contradictions on fema funding being diverted to illegal immigrant shelters. nguage sounding much different than her most recent language. october 7th memorial event in washington, d.c. all of this happening just before the story with martha maccallum appeared what do you have. >> we talk to the former ambassador to israel from the united states robert o'brien who you worked with former national security advisor will join us on the threat that america faces and we will speak to someone who was at the music festival and another woman whose mother is missing in north carolina. >> a lot of powerful stories coming up at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. tune into the story with martha maccallum. hurricane milton approaching and questions at the briefing about that. just on the heels of her hurricane helene and what some would say is a woefully short federal response to the hurricane and its damage here thank you to everyone. dvr the show but for now, "america reports."

>> john: thank you. today marks one year since hamas is attack on israel kickstarting a brutal war in the middle east and while most of the world is holding the somber remembrance ceremonies, anti-israel protesters are marching in demonstrations across this country. >> sandra: we are awaiting a briefing from the white house and marks from vp nominee j.d. vance who is set to address a memorial in washington. we will bring you the highlights as they happen. >> she is just the best mother and the best sister. there is no way she would be okay with the number of resources she has been using because there are so many families that are also hurting and missing. speak of the men and women on the ground are doing the best that they can but fema has every priority wrong. they did not know what to do or where to do it, how to access the mountains. they are turning people away trying to deliver funds.

>> my life has completely changed ten days ago. there's not really any comparison to it. there is so much tragic loss. >> john: a new way to count time in north carolina. bullet for hurricane helene and after. multiple states still reading as the death toll tops 230 now. many people who survived the storms isolated by flooded roads collapsed bridges and power outages and for parts of the southeast, still assessing the damage. another powerful storm is on the way. with that we begin a monday afternoon appeared i am john roberts in washington. it will be a big week. >> sandra: i can't believe when i see those images that is north carolina. the pain and suffering for so many still john. it is unbelievable. i'm sandra smith in new york and we are "america reports." recovery efforts in florida could be a lost cause as the sunshine state is now bracing for hurricane milton. right now it is a category five

storm, potentially forcing the largest evacuation in years. >> john: was a danger looming and churning in the gulf of mexico, fox team coverage covers now. madison scarpino and banner elk north carolina on the fallout. >> sandra: but let's get to mike seidel. he is in madeira beach florida for us. in milton's path. who knows what is coming their way right now and your way. how much time do folks have to get out? >> not much time. this will hit wednesday. landfall expected wednesday evening and we are looking at a cat5 right now but the only glimmer of hope is the official forecast weakens melt into a 125-mile-an-hour cat three by the time it makes landfall. it saves us some wind but we will have this catastrophic surge. the other issue is the cleanup continues. helene hit here 11 days ago. to have two major hurricanes in fact the same area in 11 days,

not on the record books in recent memory. there is the debris starting there and it goes for miles and miles. dump trucks with police escorts today taking it to a landfill. trying to get this out of the way before the gulf of mexico comes back in and of the sand gets redeposited. what they have done over the past 10-11 days, they have taken all of the sand from gulf boulevard and lead and pushed it back here and we have a crew in your trying to get rid of the heavy metal before the hurricane hits on wednesday. take a look at the satellite loop. it has blown up this morning. it was a cat to earlier at sunrise and now a cat5. amazing. this is as fast as anything has ever developed in the western hemisphere. you can see the eye there. it is moving east southeast 160-mile-an-hour winds. it will drill and turn east and then go northeast and headed toward the gulf coast of florida and the tampa bay area later on wednesday. if tampa bay takes a direct hit, that will be the first time in over 100 years right now the hurricane center is forecasting

a storm surge here, manatee and sarasota candies and tampa bay proper of eight to 12 feet. that is the highest surge they have forecast on record in tampa bay and you think north carolina is bad, this could be bad or worse. i can tell you one good thing. this is no chance of going north because of the jet streams are north carolina south carolina and georgia, those areas heavily impacted by helene will not be impacted by this one. they will stay dry. >> sandra: praying for everyone in the path and that they can get out and get out soon. thank you for the update. we will see you again. >> john: more than 230 people dead and hundreds of still missing following hurricane helene's path of destruction through the carolinas. 11 days after landfall rights of north carolina still struggling to bring in emergency supplies. madison scarpino is live at a small airport in banner elk that has become a base for volunteers. what is going on there?

