militia were secretly recorded by one of the attendees they discussed bringing weapons to washington d.c. and being prepared to fight on on behalf of the former president donald trump. whitney wild is here with the latest. reporter: it was a bombshell moment that the defense and the department of justice agree is one of the most important cases in decades. a new recording released by the department of justice of an alleged november 2020 planning meeting of the far right militia group, the oath keepers. you re going to see a street fight. don t be afraid. go there in large numbers. that s why we need to be there. reporter: federal prosecutors played the audio during the second day of the trial of five associates of the oath keepers. all five defendants have pleaded not guilty. this is the first major piece of evidence presented at the trial that prosecutors used to support their allegations that the group planned to descend on washington to prevent the peaceful trans
United states, and Around The World. We continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war, im john boys. The death from israel continues to surge, more than 1200 mostly sense of aliens killed, close to 1000 killed. Mostly civilians in gaza. According to the Palestinian Health ministry. Israeli airstrikes on gaza have been unrelenting. According to the idf, and there is no timeline to point when those airstrikes will and hamas fight another barrage of missiles at the Southern Israeli city of on tuesday with civilians also died in exchange of gunfire with israeli forces. Israel preparing for the next round of retaliation calling up more than 300,000 reservists in evacuating civilians from area close to the gaza border, entire cities and communities have been evacuated to safety. Israels Defense Minister went to the area where tanks and troops amassing, said the offensive against hamas may have started from the air but it would also come from the ground. Meantime, israel says Rocket La
the russian military. that s been taken by the ukrainians and they ve managed to advance well beyond that as well and continue to do so so that leaves a problem for vladimir putin. you were eluding to the fact he had signed the decree annexing those four areas, he also installed temporary heads of those areas which had been in place before. but the problem the russians have right now is they re claiming that the ukrainian military is on territory they now consider to be territory of russia. and the huge issue the russians have with that, right now it seems they re in no position to try to take that territory, it s the ukrainians making headway. if you look at the statements from the ukrainian side the past couple of hours they re saying the annexations mean nothing. international law, there s no country that has recognized this. and the ukrainians are saying they plan to take back all the territory, including crimea as well. what s going on in the south,
good morning. it is friday, august 26th. welcome to american morning. it s all about the hurricane today. i wish i could say happy friday, happy friday for those not living along the northeast coast. and whom it hasn t reached yet. exactly. let s talk about hurricane irene. now said to be a massive and powerful category 2 storm sitting just off the east coast. 50 million people could feel its force by this weekend. new hurricane warnings are now up, they stretch from north carolina to new jersey. states of emergency have been declared as far north as new england. irene totally hammered the bahamas yesterday with torrential rain, 115-mile-per-hour winds, north carolina like i is next. in atlantic beach a surf shop boarding up, mandatory evacuations under way along the outer banks and could be the biggest storm to hit new york in decades. people all the way up the coast are being asked to leave or to get ready. i understand sometimes folks think that people overreac