democrats. garrett in chicago, thank you. you ve got it. john: fox news alert, waiting to hear from the white house after new attacks on the troops in the middle east. national security adviser jake sullivan will be there to field questions from the assembled white house press corps and with that, begin hour two. john roberts in washington. welcome back to another busy week of news. good to be with you, this is america reports . that attack seen as the biggest escalation yet against u.s. troops in the region. it is sparking alarm that president biden is failing to head off a wider war in the middle east. iranian backed militias are responsible for at least 75 attacks on american troops in the region in just the last six weeks. john: complete coverage now, daniel davis moments away why the biden administration is not doing more to protect american troops in harm s way. sandra: first chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon for us.
hello, and welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, kcanada all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom , explosions heard from gaza has renewed fighting stretches into the second day after the israel-hamas truce ended. a look the at when another deal could be brokered. when i see that my brothers and sisters can t find food or water, i feel life is worthless. the humanitarian situation in gaza is still desperate. we ll have a report from the rafah border crossing, which has become a lifeline. and vice president kamala harris arriving in dubai for the couldn t 28 climate summit. we ll look at what america could be pledging for climate action. it s 5:00 a.m. here in atlanta. noon in the middle east, where combat operations between israel and hamas are into their second day following the collapse of a week-long truce. the idf released this video of a strike against hamas targets operating in gaza and more than 400 targets were hit in
this is cnn breaking news. we are following significant breaking news this morning. sources tell cnn a hostage deal between israel and hamas could be announced as soon as today. here are some of the details. we are told the potential deal calls for the release of 50 women and children. in exchange, a four to five day pause in fighting and three palestinian prisoners swopd for each civilian hostage released, 150 being held. sources say israel and hamas are still working on the names of those who would be released. officials are hoping that one of the first will be 3-year-old abigail here. she is the youngest american hostage. her parents were killed by hamas. we spoke with her great aunt a short time ago after this news broke. she is cautiously optimistic here is more of what she told us. we can t get our hopes up in a way that just believes it s going to happen right if in the next couple of hours. when i think about that on friday is abigail s fourth birthday and she s
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we start this hour with the breaking news. the white house says a toddler, a 3-year-old toddler is among one of the nine americans and 200 others currently being held hostage by hamas following that deadly attack more than a month ago in israel. let s go straight to cnn senior white house reporter kevin liptak in delaware. this is just a heartbreaking development. what more can you tell us? reporter: yeah. this news coming from the white house in a readout of a phone call that president biden held with the amir of qatar. qatar has been acting as a broker in these talks to get these hostages released. the president conveyed his unequivocal condemnation of the holding of hostages in gaza, including this 3-year-old american toddler, whose parents were killed in the hamas attacks in israel on october 7th. so we don t know many details about this child, but he is one of potentially as many as 10 americans who are being held
angeles this is america s late news. fox news at night. let s begin with breaking news coming out of the warfront and gaza where israeli defense forces are pushing deeper into gaza city but israel has agreed to allow temporary pauses in the fighting. 4 hours at a time with a three hour warning before each pause. we are told pausing will allow humanitarian aid to come in and civilians to get out but israeli military experts believe international pressure is growing and could push israel to stop firing altogether. we are on the ground in tel aviv with the latest great jeff? is really forces are showing no signs of slowing down they continue to engage with hamas militants in northern gaza and they are tightening their circle in and around gaza city and they are finding more of those tunnels be utilized by militants they have destroyed 130 tunnel shaft recently above the surface israeli military said they have killed a key weapons maker during recent strikes this is forcing civ