that coalition ironically includes the new york city mayor eric adams and the chicago mayor brandon johnson, both mayors of sanctuary cities. they re asking for $5 billion in federal funding to house thousands of asylum seekers. we ex pect to hear from the mayors making the rounds in washington. more as it happens. first this. that was the scene recently on the fight to flee gaza. egypt allowing the first evacuees through the rafah border crossing. at least five americans among them. sources telling fox news 400 americans have been cleared to follow suit. whether that happens today or not is something we await. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. team is back together. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it is astounding the mayors have to come begging the white house for help on a problem the white house is refusing to solve. we ll cover that but also get you to this. the increased fighting in gaza is putting pressure on the white house to get the am
but don t worry there are going to be good people who come back up and put those signs up after her. steve: i know i was thawing to somebody upstairs in the newsroom. i know there are people here in new york city. they are trying to keep the city clean. historically they just take down posters and stuff like that. but this is different. yeah. this is obviously very different. steve: not like a dog missing or call this person for chinese food or something like that people feel they can rip down posters of kidnapped people. a classmate of mine, her cousin kidnapped. see students and crazy lady tearing down these signs, it s insane. steve: and you have been with us talking about the atmosphere on campus in the green room you just told me that at hunter college, and here in the new york city area, a number of college female students have transferred out of their school to go to a specifically jewish university because it s safer there. yeah. that s right women s school
welcome to the source source. i m jake tapper in tel aviv in for kaitlan collins. tonight israel is further attempting to defend the massive strike on the largest refugee camp in gaza, densely populated with slups. israel saying it was targeting a top hamas commander who was quote pivotal to the planning and execution of the october 7th terrorist attack on israel, someone, quote, actively coordinating and leading combat activities against israeli forces. israel says dozens of other hamas terrorists were also killed at the gentleman balance yeah camp. they don t know how many citizens were killed but palestinians were notified to leave. here is what a folks man polled wolf blitzer earlier today. this is the tragedy of war, wolf. i mean, we, as you know, have been saying for days, we are doing everything we can to minimize. i ll say it again. they are hiding themselves within. civilian population. you see a creator in the ground there. this comes as the fbi director in the un
ukraine s military funds. [ yelling and chanting ] fighting for president biden s request, tieing funds for israel and humanitarian aid into gaza to ukraine, taiwan and securing the southern border. many are again making the bet that we are too divided, too distracted at home to stay the course. that s what s at stake with president biden s national security funding request. both israel and ukraine democrats are fighting ruthless foes who are out to annihilate them. we will not let hamas or putin win. this as speaker mike johnson right out of the gate challenges the white house supporting military aid to israel but not to ukraine and paying for it by cutting money already approved for the president s irs crackdown on the super rich. the defense secretary responding to more attacks against u.s. troops in syria and iraq. now numbering 25 attacks since the israel/hamas war began. the president has been clear and i have been clear, vice chair, that if that if this d
rubble. some were burned. israel s attack on hamas in the refugee camp is part of its expanded offensive inside gaza where overnight hamas underground tunnels came under fire. israeli forces saying they struck about 300 hamas targets that includes the idf says military compounds inside those underground tunnels. at the same time, a new threat to israel is emerging from iran. iran-backed houthi militants in yemen claimed responsibility for targeting israel with drones and missiles near the red sea in the south. israel saying it thwarted that attack. israel also facing incessant rocket fire rockets at us here in tel aviv, intercepted by the iron dome just a couple of hours ago. [ siren ] that s the intercepting missiles going up. and earlier today, here is what my team and i witnessed when we were driving north of tel aviv. we heard an explosion to the west, and every car on the highway pulled over. we all got out, and we ran into a ditch that was built there. we re drivin