With the most intense night of israeli airstrikes to date. We have reports unconfirmed by nbc news at this time of israeli troops crossing into gaza from the north and clashing with hamas fighters. Information is scarce. Right now, gaza is in a near total communications blackout. Gaza is the largest internet provider, as well as multiple gaza Cell Phone Service providers, they are all off line. That is due to both lack of fuel, and infrastructure that has been destroyed. The humanitarian aid group, red crescent, reports that without Cell Phone Service, they are now unable to dispatch their ambulances. The World Health Organization says it has lost contact with its staff, and its Health Facilities in gaza. Just hours ago, nbc news managed to make contact with a member of the nbc crew in gaza, he told nbc, ive managed to get connectivity for a minute with a lot of difficulty and i wanted to let you know that all internet, electricity, and everything has been cut off. The situation we are
Tonight, knowing that robert card its no longer a threat to anyone. I know there are some people many people who share that sentiment, but i also know that his death may not bring solace to many. But now is a time to heal. And with this search concluded, i know that Law Enforcement continues to fully investigate all the facts, so we can bring what closure we can to the victims and their families. All 18 victims in wednesdays attack have now been identified. I want to begin with nbcs kathy park, who is at the Press Conference in lewiston tonight. Kathy, thank you for being there. When else you hear from officials . And how are you . This had to be an extraordinary few days. Yeah, and an extraordinary 12 hours, to be quite frank with you, stephanie. So, at 10 00 this morning we got an update as to how Law Enforcement was going to move forward with their investigation. They talked about the law Police Presence in the lisbon area, the boat launch in that area, that is where the suspect aba
An escalation in gaza in the wake of that Terror Attack that left 1,400 israelis dead. Youre looking at live pictures. Widespread reports of sirens and exploegs. The Israeli Defense forces saying today they are stepping up their Ground Operations. Take a listen. Their Ground Forces are expanding their ground up aerations. Idf is operating at all dimensions in order to achieve the goals of the war. We will continue to attack in gaza and its surrounding, and we keep calling upon the People Living in gaza and iran that south from there the idf did not say troops have entered gaza though its worth noting israeli tanks have temporarily entered gaza over the last two days. All of this while the fate of the 200 hostages held by gaza is unknown. Back channel negotiations are ongoing in the midst of the conflict. Just a few hours ago repeated explosions were seen in the israelgaza border. A few miles away on the ground in gaza near total darkness that was interrupted only by flashes from the ai
I cant stress this enough, this is an Ongoing Investigation in the early stages. More information will come out, in conjunction with the Attorney Generals Office as the lead prosecutor. We cant share all of our information right now and im sure you understand that. Im going to give out two numbers that go to a tip line. 911 is also appropriate for this, but if anyone can call these two numbers, this would go to the state police tip line. Area code 2072139526. 2075099002. And well be sending something out later that has that information in it, if you werent able to grab that now. Again this is a very fluid situation, we have a lot of resources as chief st. Pierre had mentioned earlier that are on the ground, in a coordinated effort to apprehend this individual. We have notified the department of education, and they have determined what theyre going to do with the schools. A lot of schools, area schools were shut down today based on our conversation with them. Again, as more information
center. but again we can report tonight that robert card has been found dead, which means the 48-hour man hunt that is terrorize the state of maine is now over, and we are just moments away from a press conference at lewiston city hall. special coverage of this breaking news out of maine continues in the next hour on the last word, with my colleague, jonathan capehart, who is in for lawrence. good evening john. good evening alice. list just jump right into this, because the breaking news tonight, as alex and explain to you, on forsman officials tell nbc news that robert card, the suspected mass shooter in maine, who killed 18 people and injured more than a dozen others at a bowling alley and bar and grill has been found dead. any minute now officials in maine will be holding a press conference to give us the latest. jonathan detest is with us, but let s go to corresponded where she is in the room where we expect the press conference to begin. kathy? we had problems with