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you're not alone. president biden sending a firm message to the people of israel during his high-stakes visit today. the new aid he's now pledging to a war-torn country. open house, jim jordan fails for a second time to earn enough gop votes to become speaker. the real-life impacts the stalemate is having on everyday americans. shocking confession. dramatic never before heard details about the death of natalee holloway from the man who now admits to killing her. and family's fight. what happened when a loved one dies in wrongful death case. meet the people who are pushing for a big change in one state. can't wait to get to that report. going to impact a lot of people. we'll start with fast-moving details in the israel-hamas war. >> presidented biden is on his back to washington.

he met with israeli president benjamin netanyahu. show of solidarity. the palestinian health ministry said nearly 500 people were killed. today the white house said its current assessment that israel is not responsible. explosion was likely caused by a misfired rocket by the group palestinian islamic jihad. >> however, palestinians and hamas are blaming an israeli air strike. president biden. >> the united states unequivocally stands for the protection of civilian life during conflict. i truly grieve with the families. >> it's sparked massive spark in the middle east, including outside the u.s. embassy in lebanon right now. israel has cut off basic supply

since the hamas attack. kelly cobiella joins us from tel aviv. i know president biden delivered an address about the war before leaving israel. you were in that room. what did he say about resolving this conflict? >> reporter: the president not only speaking to the people of the united states, the people of israel, but also people in that room. family members of the victims. and first responders. he talked about the prospect for peace. he said that justice must be done -- interrupt, you may hear the intercepters. we talked about how justice must be done the option for peace still has to be there, they still have to be considered, he warned against what he said, in

his words, letting the all-consuming rage drive bad decisions like he and so many others have compared on happened here on october 7th to 9/11. but again, warning that one has to always consider peace. take a listen. >> nations like united states and the israel aren't measured solely or power, we're measured by our power of our example. we must keep pursuing peace. must keep pursuing a path so israeli and palestinian people can both live safely. >> reporter: the president today also seeming to say that israel has agreed to allow humanitarian aid into gaza, but we haven't yet gotten any specifics on when, where or how. >> kelly, i want to ask about

palestinian islamic jihad. they're the ones the u.s. is saying is responsible for the hospital bombing. >> reporter: islamic jihad is another armed militant group in gaza, they're deemed a terrorist organization by the united states and others, they were formed in the 1980s in gaza, for the same reason as hamas to fight the israeli occupation, second largest armed group in gaza behind hamas and often fight alongside hamas and the u.s. said they came to their assessment independently, not relying in other words on necessarily on israel's assessment, they said they used overhead imagery, intercept and open source information to come their assessment that this explosion at the hospital almost 24 hours ago now was not

israel's doing but was in fact an errant rocket fired by islamic jihad. they fired rockets in this conflict. of course, palestinians in gaza and hamas have both disputed that version of events. >> kelly, thank you. an outrage in arab countries is growing today following that deadly bombing of a hospital in gaza city. soon after the explosion we saw protests in occupied west bank, an area within israel separate from and much larger than gaza. millions of palestinians leave there. an area not led by hamas. >> thousands protested in the streets in lebanon, large crowds gathered out the u.s. embassy. the u.s. state department has now issued a do not travel warning to all of lebanon. let's bring in matt bradley in

beirut, lebanon, tonight. night time there now. i wonder if things have calmed or what are you seeing? >> reporter: definitely calmed. we were up at the embassy a little while ago and everything was more or less dispersed. the military were trying to replace the barricades that had been blocking the entrance to that road going up to the embassy. it's not like an embassy you might have seen in other countries. this is a barricaded embassy because of the threats that u.s. diplomats face in lebanon. that's why it's way up on the hill. what we still smelt the tear gas. we saw a lot of the barriers torn down, police are putting

them back up. it looked like the protesters set fire to one of the office buildings, commercial buildings that was next to this road, wondering, why the u.s. embassy, israel doesn't have formal diplomatic relations with lebanon. when i was at another protest earlier today, here in beirut, in hezbollah territory, they were talking about america and israel in the same tone, in the same sentence, just equating them totally. they were talking about benjamin netanyahu and joe biden and referring to them in the same terms because to them there's no daylight between america and israel. they are both abetting each other in the same crimes against the palestinian people and it's not just about what happened last night, for them this has always been an issue, america has been partnered with israel in suppressing the palestinian people for generation and matt bradley with us from lebanon,

