On Wednesday, the university announced final exams would be taken online, and protesters have now blown through a negotiation deadline that was set for 18 hours ago.
Hamas released video of 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin of Chicago on Wednesday.
His hand was blown off as he was abducted from the Nova Music Festival on October 7.
It appears he recorded his message under duress — showing him with his head shaven and his dominant hand missing.
But after 201 days, it appears to be proof of life of an American hostage in Gaza, and for his parents Jon and Rachel, it’s a new reason to fight.
Hours later, they released their own video, pleading with negotiators to get back to the table and end the madness that has consumed the Middle East.
Search underway on LI as part of Gilgo Beach investigation: sources Investigators are searching a wooded area in Manorville as part of the Gilgo Beach investigation, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
The search began Tuesday and continues Wednesday, the sources said.
NEW YORK (WABC) — In this episode of Eyewitness News Extra Time, we have the most recent information on the ongoing demonstration at Columbia, the unsettling new footage showing an American hostage in Gaza, and the renewed investigation into the Long Island Gilgo Beach murders.
The second week of the Columbia protests has begun. The protesters have now blown past an 18-hour negotiation deadline, which was set by the university on Wednesday when it announced that final exams would be administered online.
On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson also paid a visit to the university and addressed the media about what he described as a concerning increase in antisemitism on college campuses across the country.
These are the other noteworthy headlines from the show on Wednesday:.
A video of an American taken hostage on October was released by Hamas. 7.
A new, terrifying video of an American hostage in Gaza has been released, and family members are pleading for help.
The Chicagoan Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was captured on camera by Hamas on Wednesday. On October 7, as he was being taken from the Nova Music Festival, his hand was blown off. With his dominant hand missing and his head shaved, it appears that he recorded his message while under duress.
But after 201 days, it seems to be evidence of an American hostage’s survival in Gaza, and that gives his parents, Jon and Rachel, a new cause for contention. After a few hours, they made their own video and begged the negotiators to return to the table and put an end to the chaos that has engulfed the Middle East.
An investigation into Gilgo Beach is underway, and sources are searching LI.
According to law enforcement sources who spoke with ABC News, investigators are looking through a Manorville wooded area as part of the Gilgo Beach investigation.
The sources said the search started on Tuesday and is still ongoing on Wednesday. In order to aid Suffolk police in their search of the expansive wooded area off the Long Island Expressway close to exit 70, two NYPD ESU K-9s provided assistance.
Regarding the specifics of the search, the district attorney’s office in Suffolk declined to comment.
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