college campuses. winter is coming and homeless are still outside in chicago. why almost everyone there is upset with the mayor. what is the most pressing threat to the u.s.? we have got the results of the annual reagan national defense survey. ♪ >> shannon: but, first, breaking tonight, today's group of hostages released by hamas terrorists includes another israeli american. her release comes as negotiators are working toward a possible extension of the temporary cease-fire. we are learning about some of the atrocities that these hostages have endured. correspondent nate foy is in northern israel with that story tonight. hello, nate. >> hey, shannon. just moments ago president joe biden said he spoke on the phone with israeli american's mother and father and said that he is grateful she is back in israel tonight to take care of her three children. she and her husband were kidnapped from their kibbutz back on october 7th. her husband is still in hamas captivity. we are also learning tonight that four thai hostages were released from gaza but as part of the israeli hostage group, it also includes five teenagers, including four boys and a 13-year-old girl. another american hostage is free from hamas. 49-year-old israeli american is among the 10 israelis back home along with the daughter of reiuma who begged president biden for help and two israeli russians released by hamas as a gesture to president vladimir putin all for the freedom of 30 palestinian prisoners. the joy of hostages coming home comes with the horror of learning what they experienced. >> little emily ann's father thomas has told media she only speaks in whispers because she was conditioned not to make a noise. he sees the terror in her eyes. >> one woman says hamas terrorists beat her 12-year-old nephew and forced him to watch videos of the october 7th attack. others lost as much as 15% of their body weight in weeks. u.s. secretary of state tony blinken arrives in israel tomorrow as negotiators work release the more than 130 remaining hostages, including at least 7 americans. and deliver badly needed aid into gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says goal remain the same to eradicate hamas. >> we are no way we are stopping until the end. my policy. the entire government stands behind it. the soldiers stand behind it. the people stand behind it. this is exactly what we will do. >> shannon tonight the israeli cabinet is meeting to discuss a proposal that would extend the current cease-fire by two days and continue the release of hostages in exchange for palestinian prisoners if an agreement is not reached, defense minister said today the idf is ready to push deeper into gaza, immediately. shannon? >> shannon: nate foy in israel. thank you very much. a u.s. navy destroyer has shot down an iranian made houthi drone. the military official confirms to fox the uss carney did not sustain any damage during the incident. the carney shot down 15 drones and four cruise missiles fired from yemen in mid october. the release of one of the hostages who is a american woman is a victory for president biden. today, however, he was mostly talking about an issue that is not in his win column right now, the economy. white house correspondent peter doocy has details tonight. good evening, peter. >> peter: president biden is on board air force one leaving for colorado that is where he stood factory of workers who make wind towers and he told them that he deserves credit for today's good economic news. >> to moving one of those. >> whoa. >> whoa, the g.d.p. was just revised up for the third quarter to 5.2% from an initial read of 4.9. >> that's more growth more that grew under my predecessor outside of the pandemic. >> economic optimism shrinking. >> spending $11,400 this year than january of 2021 just to buy the same essentials according to new numbers released by senate republicans. >> when i talk to my constituents at home, inflation is crushing them. >> criticism is old school with political cartoons and new school with tiktoks. >> mcdonald's, so i get there is a labor shortage. i get there is wage increases and a number of other things but $16, $16 for a burger, a large fry and a drink and it's just crazy. >> white house officials are forbidden from having tiktok on government devices over security concerns. so the biden campaign is working with tiktok influencers according to the "the washington post" to try to get a better economic message out there. we are starting to see so much evidence that focusing on the supply side really has helped bring inflation down. >> the president is also trying to squeeze in israel updates where he can and apparently had a hard time multi tasking in colorado. >> i'm on the plane, i'm on the phone talking with my national security team about the next tranche of prisoners being released. and i knew i was running late so i came down the stairs of air force one and ran right to the car and ran right by the mayor and everybody who came to see me. >> hind is also warning benjamin netanyahu he cannot order israeli operation in the south of gaza that looks anything like the one that we just saw in the north that is according to a report tonight in axios. the president's concern being that there are too many civilians now in the south. netanyahu reportedly told the president, according to this story. that he has to go into the south if is he going to finish off hamas. shannon? >> shannon: all right. we'll have more on that later in the show. peter doocy at the white house. thanks, peter. ♪ ♪ >> shannon: the dramatic rise in anti-semitism in this country is getting more attention in congress and in courtrooms. there are many new and potential lawsuits at colleges and universities based on what is called discrimination rooted in anti-semitism. here is chief washington correspondent mike emanuel. >> jewish americans are feeling singled out. we feel alone. