that s now my life. wolf blitzer, cnn, tel aviv, israel. and erin burnett outfront and erin burnett outfront starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com outfront next, breaking news. new explosions in gaza as israeli troops surround hospitals that are already on the brink of collapse. why the u.s. is sounding its loudest alarm yet tonight. plus, more breaking news. the fbi seized new york mayor eric adams phones. agents approaching the mayor on the street to get the devices. the mayor of the country s largest city responding tonight. plus, the rock for president? dwayne johnson says both parties want him to run for president. and tonight outfront is learning he wasn t kidding. let s go outfront. good evening, i m brianna keilar in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, we have breaking news. new explosions over gaza, and this video of an intense fire fight, flares lighting up the sky, our nic robertson on the border with gaza telling us this
. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i m kim brunhuber, ahead on cnn newsroom, more explosions in gaza overnight as hospitals there say the situation is dire for patients, staff, and citizens. and disperse, you will be placed under arrest and charged with disorderly conduct. pro-palestinian demonstrations shut down new york s grand central station with more protests around the world expected today. and later, could the rock really be the next u.s. president? why some believe it s not such a crazy idea. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin in the middle east, and a warning from the al kudz hospital, saying it s very close to running out of fuel to power its generators, in a statement earlier the pal stain red crescent said 500 patients are at risk of losing vital medical care, and people in the icu, and infants in incubators will likely die. the group docto
of staff has said, nothing i or anyone else saw indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days. blinken confirmed he had read an internal state department cable from july warning of kabul s potential collapse but said even that warning didn t suggest the collapse would happen as quickly as it did. what the cable said broadly is two things. it did not suggest that the government and security forces were going to collapse prior to our departure. it did express real concerns about the durability of that government force after our departure and focused on efforts we were making particularly on the sie front to expedite moving them out. today s hearing comes a day after blinken testified for the house foreign affairs committee. a hearing even more contentious than this one. usually less challenging than the house side. blinken is the first official to
watched their government collapse and the president flee with corruption and malfeasance. it s worth recalling that one of the final intelligence warnings through the state department cable, it was said that the taliban takeover was likely soon after the military withdrawal. which, by the way, was 95% complete by july 26th. that is according to central command. john and sandra. sandra: jacqui heinrich, thank you. speak to charlie, let s get you to talk about this phone call between john: charlie, let s get you to talk about this phone call between president biden and then-president ghani. things are not going well against the fight with the taliban. there is a need whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.