Detecting rockets fired from syria. Bret israeli jets hitting hamas targets softening the battlefield paving the way for ground forces. Meanwhile as weve been telling you at least 14 americans dead and they dont know, at least another 20 considered missing. Some of them possibly held hostage in gaza. There is no more electricity in gaza. The only power plant there running out of fuel. They have also cut off electricity and water. The israelis have. And as the u. S. S. Gerald ford Carrier Strike force arrives in the region iranian backed militia in iraq is threatening to attack american bases in retaliation if the u. S. Intervenes in the war between hamas and israel. Dana the latest this hour. Starting with mike tobin live on the ground in the war zone. Good morning, mike. What you see behind me off in the distance is the gaza strip itself. You may be able to hear israeli jets overhead. They are constant. The pounding of the gaza strip is constant. To the North And South of me israeli troops are massing. Israeli armor is at the ready for an imminent ground offensive. Netanyahu met with the Security Cabinet last night. If they gave the go ahead for the Ground Invasion it hasnt begun to execute at this point. We do know with the israeli soldier. They are trying to create as many scenes of carnage as they could and generate sympathy. In the gaza strip itself the air campaign has been relentless. Gaza city has been subject to withering strikes from the air. The hamas fighters have all gone into hiding according to my contact and dug into the tunnels that hamas has spent years and years digging underneath gaza city and gaza strip. He says the air campaign has been ineffective in terms of Killing Hamas fighters as we know there have been a great number of civilian casualties in the gaza strip. That was expected because gaza is so densely populated. Mostly what you see is the destruction of the infrastructure in gaza city. The quote i got from my contact is like the assassination of a city. You talk about power. Power and water have been cut off to the gaza strip. They do have an independent Power Generator but it runs on diesel. The best information we have is out of fuel or running out of fuel. Dana mike tobin on the scene. Thank you so much. Bret a daughterinlaw is missing believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas Terrorists. He joins us now. Thank you very much for being here. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and all the families separated. Tell us about your daughterinlaw. Well, first i would like to send a blessing to all the families in israel that lost their loved ones and with injuries. About my daughterinlaw, her name is selene. She went october 7th on saturday early in the morning at 4 00 in the morning with her friends to this concert in the south that actually she didnt reach this place. On the way there there was Attack Missiles and they just went from the car to look for shelter. And the last message that we get from her was at 7 20 in the morning that she is there is a lot of missiles and she is afraid to go to this concert and the soldiers were coming and it happened to be not the soldiers, it was the terrorists. And since that we didnt hear from her nothing. My son, he has the last position of the cell phone. He went to the place and he was exactly where she was talking and he saw the car with a lot of bullets, bullets around and he didnt see any blood inside but he see some dropped blood around the car and nothing. After that by the way, the other couple i think the cell phone was still on so the last place that we saw and know where they was close to the way to gaza. We believe they took her. Dana we have been showing pictures of your daughterinlaw. She also is a Breast Feeding mother. She has a 6monthold baby girl and she also needs to take medicine every day. She has a medical issue, thyroid that helps deal with her production of the breast milk. So the baby was not with her. No. Thank god. Dana so i wonder if you feel like you have heard enough from the Israeli Government. Do you feel like there is a plan in place to try to find her . Actually now we are in total silence. We dont know whats going on or have any piece of information. That is the problem. It is very hard to live with something that you dont know nothing about your loved one if she is alive, dead, who took her. There is not any information, any information. I know that yesterday my son was meeting with the president in israel, was meeting with all the families, but nothing. Nothing. We are still in the air. We dont know nothing about her. Bret weve been covering this nonstop. Whats the message here in the u. S. If you were to tell somebody whats happening . I came here just to raise the awareness that what has happened to my daughterinlaw and to remember her name that if someone sees her or have a witness or something, my son went to was also my son also was in the french channel tv talking about that. She is a french citizen so he try maybe the french government will find some information. They tries all the media and all the