anthony joins us in just a few minutes. cb cotton is standing by in new york city. but first let s check in with bill live in brownsville, texas. jon, good evening to you. according to multiple sources border patrol agents in san diego sector arrested and afghan national who cross illegally on wednesday and was later a deed as a match on the fbi terror watch list. take a look at the map right here. sources tell me this arrest happened more indolent san diego county but i m told this afghan cross illegally with the group of migrants for their apprehended by border patrol for the render fingerprints of the station and in a database he popped up as a match on the terror watch list rental the fbi confirmed that match they are now taken the lead on this investigation for california congressman represents that a area. he released a statement to fox which is in part quote biden s open borders are not just a gateway to 5 million illegals in the deadliest drug crisis in our history.
Hello and welcome to all of you watching us in the United States, canada and all Around The World. I want to get to the breaking news. At least 350 israeli deaths are confirmed and thousands more wounded over the past 24 hours as intense Fighting Rages between israel and hamas. Israeli airstrikes reportedly have killed more than 250 people according to palestinian authorities. The idf says up to 1,000 hamas militants poured across the border early saturday and invaded nearby israeli towns. Disturbing video shows civilians rounded up and one taken to gaza as hostages. Here is the israeli Prime Minister on saturday. Translator what happened today has never been seen in israel and well make sure it does not happen again. The entire government is behind this decision. The idf will use all its strength to destroy hamas capabilities. We will destroy them and that mighty vengeance for this black day that they have forced on the state of israel and its citizens. And Nic Robertson is in israel
Ill be back at 6 00 p. M. Eastern for our special coverage for israel at war. Thank you for watching. Im wolf blitzer. Special breaking News Coverage continues right now with erin burnett outfront. Good evening. Welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. Israel at war. The breaking developments, the death toll rising as the sound of sirens and explosions can be heard across southern and Central Israel after a Surprise Attack by hamas. An israeli official said at least 300 israelis have been killed. The former Prime Minister of israel Neftali Bennett telling me the ultimate death toll will be much higher. And tonight there are reports that gun battles are still taking place nearly 24 hours after militants first entered israel by land and sea and air, firing 2,200 rockets, according to israel. And this new video, which im going to show you now, shows heavily armed hamas fighters moving through one neighborhood. You can hear the scream as militants try to force their way into homes. Theyre
offer but what we are asking is free to come to the front door and make sure we provide the resources needed so they could do that. jon: according to bill melugin some of the migrant seem to be heading for the actual border crossing stations. they seem to feel like just walking across the river, wading across the river is not working for them right now. maybe because some of the wire in places like texas have put up. but what about that? is going through some the border crossing stations going to help them? what to think that going to some of border crossing stations and points of entry because they believe biden and mayorkas have no plan for the helping when they get there they can use the app and head into the country and probably never to be seen again. that is part of the problem we do not have the ability of the biden administration is not giving the ability for us to keep track of these individuals coming into this country. jon: what a mess near
often, for those court dates. we need to change the law and we will do that in what i call the concensus bill, the new bill that we will be offering that we hope will get 218 votes, will pass and go to the senate and then ultimately to the president. yep. it s important to do that. do you think that this is serving as a deterrent? i think that the message should go to people in central america and elsewhere in the world that there are better ways to apply for asylum in the united states than to come across the border illegally maybe go undetected, but if they re detected apply for political asylum. when you have a backlog of 600,000 cases, that needs to be addressed. they can come to the border crossing stations and apply there. understood that in a perfect world all of this would be wouldn t be messy and it would happen seamlessly but it doesn t