everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the mass shooting over the weekend at an outlet mall in allen, texas. a source telling cnn investigators now believe the attack that killed eight and wounded at least seven hours was connected to right-wing extremism. in addition to this audio, disturbing video of the initial moments of the saturday attack captured on this rear view cam. you can see the gunman get out of the vehicle, we ve frozen the image at the moment the shooting begins. we basically turned to watch. and as we were watching, the shooter goes right across he s not running, but he s in a deliberate assault-type move. and he either had an m-16 or an m-4, he was firing, and shot about four or five shots as he proceeded towards the hamburger place. i don t know who will he shot. a few moments later, we saw a police officer come across in front of us, like he was in pursuit of the indi
kevin mccarthy lost the vote 11 times. do not, do not just show up at the border. president biden with a message to migrants as he gets ready to see the crisis up close. and the wrong moves made by the accused idaho killer. what investigators secretly watched him do and how it helped crack the case. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. the house of representatives reconvening again just hours from now without a speaker and no known path to picking one. lawmakers have tried and failed for three straight days to elect a new leader. the longest that has taken in, get this, 164 years. will it be kevin mccarthy in the end? he s the choice of most gop lawmakers, but even after making major, major concessions to his hard right opponents, mccarthy can t seem to lock in the 218 votes needed to win. no, no, i m not putting any time line on it. i think we have progress going on. i think we v
fredricka. the israeli military says it is expanding ground operations across the whole gaza strip. this, as the israel defense forces ordered people today living in southern gaza to evacuate to areas even farther south. the idf now says it s destroyed at least 500 hamas tunnel shafts since entering the enclave. fighting also heating up on israel s border today with lebanon. iran-backed hezbollah says it targeted several sites in northern israel. the idf says several soldiers were injured by an anti-tank missile. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying israel s forces will not stop in gaza until hamas is eradicated. hamas saying, though, there will be no negotiations for the remaining hostages still being held in gaza, including women and children, until israel agrees to a cease-fire. cnn has teams around the region monitoring all these latest developments for you. we want to start with cnn s matthew chance in tel aviv. what more are you learning about the israeli military s
resumed combat operations in the gaza strip accusing hamas of violating the truce by firing rockets toward israel. there have been multiple rockets. they have been intercepted. which shows that hamas has moved back into an attacking position. amongst the israeli people, we intercepted the rockets thankfully. otherwise they could have fallen on communities, cities, kindergartens. again, we re just now getting back to life after the tragedies of the last 55 days. children are going back to school here. it is friday morning and once again we intercepted those and we ve resumed our combat missions against hamas in the gaza strip. hamas controlled ministry of health says 32 people have been killed since the fighting began five hours ago. the fighting resumed just minutes after midnight eastern time when a seven day truce between israel and hamas expired. thursday hamas released eight women and children hostages in exchange for 30 palestinians freed from jail by israel. scott m
Lindsey mcpherson reports for roll call and covers house leadership. Congress is facing another shutdown deadline thursday at midnight. You covered the republican retreat in west virginia, what did you learn about their plans to avert the next shutdown . Lindsey from the retreat itself there did not seem to be a lot of discussion, although lawmakers that came through the Filing Center said it was finalized. Even speaker ryan had said that they would need a cr but the duration of that and what would be included had not been decided. We do know from gop leadership aides that they are looking at a resolution for march 22, thinking that sixweek timeframe would provide them enough time to get that budget deal they have been looking for, getting an omnibus bill after they have a budget cap agreement. Sorry, go ahead lindsey. Lindsay that timeline could be problematic because it goes past the march 5 deadline for deferred action, replacing the deferred action for Childhood Arrivals Program an