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Details of being held hostage by hamas with hundreds more still captive. Whats being done to rescue them as well as bring much needed aid to gaza. The next leader . What we know about tom emmer and how likely hell get the votes needed to win the job. Catastrophic crash. Cars colliding on a louisiana bridge, at least seven people dead. Breaking news, meta under fire, why more than 40 states have filed suit against the social media giant over its youngest users. Great to be with you. If youre wondering why were in pink today, its in honor of Breast Cancer awareness month. Lot of spirit days here around nbc. The American Cancer Society actually finds Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States. A lot of women and a lot of people it affects. Well start in israel. Lets jump in one of the freed israeli hostages sharing her experience in captivity. 85yearold Yocheved Lifshitz spoke with reporters. My mum is taking on the back of motorbike. With her body, and her head on another side. That she was taken through the ploughed fields. With a man in front and a man behind her, and that while she was being taken, she was hit by sticks. Until they reached the tunnels. There they walked for a few kilometers. On the wet ground. There are a huge, huge network of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spider web. Lifshitz there and 79yearold nurit cooper were released last night. For humanitarian reasons. The Health Ministry says the Healthcare System is if quote, complete collapse. The Ministry Said that dozen of hospitals and care centers have closed and without fuel more are expected to shut down. Josh lederman is in israel for us. An Israeli Military spokesman said it wont allow more fuel to enter into gaza saying it will end up in hamas hands. Is anything being done to get hospitals the supplies they need . Reporter no fuel is likely to be entering the gaza unless the Israeli Military says its okay because frankly egypt is not going to allow fuel in and not going to be the conditions to have transfers over those border, but the military tonight saying that this is based on their concerns that hamas is going to divert that fuel for their own use. But they believe that hamas does have fuel storing in the gaza strip that could be moved into those hospitals to be used for those humanitarian needs. The military said there may be 200 hostages still inside gaza. Where do the negotiations stand tonight on freeing the rest of them. Reporter understandably, all parties involved these negotiations are being very tight lipd. These conversations continue with the egyptians and qataris playing a key mediaing role. Its open to releasing more civilian hostages but the security conditions have to be right a ceasefire from israel that israel has made clear is not going to happen. Josh, thank you. Appreciate it. The Israeli Defense forces say its killed three hamas deputy commanders. Nbc hasnt independently verified those claims. Take a look at this destruction in central gaza that civilians are dealing with, the idf said in the past 24 hours its hit more than 400 targets inside gaza, lets bring in pentagon correspondent Courtney Kube and monica alba. The targets that israel is talking about, do we know if israels air strikes on gaza have hampered hamas capabilities . Is it working in terms of their goals . We dont really know from here at the pentagon. Battle damage assessment. We know that some of the things theyre targeting include and one of the stargts the launchers, things that hamas and Islamic Jihad have been able to use two launch attacks back across the border into israel. Weve heard from officials that one of the many targets has been the leadership of hamas, the fact that many of those leaders are still believed to have been hiding or operating from the tunnel system underneath gaza is making that an extremely Difficult Mission for the idf and we just dont have a good sense of how successful its been from here at the pentagon. That being said, were told that many of these hamas still does have many fighters and leaders who are in gaza, that may be something we hear more about in days Going Forward. On those tunnels officials here have said, look, theres a tunnel system that spans all throughout gaza, but its not clear where hostages may be hidden and that may be one reasons that israelis arent striking them as much. Clearly a Difficult Mission. Monica, weve heard from secretary of state blinken speaking at the United Nations earlier today and he said there needs to be more humanitarian aid allowed into gaza, there are more than 2 Million People, does the u. S. Have a plan here to help facilitate that getting aid to gaza . Its critical and urgent need right now and thats the message that the United States has been amplifying and thats why theyre calling on other countries, calling on blinkens counterparts to step up and pressure the governments there of egypt and israel, try to facilitate some of this. But the u. S. Has said that this was something President Biden talked about last week. He was able to secure enough to see some of those trucks go into gaza. Food, water and fuel. The fuel question now is one thats also being dealt with in this immediate moment. As israel said, they dont want to send it if hamas is going to take it. This is amounting to a drop in the ocean whats actually needed for the people of gaza as the humanitarian crisis worsens. Courtney, youve been talking to senior military officials, what do we know about irans actions and objectives in the region. Reporter iran has some sort of play in the region, the main goal for iranians is to get the u. S. And western nations out of the region. Its not really clear how much of a direct role theyve had in the october 7th attack. U. S. Officials still, we heard john kirby over at the white house, they still dont have a direct link or tie to october 7th but with that being said groups like hamas and other proxy groups that