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on a prominent boulevard here in colleyville that s easy to see. you have to go looking for it and know it s there. what kind of calculations went into all of that for the suspect to find this particular synagogue and why? we don t know at this point. i don t know if hostage negotiators if that s the kind of details or information they have been able to garner in their conversation with the suspect throughout the day. all right, stick around as we continue to unpack what has unfolded, ed lavandera, thank you so much. this is cnn s breaking news. just past the top of the hour, welcome everyone, i am michael holmes. breaking news out of texas where all remaining hostages held at that fort worth area synagogue is now free. there was a loud bang out, ed lavandera heard it and gunfire that was heard there in colleyville in texas. just under an hour ago now. then minutes later the texas governor greg abbott tweeted out that the hostages were alive and they were safe. tha ....
breaking news out of texas where all hostages have been rescued after a standoff at a texas synagogue. this happened at the congregation beth israel in colleyville near fort worth. the hostages held for nearly half a day after an attacker stormed into a small worship service on saturday. late saturday, cnn crews on the scene heard a loud bang and then gunfire. the attacker was killed. all remaining hostages freed. moments later, governor greg abbott tweeting out, prayers have been answered, announcing all hostages were out alive and safe. here s how a police official described what led to the rescue. the fbi called out the hostage rescue team, which is an elite hostage rescue force out of quantico, virginia. they immediately when the s.a.c. called, they flew out here. i think they brought 60 or 70 people from washington, d.c. to come and help with this situation. sometime around 9:00 p.m. today, this evening, the hrt, hostage rescue team, breached the synagogue. they ....
what was it? let s go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. out front tonight, a false pretext for war. the pentagon says it has evidence russia is plotting to produce a video that would fake an attack on russian troops. propaganda that would create a pretext for russia to invade ukraine. um, fake attack we believe that russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, um, which would include corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners and images of destroyed locations and as well as military equipment at the hands of ukraine or the west. i mean, that s incredible, right? video that would include corpses, actors depicting mourners. that is a production, and it is all, of course, out of the mind of putin. and nothing has stopped right now the intelligence u.s. officials, they want it out there. they want people to know about this video because they hope that putting out that they figured it out would deter the russian president from doing it. we ....
external factors that you don t get to control, like the weather. so lots of things go into making a decision about when you execute a raid of this complexity and this danger. and there were a lot of factors that had to line up to be just right. you have to make sure that your intelligence is solid and that the individual that you re going after is, in fact, at the location you believe him to be and that all the external factor s, not just the weather, but the ability to operate at that particular time of day and have enough visibility. all those things factor in. so it was a multiple factors. it all came together such that this was the best window to execute this mission. and i would remind you that it s not like we were just sitting on our hands for those months. as you probably saw in the secretary s statement, these special operations forces conducted dozens of rehearsals to make sure that they could get this exactly right. okay. mike breast. hi, mr. kirby. i m ho ....
mega millions. they re raking in plus a cnn exclusive of federal judge is weighing in on donald trump s attacks on the judge, overseeing the former president s hush money case while warning that trump s words threatened the viability of the us legal system. and one year stolen a year of stolen stories, stolen joys, stolen memories. that s how the wall street journal is explained. cleaning, and describing what has happened as it marks the painful one-year anniversary of reporter evan gershkovich, wrongful the tension in russia he s, a crime, doing his job as a journalist. i ll speak with evans publisher this hour. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics first step, a parade of president s and the big apple, joe biden is wrapping up is manhattan visit by speaking to top donors this morning, just hours after he raked in more than 26 million there s according to his campaign that of course, with the help of his friends who used to sit in the ova ....