With the most intense night of israeli airstrikes to date. We have reports unconfirmed by nbc news at this time of israeli troops crossing into gaza from the north and clashing with hamas fighters. Information is scarce. Right now, gaza is in a near total communications blackout. Gaza is the largest internet provider, as well as multiple gaza Cell Phone Service providers, they are all off line. That is due to both lack of fuel, and infrastructure that has been destroyed. The humanitarian aid group, red crescent, reports that without Cell Phone Service, they are now unable to dispatch their ambulances. The World Health Organization says it has lost contact with its staff, and its Health Facilities in gaza. Just hours ago, nbc news managed to make contact with a member of the nbc crew in gaza, he told nbc, ive managed to get connectivity for a minute with a lot of difficulty and i wanted to let you know that all internet, electricity, and everything has been cut off. The situation we are
And dangerous, at large. The grief and Mourning Engulf A Tight Knit Town of lewiston, maine. Im bill hemmer. Dana has the day off. Aishah, nice to see you. Aishah well take you live tatty press conference. Facing a lot of challenges out there in the maine wilderness looking for this guy. Its a region surrounded by miles of forests, mountains, lakes, ponds, streams, everything. They are trying to identify all of these 18 victims. One heartbroken father now struggling to come to terms with losing his son while knowing that he died a hero. Listen to this. People loved my son. My son was in sports all his life. People got to know him that way. They got to know the kind of heart he really had. I had the greatest son in the world and its a tough one. Its a tough one to lose. Your son died a hero. He did. Im proud of him, yeah. I love him with all my heart. Aishah hard to hear. The latest with nate foye. 38 hours in the manhunt the Community Waiting for answers that hopefully will come in the
Soldiers are surrounding the borders of gaza in the air, on the ground and in the sea. Gaza residents tell cnn that these air strikes are the most intense they have witnessed since the beginning of this conflict. Almost three weeks ago. Phone service that connects gaza to the outside world has now apparently been completely cut off because of the intense bombardment. These are live pictures were bringing you of the Skyline Over Gaza where we have been seeing explosions all day. This operation coming hours after israels Minister Of Defense told me and some other reporters that israel was, quote, waiting for the best conditions to start its Ground Operation, unquote, exactly what those conditions were, he would not make clear, earlier today sources told cnn that a breakthrough had been made in Hostage Negotiations as 229 people according to the idf are still being held by hamas. Kidnapped on october 7th. The idf says the talk of a breakthrough was, however, only rumors, so now what, of c
An escalation in gaza in the wake of that Terror Attack that left 1,400 israelis dead. Youre looking at live pictures. Widespread reports of sirens and exploegs. The Israeli Defense forces saying today they are stepping up their Ground Operations. Take a listen. Their Ground Forces are expanding their ground up aerations. Idf is operating at all dimensions in order to achieve the goals of the war. We will continue to attack in gaza and its surrounding, and we keep calling upon the People Living in gaza and iran that south from there the idf did not say troops have entered gaza though its worth noting israeli tanks have temporarily entered gaza over the last two days. All of this while the fate of the 200 hostages held by gaza is unknown. Back channel negotiations are ongoing in the midst of the conflict. Just a few hours ago repeated explosions were seen in the israelgaza border. A few miles away on the ground in gaza near total darkness that was interrupted only by flashes from the ai
To keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. Im sara sidner in tel aviv, israel, where we are learning a significant progress on the negotiations to release the hostages held by hamas, and this is as the israel troops are continuing the targeted troops in gaza on the ground. Im john berman in lewiston, in maine, where any moment we will get the update from Law Enforcement on the manhunt on the man accused of killing 18 people here. Authorities are now examining a gun, a cell phone and a note he left behind. Im kate bolduan in new york, and we are learning more about the lives lost in this horrible tragedy. So many families torn apart, and so many children left without their parents. The heartbreaking details are coming in this morning about the 18 beautiful lives. This is cis cnn news central. All right. We have a twominute warning about 2 30 ago for a News Conference that is supposed to happen here in lewiston, maine, and the Law Enforcement largely, and the