pause in the war. yesterday, hamas released 24 hostages while israel released 39 palestinian prisoners. and new video is showing dramatic reunions on friday, like nine year old ohad wound or. his mom grandmother ruth e. coming face to face with their loved ones after being held captive. relatives are saying that the former abductees are doing as well as can be expected. what is a good shape for a nine year old after being in some prison cell for nine months? the way i see is, the doctor said that they are exactly where they should be, under the circumstances, okay? so, we have to give them time, of course. but we are optimistic, a lot of love and a lot of patients, you know? recuperating and coming to terms with the new reality that has happened. indeed. well, the ron asher and her daughters, aviv and roz, they were also released and reunited with their loved ones, while relatives of the am still being held or questioning widespread global protests in support of palesti
down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and three di
pfizer plant in michigan. the first fda-authorized covid-19 vaccine is right now being loaded up. it will soon be at hospitals across the country. the trucks are moving out now. it is 7:09 8:09 in the east. 7:09 houston time. it appears the first truck, a fedex truck, has left or leaving as we speak. it pulled out of the picture. the pfizer facility in michigan. that s the first truck. three months ago already represents an historic time for the country but a dark historied. the failed former president was calling the then president-elect joe biden ill legitimate. he was continuing his crusade against american democracy, and that weekend we woke up to the news that the u.s. supreme court had rejected another republican effort to delay the electoral college vote in more battle ground states their dear leader had lost and biden won. the effort to jurn turn the election had the support of 126 of the 196 republicans in the house of representatives at the time. the head of the
good evening, everyone. we begin the reidout with a thing we really haven t seen in a long, long, long time. a forthright, open, democratic, dare i say progressive defense of government. now, i am old enough to remember bill clinton responding to the reagan and reaganomics by saying us too. the era of big government is over but courtesy of the democrats. that was a political calculation that i guess made sense at the time. reagan was still popular and sainted by republicans and so-called reagan democrats. and when president obama came along and was faced with this massive economic hole that george w. bush left the country in, he too felt constrained to couch the response in terms of, not spending too much money, keeping the economy, rescuing stimulus package under $1 trillion and kind of downplaying anything that looked like big government. and not too much braggadocio, especially from the black president. oh, god, no, no, no. well, enter joe biden. fresh off his prime-time
their bombs, rockets, blockades. by logistics and their actual participation in the battle. who is bigger and greater. the ones kill us or the ones who say death to them? the biden administration has announced it has withdrawn support for the saudi offensive. it comes after six long years of war. for the children dying of hunger, it still hasn t brought peace any quicker. peace and help can t come soon enough. can you imagine what it would do to the community if the facility was shut down? for years the u.n. has been warning the famine is coming to yemen. they tell us famine has arrived. they re witnessing wave after wave of children in the red zone, severe malnourishment, desperate to keep their children in line are forced to make harrowing choices. just to get to the hospital i stopped eating and drinking, not even water, just to get him treated. these doctors are keeping track of the numbers spiking beyond what they ever imagined. the doctor is saying in 2020 this