Bowl liv is officially on. Kansas city and San Francisco rolling into the big game in miami. Two weeks of hype. Those are some of our top stories on this monday january 20th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Lets begin in hawaii with the search for answers about a violent and deadly incident in honolulu. Yeah, it took the lives of two Police Officers and three other people who were involved remain unaccounted for. The fbi is part of the investigation now into the incident, which forced the lockdown of a neighborhood as home after home caught fire. Overnight new details about a shocking rampage near one of hawaiis most scenic locations. Police say a man killed two Police Officers and sparked an inferno in this honolulu neighborhood not far from the famed diamondhead state monument. It sounded like a shotguntype gunshot. Then we heard rapidfire gunshot after that. And then after that we started seeing the smoke. Witnesses
Im Boris Sanchez with Brianna Keilar live in washington, d. C. Anderson cooper is in tel aviv where sirens are going off. Anderson . Yeah. These Air Raid Sirens have started 30 seconds before we came on air. We saw one interceptor going up from iron dome. We have not seen heard any explosion and now it seems like sirens are down. It would seem whatever it was, was either intercepted at a greater distance or its done. Oh. That was an interception. Just took a while, perhaps, for the sound to reach us. Theres low cloud cover so its a little hard to see exactly all the rockets when they come, they come from that direction, obviously, the direction of the gaza strip. Today Secretary Of State Antony Blinken was back here in tel aviv meeting with israels Defense Minister and newly formed cabinet. Thats one of the big developments that occurred on the ground today in israel as the Military Gears up for the next phase of the war. Fighter jets struck hezbollah targets in lebanon as well. Cnns N
The reporting. Please keep us posted as well on the status of the little boys mother. And cnn this morning continues right now. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News its the top of the hour. Were glad youre with us. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett live for us in tel aviv, israel. Its 8 00 a. M. Here in new york city, 3 00 p. M. In israel. And right now Antony Blinken is meeting again with israeli leaders. As a dire humanitarian situation is escalating in gaza. Just a short time ago, blinken said that the u. S. Was actively working to make sure that humanitarian assistance like water, food, and medicine could get into gaza. Blinken also said yesterday that a Safe Passageway via the Rafa Crossing would be open. But overnight, those negotiations appear to have stalled. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office saying this morning, quote, at the moment, there is neither a ceasefire nor humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip In Return for the exit of foreigners. We a
Floor. That is simply what this rule vote was. And yet they still couldnt get it over the finish line right now. Now what we are hearing from the Speakers Office is that there is a hope that they might be able to go back to the House Rules Committee restructure this rule and create some kind of harmony among republicans to actually get this debate started on the floor. But again, they are up against a deadline as intelligence officials are making clear that they our very concerned about fisa not being reauthorized by the april 19 deadline, arguing that the impact on their ability to collect intelligence would be severe at a time when there are so many threats happening. Against the United States at the same time. Now, there is a big question right now about what johnsons future holds, what his speakership holds given that threat for Marjorie Taylor greene and republicans are just frustrated with the level of tumbled and chaos that they are experiencing day to day working in their jobs.
Reporter mr. Trump will spend his final night at the blair house, the president ial guesthouse directly across the street from the white house. Guys . In a moment were going to talk about the protests in the bay area tomorrow during the inauguration. Are they expecting protests in washington, dc as well . I know they are ready for them. Are they expecting them . Reporter yeah. They are expecting them and they are happening right now. I just was on twitter kind of monitoring that. A friend of mine is a reporter at one of the local stations here. Just posted a picture of remarkable protesters flooding 14th street around the northwest part of the city which is in the quadrant just behind me here. We can expect to see more of that tomorrow. About 28,000 Law Enforcement officials who are on hand to deal with this. And it is part of what they are expecting. A lot of mixed emotions with the inauguration tomorrow. Many people celebrating. Some people as frank mentioned protesting. Whats the vi