Humanitarian aid the United Nation calls the difference between life and death arrives in gaza overnight. Plus, im going to hug her and kiss her. Its gonna be the best day of my life. Heading home, an american teen and her mother held hostage by hamas or free this morning. What theyre learning about their sudden release and the latest in israel ahead, in the live report. Back to the drawing board, after three failed attempts, conservative firebrand, jim jordans House Speaker dreams are dashed. He cant get his own party to back him. Inside the search for the next Permanent Speaker, yet another Government Shutdown deadline tips closer. Singing for their dinner, two of trumps top attorneys and closest allies who push the biggest election i agreed to testify against him after striking plea deals in the last minute at the Georgia Election interference case. We go live and indepth for what this means for don trump. Thats live in the next. A good saturday morning to you all, i am katie phang
World traveled quickly from his parents who were overseeing the u. S. And Israeli Government largescale search effort to his siblings. Nine of them here in lakewood. Very sad, you know, theres a range of siblings from is 0 or 11yearold to mid30s. Reporter during his visit with the family today, he learned sofer asked his mother if he should take a hike in the forest, given tensions between jews and hamas. It was the same day a ceasefire was issued. There was some closure to the fact that this may very well have been an accidental death as opposed to their son being abducted. Reporter despite no signs of foul play. Obviously an investigation taking place at this moment in time to see what the background of the incident was, if the student fell and went missing or if its a murder case. I believe that the barrier will happen in israel. Reporter lick ten steen says the sofer family, orthodox jews, will likely not agree to an autopsy. The problem with the autopsy is not im taking the pictur
Of her home. Police have been investigating as to whether his shooting was connected to his grandmothers death. At this point, they do not believe thats the case. Live from police headquarters, im rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a rip current risk at the jersey shore. Here is why. Tropical storm cristobal. Radar shows the storm near the bahamas right now. The impact is being felt all the way up here. Our live nbc 10 Team Coverage of the rip current risk starts with glenn hurricane schwartz. How dangerous are rip currents right now . Its a combination as a combination of things are going on causing that. We will have these issues for much of the week. One of the causes is this persistent northeast wind that we have been seeing for the last couple of days. That is making the ocean pretty rough. You combined that with the new moon we have at the new moon and at the full moon, we get bigger waves. Theres also that Tropical Storm cristobal. So the co
Longlasting peace. Were live in jamarcus with the a lot of pef good morning, everyone. Welcome toer earl. Im christine romans. Im john berman. Its wednesday, august 27th, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Up next, a he jaddist fighting alongside isis in syria. 34yearold Douglas Mccain was killed near the city of aleppo. Mccain became radicalized. He is not the First American to join forces in syria, the government estimates there are more perhaps hundreds will try to join groups there. Reporter john and christine, the american Douglas Mccain killed in syria, said to be along id isis. His family notified by our u. S. Government, telling jim hutto they had not known he was part of the world going on there. U. S. Counterterrorism Officials Say he is one of the americans they were keeping an eye on that they were investigating for possibly joining militant groups. And if he had attempted to travel at any point perhaps come back to the United States, he would have been subject to additional scrutiny.
Its 5 00 a. M. In the east. Up first, death of an american jihadist fighting alongside isis in syria, 33yearold Douglas Mccain was killed in a battle during rival groups near the city of aleppo. Mccain over the course of that time Officials Say became radicalized. U. S. Officials now estimate there are dozens, perhaps as many as 100 americans who have tried to join various militant groups there. We get more this morning from cnns barbara starr. John, christine, the american Douglas Macarthur mccain killed in syria, said to be fighting alongside isis. His family notified by the u. S. Government, telling our jim sciutto they had not known that he was in syria fighting as part of the war going on there. U. S. Counterterrorism Officials Say he was one of the americans that they were keeping an eye on, that they were investigating for possibly joining militant groups. And if he had attempted to travel at any point, traperhaps come back to the United States, he would have been subject to add