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Let's get to this morning's need to know headlines everyone. We're beginning with the latest on the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. President Biden is in Israel today where he held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later today. Biden will meet with the rest of Israel's emergency war cabinet. Biden was initially set to head to a summit with leaders of Jordan, Egypt and Palestine. But that has been canceled while meeting with Netanyahu. The president confirmed the American death toll after Hamas's attack on October 7th has risen to 31 people. Biden expressed American support for Israel as well as civilians in Gaza. The fact is that Israel as they respond to these attacks, it seems to me that I have to continue to ensure that you have what you need to defend yourselves. And uh we're gonna make sure that occurs as you know, and we have to also bear in mind that Hamas does not represent all the Palestinian people and uh it has brought them only suffering. Biden also addressed the bombing of a hospital in Gaza yesterday that left as many as 500 people dead. He said, quote, appears to be done by the other team referencing Hamas. The Israeli defense forces say that a rocket misfire from Hamas causing the explosion. Authorities in Gaza say Israel was responsible for the blast. Gaza's Deputy Health Minister says the IDF contacted the hospital manager to warn them about a possible strike. Neither explanation has been independently confirmed and Congress is expected to once again vote for a new Speaker of the House today at 11 a.m. after Congressman Jim Jordan lost his first bid yesterday afternoon, Jordan only received 200 of the necessary 217 votes and several republicans voted for ousted speaker Kevin mccarthy while other voted for house majority leader, Steve Scalise who withdrew his speaker candidacy last week after one failed vote. Jordan says he plans to continue. We're gonna keep going. I had great conversations, great discussions with uh our colleagues and frankly, no one, no one in our conference wants to see any type of coalition government and Democrats. So we're gonna keep working and we're gonna get to the votes. How many are you willing to go through until we get a speaker? We gotta, we gotta have a speaker and it can't be some deal with. The Democrats. House Democrats voted for minority leader Hakeem Jeffries who suggested that Democrats would be open to working with temporary speaker Patrick mchenry. The Pentagon has released videos of what it calls coercive and risky maneuvers conducted by Chinese Jets. The agency says there have been over 180 incidents that have fallen into this pattern. The released video show Chinese planes flying within 50 ft of us. Officials warn that this type of behavior can lead to accidents or inadvertent conflict. Saying a subset of the maneuvers were unsafe and unprofessional. They believe this is part of a larger campaign by China to change us operations in the Indo Pacific region. Actor Alec Baldwin could once again face criminal charges for a deadly shooting on the Rust movie set in 2021 rust cinematographer Helena Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured when a prop gun that Baldwin was using, discharged a live round of ammunition, manslaughter charges against Baldwin were dropped earlier this year. In a statement released yesterday. New Mexico prosecutors said quote after extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr Baldwin has criminal culpability in the death of Helena Hutchins and the shooting of Joel Souza, a grand jury will now determine whether Baldwin will face charges. Police have removed the remains of at least 100 and 89 people from a Colorado funeral home. After responding to a report of a quote abhorrent smell. Earlier this month, police initially said they found 100 and 15 decaying and improperly stored bodies at the return to funeral home. That number has been revised as police continue to identify bodies. The remains were removed from the funeral home on October 13th. Neighbors in the area said they had noticed the foul smell for days. Police said they will notify family members in the coming days. Once all the remains are identified, state regulators have suspended the funeral homes license. Hundreds of people gathered yesterday for a vigil honoring six year old Palestinian American boy. Al you may who was stabbed to death over the weekend by his family's landlord, the six year old and his mother who survived were attacked in an apparent hate crime. Yesterday, the boy's father addressed the crowd in Plainfield, Illinois speaking in Arabic, he said he learned a lot of English from his son but said with him gone. He did not think there was room for him to speak English again. 71 year old Joseph Zuba has been charged with murder and hate crimes. According to police, he wanted the family to move out because he feared he was in danger due to the conflict in Israel. The attack is being investigated by the Department of Justice as a hate crime. Police have identified the person responsible for the death of a Florida nurse nearly four decades ago in Lakeland, Florida. The body of Theresa Le Gal was found in her apartment on October 27th, 1986. This week, police announced that blood found at the scene was matched to the DNA of Donald Douglas, a man who lived near a scout at the time of her death. Douglas died in 08 of natural causes. Po county Sheriff Grady Judd said Douglas's son was quote, totally cooper and in horrible shock, the sheriff said the outcome had brought quote long awaited closure to Teresa Scout's devastated family.