thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts live from israel right now. outfront next live from israel. breaking news. the us navy intercepting drones. the pentagon officials say they re potentially targeting israel. it comes as officials say the army has been given a green light to wipe out hamas. plus, a new dispatch from inside gaza. you re going to hear tonight from the brave cnn journalists who have been documenting what it s like inside gaza. he says air strikes are intensifying where he is in southern gaza. and the incredible story of how a group of volunteer israeli guards took on hamas and protecting an entire community from a massacre and what they found in the bodies of dead hamas gunmen more chilling. you ll see their story. let s go outfront. and good evening. welcome to a special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett from tel aviv. we begin with breaking news. shot down. cnn is learning that a
biden s massive 1.9 trillion dollar covid relief bill. all of this is happening as we approach the official one year anniversary of essentially lockdown america. right now they are still debating the measure, the vote on final passage will follow. we know what will happen there. joining me is kristen welker outside the white house. i will say this. this biden white house, it does seem to want to not avoid what s happening at the border. they want to take it, at least, give the appearance they are willing to take it head on. that s right, chuck. we re going to hear from ambassador roberta jacobson. shooe there to try to send a message. we understand this is a serious situation. we re dealing with saurj in those unaccompanied migrants at the border. we know the administration has been looking into building more facilities and opening more facilities to house these children but, of course, the challenge becomes the fact you do have unaccompanied minor who is are being held for
Was asking is this the moment that she will overtake joe biden. i think one of the stories is she had the opportunity and shooe did not live up to it and that is what you saw in the last few months. let s bring in mark murray. it was a tale of two debates. after that very first debate and despite the blow back she later got, her poll numbers shot up to double digits. and our nbc wall street journal poll. in the second debate after she modified her health care stance and position, and she was on the defensive, her numbers went down to the single digits, and she never really recovered, and as vaughn was just arguing, that
Like to see the same person or crystallize around the same person and the real issue here is that the members of the party and the members of the part a einside the house don t necessarily have an obvious leader here. we did see boris johnson emerge as a potential leader. he s been conspicuously absent. a big social media blitz campaign to try and get the people on her side because she can t get her own mps on her side. might be an even tougher battle for her if shooe s still in position. and we ve seen her make the media rounds trying to gain support here. we ll keep in touch with you. let s put all this into context with matthew doyle. he was a prime minister for tony blair.
John. reporter: yeah, you re right, dee land in terms of those reinforcements, once they arrive they will basically start gearing up for street to street combat. at this point iraqi forces and those shooe a fighters have essentially surrounded tikrit s city center. iraqi commanders say that at this point they re preparing the next plan of attack to head in to the city center. as mentioned, those kraek forces are getting help from iranian backed shia fighters. okay. though, iran has been involved in the assisting the training and also the arming of those shia fighters and there is also reports that one of iran s top commanders, has been involved with the operational planning. there are some reports that he is actually been leading the overall operation. now, we haven t been able to actually confirm that.