Dragged away, taken captive. A closer look at what led up to this historic attack, the alleged involvement of iran, the intelligence failure and what could come next. The us is sending new military aid to israel. What were learning about the Aircraft Carrier group and fighter jets headed to the region, plus the impact on travel and the financial markets. In other news, a new labor dispute in the health care industry. Workers at another major pharmacy chain threatened to walk out the murder mystery in a quiet new england town. A beloved former University Dean married to a famous author found dead. The manhunt now underway. The video game scandal in a major police department. New video showing officers playing pokemon instead of responding to an emergency call. Later, simone biles, star shining even brighter this morning. And it was not a meteor or the mystery in the skies over washington now solved. From abc news in new york, this is america this morning. Good monday morning, everyone.
Welcome, everyone dallas or ports. You see the, banner we begin with the Breaking News from the deadly hamas attack on israel. This, new video, showing Israeli Security forces rescuing their citizens whove been taking hostage in a pretty fierce gun battle with militants. Fighting has continued inside of israel across several cities. Heres nbcs raf sanchez. It is to rod. It is a massive crime scene. There are police cars riddled with bullets as you walk, your feet crunch on the Shell Casings from the thousands of rounds fired. Surround itself was quiet when we were there. This spokesperson did come from that and areas along the border, theyre still fighting going on. Well injustice lost, our u. S. President biden spoke by phone with president netanyahu. Biden is now seeking Additional Support following this unprecedented attack. The support comes after new requests for israel. Anthony blinken has the report. There is a tremendous amount of aid in assistance in the pipeline, under presid
Mister secretary, does the administration know at this point if u. S. Citizens were among the dead or those taken hostage . So, we have reports that several americans may be among the dead. We are very actively looking to verify those reports similarly, weve seen reports about hostages and their again, we are very actively trying to verify them. And we nail that down. Meaning that there could be some u. S. Citizens who have been taken hostage as well, mister secretary. Thats correct. Well be closely following that over the next two hours, also overnight, israel responded, launching huge retaliatory strikes on cars and cities, flattening residential buildings, and killing over 300 people in gaza so far, according to the palestinian mystery of that. Has lebanons Hezbollah Group fired the flames in solidarity with hamas at three is really positions. Were witnessing all of this as israel promises an aggressive response. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed, my vengeance, and sai
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Maintained martial law throughout the country. The number of palestinian deaths is in the hundreds. Airstrikes are being carried out on the gas sector. Hamas, Islamic Jihad command centers and mosques used by militants were reportedly destroyed. Before the start of a massive ground operation in gaza , the Israeli Defense forces liberate the country from militants who have infiltrated there. The most difficult thing is to rescue the hostages. However, according to the latest information, the Israeli Military managed to take control. Countries, more about the situation from our head of the middle east bureau news, sergey pashkov. Many israelis were captured by militants in the gaza strip, apparently, we are talking about dozens of people , these are parents with children, children, teenagers, local residents and those who came to the border of the gaza strip for a music festival, young people, and military personnel in total. Mas reported that they managed to take 53 israelis hostage and