daniel hagari has said that israeli forcies rescued hostages from hamas whilst under fire. this morning at 11am israeli special forces conducted a complex rescue mission and successfully rescued four of our hostages from hamas captivity in gaza. noa argamani, almog meirjan, shlomi ziv and andri kozlov. they are back home in israel. they are alive, they are well. they will undergo medical examination and will soon be reunited with their families in the hospital. noa, almog, andri and shlomi were rescued after 246 days in hamas captivity after they were brutally kidnapped from the nova music festival on the 7th of october. this was a high risk, complex mission, based on precise intelligence, conducted in daylight, in two separate buildings deep inside gaza. while underfire, underfire inside the buildings, under fire on the way out from gaza, our forces rescued our hostages. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training.
welcome to forbes on fox. let s go to steve forbes. mike, elizabeth macdonald, bruce. steve, the elimination of life on the planet? just a little bit of an exaggeration, no? before i went to the studio i looked in the sky to see if a meteor was coming to the earth so extension is not an option right now. trump has it right, either clean environment or prosperity is a false one. you get clean environment by prosperity. by removing the war on gas and coal. the war on coal was the stats on coal are frightening particularly if you live in a coal mining area.
state. obviously, the rural parts of virginia are much more heavily for romney. for example, southwest virginia, which is a coal mining area. mccain carried 60%. i expect romney to do at least as well. larry, nathan, thank you so much for being with us on this sunday afternoon. do appreciate your time. no problem. still ahead, nearly 20% of voters this year are trying a voting method that apparently isn t quite foolproof. we ll talk about that. first, the president headed to los angeles for that star-studded affair. katy perry, stevie wonder. it s all about raising cash in the final days of the campaign. we ll talk about it all. msnbc, the place for ticks. [ chuckles ] [ honk! ] [ honk! ] [ honk! ]
cent more in taxes. everybody, there you hear the vice president. i m joined right now by former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, an msnbc analyst and joe watkins republican strategist. here you hear the vice president in zanesville, ohio. we should explain it s east of columbus, in a rather rural coal mining area there of ohio and remind people as well that the president won the state of ohio back in 08. but he s really ticking off boom, boom, boom, talking about the rising cost of education, talking about medicare, talking about the debt, talking about taxes. i mean, ed, he s just going down the line. well, sure. i mean, i think if you talk about facts and lay the truth out, the argument is good for our side. there s no question. the republicans talk about rugs the debt, yet the ryan/romney budget would increase tax cuts, give us $5 trillion of new tax cut cuts which they say they re going to pay for, but they don t exactly say how they re going to pay for. they won t tell the