iran has funded and trained and equipped for years theyre the ones carrying out these attacks that we have seen in the syria. Defense officials have said, iranians fingerprints are all over these but we dont know if they had a direct link to the october 7. Breaking news out of washington as well, House Republicans have nominated their third speaker candidate since ousting Kevin Mccarthy three weeks ago. That candidate is tom emmer, the third highest ranking republican in the house and defeated eight other men in several rounds of secret balloting but he still faces an uphill climb to win the speakership. Another day, may be another vote. Tell us how this all went down. Reporter theyre on to the next one, 21 days into having no speaker in the house, republicans just nominated tom emmer after five ballots, nine candidates who ran for the speakers race, a total free for all, it whittle down to one. Tom emmer is the speaker designate. He faces the two uphill struggle that steve slees and jim jordan faced. He needs 217 votes to win the job. A vote of confidence taken shortly after he was nominated more than 25 republicans voted no or present on tom emmer, meaning he doesnt have the votes at this time and far from clear he can get there. Hes meeting with his critics to try. Are they doing anything different this time around for republicans. Because it hasnt worked. Reporter attempted to do something in form of republicans on the record for a unity pledge, essentially making members promising theyll vote for the nominee after this lengthy process. They wanted to keep their options open. I got to tell you, so far its not going well because donald trump the de facto leader of the Republican Party just put out a blistering statement attacking tom emmer of being a rino. All right, sahil, breaking news there. Appreciate it. Lets turn now to todays money minute. The israelhamas war is having an impact on google. Is Artificial Intelligence taking over your workplace. Google maps and waze owned by google are no longer offering live traffic updates around israel and the west bank a spokesperson said this is standard response for areas experiencing conflict out of consideration for the safety of local communities. The United Auto Workers union expanding its strike against General Motors today. Just hours after the carmaker reported the strike has costed 800 million so far and pulled its fullyear Profit Guidance because of that. And Artificial Intelligence may be an emerging technology in Corporate America but according to a new survey more than half of employees have no idea how their company is using a. I. , that compares to 78 of Senior Executives surveyed who say their companies are already using it. Back over to you. Fascinating stuff. A. I. Is popping up everywhere. Kate rogers, thank you. Thank you coming up, thousands of Hotel Workers are out on strike in los angeles, now reports about who might be filling some of those jobs. Plus, shocking details about what may have prompted an sometimes, the lows of bipolar depression what may have prompted an offduty pilot to alleg feel darkest before dawn. With caplyta, theres a chance to let in the lyte. 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Breaking news today about one of the biggest social media companies, 42 states led by californias attorney general have now filed a lawsuit against meta the Parent Company of facebook and instagram, the states are accusing the company of damaging the Mental Health of its youngest users. Ken dilanian looking into the lawsuit for us. Ken, a pretty big deal, at lot of states here, what are they alleging . Huge deal, kate, these lawsuits accuse meta of knowingly harming the Mental Health of American Teens to make more money. Californias attorney general accused meta in a statement of quote, cultivating addiction to boost corporate profits. The lawsuit said the facebook and instagram have profoundly altered the psychological realities of a generation. The lawsuit goes on to say meta has misled the public about the use of its platforms. The lawsuit cite Research Showing that the use of facebook and instagram is associated with depression, anxiety, insomnia in young people and they say meta has continued to deny and down play these harmful effects and to promote its platforms as safe for young users. Something the Surgeon General has talked about as well. Any response from meta. Reporter in statement, the company, quotes share the attorney generals commitment with providing teens with safe positive experiences online and have introduced 30 tools to support teens and their families. Instead of filing lawsuits state officials should have worked productively with Companies Across the industry. Kate. I talked to teens last week for a today show piece. Theyre not on facebook but they are on instagram. Lets turn to california, Hotel Workers in los angeles have been on strike for a 114 days, some 15,000 housekeepers, front desk staffs from about 60 Different Hotels are on the picket lines. Today, those striking workers are outraged over reports that the hotels are hiring migrants to fill the place of those workers on strike. Liz, i understand the l. A. District attorney is actually investigating here, what more do we know . Reporter thats right. For months now, thousands of hotel work verse been on strike here in l. A. , theyre asking for higher wage and housing assistance. At the same time, l. A. Has seen buses full of migrants arriving here from texas and many are at a shelter on skid row, thats where theyre staying, an immigrant rights group say those hotels have been recruiting those Migrant Workers using them to fill the jobs of the striking workers, the groups held a press conference yesterday where they accused the hotels of doing this to derail the strike and also of exploiting the Migrant Workers and some of these workers werent given clear information about how long they were expected to work or their pay. Allegations today is not only disappointing but it makes me furious, its outrageous that Santa Monica Hotels may have resorted to exploiting the desperation of recent immigrants. Reporter now, an attorney representing some 40 Southern California hotel owners that are in negotiations with the u. N. Representing the strikers told the l. A. Times that the hotels, quote didnt knowingly use unhoused individuals even if they even did so. The l. A. District attorney is now involved. He was at the press conference and hes looking into whether any labor laws have been broken. Including violations of child labor laws. Liz, thank you very much. Still ahead, face to face and under oath, what former trump fixer Michael Cohen had to say in front of the former president in court today. Youre watching nbc news daily. Hi, my name is damion clark. And if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that youll definitely want to hear. 