Welcome to all of you watching us here in the United States, canada and all around the world, im Kim Brunhuber ahead on cnn newsroom. New Bribery Charges against the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his wife. The evidence includes bars of gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. Well bring you all the details. Plus, dramatic scenes at the u. S. Southern border as thousands of migrants attempt to cross the rio grande and enter the United States. And ukraine says a major attack on russias Black Sea Fleet headquarters has left dozens dead or wounded. Well have a live report this hour. Announcer live in cnn center this is cnn newsroom with Kim Brunhuber. U. S. Democratic senator Robert Menendez of new jersey is angrily rejecting calls of resigning after he and his wife were charged with corruption related offenses, the second time since 2016 hes faced criminal charges. Hes remained defiant as calls for his resignation multiplied on friday. He said its not lost o
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world as we continue our coverage of israel at war. i m paula newton. and we begin with despair, outrage and arguments over a deadly airstrike on a densely packed refugee camp in gaza. and now a huge cloud of smoke can be seen from across the border in israel. israeli military has claimed responsibility for the attack saying that it was aiming for a top hamas commander and infect succeeded in killing him with gleams. the critics are asking at what cost? the scope of the devastation and the camp is not yet clear. the civilian casualty count appears to be significant. the impact of the explosion left huge craters in piles of debris that are being scoured for signs of life. one of them told cnn, quote, there were 78 huge hold in the ground full of killed people. body parts all over the place. it felt like the end of the world. and now earlier i spoke with the spokesman of the israeli defense
rubble. some were burned. israel s attack on hamas in the refugee camp is part of its expanded offensive inside gaza where overnight hamas underground tunnels came under fire. israeli forces saying they struck about 300 hamas targets that includes the idf says military compounds inside those underground tunnels. at the same time, a new threat to israel is emerging from iran. iran-backed houthi militants in yemen claimed responsibility for targeting israel with drones and missiles near the red sea in the south. israel saying it thwarted that attack. israel also facing incessant rocket fire rockets at us here in tel aviv, intercepted by the iron dome just a couple of hours ago. [ siren ] that s the intercepting missiles going up. and earlier today, here is what my team and i witnessed when we were driving north of tel aviv. we heard an explosion to the west, and every car on the highway pulled over. we all got out, and we ran into a ditch that was built there. we re drivin
border crisis, the governor of texas sing the sharp increase in illegal immigration along the southern border states has led to a humanitarian crisis and not surprisingly the republican governor of texas is blaming the new democratic president. kristin fisher at the white house tells us what the biden team is doing about what he still refuses to call a crisis, but we begin with corresponding casey stegall in mission, texas, and governor abbott message. good evening. good evening, governor abbott did announced today that he has beefing up this program dubbed operation lone star, which is going to direct even more additional state resources and staffing here to assist at the border, but he insists that texas cannot shoulder this entire burden. how long will these children be here? what countries have they come from, and what covid variance have they been exposed to? along with the questions raised by governor abbott today, questions he says they don t have answers to.
right now thousands of migrant teenagers and young children are being held at facilities run by u.s. health and human services facilities reportedly bursting at the same as the federal government tries to look for new ways to house people flocking to america. a bird s-eye view from the rio grande valley of south texas shows no wind insight to the wave of migrants making their way across the southern border. many are children traveling alone and the system is struggling to keep up. the net force right now are stressed out, overwhelmed and it s backed up. so backed up official say more than 4,000 unaccompanied children are now currently in u.s. custody, up 31% from just a week ago. agents say they are averaging more than 500 juvenile apprehensions a week. weed is more than a crisis. this is a human heart rate on monday house minority leader kevin mccarthy led a delegation of 12 republican lawmakers to el paso to see the situation on the ground up close and they say re