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up call. Here's Amy King. Good morning. This is your wake up
call for Wednesday, October eighteenth. It's five o'clock, straight up. I'm
Amy King. Thanks for waking up with us this morning. So much going
on, you know, it's feeling a lot more like summer than two weeks
before Halloween. We even have heat advisories in effect for the ie Later today
and tomorrow, temperatures are going to be up near one hundred again. You
know, it makes shopping hard. I went to them all over the weekend
just to do a little Lookie lou stuff and they have all the fun wetters
and coats and all that stuff out and it made me sweat literally looking at
them, so I forget trying them on. But we have cooler weather on
the way. Not to worry. Lots going on today. Here's what's a
head on wake up call. Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel is doing everything it
can to keep civilians safe and says it will continue to encourage people to leave
Gaza city. His comments came following a meeting with President Biden, who is
now in Israel. Biden says the US will continue to have Israel's back.
We're going to be talking with ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem at five point fifty.
She's got lots of details for US on that bombing at the hospital that
Israel says was not done by Israel. Israel's saying they're doing everything they can
to avoid citizens and it was not their bomb that caused that devastation. A
second vote for Speaker the House is expected this morning. Jim Jordan failed to
get the two seventeen needed to be elected in a first vote on the House
floor yesterday. He came up seventeen votes short, but says he's not dropping
out of the race. Dodgers President of baseball Operations Andrew Friedman says the loss
to Arizona in the playoffs was an organizational failure, but he says there will
not be staffing changes. Dave Roberts will return for his ninth years the Dodgers
manager in the spring. At six oh five, it's handled on the news.
President Biden will no longer be meeting with Palestinian and Egyptian leaders because of
that explosion at the hospital. Bill's going to be talking about that. Let's
start with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
As I just mentioned, President Biden has met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah,
who in Israel. President Joe, I want to thank you for coming
here today, Biden told Netanyah, who he is saddened by the explosion at
the hospital in Gaza yesterday that reportedly killed hundreds of people, but he did
not blame Israel. Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it
was done by the other team. The Israeli militaries blamed a misfired rocket from
the Palestinian Islamic she Had group Hamas blames Israel. Wheresident Biden was supposed to
also meet with Arab leaders in Jordan during the trip, but that meeting has
been canceled because of the explosion at the hospital. The Israeli military says it
was not firing in the area where the hospital explosion happened. There was no
idea fire by land, sea or air that hit the hospital, where Admiral
Daniel Hagari says Israeli radar confirmed a rocket barrage fired by the Palestinian militant group
Islamic. She had from a nearby cemetery at the time of the explosion.
Analysis of our aerial footage confirms that there was no direct hit to the hospital
itself. The only location damage is outside the hospital in the parking lot.
He said if it had been an Israeli missile, there would be damage to
the building and a crater in the ground. He also accused Hamas of inflating
the number of casualties. Islami Shihad has dismissed Israel's claims, accusing Israel of
trying hard to evade responsibility. Four people have been killed in a multi car
crash in Malibu. It happened around eight thirty last night on pch near Canyon
Carbon Canyon Road. Two other people were taken to the hospital, and La
County Fire captain said speed may have been a factor in the crash. A
new law in California limits how much landlords can charge for security deposits. Landlords
could previously require up to three months rent plus the first month's rent, but
under the new law, security deposits can't be any larger than one month's rent.
It takes effect on July first of next year. Let's say good morning
now to ABC's Stephen portnoy Steven. We didn't get a chance to talk about
Jim Jordan yesterday, so we get to catch up today. But he's not
speaker yet. He's not speaker yet, and it feels like the latest installment
of a soap opera or a real on the show. Look, so he
had twenty Republican defectors yesterday, and the question this morning is whether that list
will shrink or grow. The next vote is set for about three hours from
now, so right in the middle of a handle on the news, So
keep tuned and we'll see what happens. I mean. Look, the fact
is that as of yesterday, Jim Jordan was sixteen votes short of the speakership,
and the one you wonder whether over night he was able to somehow turn
sixteen votes around. There's no indication this morning that he has. The only
question is how much longer will he be up for the role. And he
said yesterday to us that he intends to keep voting until a speaker is elected.
