hello. i m brianna keilar with boris sanchez, wolf blitzer is in tel aviv and we re tracking multiple developments in israel s war in hamas. rescue efforts under way following an israeli air strike, a strir strike the idf say was ordered to take out a hamas leader. reports are still coming in, dozens confirmed dead, many more injured. those numbers are expected to rise. officials in hamas controlled gaza say 0 h20 homes were destrd there. just moments ago, i spoke with an idf spokesperson who confirmed that israel was involved in the blast. listen to this. we ll be coming out in the next hour hopefully with more data. i can give you there was a senior hamas commander in that area. sadly he was hiding, again as they do, behind innocent civilians. that s all i can say. we ll be coming out with more and what happened there. can you confirm it was an israeli attack that destroyed a big chunk of the jabalia refugee camp? yes, i can. we were focused again on a target, a s
daughters are my everything there. all i have the besides my parents, but it s something were to happen to either one of them i would be lost for sure. absolutely devastating because yes, i very well could have lost all three of my girls that night. i wouldn t have wanted to live another day for the next three weeks, low load battle to stay alive with help from her doctors and nurses while this family prayed together, a guardian angel by their side. so yeah, he s uncle dave. he s going to be a part of our fatally forever lowell was perfect she has a clean bill of health now she s gonna be a year old july 31st. i believe i was putting the right place at the right time ryan young, cnn inglewood, florida this is cnn breaking news hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m forgetting the whitfield and we begin with a dangerous wildfire that as rapidly growing in los angeles county. the post fire has already burned through more than 12 thousand
that was major vote in the senate where republicans blocked a bill that would guarantee access to ivf in vitro fertilization and ob-gyn watching impact of all of this it s in her own hospitals is going to join us ahead, plus new comments today from fani willis, the georgia prosecutor, with a criminal case against donald trump that seems to be on hold one day after a cnn interview with nathan wade, her former staffer and romantic partner was interrupted just as kaitlan collins started asking about the timing of the romantic relationship with district attorney willis and leading this hour, what house and senate republicans are saying about their back-to-back meetings today with former president donald trump in that handshake with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell let s get straight to cnn s manu raju on capitol hill. manu, what are you hearing from the republican lawmakers after their closed-door meetings? well, a lot of the republicans were very positive coming out of t
reporter: good morning, soledad, negotiations under way in the parliament building behind me here in athens to try to forge some type of coalition. the party that won the election yesterday, new democracy led by samaras, didn t get an absolute majority, only got 129 seats and needs 151 in the parliament to have a majority. so negotiations are continuing. he s got three days to try to bring together some of the other parties as well into a coalition. it s going to get greece out of this political and economic stalemate. the big point from the u.s. point of view and global point of view, samaras, the new democracy, supports the aus t austerity measured imposed on greece and not going to turn its back on its financial commitments and will for the most continue in the european single currency. big sigh of relief because of that. very big deadlines looming. matthew, thank you very much. still ahead, i ll talk to ken rogoff, the former head of the international monetary fund.
china have hit a brick wall. why and who will take their place as the next hot emerging markets? then andrew sullivan on why he had to wait almost 20 years to get a green card in the united states. it s a fascinating, troubling story. we re also going to look at the war on drugs in mexico. could it actually be working? first, here s my take. a new poll in the united states shows that americans are still deeply frustrated at the slow pace of the economic recovery. that s understandable. unemployment stays stubbornly high. i was just in europe, and they think america is booming. consider this. the u.s. economy is on track to grow between 2% and 3% this year. in europe, by contrast, half the euro zone economies are going to actually shrink this year and not one major european country will grow over 1%. last thursday christine lagard, the head of the international monetary fund and former french finance minister, said there were dark clouds hanging over the global recovery an