welcome, i m michael holmes, appreciate your company. we begin this hour in israel, 13 israeli citizens and 11 foreign nationals are out of gaza and back in israel after 49 days as hostages of hamas. the four-day pause in the fighting that made their release possible is entering day two and appears to be holding. a live look at gaza, where it s 8:00 a.m. israel says it has received a list of israeli hostages who should be released sometime on saturday and has notified their families. according to the israeli source, several children are on the list. friday, 13 were israelis and 5 were foreign nationals. among the non-israelis, ten thai and one filipino citizens. they re getting checked out in tel aviv. a spokesperson lauded the release but cautioned the process is far from over. translator: the sight of those who have safely crossed the border into israel evokes a profound sense of relief, yet our hearts remain with the hostages still held in gaza. tonight we embrace the fa
Looks a lot like ours. See how Artificial Intelligence from google gave astronomers a break through. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Senator rubio will be there. Were doing very well on the tax front. We have tremendous support. We have tremendous spirit. Deessential in the ranks threaten tax reform. Unless the Child Tax Credit is made more generous. I want to support tax reform, its important to the country. President trump spoke with russian leader Vladimir Putin on the phone. They talked about the crisis over north Koreas Nuclear program. The new York City Police Department Investigating allegations of rape against music mogul Russell Simmons. He denied the allegations. Nasas telescope has discovered an eighth planet in a distant star system. With all this data coming, for scientists its like trying to drink from a fire hose. A firefighter has died while battling the thomas fire flames northwest of los angeles. Tragic and devasta
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About the heartstopping moment. And health scare. Overnight an emotional jimmy kimmel revealing his newborns secret battle. Its a terrifying thing. His son born with a heart defect undergoing open heart surgery just days after birth. The operation was a success. It was the longest three hours of my life. The signs something was wrong and the hero nurse who caught them just in time. Good morning, america and, boy, to see jimmy kimmel open up like that, so emotional but thankfully his little boy is doing well. He is doing well and take a look at these photos. Thats kimmels son billy. They say billy is doing great now and jimmy had a very powerful message for families in the same boat and well tell you what that was later on the show we are thinking of jimmy, molly and the whole family this morning. Got a lot of important stories to get to as well. Republicans are pushing to repeal obamacare. Whether preexisting conditions are covered is the big sticking point. The white house working to
Getting underway on campus at the chapel. For an incident they are describing as a racist threat. Several bananas have been found at three different locations on campus. All hanging by a news with the it. Haramba written on the person or persons behind it wrote aka, referring to a predominantly black sorority at american university. A cruel and hateful message they were also found on monday, the same day the newly elected Student Government president took office, the first africanamerican woman to hold that role on campus. She happens to be a member of output alpha kappa alpha. I think it is ridiculous, i came to student because it was one of the most diverse schools i applied to. Liberal and accepting and they talked about accepting everyone. The fact this is the second time this year a banana incident has happened that has targeted minority students, it is on excitable. Unacceptable. Many students we talked to, believe the administration is not doing enough. Months ago, and incident,