Six died together, and now they will be remembered together forever. Nancy Hundreds Of Thousands of protesters calling on the israeli Prime Minister to make an immediate Hostage Deal with hamas as President Biden says netanyahu needs to do more. We are not giving up. We are going to continue to push as hard as we can. Nancy the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. Im Nancy Cordes in for norah odonnell. Palpable Anger And Anguish pouring onto israeli Streets Today as throngs of protesters marched for a Ceasefire Deal that would release the remaining October 7th hostages. The day started with a nationwide strike that nearly brought the country to a standstill, followed by funerals for some of the six hostages whose bodies were returned home after they were found shot in the back of the head in a Gaza Tunnel over the weekend. Among the dead, 23yearold israeli american Hersh Goldbergpolin. President biden was asked today about the job that israels leader is doing, and his answer was
will have more on this story as we get it. but firstb deadlocked on the debt ceiling president biden and republicans failing to reach an agreement to push the economy straight off the cliff. the morning, i m dana perino, bill is off today, good morning john let s hope cooler heads prevail before that happens. is america s newsroom, the lack of progress raising the specter of america s other default experts fear that said markets into a tailspin and trigger an all out recession. yesterday s talks do not yield an agreement that both sides say they remain optimistic. i felt we had a productive discussion. we don t have an agreement yet but i did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion. i believe we can still get there i believe we can get it done. the most important thing we can do right now is agree that we have to avoid a default at all costs. because a dangerous default will trigger a job killing recession that will hurt milli
years and did nothing about it. customers of which there were thousands were frustrated and they want answers. it s horrible to be sitting in an airport for five hours. it shows the lack of leadership. there was a major problem. a disconnect somewhere. this should not be happening this day in age. we shouldn t be having this kind of ground stoppage throughout the country. it makes no sense to me. dana: the hearing about begin in moments with one notable absence, southwest ceo jordan will not face questions because of a previous commitment. lydia hu has what to expect. hi. good morning. the hearing before the senate committee on commerce, science and transportation is scheduled to start around now. southwest chief operating officer is expected to apologize again for the holiday meltdown that stranded an estimated 2 million passengers over the christmas holiday. lawmakers will demand answers on why the budget airline was unable to adequately cope with the massive wint
hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the way home
over the western united states. it may have come all the way from china. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. good evening, gill i can t believe. the pentagon says it has detected and been tracking for the past several days a chinese surveillance balloon that entered u.s. airspace and appears to have been sent bye bye jing to spy on sensitive sites in montana. one of three sites where the u.s. houses it s siloed nuclear weapons. nbc first reported the news. a senior u.s. defense official just briefed reporters on the balloon which is still hovering over the continental united states. adding the u.s. government has very high confidence that this surveillance balloon was sent by the peoples republic of china. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. instances of this kind of balloon activity have been