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[background sounds] neil: one month in, and israeli troops continue heading in, now encircling gaza city, home base to hamas, as the war with expands to close-up urban combat. at this are hour, a three-hour window announced by the israeli military for evacuees to flee along a main highway in the gaza strip. it was just closed. we're going to talk to a u.s. citizen who who escaped the war zone with her husband and five kids. terrifying, the say the least, but alive. also at this hour, secretary antony blinken in jordan meeting with arab leaders. they want a ceasefire while the u.s. wa...

we'll get to you in a moment, wolf. we're watching several new developments across the middle east as israel pushes through hamas. secretary of state antony blinken met with arab foreign ministers in georgia for a summit. blinken made it clear that now is not the right time for israel to enter a ceasefire. >> it's our view that a ceasefire now simply would leave hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on october 7th. you don't have to take my word for it. just a few days ago a senior hamas official said it was their intent to do october 7th again and again and again. >...

we also need to be focused on the day after, and so in conversations that we'll be having through the course of this weekend, i expect you'll see a focus there and particularly how we can get over time to two states for two peoples, which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state that they're entitled to. so these will be the things that we're focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues, but i am convinced that american diplomacy can make a differen...

Crowd of candidates. Well be talking with chris stirewalt, media mogul steve forbes and Citizens United president david bossie. Also assessing the performances of the candidates in the earlier debate, who stood out . Who pulled back . Was there a winner . Certainly none of the candidates shied from attacking the frontrunner. Former governor rick perry didnt hesitate to dismiss Donald Trumps popularity as part of his celebrity and success, and Carly Fiorina accusing trump of being a flipflopper on both abortion and health care, and among the other stories that well be covering here tonight. New...

Military records from the union during the civil war, newspapers, one of the most fascinating sources that i found was advertisement indy new orleans paper for rose. She is advertised for sale in the newspaper. Two kaiser day. That was shocking but at the same time indicated how routine for buying and selling of human beings was in the american south. Sources were plentiful. The biggest point here is there are sources available, the individual lives of people, historians have not reached part of that project, so much to recover the lives of people lost to history. Questions . Fascinating stori...