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And it has been a deadly weekend. So we're going to get right to your need to know headlines this Monday morning. We will begin with the latest from Israel and we do want to warn our viewers. A lot of this footage is extremely disturbing. Israel formally declared war yesterday after attacks by the Hamas militant group which began on Saturday. Israel has retaliated with airstrikes and the country's defense minister has called for a quote complete siege on the Gaza Strip including cutting off electricity and blocking food and fuel from entering the area. Fighting remains underway in several areas this morning overall, at least 700 people in Israel and more than 400 in Gaza have been killed. Thousands of people have been injured earlier this morning, the White House announced nine Americans are among the dead. Palestinian militant groups claim they are holding more than 130 people, they took captive from Israel and brought into Gaza. Israeli officials say Americans are among those who have been taken. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the US is sending an aircraft carrier group including cruisers and destroyers to stand by in the eastern Mediterranean in support of Israel Sad and developing story that we'll be covering here all day on China news back at home, the House of Representatives lack of an elected speaker leaves it in unclear legal territory about what it can do to support Israel. Some Republican lawmakers including Foreign Affairs Committee chair Michael mccaul are calling for a quicker timeline to elect a speaker for national security reasons. Mccall told CNN having a speaker is necessary so the House can vote on additional aid for Israel. House. Speaker leader Steve Scalise and Ohio Congressman, Jim Jordan have both announced their candidacies for the role of speaker House Republicans are scheduled to hold an internal election on Wednesday. But the timeline for a speaker vote on the house floor remains unclear. An American mountaineer and a guide from Nepal have reportedly died after avalanches at a Tibetan mountain on Saturday. That's according to reports from Chinese media which confirmed the deaths of American Anna Gutu and Nepalese guide Ming Mar Sherpa. Yesterday, Chinese media reports, another American climber and Nepalese guide are missing while another guide was seriously injured. Harvard University. Professor Claudia Golden has won this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences that was for her work studying the gender gap in the jobs market. Golden's research analyzes the pay gap between women and men over 200 years. Committee's chair says, quote, understanding women's role in the labor market is important for society. Thanks to Claudia Golden's ground making research we now know much more about the underlying factors and which barriers may need to be addressed in the future. End quote, golden is just the third woman to ever win the Economics Prize. And Simone Biles won two gold medals yesterday during the artistic gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp Belgium. It was a triumphant finish for Biles as she wrapped her first international competition since taking a two year break from the sport. Biles won first place during the floor competition even after receiving a penalty for stepping out of the floor area during her routine gold medal was by 23rd world championship gold medal and she took another gold medal earlier yesterday after winning the beam competition. Congratulations to her and Kenyan long distance runner, Kelvin kept them broke the men's marathon world record yesterday in Chicago. Look at that turnout hit them cross the finish line during the Chicago Marathon in two hours, 35 seconds, beating the previous record of two hour and one minute. 23 year old K was able to shave off 23 seconds from the previous record. This was kept them third marathon. His first race was back in December and it was the fastest marathon debut race ever. He also finished the London Marathon in April just 16 seconds outside of record time. All right, the powerball jackpot keeps getting bigger and bigger after no lucky winner claims Saturday's jackpot. The grand total has risen to an estimated $1.5 billion just shy of 1.6 billion. And tonight's drawing is the third biggest in powerball history. After Saturday's drawing went unclaimed, it became the 34th consecutive game to go without a winner. And if you wanna try your luck at tonight's drawing, remember the odds of winning now, one in 292 million. But there is a chance and I was just gonna say that you would, I always preface with. There is a chance where you know the old New York motto and there's a dollar. There is a dream. That's what they used to say for the Lotto. And finally, Kristen, like you mentioned earlier in the show today is Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day a holiday we mark on the second Monday of October every year and here are some expected closures today. It is a federal Reserve Bank holiday the day which means some US banks will be closed, including Bank of America Wells, Fargo and Citibank, Chase Bank and TD Bank will be open where Christen is at the New York Stock Exchange. They will be trading today along with the NASDAQ. The US Postal Service will not be delivering packages or mail today and will be off for the holiday ups and fedex will mostly be operating as usual big retailers like Target Walmart and Kroger will be open. Government buildings will be closed today and that includes the DMV quartz and library