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 CouncilSpokesman 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 arrived at israels shores, sending a stark message to those in the region. John Fox Team Coverage across the global in the next two hours and the breaking news of the war in israel. Lets go straight to our trey yingst live on the ground in the southern part of the country. Whats the latest where you are . Good afternoon, we have returned from a Small Community that sits just over the border with gaza. Up until about 12 hours ago, there were firefights and this area between Israeli Soldiers and hamas militants. One of the first places that they stormed on saturday morning when the terrorists executed more than 1200 people. I do want to show you what the scene was like. We were live there last hour on fox. Take a look. Guys, i need to warn our viewers what we are about to show you is the aftermath of the massacre against israelis on saturday morning. We are just over the border from gaza on saturday morning. Hamas militants stormed this area, i need to warn you before i show you the scene it is very graphic, so at home with children, please do not have them look at this. But this is what israel is facing right now and its very important we show you this. Im going to have my cameraman come in here, you can see the floors are stained with blood, it was saturday morning around 7 00 a. M. When militants stormed this village, you can see the weapons they brought with them, extra ammunition, bullet holes in the side of the house and knives on the floor. This was the scene. This community over the border with gaza is littered with bodies. It is completely destroyed. It looks like some of the buildings were hit with rpgs, explosives, and beds covered in blood. Ok, so i just want to describe what its like here. We arrived here with the army a few hours ago and on the road in we went past the area where the Music Festival was, where 260 innocent israelis were mowed down. You could smell the stench of death in the air on the drive and as we got closer to this area, where so many families were slaughtered in their homes. It became obvious that we didnt even have a full grasp of what took place here. When you turn into the area, the army has taken back over control of this entire area. There are no longer militants here, but they say just 12 hours ago they were in gun battles in the area. A large pile of bodies stacked up outside, the bodies of militants they have collected. Around the back of this house down the street a little bit we saw about eight bodies in body bags of the local residents who were here, some may be militants, they still have to work to identify the bodies. Some are hard to identify. I want to just tell you what the Commanding Officer told me, he saw many of the families slaughtered in their beds and in their Bomb Shelters after hamas militants broke through the door. He told us that there were people who were decapitated here. People with their hands tied behind their backs and shot, executed. And you saw from inside that house, it is the most horrific thing i have ever seen. What was so eerie in the homes, you could see what the people were doing when the hamas militants stormed in and executed them. They were eating breakfast, food was on tables. You saw kids toys on the floor. It was a saturday morning when this happened and this is just one of many locations where these mass executions took place against civilians and the commander there who recovered many of the bodies with his soldiers, he told us that people had hands tied behind their backs, they were shot executed and some people beheaded. It was a horrific scene, hell on earth, but it is important that we do not look away. Because that is the reason that israel now is in this war. Its part of the reason that you are about to see the most extensive Ground Operation in the middle east in quite some time. John, back to you. John trey, if i might ask you a personal question, i noticed in your live report last hour in outnumbered describing the scene there, you got quite emotional. You have seen this stuff Around The World, done such Terrific Reporting in israel, ukraine as well and throughout the middle east. But it looked like that scene really got to you. Yeah, it was the it was the kids toys, like they were just playing in their house on a saturday morning and these terrorists came in and executed them. And there were still bodies all over this area. It has not been totally worked through. On a personal level, it is truly this is the worst thing that i have ever seen and ive covered many stories and the world. We were in many active war zones where civilians had been executed and its not to compare the two, its just the brutality that was inflicted on the civilian population here is hard to grasp, its hard to wrap your mind around how humans could do this to other humans, how men with machine guns could walk into a home and see a 5yearold child and execute them. You walk in those houses and they look like our houses. There are photos on the fridge of kids playing sports, they are drinking fanta and sprite like you would on a saturday afternoon if you were sitting with your family outside having a picnic. They are just like us. These people that live here in Southern Israel and they were executed in their homes, and i just would encourage you, anyone at home if you are watching this and you you are wondering how this feels for the israeli people, i would just tell you to look around your own home and imagine if militants, terrorists stormed in and fired on your entire family and killed them. Thats how these people feel, those that survived, some as we know have been taken into gaza in the Tunnel System underneath the gaza strip. 