mountainous areas that rescue crews are struggling to get to. we re told multiple buildings have collapsed and several historic landmarks are damaged . they include rubbishes historic walls, they date back to the early 12th century, locals are being urged to remain calm and exercise caution do the risk of aftershocks. united nations says it is standing by to help and ready for the moroccan government if need be, and according to the u. s geological survey, this is the strongest earthquake to strike the north african country in more than 120 years again. if you re just now joining us, the death toll continues to rise in morocco that follows a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake. it struck overnight just south of marrakech, and more than 630. people are now confirmed dead. nearly 350 of other people are hurt. those numbers have more than doubled since the earthquake first hit and they could rise even higher. we will, of course, continue to follow the latest on this breaking news
to be a winning formula once again for all democrats and for president biden and vice president harris. laura: a winning formula? is that what he said? we will see. i have this crazy idea that americans don t want to go into debt to buy stuff like gas, groceries, or make car payments. in newsweek, writer lee habib noted that the combination of run away costs and high interest rates has been catastrophic for ordinary americans as the average car payment surged to nearly $730 a month with the length of those loans extended to a record setting 68 months. as for gasoline, well, biden s insane squeeze on pipelines and exploration is killing the family budget. in july 2020, gas was a mere 2.27 a gallon. in july of 2023 the average was 3.71. a whopping 63% increase and even gone up since then. so, all americans feel the pain of biden s radical green agenda because everything that travels by car, by plane, or truck is now more expensive. and it s all on the democrats. the economy
arthel: eight truce extension is possible as hamas handing over more hostages today including the first american abigail the little girl who turned four years old and captivity and imagine an imaginal brutality in exchange israel released 39 pulsing prisoners welcome to a new our fox news live i have arthel neville. jonathan: i am a jonathan a hunt in for eric shawn. seventeen hostages in total were freed today. fourteen israelis including that young israeli american and three-time nationals but fox news has told one of those hostages and 84-year-old woman was airlifted to the hospital in serious condition on her life is in danger. hamas has freed a total of the eightpeople since a temporary cease-fire began in gaza friday. israel said it s willing to extend the pause if more colleges are let go but u.s. officials believe around 10 of the nearly 240 originally taken our americans president biden spoke with israeli prime minister netanyahu and the family of the 4-year-old is
staff, large numbers of displaced people are sheltering in the hospital. our correspodent injerusalem, tom bateman, has more. they have denied ordering it, but they don t deny that an evacuation is taking place. we have had a report from the afp news agency, a journalist working for them at the scene said that via loudspeakers there was an order to evacuate the hospital within the hour earlier this morning. he reported the director of the hospital had been phoned by the military and instructed for everyone to leave, for patients and staff and displaced people to make their way on foot to the seafront. the israeli military has since issued a statement saying there was no order for people to evacuate. it said it was assisting an evacuation operation at the request of the hospital s director. it also said that medical personnel would be able to stay there for people who couldn t get out. but clearly there are further moves now to evacuate people in the hospital. we have had a lo
an attempt at a nuanced debate on foreign policy between republican presidential candidates last night in miami, that ultimately may not matter at all, there s a lot to cover from the showdown in miami last night, which was less chaotic with fewer candidates on stage but just like the previous debates, the front-runner was not there and for the most part the other candidates didn t attack the former president who was leading by wide margin miss the polls, they didn t touch him, they didn t talk about the problem of truth versus lies and donald trump. meanwhile, trump s daughter took the stand in new york yesterday in the civil fraud trial against the family s business. we ll go through ivanka trump s testimony. also, the latest on a significant development in the middle east, negotiations are under way to release more hostages being held by hamas. plus, it appears hollywood is ready to get back to work. we ll have an update on the historic actors strike that s been goin