nearly 3 million travelers today and complicating things, very bad weather. rain and snow are pummeling the northeast and we ll have a live report in a moment. first. every day i wake up it s the same day, and i wait a minute or two to listen for the familiar sounds i m used to hearing on there is nothing. this is the first birthday he is not going to be with us. to be the last one, we need to bring him home. every one of them need to come home and not in coffins. dana: hoping against hope israeli families welcoming a deal to free at least 50 women and children after six weeks of uncertainty. bill is off today. good morning, john. john: good morning, dana. john roberts, america s newsroom. we ll see how this day unfolds in the hours ahead. diplomatic breakthrough was negotiated by qatar with help from the united states and egypt. the pause scheduled to last for four days initially. israel says it is willing to extend the truce in exchange for more hostages. hamas
love that event last night. fox news alert as we top a brand-new however. any moment we will be hearing from president biden and what his administration is doing to stop fentanyl. the white house meeting comes one day after federal law enforcement shared details on a massive multistate fentanyl bust centered in our nation s capitol. this is the faulkner focus, i m sandra smith in for harris faulkner. nearly 100,000 deaths. nearly 80,000 were from fentanyl, 80 times stronger than heroin. according to the dea, it s the leading cause of death for americans ages 18 to 45. house foreign affairs chair michael mccall says how to stop is simple. with china sending the precursers to mexico and the manufacturing taking place mexico. that s how they get into the united states. until we get china and mexico to stop this and until we secure our border, we re going to continue to have these problems. last week president biden met with china s president to try to strike a deal to cut
continue their battle in gaza. officials vowing to advance anywhere hamas is found, with increasing indications that could mean idf forces expanding ground operations into southern gaza. meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis is growing across the f at al shifa hospital, one official says six doctors remain to care for the remaining 120 patients too vulnerable to move. the palestinian authority s ministry of health says only nine of gaza s 35 hospitals are still operating. fuel tankers and other aid entering gaza through the rafah border crossing today, the israeli war cabinet agreeing to allow two fuel trucks to enter daily. the u.n. says the limited supply is far from enough to meet gaza s urgent needs. let s go now to cnn s jeremy diamond, live for us at that hostage rally in tel aviv. it actually just ended, but, jeremy, what have people been telling you? reporter: well, tonight, fredricka, tens of thousands of sq israelis gathering here in tel aviv, as well as jerusalem, t
[explosions] dana: happening today intense fighting across gaza as israeli special forces launch a raid into gaza city s largest hospital. they found weapons and hamas stockpiles inside. soldiers searching the hospital found no sign of the hostages kidnapped and held by hamas terrorists. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. israeli forces are going room to room and underground tunnels as intense fighting rages across the gaza strip. israeli forces extending their control across the northern part of the strip finding weapons and eliminating fighters in government buildings, schools and homes. the hospital is a huge come flex with multiple buildings and a key target in the conflict where thousands of palestinian civilians took shelter. in addition to the all the patients be treated as we speak. idf spokesman said they took extreme care to protect civilians during this operation. we went in because we understand the sensiti
Bill cosby denies the charges against him. The conservatives have been warned that their chaltion to the social care in england could fail because of variations in how some councils administer the payments. Well bring you all the details. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until iiam. Throughout the morning well bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories. The green party launch their General Election manifesto at around 10. 30am. Well bring that to you live and well look at how internal facebook documents appear to show that in some cases its moderators tolerates violent threats, bullying and self harm. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning. Use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Labour is promising english students who Start University courses in england this autumn wont have to pay tuition fees if the party wins the election. Labour has pledged to abolish fees from 2018, b