Molly 100 israelis and 198 palestinians killed along with Hundreds Wounded and dozens taken hostage after the Surprise Attacks on israel this morning, bombarding the nation and erupting the border region into deadly conflict. Welcome to fox news live, im molly line. Griff and im griff jenkins. We were just looking live at trey yingst in the middle of rockets firing. Trey, what are you seeing there . Reporter yeah, griff, molly, right now Islamic Jihad and and hamas is have haunched a massive barrage into southern and central israel. In the distance i can see some interceptors coming off, my cameramans going to pan back with here, and and you can see this is israels Missile Defense system, the iron dome, in action. Theyve had to resupply these batteries as much as possible throughout the day, but what hamas is trying to do is overwhelm these systems, so theyre Firing Barrages at different angles and at different times to try and get past the Missile Defense in the southern part of israe
but the resilience on the east is incredible, ari. i mean, pushing back the russian troops in place as they controlled in the first few weeks, taking back areas in and around kyiv. and when you talk about splitting the country, it seems a very difficult thing to do right now because to split this country putin with would have to conquer and control the east part of the country. he hasn t been able to conquer it. most of the major cities, all of the major cities are still in ukrainian hands. they still hold on to much of their territory. you see demonstrations in many cities in the east that are controlled by russia. so it s going to be a tall order to split this country, especially given what a botched operation it s been by the russians so far. past midnight there. thank you for giving us the view from the ground. stay safe. we will fit in a break. then we turn to major news here on the home front in america.
areas. translation: we cannot brin: back areas. translation: we cannot bring back our areas. translation: we cannot bring back our people areas. translation: we cannot bring back our people who - areas. translation: we cannot bring back our people who lost . bring back our people who lost their lives but our state has their lives but our state has the power, opportunity, and determination to compensate for any loss other than that. fix, any loss other than that. a mammoth search and rescue operation is now under way. more than 1700 people have been evacuated and hundreds of villages have been left without power. turkey s interior minister labelled the situation is the worst flood disaster he has ever seen. this on the back of wildfires in the south of the country and across the mediterranean in the week a landmark un clamour report signalled a code red for humanity. climate report. us government scientists have confirmed thatjuly was the world s hottest ever month. the national
the general in charge of u.s. forces in africa, says those loyal to moammar gadhafi, have little will and little ability to take back areas. i want to bring in retired general wesley clark live with me now from little rock, arkansas. general clark. were you at all listening to my conversation with congresswoman norton in d.c.? she brought up a whole host of concerns? did she have merit in her questions? yes. these are important questions. there are three circles that have to be tied together right here as this policy is unfolding. and this is not this is not unusual. these things happen in fast moving operations. first of all, the u.s. itself has to figure out the difference between what the president says is the objective, and what the
seem to suggest that he s still severely weakened. caller: can i ask you a question back? what does taking back command? is it taking back the will of the people or taking back areas by shooting them? that s a serious question. good question. as we consider that, we ll let you continue your day and we ll hopefully check in with you later. but do be safe and keep in touch with us and many thanks. that was one of tripoli s residents there who for obvious reasons we re not identifying, and we ll be talking to her in the hours ahead. interesting question there, of course, and we ll be exploring that question with one of our experts, the question of whether or not taking back command involves mere regaining of tear territorial advantage or, of course, the will of the people. moammar gadhafi, though, is vowing to defend libya and says