thank you law enforcement here in america also on high alert in the wake of israel-hamas war. >> here in new york city, police are beefing up security measures as demonstrations take place nearly every day. tom winter joins us now. tom, what exactly is the nypd doing and what with rehearing around the country? >> to have them in front of various houses of worships. we're seeing the exact same things in los angeles, a police presence at mosques, synagogues and yesterday the fbi director making those statements at a meeting of the five eyes, the main intelligence collaborators that occurred in san francisco, you've got the united kingdom, canada, the u.s., australia, new zealand working together, about

plans from shy ma but they also spoke about these ongoing threats from pro-hamas groups. >> we have to talk about what's happening abroad, this has sparked threats, security concerns all over particularly europe. >> i mean, real threats from stabbings that we spoke about yesterday to bomb threats to the airport in france, single-runway airport it's beach town. the heightened rhetoric that we see and now pro-hamas groups specifically calling for acts of violence and in the past we've seen that type of activity occur and when those calls have been made in europe they typically have been acted upon. >> they're also concerned about the potential lone wolf attack. >> the hardest thing to try to find, someone who's engaged in this rhetoric online, listening to those calls that i referenced

and say, you know what i have to do something and how can you possibly predict when someone is going to do something. you're seeing that outward presence coast to coast. >> tom winter, great to have you. thank you. time for today's money minute. rite aid is closing more stories across the united states. >> united is changing up its boarding process. steve joins us now. let's to to rite aid, they announced they're closing at least 150 stores through its bankruptcy process, it could close addition mall stors in the future. rite aid filed for bankruptcy after slowing sales. irs will invite select taxpayers to try out the program direct filing.

it will be rolled out to everyone else. some limitations, direct file doesn't process state tax returns, of course, and you can't itemize deductions. finally, this is a good one, guys, united airlines is looking to speed up its boarding process in a win for those who like window seats, the airline plans to board passengers in economy class with window seats, then the middle and aisle seats last. the change is set to start october 26th. >> that sounds logical to me. start with the folks in the back. there we go. >> thank you so much. coming up, around the clock diplomacy effort now under way to broker a cease-fire between israel and hamas. staggering revelations about the death of natalee holloway from the man who now admits to from the man who now admits to killinger and h remember the things you loved...

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dramatic new revelations in the case of natalee holloway, court fielgts now confirming that joran van der sloot admitted to killing the teenager back in 2005. remember that holloway disappeared while on a graduation trip to aruba. van der sloot has long been linked to her disappearance. he pleaded guilty today to

extortion and wire fraud charges in this case. kathy park joins us now live from aruba. we haven't heard these details before and they're jaw-dropping. >> reporter: kate, good afternoon to you. so this information came to light because it was part of the agreement under today's plea hearing, and i do want to warn our viewers that the information that i'm about to share, that's now public, and has been entered ahead of today's plea hearing is extremely graphic and disturbing. van der sloot kicked through exactly how this unfolded. he was walking on the beach here in aruba, not too far from here, with natalee at the time. things escalated very quickly. he made advances. she rejected his advances. she kicked him -- or i should say kneed him as a result he end up kicking her in the head.

he fell unconscious. he found a cinder block nearby and bludgeoned her in the head and dragged her body in the ocean. very graphic and chilling details, kate, tough for anyone to hear especially her family. >> i know her mother was there and she spoke after the sentencing today. what did we hear? >> reporter: that's right, beth holloway has been at the forefront of finding closure, justice for her daughter and we heard from her not only in the courtroom but outside of the courthouse today after the hearing, she said, after 18 years, the nightmare is finally coming to an end at one point she did look at van der sloot and called him a killer. >> as far as i'm concerned, it's over. it's over. joran van der sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter's

murder, he is the killer. it's been a very long and painful journey but we finally got the answers we've been searching for all these years. we finally, today, we got justice for natalee. >> reporter: and kate, speaking of justice as i mentioned beth holloway was in the courtroom today and she looked at her son matt and said, we did it. kate. >> kathy park, thank you. ground hog day on capitol hill because congressman jordan has failed to reach the 217-vote threshold to become speaker. the final tally 212 for hakeem jeffries and 199 for jordan. that means he actually received fewer votes today than he did on the first ballot yesterday. ryan nobles is tracking these developments for us. break it down for us. what do these numbers mean for jim jordan and his path forward. >> reporter: the trend line

isn't good to get less votes than you gotten in the round before, there are some of even jordan supporters that are suggesting that perhaps if there's another vote some time down the road the number of no votes could increase by even more, jordan doesn't seem ready to back down, listen to what he told reporters just a few minutes ago. >> two ballots now. right where speaker mccarthy was in the process so we're just going to keep talking to members. >> reporter: of course, you remember when kevin mccarthy was in similar situation they went a full 15 rounds before he was victorious and mccarthy, his whole posture he wasn't going to back down and keep the voting going, the difference here with jordan is that there aren't many things to bargain with the holdouts now, they seem more

