jansing reports. healed, emotional comments from secretary of state antony blinken as he pushes israel for humanitarian pause in gaza saying he can t help but think of his own kids, as palestinian children are pulled from the rubble. a trip to grieve, president biden heading to maine after a gunman s rampage killed 18 people in a year that has already seen 588 mass shootings. plus, the former president s son erik, back on the stand and things get testy, the lacest from the new york civil fraud trial. a jobs report that came in below expectations, and why that may not be a bad thing. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. we begin with secretary blinken s visit to israel and a push for humanitarian pause in israel s fight against hamas. raf sanchez is reporting once again from ashdod, israel. i understand blinken has left israel. he s in jordan now. there were comments made about the need to protect civilian lives. tell us more about what he said. r
casey hunt, set the scene, set the stakes and how do democrats claim victory with less than 50%? how do they make the case for just how red this district is? honestly, brian, the expeatns here, i think it got a little out of hand for democrats and this 50% threshold. you can see and kind of hear i think behind us that this party is still really going strong. frankly it s a bigger party than i saw for the republicans over the course of the 2016 campaign. they have been sort of steadily trickling out the door a little bit as we wait for the final returns in this race. right now ossoff is holding steady as you showed, just over 50%. but we re anticipating that the vote that is still out is likely to bring that number down below 50% and lead to a runoff. although we can t report that definitively yet at this point. now, democrats had gotten to the point where the expectation was