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Let's get to this morning's need to know headlines Kristen. We are going to start with the Israel Hamas war. It is now heading into its third week. Humanitarian aid has begun to enter Gaza through the Rafah border crossing in Egypt for the first time since the Hamas attack on October 7th. So far, 34 trucks of aid have passed into the territory. The United Nations estimates more than 100 trucks per day are needed to adequately serve the population. This morning, the European Union's head of foreign policy called for a humanitarian pause in Israel's siege on Gaza. The Israel defense forces conducted heavy bombardment and raids in Gaza overnight Sunday and into today as they continue to prepare for a ground invasion. The Palestinian Health Ministry estimates over 400 people were killed just over the weekend with a total of over 5000 casualties since the war began. Over 1400 Israelis have also been killed in the war on Friday. Two American hostages were released by Hamas on meet the press yesterday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he was hopeful about more releases. The bottom line is this, they need to be released each and every one of them. Now unconditionally, we don't know uh why Hamas chose to release um Natalie and Judith first and II I used the word first advisedly because again, uh we're hopeful that more follow the IDF says 222 people were kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7th attack. Detroit police said yesterday that there is no evidence that that fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue president was due to anti Semitism on Saturday. Samantha Wool was found stabbed in her home where authorities believe she was killed. In a statement, the Detroit police chief said his team and the FBI are working together to analyze forensic evidence and from a timeline for ws death. Well, they haven't publicly identified any suspects. Ws funeral took place yesterday at the Isaac agreed downtown synagogue where she became president in 2022. Authorities are searching for the son of the national police chief who was the suspect in the shooting of two officers on Saturday. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a statewide alert late Saturday for John Drake. Junior was wanted on two counts of attempted first degree murder. Police chief John Drake described his son as quote, estranged. The two injured officers were investigating a potentially stolen vehicle when a suspect shot one in the shoulder. The second in the groin and forearm. Police confirmed one officer was released from the hospital on Saturday. The other remains in critical condition. And Michigan State University has suspended an employee for allowing a picture of Adolf Hitler to flash on the Spartan stadium scoreboard over the weekend, the employee was suspended with pay pending the ongoing investigation into the matter. The image was shown before Michigan State's game against the University of Michigan. On Saturday. It appeared to show a trivia question about Hitler's birthplace, Michigan State athletic director, Alan Haller posted on social media platform act yesterday saying he was quote, deeply sorry for the offensive image that we displayed and quote adding, I apologize for the pain that it's caused our community. And Red Bull driver Max first stop and won the Formula One race at the Circuit of Americas in Austin, Texas. Yesterday. It was for stop and 15th Grand Prix win this year, his 50th grand Prix win in total and he's now one of only five drivers to win 50 Grand Prix races joining greats like Louis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Beet and Allen Post while Hamilton was disqualified from yesterday's race after failing a post race inspection on his car. Australia's Kayle mcewan broke the women's 50 m backstroke world record on Friday at a World Cup event in Budapest, Hungary, MQN also became the first person to consecutively hold the 50 m 100 m and 200 m backstroke world records. She finished Friday's race with a time of 26.86 seconds beating the previous record set in 2018. Mcewan is the first Australian to hold a 50 m backstroke record since Australian Sophia Eddington set it back in 2008. I love to see the joy on her face. All right. A woman returned from vacation to find her long time family home, demolished the home southwest of Atlanta is now a pile of rubble. Property owner, Susan Hodgins told a p that she had been alerted to the demolition by a neighbor who called to ask if someone had been hired to tear down the house. She said, then sent a family member to investigate. And that's when the in charge of the demolition realized they were at the wrong address. Hodgson said that she filed a report with police and has talked with lawyers. She told the A P that she was furious and said, quote, I keep waking up thinking. Is this all a joke or something? I'm just in shock and quote, the company said it is investigating the incident and working to resolve it.