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and of that, there are stories that siegel stole a million. >> benjamin siegel's financiers, let's just call them that, were convinced he was pocketing the money. >> june 20th, 1947 siegel was assassinated in beverly hills, california, and not 15 minutes later, other people were at the flamingo saying, we're in charge. bugsy is out. we're in, and the flamingo becomes one of the iconic hotels on the strip. and from then on, it was full speed ahead for the mob. >> the flamingo hotel was the first hotel to really go after big, big name entertainment. the mob people loved mixing with stars and so they would shell out the money for them. >> you know, i walked out to the slot machine and i put $11 in the slot. and what do you think came out? the manager. ha, ha. >> they got jimmy durante to open the hotel. they had martin and lewis. they had the biggest entertainers in america. >> the entertainment in the 50s in las vegas was centralized. where in l.a. you might have someone play one time las vegas had them coming in back to back. you can see four people at one time, you know, in the same wee

and you just showed them keith siegel, 65 years old.n, 36 years old, a father of three from kibbutz nir. and edan alexander, a military age male. now keith siegel and sagi ken will likely be released in the first group of 33 over the coming 42 day period. we don't yet know the fate of edan alexander. the american edan alexander has not been listed in the first tranche because he's a military age male, and so we have to press continuously against hamas to fulfill their agreements here and ensure that this deal happens so that all americans can be reunited with their family. >> can i follow up on that point? you referenced what happens in the next phases of this is a very difficult challenge. what happens if that breaks down? where does that leave this process? and certainly where does that leave the remaining hostages? >> well, your point, michael, is exactly right, which is this is incredibly fragile. and at any moment this process could break down. and that's what happened back last november when some americans came out, some hostages

siegel.y paid so much far less than we did to the w.h.o. >> do you remember, harris, when the w.h.o. leadership said china it was a regional problem. w.h.o. aided in the smoke screen. the president is saying what are you doing for us? what is our money getting us here? well, you know, it takes a year after he withdraws before it actually happens. so he is a master of the carrot and stick. you want us back? you want our money? stop giving only your services to china and not to us. that's the message here. >> harris: we were paying $530 million the president said. now we'll pay what china pays, $39 million. i think that reset says it all. all right. let's move to this. president trump's cabinet nominees go before the senate beginning wednesday. and among them robert f. kennedy, jr. for health an services secretary and roger marshall, a doctor said this about him. >> i think that the american public is going carry bobby flew the nomination process. he is brilliant and will do a great juvenility

marc siegel nyu langone professor of medicine. dr. siegel, your response to kathleen sebelius, if you didn't fall asleep like i almost did? >> well, i was thinking of the irony here which kept me awake. listen to what she did under obama she brought in obamacare, as you mentioned the failed websites but but how about the fact it extended the sick care system more and more people got coverage but didn't give them care. let's make everybody sick so the insurance companies are happy and then we will cover it and pump you full of pharmaceuticals and get heavier and heavier. you will drink more alcohol. obesity epidemic, all of the things that r.f.k. jr. and president trump under make america healthy again are trying to reverse in other words, it's before you ever get to the doctor's office that you want to have clean food that's not full of chems, isn't full of red die. not full of things that make you obese that leads to the very health problems high blood pressure, diabetes. dementia and sleep apnea and even cancer. guess what? obamacar

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marc siegel joins us now.er of going back to your home for a limited amount of time to see what you can salvage, right. >> there is a danger but i'm sympathetic people want to get what they can out of their homes how sad this is but there are down paralyzed, nails and places, damage furniture and rubble is so easy to get injured in the situation and people are getting injured. by the way they're not always going to medical care by the way sometimes they don't know where to go because the hospitals like cedars-sinai did ucla are stretched thin cedar sinai is trying to accommodate this they cut down their elective procedures to stop them over knocking people out to get medical care yet. remember a lot of toxins in the air talk about going back to home there is a lot of toxins in the air, burning chemicals as a particular matter. >> are they still in the air, the smoke is gone i met a big distance, it seems like the smokers drifted away are you telling me there is toxins in the air raising rates of heart attacks,

