Destruction still raging today. Later this afternoon President Biden will hold his first News Conference since hamas carried out the Terror Attacks and escalating threats from iran target u. S. Forces in the region. A bunch of things moving on that front as we say hello. Im bill hemmer. Here we go today. Dana im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Hamas terrorists also trying to infiltrate israel from the Mediterranean Sea and foiled by the israeli navy. A whos who of top officials of hezbollah, hamas and Islamic Jihad holding talks how to achieve total victory over israel. The pentagon revealing more than 14 attacks, one more than yesterday against u. S. Forces based in the middle east in the last week. The white house trying to connect the dots saying all these militia and all these Terror Groups are working hand in glove with tehran. Iran is certainly complicit here. Without them there is no hamas or hezbollah, without them there is no Militia Groups firing rockets at our tro
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to cnn news central. we re tracking the release of 24 hostages now safe in israel. right now 13 israelis, ten thai citizens and one filipino citizen are free after 48 days as hostages of hamas and other groups in gaza. this video, you see the bus that was carrying them entering israel. this video taken moments ago. israeli officials say the freed hostages are en route to receive further medical care and to be reunited with their families. the 39 palestinian prisoners being released by israel in exchange today as part of this agreement are also as we understand it on the move. wolf? and we now have the names and ages of the 13 israelis who were released today. this is from the israeli government. let me read the names of those released and their ages. hannah, 76. adina, 72. karen, 54. daniel, 45. doron, 34. emilia, 5. raz, h4. aviv and channa. we have coverage of the developments unfolding. let s begin with clarissa ward at the children
new york, city christmas. ainsley: there is the all-american christmas tree out on the fox square. we were here late last night lighting the christmas tree. patriotic, all red, white and blue. cardinal dolan a rabbi here and minister. it was really special. steve: it absolutely was. as you look at it. this year, just like last year, it is fireproof. something else that we are doing a little different is we turned the light off at midnight now. because what we have found, apparently, is it draws people throughout the night. so, they turned it off at midnight and turn it right back on at 6:00 a.m. and we just turned it on so you can get a good look because it feels like thehoods right now 3 # degrees in new york city. brian: that s where i just learned something already, steve. i thought this was mayor adams demanding everybody shut down the lights to save money. shutting down library wrears and closing down museums. i just was wondering if this was part of the budget c
have to look like now? is it to press for a cease-fire? is it to constrain israel? it s to press for a cease-fire. i don t think there s a problem on the israeli side. they will agree to a cease-fire. the problem is how do you get hamas to agree to a cease-fire? they re looking for something they can claim as a victory and they re looking for somebody to pay for the salaries of hamas people in gaza because they ve been cut off from their natural sources of nephews by the egyptians. so the whole question is how do you leverage hamas? i think president obama and secretary kerry want very much a cease-fire and are willing to do what they can to achieve that, but until hamas decides it s going to call off the rocket fire, it s hard to see how this comes to an end. there s probably agreement among israel, even the palestinian leadership, it s important for people to understand, president abbas, egypt as well, that they would like hamas to go, and then maybe there s chance for peace be