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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today the fall out from deaths of humanitarian aid workers killed in Gaza.

Plus an appeals court weighs a Texas immigration law and we take a look at the

movement to ban private election funding.

President Joe Biden expressed outrage yesterday over the deaths of seven

humanitarian aid workers including one American for the nonprofit group World Central

Kitchen. They were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. In a statement, Biden said, quote,

they were providing food to hungry civilians in the middle of a war.

They were brave and selfless.

Their deaths are a tragedy, unquote.

Biden called Chef Jose Andres, who founded the organization in 2010, to express his condolences.

National Security spokesman John Kirby told reporters at a briefing that the U.S. is demanding

accountability from Israel.

Our expectation is, and we've made this clear to them,

that they'll come clean about what they've learned.

They'll be fully transparent and if people need to be held accountable,

that they'll be held accountable.

Kirby also called images of the carnage devastating and confirmed more than 280 aid workers have been

killed in Gaza since the war began.

The group said it had coordinated its movements with Israel's

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