hostage are now safe after an 11-hour ordeal after the suspect is now dead. he was armed with a gun as he entered the synagogue. it was live streamed. let s go to cnn s ed lavandera who is on the scene for us in colleyville, texas. we were just following it all day yesterday, we were just worried sick about that. but we now have audio from inside that building. ed, what more are we learning? reporter: hey, jim. we reported extensively on this yesterday what it was like for congregation members of the beth israel synagogue here in colleyville, texas, to watch the beginnings of this hostage situation unfold on the live stream of the sabbath services. several congregation members told us they were listening to the suspects screaming frantically on there, vacillating emotionally between
siddiqui who was convicted of terror charges in 2010 and was fiercely anti-semitic and talked about that anti-semitism all the time. so there does seem to be a connection of sorts. reporter: yeah, there is. and i suspect in the weeks ahead that more better understanding of true motive behind this suspect will come to light. and a lot of this was based on, remember, there were a number of people especially the congregants of the synagogue who were watching sabbath services over the live stream, and they listened and watched what was going on inside that synagogue for more than an hour in what was described to us at times hysterical screaming, ranting and raving and kind of vacillating between these ups and downs of these mood swings that was reported to us that this suspect had. so a lot of the details we have at this point is coming from people who were watching this live stream and really kind of, you know, piecing together the
sandra, we ll be talking more about this in the next hour, i don t know if brian has finished medical school but i think he s close, but people are now more confused than ever. you have states saying one thing, you have c.d.c. saying another, you have the white house vacillating in between the two. what is a person supposed to think? and what is a person supposed to do. we ll talk to dr. kilmeade coming up. new inflation data out today, showing costs are way up. 7.5% jump, the fastest uptick in consumer prices in four decades. the national gas price average hitting another high of 3.48, while president biden focusses on spending more money, rolling out more electric vehicles on the road. bring in jason furman, and also the president of the american action forum. and jason, i think i said you
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