leader of the free world flying into a war zone very soon and president biden said to visit israel tomorrow and visit jordan upon that trip. this amid fears of expanding conflict with devastating consequences. good morning, he can be. dana has the day off. i m bill hemmer live in new york and we kick off a big two hours coming up. submitty, good morning. good morning, bill. i m sandra smith. iran ramping up the rhetoric and hamas sponsor threatening preemptive action against israel unless it stops bombing the hamas terrorists responsible for killing more than 1400 israelis. best of my recollections all that only fueling the panic. israel getting ready for a ground invasion and keyboarder crossing with egypt not open and they need to get aid in. sixer now jacqui heinrich is live at the white house. but first we need to get to trey yingst live in israel. reporter: good morning. hamas and islamic jihad firing on population centers and remarkable given we re 11 days into the co
along the river getting briefed and learning about these app apprehensions and, bret, something else he s learning in just the past one week here in eagle pass, there were more than 10,000 migrant encounters and there were more than 1450 known got aways. meaning they were seen or observed on video cameras but not brought into custody. it comes as there s more than 60 miles of un-patrolled border in this sector alone because 90% of the border patrol agents are busy doing the processing. i can also tell you over in the rio grand rally, bret, where there s been time reporting. i m just learning in the last few hours they ve had some 17 syrians since monday apprehended in that sector as well as 19 migrants from iran. it s all getting a lot of attention because obviously the horrific events playing out in israel and because we re learning that according to our latest fox news polling, nearly 50% of registered voters believe the situation here at the southern border has regged a e
civilians. a total siege, no fuel, water, food, and no electricity at all as the strip s sole power plant has died. gazan authorities are pleading for a humanitarian help. it s not clear how any aid can get through. the only border crossing point between gaza and egypt has been hit multiple times over the past 24 hours. at the same time, overwhelmed hospitals are doubling as shelters. this is the corridor of one of those today. children, newborn babies, families, have all been huddling. and then there is israel, which is reeling from both more rocket attacks, and the spreading news of just how unspeakably awful hamas was when it brutalized and murdered innocent civilians, including children and even babies. in the israeli city of ofakeem, our reporters have been making their way through some of the homes there that were ransacked by militants and learning how some residents escaped. others, of course, were not so lucky. they were kidnapped, including potentially americans. pr
good morning from jerusalem are people are waking up from the news israel has attacked iran. air defenses had been fired and explosions were heard. the impact of the attack is not yet clear, but it appears mo have been limited and iran has no plans for immediate retaliation. the foreign secretary david cameron is at the g7 summit in italy where we expect to hear more from the u.s. later this morning. here in the u.k., the government is calling for deescalation. we do think the deescalation is absolutely key now. and our message to all in the region is that deescalation is really important. we ll have more reaction from labor in the next few minutes. good morning from jerusalem. we are waking up to the news israel has attacked iran. early indications says a strike on a carefully selected target. it is a significant moment. alex rossi and alex crawford are here for us. air defenses were fired in central iran around 4:00 a.m. local time in iran. they said the drones were
he wanted to make sure we took care of everything that the department of justice was concerned about with respect to hunter biden. that was firearms charges, tax charges, but there s no actual substantiative connection between them, so it sounds like the department of justice is working on the tax aspects and perhaps other aspects, foreign registration, but this is pretty cut and dried, these firearms charges. i also want to bring in nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter, and, tom, again, just to remind folks who david weiss is this prosecutor, he s a special counsel, appointed by merrick garland when the last plea deal we have been talking about so much fell apart. what can you tell us about him and how he might operate or what we know about how he operates? it s been stated many times and as you and i talked before, chris, he was appointed by the former president of the united states, donald trump. i think it s important for folks to remember, yes, he was app