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negotiations heat up -- joe manchin says he won't run for reelection. can technology prevent tragedy? your lucky $2 bill might be luckier than you thought. why it could be worth thousands of dollars. it's beginning to look a lot like christmas here at 30 rock. your first look at this year's rockefeller christmas tree. we made it to friday. "early today" starts right now. good morning, i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. we begin in the middle east where israeli families see hope rekindled of a kidnapped loved ones appear in hostage videos. they put out footage of an elderly woman and young boy with a young clear proposal to release them.

keir simmons has this update from tel aviv. >> reporter: they are alive. 77-year-old hannah, who's in a wheelchair and a young boy, yagil, that's the message from hamas, claiming they're ready to release them. the white house says israel has agreed to implement daily four-hour pauses, limited in time and area, and not a cease fear, israel says. already this week, humanitarian corridors have seen tens of thousands of palestinians forced to flee to southern gaza, and there has been intense pressure from president biden. >> did you ask for a three-day pause to netanyahu? >> no, i've been asking for a pause for a lot more than three days. >> reporter: raising hopes of a hostage break through, nbc news is told the cia director and

mossad met to confirm details of a potential hostage release. >> it's a feeling of abandonment from your own government. >> reporter: this hostage's son has no news of his mother, a peace activist. he spoke to us before the development. >> in order to get them back, we need words, not guns. anytime there's noise about release, i'm happy. it puts me on the edge, but i'm also happy. >> reporter: israel's president told nbc's raf sanchez there's no substantial offer from hamas to release hostages, even though israel says it will allow more aid into gaza. >> we agreed also on major upgrade of the humanitarian aid to gaza. >> reporter: but aid to gaza passes through the rafah crossing, and this was rafah in the supposedly safer south. this woman lost six family

members in this air raid. please find one for me, she begs rescuers. just one. >> our thanks to keir simmons for that report. >> re confrontations are on the rise in the u.s. amid the war in gaza. in minnesota, a muslim woman was beaten beaten at a gas station. it's unclear if the attack was directly related to the war. meanwhile, 20 students at brown university were arrested for refusing to leave a campus building while calling for a cease fear as a push for the end of the fighting continues to grow across america. a bombshell announcement that could change the trajectory of the 2024 elections. west virginia democratic senator joe manchin says he will not run for relex election. this comes as a major blow to the party. chris pollone is in d.c. with the latest. manchin, he's of course,

retiring from the senate, but it still didn't sound like a good-bye. >> reporter: that's right. joe manchin sounding like someone who might have his eyes on a much higher office. his announcement yesterday to step away from the senate came as a major surprise as you said, and boosted republican hopes of regaining control of that chamber where democrats now have a two-seat majority. manchin face d an upchill chal uphill challenge in a state former president trump won. >> what i will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out and seeing if there's a movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. every incentive in washington is designed to make our politics extreme. the growing divide between republicans and democrats is

perilizin paralyzing congress. we need to take back america and not let this divisive hatred further pull us apart. >> reporter: and manchin isn't the only potential third party wildcard. jill stein last ran in 2016 when some democrats accused her of costing hillary clinton the election. for his part, president biden is focussing on his own recent victories. he celebrated his party's election wins this week saying biden initiatives helped fuel some of the victories, including the kentucky's governor race. he cheered the historic deal that earned a pay raise from the auto makers. jim clyburn will submit the official paperwork for the biden-harris ticket in south carolina's primary. phillip? >> no primary debates, though. thank you. the fbi is investigating

alarming threats this morning against election workers. federal authorities say suspicious letters were mailed to election officer in at least four states. georgia, oregon, california and washington. at least one tested positive for fentanyl. they're working to trace where the letters came from. in san francisco, the trial is under way for the man accused of beating nancy pelosi's husband with a hammer in a home invasion a little over a year ago. david depape was caught on miss body cam during the brutal assault. his attorneys are mostly trying to limit the damage. the trial is expected to last about a week, and we expect paul pelosi to testify as early as monday. the uk is investigating what could have been a major disaster. a bulletin was issued last week regarding an airbus a-321 that departed on october 4th.

several windows were damaged or missing due to high-powered lights used during a filming event, but it was not noticed. it returned after crew members realized the issue. three people are in custody after a u-haul van led police on a chase across miami-dade county. eventually, troopers were able to use pit maneuvers to send the van into a side wall and quickly arrest the suspects. no one was injured. turning now to the weekend forecast, and you might want to take a second look at your plans, because rain and cold temperatures are in store for much of the country. angie lassman has her eye on when and where that's going to fall. >> we can't really complain about the chilly temperatures when we were dealing with spring and summer-like temperatures into the south and central plains for the past couple days. that all comes to an end of course. and you can see the cooler air settling in and more seasonal

conditions. but we'll have to watch for a little bit of heavy rain working through texas but stretching into portions of the mid atlantic, even we could see showers today warm in florida and a little snowfall expected for folks in the pacific northwest. you can cici atsee, seattle had on some of that. elevated winds are expected. as we get into tomorrow, we could see slick conditions on the roadways, heads up if your weekend plans take you on any of those roadways, taking it slow and being a little extra careful is going to go a long way. unfortunately, the rain and snow sticks with us for sats from at

montgomery. thunderstorms possible from new orleans to texas. and that's a look at your forecast, guys, back to you. >> appreciate it. enjoy your weekend. >> you too. coming up, getting in touch with emotions again. but first, who says only you can prevent forest fires? how california is inusg cutting edge a.i. to spot wildfires before they spread. a mystery! jessie loves playing detective. but the real mystery was her irritated skin. so, we switched to tide pods free & gentle.

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it can spot smoke that is pretty much impossible to see with the human eye. here it's indicating there's smoke, but we can't see it. two of the cameras using this a.e. are located here high up in the palomar mountain in east san diego. the cameras like the ones up here are scanning 24 hours a day, seven days a week and can see out 70 miles. already there's been several times a.i. has been able to spspot a fire and alert them before they've gotten any 911 calls. >> we've had a success of a fire starting in the middle of the night. no one called 911, we got resources there, put it out and never got a 911 call. >> reporter: but that doesn't mean it is a replacement for real people. for more than a hundred years, watch towers at booker hill have been used as a lookout. this one still is today. volunteers ron and ernie spend hours monitoring for signs of smoke. what do you make of a.i. now

supplementing your job? >> it's another tool. >> i don't think you're ever going to replace, at least not for a while, the human factor. >> reporter: like all technology t i technology, it isn't perfect. but it's been invaluable. how significant is this? >> it's huge. it's very significant. it could be 3:00 in the afternoon. itcould be 1:00 in the morning. this system doesn't go to sleep. it's persistent. >> reporter: last month, time m magazine named it one of the top conventi convention inventions of the year. >> we've spoken with people in australia. we've spoken with people in hawaii to help teach them more about what a network of cameras like ours can do. >> reporter: there's no way of knowing exactly how many mega

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and i said no, i really want to ge g donated. >> it was an easy choice. >> reporter: they said it looked the part. and after eight decades in one place, suddenly this spruce is on the move, ready for its closeup. >> it's sad to see it go. but every year me and my wife venture down to new york to see the tree. and so to see a representation of our community in new york is a very positive thing. >> it gives like new york a little piece of vestal. >> our thanks to john chandler for that report. it's fascinating. every year there'sra a guy whos jo be job it is to scout it out and find the try. >> there are a lot of holes in that tree. so they get a lot of the branches and fill them and make

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