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Breaking news out of new york city. a stabbing attack inside a rabbi's home. welcome back to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. here's what we know at this point. police in monsey, new york, are on the scene of a mass stabbing during a hanukkah celebration. at least five were wounded during the attack, two critically wounded. a suspect is in custody at this hour. according to witnesses, 100 people came together inside the home of an orthodox jewish rabbi to celebrate the seventh night of hanukkah. the rabbi had just lit a candle when ...

So how does it all end? you're going to have to wait till 2020. dana bash, cnn, washington. an update on our breaking news. a suspect is in custody after a brutal knife attack against orthodox orthodox jews celebrating hanukkah. about 100 people were inside the home that you're seeing right there of an orthodox jewish rabbi in monsey, new york. new york's governor has ordered the state's hate crime task force to investigate the incident. there have been several in the past few days against jews in and around new york. i'm natalie allen.

Home. new york's governor has ordered the state's hate crime task force to investigate the incident. the attack saturday is the latest in a string of anti-semitic attacks, most of them happening in new york city. take a look here. you get a sense here. so many dates in december, nine in total, all in less than a week. some of them relatively minor altercations, but taken all together, the anti-semitic slurs. the attempts at intimidation, physical violence, they present the emergence of a disturbing trend, and this all comes after a deadly shooting earlier this month in jersey city in the neigh...

Hate crime task force. what is that and what should networkers expect that task force to do? >> let's unpack what a hate crime is. a hate crime is typically a crime of violence that targets a particular community, whether it's a community of faith, whether it's a sexual orientation, or a race or an ethnicity or something like that. now look. people argue all the time do we need hate crime laws? here is the purpose behind that. we have to get into the mentality. what was the motivation here? was this a random act? obviously, the crime is the same. if somebody stabs somebody or shoots somebody, ...

Legislation. are new laws needed, tougher laws needed? will that deal with this problem, do you believe? >> what we don't need is more laws. what we need is enforcement of the current laws that are on the books. there are laws that are wrapped from state to state in new york, across this nation, and there's federal laws that hate crimes will not be tolerated, and those that are involved will be be dealt with. we have the laws, we need to enforce them. but again, our leadership, and as you see, our state governor cuomo is doing a terrific job and he got on this right away last night. he dispatc...