This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start are breaking news. The United States is surging military aid to israel after the devastating surprise Terrorist Attack by hamas which killed at least 900 people, most of them civilians. We have also just learned that number includes at least 11 americans. This afternoon israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that israels response to the horrific attacks is just beginning. Youre looking now at images from gaza where were seeing the response play out as Israeli Forces have fired dozens if not hundreds of rockets into gaza. Hamas terrorists have taken an unknown number of innocent civilians as hostages today, threatening to broadcast their executions if israel strikes homes in gaza without warning. Were hearing continuing reports of rape. Were Hearing Reports of people dragged out of their cars and shot. Cnn crews witnessed mass excuse sites where innocent attendees of a Music Festival spent their last momen
it s really hard, like the 7th of october is still going on for us. it s it had been 24 days, but it s one long day for us all. john: breaking moments ago as harris just mentioned, israeli soldier released from hamas captivity after she was kidnapped in the initial raid of october 7th. according to the idf, released during a ground operation and appears to be in good condition. israeli media saying this photo was taken with her family after the joyous release. sandra: a big development. we are waiting a pair of briefings here at home and overseas. state department expected to provide an update, and tel aviv, benjamin netanyahu will update reporters as israel forces move deeper into gaza at this hour. it s all developing. welcome, hello, everybody. i m sandra smith. i m john roberts in washington. good to be with you. this is america reports . sandra: pentagon officials telling fox they have been attacked 23 times, and they say the strikes have iran fingerprints o
what he has to say. should nato be prepared to act? i think the reality is that vladimir putin has already crossed the red line into bar barrism, and i think it is now up to nato to consider together the appalling crisis in ukraine, the appalling suffering of the people of ukraine, and to see what more we can do to help the people of ukraine to protect themselves, and see what more we can do to tighten the economic vice around the putin regime, and that s what we re going to be talking about, some of the people are going to be talking about. as a result of the invasion of ukraine, should the rest of the world prepare for that? i think it s very important that we work together, to get this thing done, as fast as possible, the harder our sanctions, the tougher our economic vice around the putin regime, the more we can do to help the ukrainians and i think the faster that this thing can be over.
enhance divisions among democrats or make democrats feel like it wasn t worth it to vote. these made-up stories were also just sort of brutalizing made-up outraged stories about terrible bar barrism to make you feel like we were at the end of the line in terms of human beings being able to live alongside one another. when we came to understand what russia did in the 2016 election, those made-up false stories designed to have a politically useful effect on audiences, we realized that was part of what russia did in their attack on us. it wasn t the biggest part of what they did, but it was alarming that they radically upscaled over the course of 2015 and 2016 this sort of counterfeiting of the news process. so that became part of our national discussion about what russia had done, what russia harnessed to try to interfere in our election in order to benefit donald trump. and the term that was most easily and specifically and conveniently applied to that phenomenon, the phrase fake
encourage the department of homeland security to take immediate steps to alleviate dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults in the rio grande valley. we were talking earlier this morning. we had democrats over the last couple of days going down, eyewitness accounts, reporting what they saw. but this report in some ways is more damming because it comes from an independent inspector general for the department of homeland security. it s bar barrism, whatever ideology you have, whoever you voted for, whatever party affiliation you have, who can tolerate those photographs being how our government, because it is our government regardless of who s in charge of it, treats human beings. i mean, people have come to this country for decades and decades to escape places that look like that. and now this is happening in this country. and you know, from the moment