Well, we'll see about that and we'll see how longer much longer his
colleagues give him some runway. He said that there ought not to be a
deal with Democrats, and the suggestion there is that perhaps some Republicans are interested
in a deal with the Democrats. The top House Democratic King Jeffreys came to
cameras yesterday afternoon and said that Republicans have proven that they can't govern the House
by themselves and that the only way forward to dig the House out of the
morass is some sort of bipartisan agreement. Well, what does that mean?
What might that entail? Jeffries wasn't elaborating, but one suggestion has been to
temporarily give the caretaker who's holding the gabble speaker pro temporary Patrick McHenry, more
authority to at least for a period of time, allow the House to take
up business, pass bills, appropriations, measures that might avoid a government shutdown
in a month. The aid package it's coming from the White House to fund
the effort in Israel as well as the effort in Ukraine. Perhaps more money
for border security as well as support for Taiwan. But if they did that.
When I was watching Hakeem Jeffries over the weekend and he was talking about
something similar because on the face, on the surface, that sounds like a
great idea, right well, but I mean look, I mean it's not
a great idea. To Jim Jeffries and his fellow hardline Republicans. The idea
is that this is their moment and this is their opportunity to assert their power.
The problem is they've been unable to do it, and the hard line
objectors here the ones who are refusing to support Jim Jordan include Colorado Congressman Ken
Buck, who told us yesterday that the reason he wouldn't support support Jim Jordan
is because Jim Jordan refuses to acknowledge that Joe Biden was the duly elected president.
There's no turning that around. I mean, he's pretty much drawn a
line in the sand. There are Republicans from places like Long Island, New
York who yesterday cast votes in protest against Jordan for Lee Zelden, a former
member of Congress from New York. They say that they're objecting because Jim Jordan
refuses to give an inch on the idea that the state and local tax deduction
should be reinstated that was taken out of the law when Paul Ryan and Donald
Trump worked together to initiate tax reforms, and people who hail from places like
southern California and in the New York area who pay high property taxes are missing
the opportunity to deduct the money that they pay in local taxes from their income.
And those hardline Republicans want that back. And they said that because Jim
Jordan wouldn't promise it. Well, he's not going to earn their support either.
So the question is how much more how many more Republicans today in the
vote in about three hours will side with Jordan or how many more we'll side
against him. We don't know at this point. Nobody does. I would
love to be a fly on the wall as he goes behind closed doors and
tries to convince these people that they should vote for him. I just think
it would be fascinating. Well, the strategy, it's interesting because the strategy
has been to try to apply public pressure, you know, because Jim Jordan
is the magic candidate, he is the one who enjoys the support of former
President Trump. Well, so far it's been ineffective. And I think because
in part the country in the world is focused on what's going on in the
Middle East that whatever political traction he was hoping to get among the conservative base
has been diluted by the other, perhaps much more important news. Okay,
well we've got another vote this morning. We'll keep you posted as more develops.
Thank you again for your time and insight. Have a wonderful day,
Stephen Portnoy. You bet. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Four alleged smash and grab robbers
have been arrested in la The LAPD Organized Retail Crime Task Force announced yesterday detectives
served search warrants at two homes, which led them to two others. Officials
say they discovered one stolen weapon, thousands of dollars in cash, smash and
grab tools, and several stolen items. LAPD Assistant Chief Alfred Librada has spoken
out about allegations he was stalking his ex girlfriend. Lebroda's ex girlfriend filed a
police report last month alleging Lebrata was tracking her location by placing Apple air tags
in her car. Lebroda says he was never being investigated for actual stalking,
but was placed on administrative leave last month following the allegation. Before any investigation
was completed. Chief more recklessly took significant actions inconsistent with my due process.
Lebrada says he was in a serious relationship with a woman for more than six
years, and despite reports, she was never under his chain of command.
His attorney says litigation is possible. Chris Adler KFI News new legislation prompted by
a corrupt Angel Stadium sale deal would protect the value of public land and its
affordable housing requirements. State Senator Tom Umberg says one new law allows the state
to reject any sale of public land that is below market value. I do
think this is good policy statewide, but in the bill's journey through the legislature,
it was paired way back by their legislators to apply only to Orange County.
Umberg says. The second law, signed by the governor last week,
would require public hearings if a public land sale tries to skirt affordable housing requirements.
The failed attempt to sell Angel Stadium caused a former mayor to plead guilty
last month to corruption charges. A former teacher in Long Beach has been sentenced
to eighty years to life in prison for sex related charges involving two former students.
