tessa morgan arrived at sfo a short time ago from portugal with assistance from the state department and north bay congressman mike thompson's office. morgan spent ten months in israel traveling with a jewish youth group. congressman thompson says so far work to get his constituents home has been effective. >> i talked to my district office staff this afternoon and everyone who has been working one of these cases reports to me that their the people they've been working with are either home or on their way home. >> thompson says for right now, the turmoil to select a new house speaker has not impacted efforts to bring americans home. but he says there needs to be a resolution soon if congress is to move forward with foreign aid. abc seven news reporter zach fuentes will have more on tessa morgan's journey tonight at six. >> still, events across the bay area joined a national walkout today to call for a cease fire in gaza. there were marches from berkeley to san francisco. more than 100 teens took to the streets outside of galileo high school. >> they have been seeing horrific images o

. >> after a frightening ten days, tessa morgan is finally back home in the bay area with her family. how are you feeling? >> exhausted. i'm very, like, surreal. i wasn't supposed to be here right now. i was supposed to be, like, going to work in tel aviv. >> morgan, who is from sonoma, traveled to tel aviv ten months ago with a jewish youth group. she ended up staying to work in an art gallery. we first spoke with her saturday while she was still in israel. sirens and blasts interrupted that first interview. you just part of the heartbreaking reality, morgan says. many there are experiencing people i know who in the beginning of the conflict were posting those like missing persons fliers. >> i just watched them like kind of one by one turn into funeral announcements. >> it's wednesday. we met her the moment she got into sfo, but getting here wasn't easy. tessa said flights were being canceled left and right and the few that were still flying were almost impossible to book. >> everyone was scrambling to get on those planes. they were completely full. a couple tickets would pop up. you

. >> our interview from tel aviv with tessa morgan was interrupted by the sound of explosions and air raid sirens across the city saturday night. the barrage captured live on cnn . there are five incoming right now. >> tessa says lowering metal blast shutters and moving to a fortified bomb shelter inside her apartment is the new reality. >> and it's happening at least three times a day. my neighborhood in tel aviv is a bit more secluded, but also anything can flip at any time. >> and those sirens like absolutely take your breath away every time you hear them, they're terrifying. >> tessa traveled to israel ten months ago with the jewish youth group and decided to stay in tel aviv. but now she's anxious to return home to her family in sonoma. she's managed to book a flight to portugal, but is not optimistic. flights are being canceled left and right. >> we're not sure if we'll be able to keep it. if all goes well, we'll be able to fly out in the next couple of days. our charter flight is sort of a backup. >> the us state department is working to evacuate americans out of israel with ch

tessa morgan tells us she is still on track to leave tomorrow. her bags are packed. they're ready by the door. morgan traveled to israel ten months ago with the jewish youth group. she says the situation has become terrifying. north bay congressman mike thompson's office is working to bring the group of ten back home safely. >> pro-palestinian rallies in the south bay drew massive crowds saturday and sunday. hundreds came out to march and pray yesterday near santana row in san jose. the palestinian group say they are alarmed with israel's military escalation in gaza and they are worried about the fate of relatives there. >> why are we out here? >> because we want to put a halt to israeli bombardment of gaza. there's there are two paths we can take. we could either bomb gaza and just flatten the strip, kill thousands of people, mostly civilian, or we could have a two state solution and a similar protest took place in san francisco. >> hundreds of people also rallied in san francisco yesterday in support of the people of israel. the group condemned hamas's actions and d

. >> our interview from tel aviv with tessa morgan was interrupted by the sound of explosions and airrens across the city saturday night. the barrage captured live on cnn. there are five incoming right now. >> tessa says lowering metal blast shutters and moving to a fortified bomb shelter inside her apartment is the new reality. >> and it's happening at least three times a day. my neighborhood in tel aviv is a bit more secluded, but also anything can flip at any time. >> and those sirens like absolutely take your breath away every time you hear them, they're terrifying. >> tessa traveled to israel ten months ago with the jewish youth group and decided to stay in tel aviv. but now she's anxious to return home to her family in sonoma. she's managed to book a flight to portugal but is not optimistic. >> flights are being canceled left and right. we're not sure if we'll be able to keep it if all goes well, we'll be able to fly out in the next couple of days. our charter flight is sort of a backup. >> the us state department is working to evacuate americans out of israel with chartered pla

tessa morgan told us she's still on track to leave on tuesday and her bags are packed and ready by theoor for morgan traveled to israel ten months ago with a jewish youth group. she says the situation has become terrifying. north bay congressman mike thompson's office is working to bring the group of ten home safely here in the bay area. it has been a weekend defined by passionate rallies, protests and actions in response to the war, we saw a pro-palestinian rally in san jose and a small group in the hindu community showing support for israel. in fremont, hundreds turned out for a second straight day in san francisco, while stanford has seen a divided week on campus. we have much more on that in our next half hour on abc7 news at 11. we are continuing to keep you updated on what's happening in israel and gaza and here at home . we'll bring you the latest local connection here on tv and online. you can always check abc7 news .com and download the abc7 bay area app to get breaking news alerts and live stream updates. new at 11. it's something you don't hear about often, but in oakland, w

abc seven spoke with one of them, currently in tel aviv, tessa morgan tells us she is still on track.morrow. she has her bags packed. they are ready by the door. she traveled to israel ten months ago with a jewish youth group and she says the situation there has just become terrifying. north bay congressman mike thompson's office is working to bring that group of ten home safely. >> a pro-palestinian rallies in the south bay drew massive crowds saturday and sunday. hundreds came out to march and pray yesterday near santana row in san jose. the palestinian group say they are alarmed with israel's military escalation in gaza and they worry about the fate of relatives there. >> why are we out here? because we want to put a halt to israeli bombardment of gaza. there's there are two paths we can take. we could either bomb gaza and just flatten the strip, kill thousands of people, mostly civilian, or we can have a two state solution, a similar protest took place in san francisco. >> hundreds of people also rallied in san francisco yesterday in support of the people of israel. the group cond

. >> our interview from tel aviv with tessa morgan was interrupted by the sound of explosions and air raid sirens across the city saturday night. the barrage captured live on cnn . there are five incoming right now. >> tessa says, lowering metal blast shutters and moving to a fortified bomb shelter inside her apartment is the new reality. >> and it's happening at least three times a day. my neighborhood in tel aviv is a bit more secluded, but also anything can flip at any time. >> and those sirens like absolutely take your breath away every time you hear them, they're terrifying. >> tessa traveled to israel ten months ago with the jewish youth group and decided to stay in tel aviv. but now she's anxious to return home to her family in sonoma. she's managed to book a flight to portugal but is not optimistic. >> flights are being canceled left and right. we're not sure if we'll be able to keep it. if all goes well, we'll be able to fly out in the next couple days. our charter flight is sort of a backup. >> the us state department is working to evacuate americans out of israel with chart

tessa morgan arrived at sfo from portugal yesterday with assistance from the state department and thegressman mike thompson's office says morgan spent ten months in israel traveling with a jewish youth group. she said getting back to sfo was not easy. flights were being canceled. the few that were still available were almost impossible. able to book everyone was scrambling to get on those planes. >> they were completely full. a couple of tickets would pop up. you had to refresh the page like every ten minutes to see if something else would pop up. our hearts are so heavy for the people of israel and really just hoping that everybody else has the same experience we do and getting their loved ones home safely because we know there's still a lot of a lot of people trying to get home to the us. >> congressman thompson says so far work to get his constituents home has been effective. stay with abc's seven news for all the developments out of the middle east, including president biden's address tonight, you can watch it live right here on abc seven. and wherever you stream starting at 5 p.m