It is early monday morning here in tel aviv. Israel is at war with hamas. What we have seen over the last 45 hours or so since hamas launched a Surprise Attack on israel across multiple fronts on gaza, its been nothing short of extraordinary and sickening. Civilians have been taken hostage. People have been slaughtered where they stood. By a wave of attacks that took place early saturday morning. Take a look at this video from just a few hours ago of rockets being intercepted by the countrys iron dome system. This is video from just a few hours ago. Some of those rockets did make it through and landed in a town. Weve also seen a barrage of rockets here in tel aviv. Cnn crews have been hearing loud explosions in the suburbs and theyre claiming theyre targeting the airport just outside the city, which remained open when we thflew in. Israel forces have been striking back, the beginning of what Benjamin Netanyahu warned today would be a long and difficult war. One of at least ten highrises hit by israeli air strike. The idf, israels defense forces. House military targets. Health officials in gaza say more than 400 people have been killed here. Power to the territory is cut off. The death toll tonight in israel has passed 700 and i want to warn you, many of the images were about to show you from here on out are incredibly disturbing but its important you see the reality of what has been going on for the last two days now. Take a look at some of these. This is one of at least, at least 260 bodies have now been recovered at the site of the nova outdoor Music Festival not far from the gaza border. One of several targeted by hamas terrorists. The assault was caught on camera. The video, again, the horrifying. What youre seeing and hearing is Gunman Firing on people trying to flee. Some in car, some on foot with Nowhere To Run surrounded by open desert with no place to hide. Some were captured and taken as hostages. Well be speaking to some Family Members tonight. Again, it is sickening. This is how a parent bring their daughter is gone. From video posted on social media. This is a young woman pleading for help as shes driven away on a motorcycle. She and her boyfriend abduct ld. Theres one video of one ho hostage, motionless, Semiclothed Being paraded. Thugs dancing in the streets. Chanting god is great. There are no words for what you are seeing let alone those words. The womans name is shani loke. Its not known exactly how many hostages hamas may have taken. How many men, women, perhaps children even are being held hostage right now in basements or in bunkers. Or in tunnels underground or in apartments somewhere in gaza. And it may be far from the only shock to the system. Not the least that it all happened without warning. Hamas launching coordinated attacks including sending Airborne Forces over the border by par glide. Ordinary israeli near the border finding themselves suddenly in the cross fire. It is hard to know exactly where this goes from here. How much wider this conflict will go. Israels ambassador To Washington spoke to that today. As far as we are concerned, this is a iranian lead coalition and we suspect riran is involve. Does that mean israel will f take the fight to iran . Im not going to stay exactly what israel is going to do, but i would just say that whoever strikes israel will strike back. President biden has said that israel will have all the support from america that it needs in this fight and theres no telling what that exactly may mean in the coming days and weeks. As for what the u. S. Is doing right now, a Us Navy Carrier group is on its way. Steaming toward the Eastern Mediterranean tonight. An american official telling us the air force is also sending more fighter jets to to region. The u. N. Security council, they debated. Not much was decided. Nearby, pro israel and pro palestinian demonstrators clashed. A palestinian supporter grabbing an israeli flag and trampling it. Police made several arrests. Tonight, as you can imagine, tensions are running incredibly high here. It is 3 00 a. M. Here and theres no telling what the next 24 hours will bring. I want to start with Clarissa Ward. Shes been along the gaza border. Weve been talking to her all throughout the night. There was a Rocket Barrage several hours ago. Clarissa, whats the situation there now . Well, i dont know, you probably cant hear on this small microphone but the skies, anderson, its just been nonstop jet activity. Ive seen at least three big orange flashes coming from that direction. Presumably air strikes on the gaza strip. As we arrived here, there was a huge barrage of rockets. The vast majority of them were intercepted by the iron dome. We could see them lighting up the night sky. But at least two did manage to make impact. One reportedly hitting a bus stop. The other hitting a building. Not too far from where we are now. And i think just more broadly speaking, honestly, anderson, theres a sense that people here are kind of reeling, trying to get their arms around the magnitude of what the last 40, 42 hours has brought. And trying to deal with the most poignant or i should say pressing threat at the moment, which is the continued presence of hamas militants inside southern israel. Just earlier today, we were driving along. We had to reroute and change course because we could see a Fire Fight Taking place between Israeli Forces and hamas fighters. And theres a fear that there could still be more out there. Its not known how many were able to infiltrate. And so very real concerns as the tempo really continues to ratchet up, anderson. I think thats one of the things thats really important to stress. We are say 45 hours or so since this Surprise Attack on dozens of sites began early saturday morning. And to your point, you and i have been speaking now for hours tonight. There may still be militants on the ground. Theres still places last i heard from the idf several hours