will: good morning and welcome to fox & friends and we just returned from the patriot awards in the grand ole opry. i said i m concerned. i love nashville. i got a little sense headed towards it is future looking like austin. social media people saying i m on the right track. i was in the golden era and lived in austin during the era and everyone living in austin thought they were there during the golden era and during the 90s when it was, yeah, cut ratey and fun liberal and in this house we believe in masks, love is love. know what i m talking about. the stereotypical liberal household and indistinguishable from any other city in america. i m worried nashville is at the beginning or golden era of the existence of the run of the mill and i should ask clay travis about this and the ccp and there s an aura about it and it s wonderful and they elect liberals and a new liberal mayor just got elected. he was the most liberal of the crop. he s pushing all these new forms of pub
you don t i m saying all right. i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for being with me today. cnn newsroom continues with omar jimenez, right now. welcome everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we begin tonight with breaking news. the israeli military says they are investigating what they re calling an incident in southern gaza that killed eight idf soldiers, making it one of the single deadliest incident involving israeli troops since the october 7 attacks. now, earlier, the militant wing of hamas says, it, quote, carried out a complex ambush against enemy vehicles meanwhile, rafah s civil defense says there has been new airstrikes and artillery shelling by israeli forces in the areas it s done. cnn s oren liebermann is in haifa for us now, or in the idf just released some preliminary findings from their investigation. what are they saying happened here? so this again is preliminary as you point at the investigation itself is ongoing