striking distance of joe biden. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a tuesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i m ali velshi in for brian williams. day 894 of the trump administration. and we now have shocking new images of the extent of the humanitarian crisis at the border, released today by the department of homeland security s own internal watchdog. the government provided these images from facilities for migrants in texas rio grande valley. this photograph in ma cal shows packed into an area called pod 2. in laredo, children laying on concrete benches, on top of each other, with what appears to be one water cooler, some wearing masks over their mouths.
joy. the egyptian initiative that tried to bring an end to the violence between israel and hamas was categorically rejected by the palestinian factions earlier today. pretty much as soon as the initiative was announced for that matter. the palestinian sides including hamas and islamic jihad, the two main palestinian factions, say they rejected the initiative for a cease-fire because it fell short of addressing the larger political issues they wanted to deal with. they don t want just a cessation of hostilitiehostilities, a cal, as it s sometimes referred. they wanted to address the lifting of the israeli siege on gaza that s been in place from about 2007 as well as the relief of hundreds of palestinian prisoners that were rounded up in the west bank by the israeli military after the killing of three israeli jewish teenagers. the palestinian factions say they ve gone through this process in the past several times. the war in 2008 and the war in