Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta In Washington alongside erin burnett in tel aviv with our coverage. Several developments this evening. Today Israeli Defense forces raising the death toll to more than 1400 Israeli Armored vehicles are now staging near the border why gaza in anticipation of what they call significant Ground Operations. That invasion expected to happen at any moment. The idf confirms hamas has more than 150 hostages eight days their after attack. And israeli air strikes continue to pound Northern Gaza and idf shelled 250 targets today. Tens of thousands in gaza are still scrambling to find safe passage to the south. But the raffa Border Crossing in egypt is closed. Waiting for authorities to open the gate for days now. Today tony blinken promised that the border will open as the u. S. Appointed a new Special Envoy to coordinate aid into the gaza enclave. Let me go to erin burnett live on the ground in tel aviv. I understand you were able to catch up with a b
Theyre noise cancelling earmuffs. I stole them from an airport. Its always something with you, man. Great solid greek salad . Exactly dont delay the game with verizon or tmobile 5g home internet. Catch it on the xfinity 10g network. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Good morning, everyone, welcome to cnn this morning. It is sunday, october 8th, im amara walker. And im victor blackwell. And were live in tel aviv as we continue to follow developments in israel. Right now it is 3 00 p. M. In israel. At least 350 Israeli Citizens are dead. Far more wounded since hamas attacked yesterday morning. And the number of dead now includes 44 Israeli Soldiers and 30 Police Officers and border officers. Well today the focus for the Israel Defense forces is to take control of gaza. Retaliatory air strikes from israel against hamas targets have killed more than 310 people and injured nearly 2000 and that is according to Palestinian Authority officials. [ sound of gunfire ] and there the past 24 hou
general petard, this picture, the last american soldier on theed ground. you personally know chris donahue, the commander of the 82nd airborne. what do you think when you see the photo that he s the last soldier to leave. i think of a leader. and i think of chris donahue who i have great respect for, when he was a colonel in charge of delta force, we worked quite a bit together in 2014 in the fight against isis. he s a leader who wouldn t ask his soerms to do anything that he won t do himself. and so i think it is almost fitting having the commander of the 82nd airborne being the last soldier to walk on. because it was dangerous. it was dangerous to be that last soldier. because either the taliban or kiss isis k could take a last soldier but it speaks highly of
mission have all of the assets they need in the air and on theed ground where they re at to complete the mission safely. mass evacuation operations are dangerous, period. and the end of them, particularly one in that environment that we can t consider clearly, cannot consider permissive, are particularly dangerous. and the commanders on the ground have the resources they need to enact appropriate force protection. what is more dangerous now about sending the f-18s and the reapers flying over. it is not that we re not saying more specific because for one reason or another, it is that we re in a particularly dangerous time now, megan. not that it hasn t always been dangerous. but it is particularly dangerous now. and we re just not going to detail every aspect of our force