You watching us here in the United States, canada, and around the world. This is cnn newsroom. Im Kim Brunhuber, Live In Atlanta were following the latest developments in the Middle East, following the israeli airstrike in lebanon that killed Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah the israeli strikes have been going on for days now and theyre showing no signs of letting up despite new fears. Of a wider war in the region of a look here, we have new video from lebanon showing some of the damage from todays israeli airstrikes in lebanon. Lebanons State News Agency says, the Sunday Strikes have killed at least ten people. Meanwhile, weve just heard from the idf that a number of projectiles have been fired from lebanon lebanon, into israel now all this is happening as the u. S. Says, israel is moving troops to the border with lebanon. A possible sign of preparations for a crossborder incursion. Israel says a Ground Operation is only one of the options. Its considering we need to understand there
Dana it doesnt. Jim desmond, County Supervisor in san diego. Thank you. Elite Israeli Forces rescued a hostage in Southern Gaza as we bring you that good news this morning. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning to you, bret. Bret im bret baier in washington. Todays rescue is the first time in months that a hostage has been rescued alive. He was inside a gaza tunnel. More than 100 hostages are believe to remain captive. Some of them likely dead. The Daring Rescue really is something today. Dana it coincides with a new warning that irans aggression has reached an alltime high. Both sides appear to be stepping back from the brink of war for now. Reality is, bret, neither one of them really wants to fight a war against israel. They are aware israel is strong and the u. S. Is backing israel. It looked to us watching here like israel scored a significant victory over when hezbollah recently. It tells you a lot about the motivations of hezb
Rahm emanuel about whats the u. S. Trying to accomplish. We begin this morning with the Devastating Hawaiin Wildfire S that ravaged maui. Police have identified three more victims. Nbcs tom llamas spoke with the family a 79yearold who was identified yesterday. Reporter remembering the man who for decades was the rhythm of lahaina. Music was the love of his life. Buddy jantoc spent life as a musician, touring country before settling down in his forever home of lahaina. Theyre sharing memories like this of uncle buddy playing weekend gigs at lahainas cannery mall. He was always smiling, always laughing. This as nbc news has reviewed a lawsuit accusing Hawaiian Electric of years of inaction and negligence, arguing it should have been planning to shut down Power Systems before the damaging winds hit. The Hawaiian Electric company declined to comment on the pending lawsuit. Nbcs Steve Patterson joins us this morning from maui. What more do we know about that suit and the investigation into
Im maria bartiromo. It is monday, march 18, your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Of day markets beginning a new week, take a look, futures indicating some losses for the dow industrials, lower by 7 points. Nasdaq is on fire once again, futures indicating a triple digit rally for the nasdaq, up 117 points right now ahead of the Federal Reserves march meeting that begins tomorrow morning. Were previewing where the central bank stands on rate cuts happening later this year. European markets in the green, the bank of england meeting this week as well as the bank of japan. Well have all of those results for you coming up. Best performer in europe, germany is up 68. Asia, green p green across the. Nikkei average up 2 and two of thirds percent on the session. Also, Hunter Bidens former Business Partners will testify in an open forum this wednesday despite hunter biden saying he will not show up as House Oversight Committee Chairman james comer tells me criminal referrals are coming
Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the judge in former President Trumps Election Interference Trial said this morning either the District Attorney or the special prosecutor must step aside. The decision, out of Fulton County georgia, comes amid allegations of an improper relationship between the two. This afternoon the special prosecutor nathan wade resigned. Correspondent Jonathan Serrie is in atlanta tonight to tell us where things go from here. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening to you, bret. Facing pressure from the judges order, special prosecutor nathan wade stepped down from the case leaving District Attorney fani willis perhaps wounded but not disqualified as the defense initially wanted. The Fulton County District Attorneys office faced an unpleasant but not difficult decision. Had nathan wade remained a special prosecutor in the Georgia Election interference case, d. A. Fani willis and her entire office would have had to step aside. Instead, wade resigned, expla