breaking later this hour, texas governor greg abbott expected to endorse former president donald trump for the presidential nomination during an event where mr. trump and governor abbott will hand out meals to texas service members. also breaking as the idf expanded its ground operations further into gaza, world health organization officials assess the situation in the hospital after they issued evacuation orders for the remaining 2500 people seeking refuge air. let s go live to northern israel where alex hogan has the latest on escalating tensions between israel and hezbollah. you can see part of the skylight behind me. there is activity taking place on that side of the border. a few minutes ago, we learned about a potential war cabinet meeting being pulled up by the hour. a lot of conversations about the potential hostage negotiations u.s. and israeli officials have said there is no deal yet. we will continue to monitor. this is a major story. could be coming to fruition.
part we have already met the terrorists have already met, the, lethal force of the idf and now on the west a and the east tube are those of the south of gaza wilderness very fast. eric: hamas leaders learned that two dead men walking. that is what is really defense minister yoav gallant said the leaders of hamas are right now. raising the potential of assassinating them. the billionaires to l eliminate luxury and qatar and turkey producing pictures of leaders playing ping-pong in qatar enjoying a nice leisurely stroll on a treadmill where what appears to be a fancy hotel gym in qatar. he and his cohorts could have a target on their back, there are days numbers for this come to comes asfighting between israeld hamas terrorist continues. present biting deputy national security adviser jake sullivan saying the sites are quote closer than they have been in quite some time for a deal to potentially release dozens of hostages. the potential release of some women and children will o
great. one of the things you find is there s been a lot of disruption. communication as well as just the disruption of life. so some people have pushed on or gone elsewhere. and authorities don t know about it. so they may be looking for people who just simply haven t reported in, or may not even know they re being looked at as unaccounted for. the way they re finding others is by going to the food distribution points and the water distribution points and basically checking people s names versus the list of the 300 they know who said they were staying behind. that s how this list is being whittled down. it doesn t mean there are 30 to 35 potential fatalities here, but it does mean there are probably more and there s a morgue that s been brought in in case of that possibility. martin savidge, thank you very much. i want to turn now to new indications about which democrat trump could face in 2020. senator elizabeth warren is releasing the result of this dna test showing that she does
since the storm. officials here in the city can t even give you a precise number on that. they know some 280 people rode out the storm and there s a number of people they can t get in touch with. a big development that could help with that, at&t now has a temporary mobile cellular tower in the area that s up and working. verizon says 97% of the customers are back up and running. people say they have lost touch with the loved ones during the course of the storm and haven t been able to re-establish contact because all the communications are down. another big development as you just have so many of these water distribution points that are showing up all over the place. it doesn t seem like a big deal necessarily until you realize that so many people have had their kitchens ripped open. they don t have any plumbing. they have no running water or electricity to make the water cold and you re in this blazing florida heat. so the watt their s being handed