Here are the headlines.
You need to know we're beginning with the latest
on the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
President Biden is in Israel today meeting with
President Isaac Herzog Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the
rest of Israel's emergency war cabinet Biden's summit with
leaders of Jordan Egypt and Palestine was canceled.
The president confirmed the American death toll after Hamas
attack on October 7th has now risen to 31 people.
More than 1400 people in Israel and 3400 people in Palestine
have died since the war began
at a press conference.
Biden confirmed Israel has agreed to allow humanitarian aid to be sent
into Gaza including $100 million in assistance provided by the United States.
People of Gaza need food, water, medicine shelter.
Today, I asked the Israeli cabinet I met with for some time this morning
to agree to the delivery of life
saving humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
based on the understanding that there will be inspections
and that the aid should go to civilians not to Hamas
agree that humanitarian assistance
can begin to move from Egypt to Gaza.
Biden said he was outraged and saddened by the bombing of a
hospital in Gaza that left as many as 500 people dead yesterday.
Biden said us defense Department data suggests
the bombing did not come from Israel.
The Israeli Defense forces say that a
rocket misfire from Hamas caused the explosion.
Authorities in Gaza say Israel was responsible for the blast.
Gaza's Deputy Health Minister says the ID F contacted the
hospital manager to warn them about a possible strike.
Neither explanation has been independently confirmed
this morning US.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced new
sanctions against 10 Hamas members and facilitators
in hopes of cutting off their access to funds.
Yellen said the US will coordinate with allies to
track freeze and seize any assets belonging to the group
day.
Two of voting for a new speaker of the house kicked off late this morning
and Congressman Jim Jordan once again lost
his attempt at garnering the 217 required votes
to win the speakership
in today's second vote. He received 199 votes, one less than yesterday.
22 republicans voted against him in the second round after the vote.
Jordan's spokesperson said quote, we're going to keep going.
Democrat Hakeem Jeffries earned 212 votes today.
The Pentagon has released video of what it calls
coercive and risky maneuvers conducted by Chinese jets.
The agency says there have been over 100 and
80 incidents that have fallen into this pattern.
The released videos show Chinese planes flying within 50 ft of us planes.
Officials warn that this type of behavior
can lead to accidents or inadvertent conflict.
Saying a subset of the maneuvers were unsafe and unprofessional.
They believe this is part of a larger campaign by
China to change us operations in the Indo Pacific region.
Lynn Tracy, the US ambassador to Russia,
visited with detained Wall Street Journal reporter
Ein
Gershowitz in jail. Yesterday
after the meeting, the embassy posted this message to Ax
Evan remains in good spirits despite his challenging circumstances,
we continue to call for his immediate release.
The ambassador's visit comes one week after a court
upheld an extension of the reporter's pretrial detention.
Gersch
has been held since March 29th on allegations of espionage.
It was a busy morning in an Alabama courtroom.
The judge in the Natalie Holloway disappearance case
said that the prime suspect Loran Van Der
Sloot admitted he killed her and then disposed of her remains.
Natalie's mother spoke outside of the courthouse minutes after the hearing,
I got the answer. I've been searching for for the past 18 years.
You're on vendor. So his confession means we have finally reached the end of our
never ending nightmare
and for me
reaching the end of the nightmare
being over is better
than closure.
This comes just after Van Der Sloot also entered a guilty
plea on charges of wire fraud and extorting the teenager's family.
He was indicted in 2010 on federal charges of extortion and wire
fraud in connection to a scheme to sell information about Holloway's remains
in exchange for $250,000.
Van Der Sloot is one of the last people seen with the 18
year old before she disappeared after leaving a nightclub in Aruba back in 2005
in other news, actor,
Alec Baldwin could once again face criminal charges for
a deadly shooting on the Rust movie set.
You may remember in 2021 Rust cinematographer Helena Hutchins was killed
and director Joel Sousa was injured when a prop gun,
Baldwin was using discharged a live round of ammunition,
manslaughter charges against Baldwin were then dropped earlier in the year.
But in a statement released yesterday,
new Mexico prosecutor said this quote after
extensive investigation over the past several months,
additional facts have come to light that
we believe show Mr Baldwin has criminal culpability
in the death of Helena Hutchins and the shooting of Joel Souza.
A grand jury will now determine whether Baldwin will face charges.
Police have removed the remains of at least 100
and 89 people from a Colorado funeral home.
After responding to a report of a quote abhorrent smell.
Earlier this month,
police initially said they found 115 decaying and improperly
stored bodies at the return to nature Funeral Home.
That number has
revised as police continue to find bodies.
The remains were removed from the funeral home on October 13th.
Neighbors in the area said they had noticed the foul smell for days.
Police said they will notify family members in the coming days.
Once all the remains are identified,
state regulators have suspended the funeral homes license.