we're learning more about who caused this deadly explosion at a hospital in gaza.

president biden says it wasn't israel, but rather a palestinian group and military experts agree. we have a live report ahead. the house of representatives fierce gears up for a third round of voting for speaker ahead of today's closely-watched speech by fed chair jerome powell, steve sedgwick joins us to talk about what we can expect the fbi is warning of a new war super charged by ai. and working on the golf game with the pga hope program. "early today" starts right now good morning, i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. there are inclaereasing signs tt a deadly strike on a hospital was not caused by israel but by

a palestinian rocket that misfired while visiting tel aviv yesterday, president biden told the israeli prime minister, quote, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. >> for the latest, let's go to claudio lavanga. how does the president know? what evidence does he have that led him to that conclusion >> reporter: good morning, guys. president biden has based his conclusion on evidence that was provided by the u.n., u.s. defense department i'm sorry. nbc news has made its own assessment by consulting with four ministry and munitions experts. we show them tens of photos of the blast and aftermath and concluded that it's unlikely that israel carried out that attack based on the fact that the marks left behind by the missile are inconsistent with the weaponry used by israel rekrntsly. now this is an assessment that

matches the one from israel and the u.s. defense department but at the same time it's probably going to do very little or nothing to convince the arab world that israel was not guilty of these attacks, because yesterday there were hundreds of protests taking out to the streets, sometimes the demonstrations turned violent and lawmakers in the region appear to have no doubt that israel was behind this attack, including the foreign minister of jordan who told lester holt that nobody in the region is buying the narrative that it was an islamic jihad missile guone astray and accused the israeli military of not being very credible on the diplomatic side, the u.s. vetoed a u.n. security counsel resolution calling for humanitarian pauses. this is the wording they used, to allow humanitarian aid to enter the gaza strip the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said it was unacceptable that in

that resolution the right of self-defense of israel was not mentioned. other members of the u.n. security council criticized the decision to defeat the resolution, including china, saying it was nothing short of unbelievable and russia said it was yet another demonstration of the double standards by the united states >> so much distress there. claudio, thank you >> president biden has returned to the united states after his whirlwind trip to israel the white house announcing the president will deliver a prime time foreign policy address to the nation tonight, covering both the terrorist attacks in israel and russia's war in ukraine. brie jackson joins us live from d.c. the president already outlined a lot of his goals for the middle east during that historic trip yesterday. >> reporter: that's right, good morning, frances president biden delivered a clear message in tel aviv that the u.s. would always stand with israel he says he plans to ask congress

for an unprecedented defense package for israel's defense however, in his remarks, the president urged israelis not to be skconsumed by rage in the wae of the attacks on october 7, saying the vast majority of palestinians are not affiliated with hamas president biden announced $100 million in humanitarian aid for f gaza and the west bank and secured an agreement with egypt to allow humanitarian aid into the gaza strip the president spoke candidly about this on air force one with reporters. >> if you have an opportunity to alleviate pain, you should do it, period and, if you don't, you're going to lose credibility worldwide. and i think everyone understands that i was very blunt about the need to support getting humanitarian aid to gaza. get it to gaza and do it quickly. >> reporter: during his time in

israel, the president also had the chance to comfort survivors and families of the victims killed in israel 31 americans had been confirmed killed in the conflict, with at least 13 still unaccounted for president biden said the u.s. is working with partners throughout the region to rescue hostages taken by hamas he, again, promised that getting those hostages home is a dtop priority and we can likely expect to hear more about those efforts when the president speaks tonight frances? >> brie, thank you and the president's speech is set for 8 8:00 p.m. eastern. the speaker's office remains vacant as the house prepares for a third dave voting. republican nominee jim jordan again failing to shore up the support of his gop colleagues on wednesday, only garnering 199 votes, one less than he received during the first round of voting on tuesday a third vote is expected to be

held at noon today while jordan says he is staying in the race, his fraying support does raise questions about the future of his candidacy. the house has less than a month to avert another shutdown and faces the pressing issues of aid for ukraine and some are floating the idea of temporarily elevating acting speaker patrick mchenry to conduct urgent business senator bob menendez was absent from a new york courtroom on wednesday where his wife ple ple pleaded not guilty her charge was conspiring to use senator menendez as a agent of h egyptian government. the senator was excused from wednesday's proceedings, due to senate business and will instead appear in court monday

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night peak wind gusts through early sunday high 20s, hoelow 30s. gusty winds. potentially power outages. otherwise rolling into the weekend for the rest of the country with warm anr 70s fbile and that's a look at the forecast, guys, back over to you. >> okay, angie, thank you. "early today" is back in one minute with a warning from the fbi. the bureau is saying ticintlincarfial ielgee might super charge a new cold war with china. it's mrs. stevens. they say she can make things appear out of thin air. hey! you guys want to come in? my mom made dinner. make your table legendary, with country crock. are you tired of clean clothes that just don't smell clean?

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