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marc siegel. great to see you. thank you. fbi, with the department of defense being transparent about this report from the biden administration. >> this is hugely important and robert redfield, former cdc director when we wrote articles together on this said there is a lot of intelligence here that isn't coming out that i can't tell you about, marc. because i had the top secret clearance. ratcliffe is loved. he was approved and confirmed by 47 votes in the that the. and is he speaking to the american people who want to know what happened here. so that it will help us going forward. and we obviously can't trust china. they obviously put suppression in place right away. they obviously have the world health organization helping them. that lab violated multiple safety problems. i found surveillance footage when i was working on this article that showed that people were going from that hospital -- from that lab to local hospitals into the summer of 2019. way before this was ever reported. we couldn't get boots on the ground. they

two americans, keith siegel and siegel dekel, are not expected to be released today, but are supposedthat first group of 33. again, about 250 people were kidnaped by hamas on october 7th, 2023. it's believed that about 60 hostages are still alive. let's go ahead and get to our team. out in the field, we have abc's chief foreign correspondent ian pannell, who is in tel aviv for us. ian, we saw the images, the chaotic moments of that transfer. what's the latest on the ground there? >> yeah. i mean we've just been witnessing incredible scenes. finally, after 15 months of heartbreak, of dashed hopes, of bad news, of grieving, finally some smiles on the faces of the people gathered here. i'm just going to get the cameraman just to swing across into the crowd here. we've seen people cheering. we've seen people clapping. we've seen people hugging each other. everyone is glued to channel 11 news. if we turn around in the other direction, you can see there are families of the hostages waiting there on the left and on the right. those are images that have been broadcast from inside gaza. we're

marc siegel talking about the impact it could have on healthcare, that is one segment of use. when you have government in china basically able without having to decide. it could be a challenge, if you don't keep pace. this announcement in terms receiving back red tape and regulation and allowing innovation to take place will put the u.s. on equal footing, especially when you know those investments are safe in a country like america where we'll continue to support this. >> brian: thanks. the whole thing, keep pace. we were way ahead and now we can't say we are way ahead. a lot has to do with joe biden signing an order to reduce. they saw when trump had more than a chance to win, they decided to make a bold move and get behind him. dr. marc siegel said ai in health, there is no limit to what they can improve in his business much watch. >> we've entered a world of personalized precision medicine. years ago. but we did not have the tools. ai is like putting everything in hyper speed. he talked about treating cancer, ai can look over your genes and say likelihood what cancer you wi

. >> sources tell cnn this group will include americans keith siegel and sergei deb haaland. seven americans in total are still being held hostage by hamas, only three of whom are presumed to be alive. in addition to bringing the hostages home, the cease fire itself could also allow the much needed relief and aid that be brought to the people of gaza. celebrations in both israel and gaza are taking place today, as this is all intended to be just the first phase in a larger potential peace deal. if phase one goes well. negotiations for the second phase could begin on the 16th day of this first deal. phase two is intended, we're told, to end the war itself. president biden says it would bring the remaining hostages who are still f course, this deal is fundamentally what biden proposed back in may. president-elect donald trump also claims the deal is only happening because he will take office in just a few days. trump's middle east envoy, steve witkoff, was there in qatar for the final three day stretch of negotiations, a development that biden administration official says said

nbc news has also just learned that the first american to be released will be 65 year old keith siegel, on day 14 of the ceasefire. and that that and that will be 36 year old. and after that will be 36 year old dekel hen, who is injured as well. and the other five americans, alive and dead, will not be released until phase two of the ceasefire. that is from nbc reporting. i'm going to talk about it with my next guest. and along with the release of the hostages, we saw another welcome sign. today, aid trucks have started to cross into gaza, bringing much needed relief to a region that has been suffering. 600 trucks of aid will be able to enter gaza each day, a significant increase from what has been allowed to date. now, this cease fire deal took months of painstaking diplomacy between the united states, egypt and qatar. and just in the last hour, president biden delivered remarks on the release of those three hostages. >> three israeli women held against their will in the dark tunnels for 470 days. four more women will be released in seven days, three additional hostages every seven da

