newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we start this hour with the breaking news. the white house says a toddler, a 3-year-old toddler is among one of the nine americans and 200 others currently being held hostage by hamas following that deadly attack more than a month ago in israel. let s go straight to cnn senior white house reporter kevin liptak in delaware. this is just a heartbreaking development. what more can you tell us? reporter: yeah. this news coming from the white house in a readout of a phone call that president biden held with the amir of qatar. qatar has been acting as a broker in these talks to get these hostages released. the president conveyed his unequivocal condemnation of the holding of hostages in gaza, including this 3-year-old american toddler, whose parents were killed in the hamas attacks in israel on october 7th. so we don t know many details about this child, but he is one of potentially as many as 10 americans who are being held
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