Have seen, we are told the first delivery is scheduled to be 20 or so trucks of that aid. But that is just a small drop in the bucket compared to the 100 trucks a day that the United Nations says gazans need. I want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and every night this week for this coverage here in tel aviv. Oftentimes it is difficult to watch, but it is so important. Thank you for watching. I want to turn it over to Cnn Newsnight with abby phillip right now. New signs that israel may be pushing pause on its Ground Invasion of gaza as the clock ticks on the fate of dozens of hostages and millions of civilians there. Thats tonight on newsnight. Good evening. Im abby phillip. As tanks, troops, and firepower line up at the border, israels impending Ground Invasion of gaza looks to be on hold after hamas freed two american hostages, a mother and daughter from chicago. Heres her father speaking just moments ago. Ive been waiting for this moment for a long time, two weeks. Ive no
Tem Patrick Mchenry which we have been talking about for a couple of days now is now dead, according to multiple gop lawmakers who have spoken to nbc news, like Kevin Mccarthy and Steve Scalise, the option did not have enough votes. Today in their socalled family meeting, the room got so emotional, matt gaetz confirmed that mccarthy started yelling at him, and Punchbowl News reports another lawmaker nearly lunged at him. Passions are a little inflamed. I think hes working through the stages of grief. Did Congressman Boss Lunge at you at well . I think he was pretty animated. I dont know if i would describe it as a lunge. I said that i thought having speaker light was a bad idea. I think republicans ought to stay in our conference until we elect a speaker. We have a lot of great folks, im supporting jim jordan. That will be how it goes. Joining us now, nbc news capitol hill Correspondent Ali Vitali and Punchbowl News cofounder and political contributor, jake sherman. Ali, what is going
Tonight, President Biden, two wars and one Primetime Address to the nation. We will see the president this evening from the Oval Office Making a direct appeal to the American People to essentially stand tough this as he says hes going to ask congress for tens of billions of tdollars to help support ukraine and israel. In gaza, new air strikes and explosions seen this morning. In Southern Gaza where civilians, as you know, have been told to flee for safety, this was the scene we saw over and over again this morning outside a hospital in khan youris. This was a few hours ago, a stream of people rushed in many for aid. Right now this is unclear what caused the explosion, the idf said they are looking into it. So to give you a sense of where some of these locations are. Khan youris is right there. The Raffa Crossing is right here. This is where President Biden said he has brokered a deal to allow some aid from egypt to cross. Were waiting to see if and when that will happen. This the line
Than he had yesterday. We have more on that coming up in this hour. We begin in the middle east with a truly historic measure, President Biden making a first wartime visited to israel as an american president. As roughly a handful of americans remain hostages of hamas. We should note with the president there earlier today, 31 americans were killed in those hamas attacks, and 13 are estimated unaccounted for. His trip diplomatically significant. Also obviously a security test. Biden did his meetings and is now en route back safely. The will also now we just learned this basically moments ago the president will do a formal address to the nation tomorrow at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Thats an Oval Office Address on this war. Biden also meeting with First Responders and people whose Family Members were taken hostage by who hamas. We have while the human toll hitting home after a terrible explosion at a hospital that killed hundred of people. Thats according to reports from inside gaza. An explosi
one will feel safe until hamas is gone. cnn, israel. thank you to nic robertson for the report. of course, stay with cnn for the latest on the ground in israel and what s happening in gaza. thank you for joining us tonight. i m caitlin collins in tel aviv. and i m alex in washington, have a good night. welcome to the whole story i m anderson cooper in tel aviv. the attack left 1400 people dead, more than 200 people have been held hostage according to the israeli officials. many more people are still unaccounted for. in response, israel began a bombing campaign according to the hamas control health ministry with more thousands dying so far. the story is complex. . its roroots go back toto t the formation of israel in 1948. there was a military wing that perpetrated the terror attack. we have the whole story from how they were formed, what their ideology is and how they have evolved over the decades. we want to warn you that some of the images you will see in the hour may