One week away from the president ial debate between Vice President harris and former President Trump. This morning, a new look at how differently they are approaching this big moment breaking overnight, israel says it has killed a top Hamas Commander responsible for the October 7 massacre and its a whale of a tail. The video you have to see this morning launched into the air by a whale, a snorkeler gets to surprise of a lifetime. Im Sara Sidner with John Berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn News Central check your calendar as its the first day of that. Always talked about post postlabor Day Sprint to the finish. In this election cycle. That is 63 days to go nine weeks, exactly. And soMe Ballots though will start hitting the mail in North Carolina this week in pennsylvania, early voting starts, theyre in two weeks. So calling it a sprint, no exaggeration. And one thing to president ial candidates are sprinting to right now is to get ready for their big debate ahead of their first faceto
In gaza have started vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child foun
Two developments in the last hour should be processed with that fact in mind. First, his sudden decision to cancel a Press Conference. Trump had promised a, quote, conclusive report and he would once and for all be proven right New York Times says its a document of more than 100 pages compiled, at least in part by liz harrington, a Trump Communications aide often described as among the True Believers in his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread fraud. At least on this one issue, trump appears to have listened to the advice of his lawyers. Abc news reported yesterday, trumps Legal Advisers have told him holding such a Press Conference with dubious claims would only complicate his legal problems. Which wrings us to the second development. An audacious request filed in Court Last Night to push back trumps trial in the federal case regarding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election to april of the year 2026. Yeah. Thats more than five years after the d
Get a free line of unlimited intro for a year when you buy one unlimited line. Visit xfinitymobile. Com today to learn more. Today, the former Special Counselor who investigated President Bidens mishandling of documents, a man by the name of robert hur, was grilled on capitol hill. The former counsel has already declined to charge President Biden with anything, concluding that nothing he did was worthy of prosecution. But that did not stop republicans in congress from making a four hour circus out of mr. Hurs testimony today. That is because todays hearing wasnt actually a matter of law. It was about scoring political points. The reality here is that the only reason joe biden accidentally taking some classified documents when he left office, the only reason that matters at all is because donald trump willfully, purposefully, took classified documents with him when he left office and then tried to obstruct justice to cover it all up. These two cases are not the same. But dont just take
Congressional republicans are already saying weisss new status makes him a Fire Wall Insulating President Biden and his Justice Department and could actually impede congressional efforts to get to the truth. Look into that. Also tonight, the Justice Department has moved to officially dismiss the now defunked plea deal with the president s son. Correspondent dazed spunt has the details from the Justice Department. Good evening, david. Reporter bret, good evening to you. The legal jeopardy for the president s son only deepens now that this case has Special Counsel status, and we can say tonight that it appears hunter biden is headed for trial. I have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as Special Counsel. David weiss, the u. S. Attorney who had been leading the Justice Departments probe of Hunter Bidens tax and Business Dealings now getting a new job title and new legal responsibilities. Reporter mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigat