Smarter, which won by morning. Got it. Got abbas, daughter, you ve got this is cnn breaking news you re live in the cnn newsroom. I m jim acosta in washington. We do begin this hour with breaking news out of the middle east. Israel s military says it has rescued a hostage from a hamas tunnel in southern gaza. He had been held captive since the terror attacks of october 7. The father of 11, and spent the last 320 six days as a prisoner there he is in the hospital right there a short time ago reuniting with his brother, cnn s jim sciutto joins us now from tel aviv jim, the details of been trickling in what s the latest that you ve learned? well, first of all, certainly you re happy fomin moment for, for him and for his family after these painful days, weeks, and months captivity. But this has also been quite a rarity for the idf of the close to 250 hostages taken on october 7, only aides have been freed alive via military operations. And this is the first one based on the details provide
Breaking news, Hurricane Debby makes Landfall A storm that could break records catastrophic rain on a slow Motion March up the entire East Coast and we are standing by not just for an announcement, but be announcement by Vice President harris on her Running Mate. The new clues urging this morning. And then record breaking stock plunges around the world. Major new concerns with us Market Set to open in 90 minutes kate is out im John Berman with Sara Sidner and this is cnn new central and the breaking news this morning, Hurricane Debby made landfall moments ago, and this is just the beginning even asked the Florida Coast gets batter with winds and surge. The real story is what will happen the next few days as the storm crawls up the coast, bringing catastrophic levels of rain, feet of rain, more than 1 Million people across three states are under the highest Flooding Alert possible already the florida governor Ron Desantis said this just moments ago now that Hurricane Debby is making lan
Many of the Founding Fathers fought against creating the Vice Presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. The system has produced some worthy Vice President s, but at best, its a compromise, and at worst, its a game of roulette with the nations destiny. Ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the Vice President and his superfluous excellen excellency. I always think of John Nance Garner and his quote that it wasnt worth a bucket of warm spit, and thats cleaning up what he said. If you ask the American People what does the Vice President do, i think youd probably get a shrug of the shoulders. You might even be asked who is the Vice President . Lets do it. I think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the Vice Presidency. The office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and some years, was described in all k
Best part of a year selecting our president. Many of the Founding Fathers fought against creating the Vice Presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. The system has produced some worthy Vice President s, but at best, its a compromise, and at worst, its a game of roulette with the nations destiny. Ben franklin when the constitution was written said we should refer to the Vice President as a superfluous excellencely. I always think of John Nance Garner and his quote that it wasnt worth a bucket of warm spit, and thats cleaning up what he said. If you ask the American People what does the Vice President do . I think you would probably get a shrug of the shoulders. You might even be asked who is the Vice President . Lets do it. I think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the Vice Presidency. The office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200
Coming up on American History tv, a discussion with the author of the book 1948, Harry Trumans improbable victory and the year that transformed america. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the clifton park half moon public library. We are very pleased to have david patrusia to talk about his latest book 1948. Harry trumans improbable victory and the year that france formed america kwoo. Hes been here in the past about his book about Arnold Rothstein and the book of 1920, the year of six president s and 1960, lbj versus jfk versus nixon, the silent cowls almanac and the homespun wit and wisdom of vermont, Calvin Coolidge and ted williams, my life in pictures. He produced a wmht documentary, local heroes, baseball and Capital District diamonds. Reviews for his harry truman book talk about how lively it is and illuminating portraits and the evenhanded appraisal for truman is especially compelling. What it takes to get us to election day is one thats definitively become the best at leading