you. i m alex witt in for chris jansing here in new york city. there has been a major development in the israel-hamas war. hamas says one of its senior leaders has been killed in an israeli strike inside lebanon. these are live pictures of the site of the attack in beirut. what it could mean for the war as israel s full cabinet considers a plan for gaza after the fighting is done. plus, the border crisis officially hits historic levels. roughly 10,000 people arriving every single day, simultaneously overwhelming processing centers on the border and packing city shelters 2,000 miles away. what will the white house do about it. and with new hampshire s first in the nation primary just three weeks away, an incredible 40% of voters there are undeclared. why that could lead to a result no one is anticipating. but we re going to begin with that major breaking news tied to the israel hamas war. a senior hamas official killed in an israeli air strike in beirut. it comes as mome
Destruction still raging today. Later this afternoon President Biden will hold his first News Conference since hamas carried out the Terror Attacks and escalating threats from iran target u. S. Forces in the region. A bunch of things moving on that front as we say hello. Im bill hemmer. Here we go today. Dana im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. Hamas terrorists also trying to infiltrate israel from the Mediterranean Sea and foiled by the israeli navy. A whos who of top officials of hezbollah, hamas and Islamic Jihad holding talks how to achieve total victory over israel. The pentagon revealing more than 14 attacks, one more than yesterday against u. S. Forces based in the middle east in the last week. The white house trying to connect the dots saying all these militia and all these Terror Groups are working hand in glove with tehran. Iran is certainly complicit here. Without them there is no hamas or hezbollah, without them there is no Militia Groups firing rockets at our tro
10 00 oclock eastern to the money a lot of red on the lefthand side of the screen the dow is down 70 points, look at the nasdaq 170point, shall be big tech, microsoft it is a big winner, up 13 bucks 4 that is a dow stock, the big game puts extra 100 points onto the dow. In other words without microsoft the dow would be negative, google having the worst day in a year, google on the list, down 8. 3 , take a look at the ten year treasury yield moving up significantly, 4. 89 thats where it is now, twoyear well above 5 you are at 510 as we speak, the latest read on new home sales, not existing, new ones. So much stronger than expected they sold at the seasonally adjusted annual rate of 759,000 in the month of september that is up from august which is revised to 676,000. As for the price, median price 418,800, that went down from the month of august. As you have rates that a 23 year high for a mortgage, is that starting to break the back of the price of homes. Stuart maybe. Im being overly o
First woman of color on a major Party President ial ticket. Heres how she responded to bidens big question. You ready to go to work . Oh, my god, im so ready to go to work. Is the answer yes . The answer is absolutely yes, joe. Im ready to do this fl you and with you and im deeply excited. Were going to bring that to you live when they appear. And theres a trend in coronavirus cases. The u. S. Has recorded fewer than 50,000 new infections. This week verses last week, the data shows new cases trending down, the average number of infections down by 11 . But averaging over 1,000 coronavirus cases a day. And its not just the number. That is a life lost. That is a family. Many people for each person, devastated and we have to wonder if it could have been prevented. Just yesterday they recorded their highest day death tolls, florida and georgia. Both governors are refusing to mandate. And what is the best type of mask and when should you be wearing it . Theyre releasing straight forward guid
sciences, kennedy school and chance school of public health. you know it s historic in a lot of ways. she was recruited to harvard in 2006 as a professor from government. she had come from 2000 to 2005. she was at stanford university. assistant of political science in the political science department and she was heralded. this was a highly celebrated decision to appoint her as the head of harvard university college and now as i said earlier, it is also historic that she is stepping down. the controversy seemingly too much to bear. i think you re right. thank you so much for this breaking news coverage. next hour, we ll get back to the deadly plane collision in tokyo. how one plane heading to a disaster zone ended up part of its own disaster. you re watching msnbc. d up partf its own disaster you re watching msnbc.