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Israel's ground offensive continues to advance into Gaza with the IDF saying they hit approximately 300 targets overnight. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a time for war rejecting calls for a ceasefire. The United Nations Security Council began in meeting yesterday to hear a resolution on a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza. The Israeli Foreign Minister wore a yellow star which he said would continue until all countries condemn Hamas. The Palestinian Foreign Minister addressed the Council. Mr President, 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza face death every day and every night, save them, save them. Look at them as human beings. You cannot look only at one side and ignore this tragic humanity completely. According to the head of UNICEF, 420 Children are dying in the Gaza Strip per day while the Palestinian health authorities say casualties in Gaza have surpassed 8300 people. The UN meeting will resume today at three pm eastern time. Hamas also released a new video of three Israeli hostages in the video. One woman addresses Prime Minister Yahoo saying release us now in a statement at Yahoo's office called the video psychological propaganda. The woman. You see here is a kidnapped IDF soldier who was freed yesterday, Hamas released four additional hostages. In total 240 people were kidnapped. 400 people have died in the October 7th attack. A wildfire fueled by the Santa Ana winds in astern. California has forced 4000 people to evacuate. The highland fire started in Riverside County yesterday afternoon and as of last night, spread over two miles of land. Authorities say roughly 1300 homes are at risk. Three buildings were destroyed in the fire. Riverside county and the surrounding area is under a wind advisory today with gusts as high as 50 miles an hour. That's possible. Well, according to the national Weather service so far, no injuries have been reported as a result of the fire. The US army said they were concerned for the mental health of the suspect in the main shooting that left 18 people dead and 13 wounded Wednesday suspect Robert Card was an army reservist. In a statement, a US army spokesperson says Card's commander was told he should not have access to army weapons or be put in deployable status quote due to concerns over his well being. The unit also requested a welfare check on card in September. In a statement, the county confirmed a deputy visited Card's residence twice. Card was found dead of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound after a two day manhunt following that deadly shooting. And a former police officer who participated in the no knock raid that led to the death of Brianna Taylor is set to go on trial this week. Brett Hanson is charged in federal court with violating Taylor's civil rights when he fired 10 shots into her home during the 2020 raid. None of his shots injured anyone. Hanson pleaded not guilty. He was acquitted in state court on three counts of felony wanton endangerment in March of last year. And jury selection in the case started yesterday and is expected to continue today. About 5000 migrants from Central America, Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela headed towards the US border yesterday. After some had waited for months to get their refugee visas. The migrants making the journey said processing for the visas which are known as refugee or exit visas has been taking too long at Mexican's main migrant pro processing center. Yesterday's March was the largest since June of 2022. The US S Southwester border has struggled to deal with the inflict influx of migrants traveling from South America through the Darien Gap and then towards the US border by September of this year, 420,000 migrants pass through the Darien Gap and to Japan where a suspected shooter is holding hostages inside a post office near Tokyo. The incident follows an apparent shooting in a nearby hospital which injured a doctor and a patient. The male suspect is now barricaded at a post office in Toto city. Sama prefecture of cities authorities said the person has a gun and quote citizens near the scene are urged to follow police instructions and evacuate in accordance with police instructions. End quote, gun violence is rare in Japan which is strict gun control laws, but we will bring you the latest on this story as it develops. The cast of friends released a joint statement yesterday saying they are mourning the quote unfathomable death of their friend and co star Matthew Perry, who died on Saturday at the age of 54. Friends, co stars Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Leblanc and David Schwimmer stated quote, we are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew adding quote, we are more than just cast mates. We are a family. The actors worked together in the NB on the NBC sitcom from 1994 to 2004 appearing on all 10 seasons of the show together. Harry's cause of death has not been released. A Massachusetts group is working to clear the names of people accused, convicted or executed for witchcraft in the state of Massachusetts. During the 16 hundreds. The Massachusetts witch hunt justice project is looking to persuade the state to take accountability for the hundreds of people who were accused and persecuted for witchcraft between a 1638 and 1693. Most of those people escaped execution. But those caught up in which trials throughout the 16 hundreds have largely been ignored including five women who were hanged for witchcraft. Between 1648 and 1688. The group has been collecting signatures in hopes of bringing the case to the state. As of today, it has about 700 signatures.