But gunmen have been reported in towns near the gaza border and israelis have been warned to stay inside. There are also reports of a number of Israeli Soldiers taken captive by fighters. Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif announced the start of the operation in a broadcast on hamas media, calling on palestinians everywhere to fight. Israels military has been striking targets in gaza in response. At least two palestinians are confirmed dead so far. Neri zilber is a journalist and analyst on middle east politics based in tel aviv, and an adjunct fellow of the washington institute. I asked him how he became aware of the palestinian attacks this morning. I like all the residents in tel aviv was woken up by air raid Rocket Science over the city in central israel, not that close to the gaza border region. That was the first indication that Something Different was under way. I and many other analysts and even israeli officials already view this as a colossal intelligence and military fai
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All swear clouds gathered without burkes outbreaks of rain. The full forecast coming up here on breakfast. Its saturday the 30th of september. Our main story. A teenage girl who died after a School Bus Crashed on the motorway in merseyside has been named as 15 year old Jessica Baker. She was killed along with the coach driver in the collision on the m53 at morning rush hour yesterday. Several other children were injured. Our correspondent Helena Wilkinson has the latest. This is a 15 year old Jessica Baker, one of S Schoolchildren on the bus skilled in the crash. The driver who has been named online as Stephen Shrimpton also died. More than 50 children were on their way to school when their journey children were on their way to school when theirjourney ended in tragedy. This is the aftermath of the crash on the m53 On Merseyside. The coach overturned. It happened just after eight 0clock yesterday morning. A Major Incident was declared. Police, ambulance and fire crews were quickly sen
You are in the, cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. I am jessica dean in washington and we begin this hour at the white house President Biden unexpectedly on his way back to the white house right now, were turning from delaware to meet with his National Security council over rising tensions in the middle east. Us officials including biden himself warned and iranian attack on israeli territory could be coming within the next few days leaving both the us and Israeli Forces on high alert. And weve already seen some aggression this morning as ronnie and forces seized a Container Ship with ties to an israeli businessman. It was intercepted in the strait of hormuz. The only Shipping Routes that connects the persian gulf to the open ocean and joining us now senior White House House reporter kevin liptak and Senior International correspondent been wedeman. Lets talk to kevin first. We know the president is on the way back to the white house. How is it responding to this moment . As israel awaits of Po