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Im garvin thomas. A quake hit berkeley at 11 09. No reports of injury or damage. The dmv is suspending crews from operating driverless taxis in the city. They pose an unreasonable risk to public safety. It means the company cannot operate without a human driver present. That comes as teamsters and their allies were working to put the brakes on the expanding Robotaxi Service in San Francisco. They gathered in front of the headquarters earlier this morning. We need to make sure that we have responsible human beings behind the wheel. The only way to guarantee that happens is to not have these vehicles again with fake brains on our street. At the end of the day, we are fighting for humanity. We are fighting for people. This is the right thing to do. We reached out to cruise for comment and we will let you know when we get a response. Breaking news, it appears to be official, the giants have a new manager. Bob melvin will leave to take on the role with the giants. He is a threetime manager of the year and a bay area native. Contract details have yet to be disclosed. No announcement from the giants. Dozens of teachers started their day on the picket line. They are not on strike yet but they are in contract negotiations. The teachers say things arent going well. Here is kris sanchez with the details. Reporter there is a negotiaing session for today. As of the last one that happened last week, the two sides were pretty far apart in terms of pay, Health Benefits, and stipends for teachers in hard to fill positions. They were picketing for 30 minutes outside each school this morning. We talked with some of them outside a high school. They are not compensated as well as teachers in other districts. They are still being asked to do more and more. They are doing things like writing letters of recommendation for college applicants, sponsoring clubs, holding extra office hours. They say the financial and time pressure is making it hard on their families and also hard for the district to recruit and retain teachers. We have people that are working two, three jobs. We cant afford to live here. We cant afford to live in this school district. Huge turnover in teachers because of the pay discrepancy. An Elementary School lost their of their teachers in one year. I had to replace several teachers in the Science Department in a couple of years. Were to longer competitive. The district is offering a 6. 5 increase in the Salary Schedule according to the negotiating update on the district website. They are offering 100 coverage of the Health Benefits under the kaiser plan. The district claims that what the Teachers Union is asking for would make the district financially insolvent. We will follow up on the negotiations for you. Thanks. Cloudy skies but mild temperatures. Kari hall has the details in our forecast. Look for temperatures in the upper 70s and up to 80 for morgan hill today. We are in the low 70s for oakland a hayward and upper 70s for concord. Reaching 79 degrees in antioch. Sunshine for the peninsula. We will be in the upper 60s and low 70s in San Francisco. A really nice afternoon. Then for the north bay, headed for 77 degrees. A little cooler for mill valley. As we go through the forecast, we are going to see a significant cooldown coming our way. A few of us may see a slight chance of rain. I will show you that and we will look at our seven day forecast in 30 minutes. Thank you so much. A strange theft has left a theater troop begging for help in San Francisco. The puppet and live action show is touring the u. S. During their stay in San Francisco, thieves stole their uhaul containing the puppets and costumes. Video shows two men stealing the truck at 2 30 sunday morning. The performers will be out of work if their things are not recovered. 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Hes told officers that he was having a nervous breakdown and hadnt slept in who hours and feeling for depressed for months and the fbi is looking into the possibility that he was under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms. Emerson is under arrest facing more than 80 counts of attempted murder. Set to appear in court. The United Auto Workers union is expanding its strike again, this time to a General Motors plant in texas. The union said an additional 5,000 autoworkers are now on strike at the plant. It produces gms highly profitable fullsize suv. The walkout came hours after earnings came out exceeding expectations. Mary lou retton is returning home after suffering severe pneumonia. Retton is now home in houston recovering with her family. She was the First American woman to win an individual olympics gold medal in gymnastics. The Israeli Military is making a direct appeal to people in gaza for information about the hostages being held there. Thats right, the idf dropped leaflets over gaza today offering protection as well as reward. More than 200 people are still being held hostage inside gaza. Nbc news correspondent hala gorani is with us now. Two israeli women released by hamas, four after friday. Reporter so far, according