meetings, i billion with a b. we ve got this. honor, got this. i m kevin lived ttac at the white house and this is cnn hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield, new today, emotional moments in israel as four hostages are rescued and reunited with their families after eight months of being held by hamas, the israeli military launching a dramatic raid into gaza to run turn those hostages home. but that operation also left a trail of devastation for several, for central gaza, there were reports of more than 200 killed and the salt and hundreds more wounded also knew today a potential shakeup in israel s emergency government prime minister netanyahu. now asking war cabinet member benny gantz to stay after reports that he and his national unity party would withdraw from the government. gans postpone that news conference set for today after the rescue of the four israeli hostages. cnn s paula hancocks. and priscilla alvarez have been tr
never had on the border. it is going to get much worse. what you are seeing now is very bad. record numbers, but it is going to get much, much worse. we had very few people coming in and we stopped human trafficking. when i say stopped it, made a tremendous dent never made before and drug trafficking. we did a lot of things. all of that is now eroded. harris: also stunning new numbers today show border agents encountering an average of 565 unaccompanied minors every single day that s up from 313 children per day just last month. trending higher. there are now more than 4200 migrant children in custody. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell will be with me to talk about it later this hour. plus the escalating battle over the filibuster on capitol hill. it could, in fact, change the government that we know in america in an amazing way depending on your point of view, not good. first, casey stiegel is live along the southern border in mission, texas. casey. and harris, ea
part to find this piece of the investigation. there s also a rather large lake in the middle of commonwealth park in the middle of that search zone. as we go to this next news conference set for some time today, one of the questions we will be asking, is there going to be any kind of diver support to look for this door plug? there s also the story line of the people who survived this. we want to throw to a sound bite from stephanie king, who told us just a few hours ago how terrifying this was from her point of view. listen. it was really, really scary, as you can imagine. initially, when the piece flew off, it was there was almost multiple explosions. and it, at first, felt like all of the air from outside rushed into the cabin. and particles were flying everywhere. i m not sure what that was, if it was ice or debris from the plane itself.
you heard a big loud bang from the left rear, and then a whooshing sound and then all of the oxygen masks deployed. we could see a two section window panel that blew out like the size of a refrigerator. and in section 26a and part of the seat was gone, and the back of the seat is gone. there s some clothing items in the area. reporter: so fred, we have one more news conference set for today, and tbd of when the is, when we were at the news conference 8:00 p.m. local time, the chair of the ntsb who you heard from right, there she was asked the question, should we, all of us flying so often be concerned about the greater fleet of max 9 aircraft, and she said, not at this time. the evidence that they have seen so far is not pointing from her
in the best way possible for right now, bill weir, thank you so much. jim? warrants out in an official news conference set for the top of the hour on that ugly riverfront brawl in alabama. the fight appearing at times to break along racial lines. what police are saying. plus, the battle heats up over a proposed protective order in the election meddling case. trump s lawyers say it would violate his first amendment rights. the doj says trump wants to try the case in the court of public opinion. the deadline is moments from now. florida governor ron desantis made another big change as he continues to trail trump by a wide margin. those details and much more ahead on cnn news c central. r.