Continuing breaking News Coverage. Im Ayman Mohyeldin in new york. It is five a. M. And gaza city. Fighting between israel and hamas now enters a third day. Just the last few, hours nbc news has learned that several u. S. Citizens are among those dead and israel. Thats according to a National Security Council Spokesperson. The has said its monitoring the situation closely and the State Department is ready to provide assistance to any u. S. Citizens ill in the country. Ght, now 700 israelis are dead, 2300 injured. According to israeli officials. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says their death toll stands at more than 400 with at least 2300 injured. Israel has confirmed that forces have taken both military and non military israeli captives. Israeli media says that number is actually at 100. It includes, women, children and the elderly. Earlier today, Family Members of some of those taken by hamas held a press conference. They shared their stories and pleaded for help. Here is one woman
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could be 13 again and that would change the number of palestinians exchanged to 39. all oaf that we ll likely see in the hour to come of what will develop, but it was yesterday when ten thai hostages we leased, one filipeno and 13 israelis and this was one of the first hugs, the first moments of re-juneons that we saw reunions we saw of a little girl, a 5-year-old and her mother, both taken hostage when they were visiting her parents. they finally were able to join their families yesterday at the hospital. once again and this was another reunion of a different family, 9-year-old ohad ran into his father s arms there in the hospital with his older brother patting him on the head before he walked over hugging his mother. they again were kidnapped on october 7. these final embraces after so many weeks of wondering what in the world was happening to them. it is these moments of joy, widespread celebration, but this is just the beginning of these hostage release withs so many ot
announcing his retirement after 20 seasons in the nfl. fox & friends first starts right now. good morning, you are watching fox & friends first on this monday morning, i m benjamin hall in for todd piro. jillian: i m jillian mele. good to see you this morning. i don t think many people are surprised by the drew brees announcement. did you follow him. he s a name that is well-known over here, 15 years, 20 years in total. so yeah, only a few football names are well-known here and he is certainly one of them. jillian: that says a lot right there. let s begin with a fox news alert. a chicago police officer is not the face in a precinct parking lot. the 26 veteran of the department was grazed on the chin. he was later released from the hospital. no arrests have been made. detectives are looking into whether the sergeant was targeted. he is the 13th officer to be shot at or shot this year. today, a rendell gas station will descend upon the mexican border as an influx of ill
Grenfell towler was legal or nowm is happening now. It is not happening enough quickly enough. The testing is going on. We will try and find out. And the legend that is ronnie osullivan. Commentator i dont believe this. Applause what a fantastic Maximum Break he will talk to us about his career, politics, the novel he has written and anything else you fancy talking to him about. If you have a question, get in touch. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until i this morning. Throughout the morning well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories. And, as always, really keen to hear from you. A little later in the programme well hear from a sikh couple say they were told they couldnt adopt a white child because of their Cultural Heritage. Its legal for Adoption Agencies to give preference to parents from the same ethnic group but government guidelines say different racial backgrounds should not prevent a couple from adopting. Really keen to hear your experience of int