The judge yesterday said prosecutors had offered the man a plea deal that carried
a twenty four year sentence. She initially thought might be too high, but
she realized during the trial it just wasn't enough. The judge called the man
a predator and disputed his insistence that he was a beloved teacher who had been
wrongly accused. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has warned that it's solely matter
of time before asylum seekers are going to be sleeping on the streets. He
said the city is averaging four thousand new immigrants a week and says it's a
constant battle to find new shelter space for them. Adams has once again called
for federal money to help with the migrant crisis. He just added a new
policy that limits the time migrant families can spend in shelters to sixty days.
He also says the city is complying with vacate orders of three migrant shelters because
of safety concerns. On a lighter note, the satene let me start over.
On a lighter note, the Staten Island Railway in New York is getting
some new train cars for the first time since nineteen seventy three. The five
cars will have larger doors, displays with service updates, more accessible seating,
and security cameras. They should be in service by the end of next year
nineteen seventy three. So like, what is that fifty years now that they
haven't had new railcars. Hey, this could leave a little bit of a
bad taste in your mouth. So Reesis has this contest and Reese's Peanut butter
Cups are my favorite. It's on the two cup package of Reese's Peanut butter
cups. There is a promotion. It says you could win twenty five thousand
dollars and then in smaller print, it says see details inside. The problem
is to see the details that there's no purchase necessary in order to enter the
contest. You have to buy the peanut butter cups so you can open the
package and see it. So apparently Reese's maybe in trouble. There's watchdog groups
checking this out, and the guy behind the watchdog group, Edward Dwarski,
who's a consumer advocate, says you never have to pay to play. All
these packages should be recalled. So I'm thinking if Reesi's has to recall those
peanut buttercups. They could donate them to me, just an idea. President
Biden's in Israel. He's met with Prime Minister Netan Yahoo. He was also
supposed to go to Jordan to meet with Egyptian and Palestinian leaders, but that
meeting was canceled after a hospital in the Gaza Strip was bombed killing hundreds of
people. Israel says they didn't do it, but Palestinian misfired rockets hit the
hospital instead. A man's been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter after he allegedly intentionally
drove his car into a group of pedestrians in Long Beach. A prosecutor says
the guy's an uber driver and had a passenger with him when he plowed into
the group's Saturday night. The man has pleaded not guilty. A Chick fil
A has agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit that will mean some
customers are going to get a share of millions of dollars in cash and gift
cards. The lawsuit claimed the company offered free or low cost delivery fees,
but then increase the prices of the food items for those orders currently to cover
the cost at six five. It's handled on the news. The explosion at
the hospital in Gaza Strip that I just told you about has sparked protests all
over the place. Right now, let's say good morning too, KTLA tech
reporter and host of Rich on Tech. Right here on KFI, it's Rich
Demiro. Rich good morning, tell us about Apple's new pencil. Yeah,
so a lot of people are expecting a new set of iPads yesterday, but
instead Apple came out with a new Apple pencil. This is a downer.
Uh yeah, I mean, look, it's cheaper. It's seventy nine dollars.
It's USB C, so that means it works with all the kind of
the popular charging that we have nowadays. And you know, the basic thing
that it does not do is pressure sensitivity. So if you're using this Apple
pencil for sketching or artwork, it's probably not the best for you. There's
also some other little quirks, like you can attach it magnetically to the iPad,
but unlike the other Apple pencils, it will not charge if it's on
the magnetic side, so you have to actually plug it in. So now
there's three Apple pencils to choose from. You've got the existing one for ninety
nine dollars, you've got this new cheaper one for seventy nine, and you've
got the high end, top of the line model for one twenty nine.
My advice, these pencils are very complicated. I know it's funny to say
that, but if you're buying an Apple pencil, it's probably best to go
to the Apple store to see which one is right for your iPad and do
you have a preference. Do you use it? I rarely use an Apple
pencil, maybe to highlight stuff, highlight text, but that's about it.
So my kids use them. They like them. But I will tell you
you over Christmas when all the cousins got them, it was very confusing because
they did not get the right models for their iPad and there was crying,
and there was you know, it was a it was a big issue.
