yaniv yaakov, joining us tonight live from southern israel. tonight, the white house says president biden will give a speech tomorrow at one pm eastern time on the ongoing crisis in israel. we also got two major statements from the white house tonight, both of which were surprising in their own ways, and quite substantive. the first was from president biden confirming that at least 11 american citizens have been killed in the attacks in israel thus far. the president's statement also said this, quote, while we are still working to confirm, we believe it is likely that american citizens may be among those being held by hamas. the president said, quote, i have directed my team to work with their israeli counterparts on every aspect of the hostage crisis, including cherry intelligence and deploying experts from across the united states government to consult with and advise israeli counterparts on hostage recovery efforts. the likelihood that there are americans among those who are being held hostage, like mr. yaakov's family's, that creates a ver

joining me is yaniv, his brother, brother's girlfriend and two nephews are among the hostages.rry for what you and your family are having to endure. what do you know about their abduction, and have you gotten any word at all about how they're doing? >> well, i know -- thank you for having me, first. thank you for letting me tell the story of what happened here. we know they were abducted because hamas used propaganda to show how they kidnapped them, my brother and his girlfriend, and also we know that their mom was in a hole with the little children, 10 and 12, like you said, while the terrorists took them. and the little boy cried, please don't take me, i'm too young. so for sure we know they were abducted. for sure we know they were kidnapped, and they are being held over there but since that moment, we don't have any sign from them. we don't have any information about them, are they okay, are they healthy? are they being fed? are they being taken care of, their wounds, if they're wounded, we don't know anything. we want, you know, we want them back home out of this situation

yaniv voller is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of kent.s assessment of israel's military operation. so it seems as if a ground invasion is now imminent. the main purpose of escalating the air strikes in gaza is probably to prepare the ground for the israeli troops to enter gaza. now, the question is, how is this invasion going to look like? there are different scenarios. there are different ways in which israel might into gaza, and there are also different scenarios with regard to how the region will respond. so the greatest threat at the moment, from an israeli perspective, is also is opening a war in different fronts, which might also involve the palestinians in the west bank and perhaps even worse, hezbollah in lebanon. yeah, and that's certainly been warned about with a huge movement of israeli troops to the israeli border in northern lebanon, the evacuation of lots of israelis from that border as well. we've had antony blinken, the us secretary of state, voicing his concerns over their tensions, over tensions there. what's your assess

for example, the ivano-frankivsk cemetery, because they would sound strange, although the town of yaniv renamed ivano-frankivsk, and this is strange, because there is already a whole ivano-frankivsk, but also in lviv, in the lviv region there must be another small ivano-frankivsk ivano-frankivsk, well, this is mine such an opinion, it seems to me that historical names, they have a meaning, and they also have their own history, and this, it is good in this sense. here, then i was in favor of khristianopol in 90, which does not yet have the right to vote, and now i think that after all khristianopol is good, by the way, let me remind you that the idea of ​​naming the city shiptytskyi, that is, so that we are not choptytskyi, yes, shiptytskyi himself, for example, called this city khrystynopil and wrote through khrystynopil, this is also reminded by ms. halyna hrynyk, for which we thank her very much for helping us a little. in this understand, gentlemen, we have a busy program ahead of us, we will have a lot of military personnel, we will have oleksandr voytko, from the zaporizhia directi

four members of yaniv's family are among the hostages kidnapped by the militants.re his nephews, 12-year-old yagil and 16-year-old or. the boys managed to call their mother before the armed men took them from the neighboring house. then they said they heard someone break in the door and enter the house. about 10 minutes later, i heard people outside the door speaking arabic. then the door opened and i heard my youngest son say: don't touch me, i'm still small. that was the last i heard from them. these inhumans took children out of their homes, out of their cribs, they just kidnapped them and are holding them hostage. their father and his girlfriend are considered missing. judging by this video, they are in the hands of militants. this wait is killing. i see how broken my mother is. this is the hardest for me. i can be strong, i can feed the whole family, but it is difficult for me to see how my mother suffers. and while israel continues to shell targets with gas, hamas threatens to start executing hostages in response. with each strike, one sees the face of israel

.— joining me now is yaniv voller.r lecturer in middle east politics, at the university of kent. thank you for coming in. we have had this update from israeli military saying they will step up air strikes on gaza, from the afp news agency. two weeks on from the hamas attack on israel, two weeks into a wall, what is your assessment of the military operation? it what is your assessment of the military operation?— what is your assessment of the military operation? it seems as if a round military operation? it seems as if a ground invasion _ military operation? it seems as if a ground invasion is _ military operation? it seems as if a ground invasion is now _ military operation? it seems as if a ground invasion is now imminent. i military operation? it seems as if a i ground invasion is now imminent. the main purpose of escalating the air strikes on gaza is probably to prepare the ground for the israeli troops to enter gaza. the question is, how is this invasion going to look? there are different scenarios, different ways

. >> yaniv, thank you very much. i hope you get them back soon. >> thank you so much for having me. >> thank you. >>> when will the humanitarian aid get into gaza? cnn's clarissa ward just traveled to the rafah crossing where dozens of trucks aresying in egypt and waiting and waiting. she'll join us live next. >>> stacks of humanitarian aid, that were supposed to have already gone into gaza today. it will now cross the egyptian border within the next 24 to 48 hours, supposedly. in about 200 trucks, which carrying dire humanitarian aid, water and food and medicine. are just sitting there. just a short distance away. from the tens of thousands of palestinian innocent civilians who desperately need it. the united nations calling this a difference between life and death. clarissa ward is in cairo, egypt for us. and officials say that road repairs were needed before the crucial aid to pass through. is that really the only reason for this 13-day long delay so far? >> reporter: no, jake. it is not. we were actually at the r

so joining us now is yaniv kutchinsky, a professor at uc berkeley's haas school of business and a micro forecaster for the us federal reserve. thank you for joining us. thank you very much. first, pleasure to be here. what is a micro forecast for the us federal reserve? so so i work for a survey that is done by the federal reserve. it's called the survey of professional forecasters. the that conduct a survey about the future course of the macro economy. for example, i forecast future nominal gdp, future real gdp, future inflation. and i submit my forecast to the survey that comprised of about 37 panelists. while the federal reserve actually consults this information that you collect. exactly. yeah and it is you can google just a federal reserve survey or professor professional forecasters, and then you get to the website. all right. so you're heavily involved. so let's start with this here. let's go back to that. what i just mentioned before the wall street journal says delta airlines reported record revenue in the second quarter. ticketmaster reports ticket sales are up nearly 18% year