Good morning, everyone. Im phil the mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. Erin burnett is live neither gaza border. Its 7 00 a. M. On the east coast, 2 00 p. M. In tel aviv where Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is set to speak as the war between israel and hamass escalates. Hes meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, as israel continues to pummel gaza with artillery and airstrikes. The humanitarian crisis is growing more dire by the hour. Hostages, including americans, are still being held captive. Israel issued a new ult imatum. Power and water and fuel will stay cut off to gaza until they return the hostages abducted in the surprise attack. Without power, fuel and water, the hospitals will turn into more as the elderly seriously at risk. We have Team Coverage across the region and here at home. Lets get straight to erin burnett live at at the hospital in ashkelon. It got hit in yesterdays strike. Also Street Trooeted more than 600 patients from saturdays attack s. At this point, what a
a loved one. this is a scene being played out all across the city. one of the indian rescue workers i have spoken to here. he says there are more than 15 teams from india alone operating in similar location digging through the rubble. pulling out victims and sadly very few stories of survivors pulled from this. earlier, we were at a scene of hindu cremations along with the temple and there were more than a dozen cremation funerals under way. more bodies more victims being brought in literally every 15 minutes and one of the workers there who was stoking the flames told me that 95% of the people that he s seen undergoing this funeral ceremony all victims of this terrible earthquake the worst this country has seen in generations. back to you. oh my gosh ivan we know those first 72 hours are
deal with clearing the morsi supporters but multiple front lines at the same time. we saw morsi supporters trying to gather breakthrough the riot polices ranks. we also saw them actually taking over another square in cairo where they were as of tonight as well when we returned back to that location digging in there, setting up makeshift barricades once again, field hospitals, readying themselves for other clashes. the other issue here, too, anderson, the violence is not just clashes breaking out between those support mohamed morsi and the security forces. you re also seeing clashes between morsi supporters in various neighborhoods where the marches are taking place. additionally to this, neighborhood watch. young men in various neighborhoods, taking batons, bats, setting up check points,