But measles, deleon for over ten years mesothelioma is really all we do. 80087 to 4901 tonight, iran saying its closer than ever to direct conflict with the United States. And as iranians prepare for their own elections tomorrow, theyre keeping an eye on the us, telling our Fred Pleitgen who is there that a Trump Presidency could make things worse . Fred pleitgen is outfront tonight in tech ron as israel continues its military campaign against hamas in gaza, with casualties mounting, you, iran warning the Israel Hamas War risks leading to a direct confrontation between tehran and washington thinking the speaker of the iranian parliaments Foreign Policy committee tells me they think that if there will be no finish for the swore, it can go in bigger scale and it can be harmful for everybody you know, for the safety is one of the parties who are in support of this ray. The us accuses iran of arming hamas for years, aiding the groups attack against israel on october 7, last year, killing m
Off the cuff, President Biden sticking to a script. But in terms of the level of factual accuracy, i mean, it was scripted in an accurate way this week to hear from the president. The former president said what he wanted to, and much of it was not true. So i dont have any factchecks of President Biden here. But i think thats for an obvious reason remarkable. Daniel dale, glad to have you on standby. Thank you for that. And as we start the top of the new hour here on the lead, you just saw President Biden and donald trump wrapping up those competing very different appearances on the southern border, how their messaging on immigration is playing 1,700 miles away in washington. And speaking of congress, is the job of another House Speaker potentially on the line . Today . Mike johnson helped get a new shortterm Spending Bill passed. But thats really his problem. His conservative rightwing flank wants a longterm solution. Last, i checked the republicans actually have a majority in the hous
News you were in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington at this hour, were following major Breaking News out of gaza. Hundreds of civilians caught in the chaos of the israelhamas war morning to our viewers, the videos youre about to see are graphic and very disturbing. The palestinian red crescent, as well as several eyewitnesses now say hungry civilians were simply waiting in line for food in Western Gaza City when israeli tanks and drones open fire on the crowd Gazas Health Ministry says more than 100 people were killed in nearly 800 injured. Cnn is unable to independently confirm these numbers. A local journalists on the scene says most of the deaths came from the chaos that erupted when aid trucks try to escape the gunfire, the idf says the incident is under have the un a chief saying moments ago, and im quoting now, life is draining out of gaza at terrifying speed. Last hour, President Biden told reporters that he knows this violence will complicate any negotiations for a
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com were following the breaking news including the worsening plight of tens of thousands of iraqi refugees stranded by isis forces. The United Nations has declared the the situation the highest level of emergency calling it a humanitarian catastrophe and now the United States is considering mounting a massive rescue operation and that would mean more u. S. Troops on the ground in iraq under the most dangerous conditions. Were also getting word of u. S. Airstrikes against isil militants. We have complete coverage with all of our breaking news with our correspondents and special guests here in washington and around the world. Lets begin with the pentagon correspondent barbara starr. What are you finding out, barbara, first of all, about a possible u. S. Led rescue mission . Well, wolf, and, you know, that is unfolding at this hour. Let me bring everybody quickly uptodate. There has been another u. S. Airstrike and another u. S. Drone struck an isis position
Could carry. Children and elderly and everybody scrambling to get on that chopper. They can only carry a couple dozen people each one. Theres only three of them right now because one of them crashed the other day in its evacuation effort. But there are reportedly thousands of people on the mountain dying by the hundreds from lack of water, lack of food and temperatures that are topping 100 degrees up there. Just imagine what it is like for them. So the Obama Administration started today saying that theyre looking at rescue options, but they did not want to see u. S. Troops engaged in combat on the ground. Here is a report from the state department today. Would you say that mt. Sinjar is located in a combat zone . I dont know technically what i would say. Clearly theres a lot of fighting going on around it. People dealing with the rescue mission arent engaged in some kind of combat armed combat . Well, they wont be, period. The problem with that, the terrorists are all over this area. T