doron: it's amazing. eric: there are proposals to pump more treated sewage into the dead sea to slow its decline or even fill the jordan river with desalinated sea water. another plan called "red to dead," would see brine from a proposed desalination plant in jordan pumped into the sea, but the project has stalled and concerns remain about its environmental impact. ittai: if and when this happens, we are going to impose changes on the composition of the lake, changes that the lake has not seen for millions of years, four to five millions of years. then is it feasible at all to bring in hundreds and hundreds of cubic, of many cubic meters, to the dead sea for them to evaporate when there is shortage of water in the region? eric: israel is now pumping some water back into this system, but it's not enough. neither the farmers nor the factories are proposing to take less water to help save the dead sea. for the foreseeable future, it's going to keep shrinking. ittai: but if you look at the vast shores and mud

early that morning, he got a call from his wife, doron.e are alarms and they are also hearing explosive, and they went into the safe room. they heard the gunshots from outside. his wife and daughters, raz and aviv, were i70km away in another kibbutz, called nir oz, celebrating a jewish festival with family. and the conversation got disconnected and... ..later on, i tried to, i tried to reach her and her mother and couldn't get them. this is the home of yoni's mother—in—law, where his wife and children were staying. there's a real sense of, smell of death here, and there's a huge amount of blood still on the floor, children's shoes. it's smashed up. it looks like a big struggle went on here. a lot of broken glass. some were burned and some after the terrorists left, they ran away. you can... i won't describe it because it's too... too painful. yeah. how many people do you think died here? i think around 90 people. hamas launched simultaneous attacks on more than 20 israeli communities that day. this was a mass attack, well—planned, well—equ

early that morning, he got a call from his wife, doron.e alarms and they are also hearing explosive, and they went into the safe room. they heard the gunshots from outside. his wife and daughters, raz and aviv, were i70km away in another kibbutz, called nir oz, celebrating a jewish festival with family. and the conversation got disconnected and... ..later on, i tried to, i tried to reach her and her mother and couldn't get them. this is the home of yoni's mother—in—law, where his wife and children were staying. there's a real sense of, smell of death here, and there's a huge amount of blood still on the floor, children's shoes. it's smashed up. it looks like a big struggle went on here. a lot of broken glass. some were burned and some after the terrorists left, they ran away. you can... i won't describe it because it's too... too painful. how many people do you think died here? i think around 90 people. hamas launched simultaneous attacks on more than 20 israeli communities that day. this was a mass attack, well—planned, well—equipped. you

early that morning, he got a call from his wife, doron.e alarms and they are also hearing explosive, and they went into the safe room. they heard the gunshots from outside. his wife and daughters, raz and aviv, were i70km away in another kibbutz, called nir oz, celebrating a jewish festival with family. and the conversation got disconnected and... ..later on, i tried to, i tried to reach her and her mother and couldn't get them. this is the home of yoni's mother—in—law, where his wife and children were staying. there's a real sense of, smell of death here, and there's a huge amount of blood still on the floor, children's shoes. it's smashed up. it looks like a big struggle went on here. a lot of broken glass. some were burned and some after the terrorists left, they ran away. you can... i won't describe it because it's too... too painful. how many people do you think died here? i think around 90 people. hamas launched simultaneous attacks on more than 20 israeli communities that day. this was a mass attack, well—planned, well—equipped. you

early that morning, he got a call from his wife, doron.are alarms and they are also hearing explosive, and they went into the safe room. they heard the gunshots from outside. his wife and daughters, raz and aviv, were i70km away in another kibbutz, called nir oz, celebrating a jewish festival with family. and the conversation got disconnected and... ..later on, i tried to, i tried to reach her and her mother and couldn't get them. this is the home of yoni's mother—in—law, where his wife and children were staying. there's a real sense of, smell of death here, and there's a huge amount of blood still on the floor, children's shoes. it's smashed up. it looks like a big struggle went on here. a lot of broken glass. some were burned and some after the terrorists left, they ran away. you can... i won't describe it because it's too... too painful. yeah. how many people do you think died here? i think around 90 people. hamas launched simultaneous attacks on more than 20 israeli communities that day. this was a mass attack, well—planned, well—equip