22 u. S. Citizens were killed in this. And we still dont have a full picture of what took place because the military cannot get to all these areas. While we were there, we could hear outgoing artillery, rockets off the gaza strip, this is an active war zone and to get a full picture may take days, if not weeks. And israel is preparing to enter gaza in response to this brutal assault against their country. It is not a question of if, but rather when. John. John so many things that we come across in these situations, once you see them, trey, you cant unsee them. Keep up the great work, we will talk to you soon. Thank you. Sandra we are with you, trey, and thank you for your continued reporting on the ground. U. S. Sending a message of deterrence, warning others to stay out of the battle with hamas. A second carrier is being deployed to the region. U. S. S. Gerald ford, the newest and most advanced Aircraft Carrier in the navy. It carries up to 5,000 sailors and 90 aircraft and is longer than three football fields. Chief National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin knows a lot about that, live at the pentagon with the latest. Moments ago at nato headquarters in brussels, the new joint chiefs chairman said the u. S. Is not seeing indications of adversaries like iran yet planning to get involved in the conflict between hamas and israel. The reason the u. S. Sent the u. S. S. Ford Carrier Strike group to the mediterranean is to deter iran and hezbollah from joining hamass attacks against israel. For anyone thinking about trying to take advantage of the agony in israel, to try to widen this conflict or to try to spill more blood, we have just one word. Dont. Secretary austin has offered u. S. Personnel to help rescue israeli and american hostages and added the Defense Department can rapidly deploy others to the region if necessary. When i spoke to minister golan on sunday, i offered our assistance, special operators, help from the Intelligence Community in planning and developing intelligence. U. S. Military liaisons were already on the ground in israel and attached to the u. S. Embassy before hamas invaded. Special operations personnel were already on the ground in israel as part of their jobs at the embassy or bilateral Training Agreements between u. S. And israeli operations. This footage of a direct weapons shipments from the u. S. Arriving in Southern Israel last night. President biden promised additional assistance, including ammunition and interceptors for the iron dome. They said its not because israel is running out of ammunition but because the u. S. Is trying to deter a broader conflict from happening. Boeing has accelerated the delivery of 1,000 smart bombs to israel after the hamas attacks. Back to you, sandra. Sandra thank you so much. If you could stay with us, because one obvious question so many are asking right now, and i know you can add a lot to this, is how did hamas breach what is known to be one of the most sophisticated Security Systems on the planet, and the Washington Post did a deep dive on that asking how hamas breached israels iron wall. We put together some graphics so we can tell the story here a bit better for the audience. About 40 miles long. This is the iron wall along the gaza strip. Its 40 miles long, barricaded and completed in 2021. Its made up of 140,000 tons of iron and steel. This fence was breached at 29 different points on saturday. You are looking at these red entrance some of the main areas they were able to breach the sophisticated security system, ok. So we went on to dig in deeper, to really discover what that wall is made of. This is israels Perimeter Fence and the access restricted area, Observation Tower. Inside the Observation Tower it has all kinds of sensors, and cameras, designed to detect any sort of security breach. Hundreds of cameras, radar, sensors, the Observation Tower, obviously this has played a central role in what we saw unfold saturday morning. They have Sand Barriers that make up the wall as well to monitor threats and slow down any intruders who do get past that early risk zone. Israel included an underground concrete barrier, a huge part of this sophisticated Security Wall that was erected. Moving a little bit deeper on what happened and how hamas was able to breach this perimeter and this restricted area. Now you are looking at the fact the rockets obviously came in, but first the para gliders and the drones that came in and took out this Observation Tower. This is the fence where all the sensors are. Those were taken out, and then they were able to move in. Looking a little bit clearer at what happened there, the explosives along the fence. Obviously this was a huge part of their entire effort. The drones dropped explosives on the Observation Tower, this is the Observation Tower was taken out, that wiped out coms and their weapon systems. Next launched 