there other top russians who may have helped yevgeny prigozhin? plus, live in moscow where russians are speaking out to cnn. and a u.s. marine vet here tells me why he s risking everything to fight for ukraine, and then preparing for battle. i m going to take you to a ukrainian training ground where troops are about to return to the fight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. we are live tonight in eastern ukraine in the city of dnipro. we are just west of the front lines deep in the country where the brutal war is being raged. now, this is a city of nearly a million people, and, as you can see in the darkness and rain right now, all city lights at night are turned off because of security concerns. and, again, tonight, we heard the sound of air raid sirens. and, with that came this warning from the air force, quote, threat of using ballistic missiles, weapons, do not ignore the alarm signals, go to shelter.
Terrorist attacks. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. Hello, everyone. Were glad youre with us. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett joins us live in israel. Its 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. 1 00 p. M. In tel vooe, where Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is on the ground now as the war between israel and hamas intensifies. Were expecting to hear from him shortly. Hes meeting oneonone with the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as airstrikes continue to gaza. Hostages are still being held captive this morning. This is what it looks like in gaza city right now. Israel is now vowing to keep power, water and fuel cut off to the gaza strip until hamas releases hostages. The International Committee of the red cross is sounding the alarm saying hospitals will turn into morgues with cancer patients, babies in incubators and elderly at serious risk. There are hundreds of thousands of troops massing near the border with tanks and artillery as th
Hamas Firing A Barrage of rockets. This is video of people scrambling in the wreckage as sirens blared in the israeli city of ash ka lon. Come to us. Come to us. Tell me where i go. You can see streaks in the sky. We have seen the iron dome here three miles from the gaza border. A lot of there is one over there coming in. You are going to hear it right up there. Got it. See if we can watch that one. And you can see those Iron Dome Interceptions right above us. This is video of the destruction in gaza this morning. The government warning that all electricity will completely stop and fuel runs out for Hospital Generators today. Right now we dont know the fate of all the hostages who are kidnapped from israel taken to gaza. President biden confirmed americans are among the captives and at least 20 u. S. Citizens are currently unaccounted for. The death toll in israel from hamas assault continues to rise. 1,200 people now confirmed dead as the scale and savagery of hamas massacre of civili
This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The dysfunction among republicans in the u. S. House of representatives has now taken on global significance because of the crisis in the middle east. So we are in this hour going to focus a bit on House Republicans meeting a tt this hour. They are hoping to get one step closer to decide who will become their next speaker. No legislation can be passed including any legislation that might address the growing crisis on the ground in israel. So we are following that story, but we are going to begin today in the middle east, where at least a thousand people have been killed in the hamas attacks on israel, most of them civilians. President biden confirming today that 14 of them were americans. The white house says 20 additional americans are still missing, and that number might not necessarily reflect the number of american hostages. Its just 20 americans who are not accounted for right now. Today israel is carrying out air str
collapse of the troops. plus, talks of a dead end, no negotiations between israel and hamas this morning with each blaming the other for the breakdown. and the dire warning from former republican congresswoman liz cheney, why she says america is sleep walking into a dictatorship. good morning, to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m kasie hunt. it s monday, december 4th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in washington and it s noon in gaza where the israeli military says they have expanded combat ground operations to the entire territory north and south, following the collapse last week of the truce between israel and hamas. the idf saying this morning it s now hit about 200 hamas targets in gaza from the air. israel now warning civilians to leave large parts of gaza, including neighborhoods in the south. we ve warned two weeks ahead of time that people in northern gaza need to evacuate towards the south because we re going to operate. you know what unicef s