Coming to grips with the devastation in the wake of the worst mass murder of jewish people since the holocaust. Today, three days after hamas fighters launched a devastating surprise attack, the Israeli Government announced it had finally taken back control of its border with gaza, the area where hamas broke through a security barrier, often referred to as the iron wall. Israeli Officials Say they have discovered the bodies of about 1500 hamas militants inside the country. Over the course of the day, military forces say they continued to find and kill isolated hamas gunmen. The death toll in israel continues to rise, to now over 1000 people, the vast majority of whom were civilians. We are learning more horrific details from the small communities in southern israel, along the border there where men, women, in children were slaughtered in their homes. In one kibbutz, 100 bodies have been found. In another nearby, an Army Major General described the scene as a massacre. Its not a war. It
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. the trump davidians, that is how trump ally steve bannon sums up a movement that has swallowed whole one of our nation s two major political parties. a movement led by an ex-president currently facing 91 felony counts and on a third run for the white house on a platform of damaging democracy. that quote is from jonathan carl s brand-new book tired of winning: donald trump and the end of the grand old party. it reveals this dramatic collision of efforts to hold the ex-president accountable for his alleged crimes and misdeeds and a candidate who has no hesstation stoking the fires of right-wing extremism and sees winning the presidency as the only way out of his legal troubles. in an essay in the atlantic that is adapted from his book, john karl writes this about the decision by the trump campaign to hold its very first rally in waco, texas. the site of a standoff between far-right extremists and the fbi that ended in dozens of dea
down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and three di
motive. i know that many have received a number of calls about, is this a hate crime. we re still early in this investigation, so we cannot make that determination at this moment. again, we are very early in this investigation. even though we have made an arrest, there is still a lot more work to be done. he made indicators that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction, and may have frequented some of these places in the past. he claims that these as the chief said, it s still early, but he does claim it was not racially motivated. he apparently has an issue, what he considers a sex addiction, and sees these locations as something that allows him to go to these places, and it s a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. to be clear, that is what the suspect is telling police. there is still a lot that we do not know. atlanta s lance bottoms provided a little more detail that plils police have determined he was on his way to florida when he was captu
they ll be getting that check soon either by direct deposit or a check from the treasury, and they re going some will get it as early as this weekend. the moment of jubilation came just one day after the president s first prime time address where he set some bold new goals for vaccine distribution and the path to recovery. i ll direct all states, tribes and territories to make all adults, people 18 and over eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. i need every american to do their part. if we do this together by july the fourth there is a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate independence day. on july fourth with your loved ones is the goal. last hour i spoke with dr. francis collins director from the national institutes ever health. if he thinks i asked him if he thinks placing a marker like the fourth of july is a good idea when dealing t