ballot box. the g.o.p. winners in the state today will get the same opportunity in just five months. brooke singman live looking ahead to today s biggest races, brooke, good morning. good morning, carley, ashley. voters in virginia, alabama and georgia heading to the polls and hours to determine midterm candidates of the republican hopeful writing a big wave to washington in november. starting in virginia district 2 incumbent elaine gloria unopposed but redistricting in the military have a district, very vulnerable i m november. one of these four g.o.p. challengers. district 7 democrat abigail spanberger in a similar primary pickle running unopposed today but will face one of the six republicans in november. the police officer is running on a law and order platform with her brother who nearly died at the hands of ms-13 gang members. have been on the front line as an employment officer and seen things i have never seen from the demonizing brave men and women to law enforce
Yes. Thank you. The weank you for that welldeserved applause. Happy thursday, everyone. Today. Joe biden held a Press Conference with president of kenya. Biden said the event was great and it was even betterh the to h up with barack obama. A new poll from the Hollywood Reporter ranks the mosh obama. Td Tv News Anchors by network. And guess who was number two at fox . Hold your applause. 51 said they trusted me a lot or the other 49 said i never trust a guy that handsome. Oh. But the Hollywood Reporter had me ranked at number two as mostm trusted, which clearly means the folks at the hollywoodber have never seen this show. Who knew . Poo knewth about would land better than an iranianoper helicopter . The same list ranked. It. Jesse watters, 10th. Its the first r been time hes ever been a ten. Oddly, his hairpiece scored lower. Narrowly beating joy reids. Kilmeade ranked lowly eighth as most trusted. Narrowly beating out anarly iranian helicopter. Irania but he also beat out steve doocy,
secretary of state antony blinken arriving israel a short while ago. this is his second trip to the middle east in less than a month. blinken is expected to discuss ways to free the remaining hostages, minimize harm to palestinian civilians, and get all who want to leave gaza out. we ve seen americans and their families begin to come out of gaza, and we expect that to continue over the coming days. this has been a very deliberate effort on our part working with other countries to make sure we can get passage out for our citizens and citizens from other countries. blinken s trip comes as israeli ground forces now gaza city, surrounded. and air strikes continue to pound hamas targets inside the strip. the conflict has, according hamas officials, killed more than 9000 people in gaza. more than 1400 israelis have also lost their lives. secretary blinken also says while they re dealing with getting the hostages released and minimizing civilian deaths, now is also the time to come
i m jonathan hunt, live in jerusalem. qatar has reportedly mediated an agreement between egypt, israel and the u.s. to allow foreign passport holders and some critically injured civilians out of gaza. this is significant since it would presumably allow some who ve been stuck inside gaza for weeks to leave. and it s been a deadly week for israeli troops as they battle hamas fighters inside gaza. the idf now says an additional nine soldiers have died. they were hit by an anti-tank missile while operating in the northern part of the strip. that s in addition to the deaths of two other soldiers reported earlier on tuesday. meantime, a barrage of israeli airstrikes targets in jabalia, just north of gaza city. israel claims the strikes destroyed a hamas command center set up civilian homes, as well as part of a network of underground tunnels. the idf says the strikes killed ibrahim bari, who commanded some of the attacks in israel on october 7th. it s not clear how many civilians w
the israeli army just announcing it s killed a hamas commander who, quote, directed of the october 7th attacks on israel. the idf says his elimination significantly harms hamas efforts to disrupt israel s ground operation. it comes as israeli ground forces pushed deeper into gaza, advancing both tanks and other armored vehicles. the idf also rescued one of its own, a female soldier who had been held hostage since hamas stormed israel on october 7th. prime minister benjamin netanyahu once again rejecting growing calls for a cease fire. the united states would not agree to a cease fire after bombing of pearl harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11. israel will not agree to a cessation hostilities with hamas after the horrific attacks of october seventh. the u.s. government also voicing opposition to a cease fire, saying it would benefit hamas. but with the war now in its fourth week, american officials are pushing to get more much needed aid into gaza. the more than 2