Speaker, theyre wrong. It is going to be a republican speaker and he was not suggesting that. Some of my some of my democratic colleagues have been pushing for, you know, four or five of us to vote for hakeem jefferies. Thats not happening. I understand that. Congressman mike lawler of new york. Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you. This is cnn Breaking News. It is the top of the hour. Im dana bash in washington where the State Of The Union is holding its collective breath. You are watching a special live hour of cnn Breaking News coverage. Israel at war. A top israeli official just told me more than 600 people are dead and more than 2,000 are injured after Hamas Terrorists swept into israel. Several americans are reportedly dead and an israeli official says dozens of americans are among of the hostages brought back to gaza. We are talking about hostages who are largely civilians. Mothers, father, children, grandmother, sisters, brothers. Now 36 hours later israel has formally d
today, president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu are expected to speak by phone. it will be their first conversation since seven world central kitchen aid workers were killed in israeli strikes on monday. overnight, the group called for an independent international investigation and world central kitchen founder chef jose andres is calling for accountability, accuseses you israel of systematically targeting the workers. let s get more from raf sanchez. reporter: israel s military is investigating the killing of the aid workers, but world central kitchen is saying that s not enough. they want an independent investigation, conducted by a third party. they re calling on israel to preserve evidence and chef jose andres is demanding accountability. overnight, world central kitchen calling for an independent investigation into the israeli strikes that killed seven of its aid workers. some of the people that died were were my friends. and i served with them
military truce. u.s. diplomats are scrambling to extend that agreement since a number of hostages are still being held captive. also, the red cross that was supposed to gain access to them, has not had access. we know a key part of the ongoing talks is getting adult males released. it s been women and children so far almost entirely with a few exceptions. we know israeli troops are at the ready, prepared operat operationally, along the truce lines in gaza should this pause expire and military actions resume. let s start here with jeremy diamond. jeremy, you re in israel. we saw people in the street celebrating. they re hoping for the arrival of some more hostages coming from gaza. reporter: yeah, that s true. when we got here earlier this evening, there were just a few people, but word spread quickly that the group of hostages was set to come through here on their way to the air base in front of me. what we saw earlier in the last hour was these scenes of absolute jubilat