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minutes. so when that statement comes, we ll, of course bring it to you. and of course all of this ongoing in sydney as it comes up on 6:00 local time. this siege going on now for more than eight hours. i m john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. and i m natalie allen. we have been with you for several hours, and we will push on as this situation in australia continues. it is breaking news of a siege there in a coffee shop that has been ongoing. a gunman holding people hostage at the lindt coffee shop in downtown sydney. sky news has just informed us that the gunman is calling himself the brother , and has contacted a radio station and two tv stations via hostages with demands, a conversation with the prime minister and an isil flag. we do know five people have managed to get out. three men were seen running out two hours ago. two of them were customers. the man in the blue jacket, the man in the white zirs and a few moments later there was a man wearing an apron who ....
they don t know yet how far with this. but people are were tired already of this not having a relationship with america and now they will see an opportunity to increase business and things will come from america that will create jobs. people in cuba believe that we have so much in common with america. and with americans. and so this is certainly good for both partners we believe. cuba plays a very important role and now they are expressing how happy they are and they see america with different eyes. so it opens a new market for american producers is good for the american business with the congressman, your thoughts as alan gross comes home and the possibility of normalization with cuba. first of all, we re always elated when an american gets to come home, so i congratulate alan gross. he got his freedom, he got to spend hannukah with his family. that s wonderful news. what is not wonderful news is that the families of the brothers to the rescue shootdown, those four wonder ....
police came. my other son was in the battle cage and he is also very brave. you can see him there in that picture, the tall er of the two. we heard shots and it was clear pretty quickly there was a shooter with a high profile rifle. steve scalise was hit in the hip he was hit, and he was down the whole time. senator rand paul was in the batting cage when it started. i could see way in the distance, the gun sounded like an ar-15, and we could not see i kept yelling back are you friendly? we didn t know if it was another gunman or if it was return fire. and the capital policeman put his head around the dugout and i could tell it was them returning fire. it was a very chaotic situation, and it lasted for at least ten minutes and it just kept going on and on. some estimated over 50 shots. i stood up up in the dugout trying to get a sense of where the gunman was. he walked around first base outside of the fence. . and he got into the dugout. and we realized we were not safe ....
he has done the 2 to 1 regulatory removal for every regulation put in. which couples with the house of representatives vote to appeal. $3.7 billion of cost removed from the backs of business across the country. people can now spend those man-hours, doing something productive for america. americans, however, are unhappy 37 they re unhappy with the job the president is doing they re unhappy with the job congress is doing. congress has a 10% approval rating this week. it s not going the right direction. do you feel many americans feel this way because of what? coming from the outside, i don t understand why everything s so difficult. the politicians spent eight years saying we re going to repeal and replace obama care. they get up there and say, wow! what are we going to do now. you re part of that, that s what americans are thinking, you are on the inside, you are working with members in congress. yes, ana, and that s why when i reached the conclusion that the aaca, wh ....
backdrop he is going to step in front of the american people tonight and try to make the case that he has the right path forward when it comes to afghanistan and that they should trust him. it s a very big decision for me. i took over a mess. and we re going to make it a lot less messy. reporter: president trump set to outline his strategy for america s path forward in afghanistan. a major test for the new commander in chief, one that could put more american troops in harm s way. after meeting with top administration officials at camp david on friday, the president announcing saturday he had made a decision after months of deliberation and delays. he has made a decision, as he said. he wants to be the one to announce it to the american people. it is a south asia strategy, not just an afghanistan strategy. reporter: the president has been presented with a wide range of options. everything from a full withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 more soldiers, amid questi ....