hello, again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. new today, israel defense forces are now responding, after questions about hamas weapons allegedly found inside gaza s largest hospital. video evidence analyzed by cnn had suggested that the idf may have rearranged weapons found at the al shifa hospital before international news crews visited the scene. the idf says the discrepancy is due to more weapons and assets being discovered throughout the day following a raid earlier this week at the facility, and it comes as israel defense forces are now vowing to advance anywhere hamas is found. there are growing signs that the idf may soon expand its operations into southern gaza. right now, families of hostages are gathered in tel aviv pleading with the israeli government to ensure their loved ones safe return. that s where we find cnn s jeremy diamond. what are you hearing from people gathered? reporter: well, fred, thousands of families of hos
hello. and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo in london. israel steps up its ground offensive into gaza, the israeli prime minister says now is the time for war. and there will be no cease-fire until hamas is resigned, quote, to the dust bin of history. explosions have been ringing out in gaza in recent hours, with new images just a short while ago. heavy smoke hanging over the horizon. idf says the forces have struck about 300 targets in gaza. earlier on, benjamin netanyahu rejected criticism over civilian casualties. insisting that hamas was preventing people from moving to the safe zone in southern gaza. israeli military says dozens of hamas fighters have been killed. hamas claims that israel s attempts to get into gaza have been unsuccessful. hamas has released a hostage video. and three women that are believed to have been held captive since october 7th. and new details on how a female israeli sol
the cdc now reporting more than 107 million people in this country have received at least one dose. and the average over the past week is about 2.3 million people getting vaccinated every day. let s begin with cnn national correspondent natasha chen for us in florida. visitors are there in huge numbers for spring break despite the pandemic. are people taking precautions? reporter: anna, most of the people we are seeing walking along ocean drive here are not wearing a mask. and you have mentioned there is not a lot of social distancing going on, especially with the evening crowds. here s video that someone took from friday night. this is an incident that happened a few blocks from where i am standing where there was a very large crowd. miami beach police tweeted about this saying two of their officers got injured in the situation as they tried to disperse the crowd with pepper balls. a couple of officers had to be sent to the hospital. that s just one example of the rowdines
the senators released a joint statement saying it s clear that governor cuomo has lost the confidence of ice governing partners and the people of new york. what is the governor saying this morning about these calls to resign? reporter: in short, governor cuomo saying that those allegations of sexual assault and harassment, that they certainly should be heard, but at the same time he s also maintaining that he s innocent of any sort of misconduct and he also continues to double down on his position that he will not step down as the governor of the state of new york in spite of the ongoing state impeachment investigation and also, as you mentioned, the growing chorus of democrats that are calling for him to resign. here is the governor s latest position when it comes to the growing call for him to step down. i did not do what has been alleged, period. look, it s very simple, i never harassed anyone, i never abused anyone, i never assaulted anyone. and i never would, right?
And we have a closer look at how some of you dealt with the snow. First winter storm advisories across the area. This pretty back drop is across our studios in northwest d. C. It looks like nice big fat flakes coming down and a decent coating on the lawn. We kick things off with the Weather Center with what you need to watch out for on your friday night. The snow is not done falling just yet. This is our first measurable snowfall in december since 2013. Lets go ahead and go straight to lift look. This is reagan. I know you cant see the flakes but we have snow falling at the airport throughout the district. Now temperatures down to freezing. So this last bit of snow and the temperatures in the low 30s. It might get a good shot at accat straight to the radar. Look for the brighten bands of white where we see the moderate snowfall and that striation is a band. So Prince Georges Countying getting a coating and lighter snow just to the east of the i81 corridor and well see this continue to