The start of his journey back home. At israel s soroka hospital, his last few moments in hiding. A wall of israeli soldiers shielding him from the world he left ten months ago. From a tunnel in gaza to an israeli ambulance in a couple of hours. His family racing the last few metres to greet him. Thin and pale but staff said in a good and stable condition. Translation: it is difficult to explain how it feels. It is better than having a newborn. We thank god and we thank everyone and hope to see him healthy. We re very happy, very happy. Israel s prime minister called to welcome him home, keen to be part of his release. We cannot go into many details of this special operation but i can share that israeli commandos rescued qaid farhan alkadi from an underground tunnel following accurate intelligence. The army has described this as a complex operation based on precise intelligence but there are persistent reports here of a more nuanced story, even that farhan alkadi may have escaped his ca
Projecting th president is the winner in michigan. And andfa is theiny presumptive winn wisconsin giving himkoykm5253 electoral votes that is just3 h7 shy of the 270 needed to win. President trump has and with more votes tonight the race is tightening. Tonight arizona has released a new vote count that has joe biden leading President Trump by abouta t 79,000 votes. Weve got news on arizona coming up. Also nevada take a look at that, biden is ahead but it iso wi wa prociutto thin with u5< biden leading by just about 8,000 votes. We will get an update on im told tomorrow. Georgia isc president snst he leadst8. Joe biden by just 39,000 that has beenjd tightening all night. Look at the president s c5[ has shrunk tozkwu77,000 votes. Right now biden leads President Trump in the electoral vote countik o 253 to 213. So we enough. The race is not de sided. Cbsxd news has not projected a winner. It is possible that President Trump could come fromf™ behind, his campaign has filedo georgia, all
With more votes now counted, absentee and early ballots have dramatically shifted the lead in several battleground states from President Trump to joe biden. As we come on the air tonight, cbs news is now projecting that joe biden has won the pivotal battleground state of michigan, along with its 16 electoral votes. The former Vice President is also the presumptive winner in has 10in, which has ten electo electoral votes, though the Trump Campaign has already filed for a legal recount. Tonight, both campaigns say they are confident they see a route to the white house. Though mr. Biden said he would not declare victory until all of the votes are counted. Overnight, President Trump falsely said he had won the election, and would go all the way to the Supreme Court to stop ballots from being counted, a legal option he does not have. Now, the president is already heading to court tonight, trying to stop the vote count in pennsylvania. And while the results from tuesdays election are not cle
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Remarks by mike pence in greenville, south carolina. With david canon, Political Science professor at the university of wisconsin madison to continue our conversation on the battleground state of wisconsin. The Supreme Court decision on absentee ballots, what is your take on it . What type of voter could be impacted by this . Guest it really is an important decision to say that the ballot has to be received by election day, and anything not received by election day will not be counted. Where a District Court judge ruled you could count the ballots for three days after the election, the way that many other states allow. Partiesright now the are scrambling to get the message out that if you want to vote by mail, you better get your ballot in today or tomorrow, because the mail sometimes takes more than a week to get to the clerks office. This has thrown a monkeywrench at the last minute into the voting process. And we do have a Record Number of people voting by mail, already almost half