the white house says that israel has formalized a plan to briefly pause fighting in parts of gaza each day. meantime, israeli forces say they ve captured a hamas stronghold in gaza. in just moments we ll take you live to israel. and the republican presidential candidates minus the front-runner donald trump hold a fiery debate filled with lots of low blows. and it seems they re still struggling to come up with a winning message on abortion. plus, the labor movement puts more points on the board. what we re learning about a tentative end to strikes in hollywood and on the vegas strip. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. we begin this afternoon with the israel-hamas war. after weeks of voicing opposition to a ceasefire in gaza, today the white house announcing that israel is formalizing a plan to allow for four-hour-long pauses each day, windows designed to allow palestinian civilians to evacuate nort