ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Nov. 14, 2023

tonight breaking news is there a plan in the works right now to get the hostages including Americans out of Gaza with President Biden is now saying tonight and the March for Israel in Washington tonight tens of thousands showing their support for Israel amid word of this potential deal on the release of the hostages that could be coming in the next 48 to 72 hours what we're learning tonight and we have stayed on the story of that young son H Goldberg Poland his parents telling me about those last two text messages from their son tonight Terry Moran with Persia's family in Washington and with the families of the other Americans still being held also tonight the breaking news 24 hours after our team reported from inside Gaza near multiple hospitals tonight the White House Now revealing us intelligence confirms Israel's claims about Hamas using hospitals and the tunnels beneath them as a base of operations and what ABC News has now learned tonight that inside those tunnels a senior Administration official says hundreds of Hamas Fighters with Communications and traps what the intelligence shows Matt Gman standing by in Israel here in the us tonight the deadly Collision on I70 in Ohio a semiu crashing into a bus with students on board at least six people killed more than a dozen injured Alex pre in Ohio the ugly day on Capitol Hill even with that potential government shut down just days away the focus for much of this day was instead on the behavior of members of Congress accusations former speaker Kevin McCarthy elbowed a colleague and what a senator threatened to do today and in the vote just moments ago Rachel Scott live on the hill the Urgent warning tonight from authorities in Iceland saying there is a quote significant likelihood of a volcanic eruption in the coming days the ground rubbling already tonight a devastating new climate report from the White House the effects of climate change now seen in every corner of this country tonight the new and poignant tributes coming in from actors Matt LeBlanc and Courtney Cox what they're now saying about Matthew Perry and America strong Tonight the music Prodigy at the piano the young man blind since birth and what he's trying to do tonight for others just like [Music] him you have to see this from ABC News world headquarters in New York this is World News Tonight with David mure good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy Tuesday night we begin tonight with news of a potential breakthrough coming involving the hostages being held by Hamas Americans among them it is unclear how many hostages but authorities say we could learn more about this potential plan to secure their release in the coming 48 to 72 hours news of this possible breakthrough comes on the same day a massive pro-israel rally was held in Washington DC the images coming in from the National Mall tonight tens of thousands of people taking part in the March for Israel a show of solidarity and support for Israel and for the Israeli people following the October 7th Hamas terror attack groups demanding an end to anti-semitic attacks across the US and calling for the release of the hostages police on high alert given the tensions in this country as well and in Israel tonight the families of hostages held by Hamas beginning a 5-day March from Tel Aviv to prime minister Benjamin netanyahu's office in Jerusalem demanding he do more to bring the hostages home and tonight we are back with the parents of that young son HS Goldberg Poland his parents originally from Chicago you'll remember them telling me in Israel about those last two text messages from their son before Hamas put him on the back of a pickup truck what those parents told our Terry Moran just today and tonight on this potential breakthrough involving hostages President Biden optimistic saying he believes it's going to happen ABC's Terry Moran leading us off from Washington tonight in the shadow of the US capital the March for Israel demonstration extended far down the National Mall thousands gathered in solidarity with Israel from the stage families of some of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza pleading for their safe [Applause] return and tonight word that a possible breakthrough on a deal to release more hostages could come within the next 48 to 72 hours according to a senior Israeli Source President Biden sounding optimistic I've been talking with the people involved every single day I believe it's going to happen but I don't want to get in detail what's your message for the families hang in there we're coming here on the mall though it was a time to show strength and pride this huge crowd stretching almost to the Washington Monument thousands of people the blue and white of the Israeli flag and the red white and blue and the chant going up for the hostages bring them home at least 10 Americans are still missing including three-year-old Abigail Mor Adon who was taken hostage at kabut kafar aah Abigail was still in her father's arms when he was shot dead by terrorists Abigail's mother and father were killed that morning and she's now alone in Gaza she's now alone in Gaza among those American hostages 23-year-old hsh Goldberg Poland who was taken by Hamas at that music festival we met his parents two days later in Israel Rachel and Jonathan showing David a picture of their son huddling with others in a bomb shelter HS missing part of his arm after terrorists threw a grenade into that shelter then ordered him into the back of a pickup truck his parents are left with their son's two final text messages saying I love you and I'm sorry the fact that he didn't just say I love you but that he said I'm sorry I took immediately to be that he knew we were going to be inous tremendous pain or worry or crisis because it's it made no sense there's no other reason to say something like that so that's the last time that we heard from him and those two words I'm sorry yeah and I keep saying it's okay 39 days later Rachel and Jonathan are living a nightmare still fighting every way they can for their son when you spoke with David you said you're sending your strength