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inside the cockpit. 83 counts of attempted murder. could magic mushrooms be to blame? plus trapped in gaza. >> please, please, a lot of people are stuck here. they need to get out. please. >> >> juju: as the push to rescue the hostages intensifies, over 600 americans and 2 million palestinians with no way out. critical shortages. food, water, and power cut off. the crisis getting worse by the minute as israel escalates its bombardment of hamas targets. families back in the u.s. demanding answers. >> we helped everybody get out of israel. and i can't understand why we can't help get american citizens out of gaza. and after the "me too" movement took down media titans comes the list. a provocative new novel about romance in the era of assault culture and social media. >> it definitely deals with thorny, difficult subject matters.

>> juju: could "the list" change the conversation? >> i hope that it will just, again, lead to questions about what we believe and why. >> juju: also, remembering the man known to millions as shaft. richard roundtree. [♪] did you know, there's a way to cut your dishwashing time by 50%? try dawn powerwash dish spray. it removes 99% of grease and grime in half the time. dawn powerwash has 3 cleaning boosters not found in traditional dish soaps that remove food and grease 5 times faster. and, because it cleans so well you can replace multiple cleaning products for counters, stoves, and even laundry stains. try dawn powerwash dish spray. brand power, helping you buy better.

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tonight, shocking new details about the alaska airlines pilot who allegedly tried to kill the engines of a passenger plane midair. what he told investigators about the hours leading up to that flight. here's abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, alaska airlines pilot joseph david emerson looking emotional, appearing before a judge late today to face attempted murder charges for trying to crash a passenger jet. >> enter a not guilty plea on all counts -- >> reporter: he allegedly told investigators he'd taken psychedelic mushrooms for the first time 48 hours before the incident and thought he was having a nervous breakdown after going without sleep for 40 hours. authorities say emerson was off duty, hitching a ride in the cockpit's jump seat sunday. the on-duty pilots telling police emerson engaged in casual conversation, but then midflight, he threw his headset across the cockpit and announced, "i am not okay." then reaching up and grabbing the red fire handles and pulling them down.

a pilot physically engaged with emerson for 25 to 30 seconds. had emerson pulled the handles all the way down, the plane would have turned into a glider within seconds. emerson calming down and exiting the cockpit, allegedly telling the flight attendant, "you need to cuff me right now or it's going to be bad." emerson, a father with an up blemished flying history, told police he struggles with depression and a friend recently passed away, and it was his first time taking mushrooms. >> juju: thanks to gio. joseph david emerson also faces a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew along with 83 counts of attempted murder. we turn to the israel/hamas war and the roughly 600 americans stranded in the narrow region of the gaza strip. their quality of life deteriorating by the hour as they desperately seek any possible way out. >> it's so bad. life here is so bad. this is no life here.

>> juju: on the ground in gaza, the desperation experienced by an american trapped there with his family. >> i can't sleep. bomb everywhere. i can't sleep. every minute i going to be dying next minute. no place safe. no safe place in gaza. >> juju: zachria and his wife laila are small business owners from michigan in gaza visiting family when the war broke out over two weeks ago when hamas launched its deadly terror attack against israel. since then they've been on the run in gaza, dodging bombs as they head south toward egypt, praying for safe passage home. >> i couldn't even imagine to see my dad in that position. >> reporter: in dearborn, michigan, his son yehya says he can barely watch the videos his dad sends home. zachria moved his family out of

gaza to escape violence. he had no idea they'd be caught up in it again. >> i know my father-in-law got sick the other day. he does have diabetes, high blood pressure. it's hard for him to be in those kind of conditions without being able to have regular meals. take his medication. things like that. he really does need to come home. >> our family also has signified how the situation is getting worse. they're fearing their lives. they've experienced horrible trauma and ptsd. the fear of the unknown, that they might not make it back home. >> i used to buy water to drink. now no more water to drink. we have to drink saltwater. >> reporter: yehya and his wife say the united states must do something. they're petitioning the government to go rescue their dad and all americans in gaza. >> you know, we thought that it was very important to facilitate the federal lawsuit in order to add more urgency to the case. so we had to take immediate