to sources ive spoken to, these arent going anywhere at this stage, not exactly sure what the holdup is, there are reports that perhaps the idea that more fuel should be included in the shipments that have made it into gaza. But for now there doesnt seem to be any imminent relief on the cards. As far as what we know thats been shared with us by one of the two released hostages yesterday, there was this the elderly of the two, her daughter was translate wag her mother was describing as a terrible ordeal when she was kidnapped by hamas militants, put on a motorcycle and into gaza and made to walk for hours. She described that she was fed, they were seen by medical personnel, though we must remember of course that the husbands of these two hostages are still detained inside of gaza. Kate and zinhle. Today at the United Nations here in new york, secretary of state blinken, several other World Leaders all called for a pause in fighting to allow humanitarian aid to enter gaza. Is the Israeli Government open to that idea . Reporter it doesnt sound like it is and there were really some tense moments at the United Nations today when the secretarygeneral said that the palestinians have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation, even said that there were clear violations of humanitarian law inside of gaza, as a result the foreign minister of israel said he would refuse to meet with the secretarygeneral. When it comes to, you know, calling for, agreeing on and implementing a pause in fighting to get more human tarren aid through and to work also on the release of more hostages. That humanitarian aid so desperately needed for the more than 2 Million People in gaza right now. Some of the help so desperately needed in gaza is finally making its way there including truckloads of water. A fraction of what is needed. Gazas ministry of health said the Hospital System there is in a state of, quote, complete collapse. At least 12 hospitals are out of service, others overflowing with patients, watyou, were going to show images that be hard to watch. Erika edwards. Reporter gaza now parked for power, clean Drinking Water and threatening to make an already tragic situation worse. Gaza is being strangled. We know water is life. Gas is running out of water. Gaza is running out of life. Reporter israel cut off the Water Supplies to gaza as well the electricity and fuel that powers many of its Water Treatment plants forcing more than 2 million gasans to drink or cook with treated water. Choler a top concern. Dr. Levine specializes in global medicine at brown university. Could cause severe dehydration in a matter of hours. When someone develops the systems. One of the ones we worry the most about. Reporter most at risk are children. Half the population of gaza is under 18 and smaller bodies have much less blood volume. When they have diarrhea, theyre going to lose a much larger proportion of their body fluid than an adult would. Reporter some of gazas youngest patients kept alive in incubators, but doctors say if they lose power babies could die within minutes. In the operating room, doctors handing some just one pain killer. They dont have enough morphine to use for the patients. Theyre forced to do an operation reporter at one hospital, the ap and the idf reporting doctors working under the glow of flashlights. At another, doctors wrapping burns with clothes instead of bandages. Those swaps adding to risk of contracting Infectious Diseases. What illnesses are you most worried about in this population . Id be especially worried about waterborne diseases. In other conflicts around the world, whether it be in africa, the middle east or south asia, Infectious Diseases actually kill more civilians than bombs or bullet and Erika Edwards reporting there. The fallout from israelhamas war not just limited to the middle east. Its being felt here in the u. S. Massive protests across the country supporting both israelis and the palestinians. Mounting frustration among muslim and arab americans over what they say is lack of support for their community and much of that is being seen as being directed at President Biden. Shaq, youve been talking to folks on the ground in the muslim and Arab Community in michigan. Why are they so upset right now. Reporter a really personal situation for them. You saw that powerful reporting that our colleague erica just did. For many people in this community, a report about humanitarian crisis, those power eful images but concern about their relatives who are in the region, being displaced and thats why theyre calling for President Biden to ask for a ceasefire and with them not getting that and no sign thats coming any time soon theyre directing their anger toward the president at this moment. I was working on getting people out to vote for biden. Right now family in palestine, afraid for their lives and biden is doing nothing to stop it. Im hurt by the betrayal we feel from biden. I also feel a little bit of guilt for what ive done. Any situation you can support him a year from now. Absolutely not. Hes had 16 days to do something, hes not. Absolutely not. I will not support someone whos supporting the genocide of my family. You feel disrespected. Not only disrespected. Not only disregard to our lives, our livelihood, its more than disrespect, disregarding my life, and why we see our kids, families being torn apart overseas. Were being threatened here. Reporter so many people told me its not just what theyre seeing and hearing about overseas but the feeling they have here in their home country, they are not feeling safe, they see the rise of islamophobia and they dont believe the president is doing enough to handle that. Which plays into 2024, right, shaq . Could this potentially hurt his reelection chances . Reporter potentially, this is group of voters who according to exit polls from c. A. I. R. , they back biden in the last election, were in a tight swing state, a state that President Trump won in 2016 by just 11,000 votes and