Sandra and thanks to your team and crew. John im john roberts. Thank you. Im Trace Gallagher in for martha maccallum. John roberts will stay with us live from jerusalem. We await the state Department Briefing after hamas releases two american hostages for humanitarian reasons. We have greg palkot live on the Israel Lebanon Border where the israelis are evacuating a town. First we have breaking news coming. Lets go to mike tobin. We have mortar or rockets coming in. Mike . We have a flurry of rocket fire. Weve seen that really since just about every night fall we see them. Tonight it was more intense. If were in cover right now. I see more launches from the gaza area. Big flurry of activity. That looks like its coming down. I dont think its going to intercept. Very well we could get some strikes here. Theres quite a few theres one going across the screen there. So quite a few rockets, quite a few intercepters making the doing their job. Were hearing a great deal of impact. If i shut up,
Coverage. America reports thank you for joining us. Im sandra smith in new york. John im john roberts. The story starts right now with martha picking up the coverage. Martha . Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. Were going to go live to tel aviv in just a moment with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu to get new information on this developing scene. You can see the pictures that have just come in from gaza city and the city where they believe an israeli air strike struck a hospital. Theres a lot of questions about how all of this happened. The Israeli Military says hospitals are highly sensitive buildings and are not idf targets. General petraeus who commanded our troops in iraq and afghanistan will be with us in moments. First, we go to Senior Correspondent mike tobin live in israel with the very latest. Hi, mike. Martha, this development at the hospital in gaza city is taking all the attention right now. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says the civilian casual
Districts and dont want to be seen as being overly supportive of jim jordan. That said, they might vote differently on the second or third ballot. I think the first ballot is kind of posturing. A sense of where everyone is. And now as you have reported, jim jordan knows who is left out there, who opposes him. And well see if hes there to pull them over. I dont think the party wants a repeat of either what happened two weeks ago or what happened, you know, when mccarthy was first elected. All those ballots. Right now i think there is a sense, its more important to have a speaker at this time than maybe your first choice as speaker. John well, better some speaker than the one you want, interesting way to put it. Right. John if i was curious to note that the number of people who voted no for jim jordan was about the same as voted no for mccarthy back in january. He eventually won them over after extraordinary amount of Horse Trading, including a measure that ended up being his demise. Kin