So just be sure the one that you're getting works with your iPad. The
Joys of Technology, kids crying. I got a bad pad. Sol at
any sharpen it it sounds, you know, the thing that you mentioned about
that doesn't have the pressure sensitivity. I thought that that was one of the
really cool things about it when they showed pictures about how you could draw and
create stuff. But otherwise you're just drawing stick figures because you don't you can't
do shit. Yeah, anything, right, And this has gotten so complicated
that Apple actually has a a matrix on their website that explains the first generation,
the second generation, and the USBC and all the different features. And
there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seventy nine
about ten or eleven features on this that are explained. I mean, it's
pretty wild to think that a pencil would be as complicated. But you know,
Apple has a lot of products to their credit, they support their products
for a very long time, and so some of their products are older,
they don't have the latest features built in that support you know that these pencils
want to support. So there's a lot of choices out there. Okay,
so here's another switch over to Google for a second. They have a new
accessibility feature. I think I would like this one. Yeah, they've got
a couple new accessibility features. The first I think is really interesting. I
wish they did this for all phones. But they have this new Magnifier app
and so if you have a pixel phone, you can download this magnifier app.
It's really really interesting. They did it in association with the National Federation
of the Blind, and so you can kind of take a picture of something
in live time and zoom in really close it will it will enhance the image.
So that's really useful. But again it's only for the pixel devices.
I wish they would have come out that for all devices, but they didn't.
The other thing, they now have wheelchair accessible information on Google mapps.
They were collecting this a couple of years back. They would ask me when
I left a business, hey, was this business wheelchair accessible? So millions
of people have submitted the info. Now Google feels like they have enough to
actually show that. And then they've got this other feature which will allow businesses
to identify as disabled owned. So if you see that little, you know,
icon on a business, maybe you want to frequent them more often or
give them business because you know of that disability for the owner. Okay,
And of course my mind immediately goes to okay. So Google has the maps
and they now know where disability friendly or eighty A compliant places are. So
you know those nasty people who go out and just try to find they don't
have disabilities, but they go and try to find the businesses that aren't ADYA
friendly and sue them. Amy, you've been working this business way too long.
I know. That's immediately where my mind wents. I know, it's
you're so right though. It's such a I mean, yes, there are
all these lawsuits that happen because people, you know, they go to a
business and they say, hey, you're not compliant. And it's not even
about defending the business. They just literally want that cash settlement of you know,
eight, ten, fifty thousand bucks whatever it is because they spotted this.
So I agree that is kind of a dark side to this whole thing.
Yeah, okay, So on a lighter side for taxpayers, this could
be a new convenience. Yeah. So the IRS is going to test what's
called direct file, and you know, there's probably two sides to this.
Some people might think this is really convenient because you're directly filing with the IRS.
Some people think, no, no, no, I don't want the
IRS to have any more control over my taxes. But California will be one
of the thirteen states that's involved in this pilot in twenty twenty four, where
basically, if you have a simple tax filing. You'll be able to use
a mobile friendly questionnaire that will just basically ask you questions about your taxes and
tell you I guess how much you owe and help you file. So this
is very basic. Again, W two's people on Social Security on employment interest
of less than fifteen hundred, earned income tax credit, child tax credit,
standard deduction, student loan, and educator expensives. Those are the only things
that will be supported. So if you don't fall into that category, you're
not gonna be able to do this. But you might be wondering, Amy,
how is the direct file different from the IRS Free file program, which
has been around for a long time. The big difference is that there's no
income limit here, but this is directly with the IRS, whereas the free
file program is through a third party like TurboTax okay. And is this for
both state and federal taxes or just your federal taxes? Good question, That
is very complicated to me. So it says California has decided to work with
the IRS to integrate their state taxes into the direct File pilot program, But
it sounds like you'll still have to go to a California separate site to file
those taxes like it's it's really Look, this is government. It is complicated.
