tonight. the u.s. and russia meeting today. what they said after and the gunfire as our correspondent was reporting, interviewing a ukrainian general on the front lines. a reality check tonigh on rising tensions there. and justice department here at home arresting a texas man for threatening elections officials in georgia. tonight you will hear the threats, and is there more coming on this front? pierre thomas with late reporting. what the fbi just revealed tonight in the gabby petito case. what they found in brian laundrie s nobody. the images coming in, the high school shooting in maryland. the school on lockdown. and the tributes pouring in for rock n roll powerhouse meatloaf, the driving force behind one of the most epic rock albums of all time. i can see paradise by the dashboard lights a well known median, and how he s being remembered as well. good evening. it s great to have you with us as we near the end of another week together. we ll get to this i
this is the planning effect. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. the nation pauses today to remember the life and legacy of civil rights leader dr. martin luther king jr. members of his family are in the nation s capitol to make another push for voting rights legislation. as the senate is set to make what may be a futile effort to push those bills through. we ll talk with democratic texas congresswoman, shelia jackson lee about what comes next. meantime, we re learning more about the gunman who held several people hostage in a texas synagogue for nearly 12 hours. on the eastern seaboard, an messy start to the week for tens of millions of people as a winter storm brings heavy snow, ice, rain, and wind to the region. and a former haitian senator is arrested in connection with last year s assassination of the country s former president. we ll take a closer look at the deteriorating situation on the ground in haiti. and we begin with
standoff at a texas synagogue. investigators say 44-year-old british citizen trend eight held the rabbi and three others against their will for hours yesterday in the synagogue in colleyville texas as he called for convict known as lady al-qaeda to be released from a nearby prison. president biden is condemning the incident as an act of terror. the stand offended last night when a team of fbi hostage rescuers stormed the synagogue and led the hostages to freedom very policing the suspect is dead and none of the hostages were hurt. former homeland security advisor charles marino is standing by with his insight with fox team coverage mike pilgrim with more the fbi since the suspect wanted the u.s. to release first outside the synagogue in texas. the fbi has been incited around the synagogue all day long processing the scene, the evidence and we saw them on top of the roof a short time ago but a little while ago they came out with important information they believe strongly th
all of the hostages, which may include the synagogue s rabbi, we re told, are at this point reported to be uninjured. two law enforcement officials are telling cnn that investigators believe the hostage taker may have been motivated by wishing to free aafia siddiqui, who is in prison in texas. out of abundance of caution tonight, law enforcement agencies across the country have stepped up synagogues and other jewish establishments. let s begin this hour with my colleague, think mon por cue pez. a lot of reporting over the last hour, some good news, that the individuals being held hassage are uninjured and that the fbi is still talking to the hostage taker. right, and that s certainly significant. that at least point seems that the fbi feels that the negotiations are going well and that they can continue to negotiate, because people, of course, naturally, are asking, well, why doesn t the fbi just go in and take this guy into custody, but there seems to be some good communic
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. that host