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one hostage's plea among the nearly 200 taken by hamas. >> till yesterday, i didn't know she's dead or alive. >> juju: president biden's high stakes mission to the region. ruby franke, the popular mom influencer back in court. the custody battle over her four underage kids. her former husband fighting to get them back. new body cam video from the day she was arrested for abusing her children. and new details about the family's past. dead man walking! >> juju: the oscar-winning film turned opera. ♪ let me look at you ♪ >> juju: performed at one of the nation's most notorious prisons, sing sing. a world-class soprano leading a cast of incarcerated men. >> everybody needs comfort. everybody needs a way out of that suffering. >> juju: the powerful message of redemption. >> i feel like if i'm not working towards building on who i need to be, then my time in prison was wasted.

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israel. here's abc's chief global affairs coanchor martha raddatz. >> reporter: tonight, the death toll rising in the devastating strike on a hospital in gaza city. palestinian officials saying at least 500 people killed in what they claim was an israeli air strike. video circulating online showing the carnage. fires raging in the rubble. first responders rushing victims away. the hospital was already packed with the wounded as well as thousands of palestinians seeking shelter from the fighting. israel tonight adamant they were not at fault. >> this was the islamic jihad that fired a long-range rocket towards a long-range target. it failed and exploded, and that is what happened at the hospital. >> reporter: a u.s. official telling abc it is uncertain who launched the strike, and it will take awhile to determine.

the catastrophic blast triggering major protests in the west bank and neighboring jordan. just as president biden is set to begin a high-stakes trip to israel as a show of solidarity. late today, meetings with king abdullah of jordan and egypt's president postponed. the secret service says it has an immensely intricate security plan in place to protect the president in what is an active war zone. security teams already here. trips like this one usually done in secret, but this one out in the open. as israel prepares for a possible ground invasion in gaza, biden is set to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, urging him to consider the consequences of a massive assault and the humanitarian crisis it has already caused. >> juju: our thanks to martha. now to late word about the plight of the hostages in gaza. a senior u.s. official tells abc

news that hamas may be willing to release women and children who are not israeli. more now from abc's matt gutman reporting from israel. >> reporter: tonight as is war in gaza intensifies, the families of the 199 hostages watching it all unfold. increasingly fearful for their captured loved ones. >> until yesterday, i didn't know she's dead or alive. >> reporter: karen shims' daughter mia disappeared at the music festival in the desert. hamas releasing this video, mia injured but alive. "to my parents, to my brother, please get us out of here as soon as possible." >> i saw my baby and i start screaming. >> reporter: karen elated to see her daughter alive but gutted by her suffering. >> went through operation alone without nobody to hold her hand,

with terrorists around her. i mean, this is the worst nightmare every mother can have. >> reporter: mia's brother, eli, watched that video, too. you know her. when you saw her eyes, what did you see? >> miserable. i thought she is in very big pain. >> reporter: there are still 300 israelis uncounted far after hamas' rampage. in tel aviv, those families rallying outside israel's military headquarters. these posters say, "bring our idan back, we want answers." the israeli military tells us its special operations units are already inside gaza, looking for the missing, carrying out raids, recovering some bodies but no living hostages. urban areas treacherous. we saw how these troops are training. these are elite israeli troops training at this base. tens of thousands have come through to try to practice the kind of skills they're going to

need inside gaza where the fighting will be extremely up close. room by room, floor by floor. back at home, those families waiting for word, clinging to hope their loved ones will still return. >> juju: our thanks to matt. we turn now to other news. a popular youtube parenting influencer, ruby franke, back to court today. her estranged husband waging a custody battle for their four minor children. the newly released body cam video of police frantically searching her home on the day she was arrested. ruby franke, the youtube momfluencer charged with felony child abuse, back in the courtroom today in provo today as franke and former husband kevin fight over custody over their four minor children. kevin arriving with their two adult children, sherry and chad. new body cam footage obtained by abc news showing intense moments