>> there is a massive volunteer effort going on right here and it just so you know, the only way you can get into some of these small mountain towns is by air and various helicopters and small planes from this airport have been taking off and landing all throughout the day and they are dropping off some key supplies that people need in those places. most of the supplies is coming from this hangar. volunteers are working tirelessly through the day and most of them are with sentinel foundation, almost all our ex-military from all of the country. the person organizing a lot of this says they have dropped off nearly 1 million pounds of supplies including everything from food, water, toiletries, and medicine. we went up and a chopper with one of the volunteers yesterday to on one of those towns essentially cut off from the outside. a local church there is now a drop off spot for these donations. here is what the preacher told us. >> devastated. you can see there is not a whole

lot left of the community. we are being told it will be at least three months before there is power back in this area. but my concern is cold weather will be upon us. >> that cold front is a big concern for a lot of people here. one of the main focus is now for these volunteers are getting blankets and warm clothes into these communities because people who lost everything, they only have the clothes they were wearing whenever the flooding started here. a lot going on but we will be here keeping you guys updated. >> john: ex-military folks lending a hand. they are coming up in the next hour and we will talk to save our allies. typically they are working in war zones overseas but now turning the focus to north carolina. thank you. fox corporation has made a donation to the red cross hurricane helena efforts. it continues to be an annual disaster giving program partner. this enables the red cross to respond immediately to disasters like helene by providing safe shelter, hot meals, emotional support, and resources to aid in

recovery. you can help out. visit redcross.org/foxforward or just scan the qr code on your screen. >> sandra: thank you. 7 minutes past the hour. and somber day around the world your president biden lighting a candle and holding a moment of assignments to mark one year since hamas launched a brutal attack on the jewish state. as the mid east teeters on the brief follow-up work. standing by to tell us where things are next but first to go to trey yingst reporting in southern israel for us right now. how are people they are reacting today? >> good afternoon. people across israel our morning as they mark the one-year anniversary of that horrific cross-border attack launched by hamas from gaza into southern israel. here is a look back at the humans most affected by this w

war. ramon sobs while she reaches for her husband as dirt covers his casket, the grief is too much to bear. mother and sister look on, the faces are filled with agony and deep sadness after waiting nearly 11 months for him to be released from hamas captivity, this family like so many others must now come to terms with a painful reality. >> what happened on october 7th turned our world upside down. it is incomprehensible. >> a year after the october 7th attack against israel, 101 hostages remain inside gaza. more than half of them according to a senior israeli official are still alive. on that dark day, hamas launched a cross-border assault on israel killing around 1200 people, sparking a war that continues today. the israeli campaign against hamas targeted much of the group's military infrastructure

including an elaborate network of tunnels used to move militants and hold captives. >> you can see israeli forces here remain on high alert. they have weapons raised. understanding that hamas fighters could be just around the corner. >> at the were ongoing, civilians continue to pay the highest price. so far tens of thousands of palestinians have been killed by the israeli air and ground campaign with nearly 2 million displaced. for many, the wounds were remade a haunting reminder of the conflict. >> words cannot describe how i am right now and even if i did describe it, you will never feel what i feel because suffering is beyond what you can imagine. >> the war rages on in the distance. we have heard explosions tonight along the israel gaza border. outgoing israeli artillery fryer

and earlier today, hamas was launching rockets into southern and central israel. >> sandra: trey yingst reporting out of southern israel for us. thank you. >> john: let's dig deeper on this pier let's bring in retired you and us argent keith kellogg and negotiator on the abraham accords. you've talked with israeli leadership. you know what they are thinking. where is all of this headed? what is the end game for israel? >> i want to offer my prayers for the remaining hostages. the israelis. at the end of the day, you look at the abraham accords and what we did, these people are the same people now involved. netanyahu, shaikh mohammed and qatar, same leaders are driving this. at the end of the day what will happen as an opening from a iran perspective. we are waiting the days right now but i will tell you that there will be movement.

