Soldiers are surrounding the borders of gaza in the air, on the ground and in the sea. Gaza residents tell cnn that these air strikes are the most intense they have witnessed since the beginning of this conflict. Almost three weeks ago. Phone service that connects gaza to the outside world has now apparently been completely cut off because of the intense bombardment. These are live pictures were bringing you of the Skyline Over Gaza where we have been seeing explosions all day. This operation coming hours after israels Minister Of Defense told me and some other reporters that israel was, quote, waiting for the best conditions to start its Ground Operation, unquote, exactly what those conditions were, he would not make clear, earlier today sources told cnn that a breakthrough had been made in Hostage Negotiations as 229 people according to the idf are still being held by hamas. Kidnapped on october 7th. The idf says the talk of a breakthrough was, however, only rumors, so now what, of c
An escalation in gaza in the wake of that Terror Attack that left 1,400 israelis dead. Youre looking at live pictures. Widespread reports of sirens and exploegs. The Israeli Defense forces saying today they are stepping up their Ground Operations. Take a listen. Their Ground Forces are expanding their ground up aerations. Idf is operating at all dimensions in order to achieve the goals of the war. We will continue to attack in gaza and its surrounding, and we keep calling upon the People Living in gaza and iran that south from there the idf did not say troops have entered gaza though its worth noting israeli tanks have temporarily entered gaza over the last two days. All of this while the fate of the 200 hostages held by gaza is unknown. Back channel negotiations are ongoing in the midst of the conflict. Just a few hours ago repeated explosions were seen in the israelgaza border. A few miles away on the ground in gaza near total darkness that was interrupted only by flashes from the ai
Everyone, sandra smith along with harold ford jr. , judge Jeanine Pirro, Jesse Watters, and will cain. Its 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. Fox news alert, two major stories happening at this hour. Israeli forces are currently inside the gaza strip as the idf expands operations there. Multiple bombings, explosions, and Tank Fire Lighting up the night sky for several hours now. There is also breaking news out of maine in the search for the mass shooter robert card. Police are expected to give an update any moment now on the manhunt and we will bring you there live when that begins. But first, to the breaking news out of israel, the idf Striking Gaza in the biggest offensive yet. 21 days this has been going on. Lets go straight to trey yingst on the ground in southern is israel, and trey, you told us a short time ago, this is the most you have seen, the biggest escalation in this war to date. Absolutely. Over the past several hours, we have been watching as the Israeli Air For
going to be able to conduct sonar searches. the ships the polar prince and dee p rnergy is a massive search of a remote area. and the concern is oxygen left for the people onboard. we are told it is anywhere from 54 to 80 hours of oxygen left. a massive search effort is under way, and the u.s. coast guard is involved and the u.s. native is involve and the canadian coast guard and canadian armed forces are lending a hand. earlier on cnn this morning, the boston coast guard talking about what they are doing in terms of searching and not just on the surface, but move beg low the
be used to recover the wreckage of 8501? a lot of the similar equipment but in this particular situation, we have the added ability to put divers in the water, so you ll have your sonar tools whether they re towed sonar or awe on it news vehicles which are becoming more and more the tool for sonar, rovs, not as robust as the segment we saw because those are from deep stuff. when you re shallow you don t need as much power you have the ability to put smaller vehicles which are much more transportable. we don t need to ship them across the world in big ships. they can be flown over in a plane and launched off a fishing boat. do you think it will be easy? the pingers are still going, they found it in time the pingers narrow down the search. more debris so they can narrow down the pinger search and the pinger and narrow down the pinger search and you can pretty much find wreckage. it s note going to happen overnight. the sonar searches take days maybe weeks once they narrow