one point to make here is its not as if people arent going to show up to vote next year, theyre going to show up, theyre going to vote, theyre going to leave that line item for president blank. The white house and Biden Campaign say theyre aware of the concerns working to address them. You hear President Biden in his most recent Oval Office Speech talking about the humanity of palestinians. And if deeply appreciate it. Still ahead, caught in the chaos a woman shares her panic after dozens of cars crashed around her on louisiana bridge. Time for a todays daily snapshot. Tel Aviv University in israel. Pictures of more than 1,000 people abducted missing or killed during the war with hamas. Displayed on empty seats there. University students said they made the exhibit to show the ndces a your brain is an amazing thing. But as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. Thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. The secret is an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. At stores everywhere without a prescription. At this hour, former President Donald Trump is back in court for his civil fraud trial. This is the case brought by new York Attorney general james over the trump organizations business deals. Trumps former attorney cohen is testifying against his old boss right now as key witness in that case. First time in five years the two have been face to face at least in public, it also comes as there are breaking new developments in another case against the former president , this time in georgia, nbc news correspondent dasha burns is outside the courthouse in new york city. Reporter look, this is significant day, the most anticipated day of this trial and heres the important thing for folks to remember before i give the details of whats happened in court. Michael cohens testimony before congress, some years ago, is the reason were standing here today, the testimony where he told mex of congress that trump inflated significantly his net worth, that got the attorney general here looking into trumps business deals in new york that brought this case forward, that brought this trial forward and made Michael Cohen the star witness that he is today and what were hearing from him on the stand is the details of how that worked exactly. Just within the last hour or so, he began to describe how it was that trump asked him and Allen Weisselberg to essentially reverse engineer his net worth. He talked about essentially asking that the trump asked him and Allen Weisselberg to reverse engineer the value of properties to meet a stated goal for his net worth. At one point saying that mr. Trump would look at the numbers and say, no, actually, its not worth 4. 5 billion im worth more than 6 billion and then he would ask, quote, allen and i to go back to the office and return with the desired goal. This is critical testimony that will no doubt be talked about a lot over the rest of this day and tomorrow as we expect cohens testimony to continue, guys. And of course, theres another case involving the former president. This one is the Georgia Election interference case, another member of trumps former legal team is taking a plea deal, what can you tell us about that . Reporter yeah, thats right. Jenna ellis part of that scheme to overturn the 2020 election, has pled guilty to aiding and abetting false statements and writing, making false claims like 66,000 underaged folks voted 2500 fellons, all those claims false. All part of a pressured campaign to get lawmakers in georgia to appoint false electors and now she has pled guilty and got a more lenient sentence, probation instead of jail time, which could potentially get other folks who are in a similar position looking at her deal, potentially looking to do the same, of course former President Trump claims innocence in that case and in this case of fraud in new york as well, guys. All right, dasha, thank you. Were learning more now about a massive pileup on a busy louisiana interstate. More than 7 People Killed and dozens more hurt. Reporter here at the scene, when you look at the wreckage left behind just an absolute nightmare for drivers in every sense of the word here, this superfog and thats the official term for it wreaked havoc on this stretch of interstate yesterday morning, both directions are still shut down and crews have been working since before dawn today trying to clear this mangled mess of cars, more than 150 of them that were left behind, some caught on fire when there were at least three semitrucks that smashed into this pile of cars as you mentioned several lives were lost. We do know that there are a number of people injured, some of whom remain in Critical Condition at nearby hospitals. But theres no timetable on when this bridge will be reopening but we have heard from some of people caught in that Chaotic Group of cars early monday and i want to hear from one person in particular. Trapped in her own vehicle and hearing the sound of continued collisions. We were hit from the back. Then we see another car on the lefthand side hit us. Then another back on the back of us hit us. For 30 minutes all you could hear was booms from either sides. Reporter back here at the scene, even when those crews are able to pull off all of the vehicles from the bridge, we still know that authorities want to bring Structural Engineers here so they can do a thorough inspection of this section in particular to make sure that its still safe for drivers to go over, we mentioned those fires that broke out, some of them got so hot on top of this bridge it was melting sign age and even parts of cars and thats the concern Going Forward in addition to the fact that this superfog may still be in the forecast for the days ahead here in certain parts of louisiana. Back to you. All right, morgan, thank you. Thats just devastating to see. Every drivers nightmare. Not being able to seeing and hearing cars hitting each other. So scary. So scary. 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