israel toward iran. i hope very much so that they go after the nuclear side of things because this is a real opening for them especially before the election. >> john: it doesn't sound like that is in the cards. maybe something shorter than that. some other economic target but it seems like at least for the moment from what i'm hearing that the nuclear sites may be off the agenda. u.s. support for israel in this moment is so incredibly important yet listen to what kamala harris hedged when asked about benjamin netanyahu being an important ally in her interview on "60 minutes." >> do we have a real close ally in prime minister netanyahu? >> i think with all due respect to the better question is do we have an important alliance between the american people and the israeli people. and the answer to that question

is yes. >> john: what kind of signal does that sound? >> thank you for having me. it sounds a lousy signal. benjamin netanyahu is becoming church only in and how he is approaching this and i happen to agree. they are setting conditions for the potential for peace. if you look at hamas and hezbollah, they have reset the battle. they've killed how many and turn around, they've gone after the leader of hezbollah since the late 1990s. they have neutered what was happening down in yemen and then you look at the supreme leader of iran and the president there. i think they are setting the conditions and that is why i think it would be great if they did go after the nuclear sites. it's not what president biden said. he said we need to do something proportion. no. you need to do something like

adam said. disproportion. like what president trump did when he went after soul money appeared we reset the battlefield. if you do that, you change the conditions and then you are able to bring in people that are moderate. like the saudis. they will be absolutely critical to us going forward. when you look at the crown prince right now and his ability, he is close to the united states, he is close to president trump. president trump got a sword dance when he went there. president biden got a fist pump. kamala harris hasn't been there. that is what the future's going to be. if you want to have peace, you need to start at the most senior levels to do it. and for her to say that they discount benjamin netanyahu, that is absolutely foolish. it shows that she has no sense for the personal leadership and the importance of personal relationships in the region. >> john: quickly if you could, as a general said, he agrees with you that you need to target

the nuclear sites there but there's huge pushback from biden or to i'm hearing in israel is that target may be off the ta table. you can't go after the nuclear sites, you can't eliminate or even reduce the existential threat that israel is under right now. >> this is a huge opening for israel. and it's not just israel. we talk about the abraham accords and options there. you are doing so much for the entire region. there is no country in the middle east that would not prefer and iran that is nuclear enabled. when the biden administration says they will always deliver israel, that is just sitting still and shooting down missiles that come to israel. what they don't understand is that sometimes the best defense is an offense. >> john: i think israel understands and understands it plenty. adam, general, thank you for joining us.

>> sandra: a couple live events that we are anticipating this afternoon. first up we are awaiting briefings from the white house and the state department. both on your screen here. all of this one-year sense hamas launched the deadly attack on israel. we will be monitoring them for you and we will bring you the headlines as they happen. plus this. spew in a heroic water rescue during the catastrophic storm surge. we are talking to the man who risked his life to save another. >> sandra: some north carolinians taking recovery efforts into their own hands. a local college baseball coach was using his teams failed to help bring in emergency sup supplies. that. about what comes next in life. for her. i may not be in perfect health, but i want to stay in my home,

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>> john: take a look at washington now where j.d. vance is speaking at an october 7th remembrance on the mall here in washington, d.c. let's listen in. >> in fact, just before i came out here i spoke to some of the families of the hostages. i spoke to the family of omar who is now about to celebrate his 23rd birthday and he celebrated his 22nd birthday under hamas captivity. imagine what it would be like to be 22 or 23-year-old man kept for a year by these brutal murderers. think about what his life has been like. think about what the last year of his life has been like. and i think it is impossible for any person with an ounce of moral courage or an ounce of conscience to not have their

heart broken by what has happened to these terrible -- what has happened. this terrible thing that has happened to these hostages. it is disgraceful and i'm going to get a little political here. it is disgraceful that we have an american president and vice president who have not done a thing. vice president harris, our messages bring them home. use your authority to help them bring them home. we can do it, we just need real leadership. now, today especially which is extremely disgraceful if you think about what we are remembering here, one year later over 1,000 israelis, many americans, innocents who lost their lives and were brutally murdered by hamas. today in the united states there are literal pro-hamas protesters around the country calling for a cease-fire. and what they are really calling for is for a unilateral

surrender. i have a different message. the only way this war is going to end is when a hamas gives ups its arms and stops the fighting and what's the hostages come home. that is the way to end this conflict. [applause] now. my friends, you know this. this is not just a dispute about territory or borders, this is a war between a peaceful nation and terrorists who want to exterminate the jewish people and eradicate the state of israel forever. i know there are a lot of americans, a lot of americans who will go to protests and chant this slogan from the river to the sea without knowing what it actually means. so i would ask my americans who chant that terrible thing, ask yourself what river and what seat? when you say from the river to the sea, what you are fundamentally promoting and fundamentally promoting is the

