A special Labor Day edition. Enjoy the 5 00 p. M. Hour, ari. I was going to say, nicolle, it doesnt feel right being here 5 00 to 6 00. Doesnt feel right. But at least i got to see you. Yeah, have a great show. Its a great time. I was happy to come in early. Youre now here early. Its great to get to see more of you. Absolutely. And have a great rest of the Labor Day with you and yours. Welcome to the beat, everyone. Im ari melber. It is Labor Day but theres a lot going on in the world, on the campaign. The news doesnt stop. I can tell you Vice President harris is on the campaign trail. You see here the preparation with President Biden. Theyll be campaigning on this Labor Day holiday. We can also show you them arriving. This was moments ago. So were going to bring this event to you here in this 5 00 p. M. Eastern hour. As i mentioned, theres kamala i should say with the president. But i mentioned with my colleague Nicolle Wallace were here in the 5 00 p. M. Hour. Were going to bring you
And we also ask for the rest of the world to support israel to stand with us because there is no time. Protesters also took over the streets ofjerusalem, including outside prime minister netanyahu s office. 0ur middle east correspondent lucy williamson reports now from jerusalem. Hamas would protect them as assets, the argument went. These younger, fitter hostages were the ones who would survive. Instead, israel s army says they were shot by hamas in a tunnel under rafah as israeli forces battled above them. Almog seroussi, alexander lobanov, 0ri danino, eden yerushalmi, whose last words to her sister were, they ve caught me. And hersh goldberg polin, a 23 year old us israeli citizen, and carmel gat, a therapist who was described by other hostages as their guardian angel. Carmel s family said she and hersh were due to be released in a deal outlined in july. Her cousin today inconsolable. It s too late for us. It s too late for carmel. I will never hug her again. But 101 people can stil
Of the coalition. we are asking from our government to stop everything and to make a deal. And we also ask for the rest. Of the world to support israel, to stand with us, because there is no time. What is happening now in our country, in israel, is the same what is happening in russia. This is the same. Dictator vladimir putin, dictator is bibi, this is the same! hamas would protect them as assets, the argument went. These younger, fitter hostages were the ones who would survive. Instead, israel s army says they were shot by hamas in a tunnel under rafah as israeli forces battled above them. Almog seroussi, alexander lobanov, 0ri danino, eden yerushalmi, whose last words to her sister were, they ve caught me. And hersh goldberg polin, a 23 year old us israeli citizen, and carmel gat, a therapist who was described by other hostages as their guardian angel. Carmel s family said she and hersh were due to be released in a deal outlined in july. Her cousin today inconsolable. It s too lat
Thousands are protesting across israel to express outrage over six hamas hostages killed in gaza overnight. Israelis, including hostage families, accusing prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Torpedoing A Ceasefire Deal that might have saved them. We are getting new details by the minute. Hamas says they couple six in a tunnel shortly before israeli forces were able to reach them. Their bodies were recovered and brought back to israeli territory. Among the dead are Israeli American Hersh Goldbergpolin. The other five hostages. President biden has issued a statement vowed to make them pay. First we go to Matt Bradley joining us from Tel Aviv. I know youre at the big protest. What is happening . Reporter i hope you can hear me. It is definitely loud here. It looks like There Hundreds Of Thousands of protesters stretching as far as the eye can see. On the other side of this Pedestrian Bridge is the same deal. Everyone out here, outraged this happens every week right here in front of what
For the next debate. State of the union live tomorrow morning at nih you re in the cnn newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and this how are we are still following breaking news out of gaza, israeli forces saying they quote, located a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us live from jerusalem. Nic, we re still learning more details and expect more details. What do you know right now yeah, that statement by the idf is unusual. They would not normally talk about finding bodies and being in the process of a combat operation. They wouldn t comment on those details. Normal normally, i think the expectation here is for the people of israel when they hear this and for the families of the hostages, and we should be very clear here, the idf is only talking about discovering bodies, but obviously for the families of the hostages, when the idf says something like that, they re going to listen to this still stands to be p