action. >> we helped everybody get out of israel. and i can't understand why we can't help get american citizens out of gaza. it makes no sense. >> reporter: the state department says as many as 600 americans remain trapped in the gaza strip as it's besieged by bombs. among them abood, his wife wafa, and 1-year-old son youssef. >> he doesn't seem to be picking up. >> reporter: we were supposed to talk over zoom but couldn't get through. >> the living conditions are extremely dangerous. then on top of that, there has been intensifying rocket fire and air strikes in rafah, in the town they are in. every day it's getting worse and worse and worse for this family and the other american citizens there. >> juju: sammy nabulsi, a friend of the family, has been coordinating with the state department to try to secure a way out of gaza. how dire have those messages become over the last two weeks? >> worse every day.

they're staying in a single-family home with 40 other people. in rafah. >> reporter: abood, who holds a ph.d. in cancer research and works at a major pharmaceutical company, explaining the dire situation in a voice note he recently sent sammy. >> we constantly are managing our supplies of both food as well as milk for our 1-year-old son. it remains his main source of nutrition. >> juju: how are his wife and 1-year-old child holding up under all of this stress and difficulty? >> their son youssef, he used to wake up when this were bombings, startled and cry. he's now waking up screaming even when there is calm. that little boy is completely traumatized now. >> juju: sammy says the family attempted to cross the border into egypt three times on the instructions of the state department. each time met by a closed gate. >> every single time this

family, all the other american citizens who wish to leave, have gone there, stayed all day, not for a single american citizen to pass. >> there's a heavy egyptian military presence there at rafe gate to make sure there's no mass exodus coming out of gaza. extraordinarily frustrating for u.s. citizens being told they'll be able to get across, but there are so many actors involved and the u.s. state department is not on the ground in gaza. >> reporter: aid organizations in the region say the situation is beyond critical. 18 days into the war, israel continues to pound gaza with air strikes. the israeli military announcing 400 targets hit in the past 24 hours. this video circulating online shows the deadly aftermath of an israeli air strike near a school that was being used as a shelter. gaza authorities say now more than 5,700 people have been killed, more than 15,000 injured. gas supplies so low, the wounded are arriving in hospitals by

horse and cart. hospitals in the strip, the ones still operating, say they have less than two days of power left, risking a full-scale health care blackout. doctors without borders posting online about the desperate circumstances. one surgeon in this photo talks about having to amputate a young boy's foot, operating on the floor while his sister and mother are sitting feet away. >> this is the best, we cannot do more. >> juju: the world health organization saying an estimated 5,500 pregnant women in gaza expected to give birth in the next month, but a u.n. agency says emergency delivery kits with step-by-step instructions guiding women through their deliveries have yet to arrive, containing plastic bags and scissors to cut the umbilical cord. we've been following this palestinian student at the islamic university of gaza as she and her family try to find saf safety. they went south, but she says

resources are disappearing. >> it's really hard. if the world doesn't move in one or two days, you'll find all gazan people dead. >> juju: over the past few days, aid trucks have finally started making it into gaza. but it's just a tiny fraction of what's needed. today, president biden says it's not happening fast enough. and so far, there is no fuel in these supply packages. something hospitals desperately need. >> everything is up for negotiation. fuel, food, humanitarian relief, u.s. citizens, certainly israeli hostages. nothing is going to get in and out of gaza without hamas getting something for it. >> juju: today at the u.n. security council, secretary of state antony blinken defended israel but added this. >> israel must take all possible precautions to avoid harm to civilians. it means humanitarian pauses

must be considered. >> juju: behind the scenes the u.s. and other countries have been pushing israel to slow down its advance in gaza and delay any ground invasion, even as the israeli military builds up its forces near the border. world leaders like president biden hope that delay could help free more of the 200 hostages taken by hamas. overnight, the militants releasing two more women and for the first time we're hearing about the conditions they survived. 85-year-old terrorists kidnapped her and five others from their kibbutzes and took them by motorbike into hamas' infamous underground tunnels beneath gaza. >> there are a huge network of tunnels, it looks like a spider weapon. >> reporter: lifshitz says her group of hostages were given the

same food as their captors -- bread, cheese, cucumbers. also regular medical care. the time ticking and pressure mounting. israeli forces are now dropping hundreds of leaflets into gaza offering protection and compensation in exchange for any information about hostages. >> i just wish that violence would stop and that we didn't use collective punishment as a form of trying to solve problems. >> juju: without a cease-fire, it's unclear if more hostages will be released or if the hundreds of trapped americans will be allowed to leave. >> they need to get out right away. please. they need to get out. >> juju: families here in the u.s. can only hope that progress is made. not just for their families but for all the innocents held hostage by this war. >> we're basically barreling towards a situation where one of the following things is just going to kill them. an air strike, hunger, dehydration, or sickness.

