al sand alexandria hoff with the latestest on all of this. reporter: so the president tried to the use the 2003 heroes act as a route to usher in this loan forgiveness plan. of course, the supreme court shot that down yesterday. now biden administration is looking at something called the higher education act as a means to the become a plan b. we re not going to waste any time on this. we re getting moving on it it s going to take longer, but we re getting at it right away. reporter: president sd the higher education act will allow the secretary the of education to waive or release are loans under certain circumstances. very few details on how or why this route could work, and it s likely to face the the same legal challenges. as part of a joint statement released yesterday, republican senator bill cassidy wrote, quote: president biden s sunt loan scheme is still illegal and does not forgive department, but with instead ares it to to those who willingly took on the d
we start with the israel gaza war, and the qatari television network aljazeera has said one of its cameramen has been killed in gaza as the result of an israeli strike. aljazeera said that samer abu daqqa was wounded either by shrapnel or in a drone strike on a school in khan yunis, in central gaza. he bled to death when rescue workers failed to reach the school. this comes as hundreds of people gathered in tel aviv on friday night to call for the israeli government to secure the release of the remaining hostages held by hamas. the israeli military has admitted it killed three israeli hostages in gaza city, after they were mistakenly identified as a threat. the israeli defense forces have expressed deep remorse over the incident, which is now under investigation. from jerusalem, here s our correspondent, lucy williamson. israel s army is in gaza to kill hamas fighters and bring hostages home. clear targets obliterated in the chaos of conflict. three of those shot dead in th
made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this coronavirus
after he opened fire in two different locations. he traveled to a mushroom farm where he opened fire and went to a second location and shot and killed three others. the victims were likely chunli zhao s co-workers. he was a disgruntled employee at one of the locations he shot up. i would like to offer my heart-felt condolences to the families of the victims. this kind of shooting is horrific, a tragedy we hear far too often, but today it hit home in san francisco county. brooke: the shooting comes just days after 11 people were killed in monterey park. we are learning more about the 26-year-old hero who stepped in to take down this armed suspect. huu can tran. he is recounting the terrifying moment standing in the dance studio and saw a gunman enter the building. i turned around and saw an asian man holding a gun, something came over me, i realized i needed to take the weapon away from him or else everybody would have died. when i got the courage, i lunged at him with b
minister benjamin netanyahu said that there is currently no deal to release them. netanyahu updated israelis during a news briefing in tel aviv a week ago. a week ago, netanyahu told nbc news there could be a possible deal with hamas in the works. but earlier today, thousands of israelis marched into jerusalem, demanding their government do more to release the hostages being held in gaza. also today, in tel aviv, in a separate protest, israelis demanded a cease-fire and long term solutions to secure peace in the region. netanyahu maintains a temporary cease-fire we ll come after hamas releases the hostages. in this video, we can see right there, in gaza city today, shows people leaving al-shifa hospital, the director of gaza s hospital system claimed israeli army ordered people to leave, but the israeli army denies they forced people out. only a few doctors stayed behind to treat patients or too sick to leave. the hamas control government said that 12,000 people have died