end of a jewish state altogether. educate yourselves about what you are actually saying. it is a disgraceful slogan that will lead to the genocide of millions of people and no person, no american of good conscience stands for it. americans believe that israel, we believe that the jewish state as a right to exist and donald trump and i will fight for that every single day when we are in the white house. [applause] this past year, we have seen students and our own country sometimes supporting islamist radicals destroying property and threatening jewish students and professors. we have seen university leaders defending the destructive protests and struggling to condemn blatant acts of anti-semitism. you have the right to protest even if we disagree with your message. you do not have the right to harass your fellow students

simply for being jewish. [applause] we have journalists who refuse to cover the well-documented brutality and sexual violence perpetrated by hamas and at the same time, many shortsighted people in washington, d.c., have tried to cozy up to iran with billions of dollars in sanctions relief allowing the regime to expand its terrorist brigade and fund a monster that is disgraceful. why don't we cut off the money to iran instead of making them as rich as they have ever been? [applause] what hamas started on october the 7th now threatens to erupt into a widespread war. i speak for donald trump and i think i speak for all americans in saying we want peace. we want the real piece that can only exist in the region when hamas is defeated. but let's recount the ways in

which we don't have peace in the middle east. there have been over 200 attacks on u.s. troops, many from iranian proxies since october the 7th. that is just in the last year. we know at least four american service members have died as a result of these attacks including three on january the 28th at tower 22 in jordan. and we have a person running for vice president of the united states who says there are no american troops in harm's way. there are american troops in harm's way and iran is the one putting them in harm's way. let's have some moral courage to at least admit that basic fact. [applause] now we have iran backed hezbollah attacking israel and launching rockets at our allies and sometimes our even own troops. america and the world are at risk at being dragged into a massive and bloody regional conflict and in none of want that.

so to achieve peace, we need to remember the very old and simple wisdom, peace comes through strength and not through weakness. [applause] peace comes from confronting our enemies and not hiding from them and peace comes from a simple moral courage so let me offer some. we stand with israel today and we unequivocally condemn anti-semitism whether it is in israel, the middle east, or our own country. [applause] and because we want peace more than anything else and because we want to prevent this from becoming a broader regional conflict, we support israel's right to exist, we support israel's right to defend itself, and to do what it takes to end the war. bring real peace by ending the war the right way.

[applause] now i speak for donald trump in saying that when he is president, america will protect our american jewish brothers and sisters. we will stop funding anti-american and anti-jewish radicals. and we are going to bring home american hostages wherever they are held and whoever is holding them. [applause] we want to give israel the right and the ability to finish what hamas started. israel did not start this. hamas did but israel is going to finish it. and we will say if you are an elite university, if you are using federal money to harass jewish students, we will

resolutely stand against anti-jewish hate and we will go after the accreditation and the federal support of colleges that won't look up for their own students. my friends, i know i speak for all of us and saying we will never forget october the 7th. we will reject anti-semitism in our schools, reject it in our foreign policy and if we do this the right way, we will reject it in the ballot box on november the 5th 2024. [applause] so let me just say as a note of goodbye. i am so grateful for all of you standing here. i know it takes courage to do it. i am grateful for all of you letting your voice that we will eradicate anti-semitism in the united states of america but most of all i want us all to get back to a common sense set of policies.

where innocent people are not attacked, where our allies are not attacks, innocent hostages are not taken for a year and counting. we need to get back to common sense and i promise you that when donald trump is the president of the united states, we will get back to common sense. we will fight for it and we will fight for it every single day. god bless you so much. thank you for having me. let's go get this done and let's remember the innocent people who lost their lives. god bless you all. thank you for having me. >> john: j.d. vance with strong support for israel and his campaign against hamas in that speech there. the october 7th memorial rally here in washington, d.c. no question where he or the trump fans ticket stand when it comes to support for israel. and making sure that the threats that it faces are eliminated. >> sandra: brief but impactful remarks there from the vp nominee there. you are looking live in

new york city. he was speaking in washington and this is new york city where the protests continue and it's hard to believe that a year has passed since that day and we continue to watch live pictures and we are waiting on an update from the state department which will be key to listen into this hour. >> john: looking forward to all of that coming up in the moments ahead. also, stunning to think that people are protesting on this day. but that is a way of the world. >> sandra: we will take a quick break. we will be right back. but s'p due to burning and stabbing pain in my hands, so i use nervive. nervive's clinical dose of ala reduces nerve discomfort in as little as seven days. now i can help again feel the difference with nervive. i ever made for the health of my enamel, lumineux toothpaste. lumineux is so different. it uses these enamel safe whitening ingredients that break up plaque so my teeth and gums look super clean and bright and feel so good. so, you know, han is 22 years old,

