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CNN 5 Things

6 AM ET: Hostage families frustrated, Thanksgiving travel starts, 200 mobsters jailed & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The families of hostages being held by Hamas are demanding answers from Israel's government. Severe storms in the eastern US could disrupt Thanksgiving travel today. There’s likely going to be another Supreme Court showdown over a landmark civil rights law. 505 OpenAI workers are threatening to quit over the ousting of the company's co-founder and former CEO. Plus, more than 200 Italian mobsters are heading to prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck. With the five things you need to know for Tuesday, November 21st.

0:36.1

Families of hostages being held by Hamas

0:38.8

are demanding answers from Israel's government.

0:41.6

It's something very hard, very embarrassing, that I have to stand here facing so many

0:47.4

cameras and I have to go to a meeting in order to hear answers.

0:51.2

Some relatives met with the country's Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet yesterday,

0:56.6

but not everyone has been invited to the meetings, and some of those who did go say they were frustrated

1:02.0

by the lack of progress or new information available.

1:05.3

An estimated 239 hostages are being held in Gaza after being abducted during Hamas's bloody

1:12.3

October 7th attacks on Israel.

1:14.6

Since then, the Israeli government has faced criticism from families

1:18.6

for concentrating too much on fighting the war

1:21.4

and not enough on getting their loved ones back, leading to this outburst

1:25.2

in the Israeli parliament from a man whose daughter and wife are being held.

1:29.4

Maybe instead of talking about the dead, talk about the living.

1:35.6

Stop talking about killing Arabs. Talk about saving Jews. This is your job.

1:41.2

But there are some signs that negotiations are moving forwards.

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