gaza, unleashing an enormous blast that one witness described as feeling, quote, like the end of the world. an idf spokesman tells me israeli forces were targeting a senior hamas commander who was, quote, hiding behind civilians. as the israel/hamas war escalates and it s escalating dramatically, u.s. officials are sounding the alarm that the threat of a terror attack against americans is at a whole other level. acts against jewish, muslim, american victims on the rise, including a historic surge of smichl. anti-semitism. the u.s. congress is on a the brink of a showdown over wartime funding as house republicans reject any link between aid to israel and ukraine. that and more with the top democrat in the house, the minority leader, hakeem jeffries. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the situation room. we re live here in tel aviv following all the breaking news on israel s war against hamas
and use the tools necessary to get people into interim housing. we await not only to those suffering from mental illness and drug addiction, but also our kids, businesses and residents in los angeles. we have a model that is proven and the rest of the city should follow. todd: congrats doing that in your district but broadening to the greater city on a hole. are you confident the incoming mayor karen bass will do what you did in your district and eliminate this problem? i hope so. mayor elect karen bass is committed to 15,000 units of interim housing within the first year that she will take office and she will take office in a couple of weeks. but she s got a couple that she has to deal with. one is fighting to make finding locations and pushing back against not in my backyard and getting to yes in my backyard. and the electorate that got her to this position. she is challenged with that
accelerated. the program has a significant purpose but it wasn t designed to work in an emergency. it wasn t designed to work at those numbers in an emergency. but that s the process we re using because it also has a lot of healthy vetting involved in it. we want to make sure that we re actually getting the right people out of the country. so we re working at this very, very heard but you heard the president say of the couple thousand or so that reached the level of approval to be moved out of the country, less than half expressed an interest to move out of the country. so the demand signal hasn t reached a level we think we re in a crisis right now. that said, i don t want to leave any impression we aren t taking this seriously and aren t working hard at finding locations they can go, support while they re there, transportation to or from as well. this is something the entire government is working very hard
butte county and we ll do a big push over the next 24 to 48 hours to get as many people inside as we can. bill: that goes along with what a guest told us last hour. talking about the thousands and thousands of school kids who need to get back in class and he has a target two weeks from yesterday to make it happen december 3. do you see that as possible? i see that as very possible. i was at a town meeting last night and that topic came up. the city of chico is really stepping up and really supporting the paradise school district as well as their charter schools. finding locations, getting supplies in there, whether it s in temporary facilities right now or within inside the chico school system and the orrville school system to keep those students with their teachers together. the other thing they re doing a great job of is preparing the teachers and the staff at the
he is separating himself already from the pack while the pack is in iowa. what do his campaign people say about why this was the best strategy for him? reporter: you know, his campaign, i have to tell you this is going to be interesting if we see more of this in the days to come is very tight-lipped. they ve been very tight-lipped about what is going on here in south carolina. they were confirming earlier in the week that this is indeed going to be his presidential announcement. but in terms of strategy, really you can just look at what s happening. the ames, iowa, straw poll is obviously the center of the political universe this weekend. all of the republican contenders except for rick perry is there. and governor perry did not have the organization on the ground to compete in iowa for this ames straw poll, which is nonbinding, really a beauty pageant for gop contenders. the perry people thought, what s a good way to steal the thunder of this event happening in iowa? l