Positive sign harris gave a thumbs up to the fans as he was loaded into the ambulance. We are staying on all the Breakiking News Out of israel a gaza. Stay with cnn news central. Starts now. Hello, thank you so much for joining us, im kate bolduan with john in new york, sara sidner is in israel. The Breaking News were following right now, u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is back in israel this morning. Blinken has been shuttling around the renal for days now. This morning he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hes also meeting with the israeli president and were standing by to see if blinken will be speaking after these critical meetings. One major focus, the horrifying news were learning this morning the idf says 199 are now being held hostage by hamas in gaza, thats a huge and significant jump from what was believed to be the number of people taken after the hamas Terror Attack. The latest from the Biden Administration is that at least 15 americans are still missing. W
Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. And we start today of course with our world lead. And a new warning about the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in gaza. Today u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken returned to israel after meeting with multiple allies throughout the middle east. Trying to get a humanitarian corridor open for innocents to evacuate from gaza before israel ramps up attacks on hamas. Right now israel is pointing the civilians toward the Southern Gate into egypt, known as the Rafah Crossing which is still clowes. Video shows dozens families including babies waiting next to locked gates. A u. S. Government memo showed more than 250 u. S. Citizens in Southern Gaza waiting for the crossing to open. And earlier reports suggested that it was the Egyptian Government to open the gate when i pressed Jake Sullivan on this issue yesterday, he blamed the closure on on altogether different group. The egyptians have in fact agreed to allow americans to depart to get safe p
Thing the us has been working much of the world. It will come one week after first in gaza, including a dual us citizen and with the us now on high alert, a Senior Biden Administration official tells cnn the us is actively pparing for a significant attack by an on us a israeli targets in the middle east. As soon as next week iran is blaming israel for an airstrike in syrithis week, that killed at least seven ircial including twtop military the commanders, Priscilla Alvarez is in washington. Nic robertson is in rusale lets get started with you, priscilla and washington. Us officials believe in attack is inevitable. What is the administration preparing for . Inevitable and perhaps on the horizon, the us and Israeli Governments working very closely to try to be in position for any potential attack by iran targeting us and israeli assets in the region. Now, as you mentioned there, the us is on high alert for what officials have described as quote, inevitable. Now its unclear how this one u
white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight. good evening, jacqui. good evening, shannon. we are seeing a groundswell of opposition to something that hasn t yet happened. the return of any federal mandates in some schools and localities are trying to tamp down on this recent rise in cases. tonight the governors of south carolina and florida are announcing that their states will not bring back any restrictions. as president biden s cdc is warning people to remain vigilant. we know that masks don t work. we knew that from the very beginning. president biden flouting cdc mask guidance this week after being exposed. 10 days or something. i got to keep wearing it but don t tell them i didn t have it on when i walked in. support for a republican bill ban the return of federal mask mandates. democrats unwilling to go that far. i think that would depend on the lethality of covid, if hundreds of thousands of people are dying, the government response is
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in the morning in london and 8pm in washington, where President Trump has become embroiled in a bitter battle with the american legal system. A federal Appeals Court on sunday refused to reinstate his controversial travel ban, on people from seven mainly muslim countries, entering the united states. It was a judge in seattle whod originally put a temporary stop to the policy, and the president has accused him of putting the country in peril. Our north america correspondent nick bryant has more. The rush to reach America Arrivals from mainly muslim countries making it through immigration after an Appeals Court rejected a move by the Trump Administration to reimpose its travel ban. So, impromptu celebrations at us airports, and relief for those looking to head across the atlantic. Tonight, Atjfk Airport in new york, this family from iraq finally made it into the country. Theyd spent two years obtaining us visas, and had packed up their lives in iraq. The embassy