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here in brentwood, a number of people did feel shaking. these are people who have been in the state of california who have felt other quakes before. this is what they had to say. >> oh, i thought i was dizzy. i was standing up. >> what did you feel? >> just like i was swaying. but i experienced the other earthquakes, the real big one. >> so this didn't compare? >> no. >> reporter: we are, again, are in brentwood, about 20 minutes south of isleton, the center. so it makes sense a lot of people here would have felt it. no reports of damage. bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, bob. our coverage continues online at nbcbayarea.com/quake. stay updated on any quakes that happen in the bay area and find tips on how to stay prepared for the next big one. high school students in san francisco are joining calls for

a cease-fire in the israel-hamas war. they are staging mass walkouts today in protest. students from gal leah high school and others were joined by the supervisor in a walkout today. student walkouts were held in other bay area cities and across the country. tonight at 5:00, we'll have a report from our marianne favro. here are some other headlines we are fellowing this afternoon. pg&e is making its case for a new safety plan for state regulators. the proposal aims to bury 2,000 miles of power lines. but some say the plan would take too long and cost $6 billion, which would be past on to customers with higher rates. a cheaper alternative is so add a protective covering, but pg&e argues that method has a higher fire risk and not as safe.

a vote is likely to take place over the next month. happening tonight, a refinery is updating the public on measures being taken. last thanksgiving, the refinery released nearly 24 tons of chemical dust into the community coating cars and dusts. there were no elevated levels of harmful materials in the soil. now to the weather. there's a warning if you plan to head to the beach to enjoy some sunshine. here's meteorologist kari hall with the forecast. >> here is what to expect. we have a heat advisory for today and tomorrow. if you plan to be along the coastline, there will be dangerous rip currents and breaker waves, reaching up to 22 feet, especially for tomorrow. by the weekend, temperatures drop and we will be watching out for a chance of rain.

but this is the reason why we will have a heat advisory. our temperatures headed for the mid 90s in concord for today. low 90s for much of the north bay. san francisco reaches 86 degrees. and palo alto, a high of 90 and mid 90s in morgan hill. it gets even hotter tomorrow. we'll talk more about that and a look ahead to a significantly cooler weekend in 30 minutes. >> we could set some temperature records tomorrow, as well. striking hollywood actors are organizing a bay area protest today outside of netflix headquarters in los gatos. the picketing began about 20 minutes ago at noon as the strike approaches its 100th day. talks seem to be at an impasse. both sides walked away from negotiations one week ago. no word when they'll go back to negotiating at the table. okay. if you want all the day's news

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ukraine and the middle east. speaking afterwards putin called xi a dear friend. while the chinese president laid out his vision for a world order less dominated by the united states and its allies. the pentagon has released videos of what it called, risky aggressive intercepts of chinese aircrafts. 180 of these incidents over the last few years. in a briefing thehead of u.s.-indo pacific command called their actions dangerous. and an update to a story we brought you a few weeks ago, nearly 200 more bodies were removed from a colorado building owned by a funeral home that had advertised environmentally friendly green burials. officers got a warrant to search. initially they found over a hundred bodies, the newly discovered bodies found were transported to the el paso coroner's office, the

investigation is ongoing. no arrests so far. let's return to the coverage of the israel-hamas. >> president biden is on his way back to the united states. protests erupted after the deadly blast at a gaza hospital yesterday. the israeli military continues to bomb board other parts of gaza with air strikes. >> ellison barber is near that border and joins us now. what are you seeing on the ground where you are now. >> reporter: you know, it's been fairly quiet here the last two days, at least compared to how it had been earlier in the week when we had been in this area, almost throughout the night a sound of drones, military helicopters, military planes in the air here, but since thursday, really, we haven't seen massive amounts of missiles

flying from this side of israel into gaza, at least from this section of the border and we also since friday haven't really seen massive bombardments of artillery. what can we see is the glow of orange flashes when something from the israeli side lands in that area, obviously president biden's visit today, there were a lot of questions as to whether or not it would change israel's military plans, for days they've talked about launching a ground assault into the northern part of gaza, just yesterday at a press briefing a spokesperson for israel defense forces pushed back on it, everyone's talking about the next phase but it noticeably be that. they were talking about a ground offensive, four days they were preparing their troops and equipment to move forward with the next phase of war with

emphasis on ground offensive. there was this question when president biden came to visit in terms of military movement, would it delay or impact what israel was planning to do in these next phases? when i asked a spokesperson for israel's defense forces whether or not it would have an impact, he said the short answer is we don't know. but right now, things are quiet on the border. so much frustration inside gaza, they believe israel is lying that this was something that happened because of islamic jihad fired misfire and hit the hospital. >> ellison, the hospital blast, how do things seem on the ground now, more tense?