ago, talking about seven different locations along the border with gaza that militants were still attempting to get through. And you can really feel it. Not only did we witness that fire fight, but even when youre just driving in some of these areas along the border and you pass through some of these check points, the Israeli Military incredibly tense. A lot of these soldiers did not have their safety on. Theyre nervous because it is simply so random. They really dont know is the next car coming along going to be ordinary civilians just making their way to shelter or could it potentially be a car full of militants who are about to open fire on ordinary people. And that has a profound effect on the psyche of ordinary israelis and that combined with this very visceral emotional terror at all these hostages that have been taken and the lack of clarity around their fate, where theyre being held, which of them may be alive, what can be done to protect them, has really put israel in a spot that honestly i certainly havent witnessed in my decades of reporting, but which many israelis ive spoken to here feel theyve never witnessed, anderson. Well check back in with you in our coverage tonight. About two hours ago, i spoke to a mother and her daughter, shanni. The video is incredibly disturbing to see, but it is important to see and her mom gave us permission to show it to you as disturbing as it is because this video is of her daughter being paraded through the streets in gaza city by hamas terrorists, by groups of men shouting god is great, over her prone body in the back of a Pick Up Truck, celebrating her kidnapping. And we dont know exactly what the status, her status is. Her mother hopes she may still be alive but certainly in this video, theres not much sign of that. She is an israeli german citizen. A civilian. She was at a dance party along with thousands of other young israelis and people from all over the world when this attack began. According to israeli authority, as many as 260. More than 260 people at this one event were slaughtered by hamas fighters who descended upon them and systemically killed them. Her mom was kind enough to speak with us tonight. First of all, how are you doing . Yeah, i dont know. Im still not understand everything whats happening. Until i dont know exactly what happens with my daughter, i will not know for sure. So were kind of waiting. Waiting for news. When did you first get word that she had been taken . It started yesterday morning with the rockets early in the morning around 6 00. We heard many rockets and alarms and i started calling her to see where she is, if shes near to a secure location and she said shes at the festival in the south and she was panicked a little bit and she said shes going to take the car now and go to a safe location. And then we stopped talking and since then, i didnt hear anything from her anymore. And then she wasnt responding on her phone and a few hours later, we got a video from a friend through social media and we identified our daughter on a Pick Up Truck in the back lying on the floor with militant men around her and pushing her down and with armed and they are driving into the gaza strip with her so we saw they were in the gaza strip already. The video is extraordinarily disturbing. Is that the last you have seen of her . Yes. Its the last we have seen. Were always looking for more videos, more news, something that shows her in some other places and we cannot really see anything yet. We saw that somebody tried to use her credit card in the gaza strip multiple times. Thats all. Thats all we have. No other clue. Was that after you saw the video then somebody tried to use her credit card . Yeah. In the evening. In the afternoon and evening. Twice. What do you want people to know about her . She was such a loving and peace loving person. It was a Music Festival. She likes to travel. Shes an artist. She traveled a lot in the world and she has many friends aboard. She was there with a Tourist Group with mexican and guatemala and european people. Most of them are still missing. They have no idea where they are. Theyre possibly there kidnapped together with her. I dont understand how such a brutal thing can happen in the middle of the day. It was a complete surprise. I mean, we got used to the rockets. We live here with a rockets. We have a routine. Go in a safe room to take care of ourself. This was completely different attack that nobody was prepared for and nobody can ever be prepared for such a thing like this. And even if im living outside a very there are two other families that their son and the daughterinlaw were brutally killed in their beds in their house and they left two little children, babies, alive alone the whole day there. And another family where her son is a soldier and was dead. So and its a small town of 200 families maybe. Its just terrible. I dont know. And it happens in all, in every town there are cases like this. Just unbelievable. We cant understand it. The Israeli Government now says more than 260 people mostly young people were killed at this dance. 