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♪ >> juju: it's the story of modern love made complicated in this era of "me too," social media, and anonymous online

gossip. welcome to britain's bestseller, "the list." here's abc's deborah roberts. >> reporter: you may not know her name yet. but yomi adegoke is a r star to watch. the british journalist and author out with a debut novel, and it's generating international buzz. "the list" came out and it was an instant bestseller in the uk? >> i was surprised it was instant. i think it is a bit of a polarizing book. it definitely deals with thorny, difficult subject matter. i wasn't sure how it would land. >> reporter: yomi wants us to consider complex question. can you believe what you learn on the internet? it's at the core of her book, "the list." in it, a feminist journalist discovers an anonymous list circulating online of men who have behaved abuseively. including her fiance. >> it's about internet culture and how, i suppose, we still

haven't reckoned with the huge unchecked power of the internet. movements can be appropriated and taken advantage of online. but simultaneously, the internet is a huge tool to sort of give voice to the voiceless and speak truth to power. >> reporter: i caught up with yomi at silver lining lounge in manhattan to talk about her new novel, which centers around the smam-famous couple alla and michael, alla struggling with who or what to believe as the clock ticks down to their wedding day. you challenge us to look not just at the lives of the women who have accused but at the men who have been accused and whether or not those people all should be lumped into the same category? >> definitely. although being a journalist, someone who's written articles that kind of look at men that are accused of similar thins to michael, now she is attached to a man that's been accused of abuse. that puts her in a uniquely difficult position. we see what the internet often

does best, which is build people up, also how quickly that can be ripped away and how much delight people can take in seeing someone else's life go wrong and fall apart online. >> i think it's a book for our time. you take a very hard look at social media, romance, assault, online gossip. why do you think that is resonating so much with people who are reading this book? >> i think because there were lots of conversations about all the things that you've just mentioned. but many of them are very polarizing and black and white. for instance, the "me too" movement and how that unfolds online. i think this book allows space for questions and nuanced discussion. >> we're here to say me too! our voices will break through! >> reporter: the list inspired by reality. several crowdsource lists began circulating in the u.s. as the "me too" movement gained momentum. public accusations against high-profile men like bill cosby and harvey weinstein.

the anonymous spreadsheets allegedly featuring names of powerful men in various industries accused by female colleagues of sexual harassment and other wrongdoing. you were pleased to see people being held accountable, but then you began to look at it a little bit more skeptically? >> my knee-jerk reaction as a feminist, i think the same way as my character, was to support them without question. for me it's less about i think the "me too" movement and allegations more broadly, but more about what happens when those allegations play out online. so i wanted to fixalize it, to be able to have a really difficult conversation that looked at the positives and negatives without throwing anyone in the real world under the bus. >> reporter: with writing that jumps off the page, no surprise "the list" was at the center of a huge hollywood bidding war and is now set to hit the small screen. hbo max, the bbc, and production

house a24 winning the rights to codevelop "the list" into a tv adaptation. >> i'm executive producing it, somehow. >> that will be something new. >> yeah. very, very new, yeah. >> reporter: the novel's jaw-dropping twist will leave readers and soon to be viewers shell shocked. >> that was probably one of the most difficult parts to write. i really wasn't sure how i was going to end the book at all. i knew i wanted it to be surprising. i hope when people do finally get to that very mind-blowing last chapter -- >> it was mind-blowing. >> thank you, i'm glad it was. i hope that it will just, again, lead to questions about what we believe and why. >> juju: our thanks to deborah. when we come back, remembering the man many knew as shift, richard roundtree. ♪ ♪ ♪ type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. ♪ ♪

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