Late news, fox news At Night Breaking tonight at Columbia University where hundreds of antisemitic protesters gathered for a fifth consecutive night jewish students who attended the Ivy League School have repeatedly said they fear for their safety and now they have been told by the university and a school rabbi to go home. Back to this in moments. The anti israel pro hamas protests are now blowing him from coasttocoast here in the west students at berkeley now establishing a Quote Free Palestine Camp in central california, protesters have taken over to University Buildings clashing with police and forcing administrators to close campus through wednesday. Students for more than two dozen high schools and colleges in Washington State also held a pro palestinian walkout. Meantime in the midwest at Northwestern University and investigation now underway about our campus protests that targeted Jewish Community centres at the University Of Michigans pro palestinian liberated zone we are told
just moments ago, donald trump returned to a new york courtroom in his civil fraud case, describing the trial as corrupt. insisting he did nothing wrong. now, the defense called an expert witness and things got testy. we ve got details when we take you live outside the courthouse in moments. as u.s. aid to israel remains stalled on capitol hill. today marks two months in the israel hamas war. we ll be speaking to a spokesman for an update on the fighting. the presidents of harvard, mit and the university of pennsylvania facing streetny and calls to resign after their hill testimony on anti-semitism on their campuses. now, a house committee has launched an investigation into the three schools. we re following the major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. right now, former president donald trump is inside a new york courthouse watching the $250 million civil fraud trial that threatens his business empire. trump is expected to t
sderot, israel. how is israel expanding its ground assault? reporter: i sat down with israel s top tank commander to talk about how tanks are going to play a central role in the offensive in the south as today the first israeli tanks were spotted in southern gaza. as israel expands its ground offensive into southern gaza the brigadier general, the head of israel s armored corps, said tanks will once again be central to israel s war strategy. reporter: israeli tanks were at the tip of the offensive into gaza in october, clearing the way for infantry troops to move into dangerous and densely populated cities. ibrahim says this kind of coordination is a lesson learned from russian failures in ukraine. translator: we saw where they only fought with tanks alone they were more vulnerable. this overcomes almost every problem on the battlefield. reporter: israeli tanks are pushing through, not around residential buildings, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble to minimi
four-times indicted ex-president. nbc news is reporting on potentially game-changing revelation base the former vice president, mike pence. we ll have more on what pence told special counsel jack smith s investigators later this hour. but first, we want to get to the fast-moving developments out of the middle east. at this hour, we are getting our first glimpse of the latest hostages to be released. here are some of the faces of the 12 prisoners released by hamas today, 10 israelis and 2 thai nationals. notably, many are older. among them, a mother and daughter who were kidnapped together. a retired kindergarten teacher. a grandmother of nine. and the 84-year-old founder of one of the kibbutz that was raided on october 7th. this is now day five of the extended truce that for now, barring another extension, is expected to last through tomorrow, for six days in total. as we know, it is a fragile truce and a fluid situation as underscored by the events of just the last 24 hours
we re monitoring breaking news right now. the full israeli cabinet is meeting behind closed doors, going over a deal that could bring home dozens of hostages taken by hamas. the well-being of those hostages hanging on this decision. it comes after prime minister benjamin netanyahu met earlier today with key officials about the negotiations. the deal would end the torment of so many of these hostages and their families who have been demanding their safe return for more than a month now. let s get the latest from alex. how soon could a deal be announced? that could be quite soon. we believe the ball is in israel s court, they re going through their legal and political process to approve the deal. that on the hamas side of things, it s been approved. an expectation once all is said and done is that israel would announce they agreed to the deal but also announced by qatar, and they have been the key mediator on this because they have a direct conversation, direct line into