siegel eventually had in. siegel interestingly enough, freeman sigel was probably the most anti and among the anti-slavery people in the high command in the army. but they operated in the area of virginia for most of the time where enslaved people were fewest. so there or their personal views were less important in many ways. but mcdowell was he did it with the approval he wrote to the war department, said, this is what we're going to do. and but he was improvising at the time. i enjoyed the talk. i just had a brief question about you know scholars who talk about the way that, you know, later on in the war, commanders like sherman very frustrated with, you know, basically, you know, enslave formerly enslaved people or formerly like following along with the army, you know, quote unquote, draining resources into a lot of officers, treat them with disdain, including soldiery. and it seems like you're kind of arguing kind of against that to a certain degree, saying that like, you know, at least at this point in th

marc siegel. of welcome. >> hi, mike. how you doing?he cia favors the lab leak theory, something senator tom cotton's been saying from the if very beginning. let's play him. >> -- have access to classified intelligence or special scientific knowledge, i just used a little common sense and looked at the facts and understood what chinese communists do. the important thing now is we have to make china pay for unleashing this plague on the world. mike: doctor, was it as simple as common sense? >> yes. because, first of all, tom cotton at the very beginning was marginalized. and he was, he was actually not taken seriously. and we reported on that way at the beginning of the pandemic, mike. and then the issue occurred where more more evidence was looking at this. i looked at it with robert redfield, storm former cdc director, who had a very high level of clearance, and he couldn't tell me everything that we were looking at because of his temperature secret clearance. i found a document that the dod had from one of their people that that they

marc siegel. doc, let's talk about this.ns and the temperature. but this is the president's first decision. he decided that for the health and safety of not just his people but the law enforcement that it was best to move this inside. why do you agree or disagree? >> i think it's a great place to start, lawrence. as he comes. in he is talking about health. make america healthy again. it has been 40 years since inauguration has been inside under president reagan in 1958 sending same message of compassion for the workers. there is going to be a song unveiled make america healthy again unveiled. song all eyes on us. that's what it is. all eyes on us. and starting with the right spirit. remember, it's in the low 20's in washington, d.c. as you know and i'm heading down there going to be causing frost bite and heart problems indoors. president trump only worried about crowd size. it's going to be a smaller crowd but a healthier crowd. great way to start lawrence lawrence tell me about this make america healthy again ball is this

we'll ask simeon about that. >> let's bring in simeon siegel.ke it from there interms of first a comment on just the general operating environment. >> okay. i think everything court said makes a ton of sense. i need to be a dad for a moment. have you heard of flat stanley? >> sure. >> elementary school kids send something to a star they want, athlete, politician, music, whatever. yesterday, i got addressed envelope to me, and you're supposed to take that photo. my son sent it to me, so i need to bring formika, his flat stanley, as i walked out today. i think that the idea here that courtney is talking about is it makes a ton of sense. businesses are doing well. you and i black friday talked about the difference between taking risk to multiples versus taking risk to numbers. we're not seeing any problem with numbers. we're seeing problems with multiples. the guests before were talking about the same thing. we're seeing markets sell off, not businesses. the conference she's referring to, you're hearing a lot of companies look at their stocks, and

we'll ask the wharton school's jeremy siegel where stocks are likely to head in the weeks ahead. the russell leading the declines, financials getting hit as well. there is the russell down more than 2% today. tech not far behind either. several megacap stocks are seeing see ing big losses today. cold water, more of it, on the iphone upgrade cycle. that's the talk of the tape. for that stock, hit with a big downgrade this week, now these appreciate concerns. let's bring in our tech reporter steve kovach who is here with more. when this particular analyst speaks, you listen. >> i always listen. and this is, scott, this is a dreary note from that analyst. he's over at tf international securities, what i consider the best analyst out there covering apple. he often predicts what apple is going to do months or years before apple does it. here's what he's saying about iphone. iphone shipments, he says, are expected to decline 6% for the first half of this year, even with the expected launch of the new entry level iphone se, the cheaper iphone that apple puts out every few years or so. i

