Americans voting for the largest single day delegate grab on the calendar, and voters are casting their ballots in 15 states, already a key victory in play for former president donald trump. That is because his name is actually on the ballot in colorado. After yesterdays rare unanimous decision by the Supreme Court. In short, states do not have the right to rip a candidates name off a federal election ballot. Im harris faulkner. You are in the faulkner focus. Trump in the his only remaining republican opponent, nikki haley, are competing for that big hall paid 854 delegates today. Haley has not yet won a single state. She did win washington, d. C. , this week, but she has picked up some delegates along the way proportionately with the percentages that qualify. Here is the delegate count. Going to the huge native primary results. Trump has 273, including a victory just from last night in north dakota. That Super Tuesday eve. And haley has 43 with her victory on sunday in d. C. Trump say
Significant development this evening. We heard from the Israel Defence forces spokesperson making a significant announcement, twofold, first, that the Ground Forces are expanding their operations tonight. Secondly Erica Intensification Of Airstrikes from israel into gaza. We have a number of live feeds, live cameras, pictures coming into us here at the building, there are three of them, lets start with this one. The darkness of gaza, you will know that fuel is in such short suppty, know that fuel is in such short supply, electricity, power, the light effectively there coming from the explosions of the strikes. Over the explosions of the strikes. Over the last couple of hours we have seen a real intensification of these airstrikes. With that comes things like a lack of communications in gaza. Weve heard from the head of the World Health Organization saying he has lost touch with his team, communications are down there in gaza. Next, lets go to the United Nations in new york, a significa
Off. No fuel means no electricity and no pumps to distribute water. Israel estimates 500,000 people have fled Northern Gaza for the south. Israeli Officials Say thats where theyre working with the United Nations to establish a humanitarian zone to provide those vitally needed supplies. With israerly preparing for a Ground Invasion of gaza, President Biden said in a 60 minutes interview aired sunday it would be a big mistake for israel to occupy gaza as part of its plan to eliminate hamas. What happened with gaza in my few is hamas and extreme elements of hamas dont represent all of the Palestinian People. And i think that it would be a mistake to, for israel to occupy gaza again. By the numbers, the state Department Says 30 americans have died in the hamas attack. 13 still unaccounted for. The Israeli Military says hamas is holding a total of 155 hostages in gaza. Cnns Clare Sebastian is live in london. Clare, good morning to you. The worsening humanitarian situation is pressuring ever
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
Putin has successfully distracted us multiple times over the last couple decades. david, i want to hear your thoughts as well on what an off-ramp could look like and i want to set that against this reality, which is we have possible war crimes against russia piling up. we learned today that a journalist has been killed. civilians aren t being allowed to leave. health facilities are being bombed. u.s. officials warning of a potential chemical attack. even as we have this conversation about off-ramps, what sort of repercussions might the russian president and russian military leaders face? they could face repercussions, but i covered the war in bosnia. there were multiple war crimes, indictments in bosnia, but a peace agreement was negotiated there. so i think there can be an agreement. i think it s been shown on various maps an effort by russia to kind of take control of southern ukraine. that s where, you know, the black seaports, and there s also russian-speaking populations in