places that can bring some piece of information that we will be when you know something, if you know that somebody dead or alive or its okay you feel good but if you dont know nothing about that, this is crazy. Dana i think for the hostages, they might feel very alone. But when this comes to a conclusion when theyre saved and rescued they will know you, your fame lie and all families worked very hard. We are very worried. Gaza is a full siege. They dont have food or water and whatever. Of course the kidnapped are the same thing. I dont know whats going on with them. It is a hard thing. Bret it is very difficult and appreciate you coming on and telling you story. Wish you the best. Dana well keep her in our prayers. Joining us now is morgan ortega, founder of Polaris National security. One of the things we want to ask you about, morgan, help us understand the scope and scale of that barbarity. Yesterday it was reported there is a new channel called i24 news. They reported the Israeli Defense forces moved into kfar aza and discovered about 40 dead babies. Some were decapitated and that highlights the brutality of this invading force. Yeah, it is almost indescribable. Something that we want to look away from but i thank you for covering it, dana. Our audience needs to be reminded who were up against. We need to be reminded who we are up against. There is a conversation in the United States about whether these are palestinian Freedom Fighters or hamas militants. These are terrorists that are doing things that we havent seen since isis, right . Since they were in the height of their power and cutting heads off reporters. Hamas terrorists have even taken it to another level. Every day there is new reports of rapes, of murders. You are talking about terrorists going into Apartment Buildings and communities and not sparing women, not sparing children. I have saw an idf commander say it is important to note this is not a battlefield where you expect to see casualties and where you expect to see the atrocities of war. These are civilian Apartment Buildings, civilian towns where there was no mercy. Where people were burned alive in their cars. And i think it takes a special horrible monster to be able to kill children and babies indiscriminately. Bret you have served in the u. S. Military and Trump Administration and State Department. Here is Jake Sullivan about u. S. Forces potentially. Would you put American Forces on the ground to help out . At this point that is not something that is under planning. What we are focused on when we talk about sending experts, it is people who can work on intelligence. Who can work on overall planning and coordination with the Israeli Government. We are not currently sending forces to israel and ill leave it at that for now. Bret its a for now situation, morgan. There are american hostages on the ground and you have to think there is some coordination between the u. S. And israelis on that front. Certainly we have to do everything we can to get our americans home. I know that there is negotiation going on behind the scenes to try to get that done. We have capabilities that i wont Talk About On Air but that can be used to get americans home if we need to. Listen, the danger her, bret, of course, we know it could turn into a regional conflict very quickly. Were already seeing exchange of fire between Lebanese Hezbollah in the north and israel. It was reported that rockets came from syria overnight into the Golan Heights. Thats an area that just a year ago i a year ago in september i was standing on the Golan Heights looking at the area that under President Trump we recognized as israels sovereign territory and you can see how close iran and syria could get there. It is also important to remember iran not only funded, trained and equipped hamas who committed the Terrorist Attacks but similarly fund, train and equip hezbollah starting minor attacks from lebanon. Certainly anything coming from syria is also iranbacked. There are a few things this administration can do that doesnt involve putting troops on the ground. Start enforcing the sanctions that gave iran more in oil revenue. They havent been enforced for three years and it could take at least 80 billion off the table. Freeze that 6 billion in the escrow account. No reason why the iranians need to have access to those funds. Finally, in just about seven days there is another arms embargo against iran that expires at the u. N. One already expired the conventional arms ban a few years ago. In seven days Ballistic Missiles and suicide drones we see iran giving to russia and emotion employing on the battlefield in ukraine, the sanctions actually lift at the u. N. On Ballistic Missiles and suicide drones against iran. That needs to be put back into place today. Dana thank you so much. Coverage will continue here. Bret, earlier in the last hour you had a map that i want to put up here again. You could explain the u. S. S. Gerald ford left on saturday from its original position that we can show you here. By tuesday this thing was moving, right now it is in position. Bret it was