8 oclock in los angeles at 6 am in jerusalem. This is breaking News Coverage of israels war on hamas on americas late news fox news at night. Breaking tonight 48 minutes to sunrise in israel. In state 18 of the war. 2 more hostages have been released. Both are in hospital in tel aviv. We will update their conditions in moments. First, to the overall battle. Israel is promising a ground war and saying Israeli Forces are ready. The Biden Administration is advising against a ground war. While israel decides what to do in gaza, Northern Israel is taking rocket fire. Lucas tomlinson is live in tel aviv with the latest on the ground. Lucas . Trace, earlier this evening and is really helicopter brothers to elderly israeli hostages released by Hamas To Hospital in tel aviv behind me. This is fenced most are toward navy base and extracted his forces to get ready for ground combat. Pricks keep preparing for operation. It will come soon. We are preparing thoroughly for the next step. A multilater
Also reports that Cruise Missiles as well towards israel from iran, Israeli Forces are planning to intercept as many of those ads as possible with the help of United States but at this moment, we do not yet know what the results of these attacks may be. Or what the targets are. We have reporters and analysts all over the map as we track this news. I want to get straight to Jeremy Diamond on the ground in jerusalem, who has some new reporting jeremy. What do you learning about . What iran is undertaking in this retaliation right now well, alex, over the course of the last several hours, weve been reporting that iran has launched the waves of drones in the direction of israeli territory more than 100 drones currently making their way aid israel with multiple hours of travel time before they are expected to hit their targets or to try and hit their targets within israeli territory. But now Iranian State media is reporting that in addition to those drones, iran has also fired Ballistic Mis
Wider regional war are heightened once again, and one of the biggest escalations weve seen since the israelhamas war began 100. Its a very, very delicate moment, very, very dangerous indeed. And reportedly waves of Ballistic Missiles from iran are heading towards israel as well. They are more deadly and they fly much faster. Both israel and the United States say they will aim to intercept as many of these drones because and missiles as they possibly can. But this much is already certain. These attacks directly from inside iran. And indeed the suspected attack from israel to which arrived says its responding that these two nations, both with a lot of military power, as close to all out roar as weve seen in recent memory and that could have farreaching implications within the region. And certainly well beyond the region, are reporters and our analysts are standing by. Theyve been covering this from All Over The World and concluding our Nic Robertson in jerusalem, Clarissa Ward in tel avi
kyiv as well, forcing residents as you see there in these videos to shelter at metro stations. ukrainian officials say 76 missile were fired, killing two people and damaging critical infrastructure. the u.s., meantime, is fi finalizing plans to beef up its ukrainian aid including the missile defense system. oren liebermann is atthere for . reporter: this is something the pentagon has talked about, the u.s. has talked about, and many countries in europe have mentioned is one of the most critical pieces of equipment that ukraine needs, and cnn has learned that within the next days, perhaps early next week, the expectation is that the u.s. will announce the approval of patriot air defense missiles to ukraine. this is one of the most advanced aerial defense systems the u.s. has, and ukraine has been asking for it for months. it would essentially sit on top of the capabilities they already have. a long range air defense system that goes on top of the nasams
yet. the u.s. military hasn t put out any information about that. it was the taliban that said it was u.s. forces who destroyed equipment there. we know having listen to john kirby that the u.s. has equipment there and was considering destroying it. there are a number of assets like apatchies, aerial defense systems, all of that instead of leaving it there or trying to get it out, it could be destroyed. commanders on the ground can make the decision whether it is worth taking home or whether it s worth simply destroying it. the press secretary, john, has said, jen psaki, said today that president biden has never reconsidered the august 31st deadline. what does that tell you about how he sees the tragic events in the context of his commitment to get troops out? look, i think nearly everything that s happened in the last few weeks, don, has reinforced the president s commitment and belief that