Numbers though that do not distinguish between fighters and civilians. These latest numbers coming as the Israeli Military launches new attacks ahead of a major Ground Offensive. In the city of rafah. Israeli troops are moving in on the eastern part of that city, as well as central and northern gaza, where the Idf Claims Hamas is trying to rebuild more than 300,000 civilians have fled rafah since monday. Thats according to the uat un calling it a quote force and inhumane displacement of palate justinians back here in the Top White House officials continue to send israel stark warnings against the launch of a widescale invasion we believe two things. One, you have to have a clear, credible plan to protect civilians, which we havent seen second, we also need to see a plan for what happens after this conflict in gaza open is over and we still havent seen that we are tracking all the latest developments here at home and overseas. We start with cnns Paula Hancocks and abu dhabi and paul, a
capture the first nhl championship in franchise history congrats to them. and thank you so much for joining me today and fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom continues with alisyn camerota, right? now hello, everyone. juan, you re in the cnn newsroom. i m alice and camerota and new york tonight, president biden is meeting with his family at camp david. multiple sources tell cnn the meeting was planned i had a long time ago for a photo shoot and it is not some kind of emergency gathering to discuss the future of his campaign. but it has new significant in light of growing calls for the president to exit the race after thursday s alarming debate performance. and now there s new polling that suggests voters concerns are growing about the president s fitness for office. one of the burning questions since the debate is how much did president biden s inner circle? no about his apparent frailty before thursday night axios has new reporting that president biden s closest aides hav
advanced cyber security, it s ultimate speed for ultimate business. and it s all from comcast business. and this is cnn welcome everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we re going to start this our breaking news out of southern california. the post fire has already burned over 12,000 acres in los angeles county, and it only started yesterday. hundreds of firefighters are battling to keep the blaze and check, but officials say the fire for is just 2% contained at this point with powerful wind gusts in the forecast camila bernal is on the scene and gorman, california. camille, i know you ve been out and about over the course of the day. what are you seeing there right now hey omar. so right now what we re seeing is crews trying to prevent those blames from getting closer into the areas where we are now. so what you re seeing here behind me is actually a back burn. and so we ve been with this crew for awhile now, what they re telling us is that th
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