Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum live in washington today for our special coverage tonight of president Bidens Oval Office address on americas role in two wars. Now in israel and also in ukraine. Were going live to the pentagon. A very important briefing about to get underway. Well take you there live as soon as that gets started. In israel, john roberts stays with us this hour in jerusalem. Mike tobin in southern israel and israeli Prime Minister netanyahus spokesman joins us live. First, the pentagon about to update on the situation as americans have four warships now in the region. Our u. S. Forces are in the region as well or headed to the region. A huge u. S. Commitment is underway and we expect that were going hear more about that from the pentagon in just moments. A u. S. Cargo plane delivered armored vehicles. Heres video of that as they rolled off of this c17 in israel. The Israeli Defense minister gives his troops the green light for entering gaza.
Coverage. America reports thank you for joining us. Im sandra smith in new york. John im john roberts. The story starts right now with martha picking up the coverage. Martha . Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. Were going to go live to tel aviv in just a moment with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu to get new information on this developing scene. You can see the pictures that have just come in from gaza city and the city where they believe an israeli air strike struck a hospital. Theres a lot of questions about how all of this happened. The Israeli Military says hospitals are highly sensitive buildings and are not idf targets. General petraeus who commanded our troops in iraq and afghanistan will be with us in moments. First, we go to Senior Correspondent mike tobin live in israel with the very latest. Hi, mike. Martha, this development at the hospital in gaza city is taking all the attention right now. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says the civilian casual
Sustained, deep and dark role in providing all of this support and capabilities to hamas in terms of this particular gruesome attack on october 7, we dont currently have that information. Well continue to look for it. If we find it, well share it with you. Thank you, jake. Looking back at the last few days, how did israel miss this attack coming . Thats a question for you to ask the Israeli Government. Obviously the Israeli Government has placed a high premium on its Intelligence Capacity as it relates to hamas and the west bank and relates to hezbollah. Why it is they didnt have warning from this is not a question that i can answer. What about u. S. Intelligence . Anything that crosses your desk that suggests this was come something. We did not see anything that suggested an attack of this type was going to unfold any more than the israelis did. Your meeting in the Situation Room today, we saw images earlier. At some point the president has seen the images of the dead israelis. What h
Fired over. A very tough day. Another tough day. Our continuing coverage continues now. This is cnn breaking news. Today in inside politics, the cost and chaos of war in response to an unprecedented Terror Attack against israel. First, Inside Israel [ sirens ] sirens and screams. Fire and rescues. And now the crackle of bombs. Youre looking at live images of the gaza skyline, smoky ash as far as the eye can see. And here in the u. S. , the worst Case Scenario for Nine American families, a National Security council official confirming that nine u. S. Citizens were murdered during attacks Inside Israel and there are also Americans Still missing. Today israel escalates. We should warn you that you are about to watch something quite graphic. It is carnage inside gaza. An air strike near a refugee camp, evidence of what the hamas attack has wrought on many innocent palestinians. Soot and mangled Concrete Strewn everywhere, amid a race to pull people from still burning rubble. Israels govern
intensifying and the migrant surge escalating. patrol officials say they re releasing 5,000 migrants in to the u.s. every day. every day! the reason why republican lawmakers are trying to strike a deal to boost border security. are they any closer? we ll ask the leading republican in those negotiations, senator james langford. your world is now. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it. griff jenkins in eagle pass on how they re trying to deal with that surge that he is witnessing right behind him. to you, griff. hey, neil. it s been a busy monday here in eagle pass and now in arizona. let s start in eagle pass. let s go to some footage we shot on the drone of a group that came up behind me. you ve got more than four to 500 migrants coming here. most of the ones here are from venezuela, guatemala, columbia. we met a man from africa from the country of angola. that was not the first group. we saw two more of 100 or more in different locations. they stretch the