major doron spielman, an israeli military spokesman, described the hamas killing spree here >> start shooting all these vehicles people standing at the bus stop every single thing you see. carnage everywhere dead bodies. >> reporter: then came a barrage of rockets from gaza. >> quite close get in everybody in >> this is what we're this is like a shooter situation in the u.s imagine a thousand shooter situations happening constantly >> do you think we're clear? >> we are. >> reporter: as we left for another part of sderot, israeli troops seemed tense. [ voice on loudspeaker it turned out with good reason. [ explosions ] >> stay down stay down! [ explosions ] >> so these seem to be mortars and they are coming in very close >> reporter: no one on our team was injured tonight meirav and her family are trying to hold themselves together but as they looked at photos of romi and reminisced, her sister daria was overwhelmed. when you hear the sound of pure grief, it never leaves you. it's raw and primal. tonight, it's all over israel >> richard, with me here we're glad you and the team are o

. >> reporter: doron avital is the former commander of israel's elite special forces unit, sayeret matkals in the middle of an active war zone is the last option. you are going to have troops that are moving in. troops that are coming under fire. you are going to have booby-traps, tunnels, snipers, and within that scenario, you are going to have -- >> it's a major challenge, and a challenge israel never encountered in the past. >> reporter: he told us in the event of a full-scale invasion, specialist hostage teams would actually work in tandem with invading israeli forces, but even then, the hope is tha negotiations would still be taking place on the ground rather than trying to rescue the individual hostages by force. norah? >> norah: you know, charlie, and i wonder, since those hostages were released, have the air strikes stopped? >> reporter: actually, our colleagues inside gaza said the air strikes stopped at about 12:30 this afternoon, about five hours before the hostages were released. and as far as we know, they haven't resumed since. >> norah: that's a bit of news. charlie d'agata

this is doron and her two young children. razjust behind me. the bbc spoke to her husband, yonny asher, as he described the moments just before they were taken. during the morning i contact my wife and she told me on the phone that there are terrorists inside the house. i want to ask of hamas don't hurt them. don't hurt little children. don't hurt women. if you want me instead, i'm willing to come. well, for yonny, he says his worst fears were confirmed when he saw this video, that appears to show his wife in the back of a van surrounded by militants. they try and put something over her head and then, just there, he sees a glimpse of his daughter. but ido dan, he's told the bbc that the horrors of saturday were played out on a family whatsapp group. he was speaking to them as they were hiding in an air raid shelter. i'm saying goodbye. she's sent me this heart and she said, i'm not sure we're going to survive this. well, from what we know, haddas did survive, but five of herfamily members are now missing, including her two ch

. >> idf spokesperson doron spielman, thank you so much for joining us, appreciate it. >> thank you.still to come, instead of condemning hamas for its attacks on israel, russia's vladimir putin is blaming what he calls a failed u.s. policy in the middle east. more on his response, just ahead. is it possible my network could take my business to the next level? it is with comcast business. powering all your devices with gig-speed wifi. and you get fast downloads and uploads. pick it up! pick it up! oh we got this! because it's powered by the next generation 10g network. more speed for your business? it's not just possible. it's happening. get started for $59.99 a month for 12 months. plus, ask how to get an $800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. comcast business, powering possibilities. here's why you should switch from chrome to duckduckgo. duckduckgo is a browser you download to your mobile and desktop devices. unlike chrome, has privacy built-in. it comes with a private alternative to google search, which doesn■t spy on your searches, and it blocks cookies and creepy a