marc siegel you are the best.end good to see you. >> great seeing you david. david: still ahead ben domenech on president trump's claim that free speech in america has been saved. congressman mike lawler will tell us how capitol hill feels about trump's push to end birth right citizenship. steve hilton is here from california and takes on aoc's rant about how supporting donald trump has become normalized and give us a clue about what might happen if trump and newsom meet today plus former million dollar listing star josh altmann on his prediction that 70% of palisades residents will not return after the devastating wildfires. we'll be right back. .. check in time is 3:00 it's 2:55. i know. is this what he's doing now? as your host, i have some rules. first, no showers longer than 5 minutes. this isn't a spa. no games. no fun. yes, coach. (♪) meanwhile, at a vrbo... when other vacation rentals make you share your turf with a host, try one you have all to yourself. (traffic noises) (♪) the road to opportunity. is of

we believe the first will be keith siegel. that will happen on day 14 of the cease fire and then to be followed soon after. 36 year old daca chen and siegel has been injured. do you have any reason to fear that they will not come out as expected? i mean, the tenuous nature of this. we have seen negotiations in the past. we have seen them fall apart on on a moment's notice. turn on a dime. are you worried about getting these americans out, or do you think they're coming? >> of course i'm worried. we're. hamas is not to be trusted. of course. and i'm holding in my heart today, hersh goldberg-polin, whose family has strong ties to massachusetts, that young man had his whole life ahead of him and was executed by hamas terrorists months ago. and his tragic death, i think, is a is a reminder to all of us of who exactly we're dealing with across the table, people who just have no value on human life. so of course i'm worried. i do think that phase one, though, will happen. the not to be cut is going t be in phase two, because phase t

mark siegel joins us. i want to play something rfq said in his opening statement. listen here. >> advocacy is often -- status quo by asking uncomfortable questions, well, i'm not going to apologize for that. we have massive health problems in this country that we must face honestly. >> it was a hearing that was contentious at times, a lot of questions that were asked that required a nuanced answer but when he started to give one democratic senators would shut him off to say i asked yes or. no what do you think of the entire hearing and what do you think of kennedy's philosophy and how it might apply to hhs? >> i'll add what shannon said before we came on, he didn't get to answer. they weren't interested in his answers, they were interested in their statements, not his answers. >> have you ever seen that before? >> i see that all the time. you see it every day here. but, the clip you just showed, he even went deeper and beyond that and said, i'm going to take on things that lead to the epidemic of obesity that we have. 45% of adults, 20% of children, chronic disease

marc siegel joins us now. good morning, dr. siegel. >> hey, lawrence, how are you?eople are all the inhaling in this it can't be good. >> you covered all of it. i am worried about the first responders. they are not getting enough attention because they are putting their lives on the mind. imagine being a fireman who can't find water that's your tool. you are scrambling around and the toxic smoke worse than any other wildfire because it's city. remember, it's not the woods. so you got chemicals in there along with particulate matter that are going deep into the lungs. so we are starting to see more and more asthma. seeing a lot of anxiety and stress. people that are displaced don't know where they're going to sleep at night. the good news is the communities seem to be coming together. and the firefighters have a lot to do with that the family that brian just interviewed showed great resourcefulness. you know, we don't have power but we have got a generator. we have made our own water. we saved our house. that kind of spirit is there. now they made progress over the w