Like I'm reading this over and over and I still don't understand exactly what
the trying to say, Like they need someone like me to just come through
and write this press release that says, hey, coming out in twenty twenty
four, you'll be able to file your taxes directly with the government through a
questionnaire instead of the way that they Even the headline is like ten times longer
than any headline I've ever seen. Okay, and it's available next filing season
or is it the twenty twenty four filing season, which would be in twenty
twenty five. So I think it says twenty twenty four tax seasons. So
this year we will be filing what twenty twenty three taxes? Uh huh,
so it'll be for twenty twenty four taxes. So why even tell us about
it now if we can't do it for two years? Okay, because it's
government, it takes it's a long runway. They don't even know what they're
doing with this program yet. They're like they're still figuring it out, but
they're like, let's just put this out there and tell people are going to
do it. Isn't this going to be neat in ten years? Okay,
Rich Demiro, thank you so much. You can check out rich Demiro on
KTLA. He's their tech reporter and he's also the host of rich on Tech
right here on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two. And you can follow rich
On on Instagram for all the cool new techie things on at rich on Tech,
and his website is rich on Tech dot tv. Thanks rich all right,
thanks Amy. President Biden says it appears the deadly explosion at a hospital
in Gaza was not the work of Israeli forces. He's in Israel. He's
met with Prime Minister Natanyahu. Hundreds are believed to have been killed in the
air strike yesterday. Israel says it was a misfired rocket from Islamic she had
fired from inside the Gaza strip. In about fifteen minutes, we're going to
be talking to ABC's Jordana Miller in Israel. So if you have to duck
away to grab breakfast or get dressed, be sure come back. We're going
to be talking to her again in about fifteen minutes. A second vote for
Speaker the House is expected this morning. Jim Jordan failed to get the two
to seventeen needed to be elected in a first vote on the House floor yesterday.
He came up seventeen votes short, but says he is not dropping out
of the race. Twenty Republicans did not vote for him. Dodgers President of
Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman says he is still voting for Dave Roberts. Roberts is
going to return for his ninth year as the Dodgers manager in the spring.
Friedman said the lost Arizona in the playoffs was an organizational failure, but there
will be no staffing changes. At six oh five, it's handle on the
news. Alec Baldwin could be facing charges again tied to the shooting on the
set of the movie Rust. Prosecutors say they have new evidence right now.
It's time. Amie's on it, Damie's on it. Aami's on it,
Damie's on it. So what am I on? I'm streaming on streaming movies,
TV series, documentaries, broadcast TV shows. One of the things that
I love about streaming is that you can go back and revisit things from the
past, Like I'm watching an old series right now that came out like twelve
years ago. I'm probably gonna be telling you about it in the next couple
of weeks because it's really a good one. So it's not always brand new
stuff, and it might be things that you missed or just haven't seen for
a while. And after seeing all of the Sanderson sisters at the Ogie Boogie
Bash at Disney California Adventure over the weekend, it reminded me that I hadn't
seen hocus Pocus in years. Thought it would be good to revisit it.
Chart so creepy, but I love I love that song. It's the thirtieth
anniversary of hocus Pocus, and there aren't a lot of fun Halloween movies out
there. I mean, there's, you know, Charlie Brown Halloween, but
there are a lot of scary ones. So if you don't like the super
scary, like me, this is a good one for the family. Of
course. It stars Bette Midler, Katheen, Jimmie and Sarah Jessica Parker,
who was singing that little spooky song. It's campy, it's fun, it's
not high tech. It's really funny because there's the Banks, the cat,
who's the black cat that's in the in the movie and it's a puppet.
You can tell it's like really bad and you think about how it would be
today if they did it with all the CGI animation that they have. But
like I said, it's campy, it's fun. It's a great thing if
for an adult to just kind of chill out and watch for a while.
There were some I teared up twice during the movie. Cono, you're laughing
at me? You tear up for because I tear up at everything. I
mean, I think it was when Binks almost died or something like that.
But again, it's a fun little movie. It's a nice way to spend
an hour and a half leading up to Halloween if you like to celebrate as
you lead up to it, like I do. And then there's hocus Pocus
too, which came out I think just last year. I have to watch
that one still, but hocus Pocus, and it's on of course Disney.
Plus let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. A former doctor from Palmdale has admitted to illegally selling prescription
drugs across the country. Rafael Maliki and illegally sold pills, including Norco's and
oxy cotone pills during online telehealth sessions from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one.
US Attorney spokesman Kieren McAvoy says Malikian also worked with two co conspirators who provided
him with fake names, addresses, dates of birth, and then he used
he issued these prescriptions. Accordingly, those co conspirators would then sell the drugs
on the black market. Leakian will be sentenced next year. Blake Trolley k
if I News. A security guard has been shot while sitting in his car
in Laguna Hills, Orange County. Sheriff's deputies responded to reports of gunshots in
a neighborhood yesterday. The guard was taken to the hospital and into surgery.
