sans speaker. kevin mccarthy failing again on a fifth ballot to capture the necessary number of votes, the number of opponents among house republicans has actually gone up from 19 to 20, to 21. now republicans are looking for a way out, an exit strategy. is that tossing mccarthy to the curb? is that brokering a deal with democrats to lower the vote? they have to get these 23 rebels on board. me melanie zanona is with us. what s happening here? reporter: republicans are searching for an offramp as it s become clear that kevin mccarthy s efforts to win over his opposition not working. i m told republicans have approached democrats on the house floor and tried to feel them out to see, what would it take for you to vote present or not show up? we re told these are informal conver conversations. it s still early. democrats said they would not bail out mccarthy, but they would be willing to talk about a consensus candidate. we ll see. the fact that republicans are even thinking a
in the faulkner focus. it had analysts the looks of an ordinary tackle. for all the fans that s what we saw. damar hamlin bringing down cincinnati s higgins in the first quarter of last night s highly anticipated last-season game. nobody was thinking of sports when hamlin collapsed on the turf. many players visibly shaken, tears. nine minutes of cpr. hamlin s mother, who was at the game, rushed onto the field. and then she was helped into the ambulance to be with him to go with him to the hospital as they fought for his life. today s back cover of the new york post tears on the field. doctors say the next 12 to 24 hours will be the most critical and crucial for damar hamlin. his recovery could depend on how long he spent in cardiac arrest. the direct blow to the chest. that stuns the heart at exactly the wrong time. we don t know where it s leading but clearly they got him to the hospital in critical condition with his vitals back to normal. good signs. i don t know whe
[ no audio ] the idf carrying out st strikes, targeting the hamas commanders. The humanitarian crisis in gaza is getting worse. Some of the images coming in are disturbing. This new video that we will show you is a fresh view of the crisis. You can see very clearly what it is. Its a massive burial of gazans killed. Body bags in rows, as you can see. Row after row after row. This morning, we are hearing a new urgent plea from the mother of one of the hostages that hamas is holding. This mother. This is mia shem. We will bring you what the weathe mother is saying after hamas put out a video. New Rocket Attacks on israel. Those were targeting ashkelon, five, ten miles from the gaza border. This morning, we are getting new information about u. S. Military deployments. There will be two u. S. Carrier groups in the mediterranean. We are also learning this morning that some 2,000 marines are headed to the region, possibly the red sea. They are part of the marine expedition unit. 2,000 marines
Katelyn polantz is following this, and keep us posted. President biden is showing his iron clad support for israel and preparing to leave washington for The Middle East and set to leave israel tomorrow, and show of solidarity and also very clearly a search for solutions. Israel is hitting new hamas targets in gaza today from the sky. This was the scene just last hour in northern gaza, and you see a plume of smoke, dust rising after an air strike. The Palestinian Ministry of health from their perspective, they say that strikes like this one are now damaging and shutting hospitals down. In Southern Gaza where the palestinians have been told to evacuate to, to flee to, this is the scene outside of the hospital there. One of the hospitals still running, and ambulances are urgently rushing new victims in for care. John . So, our reporters who are in the city of askelon and israel have seen the rockets fall, and the rockets have fired from inside of gaza, and it is important to point out tha
Government aid, investigators are taking another look at potential evidence collected as far back as 2015 according to the wall street journal. Minutes ago the president boarded Air Force One En Route to france where hell meet tomorrow with french president emmanuel macron. The last time the president was on Air Force One was a few days ago. It was at the g20 where he held his first face to face meeting with president putin. During that trip the president was involved in producing the false Statement Given to the New York Times about the previously held meeting last summer. A small cadre of president s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president s eldest son explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the russian government. Ultimately, the times reports, the president himself signed off
i wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through this. It was a wasted 20 minutes which was a shame. The president responded to his son