saying not without the hostages being returned. sandra: and the hezbollah leader is threatening further escalation against israel and the united states, warning that our warships stationed off the coast of israel will do nothing to deter the iran-backed proxy. john: joint exercises in the mediterranean sea with more than 11,000 u.s. troops participating. sandra: complete coverage for you now, and idf spokesperson is moments away with the latest from the battlefield. john: alex hogan live in tel aviv. what s the reaction been there to blinken s comments about the pause today? john, sandra, there was a lot of concern for residents here worried about the potential for a ceasefire but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu shut down that possibility. we also heard from u.s. secretary of state antony blinken saying the u.s. goals for this conflict, really four of them. the first would be to prevent the conflict from spilling out into other countries, that s something
fox on top of israel. you heard about the flares being seen over gaza. this as the house is set to vote on a package to help israel. we have nancy mace here, adam smith on where this aid package stands as we speak. also here, the republican governors of texas and oklahoma, greg abbott and kevin stitt, they re both in israel and they re going to tell you why and what they re worried about. we re closely watching the flares over gaza. i m neil cavuto. this idea of a ground invasion or something akin to it that might be happening soon, anyone s guest. mike tobin in southern israel with the latest. hi, mike. neil, right over my shoulder, you can see the flares that are up, this is the northeast section of the gaza strip. it s been about the last 20 minutes that they ve been putting the flares in to the sky. usually when they do that, that means there s something they re looking for on the ground. they want to see it. what you try to do with the flares is blind the enemy and giv
but cnn newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. speak of washington, we have a busy two hours ahead. randi, thank you very much. hello, everyone. are you ready for this? the debt deal is done, right? not exactly. we still need to see votes happening both in the senate and the house. on the house side, it looks like some democrats could be holding things up. we ll speak with one of them. we expect to hear from speaker of the house, john boehner this hour. we ll carry that live for you. so stay tuned for that as well. let s begin here. as the clock continues to tick, nine hours now remaining until a potential default of the u.s. government. and congress still hasn t voted on the debt reduction agreement announced last night. we heard the senate would be voting first. then we heard the house would be voting first. but the house still hasn t voted. that tells me there may be a problem rounding up some of those votes. we have just heard from vice president joe bide
parties in parliament called on murdoch to dump his plans to pursue it. at least four members of the u.s. congress want the government to investigate whether u.s. citizens were victims of phone hacking by murdoch s media outlets. international journalists were attempted to hack into the phone messages of 9/11 victims. > ruling party officials say mr. salih will go back after he s 4 surgery. those are the headlines. those are the headlines in cnn in london. world business today starts now. very good morning to you from cnn rome. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m pauline chu and this is world business today. these are the top stories on this thursday, july 14th. running on empty and running out of time on both sides of the atlantic. there s a tense stalemate in washington as lawmakers fail yet again to head off the looming debt default. meanwhile, italy races to push through austerity measures and restore confidence in the country s economy. plus, rupert