>> reporter: you know, i was just talking with someone who's inside of gaza, he's from gaza city, he and his family have evacuated a few miles to the south and i was asking him about some of the claims that have come out from israel, remember they have released footage that proves it wasn't their weapon that fell on this, they didn't launch an aerial bombardment targeting this hospital. they say they had absolutely nothing to do with it and they also released audio recording. people inside of gaza, though, they don't believe that, they say israel has a history of lying about things when things go wrong, they believe that islamic gee had, hamas, they don't have the weapons capability to carry out an explosion that looks this big and there's a lot of tension and nbc news hasn't been able to independently determined what happened here all we know is

that hundreds of civilians died in that explosion. >> ellison, thank you. we'll pick up that conversation now the u.s. intelligence community closely watching the developing situation in gaza and israel, that includes that deadly hospital blast we've been talking about in gaza city, if you look online today or social media you might see any number of unverified collapse about who was responsible, two senior u.s. officials tell nbc news that an independent assessment shows it was a rock from the palestinian islamic jihad that misfired and hit the hospital. i want to bring in stephanie gosk. she's been breaking down what it is we know. be transparent with our audience. >> what we've been told. >> what we've been told, thank you. let's start with what i just said u.s. officials are saying, look, this looks like this was an errant rocket. >> yes, it dovetails with what

israelis are saying right now. they held a lengthy press conference in english. complete with images. they're saying that the damage isn't as bad as hamas is saying and casualties aren't as high as hamas is saying. the rocket didn't hit this parking lot, if it had been an israeli missile you would have seen damage to these building here and there aren't any damages. the crater the size of the crater where the missile would have impacted, they showed these two images of previous israeli strikes and you have basically 20 to 60 feet in diameter and what was in that parking lot wasn't even close to that and they also alleged that hamas realizes very soon that it had -- it was actually islamic

jihad rocket but then twisted the story for its own benefit spreading that in their own words the narrative to the arab world and we've seen the result of that. >> let's flip to the other side, what palestinians are saying or hamas. >> they're saying right before the attack, there was actually a warning from the sraelis to clear out of the area one indication it was an israeli missile attack and they talk about the damage. we can't verify it ourselves. american journalists aren't on the ground in gaza. what palestinians are saying right now there's a significant amount of damage that could only have been created by an israeli missile. the angle that missile had taken and they also point out in the past idf has been wrong about incidents.

palestinian journalist who was shot, they had to walk it back and say it was israeli military. just 11 minutes after its founding, president harry s. truman and the united states of america became the first nation to recognize israel. we stood by your side ever since. we'll stand by your side now. >> president biden is once again reinforcing america's commitment to support israel in its war with hamas. >> the president was supposed to meet with leaders of egypt, palestine. but that was called off. an degree mitchell, tensions are high in so many parts of the world right now, what do you make of the cancellation of those meetings with arab leaders? >> i mean, it's so unfortunate.

it's the result of the horrible bombing of the hospital in gaza and the meeting, the summit in jordan that was supposed to be held today was a key part of the president's mission, he wanted to be both in israel, of course, reinforcing support, but also cautioning them to limit the civilian casualties, finding out what happened at the hospital in gaza and he agreed, that the u.s. intelligence has concluded that the israelis weren't responsible contrary to the claims from hamas. but the fact that the arab meeting was cancelled, that was supposed to be the balancing act, and it was a very important mission, he wanted to be there to get the crossing open into egypt, dependent largely on the president of egypt, el-sisi, and to get all sides to agree. the humanitarian aid has to get

in for the weeks and months this invasion may continue. with all of that, try to prevent the war from extending, stop terror attacks, but instead you had the horrible bombing, immediate claim of responsibility by hamas towards israel, saying that israel was responsible and there was a gap there before israel denied it. saying that they evidence to the contrary. by then, you were seeing protests in jordan, protests in beirut, very violent protests as well. the declaration of day of rage from hezbollah in the north and of course the cancellation of the summit and that that eliminated the possibility of getting the aid in, getting hostages out and other civilians out, and also looking towards the future of what a post-hamas gaza could look like. >> we've been talking a lot

