washington d.c., calling for cease-fire of the war and for support for israel. i m alicia acuna. griff: good to see you. president benjamin netanyahu. we have team coverage in rehoe bath beach and mike tobin in southern israel. let s kick it off with mike tobin on the ground. griff, you might have heard the artillery firing. as soon as the sun went down we saw the activity pick up out of the gaza strip. we saw a lone rocket usually where we don t see them go. usually they come out in a barrage. but the phone started we have rockets coming in right now. stick with us here. . griff: keeping a watch here with mike tobin and his crew. obviously, and an active situation there, artillery either outgoing or incoming, we hope he and his team are safe. we ll check back in with mike as we get that right now. alicia. and iran-backed terror group hezbollah, threatening to escalate in the israel-hamas war. warships entering the region will not scare us. chief national correspondent
clocks that does it on its own. tom, thank you so much. that does it for us this hour. katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur. we re watching lewiston, maine, where president biden will pay respects to those murdered in the mass shooting last week. for now, we re going to start in new york city where the trump organization fraud trial wrapped for the week. eric trump is finished testifying now. reporters say he looked uneasy in the courtroom. we have two people who were there to tell us what he said and what they saw. outside the courtroom, eric trump called the case a joke and said the ag was unfair. she s come after my father ruthlessly. every single day a trump is in this court, she shows up. it s a press moment. we haven t done a damn thing wrong. if you can line up as many trumps as you can, she can sit in court for an extra couple of days, and send fundraising e-mails to her donor base saying i m going after trump. now that both b
tonight the united nations hears a claim that 3,200 children have been killed in gaza injust three weeks, more than the number of children killed annually across the world s conflict zones since 2019. as israel s ground operation continues, what next for this escalting conflict? tonight talking us through israel s strategy for its ground operation inside gaza, mark will be with us. we ll be hearing from the director of a palestinian medical aid charity who refuses to leave northern gaza. everywhere you go right now there is a complete disaster happening right now and gaza strip. people are saying that gazza is the new aleppo, so i am still standing in the north of gaza and i believe i still have my dignity with me, staying in my home, scrapping for whatever food and water. and as the united nations security council holds another emergency meeting tonight, we ll bejoined live by an israeli cabinet minister and the un special rapporteur for the palestinian territories. is the u
candidates strategies are now taking shape and nearly six years after the deadliest anti-semitic attack in us history, the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh breaks ground on a new house of worship and a new future. i was there two witness this emotional moment and speak with families impacted by the horrific shooting. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world i m wolf blitzer. a, you re in the situation room our top story this our president joe biden and former president donald trump are fine tuning their strategies for their potentially game-changing debate here on cnn this thursday, the two men sharing a sibling clear goal to portray their opponent as unfit for office are correspondence are covering both candidates as their epic showdown gets closer and closer. first, let s go to c and then gem j li ji reports on president biden s debate preparations everybody knows he s a liar, but you i just want i want to make sure what it lasting it lasts.
everyone, and judge jeanine pirro along with richard fowler, jesse watters, katie pavlich, and greg gutfeld, it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. so let the debate trash talk begin, joe biden and donald trump are sharpening their attacks as they get ready to meet face to face for the cnn presidential debates three days from now and simulcast on fox news. the two candidates are using wildly different prep strategies, sleepy joe is still holding up at summer camp david, the big guy surrounding himself with an army of advisors. a staggering 16 people are helping our elderly man with a poor memory get into top shape. one report claims that joe biden is doing mock debates and practicing, on a stand for 90 minutes. the liberal media is also giving joe some pointers like how to smile and benefit from that mute button. he has resting old faced, right, so he needs to smile and when he smiles it goes away a little bit, and when he smiles, his face comes alive. i wo