Good morning, good morning, to sunday september 1st. Im ali velshi. We Come On air with Breaking News out of the middle east. The bodies of six israeli hostages taken by hamas during the October 7th attacks have been recovered in gaza. There bodies were found late yesterday in an underground tunnel beneath the southern city of rafah. According to the israeli military, it appears the hostages were killed shortly before the idf was able to reach them. They have been identified by the idf as carmel gat, eden yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Master Sergeant Ori danino and american israeli, hersh goldbergpolin. Hersh goldbergpolin was attending the Music Vessel one hamas launched the attack took he was taken hostage along with many others and later became one of the most wellknown captives having been injured in multiple Hostage Videos that were purred out by hamas. In the wake of his capture, his parents were extremely outspoken in their efforts to bring home their son and the
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The lowest rates of influenza infection in memory. And that is certainly good news. But dr. Fauci said it is crucial for people to get their flu vaccinations to avoid a fullblown flu season happening at the same time as this pandemic. We do not get control over the coronavirus, you could have several challenges. One is differentiating between covid and flu, because there are medications for flu, and were getting more and more medications for covid. He also said that it is possible that when a vaccine against coronavirus is available, americans will have a choice of more than one. And then this just in. A new study examining the use of 45 million cell phones is making a connection between stayathome orders issued in the spring and a drop in coronavirus cases. Tell us how this happened, jacqueline. How did researchers make this connection . Brianna, researchers did two things. One, they looked at that location data by state in march and april and they looked at what happened after states