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Let's begin with the war between Israel and Hamas. As of this morning, Egypt said it is prepared to accept as many as 7000 foreign nationals evacuating from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing that will include up to 400 additional American citizens. Today, multiple Americans were also allowed to leave Gaza yesterday, President Joe Biden confirmed the US is working to allow Americans to leave the territory and to increase aid, working nonstop to get Americans out of Gaza as soon and as safely as possible. This is a result of intense and urgent American diplomacy with our partners in the region. At the same time, we're continuing working to significantly step up the flow of critical humanitarian assistance in the Gaza. The number of trucks entering Gaza continues to increase significantly but we still have a long way to go. President Biden also called for a humanitarian pause in the war last night. The comment came in response to a protester calling for a cease fire. More than 1000 pro Palestinian protesters gathered outside the president's campaign event in Minneapolis, Biden said quote, a pause means give time to get the prisoners out. The Gaza Health Ministry said the Palestinian death toll has now exceeded 9000 people warning of an imminent health catastrophe as hospitals now begin to fail. This comes after the Israeli Defense Forces confirmed two days of airstrikes on a refugee camp in northern Gaza. The United Nations Human Rights Office said the attacks could amount to war crimes. A vote to remove Congressman George Santos from office failed yesterday. A majority of Republicans and 31 Democrats rejected the expulsion for a final vote of 213 to 179. While during the house floor debate, Santos said he's been fighting tooth and nail to clear his name and here's Santos after the vote. I'm not claiming a victory. I'm just saying that this is a victory for the process due process. One today not George Santos, I'm not resigning because I was duly elected. And as far as unless you're the ultimate end, all be all arbitrator of truth. Then I'm not debating this in the press with you. It comes as Santos faces a 23 count federal indictment including charges of fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. The House Ethics Committee is also investigating Santos's conduct and the committee says it will release the next steps in its investigation by November 17th. Donald Trump junior testified yesterday in the ongoing fraud trial against the Trump organization and its executives. Donald Trump Junior and his brother, Eric Trump are named as defendants in this case. In his 90 minute testimony, Trump Junior said he did not help prepare financial statements for his father. Trump Junior also said while he signed off on some documents, the judge previously ruled were fraudulent. He never provided false valuations to the Trump organization's legal or accounting teams. Donald Trump Junior is expected to continue his testimony today and will be followed by Eric Trump Cornell University has canceled classes for tomorrow after a student was charged with allegedly making anti Semitic threats. Online, Patrick Dye was arrested and federally charged with making a threat using interstate commerce and he appeared in court yesterday but did not enter a plea. Dye is accused of threatening to kill an injured Jewish students and shoot up a kosher dining hall on campus. The university confirmed it will maintain increased security in the wake of the threat. And Cornell's president said the choice to cancel classes is in recognition of the extraordinary stress of the past few weeks. Hall of Fame basketball coach, Bob Knight died yesterday at age 83. According to a statement posted by his family on social media, Knight has been in poor health for a few years now and past surrounded by family, the legendary Indiana University coach won three NCAA titles for the school was inducted into the Hall of fame in 2009. During his career, he made the NCAA tournament T four times, won 661 games just with Indiana alone and even coached the US Olympic team that was in 1984. That of course is when the team brought home, the Gold Knight was eventually asked to resign from Indiana University for what the school calls a pattern of unacceptable behavior. Knight went on to coach as Texas Tech retiring in 2008 and we have much more on his legacy. Coming up later in the show, Scarlett Johansson is taking legal action against an A I APP developer that she said used her likeness in an ad without her permission. The actress and her attorney said notice to the app which is called Lisa A I 90 Book an Avatar. According to a report by Variety, she appeared in a 22 2nd ad which she posted on X and representatives for Johansen told Variety that she's not a spokesperson for the app. Her attorney said in a statement, quote, we do not take these things lightly for our usual course of action. In these circumstances. We will deal with it with all legal remedies that we will have. End quote. Move comes in the midst of the ongoing S a afro strike where one of the key demands is protections against artificial intelligence. Six Flags is merging with amusement park operator, Cedar Fair in an $8 billion deal. The two companies own 27 amusement parks, 15 water parks and nine resorts across the US, Canada and Mexico. The new company will be called Six Flags. It will trade under Cedar Fair's stock ticker fund. Cedar Fair's flagship park. Cedar Point is located in Sandusky, Ohio. It also owns Knott's Berry Farm in California. Now the move will reportedly save the two companies around $200 million in costs. It's expected to bring in $3.4 billion in revenue according to CNN and we officially have our world Series champions. The Texas Rangers have taken the title for the first time in the team. 63 season history. The Rangers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 50 yesterday to secure the win in game five. The game was scoreless for the first six innings. Rangers shortstop Corey Seeger who was famous for clutch performances in World Series games, broke up the streak of no hitting in the seventh inning. See was named the series MVP the second time in his career. He was honored with the award.