and that includes two americans. 65-year-old keith siegel and 36-year-old sagui dekel chen.ope is this deal will hold for them all to be free too. ramy inocencio, cbs news, tel aviv. >>> the l.a. county sheriff's department says more than 32,000 people in fire-ravaged people are still under evacuation orders. the california fires have killed at least 27 people and destroyed more than 12,000 structures. but as cbs's elise preston discovered, some residents whose homes survived the eaton and palisades fires are now being allowed back. >> reporter: weary residents are starting to return home. >> oh, i haven't been home in two weeks. i miss everything. i miss my whole life. but i'm lucky. i have a house. >> reporter: the pacific palisades will need a massive rebuild, and friday los angeles mayor karen bass named a chief recovery officer to spearhead the effort where nearly 3,000 homes were lost. and california governor gavin newsom on friday temporarily banning the eviction of rental tenants who have opened their homes to people displaced by the fires. >> normally you put on thi

. >> bianna, you spoke with the brother of american-israeli hostage keith siegel. he's still presumed alive. he's expected to be released in phase one of this deal because he's. he's older. what did the brother have to say? >> yeah, i spoke with his older brother, lee siegel, just a few hours ago, and he is hopeful, finally, that he could possibly be reunited with his brother. he knows that his condition would be would be horrible, given that the hostage video released of his brother a few months ago just showed how weak and feeble he looked. he said that that is my younger brother, and he looks like he is a few decades older than me now. given what we saw a few months ago. that having been said, he was very thankful to the biden administration for speaking to the members. the family members of the american hostages regularly, almost weekly, he said, giving them updates, showing their support, telling them that they are doing everything to bring their loved ones home. obviously, he acknowledged that the president himself wasn't able to get this deal across the fini

keith siegel will be released.e here on this 14th day of the ceasefire, followed by, let's see, that would be carl chen, who will come at some point soon after it's described. we know that siegel is injured as well. but what are they saying to you in private about any disappointment that their son isn't coming home yet? >> well, obviously it's in private, so i won't share the private conversations, but i'll just say that they are just incredible people who are focused as they have been and kept hope every single day. and as you know, there was a proof of life video some weeks back of we saw adon and you know, and they hadn't seen him in months and months any anything from him or heard from him because as you know, hamas is not allowed at any stage here. the terrorists of any visits from the red cross or any information. so, you know, they just been positive and hopeful and the bottom line is we have to the focus what they've said to me is let's stay focused. let's get and let's make sure that we get through this, t

deal, 33 hostages will be released over the next six weeks, including two americans, keith samuel siegeland sigi duquenne. sigi has three daughters, the youngest born after he was taken captive. >> his wonderful wife was seven months pregnant and for nine horrific hours wase to survive in the safe room of their home on our kibbutz with her two little daughters. while there was murder all around. >> palestinian prisoners in. israeli jails will also be freed, and the cease fire allows aid to begin moving into gaza. trucks loaded with humanitarian aid have been lined up at the egyptian side of the rafah border crossing. those trucks now starting to move into gaza. president biden said this was one of the hardest negotiations of his career. >> today, cease fire in gaza and the release of hostages as a result of a principled and effective policy that we presided over for months. and we got we got here without a wider war in the middle east. >> many predicted, the president says, keeping the fragile framework of the cease fire together is now in president elect trump's hands. inÉs de la cuetar

the we've been in touch with and one of the elderly is keith siegel, aviva siegel's husband, who is 65 years old and would be one of the first americans. he would be the first american to come out, as well as injured americans. there are two others that we know of who would likely be coming out in that first group, and we begin our coverage of this major breaking news with nbc news international correspondent danielle mcgeehan, live in tel aviv. danielle, so what are we hearing about where the negotiations are? my information is that it's been confirmed by officials here in washington, but that they are by agreement, they're letting the qataris announce it first in doha, who have really been the go betweens with hamas and who have been the principal point for the negotiations, with participation, of course, from egypt. danielle, you're absolutely right, andrea, and we are being briefed on the fact that this is this is it. >> the deal is done and we are now waiting, as you say, for the mediators in doha. the qatari pm will be holding a press conference. and we await now the official ann

