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measures ahead of his visit to el paso this weekend. before he travels, it appears the needs to study up on specifics. we re going to have to use title nine title eight am i right? we begin in washington where 11 rounds of votes over three days, the house of representativeses have failed to elect a speaker. a deal might be coming to move more support to kevin mccarthy. kevin cork is live in d.c. with the latest on this. good evening, kevin. the house has gavelled out tonight and will come back again friday at noon. as it stands, the majority of republicans, some 200 of them, want kevin mccarthy to become the speaker of the house. the other 20 have backed everyone from florida republican byron donalds to even former donald trump. they don t seem to be budging. this isn t chaos. this is a constitutional republic at work. i m a mom of four boys. i know what chaos and dysfunction looks like. mccarthy, meanwhile, said all he needs to do is flip at least 11 votes. ton
And welcome to cnn news rooms continuing coverage of israel at war, im michael holmes. Its 1 a. M. In atlanta, 8 a. M. In gaza where estimated one million more than that have been displaced by the war between israel and hamas but theres been a major news break regarding hostages. American woman and daughter undergoing medical evaluation in israel after being released by hamas on friday. Judith and her daughter were visiting family at a kibbutz when they were taken hostage by hamas two weeks ago. Lambs is believed to have holding 200 hostages. Idf spokesperson had there to say after the women were released. These are the first two and what we see and what we know is that hamas is trying to paint itself as a Human Rights Organization now by having given back two of the hostages. Rockets are raining down on israel as im speaking and lets get back all the hostages and then we can speak with them. Cnn katie joins me live from london with more on what was a surprising development. Katie tell
fighting is intensifying near the enclave. e earlier today, israel opened another evacuation corridor. but those small breaks in the war aren t enough for some. an emergency summit today in saudi arabia, arab and islamic leaders demanded a complete cease fire. today, we re watching pro palestinian protests in london, brussels, paris, even near president biden s home in delaware. let s get to oren on the ground in israel near gaza. lots of activity there today. what are you seeing? very much so. from our vantage point here from the northeast corner of gaza, it has been a very different night. we have seen and heard intermittent artillery strikes and explosions. there was an explosion of an expected uav launched from gaza but in terms of what we re seeing, it s more intermittent than on previous nights. last night, it was a skyline lit up very regularly. now very different. we don t see the explosions, the flares being dropped below. still, we know of course there is intense
a week first of vigils, then memorials and now funerals. above all, though, it s been a week to focus on a dozen lives as they were lived not just as they were lost. tonight on this one week anniversary in this special hour of 360 as we have all week we re going to focus on those whose lives were lost and those whose lives were forever changed. john blunk. we will rember. a.j. boik. we will remember. yesy childress. we will remember. gordon cowden. we will remember. jessica ghawi. we will remember. john larimer. we will remember. matt mcquinn. we will remember. micayla medek. we will remember. veronica moser-sullivan. we will remember. alex sullivan. we will remember. alexander teves. we will remember. and rebecca wingo. we will remember. community promising we will remember. that was colorado s governor at the memorial just days after the shooting. you can hear it in the voices of the crowd. people determined not to make th