Are. Thank you, guys. We will get back to you. And now, to give us more perspective on what we are seeing playing out this morning is major mike lion, and good to see you, major, and so tell us where clarissa and nic and what we are hearing, and this is the sderot and ashkelon, and why these areas to take fire now . Well, through the eyes of h hamas what they want to do is to fire the artillery as close as they can to the iron dome, and they want to survive themselves, and the mobile Rocket Launchers and low tech, but if they can get as close to the border, they can create the chaos and havoc there. The but as we saw, the iron dome was able to intercept it. At the same time, every Artillery Fire, and every rocket has a returned a dress. So as soon as it goes off, they are firing off the Rocket Artillery in that direction. So, again, the hamas militants are trying to survive and fire off the barrages and scoot out of there. The fact, that look, we had thousands of rockets coming from hamas on saturday, and the fact that they are still going to have rockets to fire, and now what does that show . Well, it shows that this is a well planned operation, and they are looking if they are firing up here on ashkelon, and up here is tel aviv, and they will continue to use whatever advantage they have. And right, down here in this place here, and tel aviv here, and they are confined to gaza, and the systems there, and this is going to tell me that they all right. We are following break news all are ready and expecting this morning long and seeing the fight. Another area that you have rockets flying out of gaza said is a great areas of towards the israeli city of concern, and we are hearing from the idf putting out on twitter ashkelon, and hamas says it has fired hundreds of rockets into that sirens going off in ashkelon. Northern israel. We saw with our own eyes, the this up here, with the border visibility of the israeli iron with lebanon, and this is a real dome intercepting many if not area of concern, and why . Most of those rockets. Well, this is nightmare we go right to Clarissa Ward who scenario for idf, because they is in the israeli city of have to cut the forces in two. Ashkelon to tell us what she has been seeing, clarissa. And this is not well, john, it has been an existentially, but immediately if they are talking about a ground incursion, why up here is intense hour. Hamas had warned via the a problem. Looking at the distance. Telegram channel that ordinary and first of all, only active residents of the city of duty forces will get there, and ashkelon should leave by 5 00 we know that 300,000 are coming, p. M. , and literally like but they are not there yet. And so they can only use the clockwork at 5 00 p. M. , we heard active duty forces, and the a massive sustain ed and most o hezbollah forces have much more capability, and capacity, and if they decide to join the war, now we have the 1973 environment. Attack coming from the south, and attack from the north, and then you will see the enemy those rockets intercepted by the location trying to get this way. Iron dome, though we are hearing israel is then surrounded on all of places inside of the town three sides, and this is what where they made direct contact. They dont want to have. Then it was calm for a few minutes and another sustained so you is multiple factors barrage, and it is basically going on like that as we were here. The conversation of the Ground Enkurgs that could be coming and building up towards the discussing on air on off for 335 complicating factor of hostages in gaza, and then this is the minutes, and hamas say ss that d complicating factor, the Tunnel Network that hamas has in place, and what do you do about that . Well, it is standoff, and the Israeli Forces have to make sure the noise is just so glaring. That the tunnels dont get behind the forces. That is the greatest fear with that there, but the hostages, hardly anybody out on the and israel is pretty good at street, because this is a city this. They are good at rescuing that has come under heavy rocket hostages. They take it very seriously. Attack, but in the last few yes, and i have to believe that special force, and they have cleared the desk, and every days, there is a up tick in the single one is working a specific mission, but time is running platform. Now, what i would say is that out, and it has happened a few days ago, and they have to get what we witnessed in the last in there and start that operation if they know there is hour. I want to go to Nic Robertson any possibility to get the hostages out. Who is in sderot, and nic, you and we wanted to pull up this are not far from me, but i map, because it is showing you how the Terror Attack from hamas understand that you were able to really played out. Hear the rockets as they were you have by sea, by land, by being fired off. Tell me what you saw and heard. Air. You have places attacked by hamas fighters, and the idfs have said they have recovered the bodies of about 1,500 hamas reporter clarissa, i have to wave at the police here, because terrorists inside of israel, so they have arrived at the house here, and how are you doing . On the question of what is next, all good. Cnn up here. How long does it take and how long for the idf to get ready cnn. Yeah, i just wanted to make sure they know who we are, because for what is likely a ground they are a little bit edgy, incursion when you are looking because of a fear of hamas at how hamas did it right under their noses . Militants around the town. Clarissa, we were able to hear it is weeks, because they have to ensure it is nothing and see those missiles taking trailing, and ones ors twos, an off on the way to you and see the iron dome intercepts that they have to make sure that were happening there, and the thing that is kicking off at the moment, and i dont know if you there are no sleeper cells. Have been able to hear it, but a so they have to throw the couple of big detonations here, security right out the window, and heavy