New york. This is Cnn Newsroom with Paula Newton hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers in the United States and all Around The World. Im Paula Newton. It is 8 00 am In Beirut where fears are growing that the exchange of Missile Fire between Israel And Hezbollah could now turn into a ground war. Us officials say is israeli troops have mobilized and are moving to the border with lebanon in what could be, could be preparation for a Ground Incursion Israel saying that a Ground Offensive is only one option that is currently being considered, not the idf continued their Air Offensive on saturday with blasts hitting close to the beirut airport Saturday Strikes in lebanon reportedly killed more than 30 people and wounded close to 200 others. Has belonged for its part fired back, saying it launched missiles towards jerusalem, prompting a response from israeli Air Defenses police say pieces of an interest intercepted missile crashed in the suburbs all that is happening after israel kille
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Live on a rooftop overlooking tel aviv, israel. Its just after 11 00 p. M. Here. Its been 16 days since the horrific Terrorist Attacks by hamas caught this country and, frankly, much of the world by complete surprise. Well start with breaking news. Hamas has released two more of the hostages it kidnapped from israel during the october 7th terrorist attack. Thats according to multiple sources who say the hostages are nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz. The lifshitz family said in a statement the women were handed over to the red cross and will shortly return to israel. We happened to be at the time with Israeli Defense spokesperson Jonathan Con Reek Cass when the news came in. This is part of his reaction. They are differentiating, distinguishing between only israelis and double citizens or perhaps only foreigners which rings familiar for me as a jew and Third Generation holocaust survivor, rings familiar from other types in our history. Israel belie
thank you, ali, for that reporting. that does it for us today. see you back here tomorrow beginning at 10:00 a.m. you can catch our show online around the clock on youtube and other platforms. i m ana cabrera from new york. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage. right now, fright night. the fight night that biden and trump campaigns are gearing up for. their first face off at this week s debate, but the candidates are taking very different approaches to their warm ups. on today s second anniversary of the dobbs decision, abortion is front and center along with the other debate topics the biden campaign is promoting. we look at what they re promoting and the trump campaign and the impact of the landmark decision on abortion on families across america. and the second of three days of hearings in the mar-a-lago documents case critics say are completely unnecessary amid continued questions about delaying tactics and judge cannon s questionable decisions. plus, prime minis
ukraine. please stay safe, my friend. let s bring in senior correspondent matthew chance from london. and matthew, russia claims, and look, we need to point out, obviously. the kremlin lies all the time. they claimed they weren t going to attack ukraine to begin with. they claim it is all an hoax. satellite imagery proves the bodies were there for weeks when the town was still under russian control. how does that kremlin explain this? reporter: well, they used that tried and tested tactic, whenever they re accused of activity. that has been true when it come to killing syrians in syria, the killing of dissidents overseas. meddling in elections in the united states. whatever the allegation, the russian standard defense is to
speeches today. he ll be watching nikki haley and responding more on twitter. surely making some phone calls today. we ll get back to you if the president says anything else. we are not expecting to see the president yet today. all right, kaitlin collins for us at the white house. you are looking at live pictures right now, right now they are going through some business and what happens tis the ambassador nikki haley, will be speaking out. then we ll also hear from the u.s. ambassador of the united nations, nikki haley who has had strong words for russia and the syrians as well. we ll bring you her statements live. we want to go to northern syria. our international correspondent,