let s hope they re both home soon. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, house-to-house combat, the fighting in gaza s second largest city ramping up tonight and civilian casualties are mounting. and president biden revealing he wouldn t be running for reelection, except for one thing, this as voters open up about why they are giving desantis another look at trump. and george santos s second act, making new cameos, the price has gone up. that s the old supply, demand, and people are paying up. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, surrounded. israel says its forces have encircled gaza s second largest city. there s fierce fighting inside khan younis. that s where the civilian population has ballooned, as people are told to go from northern gaza south towards khan younis, and now reports of house-to-house battles, according to an israeli km commander, quote, we are in
consider the terms of a temporary truce. what could be an imminent deal to release dozens of hostages. a senior u.s. official and source familiar with the talks in the region tell nbc that would include hamas freeing around 50 women and children in change for 150 palestinian prisoners being held by israel. in addition, fighting would be paused for several days to allow for fuel and other aid to get in. president biden sounding optimist, saying it s looking good to bring the hostages home and we expect this deal to dominate at a pentagon press briefing that is scheduled to start any minute now. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with raf sanchez who reports from tel aviv. what more to we know about what this deal entails? whether israel is going to go along with it? do we know which meeting netanyahu is in right now? reporter: so, chris, he is still in this meeting with the full cabinet. it has been going on for an hour. we think it
next week another heat wave set to bake the country pushing temperatures 15 degrees above normal. get ready, david. yet another heat wave. all right, kaylee, thank you. we re going turn next tonight to the newly released audio from an interview with former president donald trump. the former president describing the crowd in the nation s capitol on january 6th, saying it was a loving crowd. and tonight speaker nancy pelosi explaining why she rejected two republicans on that select committee set to investigate what led to the january 6th attack. rachel scott on the hill again tonight. reporter: tonight, as the house battles over a commission to investigate the riot at the capitol, we are hearing new audio of former president donald trump describing the mob as a loving crowd. and it was a loving crowd, too, by the way. there was a lot of love. i ve heard that from everybody. many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. reporter: the audio from a march interview with
megadroug megadrought. next week another heat wave set to bake the country pushing temperatures 15 degrees above normal. yet another heat wave. all right, kaylee, thank you. we turn next to the newly released audio from an interview with former president donald trump. the former president describing the crowd in the nation s capital on january 6th saying it was a loving crowd and tonight speaker nancy pelosi explaining why she rejected two republicans on that select committee set to investigate what led to the january 6th attack. rachel scott on the hill again tonight. reporter: tonight, as the house battles over a commission to investigate the riot at the capitol, we are hearing new audio of former president donald trump describing the mob as a loving crowd. and it was a loving crowd, too, by the way. there was a lot of love. i ve heard that from everybody. many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. reporter: the audio from a march interview with washington p