Welcome to Bbc News. There have been more israeli Air Strikes on southern beirut, after the israeli military warned people there to leave their homes. These are live pictures overlooking beirut. Bbc teams there have reported overhearing another strike in the city. It is close to the airport. Well be live with our colleagues in beirut shortly. Elsewhere in lebanon, israel has bombed a mosque In The Southern part of the country. Israel says the mosque was being used as a Command Centre by hezbollah fighters. The building was next to a hospital. The humanitarian situation in lebanon is worsening, with at least four hospitals now closed In The South because of israeli Air Strikes. The World Health Organization says at least 37 Health Care facilities have closed since israel began its Air Bombardment of lebanon two weeks ago. The un says more than 200,000 people have fled lebanon into neighbouring syria. Hezbollah says its fired rockets at the Ramat David Airbase near the city of haifa in n
florida and will meeting with governor desantis to put their differences to help hurricane ian victims get back on their feet. we have you covered with a void in fort myers with the latest on that meeting. steve, the recovery is just beginning. the white house john kirby and where these recovery efforts are going. welcome, everybody, a very, very busy news day and something rare you seek cooperation from both sides of the aisle because the people in florida demanded it but more to the point, the leaders offered it. momentarily. let s go to nate boyd in fort myers with more. good afternoon, neil a cordial vision cor to mike visit between president biden and governor ron desantis and over s over into fort myers beach. they were there recently and the president just left under an hour ago at this point and you mentioned it was cordial. the president said he has done a good job responding to this hurricane but governor desantis is very thankful of the government assistance he r
it s something for months the biden administration was not willing to consider, given concerns about escalation or just the pure scale of time it takes to train up on those systems. that will now change. it s been a process over the course of the last several weeks. president biden will make that announcement that $1.8 billion includes patriot missile systems. it s become critical over the course of the last several weeks, something president zelenskyy said personally to president biden by phone a couple of weeks ago, given the russian ramping up of those attacks on civilian infrastructure. president biden now willing to go that route. also will include precision bomb kits to include as well. $1.8 billion. the number is big. the scale overall of u.s. assistance has been enormous. but the scale of what this specific weapons system actually brings to the table, it simply has no precedent up to this point, john. phil mattingly, chief white house correspondent, fast-moving developments.
assistance, has been enormous. the scale of what this specific weapons system actually brings to the table, it simply has no president up to this point, john. phil mattingly, chief white house correspondent, fast moving developments, keep us posted, fell. let s go to cnn s oren liebermann at the pentagon with more on these patriot missiles, and the difference they might make, oren liebermann. talk to us about the patriot missiles which many of us learned about in the first gulf war. we re talking 30 years ago. they ve only grown more capable since then, and more able to do their mission, and that mission is a long range aerial defense system. this would sit almost like an extended dome on top of the systems the u.s. has already provided, a more advanced, more capable, and again, longer range system to protect ukraine s air defenses, to protect ukraine on the ground, it s civilians, and most importantly, at this point, it s infrastructure, it s energy, and water that has become the
he also said, victor, he is not for carving a carveout or any changes to the filibuster. again, joe manchin has been consistent. i ve heard him say again and again and again, as we ve asked him about this, he s not making any changes to that. now, our reporting indicates that mcconnell was getting concerned about the pressure that was going on, manchin and k kyrsten sinema, but manchin saying again he was not considering that. jessica dean with all the fast-moving developments on capitol hill. thank you. so, we have new video of brian laundrie s father after police he now is helping police search for his son. we have a live update on where investigators are focusing their efforts now.