kayleigh: this is a fox news alert. after nearly 50 days of captivity, hamas has freed 24 hostages, and they say they will release more in the coming days. correspondent jeff paul is on the ground in israel with the latest. yeah, and we are learning tonight that, on top of the 13 hostages released today, the israeli government believes there could be another 13 released tomorrow. but the mood right now a bit bittersweet on the ground in israel, because people know there are still more than 200 people being held captive inside gaza. nonetheless, today was a very significant first step, and we could see more scenes like that if this cease-fire that went into effect at 7:00 a.m. this morning holds. here s what we know about people released today. 24 hostages released by hamas, 13 are israelis, 11 are foreign nationals. among the israelis freed, we know four of them were kids ages two to just nine years old. one of the kids, the 9-year-old, actually had a birthday inside gaza
A year into pandemic, 15% of Americans find themselves in a deepening financial hole, poll finds
April 13, 2021 / 12:43 PM / CBS/AP Federal aid programs plagued by delays
While most Americans have weathered the pandemic financially, about 38 million say they are worse off now than before the crisis began in the U.S. a year ago.
Overall, 55% of Americans say their financial circumstances are about the same now as a year earlier, and 30% say their finances have improved, according to a new poll from Impact Genome and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. But 15% say they are worse off.
The problem is more pronounced at lower-income levels: 29% of Americans living below the federal poverty line say their personal finances worsened in the past year. Roughly that many also find themselves in a deepening financial hole, saying they struggled to pay bills in the past three months.
violence or workplace violence. this is an act of terrorism inside our borders and we should not freight this with discussions in my opinion about gun control or about the advocaf prayer. we have to realize america s future is at steak. if we do not resolve and fight them abroad, we ll see more instances like this here. these people associated themselfed with the islamic state, not because the islamic state is losing but because the islamic state looks like it s winning in the middle east and until we push them back and make it in essence unattractive to be associated with people losing strength being killed, people are losing power. people are being wiped out. we re going to see more of these, not less of them. let s talk about how it will impact the 2016 race. i ve got data points i want to run through with you. a brand-new cnn orc survey released this week although
who s drunk? plus americans spending billions and billions of dollars on high-class cuisine, not for ourselves but for our pets. so does fluff really care if fluff s food is from a celebrity chef or are our pets just would having down our wallets? let s get to it. now, shepard smith reporting. first from the fox news desk governor scott walker is rolling out his plan to replace president obama s health care law. his first big policy push. and it comes as he takes another drop in the polls. there s a new cnn orc survey that shows scott walker at 8% nationally, 8. that s zero eight percent tied with marco rubio. they trail donald trump and they trail jeb bush and they trail dr. ben carson. like most republicans are he s calling for repealing the affordable care act which they ve talked about since there
meantime, as you heard, a third republican is about to enter the 2016 u.s. presidential race. florida senator marco rubio set to announce his candidacy later today in miami. senator rubio will have an uphill battle to secure the republican nomination. he is polling at 7% in the latest cnn/orc survey. now to the first golf major of the year. the masters, its champion, jordan spieth, is etching his name into the history books at augusta national. the 21-year-old never let go of the lead during this year s tournament. he finished 18 under par, setting several masters records along the way. the final score ties the course record set by tiger woods back in 1997. earlier, spieth spoke to cnn and says the performance was fueled by her second-place finish last year. to swit his jacket on and to be a part of the history,