Against israel in the streets of manhattan right now. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just spoken live in tel aviv. Well get reaction from john kirby who will join us from the white house shortly. Also we will do an interview with Kevin Mccarthy, the former speaker of the house that spoke out forcefully on what the United States has to do now a short time ago. The Prime Minister of israel saying that strikes in gaza are just the beginning after hamas attacks killed 900 people in israel. At least Nine Americans have been killed in these hamas attacks. There may be more. Were going to wait for more information on that. We will get white house reaction to the american dead and questions about whether or not there are americans being held hostage. The president s team called a lid on President Biden appearances at 11 46 a. M. So we dont expect to hear anything more from the president on this. Well speak with john kirby. Thats coming up. We have new video that is just in of the brutal
Israeli hostages dragged over the border, either from homes or Music Festival. By now, you have seen the truly horrific images of families with small kids, grandparents, and young people being paraded through the streets of some of themcansccording to the u. S. State deparent. In a moment, ill bed by the nfc coordinator of strategic communications, john kirby at the white house. Lets get to the reporting. Richard engel reporting from the border city this afternoon. Stay down, down. Reporter there has been a lot of incoming fire here. We believe that it is mortar fire. Some of them also appear to be rockets. They have been coming in quite close. That is why we are on the ground right now. Joining us now from telaviv is chief correspondent ali velshi, thank you for being with us. In the time that weve spoken since we last spoke, weve seen a number of counter strikes on gaza, smoke in the air. Fires, explosions and whatnot. How does it sound from tel aviv . Raf a little bit earlier was he
Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Hello and welcome, everyone. Cnn brings you unparalleled coverage. Following major, major break news. On the ground. Four hours into the most serious threat to its security in modern memory perhaps ever. Live pictures now of gaza city, dawn just starting to break behind the skyline there. It is widely expected that a massive Israeli Military operation will soon engulf this palestinian enclave. Israel confirming a significant number of israelis including at least one soldier have been captured by hamas militants. You see one of them here being bundled into a car. A young woman. Their locations and fates are currently unknown. It is a shocking and unprecedented escalation in the regions long history of conflict. Israeli forces have been Hounding Hamas targets in gaza for much of the last 24 hours or so. The Prime Minister stating unequivocally that the country was at war. And since dawn on saturday, thousands of rockets have been fired from Gaza In Ra
breaking news on ana cabrera reports, hunter biden indicted with nine new tax charges including three felonies. we ll detail the allegations made by the special counsel in this case including money spent on a lavish lifestyle. escorts, cars, and drugs instead of paying taxes. we re also watching the united nations this hour about to convene an emergency meeting on gaza with a new warning that conditions inside the strip are nearing a humanitarian catastrophe. plus, just hours before the start of hanukkah, shots fired at a synagogue in albany, new york. the rising fears of anti-semitism here at home. also ahead, las vegas police releasing this new video of the shootout with the man who opened fire at unlv. and first to nbc, new accounts of the gunman s obsession with vegas. it is 10:00 eastern. thanks so much for being with us on a friday. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with that breaking news. hunter biden indicted on tax crimes. the presid
the overwhelming house vote to expel him, and the competitive special election to fill his barely cold seat, and the country now mourning the loss of the first female supreme court justice known as an undenial swing vote on the bench, sandra day o connor, that s coming up. and overseas, fighting has resumed inside of gaza with israel launching terror strikes across the territory and dropping leaflets with a warning to civilians to move further south. one palestinian telling nbc news this, every ten to 15 minutes there have been strikes. it has been all around us. we begin with that historic breaking news on capitol hill, new york republican george santos now the sixth house member ever to be expelled from congress, the first in over 20 years. more than 2/3 majority, 311 of his colleagues voted to remove him from office following a scathing house ethic report and 23 count indictment on fraud charges. his seat is in the hands of new york governor kathy hochul. the governor ga