out every day to him yeah for sure and I it's a mantra I say all day long I just say I love you stay strong survive and I just say it and then sometimes I do it to myself because it's so hard it's not describable it's not imaginable even to me what we're going through so I have to stay strong and I have to survive it's the only way we'll save him and so let's bring in Terry Moran with us tonight and Terry I'm so glad you met up with her's parents again they they are just so incredibly strong like all of these families and I know you're learning tonight that the families of the American hostages uh including hs's parents will soon meet with the Biden administration's top hostage negotiator David that meeting will take place tomorrow and as you say hh's parents will be there they told me today that they are still not getting any information about their son hirh uh and yet they still have hope as you could sense there we can also report that secret talks about this hostage still have been going on for weeks with Hamas demanding that should be a dayslong ceasefire in exchange for the release of any captives and Israel is saying there will be no deal at all unless dozens of their citizens are allowed to come home David Terry Moran leading us off tonight from Washington Terry thank you there is also news coming in tonight from us Authorities on Hamas operating beneath hospitals in Gaza and what the US now believes Hamas is doing in those tunnels right now tonight the White House revealing us intelligence confirms isra is's claims about Hamas using hospitals and the tunnels beneath them as their base of operations including alifa hospital where those premature babies were taken off incubators when they lost electricity tonight a senior Administration official now saying hundreds of Hamas Fighters with Communications and traps are inside those tunnels we have also just learned tonight that the Gaza Health Ministry run by Hamas has just now said that the Israeli military has told them they plan to storm elifa Hospital ABC's Matt Gutman from Israel tonight with what we're just learning now tonight the Israeli military just confirming it is raing O shifa Hospital gaza's largest Israel saying ground forces are conducting a quote precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area of the hospital with Medical Teams and Arabic speakers it comes less than 24 hours after hour reporting from inside Gaza at the Children's Hospital where the Israeli military says Hamas was operating inside and underneath the Biden Administration saying Declassified us intelligence corroborates Israel's claims that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have been using the hospitals to w war against Israel and to hold hostages Hamas and P members operate a command and control node from alifa hospital in Gaza City they have weapons stored there and are prepared to respond to an Israeli military operation against the facility a Us official saying the assessment is based on a variety of sources but did not provide additional details and back inside Gaza amidst that Fierce street battle we were taken to rantisi Children's Hospital where Israel claims Hamas had a command and control post inside the bombed out basement those AK-47s look pretty old and Rusty I mean was this a crack force that was here no no some of the gear was operationally gear but you also some of the terrorists fled away did not stay here it shows us the war Hamas is conducting from hospitals a a hospital for children Israel's Chief military spokesman showing us another room where they believe Hamas kept some of the hostages but the hospital's director tonight denying Israel's claims saying the facility was used for displaced families not hostages and David the Israeli military saying that it had given Hamas a 12-hour ultimatum before the raid that is a senior Administration official telling us that the tunnels beneath alifa are extensive and multi-layered it's believed that there are hundreds of Hamas Fighters there with Communications equipment and booby traps and the tunnels we saw just outside that Children's Hospital appeared sophisticated the Israeli military saying they were even powered with a solar array David Matt Gutman in Tel Aviv for us tonight Matt Gutman thank you again tonight for your reporting from inside Gaza meantime to the other news this evening and back here in the US the deadly Collision on I70 in Ohio a semi- crashing into a bus with students on board at least six people have been killed more than a dozen injured ABC's Alex paset in Ohio tonight tonight dramatic new video showing the Frantic Rescue of high school band students trapped in this fiery fatal crash just east of Columbus Ohio First Responders urging passengers to jump out of a window to safety seconds later an explosion we have heavy fire on the trffic camera and we are being advised that there is children trapped on the bus Ohio highway patrols says around 9 this morning a semi rear ended this charter bus carrying 57 people many of them members of the tusky valley marching band scheduled to perform at an annual School Board conference five vehicles were involved in the crash according to officials at least six people have died including three teenagers and more than a dozen were injured in rushed to several area hospitals this is U our worst nightmare Chris mcneel was driving his semi-truck along I70 immediately after the fiery accident and says that this is one of the worst crashes he's ever seen in all his decades working as a trucker I saw them they had a ladder up in one window cuz there's a couple people exiting from the front of the bus tonight remnant of that now charred and tattered bus towed away a team from the mtsb is now on the ground investigating the cause of the deadly accident David tonight the truck company for this semi involved says that it's cooperating with authorities David Alex paset reporting from Ohio tonight thank you Alex we turn tonight to an ugly day on Capitol Hill not because of this potential government shutdown looming but because of the behavior of members of Congress today accusations tonight former speaker Kevin McCarthy elbowed a colleague and