Today as we come on air right now, its in washington, just after 7 00 in israel and gaza. On the israeli side, sirens are sounding, on the gaza side, the power supply is down. Cnn correspondents are on the front line of this war, miles from the gaza border, thats where Nick Robertson is right now, nick, what are you seeing there . Reporter we are hearing heavy detonations and gaza from Artillery Rounds that are being fired. Weve seen heavy artillery in placements, a few miles from here earlier on in the day. They were there yesterday but they are there today. These heavy rounds appear to be targeting the places where hamas might be trying to fire their rockets from but we are also hearing drone activity, we are seeing that behind me there. What you just heard was another one of those Artillery Rounds, impacting sorry to interrupt you. Nick, we just have to get to the president of the United States. He is speaking. This attack has brought to the surface this moment, we have to be crysta
Intent of killing innocent civilians, women, children, babies, beheading babies. This is a barbaric, disgusting, vile Terrorist Regime that needs to be eliminated. And israel has every right to defend itself and its right to exist. And they should take any and all action necessary to do that. Congressman mike lawler, we appreciate the overtime with you in having a very broad conversation. Please keep us posted on whether you plan to support speaker scalise if you wind up speaking with him later today or not. Thanks so much. Thanks. Of course. Still plenty more news to come. Stay with announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Im Boris Sanchez live in washington, d. C. Alongside anderson cooper, who is in tel aviv, israel. And we are tracking major developments on capitol hill and in the middle east. Republican congressman Steve Scalise has just locked down the republican nomination for House Speaker. A full vote to determine if he will become the 56th Speaker Of The House is potentially comi
All right. The breaking news. We just learned that more than 1,000 israelis have now been killed in the hamas terrorist attacks. This comes as were standing by to hear from four American Families who they they are missing loved ones who had Family Members taken hostage by hamas. This Press Conference is taking place in tel aviv, where our crews just have to take shelter because Air Raid Sirens just went off. Israeli parents this morning are being warned that they should receive social media from their childrens phones because hamas would release videos of executions. Israel claims its killed 1500 Hamas Terrorists executed over the weekend. In gaza, more than 200 targets of what they call terrorist hubs, even as hamas has threatened to kill some of the more 100 hostages that they hold. As israel continues to pound gaza to take out some of the infrastructure. These are some of the scenes what is left behind, widespread destruction in gaza. In israel, theres also new evidence coming to li
Are. Thank you, guys. We will get back to you. And now, to give us more perspective on what we are seeing playing out this morning is major mike lion, and good to see you, major, and so tell us where clarissa and nic and what we are hearing, and this is the sderot and ashkelon, and why these areas to take fire now . Well, through the eyes of h hamas what they want to do is to fire the artillery as close as they can to the iron dome, and they want to survive themselves, and the mobile Rocket Launchers and low tech, but if they can get as close to the border, they can create the chaos and havoc there. The but as we saw, the iron dome was able to intercept it. At the same time, every Artillery Fire, and every rocket has a returned a dress. So as soon as it goes off, they are firing off the Rocket Artillery in that direction. So, again, the hamas militants are trying to survive and fire off the barrages and scoot out of there. The fact, that look, we had thousands of rockets coming from ha
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