You got it. Dana never ends. Have a good show. Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, a u. S. Official tells fox news on background Defense Secretary lloyd austin has ordered a significant number of u. S. Noncombat troops to be ready to deploy to israel. The personnel have been told to be on standby to be sent within 24 hours, if needed the israeli army is expected to launch a massive Ground Invasion of gaza at any time now. Its also getting ready for battle possibly with hezbollah along the northern border with lebanon. Israeli troops and hezbollah terrorists have exchanged fire repeatedly there. The humanitarian situation meantime in gaza is worsening with shortages of power, food, water, and medicine. Many refugees consider to wait at the border with egypt. Which is still closed. President biden says he thinks it would be a big mistake if israel chooses to occupy gaza once again. Meantime, 30 americans have been killed in this conflict so far. At least 13 are missing. W
Intent of killing innocent civilians, women, children, babies, beheading babies. This is a barbaric, disgusting, vile Terrorist Regime that needs to be eliminated. And israel has every right to defend itself and its right to exist. And they should take any and all action necessary to do that. Congressman mike lawler, we appreciate the overtime with you in having a very broad conversation. Please keep us posted on whether you plan to support speaker scalise if you wind up speaking with him later today or not. Thanks so much. Thanks. Of course. Still plenty more news to come. Stay with announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Im Boris Sanchez live in washington, d. C. Alongside anderson cooper, who is in tel aviv, israel. And we are tracking major developments on capitol hill and in the middle east. Republican congressman Steve Scalise has just locked down the republican nomination for House Speaker. A full vote to determine if he will become the 56th Speaker Of The House is potentially comi
Fox news mike tobin is live in tel aviv with the latest. Mike, thank you. Ing what can you tell us . Reporter a couple of takeaways from the president s speech that resonated here in us israel is that the u. S. Is increasing force posture in the region and ready to supply israel with everything it needs to defend itself. If shortly after that speech i was randomly approached by a stranger here in tel aviv who said that israel appreciates the u. S. The skirmishes continue. When the sun goes down, the rockets go up, the interceptors go up in the say to meet them. We have video from a town just to the northern end of the gaza strip which has been subject to so much rages in recent days violence in recent days. The rockets was preceded by a warning from the hamas that the rockets were came and still the rockets came, the intercept ors went up after them. 40 no word on casualties. Also fresh fighting in ashkelon as a gunman slipped through what was a security perimeter laid down by israeli
Israel continues pounding gaza from the air and a Ground Invasion could launch any day. Hamas launches a rocket barrage of its own on the southern coast. The images are stunning, fallout from the middle east, but for the investors. Many finding a safe haven us bonds, that since Interest Rates tumbling. Stocks advancing, really advancing when it comes to the dow, not the scenario many feared. Even oil prices eased. That might change but for those fearing a repeat of what market and oil prices did 50 years ago and it to the last big attack on israel, nothing even close. No oil prices, no embargo, no gas line, not even fears of one for now. Today, we examine why this is happening as this war spirals out of control. I am neil cavuto. We have a war raging half a world away and stocks far from falling, they are going along for the ride. Before we get to what the president might say in less than an hour and what a tour guide witnessed from the hamas attack that brought us to where we are now,
Earlier this afternoon. Not once did he mention the word iran, but were going to get to that in just a second with my great friend and colleague breath with9 baer. First, lets get the latest on the israelhamas war, whats happening on the ground. Fox news mike tobin is live in tel aviv with the latest. Mike, thank you. Ing what can you tell us . Reporter a couple of takeaways from the president s speech that resonated here in us israel is that the u. S. Is increasing force posture in the region and ready to supply israel with everything it needs to defend itself. If shortly after that speech i was randomly approached by a stranger here in tel aviv who said that israel appreciates the u. S. The skirmishes continue. When the sun goes down, the rockets go up, the interceptors go up in the say to meet them. We have video from a town just to the northern end of the gaza strip which has been subject to so much rages in recent days violence in recent days. The rockets was preceded by a warning