meadows did. And how, a irs agent is saying that his rights were failed. With kate bolduan and sara sidner, im john berman and this is cnn news central. Five prisoners in iran wrongfully detained are expected to arrive in qatar by jet. And talking ging about siamak , emad sharghi, morad tahbaz and two other Unidentified Americans will be headed to america. And now 6 billion will be available to iran for humanitarian reason, and five iranian held prisoners will be released as well. Becky anderson is in doha, and what is the very latest that you are hearin
sandra: fox news alert and back to the live pictures out of lukeville, arizona, as we top a brand-new hour here. you are seeing the tucson sector, at the center of the most recent migrant surge, seen hundreds of mostly male adult migrants as you see on the screen there, queued up against the border fence. agents are now we are told, john, 200-1 in the field and this as the daily record for encounters was broken last week. remember, john, we were on the air when it happened, over 12,000 migrants hit the border in a single day and all this is coming after record setting 2.4 million encounters in the fiscal year 23 and all time monthly high of over 260,000 in september. i mean, those are numbers, you are looking at it on your screen, this is happening right now, john. john: populations, you know, some of america s largest cities, new york and los angeles aside, you know, you take houston, dallas, philadelphia, boston, places like that, population of one of those big cities c
is live look at the prison where palestinian prisoners are expected to be released in about two hours from now as part of israel wants hostage swap with hamas. we give them they give them prisoners, they get back innocent people. meanwhile in israel, officials are preparing preparing for are preparing for the return of 13 hostages. the first of 50 to be released over the next four days. trey yingst is live at the israeli air base where the exchange is set to take place. take it away, tray. trey. good morning, two hours from now that first group of hostages is expected to be released into the hands of the red cross and then they will be flown to this military base in southern israel. they will be evaluated and then ultimately able to call their loved ones. earlier today. they goal to regional medical facilities one of five different hospitals where they will be hospitalized in separate, secluded wards. remember, this first group. consist of 13 people. all women and chi
hand of the red cross and they will be flown to this air base to receive medical attention and be able to call loved ones. the israeli have been bringing ambulances and they have been preparing for small children that have been under hamas control to be reintegrated. they will be taken by helicopter or ambulance where they will be hospitalized in separate wards. all women and children are from the same small community in southern israel. they are being exchanged for palestinians. two rocket alerts 15 minutes after the set time. this break in fighting will go for four days and will see 50 israeli hostages released for 150 palestinian prisoners. israeli are calling on all residents in gaza not to leave the south. a group of palestinians tried to make their way back to the north to see their home and any family members left behind. israeli stopped them from doing so. the highly anticipated news today, 13 hostages expected to be released to the red cross an hour from now. guys.