Israel is at war in a way they have never seen before with unprecedented fighting in their own territory. And some of their soldiers reported will captured by hamas fighters. Now this started before sunrise this morning as the Militant Group hamas launched its multifront attack. Hamas gunmen now infiltrated israeli towns. One video shows palestinian Moil Tants Opening Fire on people just driving by. Residents are barricaded inside their homes. Local News Programs are reporting that fighters are now attempting to break into peoples homes. The latest official number is 22 people killed, hundreds more have been injured. The barrage, as we said, is still on going. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation and hamas fighters just a few hours ago. Translator citizens of israel, we are at war, not an operation or in rounds, but at war. I have ordered an extensive reserves that we return fire of a magnitude that the enemy has not known. The enemy will pay an unprecedented price. W
Home serve. Com im evan perez and washington. And this is cnn the skis, cnn Breaking News l right,veryon thanks for joining me. I ll mk jimez inor fredric wtfield. Wre goingo begin with President Biden were turning to the white house to meeth s naal Security Team about the innsifying theres a meeting that will include Secretarof Sta Antony Blinken, defense secretary d austin, and the chai othe joint chiefs of staff. Nrces say the u ctirancarry out a direct Aack Srael Iran has vowed retaation for the military officials in syria last week, a l to get to hear cnns kevin lipt is athe white house and Jeremy Diamond is in jerusale so vin, what do we know about this meeting . And that now includes defense secretary lloyd austin and etary of state Antony Blinken well, this meeting will come after american officials ve bn speaking with their israeli counterparts, including the defense secretary lloyd austin, who talked to the Defense Minister and israel to discuss what the pentagon called urgen
something gop lawmakers will not agree to without changing policy at the u.s. southern border. this hour, 31-year-old texas mother kate cox taking her health care into her own hands, traveling outside of her home state to get the emergency abortion procedure that her doctors say she needs, as a ruling from the state supreme court says she does not qualify for a medical exemption under their law. international aid groups say 18,000 people are dead in gaza. that includes more than 7,500 children. a situation the groups describe as apocalyptic. the u.n. again assembly is expected to vote overwhelmingly for a cease-fire to allow more aid to get in and hopefully hostages to get out. the u.s. stands alone on the security council, days ago vetoing it, causing criticism around the world. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. ukraine s president zelenskyy is on a high stakes miss in washington, trying to break the gridlock blocking aid for his country in its wa
terrorists. health officials say clashes have led to a catastrophic situation for gaza s hospitals. it puts rockets inside schools, hospitals. it has tunnels below children s beds. this is what we re dealing with. the prime minister says his top priorities are destroying hamas and getting all the hostages safely out of gaza. let s go to kevin wliptack. what more are you learning about this hostage being held by hamas. it s an awful situation, but it s good we re starting to learn new information. what can you tell us? it s terrible. and the white house put out this news in a readout. qatar has been playing broker in these talks to try and get some of these hostages released. in that phone call the white house said president biden condemned the holding of hostages, including this 3-year-old american toddler whose parents were killed in the hamas attacks in israel on october 7th. we don t know much more about this individual, but i am told that it is the youngest american
While 30 say it has given them a less favorable one. 61 said it had no impact. And finally, this is the most troubling number 46 said they feel that President Trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. And 38 buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the Hillary Clinton email issue. And theres a report that a frustrated President Trump is considering firing many of his Top White House aides. It adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. Or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. I was going to fire comey. Donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his Vice President , adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. No one from the white house. That was a d. O. J. Decision. He took the recommendation
but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forward. We need to call