Benjamin Hall’s ‘Saved’ hits No. 1 on Amazon’s new releases on pre-orders alone

Fox News foreign correspondent Benjamin Hall’s upcoming "Saved: A War Reporter's Mission To Make It Home," hit No. 1 on Amazon’s "new releases" bestsellers list after the memoir was announced on Thursday. 

"Honoured to reach #1.. Thank you everyone," Hall tweeted alongside a screenshot of Amazon’s list showing that he topped Prince Harry’s heavily promoted "Spare." 

"Saved: A War Reporter's Mission To Make It Home" also hit No. 1 on Amazon lists for history books, journalism writing books and is currently No. 3 among all books despite not coming out until March 14. 

FOX NEWS’ BENJAMIN HALL URGES VIEWERS TO ‘NEVER GIVE UP’ IN EMOTIONAL RETURN TO LIVE TV

On Thursday morning, Hall made an emotional return to live television and urged "FOX & Friends" viewers to "never give up" following the horrific March 2022 attack that left him severely injured while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

"I think that when you’ve gone through something like I’ve gone through, the highs, the lows, you have to have a target, you have to get something to fight for. And this is it, trying to get back, trying to speak to you, trying to be on air and trying to tell people the stories, so perhaps it can help them," Hall said.

BENJAMIN HALL SURPRISES FOX NEWS COLLEAGUES WITH MOVING WORDS SIX MONTHS AFTER DEADLY UKRAINE ATTACK

"I’ve got one leg, I’ve got no feet, I see through one eye, one workable hand. I was burned all over, and I feel strong, I feel more confident than I ever have," Hall continued. 

"I think that you learn a lot going through things like this, and I was surrounded by so many wonderful people – that’s why I’m here today, and I look forward to everything that comes ahead." 

Hall was wounded when the vehicle he was traveling in was struck by incoming fire in Horenka, outside Kyiv. Beloved Fox News photojournalist Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova were killed in the attack that devastated Fox News and the journalism industry at large. 

BENJAMIN HALL 'TRULY AN INSPIRATION' FOLLOWING DEADLY UKRAINE ATTACK, FOX NEWS MEDIA CEO SAYS

"Saved" offers untold details of his journey. He read an emotional excerpt to viewers on Thursday, describing how "everything went dark" as bombs went off around him. 

"If I had the slightest iota of consciousness, it was a distant sense of shock waves and the feeling that every part of my body – bones, organs, sinew, my soul – had been knocked out of me," Hall read. "I was all but dead but improbably, out of this crippling nothingness, a figure came through, and I heard a familiar voice, as real as anything I’d ever known. ‘Daddy, you’ve got to get out of the car.’" 

An emotional Hall explained that seeing a vision of his three daughters gave him the strength to keep going. 

"I opened my eyes and managed to crawl out of the car," he said. "If it weren’t for them bringing me back, there is no way I would be here today."

"Saved: A War Reporters’ Mission To Make It Home" hits retailers on March 14 and is available for preorder

By Friday morning, "Saved" was No. 2 on the list, as Prince Harry’s "Spare" regained the lead. Prince Harry's book was released on Jan. 10, but "Saved" appears to be nipping at his heels on pre-sales alone.

Paul Pelosi attack video to be released Friday

The San Francisco Superior Court is set to release video and audio of the Paul Pelosi attack at noon ET on Friday following a judge's order.

Credentialed members of the media will be able to access footage of the attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband after Judge Stephen Murphy ruled the district attorney's office must make the materials public. The released material will include police bodycam footage of the attack, 911 audio calls and U.S. Capitol Police surveillance video.

The California court also ordered investigative materials to be released, including San Francisco Police Department interviews with David DePape, the alleged assailant.

Excerpts from the released materials were shown by prosecutors at a preliminary hearing last month. 

NANCY PELOSI CALLED PRIESTS TO PERFORM ‘EXORCISM’ AFTER HUSBAND’S HAMMER ATTACK, DAUGHTER SAYS 

Multiple news organizations, including Fox News, made a motion seeking the release of footage from the Oct. 28 attack, but the San Francisco District Attorney's office had refused to do so.

The district attorney's office claimed making the footage public would amplify the spread of misinformation around the attack. 

PAUL PELOSI ATTACK: NEIGHBORS DESCRIBE SUSPECT AS 'ODD,' SAY HIS 'INTENTION' WAS TO 'TRAUMATIZE NANCY PELOSI'

News organizations argued releasing the footage was in the public interest and would enable the media to debunk false information spreading on the internet about the attack.

Judge Murphy sided with the media, declaring that there was no reason to keep the footage secret after it was aired by the prosecution at last month's hearing, Thomas Burke, an attorney representing news agencies in the matter, told The Associated Press. 

PAUL PELOSI ATTACK SUSPECT DAVID DEPAPE PLEADS GUILTY, WAIVES RIGHT TO SPEEDY TRIAL

DePape pleaded not guilty last month to six charges, including attempted murder. Police have said DePape told them there was "evil in Washington" and he wanted to harm Nancy Pelosi because she was second in line to the presidency. His case is pending. 

Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday she has not seen video of the attack and is unsure that she wants to. She was in Washington, D.C., at the time of the attack last October. 

"I mean, it would be a very hard thing to see an assault on my husband’s life," Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill. 

Pelosi said that her husband's recovery is ongoing. 

"It's one day at a time," she said Thursday. "He's made some progress, but it will be about three more months, I think, before he's back to normal."

Paul Pelosi, 82, was hospitalized with a skull fracture and underwent surgery after DePape allegedly struck him in the head with a hammer. 

Fox News' Greg Norman contributed to this report.

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