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer calls rising anti-semitism in the u.s. a five alarm fire that must be extinguished. >> many of the people who express these sentiments in america aren't neo-nazis or card carrying clan members or islam extremists. they are many cases most jewish americans felt previously were their ideological fellow travelers. >> many college campuses have seen loud streak protests following attack on israel. now some jewish students are filing lawsuits using a policy from the trump era. in 2019, then president trump expanded title 6 of the civil rights act to include, quote. discrimination rooted in anti-semitism. two jewish groups are suing the university of california berkeley saying the school violated federal civil rights law and the constitution by allowing, quote: unchecked anti-semitism. the lawsuit cites inaction on discrimination and argues that u.c. berkeley become hostile environment for jewish students. >> if they are facing harassment. if they're being assaulted based on their jewish identity, they need to know that we have their back. >> u uc berkeley the claims in e lawsuit are not consistent with the first amendment or the facts of what is actually happening on our campus. the university has long been committed to confronting anti-semitism: more lawsuits are expected. congress is also getting involved. the president of harvard, mit. and the university of pennsylvania are due to testify next week at a hearing on anti-semitism, shannon. >> shannon: mike, thank you. it will be interesting to follow these lawsuits. >> indeed. >> shannon: well, stocks were mixed today. the dow was up 13. the s&p 500 lost 4. nasdaq fell 23. ♪ wind chill in chicago dipped into the single digits. the mayor's promise to get homeless people in shelters and out of their outdoor tents so far has been unfulfilled. correspondent gato garrett tenns in chicago tonight. >> chicago mayor brandon johnson defending his handling of the migrant crisis as temperatures drop below freezing in more than 1,000 migrants sleeping in tents on the streets and the floors of police stations. today, johnson moving forward with construction of a pop-up tent shelter he promised to have by winter. [chanting] >> despite fierce opposition, protests, and lawsuits from folks who live in that south side neighborhood. >> this mayor is acting like a dictator. he needs to go. he must go. there is no transparency from the mayor. >> when you think about all the things that we allow to slide, this is another thing that we just can't allow this to happen. >> asked about protests against migrant shelters across the sanctuary city, including many in predominantly black and heavily democrat neighborhoods, johnson is blaming republicans, antiblack racism, former mayor and fellow democrat lori lightfoot and right wing extremists. >> we are not going to break away from our value system because right wing extremism is sowing seeds of disorder in this city. >> with winter moving in, a group of local churches is stepping up where the city has failed and getting migrants off the streets into temporary housing with food, clothes and social services. >> and we get the urgency because it is cold. chicago is cold. it's important for us to sound the alarm, wave the flag and say, listen, we got to jump in on this and serve folks. >> the mayor's office says as soon as the shelter will be ready is mid december. the city will still be scrambling to find a place for hundreds of migrants left out in the cold waiting. shannon? >> shannon: garrett, thank you very much. ♪ >> shannon: breaking tonight, the fbi says one of its agents was the victim of a carjacking this afternoon right here in washington. the bureau says the agent wasn't hurt and the vehicle has been recovered. law enforcement officers are searching for two armed suspects. up next, brit hume's take on the biden administration. is it undercutting israel's goal of destroying hamas? first, here's what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 4 in dallas as the search intensifies for an escaped convict. schools in bottom, texas were on lockout status today. that means that students were required to stay in the buildings and no visitors were allowed. police report sightings of raymond ross, one of the men who broke out of jail over the weekend. the other one has turned himself. in fox 2 in detroit as the country's first wireless charging road opens in detroit. this would allow electrical vehicles to recharge without ever stopping. officials overseeing the project call it the road of the future. and this is a live look at new york. one of the big stories there tonight from fox 5, the first commercial airliner to cross the atlantic on what is called a purely high fat low emissions fuel. fly from london to new york. it's a step toward achieving what supporters call jet zero. the virgin atlantic flight was powered without using fossil fuels. