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dana: rescue mission ending with a missile attack against a u.s. warship off the coast of yemen. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: how was your turkey? dana: really good. bill: it was great. we talked since then. nice to get a break, wasn t it? dana: i had a good break. i m refreshed and ready to irritate you. bill: you re welcome, too. bill hemmer, good morning. the u.s.s. mason responding to a distress call from a commercial tanker under attack by pirates. the mason and several aircraft demanding release of the vessel. five armed attackers trying to flee on a small boat. all five have been captured. dana: later two ballistic missiles were fired from yemen toward the two ships. national security council spokesman said they were neutralized ten miles short of their target. this particular ship detected missile launches. launches that would have taken these missiles in the general vicinity of the ship deeming it an appr ....
hamas. john: first time the president has spoken publicly since israel and hamas reached a deal to extend their truce by another two days. will he have anything to say about the roughly 8 to 9 americans still being held captive? sandra: monitoring his remarks for headlines as we begin a second hour of america reports . here we go, i m sandra smith in new york. john: good to be with you again after the holiday. john roberts in washington. here is where things stand at this hour. humanitarian pause in gaza has entered its fourth day now. the white house says hamas has committed to releasing another 20 women and children over two days. sandra: it is unclear if any 20 would be americans and the administration admitted this afternoon that all it can do is hope for the best. we certainly hope we will see them and hopefully today and if not today, over the next couple of days. we want to see them back with their families where they belong as well. we are not involve ....
neil: welcome to opposite day. a big and really big demonstration in washington. this one in support of israel. and a big surprise on inflation. this one all but guaranteeing no rate hikes and maybe for a while. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. i do want to show you something because it s something that you don t often see. a look at interest rates across the board. jaw dropping when you look at how much and how quickly they were dropping and how much stocks are jumping as a result. much more on all of that in just a moment. suffice it to say that because of that big drop in interest rates, mortgage rates could follow suit and your borrowing costs could follow suit. there s no way knowing for sure, but obviously the financial community liked it. now to that other big rally that surprised a lot of folks. because it was a big one in support of israel. you don t hear that these days. hillary vaughn is there on the national mall in washington. hillary? hi, neil. isr ....
very fast moving developments. first, the u.s. fighter jets striking an iranian weapons storage facility in syria again. the growing call to respond harder to 46 iranian sponsored attacks on u.s. soldiers. this time to expand the counter attacks, not to proxies of iran outside iran but iran inside and inside iran. we have knox team coverage on the growing iranian threat. jacqui heinrich on the u.s. ramping up their response to that threat and former defense secretary mark esper on if enough is being done to counter that threat. then joe manchin calls it quits. he s hinting he could be setting his sights on something a little higher. busy day, busy show and it all starts now. all right. welcome. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. let s go to jennifer griffin at the pentagon on this precision air strike and what it might mean as to what comes next. jennifer? neil, a pair of american f-15s struck an iranian weapons storage facility. this is following 46 attacks on u.s. b ....
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