Clock warning United Nations staff to evacuate gaza. Our coverage continues now in The 11th Hour with stephanie ruhle. Good evening, once again, im stephanie ruhle. Of congress today, where Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race for speaker after being nominated by his fellow republicans. Well have much more on the chaos in the house in just a moment. But first, lets begin our broadcast with israel. Who is continuing its she siege on got a. Launch more airstrikes six days after the hamas terror attacks. The bombing is intensifying, as israel is building up its military forces along the border with gaza for a potential Ground Invasion. At least 1300 people have been killed in israel, and at least 1500 have been killed in gaza. Today, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken was in israel meeting with both Prime Minister netanyahu and israelis who survived the terror attacks. We get more from my colleague, lester holt, in tel aviv. Tonight, israeli airstrikes relentlessly Bombarding Gaza wit
Secretary of state Antony Blinken we ask him about it. Was that an acknowledgement that iran might have been involved in this attack how he answered, and what he said about efforts to free americans held hostage by hamas and the faces of war. The Festival Goer marking her birthday as a captive of hamas. What her family is asking people around the world to do. Our Special Edition of nightly news begins now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening and welcome, everyone. Well show you some of what we saw in ashkelon closer to gaza earlier, but we start here in tel aviv tonight, where for six days now, the world has watched and waited for the full might of the israeli response to the horrific at attacks inflicted upon it anticipated by many to be a massive invasion of the gaza strip, making good on its promise to destroy hamas, after last saturdays brutal terrorist rampage in southern israel. The toll keeps getting worse. In isr
Freeing hostages. Inside gaza, new images of destruction. Israel warning humanitarian aid will not be let in until all hostages are released. Also, our team going into the Music Festival grounds where hamas killed 260 people. What they found. And as theyre inside, this moment, a man allegedly armed with a knife somehow getting in. Israeli troops detaining him. Also, the u. S. Moving to block 6 billion iran was set to receive in a Prisoner Swap in our oneonone with Secretary Of State Antony Blinken. We ask him about it. Was that acknowledgment that iran might have been involved in this attack . How he answered and what he said about efforts to free americans held hostage by hamas. And the faces of war. The Festival Goer marking her birthday as a captive of hamas. What her family is asking people around the world to do. Our Special Edition of nightly news begins now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening and welcome, everyon
and everyone i ve ever slept with. i was told that there was a good possibility that i would only have six months to live. four years ago, she was diagnosed with an aggressive bladder cancer, which she openly documented on her instagram. once portrayed as an enfant terrible of british art, she s now been made a dame by king charles for services to art. tracey, congratulations. or should i say dame tracey? congratulations. how are you feeling about it? well, i m smiling for lots of reasons. but dame tracey, i mean, it has a ring about it. it s really cool. i don t think there s ever been one before, and it s good. ifeel like it s a new generation of dames, really. what does it mean to you? there s nothing like a dame. no. don t get me singing. 0h, go on. no, i think for me, really seriously, what it means is that. it s the recognition from the king and from the establishment for what i ve achieved in my lifetime as an artist, which is kind of a man s world, really, and always
no. don t get me singing. 0h, go on. no, i think for me, really seriously, what it means is that. it s the recognition from the king and from the establishment for what i ve achieved in my lifetime as an artist, which is kind of a man s world, really, and always has been. and. i don t know, ifeel like i ve. it just feels really cool. and the best thing is, i only found out about it recently because i hadn t received the letter. so what happened? how did you find out about it? well, i went to buckingham palace for the garden party, and i was in a line up with five people out of 3,000, to shake the hand of the king and queen. and i was thinking, this is a bit weird. well, i m kind of up the top here. wonder why? and then on my way home, i got a message saying, from my old studio, that there was a letter for me, marked urgent from the cabinet office. so i thought, oh, i better go and see what it is. and there it was, asking me if i d accept a damehood. so do you think they