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ i want to get away ♪ i want to fly away ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ i want to >> we defied the war in explicit matter to destroy hamas. after hamas there would be no threat to israel. >> my expectation and hope is that as we move forward the rest of the arab world on the region is also putting pressure on all sides to slow this down to bring this to an end as quickly as we can. >> shannon: new reports today that president biden delivered a message of restraint when talking to prime minister netanyahu about his plans in southern gaza. that is where we begin with fox news chief political analyst brit hume. brit, great to see you don't. i want to bring up n more of wht peter doocy was bringing. the biden administration is the operation in the southern gaza strip where 2 million palestinians are concentrated would lead to significantly more civilian casualties and keepen the humanitarian crisis in the enclave. brit, they have said we talk to each other honestly as friends do. what do you make of what we are hearing about the u.s. advice to israel? >> well, it's a little hard to tell shannon whether the president is saying this for while telling israelis they need to do what they need to do to wipe outside hamas. the goals of wiping out hamas and getting t nice to palestinin students those things are somewhat in conflict. you notice in the soundbite from benjamin netanyahu that you just played that the goggle one that he noted was getting rid of hamas. and the hostages was second on his list. that tells you what he is up against. it's a tremendously difficult challenge for him and because of the emotional effect of the hostage taking and the associated things that happen with that, he is under a lot of pressure. i think about the political situation affecting netanyahu. i think the betting is that he is finished after this because of the colossal intelligence failure military failure involved on october 7th. if he has any chance of surviving depends on his success in meeting the goal he has stated again and again in which the israelis seem to support and that is the elimination of hamas. so i'm not sure he is even listening to president biden if president biden is even being serious. >> shannon: i'm not sure a lot of americans are listening to president biden on some of these it things. we have approval ratings newest poll hit on issues. overall at 37% approval. when you look at ukraine, 3 #%. the middle east just 32% way approval of how is he hand lick that foreign affairs 32%. brit, we were told this was going to be a foreign affairs president. he campaigned on the fact that he had decades in the senate. this was one of his best issues. his forte. >> brit: i think he is facing a problem here, shannon, simply this. an israel he has always been pro-israel for as long as i can remember going back decades when these hideous atrocities occurred on october 7th his instinct and reaction was immediate he was going to support israel to do whatever it needed to do to eliminate the threat of hamas. his problem is as president he really hasn't been that old line democrat that he was on israel. he has been pretty far left compared to what we thought he was. and his constituency now is heavily composed of people on the american left. and not the majority and i think the majority is with israel on this, but a lot of people in his administration and even in his white house see it differently. and so he is under pressure and he doesn't want to alienate what has become, thanks to his own efforts, an important part of his constituency. so he seems to be kind of straddling supporting israel and, yet, saying now but don't be too mean to the palestinians and you got to get the hostages back and you don't want to have a lot of civilian casualties and all the rest of it. i think that's where he is. he is kind of trapped here. >> shannon: in conflict with younger voters, too. he needs to show up next fall. brit hume always great to see you. thank you so much. >> brit: thank you. >> shannon: up next, what is the greatest threat now facing our country? we are going to tell you what your fellow americans think. first, beyond our borders tonight. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy attending a meeting with military commanders during a visit to the odesa region. he honored some of the soldiers with medals and posted a video of his visit on social media. a special court clears francis justice minister of conflict of interest. eric duopon was accused of using his office to settle personal scores. proceedings first time in modern france a government minister was put on trial while still in office. this is a live look at london. one of the big stories there tonight, the leaders of great britain and greece spar over the disputed part on this marble? at odds over the artifacts for years. a group of treasures taken from athens by a british diplomat. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. note ♪ why can't we be friends ♪ why can't we be friends ♪ tests required. doctors have been prescribing it for nearly a decade. otezla is also approved to treat psoriatic arthritis. don't use otezla if you're allergic to it. serious allergic reactions can happen. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. some people taking otezla had depression, suicidal thoughts, or weight loss. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. 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