report. i m jacob ward coming to you at this hour with an nbc news special report. law enforcement officials have confirmed that the suspect in the mass shooting in maine has been found dead. 40-year-old robert card was accused of fatally shooting 18 people in lewiston, maine on wednesday. 13 people were woulded in that shooting. police have been searching for card the last two nights with most of the area in a shelter in place order. sources say card was found between lewiston and bowden, maine in a wooded area. officials say they will be holding a 10:00 p.m. eastern conference. we will bring that to you and we expect additional details to be shared at that time. again, the breaking news at this hour, mass shooting suspect robert card has been found dead in maine. this has been an air strikes, tank, artillery and machine gun fire heard by our team on the israeli side of the border. tonight, stepped up attacks coming almost gun fire heard by our team on the israeli side of
hamas. but, what then? huma abedin, former top aide to hillary clinton, on the diplomacy behind the scenes. plus, a community begin to grieve knabb at the massive hunt for the main shooter is over, a leader of moms who demand action in maine, and where her state goes next. also ultra conservative views. congresswoman angie craig on the moment at understanding ovation on the house floor. and later, a new biography of mitt romney, but i know punches about how the senator used fellow republicans. cuba opened up to mckay coppins is here. we begin this hour, with israel escalating its attacks on gaza in a warning of a long way ahead. and just the past hour we have seen rockets exploding in the gaza skyline over the enclave. this, after israeli officials announced the conflict is entering a new phase, increasing airstrikes and ground incursion throughout the gaza strip. and workers inside gaza described a humanitarian catastrophe. food, water, and fuel they are all running ou
sandra: greg, thank you. john. john: sandra, continuing coverage as president biden faces backlash from people in his own party over the retaliation strikes. peter doocy is live at 1600 pennsylvania with the latest. do we know why it took president biden so long to reach out and smack the houthis? peter: we are told president biden wanted to make sure first u.s. allies were on board with the strikes. this wasn t a decision we made lightly or quickly. in fact, if you go back to november, and walk your way through up until just last night, i mean, everything we have done, diplomatically and militarily, has been designed to keep the tensions down and to convince the houthis not to continue these deadly attacks. progressives, though, in the president s own party are steamed. ro khanna tweeting the president needs to come to congress before
need to be a higher cost? they re not going to stop. this comes as proxy forces launched ten rockets in northeast syria earlier today. those attacks came from president biden ordered a series of retaliation strikes in response to a suspected iranian drone that killed a u.s. contractor and wounded six americans on thursday. all the breaking news in the past few minutes. our jennifer griffin following the late development from the pentagon. good evening, jen. reporter: tonight iranian forces fired more missiles based in eastern syria, near the oil fields. additional, u.s. forces received entries. we learned some may be serious and the pentagon is assessing its response. the u.s. does not seek conflict with iran but is prepared to respond forcefully to respect u.s. personnel. reporter: the iranian drone