Speaker, theyre wrong. It is going to be a republican speaker and he was not suggesting that. Some of my some of my democratic colleagues have been pushing for, you know, four or five of us to vote for hakeem jefferies. Thats not happening. I understand that. Congressman mike lawler of new york. Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you. This is cnn Breaking News. It is the top of the hour. Im dana bash in washington where the State Of The Union is holding its collective breath. You are watching a special live hour of cnn Breaking News coverage. Israel at war. A top israeli official just told me more than 600 people are dead and more than 2,000 are injured after Hamas Terrorists swept into israel. Several americans are reportedly dead and an israeli official says dozens of americans are among of the hostages brought back to gaza. We are talking about hostages who are largely civilians. Mothers, father, children, grandmother, sisters, brothers. Now 36 hours later israel has formally d
muscles ããyou could see the car sirens that are going off during this attack. that lasted around an hour and 1/2. it started between 2 am. we heard the air raid sirens. the red tracer rounds and flying into the sky to take down russian drones. and then the muscles started. i wanted you to listen to a little bit of what we ve experienced overnight. [music] at least one person was killed here in odessa. a number of people injured, but odessa was not the only city that was hit. the southern port city of nikolai us was also attacked by russia there. at least 19 people were injured. now ããukraine s believed that this is directly tied to the brain deal. we know the odessa s board has been a target for the last three nights. some 63,000 tons of grain were destroyed in the second night of this attack. ukraine says this is in response to russia pulling out of that critical deal earlier this week. cnn, odessa. thank you to alex and his team for that. meanwhile, here in washington, a feder
completely collapsed. this is an administration near the port that we can t show you for security reasons. you can see a door is still standing, but that s it. this is a pile of smoldering rubble, firefighters have been trying to put out the fires. you can see the smoke rising from them, it s not just this building destroyed we believe by a russian missile but damage all around here, windows blown out, trees knocked over, dust everywhere from the shock wave of the missiles. you could hear the car sirens going off during this attack that lasted around an hour and a half. just before 2:00 a.m., we heard the air-raid sirens, the red tracers flying into the ground to take drown the drones. i want you to listen to a little of what we experienced overnight. at least one person was killed here in odesa. a number of people injured.
the russians have been ensishlg ling the city and coming down from the north from belarus and then we know that yesterday earlier this morning early now almost 24 hours ago the closest fighting yet within the city limits on the western side of the city and then gotten reports of fighting in the south and the east. not only is this fighting sort of coming from all directions around the city, but it is getting closer and closer. there has been some confusion as to what the russians are up to. are they biding the time? oh. there you can hear another very large boom in the distance, wolf. and car sirens that went off as a result of that blast. in the past say 15 minutes two very significant blast that is we have heard in the center of
the announcement came about 90 minutes ago, defeating ahmed shafiq. christian amanpour is the global affairs anchor, also with her is correspondent ben wedeman. let s go back to the moment this was announced by effectively the elections commission in cairo. tell me, ben, wareaction imdiate and joyous? reporter: it was incredible. we really heard a rouge roar coming uprom the crowd. the only time i ve heard a louder roar was 6:00 p.m. last year when hosni mubarak s resignation was announced. what we saw it s a very hot, bright day in cairo. i d say tahrir square was about a third full. within about 20 minutes, it just filled up and people continue to fill up in the square coming from all the parts of cairo. as the temperatures become to become a little more mild, i think we re going to hear more fireworks, more car sirens and see more and more people coming out here because this is truly a historic day for egypt where egyptians finally see those who were on the other side