. >> we spoke to a former hostage in october, aviva siegel, her husband, american keith siegel, still being held captive, may be among those released in phase one of this deal. >> aviva told us how she envisions that reunion. >> listen. >> i want to tell him that i'm waiting for him and i can't wait to see him. i think i'll just jump into the air and scream and jump on him and just not let him go. >> ambassador. >> the anguish, the up and downs so many families have experienced. >> i know you personally have experienced great loss from this conflict. what is this delay doing to those families who are now so close to seeing their loved ones again? and how are negotiators weighing that acute emotional toll? >> there's no doubt, ina, this has been a terribly anguishing period. the families have gone through a roller coaster of emotions. and of course, we don't know how many of these 33 initial hostages will be dead or alive. and so it's bad enough that they're having to wait even further. but what happens as this process unfolds and one by one, maybe several israeli soldiers or female so

. >> do we know keith siegel, chen and alexander how they are doing. >> keith will come out in phase, segui will come out in phase one, edan will be phase two. we've been working with the incoming team. this is a testament to president biden and president trump allowing us to work together. i've work with steve witkoff over the last week, a partnership i think historic to help get this one. >> trump's envoy. >> we are committed to getting edan out as early as possible. i spoke to his father just last night. >> prime minister netanyahu described this overnight as a temporary ceasefire and he says he has permission to begin fighting as needed. do you believe he sees this as just a strategic pause or that he actually wants to end this war? >> the way the deal is structured on day 16 the negotiations begin for phase two. phase two will begin a negotiation for the exchange of soldiers to palestinian prisoners, but also the conditions have to be set for phase two. we support the israelis in making sure those conditions are set so hamas can never come back to power in gaza, hamas can never

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saqui dekelchen and keith siegel, who are both on hamas' list of those to be released in the first phaseand edan alexander, who is not. earlier, i spoke with alexander's father, adi, and asked him how he felt about today. adi: it was a great start to begin with. today was a great day. we are hopeful that edan will be out between now and 42 days from now, although the road is still ahead of us and a lot of work to be done. john: as you say, it's a long road ahead. there may be some bumps on that road. are you concerned that there may be some bumps before edan is released? adi: i'm sure it will be a bumpy road, but i have no doubt about the execution of the whole phases of that deal. i think it's been too long for this war to continue. and the commitment of the outgoing administration and incoming administration is ironclad strong. so we we are hopeful that all the phases will be implemented. john: do you think the impending return of donald trump to the white house may have helped get this thing over the finish line? adi: absolutely. the trump effect was crucial. using the deadline of jan

hostages slated to be freed this week, including arbel yehud, a civilian, and potentially american keith siegel. but also today a painful reminder. not ery story will end happily. israel says of the 26 hostages still waiting to be freed in this stage of the deal 8 are already dead. and growing dread over the fate of the youngest hostages, kfir and ariel bibas, along with their mother shiri. we spoke to the boys' aunt last week. >> what is it like to not know what happened to them? >> it's paralyzing. not knowing is so hard that sometimes i just want to scream, just tell me, even if i it's the worst thing, i just want to know. >> reporter: and starting at dawn israel finally allowing displaced palestinian families to return to northern gaza. a river of humanity making its way back. "we want to return," this girl says. return to a gaza city in ruins. the u.n. says 90% of houses are damaged or destroyed. but that won't stop the akila family, who walked ten miles to be here. the children tied securely together as they push into the surging crowd. the last leg of the long journey home. and president

among them a 64-year-old keitht siegel, whose wife was freed more than a year ago. the man who helped negotiate this cease-fire visited devastated gaza today. he's the first american official to visit gaza in decades. tonight, he saw prime minister netanyahu. next week, netanyahu will see president trump. he will be the first foreign leader to see the president this year. lester? >> keir simmons, thank you. >>> we are following a frightening scene in india. at least 30 died in a stampede in the world's largest religious gathering. it happened at a festival in northern india. police say another 60 people were injured and taken to hospitals. >>> we'll take a break. in 60 seconds, the new twist involving chinese a.i. deepseek. did it rip off technology from its american competitor? your gut is like a garden growing both good bacteria and bad. that balance is key to a healthy gut environment. benefiber's plant-based prebiotic fiber gently nourishes the good bacteria, working with your body to help your gut, and you, flourish. effortlessly. every day. grow what feels goo

