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. hello. i m brianna keilar with pamela brown in washington. we re waiting on president biden to speak. any moment he s expected to announce major u.s. investments in asia as he s promoting workers rights globally. but we re going to begin the hour with breaking news coming out of the israeli hamas war. israel saying they ve located another body of a hostage. the body was located near al shifa hospital, which defense forces raided yesterday. they re claiming hamas was using tunnels beneath it as a command center. let s get to nic robertson. nic, what do you know about the hostage found dead by the idf? reporter: she was a 65-year-old lady, grandmother, wife. the idf isn t giving any details of the condition of her body or the condition of the structure that she was in, so we don t understand at the moment how she may have died, the circumstance specifically of her body, but we are being told her body was discovered in a structure close it s connected to the idf op ....
through today and i m sure the end of the day an update. two follow-ups, sorry. of the 900 americans and family members left in gaza, any of them killed or wouned while waiting to get out? i don t have confirmed reports of that at this time. an so there are reports, you don t have confirmation? we don t have confirmation. and then on the question of these deliveries, early on, or earlier, i suppose, the goal was set to have at least 100 trucks coming in a day. obviously we are falling very, very far short of that number. the secretary earlier discussed the possibility of shalom opening or considering the opening of that crossing to deliver more aid. why isn t that a more viable route? we are continuing first, let me say, the question is not really about the number of gates open to get into israel. the question is about screening mechanisms and being able to screen the number of trucks. plenty of rafah to get trucks through to deliver humanitarian assistance. ....
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