when police swarmed franke's home the day she was taken into custody. >> police department! >> juju: guns drawn as police scour room to room in search of franke's two middle children. more body cam showing where they were found, miles away at a friend's house. >> we have to physically see her. >> juju: before being turned over to child protective services. >> today we are starting off the day the way we do every day. >> reporter: the 41-year-old franke made a name for himself online with her tough love parenting style on her youtube channel, "eight passengers." >> keeping them home from school and wiping the floorboards would really bring pain. >> reporter: this video of chad as a teen raised concerns among followers. >> what you guys didn't know was chad didn't get anything. he was sleeping on the floor in the family room. >> juju: august 30th, the unthinkable. >> i just had a 12-year-old boy show up here at my front door asking for help. he's emaciated. he's got tape around his legs.

he's hungry and he's thirsty. >> reporter: franke's 12-year-old son breaking free from the home of her business partner, jodi hildebrandt, more than four hours south of the franke home and running to neighbors, according to police. >> he has duct tape around each ankle. he's not telling the rp why. sores on his wrists and ankles. >> reporter: franke and her partner jodi hildebrand with 16 counts of child abuse. after the arrests, many wondered if there were missed warning signs. records indicating police responded to the franke home more than a dozen times in the last few years, as early as 2018. a newly released 911 call made by ruby franke's own daughter, sherry, alleging neglect in september 2022. >> hi, my name is shari franke. my four younger siblings are

living in springville. my neighbors hive been telling me they've been left alone four or five days. >> reporter: child protective services is being investigated for their handling of the case by utah's child welfare legislative oversight panel. after the shocking arrests, family tensions brought to a boiling point. >> explain to me again why this was not robbery? >> reporter: as kevin accused his oldest daughter, shari, of taking items from their home, asking police to arrest her. police denying his request. >> it's a civil issue. >> juju: kevin franke is continuing his fight for custody of his four un now unified with both shari and chad and trying to rebuild their family. >> seeing as kevin was present in some of these videos, although his exact extent and knowledge is unknown at this time about the child abuse, the judge is going to have to make an assessment whether or not he is the best and proper place for the children to be if they are to go to his care. >> reporter: ahead of court,

shari franke pleading for prayers. "there's literally not even words to describe how upside down my life has become. i've cried and an infinite amount of panic attacks yet life goes on." franke and her business partner remain in jail without bond as the criminal case unfolds. >> the criminal side could actually have a lot of influence on the family case because these are charges related to child abuse, child neglect. when family judges are looking to determine where kids should live, those types of charges can heavily affect that determination. >> juju: you can see more on the ruby franke story, a momfluencer's double life on "impact by nightline" now streaming on hulu. coming up, dead man walking. the surprising chorus joining a world-renowned soprano for a night at the opera. ♪ i'm losing my rhythm. el like with skyrizi to treat my skin

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♪ >> juju: "dead man walking." from memoir to oscar-winning film to popular modern opera. its powerful message of redemption resonating with audiences. nauert seems to be imitating life as a chorus of incarcerated men take the stage for a special performance. ♪ joyce didinado is a singer. >> the power of art is when you can see yourself and see somebody else living it in a true way. ♪ >> juju: sing sing, new york's

notorious maximum-security prison. ♪ her chorus, incarcerated men rehearsing a performance from the metropolitan opera's season premiere, "dead man walking." >> my name is justin k. jones. i've been in prison the last 10 or 11 years because of being convicted for murder in the second degree. >> juju: justin jones shot and killed a 25-year-old man. like the opera's main character, he says he's working towards redemption. >> i definitely, you know, couldn't even begin to ask for forgiveness at the time. i was a different guy. i definitely changed since then. >> it somehow felt like this is their story. ♪ gather us around ♪ >> juju: it's not just any opera. >> dead man walking! >> juju: it's the dead man turned oscar nominated film about sister helen prejean grappling with her faith and the death penalty. >> a lot of things kind of resonate with me of what's being said in the play.

