i welcome you both. ali, to you first. u.s. officials, confirming americans are among the dead. but, what do we know of any specifics, around those statistics, this hour? yeah alex, this is something that we heard, first mention by secretary of state antony blinken this morning, when he said that u.s. officials were working overtime, to confirm reports that americans were among those killed. since these attacks began yesterday, as well as reports that americans, were among those taken hostage, into gaza, by hamas militants. and tonight, we have a new quote from a national security council spokesperson. confirming that the deaths of several u.s. citizens since this attack began, but also on these reports of americans being taken hostage. they would only confirm that there are americans, quote, unaccounted for. they say in a statement, quote, we are aware of reports of unaccounted american u.s. citizens, and we are working to confirm, we are closely monitoring information of