Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Fox News Alert as we top of about the new hour here. A suspect is in custody as we now know and word of casualties is still coming in after reports of gunfire at a High School there in georgia. Hello and welcome everyone. Im Sandra Smith in New York. John, good to be with you. A horrific news to top the hour. John welcome back sandra but Bad News to go back to. Im John Roberts in Washington And Mrs. B5. The incident happening at apalachee High School in Winder Georgia. Emergency responders treating people. One victim was airlifted to treat a gunshot wound. Sandra Live In Atlanta we have the very latest of what we know right now. Jonathan. Sandor and john, at this time all schools in the district are on lockdown however this particular school building, the buildings associated with apalachee high School And Barrow High School a suspect is in custody so students are being ro their parents and for those students who need a ride home, Bus Service will be provided this afternoon. Gunfire wa
On the air were following that developing story out of georgia. A deadly shooting that sent a High School in winder, georgia into lockdown. Heres what we know at this hour. At least four people have been killed. At least nine have been injured and at least one suspect is in custody. President Joe Biden has been briefed on the situation as has Vice President Kamala Harris. Winder is a tightknit community about one Hour East of atlanta, georgia and these kids back at school about one month. Expecting a briefing from Law Enforcement in georgia shortly. When it starts well bring tu to live. This hour were following Vice President Kamala Harris on the ground in New Hampshire there to address independent voters and roll out her plan to help Small Business Owners in america. As has happened so many times before, what should have been a normal, peaceful day in this country, which should have been an otherwise unremarkable day at an american school, it was changed in an instant and forever by t
the gunmen took off. jonathan siri is alive in the lancet with the very latest. hi arthel hampton is in henry county a spokesperson for the county confirmed to associated press that four people have died in what authorities are describing as an active shooter incident. authorities say the shooting began around 10:45 a.m. this morning and dogwood lakes which is a subdivision in hampton again hampton a small city of about 8000 people located about 30 miles to the south of atlanta. as late as mid afternoon police were saying the suspect was still at large were urging the general public to avoid the area. we do expect police to release more details once the news conference gets underway. originally scheduled for 3:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon parade then pushed back to 4:00 p.m. and as you can see we are still awaiting authorities to arrive at the podium. but we expected to begin at any moment spirit in the meantime please have yet to say what led up to the shooting. however