Launch the lead with me back in 2013. Alexis, were so sorry. We love you and Thinking Of You and your family. Our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room. Happening now, Breaking News. Israel says its now unleashing a large scale strike on hamas. Hamas targets in gaza, intensifying its air war while it builds up its Ground Forces while on the border in gaza. The crisis in gaza is deepening tonight amid daetz and deepening destruction. Israel threatening to cut them off with hostages underground. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is showing solidarity with israel and liking the terror to the worst of isis. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. Our breaking News Coverage begins this hour in the war zone as the israel Hamas Conflict grows increasingly deadly. And theyre holding very critical talks. Cnn at the front lines and other key locations getting new informatio
Kill them and start a war its a massacre. We ask from the Biden Administration and the sent of state blinken, to act the Immediate Release of all hostages. On behalf of my family, im asking the u. S. Not to take a back seat. They start and we are going to finish, thats it. John any moment now President Biden will address the First Time Since saturday and death toll stands at 11, with more missing. Hello, john roberts in washington. Sandra im sandra smith in new york, this is america reports. The white house says the president who has mostly remained out of The Public Eye the past 72 hours will lay out his plan for how America Will Support israel as it inches closer to launching a Ground Invasion to eradicate hamas from the gaza strip. John speech comes as several American Families are furious at the Biden Administration for the lack of action in rescuing their loved ones who might be among the hostages who are still alive at the moment in gaza. Sandra Fox Team Coverage now. Mike tobin
Weapons attack. Look at those pictures. If russia has the influence in syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it. We need to see them put an end to these horrific acts. How many more children have to die before russia cares . The Trump Administrations Foreign Policy certainly being put to the test this week. Hes meeting today with jordans King Abdullah, just the latest in a series of highprofile meetings with world leaders. Lets bring in our senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, the white house condemned the attacks in syria. But the administration suggested in recent days that the syrian president Bashar Al Assad could remain in power. What does that mean for todays
very important meeting with King Abdullah . Wolf, it is critical in this critical meeting. More importantly, were waiting on word from the president himself here. What he says about syria. We saw, you know, a quick remark there in the opening. But will he embrace, will he amplify the message th
to the rest of the global south. it undermines the credibility of russia. you can feel that starting to crack. that will be part of the calculus in ukraine. before we let you go, ukrainian president zelenskyy says until crimea is back in ukrainian control, the war is not over. do you think it is possible ukraine could reclaim crimea? i think almost anything is possible. but the likely course of events here ultimately is going to depend on ukrainian fighting ability. we ll know more in a couple of months when we see how they do as the counteroffensive really lights up. my guess is actually conquering crimea and bringing it back into full ukrainian control is going to be a very tall order. admiral james stavridis, thank you for joining us. how a tough new immigration law is spiking concerns about the future of florida s economy and the undocumented workers who
future, it s important he hears and the biden administration is comfortable with him hearing this. seems like very specific chosen language. and it comes after we hear from ned price at the state department saying ukraine is winning this war. is that really the feeling or is this trying to paint a rosy picture? reporter: i speak to u.s. military officials all the time about where their assessment is of ukraine s fighting ability and the battle on the ground. for some time at least the u.s. military view has been that ukraine is not just holding its own but that russia has not made and perhaps cannot make the changes necessary to change the balance on the ground. the supply issues, the morale issues, the command issues, they can t be fixed in a couple of weeks, right, just by repositioning forces from the north to the east. that kind of thing. they never underestimate russia s enormous firepower, but their assessment i wouldn t