about hamas and hezbollah, but senior u.s. officials say it was a different group that misfired a rocket that hit the hospital, can you tell us about the other militant groups operating in the middle east? >> within gaza, in particular, palestinian islamic jihad is very active, they claim they already hold hostages, they have some of the people they have taken from israel as well as they're responsible for terror acts. that's the claim from the u.s. and others that it's the islamic jihad. if that's true, we can't determine. we can't get in on the ground. you have everyone pointing at each other. it could be that the islamic jihad was trying to wreck with somewhat promising conversations for getting hostages out. >> andrea, quickly, the state

department, their request for more than 350 u.s. citizens now wanting to leave gaza, i know earlier today president biden said the u.s. is giving humanitarian assistance to palestinians in gaza, too, food, water, medicine, how soon can any of that happen? >> nothing can happen until that rafah crossing is open, that's critical, and it was promised on saturday that it would open to antony blinken, it's still not open. that was what was supposed to be accomplished in jordan. >> of course all of that further complicating these diplomatic efforts. >> andrea mitchell, thank you so much. up next, we turn to u.s. policy debate, families who have lost loved ones are calling a new york wrongful death law

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but at 26 years old, her life was cut short. mcintyre said due to medical negligence in her first pregnancy. >> she had feelings that she wasn't going to make it. >> she was expressing those to you? >> yes, she was. >> reporter: he said her hospital treatment got so bad he tweeted in part. i can't wait to write a tell-all about my experience. four days later she was died. >> we used to take pictures all the time -- >> reporter: mcintyre said doctors missed repeat signs of hellp syndrome. now the 31-year-old is a single father to their 3-year-old son elias. today he sports the grieving families act. legislation in new york that would permit families in wrongful death suits to recover compensation for their anguish.

>>. >> receiving quality care -- >> reporter: instead in new york, wrongful death compensation is based on the potential future income of the person who died, which can lead to quote problematic payout calculations. >> for example, it says children's lives or lives of elderly are worth much less. it also tends to value men's lives much more than women's lives. >> to get groceries on the way home. >> reporter: it's a reality that he's felt firsthand. his 66-year-old mother ruth was murdered last year in the tops supermarket shooting. at 86, ruth was the oldest victim and a lifelong work from home mother. >> for her life not to be valued because of her children's profession, because of her age, is outrageous. she was invaluable. >> reporter: opponents to the grieving families act, updating

the wrongful death calculation would drive up liability costs for malpractice. >> you're going to lose more physicians. >> reporter: since 2019 at least two states and washington, d.c., have passed laws banning the use of race, gender in the wrongful death calculations. it's not just about compensation but accountability and equity. >> we don't want to put a price tag on amber. you know, she's not just another statistic. >> bruce has filed a wrongful death lawsuit with the hospital and the litigation is ongoing. in a statement, that hospital tells nbc news they're not able to share information about the case due to pending litigation and hipaa. and patient privacy rules. as per the grieving families act, new york governor previously vetoed the bill, however she's currently reviewing an updated version. >> what's different about this updated version that might make

her sign it in. >> she vetoed the bill back in january the two main differences are changed to statute of limitations. when families can file for damages after a case of wrongful death. some significant shifts there. >> that was a great. thank you so much. there's much more news ahead. >> don't go anywhere. you're watching "nbc news daily". (vo) you weren't made for moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. but entyvio is. in clinical trials, entyvio helped many people achieve long-term relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. although unlikely, a risk of pml, a rare, serious,

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today. stay up to date on any earthquake that impacts the area on our website. meteorologist kari hall has a time line on how long the higher temperatures will stick around. >> our high temperatures for the inland areas will reach into the low 90s for today and even hotter for tomorrow with our interior spots like morgan hill and concord reaching into the upper 90s. but then by friday, it's starting to cool off and will be in the mid-80s, then mid-70s for saturday, but there also will be more cloud cover. we could also be watching out for a chance of some spotty light showers on sunday, highs in the low 70s and mild weather for much of next week. san francisco's going to be heating up, reaching 86 today, and 90 tomorrow. but then friday is looking fairly cool with a high of 74 and only 60s for the weekend. we may see a heavier rainfall here with a chance of showers on sunday into monday.

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