Wednesday at eight on Hgtv Cnn breaking News Welcome to for our viewers in the united states and Around The World, im Jim Sciutto in Tel Aviv, the Chris Wallace Show will start in just a few minutes, but we do want to get you the latest on our Breaking News we have been following all morning. The Middle East on edge after the killing of hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an israeli airstrike Friday Today night. Nasrallah, one of the founders of hezbollah, oversaw its transformation into a powerful Paramilitary Force in the Middle East responsible for numerous terrorist attacks the strike that killed us rela happened in a densely populated area, killed at least six people, wounded, dozens more thats according to lebanese officials in all israel targeted more than 140 sites. The idf says those targets included Weapons Storage facilities, production sites, as well as other infrastructure embedded inside residential neighborhoods in beirut there are concerns about a possible response. He
Hospital in gaza city. This hospital is vital to the northern part of gaza. The explosion in gaza was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket that was misfired. These images are having a huge impact across the region. These protests are only going to get larger. All of that made the president s planned summit in amman, jordan, effectively untenable. President biden is meeting with netanyahu at length. It appears as though it were done by the other team, not you. Good morning, everyone. Very significant day on the world stage. Im poply harlow with phil mattingly. Clarissa ward and Kaitlan Collins on the ground in israel and President Biden is at a volatile moment in the war between hamas and israel after an explosion at a hospital killed hundreds of innocent civilians. Officials there claim it was an israeli air strike but israel insists it was a misfired rocket that was launched by Palestinian Militants, Islamic Jihad near the hospital. President biden appeared to take israels side. Listen.
It includesamassing thousands upon thousands of troops. Nic robertson is in sderot where troops are training in that area. Give us a sense of what you are talking about training and that entails along the border, nic. Yes, what they want to do is to send in a combined force. They want to send in tanks, infantry and combat engineers, and this is a spearhead advance, and lot of the armies do this, but when you have reservists in the force, and regular troops, you have bring them together to do that, and so they have been training to do that and training as well for fighting in a Combat Environment in these mock palestinian towns, and there are mosques. There are stores. There are traffic circles. There are home. So the troops are going to training for the exact environment absent the people they will face when they go into gaza. Now they have not been given the order, and everything that we see, the tanks parked in the field, and the lastminute repairs to the train tracks, and the dozens
Of funding in a few weeks, and also because the white house will be asking congress presently for an aid package for israel, one that by all accounts so far cant pass without a speaker. Lets goat that story first, and then right back to israel where things are rapidly unfolding as well. Jake sherman, Cofounder Of Punch Bowl News and msnbc political contributor. Thanks for being with us. What exactly is going on . So scalise, katy, won the republican conferences nomination to be speaker. This is the initial process by which the republican conference caps their candidate to be the speaker for a house floor vote. As you noted, he only won with 113 votes. That is nothing. That is more than 100 votes shy of winning the speakership and in an alarming sign for mr. Scalise, he has several republicans already saying that they will not vote for him on the floor. Now, some of that could be bluster. We dont know, but tom massey of kentucky, max miller of ohio both have said they have not committed
That is coming up on november 17th. I will tell you multiple members coming out of a private meeting last night on capitol hill were extremely clear. They are not confident that today ends with a new speaker of the house. Poppy, phil . Lauren fox, thank you for the reporting. And cnn this morning continues right now. Israel right now preparing for a Ground Invasion of gaza that appears to be imminent. These iron dome interceptions, active rockets coming in from gaza. In a minute, it can be all the war everywhere. I just cover myself with dead people. Just waiting to die. They dont have mercy on no one. Better to be dead. The condition of my friends, my family who survive is unspeakable at this point. Whole families were executed. Parents, children, people even beheaded. Must be crystal clear, we stand with israel. Theres no justification for terrorism. He has deployed hostage recovery experts. He has offered to share intelligence. There are the sirens going off again. There will be ret