deal, 33 hostages will be released over the next six weeks, including two americans, keith samuel siegel and sigi cohen. sigi has three daughters, the youngest born after he was taken captive. >> his wonderful wife was seven months pregnant and for nine horrific hours was able to survive in the safe room of their home on our kibbutz with her two little daughters. while there was murder all around. >> palestinian prisoners in israeli jails will also ben freed, and the cease fire allows aid to begin moving into gaza. trucks loaded with humanitarian aid have been lined up at the egyptian side of the rafah border crossing. those trucks now starting to move into gaza. president biden said this was one of the hardest negotiations of his career. >> today, cease fire in gaza and the release of hostages is a result of a principled and effective policy that we presided over for months. and we got we got here without a wider war in the middle east. >> many predicted, the president says keeping the fragile framework of the cease fire together is now in president elect trump's hands. inÉs de la cueta

keith siegel, 65 years old, aviva's husband. we all know him and know him through her. she herself being held hostage initially and then released. but there is tremendous sadness on both sides, israel and gaza, and hope that this could be the beginning of something different. mr. let's tap into some of that emotion now. andrea, thank you. i want to bring in andy alexander. he's the father of american hostage aiden alexander. audie, thank you for being with us. thank you. lester, tell me what you're feeling right now. actually, i'm very happy and grateful that finally, finally, this deal is being sealed. it's a long, long time coming, and we are there. it's unbelievable. can you tell me, based on on what we were just briefed on about the timeline of this deal, when would you. the earliest you might expect to see your son? i guess between now and 42 days from now, as as you know, our son's name is not on the humanitarian list. although i think that at this point, year and almost year and a half after in the tunnels of hamas, everyone tha being held there should be conside

i talked to in the i q region for drug trafficking and other e siegel activities. the operations left at least $25.00 people that seem less than 24 hours, many civilians in a post on x. early on friday, president gustavo pedro said the land actions and kept the 2 on board our war crimes and that the group has no will for peace, not fully. and when we come up, continue the talks at this time, the land has to express once and for all its intention will and decision to reach peace instead. options such as those carried out in the cup approval, i guess the population, a chuckle and others committed recently show that this will is not what prevails today as a dialogue cables. these negotiations with the land began in 2022 after peter took power and as, as launched and them business policy of negotiations with all i'm groups in the country. notice the little piece. but despite on a suspicious start, the talks of suffered numerous setbacks, and like, let's see if security analyst elizabeth dickinson says, just base prior to the attacks. the colombian government formerly a

also awaiting the release of american hostage keith siegel. we met his wife aviva, herself a former hostage, last year. >> it's very difficult for me to think about keith there alone without me. >> raf sanchez is joining us now from tel aviv. and raf, president trump's middle east envoy is set to head to israel this week. >> reporter: that's right, hallie. three middle eastern officials tell us steve witkoff will make his first trip here since the trump administration took office and he's talking about going to gaza, which would be a first for a senior u.s. official. hallie? >> raf, thank you. >>> in los angeles a major instorm is pounding that city right now just as families return home after those devastating wildfires. now the threat of flooding and mudslides means some are being warned to be ready in case they need to evacuate again. steve patterson has the latest. >> reporter: tonight after the most tragic trial by fire southern california has ever faced, now a new threat. the rain. a major rainstorm expected to sit on top of the region u

