today on inside politics, a big development on hostage negotiations. president biden said a deal to free the more than 200 hostages held by hamas is, quote, going happen. this comes as a official familiar with the talks tells cnn and israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal. i want to get straight to mj lee, who is in san francisco with the president waiting for him at least. what did the president say? and put this intoen context along with other reporting this you and other colleagues have. reporter: yeah, you heard from president biden, who is making his way now here to san francisco for his summit with xi jinping, expressing a sense of optimism that a deal could be reached to get the hostages out of gaza. this was echoed in part by a u.s. senior official that i was speaking with earlier, who said that israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal to secure the release of these hostages, but the official, it s important to note, cautioned that it s closer, but it s
cats. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. thank you. bye-bye. thanks for joining me. i m omar jimenez. we begin with the growing humanitarian crisis in gaza as calls for a ceasefire are mounting. right now israeli troops say they are engaged in ongoing intense fighting against hamas near one of gaza s major medical centers. al shifa hospital has already been hit by artillery fire. the idf has denied the claim by one official in gaza that the hospital is under complete siege with staff and patients unable to evacuate. gaza s biggest hospital is now out of service. the situation on the ground is growing more dire by the day for civilians. the red cross says gaza s health care system has passed the point of no return. but israel is pushing ahead with its attacks. the idf says their soldiers have now captured 11 hamas military posts. today thousands were able to move south during a seven-hour evacuation window. it was the first straight day israel has opened evacuati
that one got me every single time. this was a young man who would go and play his violin for cats at an animal shelter. he was out trying to get, i think it was a snap or a juice for his younger brother. he had headphones on at one point, he had a mask before the pandemic and was keeping to himself. and they injected him with ketamine in the end. just thinking about what those final moments would have been like, this young, i know you call on a young man, maybe even an old child is more appropriate. he actually said, as he vomited trying to get free, vomiting on an officer, apologized for that and then said teamwork makes the dream work, trying to encourage them to let him go. and i can tell you, every time i hear his name, and we ve heard a lot of cases, that one brings tears to my eyes to that moment. it s incredibly soft. a reminder, a lot of times in these cases, acquittals are very common when it comes to officer involved deaths like this one. laura, we appreciate your
push for peace. the u.s. tries to contain the israel-hamas war. we need to do more to protect the palestinian civilians. as israel continues to retaliate against hamas for its terror attack, is the u.s. making headway privately? senators lindsay graham and richard blumenthal join me in an exclusive bipartisan interview. then israel s ambassador to the united nations is here. and rift, concern about civilian casualties in gaza exposes a political split. palestine will be free! where does a key progressive stand? vermont senator bernie sanders is here exclusively next. on the ballot, in florida, donald trump s critics face fierce backlash? as a new poll shows trump leading president biden in key swing states. how worried should the white house be? my panel is coming up. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is reeling from a month of war and global fury. this morning u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is trying to thread the n
family members with whom we are with contact that they will be assigned specific departure dates. we have asked them to continue to monitor their email regularly over the next 24 to 72 hours for specific instructions about how to exit. it is 3:00 here in washington, d.c., we re going to begin this hour with cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson, he is in sderot, israel. give us the latest on what the idf says happened today at the refugee camp. reporter: they said they had precise intelligence which allowed them to target a hamas terror cell that was hiding out in the jabalia refugee camp in the fallujah neighborhood and it was using that precise intelligence that they targeted them, eliminating them. they point out that hamas has has made a habit, if you will, intentionally hides behind civilians, hides in tunnels that are underneath and amongst the civilian housing and the idf also point out that they have been warning the citizens of northern gaza to move