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and explosives is assisting on live stream appeared to capture part of the incident as worshippers observed the sabbath. the white house is monitoring the situation in colleyville and police there are asking p public to stay away. with me now is shimon patriotic pose, julie, and josh campbell. rabbi stanton at st center fehr for learning and leadership. also with us is charles ramsey as well as cnn counterterrorism analyst, phil mudd. as we have been reporting, four hostages inside the synagogue. one of the hostages believed to be the rabbi. this took place during the service this morning in texas. this man walked in, there was some communication then took four people hostage. a lot of this was captured on the live stream that the police there were monitoring. they ve learned a information. they ve learned some names, they re trying to run it down and trying to figure out a motive. that seems to be going okay so far. we have no reports of injuries, no reports of shots ....
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington and we are following breaking news at the top of this hour. a hostage situation is unfolding right now on the sabbath at a texas synagogue. the fbi and texas department of public safety are conducting s.w.a.t. operations in colleyville texas at the congregation of beth israel there in colleyville, texas. police are evacuating the residents from the media. the white house is monitoring the situation. let s bring in shimon prokupecz, julia, josh campbell and rabbi joshua stanton, senior fellow at the national jewish center for learning and leadership who was so kind to stay with us. shimon, i understand you have new information. so, we believe, jim, according to authorities there, there are four hostages inside the synagogue that this man has taken hostage. they are working through some information. they believe, the fbi and the police there, believe this is an individual. they have a name of this individua ....
government wants to use that as a pretext, to launch a full-scale rapid invasion into ukraine. what s notable about this, besides the fact that it is shocking and terrifying, is that so far the u.s. government has not address the underlying, to put their money where their mouth is. this is not being shared with the american people. this politically, open to administration up to the criticism for russia that we are making out. the russian government has spared no expense and effort to try and denigrate the cia and the national here in the united states for years. i anticipate the next upcoming is that the russian government will start fighting back against this reporting and say to simply not true. [inaudible]. now reporting on intelligence were from russia. the updated recently with vladimir putin, the agenda which really yesterday with president biden going to the hill for the third time. now he visits this really divisive rhetoric i would argue over voter rights. if ....
as the tennis star admits breaking isolation rules when he had covid and says there was an error on his immigration form. putting the brakes on smart motorways the government pauses their rollout over safety concerns. and the boss of the uk s biggest energy supplier warns that high energy bills will last for two years. hello and welcome to bbc news this morning. borisjohnson will face mps later, with pressure mounting for him to say whether he attended a bring your own booze drinks party in the downing street garden during the first lockdown. witnesses have said that mrjohnson and his wife were among about thirty people present at the event in may 2020, when outdoor gatherings were banned. conservative mps have joined labour in saying he must explain his actions. backbencher nigel mills said it would be utterly untenable for any senior figure who attended the gathering to be responsible for coronavirus policy. he said he couldn t see how the prime minister could continu ....
a child of search light, nevada. he was born into poverty and worked his way up to the highest seat of senate power. serving a decade as this top senate democrat that includes a hugely consequential stint as senate majority leader. in moments we ll hear from people who worked closely with reid at some of the most consequential moments of his career. plus how his legacy is living on today. in an ongoing fight over the filibuster. leigh ann caldwell is joining me from the capitol. also with us, former communications director for senator reid. he had a front row seat to the 2009 affordable care act negotiations and the 2010 midterms. and a former reid staffer, now the national political director of invisible, indivisible, i should say, and former vice president of politics and campaigns for voto latino. they are awaiting former senate majority leader reid s remains to be to walked into the rotunda. as we await that, i want to talk about what we re expecting to see today ....