today on inside politics, a big development on hostage negotiations. president biden said a deal to free the more than 200 hostages held by hamas is, quote, going happen. this comes as a official familiar with the talks tells cnn and israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal. i want to get straight to mj lee, who is in san francisco with the president waiting for him at least. what did the president say? and put this intoen context along with other reporting this you and other colleagues have. reporter: yeah, you heard from president biden, who is making his way now here to san francisco for his summit with xi jinping, expressing a sense of optimism that a deal could be reached to get the hostages out of gaza. this was echoed in part by a u.s. senior official that i was speaking with earlier, who said that israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal to secure the release of these hostages, but the official, it s important to note, cautioned that it s closer, but it s
has left a family of five children without their mother. police picked up an illegal border crosser with the rape and murder of 37-year-old rachel moren as their investigation continues. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. rachel was killed along the popular hiking trail in hartford county, maryland. it happened last summer and it has taken all of this time to get us to where we are now. that s 1800 miles away from the closest point of our southern border. the suspect is from el salvador. he has known gang ties. he illegally crossed the border in february of 2023. he allegedly killed a young woman in his home country and a month later he brutally attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion. police arrested him for rachel moren s murder over the weekend in tulsa, oklahoma. more than ten months after her body was found. the hartford county, maryland sheriff said this. he killed a woman in el salvador and why he fled here to come here thro