3,000 rockets into the country, reaching as far as tel aviv and jerusalem, the hangliders flew across the border and then explosives to blow up sections of the fence, and then the men on the motor bikes came in, drove through the gaps they were able to create at the perimeter. After that, you are looking now, able to widen the gap. Bulldozers, enough space for the vehicles to drive through, and saying the attack would have required absolute weeks, jennifer of planning. When you look at the sophistication included in that wall, in the 40mile barrier, it took massive planning on their part. Weeks, i would say probably months if not longer. The kind of training that would occur and i doubt only in the gaza strip. Simultaneously command and control, communication, the explosives to breach simultaneously at those points. Im going to go out on a limb. Not something that i have that any official has told me, but i would look at whether there was also some sort of cyber attack on that wall that made israel blind in those moments. Sandra. Sandra thanks for your reporting on all that. Well have more on this coming up. John. John i saw one report that suggested it was in the planning stages for a couple years almost. We have breaking news from across the street on capitol hill, republicans have chosen House Majority leader Steve Scalise as their nominee for House Speaker. Now hes not speaker yet, they still have to go to a vote in the house. Chad pergram live on capitol hill has got the latest for us on this. Chad. John, they are still Behind Closed Doors but it appears that Steve Scalise has won in the conference the vote there was 11399. Now as you say, they still have to go to the house floor. You need about 217 votes to win on the floor, thats a pretty good delta between the number of votes he was able to secure in the conference, the bar is lower there versus winning on the house floor and max miller, a republican from ohio, he indicated, he said there is about 30 people he thinks would continue to support jim jordan, max miller is from ohio, jim jordan from ohio, he said he will continue to support jim jordan on the floor. Whether or not they can rectify that later this afternoon or tonight, they might go to the floor this afternoon and maybe try to push this on the floor. Sometimes they try to grow the vote organically, but republicans have told us they dont want to go to the floor unless they have the votes nailed down but they said they need to have a speaker because of the crisis in the middle east, the house continues to be paralyzed. John chad pergram, well see if we get a vote later today. Add that to Everything Else we are covering. President biden confirming u. S. Citizens are among the hostages held by hamas. One family believes he could be one of those Abducted Americans and they are asking the Biden Administration to do all it can to help him get home safely. Joining us now is sagies father jonathan. Thank you for being with us at this difficult time. I cant imagine as a father myself of two boys what you are going through. Do you have any information at all what is the latest as you know it . First, thanks for your concern about the fate of our missing people. We are talking as you mentioned before about in the parkway of 150 israelis taken into captivity or assumed in captivity, these are little children from eight months old to elderly people, 88 years old. And from our area alone, several dozen hostages were taken. As far as information, from the moment we lost contact with segie and other members, mid morning on saturday, a few hours after the assault began by hundreds of terrorists, we have absolutely no idea of what their fate is, what condition they might be in, and thats the situation that many, many hundreds of israeli families find themselves in right now. John we have talked to the parents of, or the relatives, loved ones of some other americans who are living in israel who have gone missing. They say that they have seen video of their loved ones posted on telegram, but you have not seen any evidence of what might have happened to sagui . Ive been told that there are a number of videos posted by the Hamas Terrorists and looters that came later on, murders, excuses that were conducted, and torture of innocent civilians. There is no there are no such posts of sagui. John We Saw Trey Reporting from, a scene of utter carnage. What was life like saturday, other people said things were pretty good, that they knew people in gaza and while there was obviously rocket fire that would come across from gaza on occasion, that life was pretty tolerable. I think tolerable is probably in the eyes of the beholder. All the kibbutz, and barrie, these were created between 1946 and the mid 1950s and they were created as a human barrier, specifically by the israeli government, to separate between Hostile Forces in the gaza strip and the main body of israel. And as such we its part of life in our area as kind of the pioneering zionist spirit that we take into account there is always going to be some risk and with the hamas takeover, Unilateral Takeover of the gaza strip in 2005, if i recall correctly, that took a terrible turn for the worse and we have had to undergo many, many rounds of escalation of violence involving rockets, mortars, Terror Attack Tunnels coming very clo