Deputies arrested someone a short time later. It's not clear why the guard was
shot. Deputy said the guard was in a car that clearly showed the name
of the security company on it. President Biden is no longer going to Jordan
following his trip to Israel. Arrived in Israel today and had initially planned to
meet with Arab leaders in Aman, but the White House confirmed that he's going
to postpone that travel. Biden said yesterday he is outraged and deeply saddened by
an explosion at a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of people. He says
the US stands unequivocally for the protection of civilians. A couple from the Bay
Area is looking for family members believed to have been captured by Hamas in Israel.
Berkeley resident Yayiel Needham says her sister in law texted her during the attacks
on October seventh, she could actually see the terrorists running around the kibbuts for
she was staying and going house by house and she was really really scared.
Edam says they haven't heard from her in laws since she says she knows Hamas
is holding them hostage. The Israeli military says they've identified all the bodies in
and around the kibbutz, and the two are not among them. Gas prices
have dropped again in southern California. Prices are down sixty one cents over the
last nineteen days to five seventy a gallon. Orange County prices have also dropped
again to five point fifty two a gallon. Gas dropped in the Inland Empire
to five fifty six Donald Trump's lawyers are filing an appeal following a federal judge's
decision to issue a gag order against him. The partial gag order, issued
on Monday prohibits Trump from publicly targeting witnesses, prosecutors, and court staff who
are involved in the criminal case, alleging he tried to reverse election results.
Trump called the gag order unconstitutional. When we come back again, we're going
to be talking with ABC's Geordana Millers. So don't go anywhere I've ran across
this because we know that a lot of people are leaving California. Just too
many taxes, too much pollution, too much crime, too much homeless.
So where do you go? So when you're making the it seems kind of
an easy decision that you would just go to a neighboring state, So like
Utah and in Washington, which isn't neighboring but it's right next totory. Even
Oregon, which is neighboring, might be logical. But there was a guy
who did a little survey of where to go. He based things on like
state economies, demographics, health, climate, politics, and then he graded
the states for their costs, their wellness, their jobs, their fund,
their culture and safety. And what he came up with as an exit card
or an exit report card for California is that the top state to move to
would be New Hampshire. That's a long way away. I don't know it
was in the OC Register if you want to check it out. In New
Hampshire expensive probably, but maybe less expensive than California. Cost you a fortune
to get there though. Oh and it's darned cold in the winter. I
don't see where that's a logical thing. Like again, neighboring state makes sense
because at least the climate's sort of the same. But President Biden's in Israel.
He's met with Prime Minister net Yahoo. He was supposed to go to
Jordan to meet with Egyptian and Palestinian leaders, but that meeting was canceled after
a hospital in the Gaza Strip was bombed. Israel says they are not responsible
for that bombing, but says that Palestinian misfired rocket was the one that hit
the hospital. Alec Baldwin may once again be facing charges in connection with the
shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of the movie Rest in New Mexico.
Charges were dismissed five months ago, but prosecutors say there are new facts
in the case. Chick fil A has agreed to a settlement and a class
action lawsuit that could mean you're going to get a share of millions of dollars
in cash or gift cards. The lawsuit claimed the company offered free or low
cost delivery fees, but then increased the prices of the food items on those
orders. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning, Jim
Jordan didn't get it done. Yesterday, twenty Republicans voted for someone other than
him. Bill's going to be talking about the next vote for Speaker of the
House. That's just a couple hours away. Right now, let's say good
morning to ABC's Jordana Miller. She is in Jerusalem, Jordana, as a
ground invasion looms, The President is in Israel, and an air strike has
hit a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds. Lots going on on the ground
there. Absolutely, First, it's important to say that the evidence is growing
here in Israel, not from official channel, but backing Israel's official physition on
what happened outside the Baptist hospital in the Gaza Strip. There's at least one
civilian who filmed a barrage of rocket fire from Gaza, with seconds later showing
an explosion nearby. Israel really very prominent news channel here, Channel twelve,
whose own cameras stationed nearby, also caught that barrage and the close by explosion,
and this has been central to Israel's argument about what happened. They say
they even heard Palestinian Islamic jihad militants talking about the launch of a barrage of
rockets from a cemetery close to the hospital, and one of those rockets did
not make it out, misfired, fell short and hit a parking lot near
the hospital. The actual hospital itself was not hit, but there were many
people gathered, even taking shelter in the parking lot and nearby, and the
Palestinian authority says now over four hundred people killed there. But the Israeli Army
has said it was not their missile, they weren't operating in the area,
and that their missiles also are so much more powerful that there would have been
evidence of damage which was not there, and that there and that there are
missiles again create craters, no crater traces there, so you know it appears
that this was propaganda, misinformation or a way to evade any kind of responsibility
by Hamas, the militant group, the terrorist group and their allies has Bulah,
who spread the news like wildfire in the minutes after the attack. The
international you know, news organizations also you know are you know, have a
role to play in what happened last night. Some of them, like the
DBC, even the New York Times initially misreporting, not waiting to hear the
facts, and that you know, only fueled more anger across the region.
