Hamas operations. Maurice and a stunning move, the u. S. Department of justice has filed criminal charges against hamas top leaders over a murdered americans including the October 7th attacks. The charges range from conspiracy to murder of u. S. Nationals to advancing terrorism. They murdered entire families. They murdered the elderly and they murdered young children. Maurice the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. I am Maurice Dubois in tonight for norah. We begin with breaking news. Newly announced criminal charges against six senior leaders of the hamas and the deaths of dozens of americans in the October 7th terror attack. These charges come days after more hostages were executed including american Hersh Goldbergpolin adding new intense pressure to accelerate their ceasefire talks. One of the defendants now facing federal charges has a key decisionmaker in those negotiations. Cbss Scott Macfarlane has Details Tonight from the Justice Department. Reporter nearly 11 months aft
Toll is rising, up to 1,000 people still unaccounted for on the island. The Historic Community of lahaina which stood for centuries, now a wasteland. Hundreds of homes, businesses and cultural landmarks Reduced To Ashes by a fastmoving inferno. Shelters packed with survivors. Residents say they had little to no warning before being forced to evacuate. Fire officials now being pressed on why Warning Sirens were not activated when the fires began. The governor says its likely the largest Natural Disaster in hawaiis history. Whit johnson in maui tonight. Also on this friday night, the surprise turn in the hunter biden investigation. After the plea deal for president bidens son fell apart in federal court, today attorney general Merrick Garland granted Special Counsel status to u. S. Attorney david weiss. What this means for the case. Could hunter biden now stand trial . Pierre thomas in washington. Mary bruce at the white house. The judge warning donald trump about his public attacks, pos
are at 4. the desantis campaign has just released a video making his formal announcement. let s take a look. the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet. and the president flounders. but decline is a choice. success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for. writing the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. normalcy to our communities, and integrity to our institutions. truth must be our foundation. and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. in florida, we prove that it can be done. we chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. we held the line when freedom hung in the balance. we showed that we can and must revitalize america. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i m ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. bret: more on that in a bit. governor desantis now becomes the main challenger to former president trum
fbi used everyday americans 28,000 times going into 2020 to 2021. section 02 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act also known as fisa. it gives the fbi and other agencies the ability to difficultily surveil.used the te civil unrest following the death of george floyd on the streets of the united states. those involved in the january 6th capitol attack. even political donors. according to the court a redacted name or names, quote: conducted a batch query for over 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign. the analyst who ran the query advised that the campaign was a target of foreign influence but the national security division determined that only 8 identifiers used in a query had sufficient ties to foreign influence activities to comply with the querying standard. the judge wrote that the problems were persistent and widespread and, quote: it may become necessary to consider other responses such as substantially limiting the number of fbi personnel with access to unmi
chris christie says that he can announce the coming days in mike pence is launching a super pac. all eyes are on ron desantis. the florida governor is especially to officially get into the race next week. and he is giving his biggest tease yet. we just completed what i would say is the boldest and most far-reaching agenda that would see in the modern history of a republican party. if you look at what we been able to accomplish their summing in there for anybody. in terms of the issues that we tackle and at the end of the day where country needs to be about. is this idea that it really matter where you start from just that people have an opportunity do big things in this country and that has been true historically when he to make sure that it s true again. speeforty also reportedly telling donors that he is only republican who can beat present joe biden. right now in the polls were present donald trump is the front runner by a big margin. while the republican race is buzzing