howitzers, and the and go back to secure the traps, firing into gaza, and the idf and they have to run down using that as a precise piece of everything on the incursion. When you are seeing this, and how was so much missed . Military equipment to target the hamas firing positions. I mean, this the Million Dollar question of course. Your thoughts . And the same reasons that we missed 9 11. Because said that they had and 100 things go right on hamas, and 100 million things enough to catch a glimpse of the hamas militants firing out the wrong on our side. Rockets, and that has picked up here at dusk time. And so, with the ops and they quite a collection of police used it after attacking on a here, but they are pretty happy wide front, and from all of the that we are standing on the vulnerabilities, it was well planned. And it looks like the israeli roof, and they know who we are. Forces fell asleep, and it is unheard of when they project and nic, broadly speaking such power. Along the gaza border, and along and throwing up the maps, when you know that the threat of with the tempo of what you are hamas is that they are going to start executing hostages. H right. Hearing, and the mood of the id, depending upon how israel, if that they are confident that they would say acts in the they had cleared all of the coming days. From the ops perspective, and from planning, how do you hamas infill tra l tray tray ensure, what do you need to ensure that you can keep the hostages safe while you are infiltrators and there is still trying to go in to get them in a place where you dont vb a lot a heightened state, and what are you seeing . Yes, it reflects same thing. Of visibility. If they have an area where they you have to be clear about the men and women going in to believe they have control of, and then they get a report that rescue, because it is a potential Suicide Mission for them, too, and they have to know says hey, something suspicious what they are going into, and is over here, and i dont know they will act on the 70 or the why so many police have flooded 80 intelligence they v and when to this particular neighborhood, they get there, it may not be but they were outside there that, and they could be trapped searching around with themselves. It is highly dangerous mission, flashlights, and so they got and when you lay it over 100 word of a potential scenario of hostages or spo, it is going to what you were saying, something make it worse. Happened, something spotted. And some perspective of where therefore the idf went on stepping up the patrol, and the focus is at the moment. Stepped up the position if you will. When i spoke to the general in charge, he took us inside of the the idf is saying they have kibbutz that is literally 700 sirens set up here and outside meters away from gaza, and hamas of where the rockets are hitting overran saturday morning, and 48hour of gun battle to get gaza. Major, thank you. Back and i believe that is stay close. John . We have been watching all artillery outgoing to, get back morning long as the rockets have been flying into ashkelon, and control of the particular continued israeli air strikes kibbutz, and i said, can you be over gaza. I wanted to make one thing clear, we have seen this type of 100 sure that you have all of thing before, and maybe not to the hamas militant, and he said, this degree, but this type of thing before, and what makes what is happening right now is that there are 100 to 150 hostages inside of gaza, and what is going to be done to try to get them out alive, and what is done with the 660,000 israeli troops being mobil ooized. We will continue with the special coverage right after this. Morning long we have been seeing a barrage of rockets out gaza towards ashkelon, and most of them taken out by the iron dome, but some have landed. We have also been seeing israel respond and hitting gaza overand over. Now, we are getting word that there are rockets that have been fired from the north from lebanon, and israel is now responding with Artillery Fire according to the military. Our erin burnett has just arrived in the country. She is in tel aviv, and you have been watching the conflict and reporting on the conflict since the beginning this weekend, and so tell us what is happening there in tel aviv. Sara, in the day, and the last couple of hours, our teams here, and sirenings would go off, and everyone is immediately taking shelter, and the then the thuds, and they would literally and the impact, and this is not known, but over the last couple of hours, you can see that. And looking up and down the north, as clarissa said, it is going to be a long evening, and tensions are high in a sobering country, and in deep mourning, and as well as the idf and hundreds of thousands of reservists being called up, and all eyes are going to be on what President Biden has to say here. As you know, Arlette Scenes is going Arlette Saenz is there, and this is a crucial speech to be watch around the world, and what do you expect . It is to be some of the most fulsome comments since the beginning of this conflict of israel and hamas. It is said that he is not going to urge Benjamin Netanyahu to have restraint. Now, we reported that when he is knowingly going to and now, the president is going to have his third phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu. And what he is going to talk about is israels ability to defend itself, and the assistance of the u. S. And other ally, and what they can offer to the country in this moment. We have heard from President Biden, and top officials a tts state department, and the Department Of Defense that if the u. S. Is prepared to offer further assistance to the country, and they have started this already in since the conflict. Another subject that the president is going to touch on is still a number of american Ps Unaccounted For Due To Hamas taking potentially some american hostages. The white house has not put a numb bebut in addition to sending some military assistance to israel, u. S. Is also