[sirens] dana: barrage of rockets fired deep into central israel setting off sirens in tel aviv and surrounding areas. hamas targeting that area for the first time in three days. shrapnel from the rockets injured two people in tel aviv. showing why exactly israel is fighting hamas. i m dana perino. bill: a long week, huh? dana: but a good one. bill: good one, long one. nice to see you. i m bill hemmer, good morning. the latest rocket firing coming as israeli ground forces are reportedly pushing closer to gaza city s shifa hospital closing in on believed to be the heart of hamas operations and leadership. thousands of palestinian civilians fleeing south as there are short pauses to fighting to do that. dana: trey yengst on the ground in southern israel for us. good morning. good morning. i will quickly step out of the frame so you can see what s happening as we speak. you will see some lights there, trails of smoke. those are cluster munitions the israelis are firi
spree and to meet with leaders in the asian american community, as well. this comes as the president also meets a major goal today, way ahead of schedule. 100 million covid vaccinations in his first 100 days in office. that is 42 days early. also today, the cdc is expected to announce new social distancing guidelines for children in schools. but as more states begin to ease restrictions, experts are warning of a potential psspike cases. several states are seeing an uptick as officials race to get more shots in arms. let s begin with our colleague, natasha chen. she is following the investigations into these shootings in and around atlanta. natasha, good morning to you. the atlanta police department with some new details this morning. reporter: jim and poppy, the fulton county medical examiner has now released the names of the four people who were killed at the two spas in atlanta, which police say the suspect had frequented before. here are those names. 75-year-old as you
murder and shootings at three massage spas in and around the city. of the eight killed, six victims were of asian descent. it s hard to ignore, who was targeted, or overlook the fact that this did not happen in a vacuum. it happened, as three new reports explain, each, from its own angle. at a dangerous moment for this country in a climate more conducive than it s been in generations for homegrown acts of violent hatred. yet, as we will talk about tonight, not everyone wants to con frontd the problem or even admit it. some people want to look away, to not see the mass killings in el paso and pittsburgh. and the white supremacist, conspiracy-driven mindset culminating in the capitol insurrection, is all being cut from the same, ugly cloth. today, in his first congressional testimony since being confirmed, dhs secretary, alejandro mayorkas made the threat clear. right now, at this point in time, domestic-violent extremism. the lone wolf. the loose affiliation of individuals f
could we be next? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. today we re coming to you live from cnn s jerusalem, israel. he left there live earlier today. he s now in poland with the president-elect. we re going to have a live report in the next hour from pole land. we begin this hour with my one-on-one interview with the republican presidential candidate. governor romney, thanks so much for joining us, in jerusalem. what a beautiful city. i m sure you ve been moved by what you ve seen so far. it s a holy city, a city of a great and courageous people. my wife and i first came here in 1995 and have been here four times now. we re moved and inspired by what we see here. do you consider jerusalem to be the capital? yes, of course. jew res l would you move the embassy to jerusalem? it s long been the policy of have the nation s embassy in the capital. if i were president, i would want to take it in consultation with the leadership of the government, which exis
what you may not have heard yet is it s also probably the world s biggest interactive digitalfest cal. foursquare got its kickoff a few years ago. twitter really exploded here at south by southwest. cnn has a presence here every year. i m here with two guys when i really, really like. i tweeted that i ve got a man crush on mario armstrong. i think i said it was a tech man crush. and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little intimidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel because you don t know what south by southwest is or you don t care, why do we care that we re here? we used to think of the internet as a separate space, as a different place. as a culture, distinct from the rest of the world. it s too big for that now. the internet is not some other thing. it s in all of us. and so this festival, which began as geek culture, that s now mass culture. so to unders