>> juju: the life-changing power of art is precisely why carnegie hall's musical connections program has been bringing the centuries-old art form and other musical genres to sing sing for 14 years. >> it provides an opportunity for incarcerated individuals to educate themselves with musical theory as well as learning instruments. it takes you out of the yard and out of your cell and into this whole other world where you can kind of express yourself. >> we are going to create beauty today, and you're going to feel your heart swelling, you're going to feel your heart connected with everybody here. >> juju: the real-life sister helen is narrating on this day. >> you are worth more than the worst thing you have ever done. >> the first time i seen her, i felt like i knew her. >> juju: the now 84-year-old nun still inspiring just about everyone she meets. >> i think she knows the kind of character i have. i feel like if i'm not working towards building on who i need

to be, then my time in prison was wasted. it's meant to reflect on who i was, and the things that i've done, and show people that i'm no longer that guy. i am remorseful, and i am working to be better. >> juju: the opera follows sister helen's youthful turmoil as spiritual adviser to a convicted murderer, joseph deroje in the weeks leading up to his execution. >> we were in rehearsals at the met for it. there's that scene of the parents where they're expressing the outrage, that somebody who took their children for no reason should be getting comfort. and i thought, it's one thing to sing it on the stage. it's another to put that in front of them. >> juju: "dead man walking" is one of the most-performed modern operas. ♪ gather us around ♪ >> juju: joyce first played sister helen 20 years ago.

so inspired she's been going to sing sing with musical connections for more than eight years. >> it dawned on me that these are men with incredible creative potential and untapped imagination and volition to express themselves. >> juju: what do you say as an artist in response to this idea of victims' rights versus the humanity of an incarcerated person? >> if we're all human and we all make mistakes and we all suffer, everybody needs comfort. everybody needs a way out of that suffering. if you think about having to wait 17 years to see somebody executed and you think that that's going to heal you -- i just don't get the logic of that. >> juju: playing the death row inmate, joseph diroje is baritone. >> i'd seen "dead man walking"

when i was at juilliard. i just remember feeling the power of something that was so relevant to our society and something so immediate. >> juju: like joyce, ryan says he was so moved by the experience, he began writing to men on death row, becoming close with one, terrence andris. >> she was an artist as well. and a poet. and we both had daughters who were the same age. i was also a troubled kid, but i was in an upper middle class white neighborhood with people who gave me second and third and fourth chances. i realized he and i could so easily have switched laces had we grown up in each other's circumstances. >> i know that terrence died by suicide after one of his last appeals. >> yeah. it was really hard for me. he did commit a terrible crime. he admitted to that. he had a lot of remorse. also, he was the victim of a really brutal system. when i sang this opera here at the met, i'm the last character

that they identify with. if i'm lucky by the end, they see me as human. in the beginning, they see me as a monster. at sing sing, it was almost flipped on its head. >> the confession. when ryan is on his knees and screams "stop." >> stop! >> and everything got quiet. ♪ i killed a sister ♪ >> juju: jake hegge wrote the opera with terrence mcnally over 50 years ago. >> in that setting with guards walking around, you could hear their walkie-talkies going off, you could feel the emotion and see someone turning their head and wiping away tears. >> juju: for justin the performance struck an emotional chord. ♪ let me look at you ♪ >> seeing my own mother speak when i was sentenced, i wish i had a sister helen to come to them and speak to them, pray with them. but, you know, here i am.

>> juju: the majority of men in sing sing are going to be released one day. who do we want to release? people who have learned how to have another option other than violence aand programs like thi are concrete ways to rehabilitate. >> i am proud that i have not committed a violent act in prison since i've been locked up. >> juju: you said watching this performance at sing sing was life-changing. >> yeah, it was. fundamentally, it showed me the power of what we do in art to connect, to humanize us, to create empathy and these channels of communication. jooumg and the metropolitan apr opera's performance of "dead man walking" will be simulcast in select theaters this weekend. drake. why the "in my feelings" rapper is being compared to the king of

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