Israel Snubs Pauses, Question Of Aid Goes To Senate, Eyedrop Recall
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Israeli forces continue to retaliate against hamas and gaza.

but protest goal for a ceasefire and the bite administration pushes for humAnitarian causes.

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Israel is now four weeks since hamas back militants crossed into southern israel, killing more than fourteen hundred people in kidnapping more than two hundred. According to israeli officials.

israel's military responses killed more than nine thousand people in gaza, according to palestinian an officials. And pears, listen at warning, is in television and join just now a lisa. Thanks for bean with this.

Good morning.

What's the situation today in gaza?

So today, the israeli military said, IT will, quote, avoid hitting the main road south from gaz city for about three hours today for people trapped in northern gaza to travel south safely. IT also said, this is in no way a ceasefire. You know, the U.

N. Estimates that there could be as many as three hundred thousand civilians in northern gaza, including gaza city, which israeli forces have surrounded and where they say her mos is headquartered. Officials in gaza said foreign passport holders will not be allowed to leave gaza today unless patients from the hospitals in gather city and northern gaza are permitted to get to the rougher border crossing.

And Alyssa, yesterday is really earth, or I hit your goza largest hospital. What do we know about that attacks so far?

Well, according to palestinian officials, at least thirteen people were killed and dozens more were wounded near chief, a hospital, as a convoy of ambuLances were transporting seriously injured people took us a southern border to the border with egypt to get medical treatment. The palestinian red creston society, which had an ambuLance in that convoy, said the lead ambuLance, which belonged to the hamster's ministry of health, was directly targeted by a missile. Israel has said he did Carry out that air strike because, a, quote, homos terr cell was using the ambuLances for cover.

Analyst, a number of nations are crawling for a ceasefire. The united states is not. Why not?

The U. S. Says israel has the right to continue its fight against to mos. American officials have been pushing for what they call a humAnitary arian pause so aid can reach gaza. Secretary of state antony y. Blinking is in Jordan today working on that, but israel's prime minister Benjamin and yahoo said he rejects any temporary halt to the fight that does not include the release of hostages taken on october seventh.

There are hundreds of of people of left guys this week, but that's A A tiny number of those who would like to get out who seems to be getting out .

while dozens of critically wounded palestinians were allowed to leave, this was a major sticking point for her mos in the negotiations to open the border. According to U. S.

Officials, homos delayed the negotiations by insisting that homos wounded fighters be included, of course, egypt and his role against that. And ultimately, homos relented. Hundreds of foreign passport holders have been on that list to cross into egypt from a range of countries, including the united states. Our producer in gaza, on a baa has ban at the rough of border crossing each morning, and he talked with mahabharat lives a new jersey, but works with an aid organization in gaza and said this.

we had a problem securing water, bread, food, field for the transport. I drove, my car hit, and IT was the last amount of fuels that is there.

He also talked with not a bush ban. He is a twenty year old from houston, texas, who was in gaza visiting family.

Although i'm excited to be going home, my heart breaks for the family that I have to leave here. I'm leaving my grandparents, my arms, my uncles, cousins on both sides, my mom's side in my dad side. So it's quite, it's hard and it's hard. Both of them were U.

S. Citizens, and we're on that list to leave.

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As long as the united states stands, israel will never stand alone.

that secretary of state antony blinken on friday.

the us. Is reading fourteen billion dollars in eight israel, mostly to boaster the iron done must define system and provide more advances, weapons, with the rest going to protect and evacuate U. S.

citizens. That's what the republican lead U. S. House passed this week, paired with cuts to the internal revenue service and at all.

but certain not to pass the democratic LED senate and per senior political editor and correspond to medical mountain arrow john, just now to medical. thanks.

You're been with us. Good to be with you.

So no chance of passage in the senate, which the news speaker mike Johnson must have known. Do you see the bill as a statement to gesture manua or IT says a short .

term win because IT showed in his first week that Johnson was able to keep together his fractious conference. But it's really only pretty minor because, like you said, it's dead on arrival in the senate. You know, it's this cute and torture attempt to really keep his members together by funding israel and defunding the IOS, which is not what the president has asked for.

He wants funding for israel and ukraine tied together. So the part of governing the Johnson still know has to do. He hasn't quite shown he can do in keeping his conference together while negotiating, compromising, finding common ground, whatever you want to call IT with the other side. Because democrats do control the senate and the White house, and that can't be lost here. He's still last to compromise.

What what does the bill say about household? Or Johnson might lead on other problems, thinking of ukraine aid, of course, funded in the federal government.

basically new speaker. Same problems until we see otherwise. You think about this press l like manuvers gumbi like band. Maybe we're saying Johnson try to do.

You always knew the medical, you would say a classical of anti.

And but go ahead, here we go. You know, you have to try to just, just, even just get this irs israel past. That's going nowhere. You know, Johnson spent a lot of time this week is talking about the dire nature of the federal debt. Yet according to the congressional budget office, this bill would even pay for itself.

