Reporter chokes up live on air as he reveals his family are hostages in GazaMSNBC
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00:00 let me just say this, which I only found out today.
00:03 You know, we talk about six degrees of separation.
00:05 So Israel is a tiny country
00:07 with one or two degrees of separation.
00:09 So I just found out today that two of my wife's family
00:12 are among the hostages.
00:13 - I'm so sorry.
00:16 - So, you know, so we would, you know,
00:19 we know that from what we've found out about Hamas,
00:23 that they were told to kill the difficult ones
00:25 and to use the rest as human shields.
00:28 So this is a very personal,
00:30 it's a very personal thing.
00:34 By the way, they're Americans.
00:35 Natalie, I'm sorry to just bring this on you,
00:38 but I only just found out.
00:39 Natalie and Judith Renan, they're from Evanston, Illinois.
00:42 They're Americans.
00:44 They were visiting their grandmother for her 85th birthday.
00:47 And they were last seen, their hands tied,
00:51 being dragged away by the Hamas terrorists.