York city tonight. Buckle up, we have two breaking stories happening simultaneously. At this hour the manhunt for the maine shooter still ongoing. Police have recovered his cell phone and a suicide note addressed to his son. A live report from maine later in the hour. But, first, just hours ago, the Israeli Military announcing that their Ground Forces are expanding their operations in gaza. The announcement came as the Israeli Military pounded away with unprecedented Artillery Strikes on the gaza strip. Now, it should be pointed out that as hamas apologists call for a unilateral ceasefire thats the word you hear everywhere from israel. The terror Group Continues to fire a barrage of missiles into israel. A majority of them toward the Civilian Population in tel aviv. A live report from there and all across israel throughout the hour. With a Ground Invasion by israel eminent, its important to note that this is not happening in a vacuum. The decision to expand the effort by the israeli wa
This baier doesnt push anybody down. Sandra watch out. Have a great show, bret. Bret we will see ya. Following two major stories a massive manhunt by land, water and air underway in maine tonight. The target a u. S. Army reservist suspected in the massacre of 18 people wednesday in lewiston. Authorities are still urging residents in the area to use extreme caution because he is armed, experienced and very dangerous. Well have a live update there shortly. But we begin with an expansion of the war in israel. Huge explosions tonight rocking gaza. Were also getting new insight about the expected Ground Invasion of gaza by israeli troops will look like or might look like. Israels Defense Minister saying it will require destroying a vast network of tunnels and the campaign will be long and difficult. Senior correspondent mike tobin is in Southern Israel again tonight with the latest. Good evening, mike. Mike good evening, bret. An adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says hamas will
additional treatment, and the other two were able to go on to get artificial corneas look a little bit up and down. reporter: nick moved to boston and is now one of a new group of patients receiving the surgery. at what point did you realize it had worked not too long after the first surgery, i was able to see. it was this whole thing. i was crying. reporter: while still in its early stages, doctors consider this a stepping stone and say stem cell therapies may someday go beyond corneal injuries to things like glaucoma, maybe even other parts of the body. nick is s now flyingng again for fun. especially to see even just the blue sky out of the left side is so crazy, because i never thought i would ever see that ever again. reporter: for the first time in a long time, seeing hope. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, boston and up next here tonight, an update on american f-16s headed for ukraine as we ride inside a fighter jet
over t-mobile, at&t and verizon. and right now, get up to $1000 off select samsung phones. switch today. ukraine s air force says that it shot down 13 russian cruise missiles overnight, an impressive feat for a military drastically outnumbered by the russians and december are pratt for american f-16s. nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez had an exclusive seat on a ukrainian combat aircraft flying near bakhmut. reporter: two weeks that their long awaited counteroffensive, ukraine s forces are facing fierce russian resistance and making slow progress on the ground. part of the problem, they re badly outgunned in the air. russia s fighter aircraft are far more advanced, and there are far more of them. a comparison shows ukraine
going to put more pressure on other allies. you can say four jets won t make a huge difference on the ground. what will make the difference is the pressure it is putting towards the west on other european countries and the united states. what is the u.s. saying about it? because they were resisting even training pilots at one point. and president biden just a few weeks ago had to respond directly and publicly to president zelenskyy s repeated pleas for american f-16s. and president biden himself said that we have assessed that this is not needed by kyiv s military at the time. that assessment remains the same u.s. officials say even with poland s announcement. i want to read you something that john kirby, a top u.s. official, said on this after the announcement. it doesn t change our calculus with respect to f-16s, these are sovereign decisions for any country and we respect those sovereign decisions. but what we ve learned throughout the course of this conflict as you said, bianca