do. kevin bacon. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now on ana cabrera reports, israel and hamas extend their tenuous truce with more israeli hostages expected to be released today. as we hear from the family of freed 4-year-old american for the first time. she s been reunited with her brother and her sister. and that was magical in the sense that the brother and sister who for 50 days waited and hoped that abigail would come home. plus, a u.n. official calling conditions inside gaza catastrophic. i ll talk to a red cross official about the aid now getting in during this pause. also ahead, presidents and first ladies gathering today in georgia for a tribute service for rosalynn carter. her husband of seven decades expected to leave hospice c to attend his beloved wife s memorial. and later, a brutal winter blast taking aim at the northeast. millions of americans enduring temperatures up to 20 degrees below normal.
democrats and just generally in the senate, to get out of this situation and stay unified. well, this has been a trick kby calculus for the president throughout. he took a lot of heat from members of his own base for not doing more on voting rights during the early months of his generation. he went down to georgia to atlanta, and made clear what he wanted, that he wanted to change the filibuster. that he wanted there to be real effort, federal effort on voting rights. and it went nowhere. in fact, his motorcade was warming up at the white house to make the drive up pennsylvania avenue to the capitol, when arizona senator kyrsten sinema delivered a speech on the senate floor, saying, nope, i m not doing that. we re not going to change the filibuster. and of course, there s no margin for error, so they weren t able to get it done. white house aides told me privately, they recognize it s a