welcome to the beat weekend, let s get right into the headlines. this is a debate that certainly is memorable. but not in a very happy way. it seems to be another in a series of shared american experiences and memories that feel more infamous than famous, more traumatic than cathartic. and so tonight, together with you right now, as we are still within these first 24 hours of that face-off, we re going to take stock with the evidence, trying to look at the significance and the fallout and the actual real possibilities. we are not going to devolve into, or take too much time with the fantasy screenplay scenarios, because while there is talk of rain play style solutions, what matters more, for what this is about what we are going to do, is what is possible. indeed, the screenplay talk, the fantasy talk me tell you about the reactions of the dark of the democratic party, it may matter in that sense but not of the screenplay coming true. what if it is true, in what we ve seen i
analyzed and restored in the power of delhi reserving memories and helping to write new ones i m caitlin polantz at the federal courthouse in washington, and this is cnn welcome back to cns special coverage. i m wolf blitzer in washington, along with erin burnett, qizan, new york last sauer donald trump spoke over at trump tower in new york, rayleigh against the historic guilty verdict in his criminal hush money trial, and wearing i just want to point out this was at trump tower. you would have covered trump for many, many years. we used to go over there to trump tower to interview them. he obviously feels pretty comfortable over there. obviously, wolffian you he spent the night there. interestingly, we understand his wife, melania, was there as well she did not appear with him today as of course, she didn t any de in the courtroom were looking at live pictures outside wolf of the people who gathered as you pointed out, this was marked to be a news conference, which it was
the skis, cnn, breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m proud rica whitfield, and we re tracking two major breaking news stories this afternoon, next hour, president biden is set to attend a state dinner in france. i will bring that to you live as it happens, you the is there in paris with the first aid dr. jill biden, plus the french president and first lady. and dramatic new developments in the middle east for israeli hostages rescued from gaza the israeli military launching that daring rescue mission in broad daylight, the government media office in gaza says the operation left more than 200 people dead in central gaza with hundreds more injured. the mission ultimately freeing four hostages from the clutches of hamas, all of them were abducted from the nova music festival on october 7, all right, now, back in israel for the first time in eight months making emotional reunions with family members who never gave up hope. president
London, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Thanks forjoining us. It is sam Thanks Forjoining us. It is 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 3am in mosul, where iraqi forces have made a breakthrough in their offensive against the so called Islamic State, in iraqs second city. Theyve taken the airport, a key point in the battle to drive the militants from the western half of the city. This report from the front lines. Before the attack came the air strikes, rockets and artillery. Its day five of the offensive to retake western mosul. Slowly, the forces make their way past a suspected is car bomb, talks en route. These armoured columns are now moving forward to mosul airport. The attack of the airport is under way. All night long weve heard Coalition Aircraft and iraqi artillery slam this area just to the north of us. And in daylight, they didnt let up. This factory flew the is flag yesterday. Today it burned. In less than four hours iraqi forces had breached the airport perimeter,
Share this video, got it out to a lot of people beyond we are, we appreciate your perspective and stay safe and wish you the best of luck as you recover from the flood. I want to move on to chris turner, cnn photo journalist, who lives in maryland not far from this area. I know that and this is video that chris actually shot not too long ago. Chris, give me an idea of what you are seeing right now. Right now, ryan, we are seeing a lot of the water has receded. A lot of the mud and Debris Leftover is laying over. We saw Governor Hogan walk down the steps through the mud to survey the damage. Some of the residents are moving back towards the area. There was one area parking lot that i did take pictures of where the floodwaters were up to the roofs of cars and now just mud. But people are making their way through the mud kind of trying to assess the damage of what just happened. I see in that one bit of video that you shot it looks as though the pavement is just ripped apart creating a hu