Crossing, which connects egypt to gaza. President biden says egypt will allow 20 humanitarian aide trucks to roll through. So far, no timeframe was given for the aide s arrival. Israel earlier said it wont get in the way of food, water, and medicine getting to civilians, as long as the assistance does not reach hamas. Mr biden says they are a few more things that need to happen before the aid can come in. This has been a very blunt negotiation i have had, so we want to get as many of the tracks out as possible. There are a 150 or so there. Not all will go. The first tranche, if there is a second tranche, see how it goes. We want to bring you some live pictures out of gaza, where its just after 4 00am. This is the main entrance of Nasser Hospital in khan yunis. Protests across the middle east erupted over the explosion at the Al Ahli Hospital in gaza tuesday that left at least a71 people dead. Arab states, and the main palestinian militant group, hamas, have continued to blame israel fo
welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. i m max foster in london. qatar s foreign ministry says it will announce in the next few hours when the truce will begin. a diplomatic source says it is likely to start friday now midnight local time at the earliest. news comes after israel said wednesday that it expected release of hostages and pause in fighting were delayed. both u.s. and israeli officials pointed to logistical details for that delay. ahead of the expected truce, israeli forces continued ground and air operations striking parts of northeastern and central gaza. palestinians say areas further south were also hit. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu expressed confidence that the deal would go into effect. here is what a top white house official told cnn. we re not going into this with uberous or arrogance. we re grateful that we were able to get the deal secured. but it all now comes down to execution. so nobody is doing any testing here. there
these mother have to stand in light all night to get ice to keep their food refrigerated. we heard from people who are diabetic who need the ice for their medicine. trying to get out of puerto rico is a challenge. today we saw 1,000 people waiting in line to board a royal caribbean ship. we saw hundreds of people at the airport. there are only 24 commercial flights leaving the island. the average is 170 flights per day out of san juan international airport. a week after the hurricane hit, when people should be returning home, as we ve seen in harvey and irma, people here desperately trying to leave and the desperation is growing. what is frustrating what you explained in items of getting the much needed supplies distributed within the island. the lack of access to fuel, the
fuel and of supplies, nobody can conduct an amphibious landing lie the u.s. department of defense. we have the people, and the resources. i spoke to mitch landrieu, who was in washington talking about the lessons learned from katrina. if you get 48 hours or 72 hours behind a storm, it is very hard to catch up. you re basically looking at cascading problems, one on top of the other on top of the other. right now it appears the problem du jour is they don t have drivers, because they can t get to work because there s no gas in their tanks because the gas tanks have no electricity. but if the military is deployed, if they re deployed rapidly, i believe the humanitarian situation c situation, the crisis can be they could be dropping mres, water, generators and fuel neighborhood by neighborhood. just tree top level or closer to the ground, move on to the next
deer wide body passenger jets and get people out of there. he said they need a carrier offshore as a landing platform. he said the army s 7th transportation command could supply all the needed truck drivers, moving big things and lots of people in a hurry is what they do. he says he had 20,000 troops and 240 helicopters at his disposal in katrina. so far puerto rico doesn t have numbers close to that. he points out, without communications, without portable cell towers, there s no way to coordinate the relief effort. on the ground puerto ricoiance need fuel, power, water, fuel and cash is in low supply. with us from san juan puerto rico, mar yawna please tell us about the lines you saw today, about how far people walk just to stand in line, and the need.