from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
And right now we are striking from the air every single day when we do not know where my cousin is, where we do not know where over 200 hostages are and we dont know if any of our bombs have killed them. Here in london, pro palestinian demonstrators, turn out in force. Protests are also taking place in other capital cities, with calls for a ceasefire. Fresh aid enters gaza, and the un tells the bbc theyve managed to re establish some contact with their teams on the ground. Israels defence minister says the intensifying bombardment of gaza showed the military has shifted into a new phase of the war and that its operation will continue until further notice. Israel says overnight air attacks hit 150 underground targets, killing several senior hamas commanders. The un Secretary General, antonio guterres, has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, saying a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in front of our eyes. Israel has again warned people in the north of gaza to head south,
There are many, many more out there that we need to start coming to the reality that we should have a state of war, whether its kinetic or not inside every branch of government. Lawrence there was a report yesterday saying a lot of folk in the administration are mad at the president s response and theyre gonna resign as a result of this because they feel like that he is bashing muslims. I would suggest that the peaceful muslims stand with the president and stand with our ally, israel. Doctor, thanks so much for joining the program. The second hour of fox friends starts right now. Ainsley this is a Fox News Alert. Right now humanitarian aid is sitting on the egyptian side of the rafah Border Crossing. As the United Nations plans to pave roads to get trucks into gaza. It remains unclear if that will happen today. Brian this comes as the idf says it made sweeping arrests at the west bank, capturing 20. Known Terror Operatives and killing another 12. This as President Biden calls on congre
dollars. thank you very much. thanks for watching. erin burnenett outfroront sta right now. next, a deadly blast outside a gaza hospital. israel now claiming responsibility. this as israeli forces close in on gaza city. plus, an exclusive dispatch from cnn journalist ibrahim. we ve been following his harrowing journey out of gaza and tonight, we can report he and his wife and their two young sons have made it to egypt. also more breaking news. an appeals court freezing a gag order against donald trump in the federal election interference case while a new york judge expands a gag order on trump in another case. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. breaking news. israel ramping up its bombardment of gaza and tonight, acknowledging it was behind a deadly blast outside the hospital in gaza city. we want to warn you, the images we re going to show you are graphic. according to multiple videos that cnn has geo located, you can see
it s the top of the hour. i m boris sanchez with jessica dean in washington, d.c. we have new video just into cnn, and we should warn you it is graphic and disturbing. so if you need to, it may be best to turn away now. it shows dozens of casualties near a hospital in gaza. we re seeing at least a dozen bloodied bodies strewn across the ground near an ambulance. the escalating humanitarian crisis in gaza, a main focus as america s top diplomat returns to the middle east. the secretary of state antony blinken today pressing israel for a pause in the fighting with hamas as the war now enters its fifth week and international condemnation grows. we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. we have been clear that as israel conducts this campaign to defeat hamas, how it does so matters. it matters because it s the right and lawful thing to do. it matters because failure to do so plays into the hands of hamas, and other terror groups. now while blinken was speaking, the