Minutes. So when that statement comes, well, of course bring it to you. And of course all of this ongoing in sydney as it comes up on 6 00 local time. This siege going on now for more than eight hours. Im john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. And im natalie allen. We have been with you for several hours, and we will push on as this situation in australia continues. It is breaking news of a siege there in a coffee shop that has been ongoing. A gunman Holding People hostage at the lindt coffee shop in downtown sydney. Sky news has just informed us that the gunman is calling himself the brother, and has contacted a Radio Station and two tv stations via hostages
with demands, a conversation with the Prime Minister and an isil flag. We do know five people have managed to get out. Three men were seen running out two hours ago. Two of them were customers. The man in the blue jacket, the man in the white zirs and a few moments later there was a man wearing an apron who appeared to be a work
Its not just that this case has gone on, kennedy, its been in this Suspended Animation for quite some time. Yeah. Its like having a baby and being eight days overdue. You just dont know when youre going to give birth. I think its more painful than that. The menendez trial. Perhaps it is. Interestingly the map in the senate is up for grabs in two ways. You have a fraud trial. Theres a sitting republican governor that doesnt have very long until he leaves office. But you also have the case in alabama that were going to discuss later in the show with roy moore who so far is not dropping out of the race. And could potentially have another one with al franken. We dont know. The judge in new jersey says hes not going to declare a mistrial right this second. He wants to interview the foreman. He said i thought i would be candidate with you, quoting judge. Theres no cameras in the courtroom but we have our news team in there. So theyre sending us notes. Your honor, the reason it would not be f
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Everybody has gone home. A few hours ago, this was a pretty bumping party. Democrats really felt like they had a shot here tonight. It the last 48 hours of this race, everything seemed to be breaking their way. The republican candidate stumbled into a gaffe about Franklin County The Night Before the election started. Their candidate had been all over the place in national and local media. They felt like they were fighting out the la
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. We expect those also break democratic enough to erase a 1754 lead . No, but could it be enough to cut into that 754 enough that baldersons advantage which is 0. 9 right now over oconnor if that ends up at 0. 5 or less, state law says guess what, we got to have a a recount here. You could potentially, i wouldnt say its the likeliest scenario but you could see that happening. There are also 5048 what they are calling uncounted absentee ballots, that were mailed out to voters in some cases weeks ago and they havent been mailed back. A lot of them probably arent going to be mailed back. Some of them a small number probably military ballots maybe still making their way. Some of them probably a small number are voters you had to have them postmarked yesterday. If they sent it out yesterday, it still comes in, that vote probably still going to be
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the israelis clearly felt they had to take some action, but they certainly showed restraint and that would have been welcomed, one assumes, by the white. it will actually be welcomed by the white house. you know, president biden actually called for israel to do something short of striking inside of iran. well, they did striking something wrong. but but a very muted, very precise strike. so i think, you know, the biden folks are going to consider this a win. they re going to call it a win, probably sounds like deservedly so. and then, you know, both sides can kind of resume that now. israel, the idf, going to resume their operation in gaza, you know, unsure of what s next with with rafah, with you, a possible assault on rafah, although it looks like netanyahu is certainly insistent on doing that.