mystery surrounding secretary austin s illness and hospitalization with new nbc reporting on president biden s point of view. plus, secretary blinken heads back to tel aviv after a new wave of explosions along the gaza strip and new israeli strikes against hezbollah targets in lebanon. and we will go live to south carolina where president biden will arrive this hour ahead of his speech at mother emmanuel church as part of his 2024 campaign kickoff. thanks for being here. it is 11:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera joining you for a special second hour this morng. josé diaz-balart will be up at noon today. it is the final push in iowa for republicans running for president, and the front runr donald trump is not even holding a campaign event in the hawkeye state until this weekend. the former president, who is out defending january 6th rioters again is set to appear in courtrooms instead, in two separate trials this week. meanwhile, the two candidates fighting for second place,
flights are stopped there also. bill: air quality alerts for tens of millions of americans. the hardest hit areas as of this hour on your screen. a lot in southeastern pennsylvania. we mentioned philadelphia. they grounded flights there and in new york as well where air quality is down right bad. times square yesterday engulfed in an orange haze. amazing pictures from gotham city. new york seeing its worst air quality in recorded history, wow. dana: here is the current air quality forecast. detroit, pittsburgh, boston, washington in the thick of it. philadelphia declaring a code red. the smoke engulfing cities. bill: yesterday new york city they go from hazy to dispopeian in a matter of hours. we watched it happen. pollution catching even seasoned new yorkers a bit off guard. it seems apocalyptic. could see it rolling from the office window. we were on the 80th floor of our building. you couldn t see anything. i thought the world was burning and i thought someth
Were continuing to follow the breaking ns in The Middle East, where the israelhamas war is poised to enter a new phase. Just one week after hamas executed that horrific and seismic Terrorist Attack on southern israel, 1400 people have been killed in israel so far. And more than 2300 in gaza. 29 americans were also killed, and 15 remain missing, according to the state department. Today, the Prime Minister conveyed his emergency israeli cabinet, and said that hamas thought wed be demolished. Its we who will demolish hamas. Thats after three senior Israeli Military officers were telling the New York Times that Israeli Forces are preparing to invade the gaza strip in the coming days. Their ultimate goal, according to the reporting, is to capture gaza city. Destroy the enclaves current leadership, and wipe out the top political and Military Hierarchy of hamas. The risks are high here, for israeli troops, as they face the challenge of Urban Warfare and a narrow and tightly packed gaza. They
fox news alert. president biden set to speak at any moment from woodside, california where he has just wrapped up a meeting with president xi of china. is expected to a question so we will cut to the president as soon as he takes the stage. today was supposed to be gavin newsom s day. after a romantic first date in beijing where xi showed gavin his exquisite birds, intertwined trees and customs of bargains gavin thought he was a shoe in for a second date. he was flying into san francisco. when gavin found out he grabbed the broom and cleaned up. sorry vagrants, i have a date. he waited for xi at the airport, marveled at him as he descended on the tarmac and the way gavin looked at xi is how taylor swift looks at travis kelce. in beijing, images of xi and gavin were plastered all over the billboards. and then gavin turned san francisco into chinatown. killing millions of americans with covid and fentanyl was water under the bridge. gavin was ready to take the relationship to t
good day to you. i m peter alexander in for andrea mitchell. president biden is a few hours away from landing in italy for a g7 summit with some of america s biggest allies. ukraine presses the west for more aid and pressure mounts on israel and hamas to end the war in gaza. the secretary of state delivering the first comments on the response by hamas to the latest cease-fire proposal saying in qatar, it s time for the haggling to stop. hamas proposed numerous changes to the proposal that was on the table. some of the changes are workable. some are not. if one side continues to change its demands, including making demands and insisting on changes for things that it accepted, you have to question whether they are proceeding in good faith or not. i believe the gaps are bridgeable. doesn t mean they will be bridged. president biden departed for the g7 summit with world leaders this morning after quickly rearranging his travel to be by his son s side last night. that vis