familiar names new roles on Lisa Brady Fox News former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee nominated by president-elect Trump to be U.S. ambassador to Israel Trump writing Mike has been a great public servant governor and leader in faith for many years he loved Israel and the people Israel, and likewise the people of Israel love him.

Mike will work tirelessly to bring about peace in the Middle East. Fox is Mark Meredith in West Palm Beach.

The president-elect also expected to tap a pro-Israel lawmaker as Secretary of State, Florida, Senator Mark Rubio.

Trump is choosing Congressman Mike Waltz to be as national security advisor.

Governor Kristy Knoe of South Dakota is likely to head the Department of Homeland Security.

We have not heard any reaction yet from the governor on that news, which broke overnight.

Tomorrow, President Biden will host an Oval Office meeting with the president-elect.

Today, Israel's president visiting the White House as eight groups accused the country of failing

to meet a U.S. demand to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza.

But State Department spokesman Vedan Patel says Israel has taken steps.

We continue to be in discussion with our partners in Israel about these steps that they've

taken, which they took as a result of

U.S. intervention, as well as additional steps that we feel that still need to be taken.

He says for now, the U.S. does not assess that the Israelis are violating U.S. law and that the U.S.

will not limit arms transfers to Israel as threatened a month ago, but that the limited progress

made so far must

be supplemented and sustained. Eight international aid groups say the situation in northern Gaza

has dramatically worsened in the past month. The FAA says Haiti is now off limits to U.S.

airlines for 30 days after two flights were apparently hit by gunfire from gangs. A Spirit Airlines flight while

approaching Haiti's capital, one flight attendant injured in that incident, and a jet blue flight

returning from Port-au-Prince found what appeared to be bullet damage after arriving in New York.

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