Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We do want to begin tonight with the dueling visits at the Southern Border by the two frontrunners in this years election, showcasing the Record Number of migrant crossings that are overwhelming resources along the border and in major cities across the country. President biden was in brownsville, texas, where he issued a political dare to donald trump to join him in pressing House Republicans to help secure the border by passing the senates bipartisan security bill. Now, 325 miles away, trump was in eagle pass, where he took a much different approach, unleashing attacks on biden, democrats, and migrants, but not proposing a legislative solution. A record 2. 4 million migrants were apprehended at the u. S. Mexican border in 2023, and immigration has become the top issue for many voters heading into the 2024 election. Cbss ed okeefe is traveling with the president , and he will start us off tonight from texas. Reporter the
rogue, we ll explain how it may complicate things for the d.a. what a nightmare. come on. literally. wow. president joe biden is back at the white house this morning following his momentous, three-day trip to eastern europe. before he left, the president took time once again to reassure allies that america will not tolerate russian aggression into nato territory. we ll also play for you president biden s comments on vladimir putin s decision to pull out of a nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., and we ll show you how former president trump turned his trip to east palestine, ohio, into a branding operative. well he didn t throw paper towels, did he? not paper towels. he brought trump-branded water bottles. did he throw it? i don t know. pallets of trump-branded water. it s just tap water, guys. so fascinating week. i ve got to say, historic. people are going to remember, an american president going into a war zone, risking his life to show support for t
you are watching cnn s special live coverage of the israel/hamas war. we begin with a devastating and very deadly israeli air strike on the largest refugee camp in gaza. the israeli military says the strike on the refugee camp took out one of the leaders of the october 7th terror attack. eyewitnesses and medics said the strike caused a large number of casualties. a spokesman told wolf blitzer that the target was a very senior hamas commander. here s part of their conversation. we ll be coming out in the next, hopefully, hour with more data. but i can update you now, that there was a very senior hamas commander in that area. sadly, he was hiding, again, as they do, behind civilians. that s all i can see at this point. we ll be coming out with more data as we learned what happened there. can you confirm it was an israeli attack that destroyed bia big chunk of that refugee camp? yes, i can. and the fact that we were focused on the target. a senior commander, and we
media this morning, showing a nurse in one of the hospitas who just pronounced one of the elderly men dead, and then he realizes the body lying on the operating table in front of him is his own father. now, the biden administration is calling for calm. willie, when you speak to u.s. officials, there is no real plan here to fundamentally try to shift the status quo, to try to restart peace talks that have been going nowhere for years now. instead, there is a hope that things can just quiet down. but the major fear among the biden administration is, at this point, there really are no cooler heads who can prevail on either side. you are seeing the palestinian authority which has absolutely lost credibility with the palestinian people, now really losing security control in the northern west bank, in the cities like naplis. they re unable or unwilling to stop these palestinian militant
your thoughts on as well. 2014 congressional race, who would you vote for. it s a straight up republican/democrat question here. back in october 34% said they would voteรง you ve got the doctors and the hospitas and the back end that we haven t really dealt with yet because it hasn t been put into play. january 1st it will.