we re on the california coast and this is cnn happening now new developments in israel s war with hamas. he is really prime minister benjamin ateneo disbands his war cabinet the ivf is not clarifying what it s calling a quote, tactical pause plus, the house speaker mike johnson, heads tamara logo in florida to meet with former president donald trump what s on the agenda as they look ahead to the november elections? and evacuations are underway near los angeles right now, as firefighters work to contain a very fast moving wildfire. hello, i m waffling sir, in washington and urine, the cnn newsroom we begin this hour with the israel hello, hamas award knew this morning, there s really prime minister benjamin ateneo is dissolved. his war cabinet, the move comes just days after a senior member of the work cabinet resigned in a show of very dramatic vote of no confidence in the ten you and a strategy for the war in gaza. meanwhile, israel has begun what it s calling a tactical p
almost all the passengers that were on board were indonesians, and there was one british national and he has been identified as an energy company executive. he was traveling with his 2-year-old daughter, who is a singaporean citizen. it was less than 11 months ago when a flight went missing en route to beijing. there s still no trace of that aircraft or the 239 people on board. let s get to paula hand cox. she s on the phone. she s in jakarta, indonesia. what more are we hearing regarding any investigation or search effort? well at this point, as you mentioned, the search and rescue operation is on hold.
Inevitably it s going to draw comparisons, but it is different in the fact that this is not an isolated area. this is a very busy shipping route. it s a busy route for airplanes. it is not a route that s unusual in any way. it s a common route. for the search and rescue operations, will work in their favor, but inevitably you are going to have comparisons drawn. it s worth noting though air asia itself has a good reputation. a very good safety reputation. this is the indonesian afl wrat that we re talking about here. they will make that comparison. we hope the outcome is very different. paula hand cox, thank you for that update. cnn meteorologist tom satre joins us now from the weather
Any updates on casualties or injuries to report? reporter: no updates at this point. but unfortunately, don, nobody thinks that that s going to be the last update we have. everybody assumes that the death toll is going to rise. it autos just a hope that it s not going to rise too much. paula is in manila. chad myers is at the cnn severe weather center. paula, make sure you stay save. if you want to help, go to web/impact. year not going far away from this. we re keeping an eye on that. and this as well. just when you think you ve seen enough of toronto mayor rob ford, another video surfaces. and this time he s talking about getting in the ring with mike tyson. we re going to tell you the story next. [ nurse ] i m a hospice nurse. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate,
Matter where you live in the world, you re going to say, how can this happen? how can there be something so strong on planet earth that can could knock down everything. it will strip the bark off the trees. we showed you this picture an awful lot. i m going to show you a different picture of the storm. this is the too much the philippines. this is where most of the people live, to be honest. the storm was about 150 miles south of the big population center. but now let s move this storm over the u.s., just to give you an idea of what this storm would look like from florida all the way north into canada. that s the size of the storm. that s the same picture here superimposed over the u.s. just to give you the scope as to how large from north to south this storm truly is. and as i said, imagine if this was happening in the united states. paula hand cox, i want to have one more question for you. we have been reporting that there are three confirmed dead.