In the day's other headlines Hurricane Barrel is now a category 2 storm down from a category 5

but it remains powerful as it churns towards Mexico.

At least nine people have been killed across the region.

In Jamaica, Beryl knocked down trees and power lines as it brushed the island's southern coast.

And in the eastern Caribbean, 95% of homes on a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been damaged or destroyed.

While in Barbados, boats were tossed like toys.

Sailors say there's likely even more destruction beneath the surf.

All the vessels in here have damage.

All have damage.

Structural damage, but we've got a good few vessels that is on the water. We don't know how much the total is right now, but we estimate about 30, maybe 40 vessels on the floor.

The National Hurricane Center expects barrel to weaken further, but to remain a dangerous hurricane until it reaches Mexico's shores tomorrow.

Southern Texas is forecast to see impacts from Burrell early next week.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Biden today

that he's sending a delegation to renew ceasefire talks with Hamas.

The two spoke by phone after Hamas sent a response to a three-phase

proposal pushed by the US, Israel, and other nations. In the meantime, northern Israeli hillsides are ablaze amid heavy rocket fire from

Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The group says it's launched hundreds of projectiles in response to Israel's killing

of one of its top commanders.

At the funeral for Mohammed Name Nasser today in Beirut,

a Hezbollah leader vowed that the retaliation will continue.

The response to the assassination of our dear leader

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