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♪ welcome to the whole story, i'm anderson cooper. since the october 7th terror attack on israel and the war that followed, there has been a spike on anti-semitic attacks around the world, including in the united states. the fbi recently warned anti-semitism is reaching historic levels. it's data shows jewish americans make up 2.4% of the public, but they are the targets of more than 60% of religious hate crimes recorded in this country. since october, jewish day schools have closed or had to hire extra security, synagogues have gone into lockdown and college campuses in particul...

of the hostages they say more than 30 are children with the youngest being a 9-year-old baby. meanwhile the israeli army is conducting raids deeper into gaza city, capturing terror suspects it says were involved in the attacks. let's start with our cnn white house reporter, kevin. kevin, we saw the information emerge earlier with the white house saying this 3-year-old is one of the american hostages being held by hamas. >> reporter: that's right. the timing is interesting. as it appears, there's intensifying pressure on benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister. you saw large pr...

month of ramadan and the jewish passover. >> it's considered incredibly provocative and aggressive. >> but many middle east experts say the timing of hamas' attack had more to do with the country that is home to mecca, the holiest of places in all of islam, saudi arabia. > h hamas was really concern about the saudi moves to build ties with israel and the u.s. one concern was that saudi money would then bolsterer the palestininian authorority, its revival inin thehe west bank. > hamas looooks at this worl an emerging alliance between the modern arabs and israel and decides we're gog...

>> congresswoman veronica escobar, thank you. if the governor wants to come on and address what you just said there, we are happy to have him on. in the meantime, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. more on the white house, sending controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. more on that coming up, what the white house said about them just one year ago that might surprise you. next, a former new york city police officer convicted of acting as an illegal agent for china. he joins us live to explain how he got caught up in a u.s. crackdown. record-breaking temperatures are making it tough...

Underserved and potentially poisoned. so where's w the the equity the? these are mostly middle class working class people. but leave it to pete, d after who instead of visiting a community in need after a real accident,nt would rather. >> play politics. >> we've heard way too we have y stories from generations past y of infrastructure where you goot a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color that finally sees the project proje s to them. but everyone i on thatn the hars on that project looking like, gn they cam, doing doing g the good paying jobs don't look like they came from anywhere. any...