Murdered my people. We appreciate your personal story and sharing it. Thanks so much for your time. Thanks to all of you for being with us today. We continue to follow the Breaking News all day here on n. News central is next. Hello, everyone. Im kate bolduan. Here with john berman and sara sidner. Thank you for being with us. We are following more Breaking News out of israel. And the build up to the next stage as the idf describes it. Youre looking, were showing you pictures from moments ago as israel continues large scale strikes in gaza today. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is on the ground in israel right now and bringing with him a powerful message of totally support for israel. Saying hamas brings to mind the worst of isis. Blinken confirmed also theres at least 25 americans that have been killed. He said the Biden Administration is working closely with israel to locate and rescue the more than 100 hostages taken by hamas. On that front, secretary blinken met with israel
be as big a problem. at the same time, if you took the population of, say, a state in the united states, transplanted it into somalia and the same conditions where criminality wasn t punished, some would turn into being criminals, right? and this is what s happened in somalia. but obviously, partly and underlying factor but not direct i don t call it a direct poverty doesn t create pirates. poverty may about necessary, or enhancing pre-condition with other factors you re describing that result in pirates, is probably the best understanding. right? sure, yes. one other thing that struck me in reading about this, i m interested to know whether you saw anything about it, was that in response to the piracy problem, that private financial institutions and insurance companies that pay the ransoms have started hiring their own private armies to hunt the pirates. have you seen anything about this? yeah. well, it s happened a lot more recently where companies have turned to security