on alert this morning. a powerful winter storm is bearing down. more than 80 million people are under winter weather alerts. we ll tell you when and where you can expect to see the effects. sunday, january 16th. we are so grateful to have you. thanks for waking up with us. great to see you as always. you too, boris, after your double duty yesterday. yeah. had to do an extra hour. no problem with that. i know. we start with this dramatic hostage stand offin texas. we re happy to report all four hostages are safe after nearly 11 tense hours at a synagogue near dallas. investigators say that suspect entered the congregation beth israel sin fa going to in colleyville, texas, during its sabbath morning service and took the rabbi and three others hostages. the services were being livestreamed at the time. one hostage was released several hours into the standoff. after hours of negotiations an fbi rescue team breached the synagogue freeing the remaining hostages and the
182 billion dollars 182 billion dollars and remain the second richest man in the world. that says it all. one doesn t need which tells you that he had too much in the first place and no human beings should have that much even on paper. it s ridiculous. i m glad, though, about your segment about how people are getting more worried about the gas stoves and you are talking about the culture wars and dr. seuss. and i remember don trump talking about not enough water coming into the shower and asked to flush several times to get it to work. but i m glad about that because what they re missing is the actual subversion going on in america tonight with two brown muslim guys anchoring primetime back-to-back on a major american network. i mean, go crazy. don t say it out loud. they re worried a bass about gas stoves. they re not worried about us, mehdi hassan. have a good weekend, my friend. i ll see you sunday night. you too. all right, buddy. breaking now, we now
house republicans use their first week to score political points and not govern. then the trump org hit with a maximum 1.6 million dollar fine for a tax scheme days after its cfo was sentenced to jail at rikers island. so what now? and from a wild week in congress, including multiple calls for a congressman to resign, to the return of the golden globes, our friday night cap is here on all of it, as the 11th hour gets underway right now. good friday evening. i m stephanie ruhle. new signs tonight the republicans running the house may be setting the stage for the first major showdown in the new congress, one that could have a huge impact on our economy. today treasury secretary janet yellen sounded the alarm telling congress the united states is set reach its debt limit next thursday. yellin said she would have to start taking stormy mitch or s to keep paying the nations bills if lawmakers do not raise that limit. she added, if nothing gets done, the united states could go into
jesse: tonight more mayhem in the middle east, the war between hamas and israel escalating. the american death toll stands at 14. 20 americans are missing. an unknown number of americans are being held hostage. over a thousand isreali corpses laid scattered throughout the country. thousands more are injured or missing. subhuman jihadists ripping families apart, snatching whose edge at thats, kidnapping children. jesse: israel has gun hunting down and extracting hamas from their cities and first responders are getting a look at the ghastly tactics the terrorists are using. hamas left trails of blood soaked in the city streets. in one town hamas reportedly beheaded babies. 40 babies at least were taken out on gurneys, still right now they are going house to house, still evacuating dead bodies. you continue to see just cribs overturned, strollers left behind. all of these doors wide open. he said we don t know the exact number of casualties because they are still collectin
Cyclone Michaung is expected to intensify and bring heavy rains to Chennai and surrounding districts. Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister inspected preparatory works to ensure uninterrupted power supply during the cyclone., Chennai News, Times Now