First tonight, the graphic images coming in. For the second day in a row, hundreds of wireless devices simultaneously exploding across lebanon. Our team in bay route, about 20 feet from one of the blasts. At least 20 people killed today, more than 30 dead now. Thousands more wounded. 24 hours ago, pagers exploding with deadly force. Today, walkietalkies exploding, too. Devices that had been given to members of hezbollah. Tonight what weve learned about the remote driger. Marcus moore witnessing the blasts in beirut firsthand. And Martha Raddatz in the Region Tonight. Also tonight, the major news back here at home. A major turn for the u. S. Economy. The federal Reserve Today cutting a key Interest Rate by half a percent. The largest cut in 16 years. Signaling the fed believes the u. S. Has turned the corner now on inflation. What this now means for mortgages, credit cards, car loans. And it comes with Gas Prices coming down, too, 48 days before the election. Breaking news in new York C
Anna foster reports from jerusalem. At gazas southern tip, the aftermath of another israeli air strike. 1. 4 million displaced people are now sheltering in rafah and israel has made it clear it wants to go further. A ground offensive, it ,says would remove hamas from gaza entirely. But theres International Pressure to avoid even more deaths. The message from israels allies to its leaders is getting stronger. Our position is that hamas should not be allowed a Safe Haven In Rafah or anywhere else, but a major Ground Operation there would be a mistake. As rafah s displaced fear what might come next, their presence is just as hard. Medical supplies, water and food are scarce. My daughter said that she wants to eat boiled eggs and i say, how can i bring you boiled eggs . The situation does not allow us to. 0ur situation was below zero before the war. so what do you expect after the war . worse and worse. . In the north of gaza, famine is nowjust weeks away. Few aid convoys are reaching
From the old bailey, heres daniel sandford. The subject of a nationwide manhunt, this was Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Injanuary last this was Constance Marten and mark gordon in january last year, this was Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Injanuary last year, as they tried to evade the authorities following the birth of their newborn baby, victoria, who they were worried would be taken into care like their previous four children. On the 1st of march last year, police found victorias body in a shopping bag in a shed on a brighton allotment. Today, Constance Marten gave evidence in the witness box at the old bailey, are weeping as she said she and mark gordon love their children more than anything in the world. Asked if she had been crawl to baby victoria, Constance Marten said. Talking quietly and with a very well spoken accent, she described how she became estranged from her wealthy family because of a traumatic event in her childhood, arguments over her grandmothers will and beca
Biggests mysteries. Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out with the un warning that gaza faces famine and that children are dying from hunger, efforts are ramping up to get more aid into the besieged strip, but alongside that, tragic reports coming in that five people have been killed by an air drop of aid after the parachute failed to open. And in the past few hours, a potential breakthrough, the uk says it will join potential breakthrough, the uk says it willjoin the us and other allies to create a maritime corridor to deliver essential its a gaza. A joint statement from the uk and the us and the eu and cyprus and the uae said this it went on to say. The plan as we know it is to establish a Shipping Route which would get aid from cyprus to gaza by c, working with the un to facilitate and co ordinate and monitor and verify the flow of aid. Initial shipments would arrive via cyprus, where is really Securities Inspectio
Tonight in his state of the Union Tonight in his state of the Union Address. I think it was a case and my sense speaking to officials in the administration that for many days now, there has been the growing sense of frustration with the israelis, that had been this played publicly, and it is Thatjoe Biden wanted to announce something on the humanitarian front in the state of the Union Address for happen today. As for the plans, its a massive logistical operation. Its been talked about for months. In fact, the uk had been involved in some discussions around it and the problems in gaza is there is no deep water port, a small efficient harbour but nothing bigger. Theres never been the ability to get big ships to gaza to deliver anything. With the increasingly desperate situation and the un no warning that more than a quarter of the publishing in gaza is on the brink of finding, the incident last week was a Tipping Point for the us administration, where we sought more than 100 desperate an