you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. the 2024 election is heating up as we mark one year until voters cast their ballots in the race for president. a fresh set of polls from the new york times and sienna college show troubling signs for president biden at this stage in the campaign. hypothetical matchups in four key swing states show trump taking the lead. but it s not all good news for the former president. in just 14 hours, trump is expected to take the stands in a trial that could help decide the fate of his business empire in new york. this comes on top of the 91 criminal charges he s facing in other cases. meantime, president biden is facing growing pressure here at home. this was the scene at the white house last night, some of the gates covered with handprints after a pro-palestinian rally. over in the middle east, u.s. secretary of state tony blinken is in turkey for another key diplomatic meeting. earlier today, he made
for watching. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv. i ll be bae back tomorrow in te aviv as well. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, the breaking news. new flares over gaza as israel launches its biggest air assault on the strip since the start of the war. israeli forces now coming face-to-face with hamas fighters. plus, fears of a second war growing at this hour. cnn witnessing more rockets entering israel from lebanon tonight. and cnn learns hezbollah is about to get a russian military added. and on outfront exclusive, janet yellen on why the house has just passed aid package for israel is bad for the united states. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. we are seeing new flares now over the gaza strip. what you re looking at took place just moments ago as part of a dangerous new phase in the war between israel and hamas. rockets have been raining down on gaza over the past few hours. you can see what
recall. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the israel, and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com announcer: this is cnn breaking news. right now, we re keeping a very close eye in the skies over gaza after the truly extraordinary images of war we saw here on cnn just a little while ago with flares raining down for some 30 minutes as israel appeared to unleash an intense new assault in its battle against hamas. our correspondents are standing by here in the middle east as well as in the united states. first, i want to go to cnn s nic robertson. he had a direct view of the bombardment of gaza as it was under way from his position in israel not far from gaza. nic, tell our viewers more about what you saw and what s happening there now. reporter: yeah, wolf, we just had a very heavy detonation coming from the direction of where all those flares were dropping a
good evening team from new york. i m chris hayes, here for a special second hour of all in. president joe biden is navigating extremely tense difficult international crisis, in the war with israel and hamas enters its 12-day. they believe 340 hostages remain in hamas custody. from gaza rockets continue to fly, roughly 250,000 israelis have been evacuated in the areas near gaza, and israel s border with lebanon. nearly 1 million residents of gaza have been displaced or told to leave their homes. the israeli war on hamas has led to destruction across gaza, not just in the north. right now, the palestinian ministry of health estimates that more than 8500 people have been killed in gaza, including more than 3500 children. the palestinian ministry of health is controlled by hamas, but in the past, it s statistics about death during these sorts of conflicts have been broadly accurate. international child wealth organization save the children is now warning the [inaudible] just ch