keith siegel, his wife was released in november of 2023 as well as sagui dekel-chen. he's in his mid-30s. his family hasn't heard anything about his condition in the past year. peter. >> daniele, thank you. >>> turning now to the bitter cold for tens of millions over the next few days. the below freezing temperatures forcing the presidential inauguration indoors. we have more that in just a moment. first, angie is here with more on the dangerously cold temperatures. some of the numbers don't look real. >> it will be a prolonged period. here's what we got going on. we have the area of low pressure. the polar vortex, i'm sure. it has been popular in recent years. it has been confined to the arctic, but a piece ll shift in the south and work in the more than northern tier of the country. here's what we got. a major outbreak where temperatures are running 15 35 degrees below normal. no surprise, cold weather alerts up for 75 million people at this time. look where our temperatures go. in the teens for denver. a windchill of minus 9 for minneapolis. this spreads to the sou

but as we heard from lee siegel, the concern is once this first phase ends, whether or not both sides can agree to move on to phase two, where the remaining hostages would be released. all israel is hoping and counting on the return of all 98 hostages after 15 months in captivity. casey. >> all right, bianna golodryga for us with that. bianna, thank you so much for your reporting. i really appreciate it. all right, let's turn now to the story. as president joe biden prepares to leave office, he's making a pitch for his economic legacy, in particular his investments in infrastructure. you may remember last year, his former chief of staff, ron klain, reportedly said this about how biden talked about those bipartisan achievements on the campaign trail. quote, i think the president is out there too much talking about bridges. he does 2 or 3 events a week where he's cutting a ribbon on a bridge. if you go into a grocery store and you know milk and eggs are expensive. the fact that there's an effing bridge is not, i think that it doesn't get covered that much because, look, it's an effing b

and all the people asking for money this has got to stop scorch. siegel also said that the doesn't seem to grasp the quote for portion of slovaks, citizens who are beginning to have a negative attitude towards the you. so what he's saying there is that the lack of energy and the rising price from this tap shut off will leave slip back in icy cold in more ways than one. and the hungry has also raised the issue of the use insistence on digging holes for itself to then just fall into the great underground stuff for the upcoming presidential administration, which suffered a heavy defeat in the us presidential election has recently implemented a new package of sanctions on the energy sector, this package of sanctions has once again been imposed on central europe. here in central europe, we face the challenge. it is that the amount of crude oil coming into the region will decrease. so the fuel market is facing challenges. this means that less oil can be processed in the region, so there will be a much greater demand for finished refined fuel in the region, petrol and diesel. so the sanctions

that category of the american, capt as be released, one older male as a man by the name of teeth siegel. he is going to be released as early as sunday. and we know that the president has been in contact continuously, but has been updating the family that they are going to be expecting to hear or see from their loved one very soon also another man who was shot on october 7th in the wounded category. a man by the name of z declaration is also going to be released. another name that has come up isn't, is really soldier who has dual american is really citizenship not going to be released, but still on the radar. possibly in phase 2 is an individual by the name of don alexander, again, an american citizen being talked about. but again, not falling into that 1st phase category. because if this individual isn't as rarely soldier, that would be a person that falls into the 2nd phase. so again, an on the radar, but not someone that will be in that 1st group of captives being returned. indeed, kimberly, i'll get my thanks for that update and that's kimberly joining us from the white house a lot m

keith siegel and his wife aviva kidnapped by hamas on october 7th. aviva was freed more than a year ago. now keith's brother lee anxiously awaiting his return. >> i can't allow myself to raise expectations until i'm giving keith a hug. >> reporter: for many gazans, like talla, hope. >> a year and three months of pain, of suffering, of death and blood. it's time to say, this is the end. >> reporter: david, israel accusing hamas of reneging on past agreements, something hamas denies. there's also politics here, as netanyahu tries to keep his government together. but tonight, the hostage families accusing the government of unnecessary delays. david? >> david: i know you're going to be watching this very closely, ian. we'll see you right back here tomorrow night. >>> back here to the u.s. and that developing headline concerning spacex and its massive starship rocket. late this afternoon, the super-heavy rocket blasting off from texas for its seventh test flight. minutes after the launch, the remarkable moment, the tower catching the booster in the air as