offering a special operation, and intelligence rescue for these hostages. Listen to Top National Security spokesperson john kirby and what he had to say about the assistance being offered at this moment. We have talked to the israelis about offering them additional intelligence information as well as hostage recovery expertise. We have a lot of that here in the United States, and in law enforcement, and military, and intelligence community. We have offered that assistance to israel, and i suspect additional tranches going forward. Reporter another issue that President Biden could touch on today is something that he said saturday when he urged other actors to not take advantage of this situation when it is israel, and talking to mo other Essential Groups who could be eye attacks. And this is a key test for the president , because he is balancing a second war and not just israels, but the americans who are in the country, and those who have lost loved ones there. Thank you. With these hostages, nobody knows what is going to happen, and of course, as the minutes go by, some of the Hostage Situations may end deadly. We know that at the festival where there were people who were killed, there were harrowing examples of chaos. Jeremy diamond talked to one of them, and here he is. [ speaking in a global language ] translator i really dont know. It is a miracle. It is a miracle because the people next to me did not get out alive. Reporter with a bullet in her stomach, she considers herself one of the lucky ones, but when the rockets sounded at the nova musical festival, and hamas militants began to killing and kidnapping hundreds of festivalgoers, her fate was far from sealed. Translator it was just shooting range shooting, and whoever could run, ran. Others got killed. Reporter after the bullets pierced the windows of the car she and her boyfriend were trying to escape in, she found refuge in small shed with at least 50 other people. There were already people injured. Some of them on their legs and some on the backside, and some on their heads. I had a scarf on me, and somebody next to me was bleeding so i gave her a tourniquet on her leg. Reporter minutes later, shots rang out. Translator there was silence, and then the policewoman there with us simply screamed, whoever wanted to be alive needs to leave now. And those who could leave, left. Those who could not, i dont know what happened with them. Reporter michal and her boyfriend took off running, and a person managed to shove her into a window of passing vehicle, but at every turn more hamas fighters. They came with pickup truck, and on each Pickup Trucks there were 20 terrorists with the kalashnikov machine guns. I have not seen anything like this. Reporter and then she jumped out of the car and began running before finding an abandoned army tank there on the side of the road. Bullets reached her there too, and she was shot in the leg, and shrapnel pierced her stomach. At that time, we could not see anything, and they were taken, and some people were taken. Reporter for six more hours, michal lay underneath that tank until the israeli solders rescued her and took her to the Hadas Hospital where more than 60 victims were treated. You thought that you were going to die . Yeah. Reporter jeremy diamond, cnn, jerusalem. Amir bena tatan is joining ud he was at the festival. We are happy that you are okay, and have you been able to account for your friends and everybody who was there, and do you know where everybody is now . Yeah, luckily, my friends are also okay. Yeah. Like people i know personally, no one died. Amir, i know that when it started, the first alerts the music sort of stopped, and then they said, oh, there is rockets coming from gaza, and at first you said, well, this is sadly normal, and thought that things would continue. At what point did you realize that things were terribly wrong . So, after they stopped the music and we went out, and there was a big line of cars, and we waited, and the cars would move a little bit, and then we went inside of the cars about 30 minutes later. After a few minutes, i started to run, and so no one knew, and so i came back to the car, and this repeated one more time. We were going out of the car, ran and came back to the car, but the first time we realized that something serious is going on, and then we started to run with all of my power, and actually from this point i knew it was different. And now come to us. All right. Amir, standby for one moment, because i want to go to Clarissa Ward. We are hearing Air Raid Siren where you are . Yes, hi, erin, we are in ashkelon and hearing the airraid sirens and seeing the iron dome up there, and hearing some boom, and you can probably hear that. This is now by my count about the fifth or sixth time we have had volleys of rockets being fired here at this city. Hamas had put out a warning that people needed to leave the city by 5 00 p. M. , and that they would be striking the city, and they have kept true to their word. There has been sustained activity here. We have been here for three days now, and certainly in the last couple of hour, it has been at a far more intense pace than anything that we have seen in the last 72 hours. It appears to be a little bit quieter now, but you can see that i will step in now. You can see the remnants of the smoke from where the iron dome intercepted those missiles, and the hope for People Living here had been that after the barrages which were periodic from about 5 00 p. M. To 5 35 local time, and then there was a little bit of a lull, and you started to see some cars on the street, but clearly, this is not something that is going to end any time soon, and the israels leaders had warned people that it would not be a quick and easy fight, and here on the ground, it is very clear that this is essentially a part of the new normal, and that you are going to have these barrages orockets coming, and they come at a moments notice, erin. I mean, i dont know if you have heard that, but the time difference of