bret: all right. see you. dana: have great night. bret: good evening from washington. i m bret baier. as the war in israel escalates dire warnings with the people charged with keeping america safe, the director of the fbi says the terror threat against the u.s. is at what he calls a whole other level since the hamas attacks earlier this month. meanwhile, in gaza, an israeli strike has hit a refug camp, israel says that area had been taken over by hamas and the strike killed a senior hamas commander. we have fox team coverage tonight. chad pergram on capitol hill as president biden s top diplomat and defense secretary make their case for more than $100 billion in new aid to israel and ukraine. peter doocy at the white house with increasing pressure on the president by democrats to push for a cease-fire. mike tobin in southern israel with additional details on that refugee camp strike. but we begin with correspondent david spunt on capitol hill and chilling testimony abou
martha: thanks very much, strikes. austin also pushed for more john and aishah. good afternoon. funding for israel, taiwan and i m martha maccallum. breaking right now on the ukraine. he says without american story, a live look at gaza as support, putin will be successful. if putin is successful, he will tensions roil the globe and move on to nato countries and that means american troops will certainly between israel and get involved. gaza to be sure. back to you, martha. now it s spilling in to the martha: a tangled web. thanks, rich. halls of congress today. with that, we bring in four-star secretary of state blinken and secretary of defense austin general jack keane, former vice faced this kind of questioning chief of staff of the arm my and during their senate hearing just chair of the institute for the study of war. a couple hours ago. good to have you with us, general. obviously there s escalation [shouting]. happening in gaza. we re hearing in a moment from the
Safety as swollen rivers continue to rise. Plus a new video of a 25yearold cold case and hopes it could solve one of the worlds biggest art thefts. A powerful truck bomb killed at least eight people. It injured 400 others in afghanistan. The bomb went off near an army compound in kabul. This is the fourth attack in two days. Just this week the u. N. Reporter that nearly 5,000 civilians have been injured or killed. Many women or children. We are joined in kabul to tell us more about that attack. Quite a large explosion. What are you hearing about the latest death toll . Reporter thats right. The blast could be heard across the city for miles. It happened in the middle of the night, at 1 00 in the morning. While the target seemed to have been military base, it left a giant crater in the road. The injured and dead are all civilians. People sleeping, lots of flying glass, all of the hospitals here in kabul have been inundated by the injured. More than 400 we are hearing from the Health Min
Accidental and not related to terrorism. So tough to see, knowing we have so many tourist landmarks here that are poplar across the nation. You can see on your screen, not a portions of times square are still closed at this hour as Police Continue to collect estigace and make sure that this is not a diversion in anticipation of something else. Ged Investigative Team with our sister station new york has rightered many more details, and the leading theory from police s oat this was a drunk or drugged driving incident. Rivingiver undergoing tests right now as we speak, and we mentioned his history. We know two dwis on his record including one in which he was driving 99 Miles Per Hour in a of oure per hour zone. Mayor de blasio says it was a tough day for new york city, but is 2sve tremendous faith in the work of our first responders. Thanks for joining us. The times square crash tops our i ional news this midday hour, but we also have local headlines. Good to have you with us. Im sam broc
The trump campaigns ties to ru is he the right now at 11 00 this former fbi director is taking over the investigation into trump campaigns ties to russia. Is he the right man for the job . Tonight his background and his bay area ties. Good evening. Im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. Lets get right to kpix5s andria borba in the newsroom tonight. Well, ken and liz, the latest whiplash inducing turn of events from washington d. C. , the department of justice has appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel in the investigation into President Trump, his associates and russian ties. Impeccable character, someone who knows the law. Reporter kpix5 security analyst jeff harp, form early assistant special agent in charge former assistant special agent in charge of the San Francisco fbi office served under mueller and said he was hands on in his years as the director of the fbi. When you go into his briefing, there was no good answer i dont know. Thats not a good answer for him. You need to know,