in the united states and around the world. clashes continuing tonight between palestinian and israeli forces. the deadliest confrontation seen in years. earlier today, an israeli air strike on a building that housed offices for the associated press and al jazeera. journalists got an evacuation warning an hour before the building was reduced to rubble. and tonight, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying his country s actions are a necessary response. israel has responded forcefully to these attacks and we will continue to respond forcefully until the security of our people is reinstated and restored. cnn s internastional diplomatic editor nic robertson joins me with the latest. nic, we are hearing about a new round of rocket attacks on tel aviv tonight. what can you tell us about that? tel aviv and north of gaza. hamas said it would respond for that strike on the building where the associated press and al jazeera were working in gaza. they said they would targe
since the latest conflict broke out. israeli military operations ramping up for thousands of rockets being launched into civilian areas of israel. over night war planes attacked a tunnel belonging to hamas in the southern gaza strip. cnn is live in israel with more. about 3100 rockets fired from gaza and israeli territory since last monday. any hope it could slow down any time soon and slow the pace of civilian death and destruction here? reporter: well this is about 15 and a half miles north of the gaza strip. the city, according to the military, received the number of sirens. in the last few minutes, we ve been hearing explosions south of us. the city has been receiving sirens. we may get a siren here at any minute. possibly indicating incoming rocket attack. but what we ve been hearing earlier this morning is lots of jets overhead. we ve been hearing explosions and booms in the south. at one point, we saw a plume of black smoke behind us. it gives you the indication the
u.s. officials near the white house including one victim on the president s national security team. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we started today with our health lead and president joe biden this afternoon announcing the united states will share hat least 20 million additional doses of coronavirus vaccines with other countries. that s in addition to the 60 million doses of the astrazeneca vaccines that the white house has already pledged to send. also good news in the fight against covid here in the u.s. this nation recorded only 16,864 new cases of coronavirus yesterday. that s the lowest level since march 2020. for comparison there were periods during this pandemic when the infection rail was more than 300,000 new cases every day, but there does remain much confusion about the cdc s abrupt reversal on mask guidance announcing thursday fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks. the cdc director now admitting this is fully dependant upon the honor syst
welcome to the lead, everyone, i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead and foreign policy front and center at the white house this afternoon after praising his own administration s role in brokering a cease-fire barone israel and hamas. president biden today tries to shift his focus to east asia. right now hosting his south korean counterpart at the white house. about president biden has long said competition with china is one of the biggest challenges facing the u.s. stayed and next hour we ll bring you remarks from both of the leaders that are speaking live, but the obstacles in the middle east are far from over. that cease-fire touted by the president which ended 11 bloody and deadly days of fight appears to be fragile with new frustrations in jeersium and president biden saying relentless diplomacy got them to the edge of a cease-fire but can biden succeed where other presidents have failed in helping to achieve a long-lasting and just peace in the region, or is b
let me bring in phil mattingly since we are just getting those first words out of the meeting. what is your reaction? we just heard from the republicans and we have not heard from the two democratic leaders in the meeting or the president himself and we expect to get readouts from all of them at some.the point in the futur. the bulk of the meeting, more than 90 minutes long, was about infrastructure. there s some expectation that would be the case. president biden made it clear his first in-person meeting with republican issues is there could be a bipartisan pathway to move on, and as it pertains to those goals, obviously the president has put a $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal, and the takeaway particularly from senator mcconnell is they believed it was a good conversation and a conversation focused on the elements of infrastructure they thought might be able to get done, something the administration knows is the key to any type of agreement with republicans, and the