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Were about connection. and all of a sudden, were being targeted by virtue of who we are, our very identities, and what we stand for. i very much pray that this is not the case right now. but the community that is currently under threat was one filled with love and that lived out many of the best attributes of jewish life. as i understand it, they were a growing community, they had hired a beloved rabbi, they were joining together for worship but they were also a community that walked the walk of...

Fbi, texas department of public safety, are assisting a hostage situation, at the congregation beth israel in colleyville, texas. this is according to the colleyville police department spokesperson there, talking to police, talking to reporters about the police situation there. at this point, were told, julia, no injuries at this time. >> yes. >> that is good news. lets hope it stays that way. when you have a situation like this, and there arent any injuries reported at this point, i suppose aut...

Pictures now from colleyville, texas, where police, fbi, are trying to work through a hostage situation at the congregation beth israel there in colleyville, texas, synagogue there in colleyville, texas. according to local police, right now, the fbi is in communication with the person who is believed to be holding folks hostage inside that synagogue. and josh campbell, you were just saying a few moments ago that if youre looking for any good news, in any of this, its the fact that theyre in comm...

Search and recovery teams are on the ground do you think the weather is poised to help them out and help the families who are recovering belongings and pets and all kinds of things from their homes whatever is left of them? >> as we speak there is not a whole lot of moisture but what we do know the winds really drove the fires up to 100 miles per hour currently the wing conditions are very low there is more humidity in the atmosphere all of these things suppress wildfires. it was a unique situat...

De-escalation of the law enforcement going in, and the reason why you want to do that is it looks like they can de-escalate the situation. if thats true, theyre either in contact with the hostage taker, or hes known, so there is only two option, someone has come in who is a stranger, or known, and the police are at least at this stage not calling an active shooter, right now protocols for active shooter are you go in fast, this is the post-columbine world, whether its a reconciliation use facili...

Campbell, what are your thoughts as you are watching this unfold, the longer this goes on without any injuries, i guess gives us some hope that we are going to get through this without any casualties, lets hope. >> the hope for now is in terms of what were seeing, so we measure this by whats not happening, and that may be giving us some good news here, youre not seeing a surge of ambulances, youre not seeing, theres no discussion of an active shooter case, and what we do know now, with this post...

This real disagreement between biden telling zelensky prepare for impact and zelensky insisting that an attack from russia is not imminent. is zelensky wrong? is biden wrong? what do you think? >> well, lets hope president zelensky is correct. certainly everything that we have seen and what has certainly been publicly reported indicates that russia is amassing huge and significant troop numbers, including weapons capability that would give them the ability to invade and to take ukraine. one thin...

Know, that the holocaust was white on white crime. give me a break. this was a racist, horrific act of brutality. and if we think about those -- the kkk people, don, who in her scenario would be chasing her down the street. let me tell you, they would chase her and me because anti-semitism is at the beating heart of white supremacy. blacks and jews, we have so much in common, particularly that we have faced bigotry through the ages. and again, lets hope, don, that through this moment we can find...

To dispel this myth that the holocaust was white on white crime. give me a break. this was a racist horrific act of brutality, and if we think about those -- the kkk people, don, who in her scenario would be chasing her down the street, let me tell you, they would chase her and me, because anti-semitism is at the beating heart of white supremacy. blacks and jews, we have so much in common, particularly that we have faced bigotry through the ages. and lets hope, don, through this moment we can fi...

And the biden administration decision to start the evacuation from the u.s. embassy. these are captains of diplomacy, he says, they are jumping ship. final words, we are not the titanic. lets hope. back to you. >> greg palkot at the heart of this, thank you very much, greg. and sandra, a lot to unpack in what we are about to hear from the pentagon. every word measured so carefully, parsing what we hear from top officials around the world. >> sandra: and we will hear from general jack keane, he h...