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good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m victor blackwell. and i m amara walker. israel s army appears to be entering a new phase of war. an army spokesperson from the idf confirmed to cnn that idf ground forces are in gaza right now. infantry, artillery and other units moved into gaza from the north overnight. as troops march in the north, israel continues to fire missiles across the border. the idf have been launching heavy and continuous air strikes throughout the night into the morning. idf reserve soldiers are calling it the most intense night of bombing of the conflict so far. cnn s jim sciutto is with us now from northern israel. so, israel promised a major ground offensive after the attacks by hamas on october 7th. is it clear yet that this is the beginning of that? that we are seeing that ground incursion in a major way or is this potentially something else? reporter: well, victor, it s the beginning of something. that s no question. because i ....
you re watching cnn news central. i m boris sanchez in washington, d.c. with john berman on the ground in maine where an urgent manhunt is under way for the suspect in two mass shootings. and cnn just learned the name of one of 18 people gunned down in that rampage. trisha ashlan was a 53-year-old mother who worked at the bowling alley, according to her brother, that is one of the locations where the shooting broke out. the other was a bar & grille, a ten-minute drive, three of them in critical condition, john. yeah, this is huge manhunt under way in the surrounding area here. hundreds of officers state and federal on the hunt for this alleged mass murderer. 40-year-old robert card. his family has urged card to surrender. that is according to his brother. but that man is now been on the run for some 18 hours now which is really shut down much of the area. schools, stores, banks, the department of motor vehicles. l.l. bean which is about 15 miles away which many ....
in syria, in lebanon, and a rare strike in the west bank destroying a mosque. an israeli soldier killed today during a raid inside gaza. more than 300,000 more israeli troops now waiting for the order to attack gaza on the ground. from the air, a relentless israeli barrage. palestinians digging with hands as they search for victims. innocent lives at risk with just a trickle of food and water making it into gaza. in the north, more israelis evacuated from the border with lebanon, and the hostages, two americans are free but more than 200 israelis are still believed to be held by hamas. matt gutman reporting from tel aviv. britt clennett on the border with lebanon. the u.s. military repositioning a carrier strike group to the middle east and new missile batteries also on the way. president biden speaking once again with prime minister netanyahu, and tonight, an official telling abc news the u.s. is urging caution on a ground invasion, concerned about americans still in ....
scouring the mountains of north west iran all night. thick fog and heavy rain have hampered efforts, but in the early hours of this morning, this, a drone sent by turkey identified a source of heat. footage shows an aerial view of a landscape at night and a dark blotch on what appears to be a hillside. when rescuers eventually reach the wreckage on foot, they found the helicopter which had been carrying iran s president and the foreign minister was completely burned with no signs of life. and soon after, confirmation that both iran s president ebrahim raisi and the foreign minister have been killed in the crash. the servant of the iranian people, president raisi, the president of the republic of iran was serving the people of the public of iran. president raisi, seen here on the left, had been visiting a dam project. this is footage of him earlier in the day travelling in a convoy of three helicopters. he became the president in 2021 and was responsible for tightening m ....
chef. we are on main avenue where a lot of the show gardens are. we will be showing you some of them through the morning. the focus is low cloud, mist and fog turning back towards the north east coastline then sunny spells feeling warm with isolated showers. come on, kes! and how this classic 70s film is being enjoyed at the cinema once again, after the original reel was found in someone s loft. it s monday 20th may. the final report of a public inquiry into the infected blood scandal will be published today. it is already widely recognised as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the nhs. more than 30,000 people were infected with hepatitis c and hiv after being given contaminated blood products and transfusions between the early 19705 and early 1990s. about 3,000 have died. here s our health reporterjim reed. eileen is back in her childhood home now owned by her brother. this here was where all the chaos happened. she grew up here with her siblings and her dad, a s ....