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>> there is so much more that could be done and giving a $750 if you can even apply for it is ridiculous. i've only heard of a handful of people getting approved. $750 won't do anything even if you do get approved. >> sandra: north carolina facing along a daunting recovery after helene. folks they're upset by fema's lack of response on the ground that is forcing some communities to take matters into their own

hands. joining us now is jason beck. coach at montreat college in north carolina. coach, thank you for joining us. i know you want to share with us what you are experiencing on the ground trying to help people. what is it like and what help is there? >> in the very beginning, it was really scarce. there wasn't much here at all. we weren't getting any help. the police department, the people got together and there was no food at all. we were literally cut off. the mountain was cut off from one side. we still have no running water. we just got power but the community getting together before fema, before the national guard, people pulling everything together and feeding everybody. breakfast, lunch, and dinner. people were out clearing trees and people were out trying to fish people out of their houses trying to salvage whatever they could. to watch that happen was

probably one of the most amazing things for myself that i have seen. and they are doing it today. ten days later. people are still feeding people out of their own pockets. the amount of helicopters that have come through here, the n navy, they've all come nongovernment to help the community. >> sandra: you are a big part of that prayer you are offering up your baseball field for private sector helicopters to land there because in some cases that is the only way to get some of these badly needed resources and peer tells about that. >> that's what it was. in the very beginning there was a road that was broken down and completely washed away that had to get some resources to people of the mountain there. so they landed and dropped off generators and dropped off food. we were the only ones. we have had the local harley-davidson has had a number of them.

there is an elementary school. every little field we can try to land people to get them to, they have been doing it and even the roads washed away. we have a whole team of mules that came and it's just a pack of mules. >> sandra: completely understandable. >> it's been difficult. >> sandra: it's been difficult and we are with you and praying for all of you and your communities have been so completely horribly hit and while you are trying to help others i know you also said you have a home in florida that has been completely wiped off the map. >> the houses there but it has taken extensive damage good everything on the inside has been destroyed and i haven't even had the opportunity to get down there yet. with no running water and we just got electric back a couple days ago i didn't want to leave my wife you're by herself. i was hoping to get down there right after this and now milton is coming across that same place so i think i'm just going to

wait until after that and we will see what is left and sorted out. >> sandra: but you are okay and your wife is okay. you guys are giving back every single hour. i know your wife is working 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. just to hand out food and everyone in the area is trying to help and pitch in any way they can. it's a beautiful part of our really horrific situation for so many. coach, hang in there. we know that you know. stay strong and we will check back and with you and we are watching that other storm developed. you can see bottom right portion of the screen. thank you. >> thank you for your time. >> sandra: our best to you. >> i'm curious. you don't do too many long form interviews. what made you want to do call her daddy today? >> i think you and your listeners have really got this thing right. >> john: vice president kamala harris' sudden media blitz. she has set for a full slate of interviews this week but will she faced tough questions?

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>> john: vice president kamala harris finally stepping into the spotlight with a series of interviews set to drop this week. everything from a massively popular podcast to a town hall with univision but we are still waiting for harris to hold her first formal news conference months after she became the nominee appeared let's bring in our political panel. so. jonathan. start us off here. here's how "the new york times" described harris' upcoming media blitz. harris will appear in a whirlwind of interviews at most of them friendly. after mostly avoiding interviews as her campaign began the vice president will hold several this week including with howard stern, stephen colbert,

