that the next press conference regarding the mass shooting in mass casualty event out in monterrey park, california, will take place 11 am eastern. msnbc will be covering it and i want to thank you for watching the katie phang show. we ll be back next weekend saturday and sunday and velshi starts right now. good morning, i m ali velshi. we are following breaking news right now out of california. law enforcement sources they re confirmed at least ten people are dead after a shooting in monterrey park just east of los angeles. ten others were injured and taken to an area hospital. it happened last night around 10:30 pm local time. li county sheriff s homicide captain andrew meyer described the scene at a press conference just a few hours ago. when officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals with location pouring out of location. screaming and the officers made entry to the location and located additional victims. the monterey park fire department responded
those are on southwest. the airline now apologizing, but as you can imagine that s little comfort for people who may miss out totally on seeing their loved ones this holiday season. i m beyond frustrated. and hurt. because i can t see my dad. my mom is in the hospital and i wanted to be there for her once she like got discharged. unfortunately because of the situation they are saying that the closest flight is the 29th. are you going to make it home today? no, likely not. i mean, i heard someone say over the intercom not to expect to get a flight within the next four days. that s definitely not what i wanted to hear. people just missing their family and loved ones. the log jam starting with the powerful winter storm that hit western new york the hardest. look at that. this morning people in buffalo struggling to get food, water, medicine, after days of driving bans and closed stores. we are going to take you live there in just a moment. let s go first to our team co
five good things. listen wherever you get your podcasts hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m anna coren, ahead on cnn newsroom israel celebrating the rescue of four hostages held in gaza. we have details on how the raid was conducted. well, that operation taking a heavy toll on palestinians with the reported death toll now said to be over 200. how the international community is responding plus president joe biden commenting on the mission, while abroad, a cnn learns the extent of us involvement as protesters gathered they re in washington to demand a ceasefire for israeli hostages and now free after an israeli military raid on a refugee camp in gaza. but there are questions about how many palestinians were killed in the operation and how many of those were civilians? the idf says the rest you d hostages are in good medical condition, but were taken to hospital for medical examination. the former hostages were reunited with
their resilience to misinformation. finland ranks number one on that list, for the fifth year in a row. finland developed its national goals for media education ten years ago, in 2013. the country made a concerted effort to accelerate that, plan and better their citizens defenses against misinformation. when russia annexed crimea in 2014. finland, which cher is an 830 mile border with russia, saw a sharp increase in pro russian propaganda, anti immigrant rhetoric, and anti nato media. granted, there are key differences between a country like america and finland. finland is small, relatively homogenous. but the facts are working. today, teachers have been linda required to teach media literacy in critical thinking. equipping young students with the schools wouldn t buy false information and bots and deepfake videos. manipulated images, as well as propaganda messages and half truths. the chief communications office for the finish prime minister says, quote, it is not just a government pr
year. that s a threefold increase over just two years ago. the rhetorical escalation of course continues, you heard the russian foreign minister using that word denazification, they love to say that the current government, the democratically elected government here is somehow allied with nazis, that s one of their propaganda messages that they, you know, tell the russian public to try to justify this war. on the ukrainian side its foreign minister is calling for russia to be removed from the united nations security council, it s one of five, you knew, permanent members which gives them veto power to any resolutions to punish them for their brutality against civilians in ukraine. will ripley in lviv, thanks for that reporting. still ahead this morning, a cnn exclusive, a new forecast on how much you could be spending at the gas pump next year. are busy spending billions on advertising. at mint we re not into wasting money. so we boughtht this spiffy stock footage for $500.