early that morning, he got a call from his wife, doron.ey went into the safe room. they heard the gunshots from outside. his wife and daughters, raz and aviv, were i70km away in another kibbutz, called nir oz, celebrating a jewish festival with family. and the conversation got disconnected and... ..later on, i tried to, i tried to reach her and her mother and couldn't get them. this is the home of yoni's mother—in—law, where his wife and children were staying. there's a real sense of, smell of death here, and there's a huge amount of blood still on the floor, children's shoes. it's smashed up. it looks like a big struggle went on here. a lot of broken glass. some were burned and some after the terrorists left, they ran away. you can... i won't describe it because it's too... too painful. yeah. how many people do you think died here? i think around 90 people. hamas launched simultaneous attacks on more than 20 israeli communities that day. this was a mass attack, well—planned, well—equipped. you can definitely see that they invested a lot o

thanks, doron. good to have you with us today. >> thank you. >> martha: so a new episode of the untold story podcast comes out tomorrow. it's a conversation that i had with dana perino about the video that i witnessed, which is all of the hamas terrorist attack on october 7. i watched it with a number of other journalists and executives from fox news. it is an absolutely horrific video. but it's important to talk about it, important to talk about what is in it and important to keep alive the stories of these people. this is why all of this is happening. this is why israel is retaliating so forcefully and they had to have known, hamas, that this kind of brutal attack on civilians in their home was going to provoke and unleashed response from them in gaza. so all of this in many ways by design, what we're watching play out right now. that podcast, you can hear that conversation in detail with dana and myself. it's available tomorrow on the untold story with martha maccallum and dana perino. breaking r

major doron spielman joining us. >> thank you very much. >>> a live look in tel aviv where president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu are going to deliver remarks soon. stay with us. . >>> president biden is on the ground in israel right now where moments ago he reaffirmed u.s. support for israel as it strikes back against hamas. listen to the president. >> we will continue to have israel's back as you work to defend your people. we'll continue to work with you and partners across the region to prevent more tragedy to innocent civilians. >> the president expected to speak again soon, of course, we'll bring you that live as soon as it begins. meanwhile in just a couple of hours the united nations security council will hold ang open meeting on the unfolding crisis in the middle east. the blast at al ahli baptist hospital in gaza that killed hundreds of people yesterday will, of course, be a major focus of that u.n. meeting and its aftermath protests have erupted. huge protests. those are cities across the middle east you see on your screen. officials in gaza blame is

. >> international spokesman for israel's defense forces, major doron spielman, thank you very much for updating us this morning on "morning joe." >>> we're going to take a one-minute pause here. but coming up, in israel, where moments from now we are expected to hear from secretary of state blinken and also from benjamin, his counterpart in benjamin netanyahu, about the ongoing war. we'll take the remarks live. >>> we'll also get the latest reporting from "the washington post"'s david ignatius. we're back in one minute. e minue >>> this attack was a campaign of pure cruelty. not just hate but cruelty against the jewish people. and i would argue it's the deadliest day for jews since the holocaust. the deadliest day since the holocaust. one of the worst chapters in human history that reminds us all of that expression i learned from my dad early on, silence is complicity. i mean, silence is complicity. it really is. i want you to know, i think you've already figured it out, i refuse to be silent. >> that's president biden speaking yesterday. he has spoke several times. yesterday, at that

all broke loose when my cousin 34-year-old doron and her two young daughters went to visitdaughtero auntn a sml community, very peaceful by the border around a 630 in thed fi morning, all broke loose and fireworks shots, missiles,dm bombs and gunmen, terroristsord, start invading israel, breaking and border, entering community when there were order to shelter in place and takent there, all went into their safer room and got in and lockedstarte herself in. soon after, they started hearing the footstephearins ande looting and the breaking and literally putting the place on fire. we were trying to reach them. their family tried to reach them on a cell phone phones andn kind of communication. and unfortunatelaty at 1030 o'clock and in israel, the communication went silent and they went missing, shot after we saw video through the hamas emerging. and we see them on a little vehicle being taken into the gaza strip. e since then, we have lost trace completely. we do not know where they are. we only know that they're somewhere in the gaza strip being really, really in a bad condition. their moth