retailers are trying to jump-start holidays to get consumers kind of in the groove early to start buying, teeing them up because they know that consumers are going to be getting hit with higher prices. so they want to get retailers in the mood to shell out their money earlier. victor? three weeks ahead of halloween and folks are already buying christmas trees. alison, thank you. thank you for staying with me. i m victor blackwell. jsh joe biden and world leaders are condemning russian missile strikes that targeted civilians in ukraine. [ explosions ] wow. overnight, russia unleashed a barrage of missiles in kyiv. multiple other cities too across the country, knocking out critical infrastructure. at least 11 people are dead, dozens more injured. today, putin is boasting about the attack and vows there will be more. he says this blitz is retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. joe biden says russia s attacks demonstrate the
Thank you for joining us. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. As the six hour window Safe Passage Out of Northern Gaza expired last hour, israeli troops were seen amassing near the gaza border. We want to show you video taken in the last hour showing heavy weaponry arriving in southern israel. Inside gaza, Tens Of Thousands of people have left but israel has urged 1. 1 civilians in gaza to relocate. Idf claims hamas is stopping people from leaving. Hospitals have said they cannot and will not leave because if they were to leave, a Death Sentence would then be on their patients and now the u. N. Is warning that many people who are pregnant, are elderly or have a disability also will not be able to leave. This is a humanitarian crisis in gaza. The u. N. Is warning that the situation in gaza is a Matter Of Life And Death and not just for those who are evacuating but also for the 2 Million People who risk running out of clean water. The u. N. Says they need aid sent to gaza now are people will
Now theres holocaust number one and holocaust number two. Mind blowing, unbelievable that it happened in 2023 in israel. Everyone doing everything they can. Sandra the State Department is confirming the deaths of at least 22 u. S. Citizens in israel. The news coming as we await a White House Press briefing, set to begin any moment now, a live look inside the white house. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby will be joining Karine Jeanpierre as pressure is building for President Biden to rescue those americans held captive by hamas at this hour. Hello, welcome. Sandra smith in new york. John im john roberts in washington and this is america reports. It is now 8 00 p. M. In israel, and here is what we know right now. More than 150 hostages are being held in gaza, among them, some 20 americans. Israel warning gaza of a potential Ground Offensive imminently. Sandra and the first batch of u. S. Weapons we can report is in the hands of the israelis, as a u. S. Aircraft carrier has
buoy says go in and tell these guys to move out. they feel pretty good about it. they feel pretty safe. buoy gets there, this place is pretty secure. i ll fight with you guys. what he says, we would rather die than give them up to the enemy. the reason we fought was to end tyranny by a tyrant who really wants a representative of the mexican people. he was a tyrant. santa ana was we kill everybody. utter carnage. to the surprise of many, the texas army outnumbered and pretty much unorganized would take over alamo mission. unbelievable right? bad news was coming. up north, general santa ana and 2000 troops, he wanted to stomp
with people. it was teeming with tourists and locals all along there. you ve got those shops and bars and restaurants, and you know, stalls. you ve got street performers. i talked to an eye-witness a little while ago on cnn international who was telling me he saw this van just careening down the center of las ramblas and seeing bodies flying off the front of this vehicle and just a scene of utter carnage. i will say, and it s important, i think, to put this element in, that word from the union of islamic communities of catalunya expressing condemnation and repulsion for this attack and calling for justice to be served. so the islamic the muslim community in the catalunya region already reaching out and expressing their own revulsion at what happened there, brooke. no, that s nice to hear but i bet we talked to the same eye-witness who told me he just saw this van, 50 miles an hour, zigzagging to, as he assumed,