Face or a battle for joining us this morning. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central stars right now push back on propalestinian protests four people are now dead, including a four month old baby after a string of tornadoes rips through multiple states. And theres a new threat. This morning also, south dakota governor kristi noem still defending shooting and killing her family doc or admitted fishing in her new book that has people still outraged and also scratching their heads. Sara is out. Im kate balden with john berman. This is Cnn News Central its Morning Unit Relevance of the protests facing colleges and universities across the Country Hundreds have been arrested or detained in sometimes violent encounters with authorities oh palestinian and cantmiss and rallies at Virginia Tech overnight new arrests after the University Says the situation of progress and had the potential to become unsafe at ucla police in riot gear intervened after protests is breached just Security
it was believed to be 260 people had been slaughtered. now 364 people were according to israel s channel 12. also according to that news channel, police also say that 40 festivalgoers were kidnapped and taken into gaza. israel s military announced today it recovered the second body of a hostage near the hospital. noa marciano was her name. she was 19, a corporal in the idf, and she had been kidnapped from a kibbutz. they recovered the mother of a 65-year-old grandmother, yehudit weiss yesterday. she was found near the hospital. president biden spoke with the leader of qatar, who brokered hamas has demanded israel stop any surveillance drones to track the movements of hamas. still hearing explosions. an hour or so though there were exchangeses of gun fire so we can see in this direction. in fact looking over there now i can see there s a glow in the sky that wasn t there before so that s clearly the aftermath of a blast there now. the fight is still going on. not as intense