what a senator threatened to do today and then the vote in the house just moments ago on keeping the government open this now goes to the Senate Rachel Scott on the hill even with that crucial vote today on whether the government will shut down Congress instead founded s focused on something else today the alleged inexcusable behavior of some members you know where to find me any place anytime cowboy in a senate hearing Republican Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma challenging the president of the teamsters to a physical fight you want to do it now I'd love to do it right now well stand your butt up then you stand your butt up oh hold stop it Senator Bernie Sanders is immediately calling for order oh no sit down sit down you know you're a United States Senator sit AC okay sit down please and in the halls of the capital Congressman Tim burett says former speaker Kevin McCarthy elbowed him in the kidneys today during an interview with NPR the audio caught on tape what kind of chicken move is that you're you're pathetic man you are so pathetic you know it was deliberate it was just a it just a cheap shot by a bully did you elbow him okay no I did not help him no I would not help him I would not hit him in a kidney burchard is one of eight Republicans who out McCarthy after he worked across the aisle to avoid a government shutdown just last month tonight the news Speaker Mike Johnson in a major test faced with similar opposition from his own party Johnson's Bill only passing late today with the help of Democrats 93 Republicans voting no but many say it won't cost Johnson his job what did you tell those members who call your plan a mistake who say it's a surrender it's we're not surrendering we're fighting but you have to be wise about choosing the fights that bill now heads over to the Senate where it is expected to pass with strong bipartisan support before the Friday deadline David all right Rachel Scott live up on the hill tonight for us Rachel thank you tonight the devastating new White House climate report finding the effects of climate change are getting worse in every part of this country the report showing the US has been hit with a record-breaking 25 billion doll disasters just this year roughly one every three weeks it says the US is responsible for 177% of global warming President Biden saying his admin ministration is now investing $6 billion dollar to help combat the effects of climate change scientists say it is still not too late to slow down the pace of climate change when we come back here tonight the Urgent warning from officials in Iceland about the potential for imminent volcanic eruption and the new and poignant tributes tonight from actors Matt LeBlanc and Courtney Cox what they're now saying about Matthew Perry we turn next tonight to an urgent warning from officials in Iceland saying there is a quote significant likelihood now of a volcanic erup ion in the coming days more cracks appearing in roads after more than 12200 recent earthquakes 700 in just the last 24 hours authorities already declaring a state of emergency and ordering evacuations when we come back here tonight the new tributes just in this evening from actors Matt leblan and Courtney Cox to their friends co-star Matthew Perry and America strong tonight the piano player you have to see to the index in tonight friend Stars Matt LeBlanc and Courtney Cox posting moving tributes to Matthew Perry LeBlanc tonight saying the times we had together are honestly among the favorite times of my life spread your wings and fly brother you're finally free adding and I guess you're keeping the 20 bucks you owe me Cox writing I am so grateful for every moment I had with you Maddie and I miss you every day maty Perry died last month at 54 when we come back here tonight America strong the boy and the piano finally tonight here America strong the boy and the piano his determined parents and the school that believed in him we can hear the piano before we even arrive Matthew Whitaker who is blind has been playing the piano since he was a boy Matthew was born at 24 weeks doctors told his parents he might not survive there were 11 surgeries to try to save his sight as a toddler they noticed he had an ear for music before he could even talk his grandfather gave him a keyboard at 3 and his parents began looking for a school for their boy you were determined to find a place for him we had been looking for since he was 3 years old they found the filon M di austino Greenberg music school and they remember that first visit with the teacher Dr Dalia sakis to determine if Matthew was a fit you're here on the thumb he remembers you on that first day do you remember him oh yeah someone that unique with that kind of ability you know children can do things but not every child can do what Matthew did this was Matthew at 8 [Music] [Applause] [Music] everybody they found one of the only Community music schools in the country dedicated to teaching the blind at 14 on stage at the Apollo now at 22 Matthew is back to help the school that helped him my first piano lesson was here my first time using Brar was here you're here today because of because of that because of school yeah yeah that school that teacher a few of his favorite [Music] things we tell him who's been listening the entire time you know who's standing out in the hallway is Dalia yes she's been she's been watching over you making sure you show up with your music yes she she's always the one that's like let's let's work on the music even though we don't want to you know you know what she called you a force knowing she is in the room he plays something for her Rap City in blue Matthew's [Music] way [Music] and just 22 already helping those who come [Music] next well as you can see he is extraordinary Matthew just performed at the benefit concert for his school hoping to help other children get a chance like him if you'd like to help you can go to fmdg music school.org again fmdg music school.org I'll see you tomorrow good night thank you for making World News Tonight with David mure America's most watched newscast

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Published: Wed Nov 15 2023