john alvarez was arrested with 6 union leaders in august. they were afraid and a prisoner swamp with the united states. on wednesday, 10 us citizens and 20 venezuelans were released in exchange for i'm the dra ally who was imprisoned in the us on the money laundering. charges over is says he was tortured into making your confession. he says, no political prisoners must be free for the wives and mothers of russian soldiers honoring those killed the new crime. thousands of them lived flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier near the kremlin. they say they won't. they loved ones to return home safely. a recent poll says 70 percent of russians feel anxious about the war. some of those polled demanding the war in all of those silver. one victory of the today we have a peaceful action. we are laying flowers of the a turn on the flame. we're doing this for a reason that our of tory, these deliberately gloss over the fact that the special miniature, your operation is actually a war. it's not an entertaining safari on the territory of ukraine, and

john. >> will ripley, thank you so much for your reporting. now, the visit to washington by one of prime minister benjamin netanyahu's closest confidence, -- former israeli ambassador to the united states. priscilla alvarez is at the white house who talks to administration officials. priscilla just wrapped up what you can tell us about what took place? >> john, that's right. this was an hours long meeting. it ended moments ago. it came at a critical time as though moving question over these meetings were what does the next phase of the israeli hamas conflict look like, especially the ground operation that israel is engaged in in gaza. now, as you mentioned, ron dermer is a close confidant to the confidant to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he's a member of the war cabinet. he was also israel's ambassador to the u.s., previously under netanyahu as well. so, is you're up to this point has assured the u.s. that it plans to move towards a low intensity war. this means more precise military operations targeting hamas leadership. but, they have not offered a timeline as to what this looks like and. when, now u.s. officials have said that they have anticipated that localized operations would happen s

john. that's a breaking news. tesla recalling more than 2 million cars that recalls due to. >> issue with the auto pilot system. alvarezn is live to test a plan of fremont with the stor?. so what's going on here? is engage. >> has been the backbone of a lot of crashes and some of those crashes since 2016 have those crashes since 2016 have been possibly as many a possibly even more people have died according to their investigation. now, what's going on right now is if you own a tesla, certain models, you should have got an update starting yesterday and in the days and weeks ahead, it's a software update that will go specifically. >> after auto pilot now auto pilot, according to tesla. >> can be used in certain situations like highways and limited access roads. but in many cases, a lot of drivers use it all over the place. and according to federal investigators, this software well disengage. for example, if you now want to use autopilot, feature and the car will tell you cannot be used in this particular situation. so you cannot even engage to use autopilot for everybody's safety, forcing the driver to manually drive the

john, thank you for that. they area airports say today is the start of the busy holiday travel season. >> oakland international airport expects half million people passed through until new year. alvarezend line. oakland is travelers prepare to head the checkpoint on the way to your gate. back to you >> and will flat as a folded and a little i guess i got to leave well earlier now. thank you for that >> all right. well, robo taxi company crews, they are actually laying off hundreds of workers. the driverless car company has repeatedly come under fire over safety concerns in san francisco. but despite the turmoil, yeah, tax expert do not expect general motors get out of the autonomous vehicle business kron dan thorn has that story. >> nearly a quarter of the workforce is now gone at cruz, the struggling robo taxi company. let go 900 employees thursday after safety issues forced the driverless cars off of the roads. game is looking hard at the structure of the company and what wrong with the company to get to this point. san jose state engineering professor in tech expert banafa says cruz is having to learn from its mistakes, its autonomous vehicles were suspended by the california dmv