the national mall expected to be flooded in d.c. with up to 100,000 protesters march for israel. the goal of the administration is to show solidarity with the hostages taken as well as condemning anti-semitism. brian: head off to san francisco head-to-head meet with president xi. clean up the house. it was abundantly cleaning because of optics and not security. steve a united airlines flighted headed from los angeles to canada made an emergency landing in san francisco last night after an alleged bomb threat. brian: 148 passengers, 8 crew members. unclear if any of these passengers were arrested. mike ought to know better and republicans thinking about supporting this ought to know better. same government shut down showdown this time with a new speaker. mike johnson unveiled a two step plan to avoid a partial shutdown before friday. steve: holiday huddle for the kelce brothers announcing a christmas album. give it up. when when. [harmonizing] [laughter]
Seriously tonight. A short time ago, the u. S. Central command, the coalition, announced it is opening a formal assessment into whether on march 17th, in west mosul, it may have dropped bombs that killed a significant large number, perhaps, perhaps hundreds of civilians. So issue right now, nobody knows exactly what happened. All of this began to emerge over the last couple of days as Social Media Activists in the area began to report large numbers of Civilian Casualties due to bombings in west mosul where there is very tough fighting against isis. The picture has been pretty murky because theres so many conflicting reports, and the u. S. Doesnt have anybody on the ground there that can put eyeballs on the situation and really verify it. But the pentagon, the coalition today, a short time ago, said that theyve been able to
determine that, yes, they did conduct the air strikes in one of these areas where the allegations have emerged from on march 17th. Iraqi officials on the ground are
In on them. Listen. I left and went to town. My wife called me, she said, we can see the fire way over there. You need to come and get me. I said im on my way. So i just throwed down everything, took off over there. I got on quartz hill and theres two or three or four lanes of traffic coming up, wouldnt let me down in in. So i just dropped everything and i took off running down there and i helped some guy that got burnt and was trying to get out of there. I got him and helped him out of there. And when i got back down there, the fire was just intense. But i still tried to get down in there and they come and stopped me, wouldnt let me down in there. I got my car and took off and passed everybody in the dirt and went all the way around to the other end of quartz hill and come up keswick, and my son was in there. He was up there, but i didnt see him. He was up there and then gary, my son, was on the other side of the house. And gary opened the door to go
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that, or get into the door frames, that is what people say. so we were fairly confident it would be ok. but then we saw that everyone was evacuating, which we haven t actually done before, so we got lots of stuff together, drinks, snacks, coats and what have you, and we walked to the local elementary school gym, which was the evacuation point. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let s look at some other stories making news here in the uk. the home office says it s cleared what it s called the legacy backlog of asylum claims meeting a pledge made by rishi sunak. the home secretary says the target has been successfully met and the process for future claims has been speeded up. but critics including labour have accused the goverment of massaging the figures. a man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 46 year old man in sheffield. chris marriott a father of two
that one here. there has been another earthquake in the same place in wajima but this was definitely the worst. how worried for you? i was more worried about my family because i knew i would be ok. i say worried, but i knew they had had a direct quote they had had earthquake training at school, they need to get under something, get under a table or a chair, or get in a doorframe is what under a table or a chair, or get in a door frame is what people say. i was fairly confident it would be ok but when we got home we saw that everyone was evacuating, which we haven t done before. wejust everyone was evacuating, which we haven t done before. we just got lots of stuff together, drinks, snacks, coats and what had you, and walk to the local elementary school gym which was our evacuation points. i m so glad yourfamily are gym which was our evacuation points. i m so glad your family are safe and well. live now to japan, where we can speak to satoshi ide.