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the Israeli security cabinet is meeting at this hour to vote on a proposed ceasefire deal with

Hamas. The deal would stop more than 15 months of fighting in Gaza and release some

hostages in Gaza and some Palestinian detainees.

Even if the deal is passed by the security cabinet, it still needs to win approval from the larger

Israeli government, and then it could still be challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court.

Adi Alexander's son, Idan, is held hostage in Gaza.

He is not on the list of initial people to be freed,

but Alexander says he has hope for his son. We've been so close before, even back in January

of the last year, and then again in April, again in August. But right now it feels real.

But the deal still has yet to win final approval,

and Israel says it is still attacking Gaza.

The commercial company SpaceX says a test of its new Starship rocket has ended in partial failure.

And Pierce Jeff Brumfield has more.

Starship is the largest rocket ever built,

and it's central to to billionaire Elon Musk's dreams

of getting to Mars. It lifted off without a hitch. We have the tough. It flew towards space.

Moments later, its giant booster rocket flew back to the launch pad and was caught successfully

by two giant mechanical arms, which the company is dubbed Mexzilla. You heard it here.

Mexilla has caught the booster.

But shortly after the booster catch, Starship appeared to have engine trouble on the final

leg of its trip to space.

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