Call 1803558999, or visit home serve. Com im eva mckend in washington and this is cnn all right everyone, thanks for joining me. Im omar jimenez in today for fredricka whitfield. Weve got some Breaking News to start this hour. The us has begun airdropping desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza its three cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles today, they included mainly food but no water or medical supplies. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez this is in washington. Paula hancocks is in abu dhabi and the united arab emirates, which has also been airdropping aid into gaza. But priscilla, i want to start with you because were getting some news around the possibility of a ceasefire ceasefire. What are you hearing . Yeah, omar, were hearing from Senior Administration officials here in the last hour who said that israel has quote, basically accepted the framework of a hostage deal that would include a sixweek ceasefire. This would do two things and would allow more humanitarian aid into gaza,
big day, unexpected and significant? absolutely. cassidy hutchinson has long been considered one of the most consequential witnesses for the january 6th committee due to her approximatety to trump many chief of staff mark meadows and therefore to critical events and conversations surrounding january 6. now, the committee has not released the topic of today s hearing, but the rush to get the hearing happening today shows just how important they believe this testimony could be. her testimony has rattled capitol hill. are you aware of any reporter: once a top aide to former white house chief of staff mark meadows, cassidy hutchinson is now a key witness in the house january 6 investigation. giving hours of testimony in multiple sessions. mr. gaetz and mr. brooks, and a handful of members that weren t at the december 21st meeting asked for preemptive pardons. mr. gaetz did. reporter: at times surfing a. hutchinson s accuracy proving critical. you hear those at the w
and 51 people dead in the back of the truck in sweltering heat and it happened in the united states of america. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a transformative moment in what was some of the most explosive moment in the january 6th hearing to see date. cassidy hutchinson, former top aide to trump s chief of staff mark meadows laid bare just how much trump wanted the crowd to march to the capitol, knowing they were armed, knowing his rally could turn violent. here she is talking about the warning from top white house aide tony ornato. i remember mr. ornato had talked about intelligence reports, coming in and saying we had intel reports saying there could potentially be violence on the 6th. remember tony mentioning knives, guns, in the form of pistols and rifles. bear spray, body armor, spears and flagpoles. spears were one item, flag poles were one item, tony, then relayed something to the effect of and these effing people fastening spears on to
our viewers in the united states, and around the world. i m becky anderson live for you today from doha in qatar. a four-day truce between israel and hamas does now appear to be taking effect. seven weeks of a punishing air ground campaign to root out of the militant group hamas now on hold. that is part of a deal to secure the release of israeli hostages captured in the october 7th terror attack. cnn s jeremy diamond and his crew near the border with gaza report what sounded like artillery fire in the early minutes of today s truce that started two hours ago. that has since stopped. according to qatar which was absolutely instrumental in brokering this deal, the first hostages from israel are now expected to be released at some point after four pm local time. that is about seven hours from now. women and children, some from the same families will be turned over. at least this is the plan, to the red cross. because amongst those held hostage in gaza. i hope that this happ
year, people here are saying this is the first time they ve been able to process the grief. tonight, we have another vigil in the community for the first time which is able to rally around together in person. yasmin? thank you. we have a lot more coming up. you are watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. i asked me to see again. if you re just joining us, welcome. if you re sticking with us, we are thankful for that. we are alive on the ground in israel as the next phase of the war on hamas includes a stepped up bombing effort in gaza. a large part of the area had already been leveled. remaining residents are pleading for help. aid workers and civilians need to be able to communicate. journalists need to be able to document what is happening in gaza to report it to the wider world. that s something we worked on. we are glad to see that restoration. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in damage control mode, backtracking after criticism of his own troops.