Continuing breaking News Coverage. Im Ayman Mohyeldin in new york. It is five a. M. And gaza city. Fighting between israel and hamas now enters a third day. Just the last few, hours nbc news has learned that several u. S. Citizens are among those dead and israel. Thats according to a National Security Council Spokesperson. The has said its monitoring the situation closely and the State Department is ready to provide assistance to any u. S. Citizens ill in the country. Ght, now 700 israelis are dead, 2300 injured. According to israeli officials. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says their death toll stands at more than 400 with at least 2300 injured. Israel has confirmed that forces have taken both military and non military israeli captives. Israeli media says that number is actually at 100. It includes, women, children and the elderly. Earlier today, Family Members of some of those taken by hamas held a press conference. They shared their stories and pleaded for help. Here is one woman
diverted to other airports. it comes at the start of the busy summer holiday season amd the airport has apologised to passengers. in a moment we will have the latest from our correspondent at manchester airport. but first, let s hear from a stranded passenger. i spoke with nikita pearson, a fitness instructor stuck at manchester airport waiting to board his flight to istanbul. we got to the airport at about eight o clock in the morning and you could see people sat outside on luggage. we didn t think anything of it. we got the lift to go upstairs to terminal one and you couldn t even get out of the lift. you had to trample over people to get out of the lift and then you just stood there. hoards of people just not moving anywhere. there was no tannoy announcement, no staff nearby anywhere, there were children getting trampled on, there were babies, it was chaos. we stood there for about an hour and a half and then nothing at all. you mentioned you couldn t see any staff to spea
and two have been cancelled. there have been huge queues to get in, and some passengers on arriving planes were held on runways for several hours. some flights have been diverted to other airports. it comes at the start of the busy summer holiday season amd the airport has apologised to passengers. let s hear from a stranded passenger i spoke to earlier, nikita, a fitness instructor, stuck at the airport waiting to board his flight at istanbul. we airport waiting to board his flight at istanbul. ~ ., airport waiting to board his flight at istanbul- airport waiting to board his flight at istanbul. ~ ., ., ~ ~ at istanbul. we got there about atm and ou at istanbul. we got there about atm and you could at istanbul. we got there about atm and you could see at istanbul. we got there about atm and you could see people at istanbul. we got there about atm and you could see people sitting - and you could see people sitting outside, with luggage, i didn t think about it initiall
Chelsea ingram with eyewitness weather. I had to watch my first step heading outside this morning. A lot of the video, that was all ice, lot of ice especially on secondary roads, bridges, overpasses, be careful with that. We have primary road that look okay and it was okay on may drivein but there were definitely spots that were slippery so beware, heading out this morning, just walking out your door. Lets go live, to a live neighborhood network. We are looking at a beautiful soon, beard walk plaza, look at snow, covering the board knowledges, snow covering the san, calm ocean at the sun beginning to rise, this sunday morning. Just beautiful there but chilly. 29 degrees in philadelphia we are in the upper 20s in millville, down the shore in the 30s. Thirty atlantic city, chilly spot would be mount pocono at 18 but it feels even colder when you factor in the winds. It feels like the Single Digits in mount pocono, also in allentown, feels more like 19 in center city, feels like 18 in wil
This one definitely tried to get your way into work to figure have anything else except report this morning were a problem on to a system wide delays for the rest of the morning commute none reported so far but we might as we progress drop this morning is from going off the 40 this morning to drive into San Francisco held a live shot at the bay bridge toll plaza every than normal because a lot of our writers getting in their vehicles and diving into the city 20 to 25 minutes from the macarthur maze across the span at the downtown so far. Will tran diskettes to so many people off guard the have not been following the news that initial runup to the fruit bellport station in corporate and find out there was a gate that prevents them from going upstairs to the platforms of a hot on the train because of the people right behind buses pulling into the station this man has been very busy telling people this bus goes here that busgirls. Densitometer is one of the cost your a rocket or confuse o