and the hosts of the view which to quote my colleague is like a hot stone massage. instead of an interview. >> she is talking directly to voters. the first thing chuck schumer tells any senator up for reelection, stop doing national interviews. stop going on the sunday shows. they don't get you votes. it's not how voters get the news anymore. i wish it was. i wish they were getting it from mainstream news outlets because i think they are more credible but this is where people are getting their news and that's why she is going directly to them. the other thing that these podcasts and these formats help as it shows who she is. at let's or be a more comfortable and it lets the people actually get to know her and hear her views on things paired stuff that you don't get when you are in a scripted uptight press conference with reporters shouting questions at you. >> john: but of 2019 is any guide, the more people get to know her, the less they like her. >> they don't like her that much and they are with supporters. they are all openly supporting

her for president. but when she does do some more mainstream, she did 60 minutes paired the clips will air later tonight and they are not good. her answers on israel were incomprehensible. she was pressed several times for how she will pay for all that she has proposed. as j.d. vance showed, he did a lot of media. a lot of sunday shows and mainstream press. even antagonistic ones. it gets you sharper and better and get you ready to talk about what you will do. >> john: andrea mitchell who has a studio on the first floor of this building was telling kamala harris you better watch out here. urging a little bit of caution. >> they need to double down on doing more interviews and serious interviews because what i am hearing from democratic and republican business people and a lot of men, she has such a big problem with men. there is an undercount of the trump vote. there is miscegenation in all of this. lac and white men.

big problem but also the business world. they don't think she is serious. they don't think she is a heavy weight. they don't think she's serious or heavyweight. does she burnish that image by going on these friendly podcasts by sitting down with howard student who hates trump so much he will go easy on her. >> he does hate trump but men listen to them. millions of men listen to them. but she wants to close the gap with a male audience. she wants to beef up the numbers with a female audience. call her daddy is the place to go. i don't think kamala harris cares at all what the business people who are talking to andrea mitchell have to say. i'm 99% sure the majority of them live in new york city pitch she will live to mike when new york city by a lot. she does not care. the people she is going after our voters in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. those are the people who will listen to howard stone and call her daddy and get out and vote. >> john: one thing has popped out. she's been slammed for pledging

$175 million in aid to lebanon while north carolina and folks there are suffering this horrible disaster. she said the people of lebanon are facing an incredibly dire humanitarian effort paired i'm concerned about the security and well-being of civilians at suffering in lebanon and will continue to work to meet the needs of all civilians there. here's what greg abbott of texas posted. kamala is giving money to the people of lebanon while stiff arming the humanitarian crisis in north carolina. this is kamala's katrina. >> optics matter and they mishandled from the beginning. from biden not going to the white house, calmly is on the west coast. trump beat both of them to north carolina and same thing a couple years ago. he beat them to east palestine. down to the sites. he beat them down at east palestine a couple years ago. he understands the optics matter. the objects of this matter. we are in suits and ties. it doesn't make our ideas any more salient but it is what she chose to the platform and

appearances. appearances do matter especially getting messages to people who are suffering. >> john: make a point about lebanon as a post in north carolina or while people in north carolina are suffering. fema says it will run out of money. it is at the right message to send? >> i know most people don't think it can but the federal government can walk and chew gum at the same time. we can fund our adversaries and her allies overseas and we can help people at home. i have a friend in north carolina who is very hurt by what's going on but he knows the federal government is coming in and getting them the money they need. they will do both. >> john: we will see. talking with the cofounder of it save our allies who is one of the military organizations, post military organizations that is having to do a lot of work to fill the gaps that the federal government has left. jonathan and matt, great to see you. >> sandra: anti-israel protests marking the one-year anniversary of the brutal terror attacks by hamas while more than 100 hostages still remain in

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that their father was not. >> sandra: loved ones in captivity. what is the latest you have heard at any update that you have there. >> the last update we have is from from when they were released. they were back home on day 52 as part of the exchange in november

and she saw him before she left and he said don't forget about me. i don't want to die here. so we know he was alive. we know he understood what was happening and that he wants us to fight and he wants us to do everything possible to bring him home. >> sandra: to your loved ones who have come home, how are t they? >> from the outside they look physically okay and in every other way they are incomplete. it's like they are missing a limb because he is still being held against as well. they are currently 12 and 17 and they are fighting a fight no child should have to fight but it is a fight that they know. they were held in those tunnels, they were taken by hamas terrorists. they know exactly why they are fighting and they won't be okay until he is home. >> sandra: our heart breaks for everything that you and your family have gone through. we are praying, praying that this comes to an end and you

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in the middle east. family members of hostages have been without their loved ones for a year now and they say they