The Palestinians, you know, in the West Bank coming out to protest.
We saw protests in front of the us UH, the Israeli embassy in Amman,
Jordan, and then even the President b itinerary taking a hit because then
even before we knew exactly what happened, that Palestinians canceled, the Jordanians canceled,
and the Egyptians canceled. And now President Biden has been here all day,
but you will not end up seeing some of America's important Arab regional allies
here and they were meant to discuss things that will only help the gods and
people like how are we going to get aid in to the Godza strip.
How are we going to you know, mark off areas where the Israelis won't
bomb. Those conversations will still happen, likely on the phone. But you
know, in the end, an important part of the President's diplomatic visit here
also a casualty of Hamas's you know, propaganda campaign and they're misinformation campaign.
And is there any indication that those the meetings might be back on or you
know, that they might say, okay, yes, let's do them,
or is it they're just off the table. Now they're off the table.
The face to face meeting are off the table. So the President, it's
clear that he'll I'm sure he will conduct phone conversations with counterparts, you know,
all those in all those places. The Sector of State, Anthony Blincoln's
already spoken to the Palestinian president and sent his condolences over what happened. But
we can see the US position is lining up with Israel, and you know,
on the side of facts. Really the President saying right after he arrives
here that from the evidence he's seen he has seen, it appears that quote
unquote the other team a reference to Kamas and its militants was responsible for that
last. And by the way, I've been here fifteen years covering lots of
different rounds of violence between Israel and Hamas, and in every round there are
always dozens of rockets that fall short and hit inside Palestinian territory. This is
not some weird theory is all coming up with. It is a persistent fact
of the conflict that tons of you know, tons of rockets never make it.
This time around over six thousand were shot, and Israel believes hundreds fell
short already just in this conflict. Is is it because they're just not high
tech weapons and so they just missing because they're right, because they're right.
They're homemade rockets, they're you know, they're not precision guided missiles. The
rocket launchers themselves are you know, makeshift. You know, these are low
tech, uh, you know weapons. Even though they can kill people,
they are not you know, sophisticated weapons. And at times, you know,
in the barrage of ten or twenty rockets, there will be some that
just will fall short. They don't make it all the way. Yeah,
And I've heard some of the spokespeople talking about from Israel saying we do not
target hospitals, and then it sounds like they're like, we don't want to
because I think they understand they have an uphill battle to get people not on
their side necessarily, but not to protest and not to lash out at them
for targeting civilians. They're like, that's not how we do business. We
never have, so why would we do that now, right? I mean,
what we see from what happened last night is that you know, the
Palestinian Street and some of these militant groups, they have effectively over years demonized
the Israeli defense forces, the army, the Israeli army as you know.
I mean, you can go on and see the propaganda. They kill children.
They don't, this is what they say they do. They you know,
they kill innocent women. Right, So there's a certain amount of base
bias. You know that the Arab world sees about the Israly army, and
so it's a short it's a short step from that to the is Eraly army
bomb to hotel at bombed to hospital, right, you know, or it
could be a bomb a hotel or a wedding hall. I mean, it's
it's nothing, you know, it doesn't stretch the imagination because the Palestinians cause
the extreme elements of it have been able to demonize the army. Israel has
always said that it doesn't target it doesn't target hospitals or hotels that it you
know that it plays by the rules of international law even when it comes to
war. Tensions definitely escalating, and it'll be interesting to see if they calm
down anymore as more evidence comes out and as you mentioned, if they see
the evidence, if they believe it, because the tensions are running so over
right. Jordana Miller, thank you so much for your time, Stay safe
and we will look forward to talking to you against very soon. Thank you
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