Thank you john and sandra. I m martha maccallum. A breaking story this afternoon israel saying it carried out a strike in beirut lebanon targeting that has below commander believed to be behind the attack on the soccer field and the golden heights that killed 12 children. But the commander reportedly survived. Hezbollah. According to the latest reports from reuters the retired fourstar general jackie and is standing buy but first let s go live to correspondent trey yingst reporting from tel aviv as news continues to break this hour in this escalation in the middle east. Hello tray. Reporter: yeah, martha good afternoon. Earlier tonight the israelis lost their retaliation to that deadly rocket attack on saturday that killed 12 children and teens. Tonight israelis launched a strike against the hezbollah stronghold in the southern part of the lebanese capital of beirut. We saw some of this afternoon aftermath of the video, a tall building in the centre part of the city partially collapsed
I m jillian turner here is martha. Martha: thank you sandra and jillian good afternoon everyone this is the story i m martha maccallum. Brandnew poles right now here is what we re looking at. Vice president kamala harris narrowing the gap with former president donald trump now up what what points among registered voters compared to his ninepoint lead over president biden after the debate the disastrous debate june 27 that set in motion so much of this change. So these are new poll numbers and are from new york times cnn. Harris also basing questions about the record that earned her the title of most politically left senate democrats when they went through and looked at how she voted on many different issues acrosstheboard and number 2 overall behind independent bernie sanders. That is according to golf track which tracks how members of congress actually vote on the things that come before them. Ben ferguson standing buy but first to hillary upon reporting live on these brandnew poles.
Don t be the reason why schools are disrupted because of the polarization of this effort to reopen schools. The white house says florida and texas account for a third of the entire country s new cases and hospitalizations. Texas governor abbott partly blames it on the border crisis. We re awaiting an update from texas officials on that issue. First, dr. Jay from stanford university who has been working with florida governor desantis on covid mitigation. Great to have you on. You re an informal adviser for the governor of florida now for the past 18 months. During that time as evidence shows, he s made many of the right calls. Now you have covid cases exploding again in florida. The death rate is still down. Would you advise governor desantis to change his guidance at all? no, i think he s done many of the right decisions. The key thing about what you just mentioned, it s a very important point. What we once thought that when covid cases went up, deaths would follow. But because of gove
he s been at the center of a criminal investigation. giuliani denies any wrongdoing, has not been charged, but this underscores and suggests, i should say the months-long probe is advancing. cnn report kara scannell, and evan perez are following the story. federal investigators tried and failed in the past to obtain a search warrant. what hank ed. reporter: that s the question we re trying tots to. the last time this request was made, which was in the closing months of the previous administration, the deputy attorney general jeff rosen and some of the other top officials of the justice department, they decided that there wasn t enough evidence. they viewed the case wasn t as strong as prosecutors in new york thought, alisyn and victor. here s the issue. the center of this case is what s known as a fara case, the foreign agents registration act, a law the justice department has had trouble with. there s been years-long struggle to try to enforce the law. there s been a new
of patriotism in the country. three prominent hong kong are in court charged three prominent hong kong activists are in court charged with organising a protest which led to a siege of police headquarters injune last year. joshua wong, ivan lam and agnes chow are members of hong kong s pro democracy movement, which has faltered since a new national security law gave the government sweeping powers to suppress the opposition. their charges relate to protests injune 2019 against a controversial extradition bill, when thousands of demonstrators surrounded the hong kong police building. the bill which would have allowed for criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland china was formally scrapped four months later. the three now face charges of organising an unauthorised assembly, with a maximum prison sentence of five years. joshua wong had this to say before he went into court. this case will draw the world s attention to the arbitrary power of the criminaljustice system