happening now, early voting is underway in the critical midterm election battleground state of georgia. we await the start of a high- stakes debate in the governor s race and a dustup in the senate showdown, as well. republican herschel walker s on the defensive for using an honorary sheriff s badge as a political prop. russia intensifies its attacks on civilians, unleashing a swarm of kamikaze drones on the ukrainian capital. i will ask a former cia director, david petraeus, about the u.s. response to this brutal phase of russian president vladimir putin s war. cnn is on the scene with an all-female fighting unit supporting protesting against iran. the battle and why they take it personally. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room. we are hitting a critical stretch for the candidates of both political parties. the final chance to make an impression on voters with early ballots already being cast. natio
This is cnns live coverage of israel at war. Im wolf blitzer in washington along with sara sidner in tel aviv. Theres Breaking News were following this hour. Americans and others stuck in warravaged gaza are on alert to evacuate potentially at any moment. The State Department is urging u. S. Citizens to move closer to the rafah border in the southern part of Gaza Crossing from Gaza Into Egypt in case it opens up with little notice. Local media reported earlier that egypt was not, repeat not, allowing american citizens through the crossing. More than 1 million civilians in the northern part of gaza are under israeli orders to flee to the south, an evacuation the United Nations is calling impossible. The humanitarian crisis is escalated amid widespread destruction and a mounting death toll in gaza now rising above 2200. Its been a full week of punishing israeli air strikes in response to the horrific and deadly hamas Terror Attack on israel last weekend that killed some 1300 people. The
security wasn t dictating security but that politics were dictating security. for instance, i was there most all the day, never once did a single person mention a video, like it was not a factor. and it s it s what the administration was saying in the reality of what i heard on the ground were two different things. the administration had come to the conclusion that it was terrorist terrorism, they got it wrong in initially but what about the key question whether they overlooked security concerns, intelligence warnings? did anyone share with you the allegations that more security was requested by the late ambassador chris stevens and that was denied? that is clearly what i think we will hear tomorrow from two of the professionals that were there on the ground. you got to remember, in benghazi, you look at a map, tripoli, about two hours by air to the east is benghazi. twice in the six month lead up to 9/11, the british ambassador
on the agency, but a lack of action contributed to the tragedy. in december, a jordanian suicide bomber entered a cia base in eastern afghanistan killing five agents and two cia contractors. he was a double agent and now panetta said the u.s. failed to heed intelligence warnings. bob windroom joins us now. we talked so much, bob, in the days after 9/11 about the importance of human intelligence. in this case, there was human intelligence, what went wrong? well, as in the 9/11 case, in this case, the communication was faulty. in 9/11 there wasn t a lot of communications between agencies. in this case, there wasn t communication between someone who had some doubts about this and going further up the chain. essentially, a jordanian intelligence official, not the one who had recruited him went