it s the top of the hour. i m boris sanchez with jessica dean in washington, d.c. we have new video just into cnn, and we should warn you it is graphic and disturbing. so if you need to, it may be best to turn away now. it shows dozens of casualties near a hospital in gaza. we re seeing at least a dozen bloodied bodies strewn across the ground near an ambulance. the escalating humanitarian crisis in gaza, a main focus as america s top diplomat returns to the middle east. the secretary of state antony blinken today pressing israel for a pause in the fighting with hamas as the war now enters its fifth week and international condemnation grows. we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. we have been clear that as israel conducts this campaign to defeat hamas, how it does so matters. it matters because it s the right and lawful thing to do. it matters because failure to do so plays into the hands of hamas, and other terror groups. now while blinken was speaking, the
we have real clear politics today, race in the senate with no toss-ups, 50/50 right today. and i think to a certain extent the momentum of those kinds of numbers weather a president who s beat on george bush for two years, blamed everything on him, is two points ahead of him and worse numbers on the disapproval, i think it s a bad omen for democrats coming into this session. jesica, out covering campaigns this week, connecticut, linda mcmahon and dick blumenthal, how do you create a job, it s not just a number in the unemployment report or an attack line in the ads. blumenthal has come out a democrat very lukewarm on the stimulus, so not all democrats are embracing it. the telltale thing for me, i ve been talking to some top democratic strategists who say as long as our economic message is they want to increase tax breaks for the corporations, they want to privatize social security, they want to send jobs offshore, that s when we re in our sweet spot. we re not promoting what the
employees and say when this is all said and done, they will find out exactly what happened with this accelerator problem in toyota vehicles. buts very jesica, you cannet beth that somebody else may just find out something different and they will end up battling it out in court. absolutely. thank you, ted, for that report. well, unlike mr. i do yesterday dark ray la hood is not a brand name. he is the secretary of transportation and today, he, too, was on the hot seat for what the safety watchdogs in his department did and perhaps did not do about the toyota problem. more on that angle from joe johns. reporter: toyota is on the hot seat this week in washington but it s nhtsa, the national highway traffic safety administration, the feds who were supposed to be looking out for motorists who are taking a real beating here, accused of missing multiple warning since and getting caught completely by surprise when the story blew up in their faces last year. joan claybrook used to run nht