700 are killed already and identified and i think 130 kidnapped. Thats the latest news that we have from our government. But more than 260 from this particular dance that she was at. Yeah. I saw the videos where the people are running on the fields. They have no shelter, nothing. They were just shooting at them and taking them. My daughter tried to get to her car. Thats what we heard from people that saw her and who were there and were rescued and she was going to the car and they had militant people standing by the cars and were shooting so people couldnt reach their cars even to go away. And thats when they took her. Do you believe she may still be alive . I hope. It looks very bad but i still have hope. I hope that they dont take bodies for negotiations. I hope that shes still alive somewhere. We dont have anything else to hope for. So, we try to believe. Yeah. And we have to wait. Its going very slow here. Government is really, nobody is really calling us. Nobodys giving us updates. Im in contact with the German Embassy because were also german citizens , me and my daughter, and trying to get help from the german government. But its difficult. At this stage, have israeli authorities reached out to you . Have no, we have very no, i mean, we went to the police and register her as missing but thats it. Nobodys coming back to you. They just dont have time. They have so many priorities. They have still people running around with arms and they were trying to catch and theres still many bodies of the field of the festival since yesterday morning that they couldnt recover. They didnt have the time and resources yet to get to them even. So its really a mess. Its very chaotic and we dont get much response. We have a very close field around us in our village. People are helping and they give us everything we need, but from the government or from the army, there is not much response at the moment. They are not there yet. I know you know that people around the world who have seen the video of your daughter are just horrified. And im sure, i hope you know that there are many, many people whose hearts go out to you right now and i wish you the best and continued strength. Thank you. Yeah, we need to see really what there is so targeted brutality and taking civil persons not even, i mean those were really young people and other people were taken. Children. Old grandmothers were taken in hostage. Its just unbelievable. Ive never seen such a thing. And you see crowds of people cheering and chanting, god is great. Sickening. Which really cant comprehend it. Its not normal. I know. I cant believe it. It is impossible to believe. Thank you for being with us. Im so sorry. Thank you. And as you sit and watch these images tonight, just know there are dozens of families in israel in the United States and elsewhere waiting for word on their loved ones who have been taken. Who have been dragged across the border into gaza, where abouts unknown and their status unknown. Again, as these strikes and counterstrikes continue tonight, i want to go next to cnns adas gold in jerusalem. What is the latest on these hostages . Theres a lot of priorities here. Still fighting going on. Potential fighting on the ground. Very unsecure border. Rockets. What do we know about the hostages . Well, we have heard within the last hour or couple of hours or so, hamas, one of their top people saying in an interview to an Arabic Television channel, claiming they have more than 100 captives. They say many of them or some of them, they call them senior soldiers, senior officers, thats in addition to an earlier claim weve heard from Palestinian Islam jihad, which is a separate Militant Group in the gaza strip but is often aligned with hamas that said they have 30 in their captivity. Not clear how those numbers overlap with one another but that jives with what ive been hearing that these numbers were not just in the dozens. That were not just talking about you know, 30, 40 captives. This is a number of captives the likes of which israel, im not sure what other country has seen taken in such a fast, 24hour period. Were also seeing claims of hamas saying they have captured even more just today. Now, the Israeli Military have not commented on whether more people were taken captive today because as we noted, there are still reports of ongoing fire fights going on within these israeli towns and villages in southern israel. Within the past few hours just today, the israeli Home Front Command has sent out directives to the citizens in certain villages, to stay in their homes. Lock the doors, do not come out for absolutely anything at all because of the fear militants are still popping up in these villages and towns and still attempting to kill. Still attempting to kidnap israeli civilians. Now, the Israeli Military and israeli officials have essentially put out a forced evacuation of many of these communities around the gaza strip but its a difficult thing to do when your forces are still trying to go house by house, car by car, treeying to clear out t area. This can be a needle in a hay stack type situation. And explosions has been heard in the suburbs of tel aviv tonight. Do you know the latest on that . That was a few hours ago. There was a barrage of rockets fired from gaza towards israel. Most of them were focused on the suburbs around tel aviv and hamas said they were specifically trying to target the airport, which is southeast of tel aviv itself. Just a little bit outside of the city limits. As far as we understand, none of the Airport Operations were affected. We know there was one at least direct hit in a city that received a heavy amount of fire. Its a city that sits quite close the gaza strip so it is unfortunately used theo these barrages. No major injuries and since then, its been relatively quiet so far this evening. Thank you so much. Come up next, a closer look at the sources and targets of the rockets that have been fired into israel and a former cia officer joins us to talk about the remarkable Intelligence Failures that left israel open to a Surprise Attack. And Clarissa Ward goes to the scene of the attack. Our coverage continues. Again, weve been seeing antimissile defenses in action in tel aviv, south of here as well, and have been getting reports of explosions in the area according to israels ambassador to the u. S. These figures will no doubt be climbing. Hamas has already fired more than 4,000 rockets into the country. Tom joins us now with more. Tom, talk a little bit more about what we know where those Rocket Attacks originated. Theyre originated really in rocket factories. Look at the range. Up here in tel aviv, say 45 miles away here to give you a range, hitting all these different areas here. What we know from the best