Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is saturday, october 14th. Im victor blackwell. And im amara walker. Thanks for being with us as we continue to follow the news breaking news. A Mass Evacuation in gaza. The military in israel have ordered the people in gaza to move south. They have given them a safe sixhour pathway. The idf is accusing hamas of actively trying to stop people from leaving so they can use them as, quote, human shields. But hamas says israel is still carrying out air strikes, killing 70 people after warning them to move out. They posted dramatic video showing an ambulance rocked by an explosion during those evacuations. In israel, the city of surrat is under a red alert after israel fired rockets into the city. Cnn on the ground heard israels iron dome intercepting the rockets anned the sirens going off around the city. The u. S. Says its supporting israel, and its support is ironclad. Two officials made trips there earlier this week. Secretary lloyd austin d
By cnn contradicts pentagon reports about that Chaotic Afghanistan Withdrawal and the explosion outside the kabul airport, 13 u. S. Service members were killed in that blast, Hundred Grids are dozens at least of afghan, some of the goldstar families are now accusing the pentagon of telling lies. And leading this hour as the new york hush money cover up its picks back up tomorrow in new york, a change in tactics from Donald Trumps legal team were told when it comes to Adult Film Actress and director Stormy Daniels being back on the stand. Lets go to cnn paul read in new york and paula, the defense crossexamination of Stormy Daniels, we were told it originally was expected to be fairly brief, but but sources are telling you thats changed why . Yeah. They have a while to go at this point. And the reason they want to spend more time here is because they were surprised that in her testimony, she raised the possibility that the sexual encounter was not consensual, something that she had not
Have not seen any evidence, specific evidence that iran was directly involved with these specific sets of attacks. That doesnt mean yeah, look we are going to keep looking at it. The book is not closed on it. We are going to keep looking at that. But thats just where we are right now. Go ahead. Iran thing, but just briefly was it iran i said evita. What did iran know, where did they know it, where is the white house, and when they knew it about this attack . I think i would give you the same answer i gave jacqui. China, the Foreign Minister is coming to d. C. Soon, wondering if you can preview whats on the agenda, who hes meeting with and what the prospects are for a xibiden meeting and whether it might be in november at apec. Well have more than to say as we get closer to it. I dont have details now or announce or speak to between President Biden and president xi. John, im here. Yesterday i saw a heartwrenching stories of testimonies of israeli families who lost their loved ones, simi
Hamas, in terms of this particular gruesome attack on october 7th, we dont currently have that information. We will continue to look for it and if we find it, we will share it with you. Thank you. Looking back at the last few days, how did israel miss this attack coming . Thats a question for you to ask the Israeli Government. Obviously, the Israeli Government has placed a high premium on its Intelligence Capacity as it relates to hamas, to the west bank, to hezbollah. And why it is that they did not have warning from this is not a question i can answer from this podium. What about u. S. Intelligence . Is there anything that crosses your desk that would indicate this . We did not see anything that suggested an attack of this type was going to unfold any more than the israelis did. And your meeting within the situation room today, at some point undoubtedly the president has seen the images of the dead israelis. What has been his reaction when shown those . Youve seen him now twice. Youv
The hamas fighters broke through the border fence from gaza at these points marked in green, and then reached these areas in red. Israel says 700 of its citizens have been killed, with many others taken hostage. Israel has compared it to the 9 11 attacks and in retaliation, its launched a wave of air strikes on gaza, where nearly 500 palestinians have died. Live now to my colleague anna foster, whos in ashkelon, close to the gaza border. We are only a few kilometres from the border and i can hear an israeli plane overhead and the regular sound of explosions, which have continued notjust of explosions, which have continued not just through the of explosions, which have continued notjust through the night but through the morning. We were in ashkelon this morning as people they are dived for cover, the Commander A Barrage of missiles that had been fired in from gaza. It is something the people here are used to, but sites like this feel very different. You can see Israeli Military vehicle