georgia. looking forward greg s all-star panel. thanks, dana. dana: bye. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the biden administration seems to be desperately solution to border crisis. officials announcing the president is sending two of his top people to mexico to see if there is any diplomatic fix to be negotiated. fox team coverage. bill melugin is in lukeville, arizona. a major choke point in the southwest where hundreds, if not thousands cross into the u.s. in a matter of hours. but we begin with senior national correspondent rich edson at the white house tonight with what the administration is trying to do. good evening, rich. good evening, bret. well, the white house says president biden is dispatching secretary of state anthony blinken, dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas in the coming days to meet with new mexico s president to address that massive surge. the president has enough authority on his own to mitigate the surge. white house says pres
Good morning, everyone. It is saturday, october 28th. Im amara walker. Ikt victor blackwell. Youre in the cnn newsroom. Any minute now well get an update on the Mass Shootings in maine, 18 people were killed, we will bring it to you as soon as it begins but for now, here is what we know. The accused shooter is dead. Police found his body last night, not far from his workplace. And investigators said that he left a note behind, that indicated that he did not expect to be alive by the time that note was found. The city of lewiston can focus now on saying goodbye to those who were lost in the shootings. All 18 victims have been identified. They include a father and son, while bowling, a married couple and members of the Deaf Community competing in a corn hole tournament. Shimon prokupecz is in lewiston, where the News Conference is about to begin. Reporter were waiting here, any minute, we should see the Police Chiefs from the Lewiston Police department, we believe and the Lisbon Police d
What youre about to see is graphic. Israel Defense Forces now confirm that their groups clashed with hamas fighters inside gaza today, marking just the second time Israeli Forces have admitted to operating in the enclave since the hamas Terror Attack took place some two weeks ago. It is yet another bloody day in central gaza where a new barrage of israeli air strikes hit targets overnight. The idf says it thwarted an imminent Terror Attack from inside the mosque. The Palestinian Authority calls it a dangerous escalation. The idf is vow ing against hamas in gaza. This is the grim reality for so many in the gaza strip. These are the lifeless bodies of a toddler and three children killed in overnight air strikes. Their parents have written the childrens names on their legs to identify them. With the bloodshed and humanitarian crisis right now clearing growing, much more needed relief appears to be on its way into south earn gaza. 15 aid trucks from egypt are being inspected right now in t
Proposal is that hamas would agree to the release of 33 hostages from the socalled humanitarian category. So that is women, it is children, it is the elderly, people with serious medical conditions. And in return, israel would agree to a 40day ceasefire and the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian Prisoners. We should stress at this point all we have is this statement from the political wing of hamas. We do not have the detail of what exactly it is that they have agreed to, and there has been pretty frenetic diplomacy over the weekend involving cia director bill burns who started in egypt, flying to qatar, coming here to israel. It is possible that the framework of that deal has changed over the weekend. It is also worth saying that these deals are often structured in terms of first an agreement on a broad framework and then hammering out of the details. As you know, chris, the devil is often in the detail, but there is positive indication for the First Time Since that last
Air, and see leading to hundreds of deaths, and israels military saying, hamas fires of taken civilians and soldiers hostage. Israel responding with strikes on targets in gaza, throughout the day. And into the night. This new video shows israeli rockets lighting up the sky above gaza city. Gazas Health Ministry says more than 200 people have died in the gaza strip. In washington, President Biden pledged unwavering support to israel, and sent this message to the rest of the world. Israel has the right to defend itself and its people. Full stop. Theres never justification for terrorist attacks. And my administration supports for security in is rocksolid and unwavering. Let me say this as clearly as i can. This is not a moment for any party hostile to israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage. The world is watching. Whether be no mistake. The United States stands with the state of israel. We have from the moment the United States became the first nation to recognize israel 11 minu