This tends to happen when you decrease the government's ability to go after tax streets and not be able to collect revenue, which is the thing republicans are love to talk about for them. It's all about spending cuts, but there are just isn't enough spending to cut if you're not going to look at medicare and so security to make a dent in the debt, you and we're looking at this kind of action with the israel homos war continuing. A war ukrainy is still happening, by the way, and less than two weeks to go until the federal government would shut down.

Now the republican presidential debate next week feels thinning out a bit. Race for the moment, whose second behind Donald trump, well behind Donald to ramp. Do you see the current field?

It's like a middle age man's receding airline. The thinning is just starting to show Scott pences out the sentence appears deflated. H never having been able to differentiate himself enough from trump for those who don't want him and convince those who do like trump t that they should go with him instead.

He just hasn't gone. Welfare decentish republicans who don't want trump appear to be looking for an alternative. And right now, that looks like south, former south CarOlina, the government. Nicki hai, who's on the rise and hell, is really trying to drive the stake into descendest. Here he was taking a shot decentish on the daily show, making fun of these viral images of decentish boots looking turned up at the toe and possibly elevated at the heel.

I've always talked about my high heels. I've never um you know hit that from anybody. I've always said don't wear them if you can't run in them. So we'll see if can run in.

So preview debate this week. Helly is comfortable with the issue set that's going on in the world right now, having been the former trump ambassador or to the united nations. And I think we can expect her to try to make the most of her moment this week and quickly.

Donal trump takes the stand next week, right?

He does. And, you know, it's amazing because he has to have distracted him from his campaign forts and split his attention, because this is his legacy. This is the company with his name on IT, someone from queens trying to make IT in the city.

And that's really threatened right now because of this fraud trial. And it's all about the penalty. His political campaign is also at stake here.

And there are really two audiences. We've seen a subdued trump in court. But outside the bomb, bast remains. He's really fighting for his legacy. Her, Scott.

the medical narrow. Thanks so much. You welcome.

Some health news this saturday for the more than one hundred million americans who are estimated use eyedrops and I wash, I drop, sold a target while Martin cvs, for the focus of a new national warning and product recall.

The food and drug and administration is urging people to stop buying and using more than two dozen over the counter products due to a risk of infection that could result in partial vision loss, blindness or gary nova is a clinical professor of automotive gy and vision science at the university of california, Davis school of medicine and joins us. now. Thank you for being with us.

Thank you. I'm happy to talk to you today.

So this is the second eyedrops related recall this year. Uh, the first happened back in february. So so what what is going on with this?

The first one in february had to do with two issues, both the problem at the manufacturer and that product was um inappropriately made. The more recent ones are due to some unsAnitary conditions and bacteria found in the product as it's being manufacturer.

And these recent ones are these are eyedrops that sold at target one more and see so some major places, right?

That's correct. And so I want to emphasize to your listener and to all patients is that this does not apply to prescription drugs. These are just over the counter products.

Like are these eyedrops like for dry eyes? Or sometimes, you know, I might use some eyedrops for redness.

I believe that all the ones recalled recently are just for dry. They're not for redness.

What is IT about eyedrops in particular that are of concern? Where is you might not be as concerned about, you know bind them over the counter cough medicine or you know cold medicine or something?

sure. So are our current regulations on eyedrops is that they all need to be sterile. And that's because the eye doesn't have some of the protections like anesthetic stomach that could kill certain bad things.

So whenever you put a drop in the eye, we wanted to be stirred because it's kind of prevent the risk of contamination. You know that when you you cry, your nose runs. And that's because the tears run down into the nose and they can then be absorbed in the other part of the body. So there's less protection for things in the eyes getting to the the rest of the body. And so that's why sterility is an important concern.

Is the fda inspecting at a level that you think is enough to to make sure that you know these eyes dbs um are not contaminated or not potentially contaminated?

So during the pandemic, the F D A did not inspect h there was A A travel ban as I understand that. And so I think what we're seeing now, we know that um for example, in twenty twenty two, there was an inspection of the facility. The one that ended up in this is terrible concurrences that we heard about in february. Probably what's happening is there is an increase at least relative to pandemic times in the number of inspections. And on these inspections, fda is finding again unsAnitary conditions.

okay. Um well, these are things I had never thought about, so i'm really glad that i'm talking to you. So I mean, what what should someone do if they're worried about the eyedrops they've been using .

for these over the counter tear products? I mean, those who have access can go to fd website that also can ask the pharmacist. These products have been recalled, should have been removed from the shelf, but IT is possible.

Someone might have purchased these a while ago. There are a number of other things patients should do in general, which is if it's um a product that is only for one use. And they know that because they're labeled single use, the the little week on plastic squeaky things, they shouldn't try to reuse these products. They're not designed to be stable for more than one use.

That's scary. No, back of the U. C. David medicine.

Thank you so much joining. Thank you.

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