south of cyprus and made the trek to just off gaza in the mediterranean sea. The Combat Capability is huge. The missile is a defensive thing in Case Missiles come at it. The projection a Carrier Group can give is overwhelming and sends a message when we move the biggest, baddest of our force, it sends a message were there. Dana were going to continue covering this especially of these movements. You dont send a Carrier Group just to park, i would imagine. Bret right. Meantime House Republicans voting now on who to recommend for speaker. We talked about this with Congressman Mast earlier. A vote on the house floor could happen as soon as this afternoon. Chad pergram is covering all this live from capitol hill. Good morning. Right now theyll vote by Secret Ballot for the republican conference selection for speaker of the house. I just spoke with one senior republican who doesnt think that anyone has the votes to win and they may sit in this meeting all day. Listen. I dont know that there will be a speaker tomorrow morning. Well find out. I think its 50 50 odds now. See where it goes. Very thin majority. The internal vote is expected to be razor close but many members promise to support whoever wins Behind Closed Doors on the floor. Even if that was not their preferred candidate. Centrist republicans who represent Battleground Districts could be the key to this race. Jim jordan faced an uphill climb because of his ties to the conservative caucus. But jordan changed his tune. Because of his passed it was not bad tonight. I thought it was pragmatic. I thought convincing that he would do his best to represent everybody and someone they could work with the democrats in the senate and democrat president. He did a great job. That said, some members are skeptical the house can resolve this quickly. It is about the math and even though someone may have the support of most republicans, that does not mean they have the votes to win on the house floor. Oh, chad, i have a sense that it will not be a clean vote. Whats the signal this is a mess . Something we should look for appeared something that happened. If you dont see white smoke by the afternoon, we have a mess. Here is what has to happen. You have to win an outright majority of the entire house. There are 433 members of the house, the magic number would be 217 for all members voting for a candidate by name. Bret. Bret Chad Pergram Live On capitol hill. In the midst of all of this, this is important because the house cant really operate. Its frozen until you get a speaker. Dana maybe the situation and this urgency will force some sort of action so they can get there and not drag it on too long. We shall see. Pay attention to it this week. Back to israel and one persons family was abducted and they burned down their home and i understand you have 11 members of your family who were kidnapped . Yes. Yes, my husbands family and i live in i wasnt in the area when it happened. I was in the desert so im here right now. Dana i want to be clear, that was not the same Music Festival where the massacre was, correct . A different one. Go on. A different one. So we werent at home but our family wasnt home. My husbands parents, his sister, her husband, two kids, 3yearold girl, an 8yearold boy. His cousin that is 12 years old and his aunt and another aunt and uncle. They were all at home. Both of their houses were completely burned down. And the morning of when everything started on saturday morning we were at a festival. We had a bit of contact with them. We were able to text a few messages. They were at home in the panic room and saying to us they were very scared, that they hear gunshots all over and terrorists speaking and shouting and they dont know if they will survive and get out of this. And then the other information that we have, the only information we have at the moment from the government or the army, is that some you can see the videos of the burned house. Someone was there. The house is completely burned down. There werent any bodies. Another piece of information that we got is from a friend who tried to calm times on saturday. At some point someone answered the phone with bad hebrew and he said they were kidnapped. This is information. We also know from their homes they are in the gaza strip. Besides that we dont have any information. We dont know what is happening. We are all devastated here. This is all were doing our whole life is focused on saving them, trying to create any context that we can. Part of that, the people that are kidnapped are italian, austrian, american, german, so it is not only israeli citizens. Were trying to use any contact to bring them home safely and get information. Dana and if that happens they will know you worked tirelessly to make it so. Im sorry for your heartache. Well stay in touch with you. Thank you. Thanks. Bret the u. S. Showing its support for israel as Israeli Forces wage allout war against hamas defending their homeland, fighting for the right to exist in the face of barbaric atrocities. It is not a battlefield. 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