us from california. are you hearing anything about how this meeting went, the meeting started obviously with reasonably optimistic statements and smiles by both leaders. reporter: it did. it felt like it started on a positive tone, jack. i m a bit surprised that it went just a little over two hours as i look at the clock, wrapped up around 1:35 local time. we all saw that long list of issues between the two countries, and you expected it to go over the four hours allotted. they are still together. it s moved on now to a second portion of this, and that s essentially a working lunch. so they will dine together and continue discussions. you mentioned that optimistic tone starting things off. we expected that from joe biden. there s a bit more transparency on the u.s. side going into this. they wanted to cool those tensions. it s another issue off his plate. if he can stabilize things between the u.s. and china. but what surprised me is president xi in his opening remarks, he
a rare face-to-face between the leaders of two global powers. moments from now president biden and china s president xi meet on u.s. soil amid rising tensions. can they reset relations? plus, israeli troops raid gaza s largest hospital after claiming hamas is using it as a terror cell. will the idf show evidence as hamas and hospital officials deny this? where are patients supposed to go? an emergency hearing in fulton county, georgia. why the district attorney says they need to seal evidence in the case against former president donald trump and others. all these stories coming in right here to cnn news central. at any moment president biden and chinese president xi jinping are set to meet face-to-face for the first time in a year. president biden is hoping this highly-anticipated meeting will put the u.s./china relationship on steadier footing. the president has been lowering expectations heading into it. the summit is taking place in san francisco. cnn s dana
the famous blue lagoon is closed. small sign, officials say of what is to come. thanks for joining us. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, our closest look from inside gaza, with israeli troops uncovering hamas underground infrastructure. and a u.s. official saying one command post is under gaza s main hospital. day one of the former president s defense in new york s civil fraud case, with donald trump jr. taking the stand. we begin keeping him honest. what the former president is now saying about his opponents and how his allies are reportedly planning to target them. thanks for joining us. it is no secret that the former president lies nearly all the time. what s also becoming clearer, though, is that when he talks about what he would like to do to people he perceives as his enemies, he s often not lying. there s new reporting to that effect tonight. and coupled with several other recent reports, it sugges
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we start this hour with the breaking news. the white house says a toddler, a 3-year-old toddler is among one of the nine americans and 200 others currently being held hostage by hamas following that deadly attack more than a month ago in israel. let s go straight to cnn senior white house reporter kevin liptak in delaware. this is just a heartbreaking development. what more can you tell us? reporter: yeah. this news coming from the white house in a readout of a phone call that president biden held with the amir of qatar. qatar has been acting as a broker in these talks to get these hostages released. the president conveyed his unequivocal condemnation of the holding of hostages in gaza, including this 3-year-old american toddler, whose parents were killed in the hamas attacks in israel on october 7th. so we don t know many details about this child, but he is one of potentially as many as 10 americans who are being held
election offices are targeted with suspicious letters. more than a dozen have been sent across the country. one confirmed to be laced with fentanyl. the latest on the federal investigation and whether officials believe these letters are connected just ahead. also, wherever you go, it seems that screen is flipped around, and you re faced with pressing math questions. has tipping gone too far? new polling ahead. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. israel s war on hamas intensifying on the streets of gaza. before we show you some new footage, we want to warn you some of these images are disturbing. this new video shows people trapped under rubble. buildings collapsed by israeli barrages on thursday, victims being pulled out of the rubble in a desperate search for survivors. today gunfire sent palestinian civilians near one hospital in northern gaza scrambling for safety. it comes amid reports that isr