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The White House released video of a lethal strike on a boat in the southern Caribbean. President Trump says the boat was carrying drugs from Venezuela and that the strike killed 11 members of a notorious gang. Tensions with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro are rapidly escalating. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez has the late details. As Israel is launching a major ground operation in Gaza City, Palestinians are fleeing trying to find safe havens. Scenes from an overrun hospital in Gaza show the toll of IDF attacks. And as Israel's campaign escalates, NBC News' Richard Engel reports, some reservists are now refusing the call to serve even at the risk of going to jail. President Trump said National Guard soldiers will deploy to Chicago to crack down on crime there, though he did not say when. Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker slammed the move saying there was no crime emergency to justify it. While murders have declined 32 percent over the last year, this past holiday weekend there were 8 homicides and 58 people shot in Chicago. NBC News' Peter Alexander reports. In Houston, authorities are charging a man with murder after an 11-year-old was shot and killed after a doorbell ringing prank. The incident allegedly happened after a group of children were playing "ding-dong ditch." The suspect is being held without bond and is expected back in court tomorrow. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports. In an exclusive interview, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell survivors and their family members spoke out in an interview with NBC News' Hallie Jackson. They are demanding the DOJ release its Epstein files and were furious that Maxwell was given a platform in her recent interview with the Justice Department. NBC News' Christine Romans reports on the new push by McDonald's to lure consumers back to the fast-food chain by bringing back Extra Value Meals to the menu. This is the latest salvo in the value war as big chains are offering new deals and discounts to inflation-exhausted consumers.