Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. And im victor blackwell. We continue our coverage of the war in israel. Thousands of israeli troops and hundreds of Armored Vehicles are at the gaza border ready to strike hamas. On saturday, the Israeli Military said its air strikes on hamas targets in gaza will become more relentless as they prepare for the Ground Incursion. Today the Palestinian Ministry of health in gaza said the number killed there is up to 4651. 266 died in the last 24 hours. A hospital in gaza Central District said its overwhelmed with bodies following overnight air strikes. Some of the images youre about to see are disturbing. These are videos obtained by cnn. They show dozens the dozens of bodies wrapped in shrouds on the ground surrounding the hospital because of the hospitals morgue, it is already at capacity. Families could be seen grieving, true iing to identify the bodies. As fighting increasing at Israelez Northern Border with lebanon, the u. S. Military is t
there is not a whole lot left of this town of 4,900 people in eastern alabama. kasie? tammy, thank you very muchl for that report. we ll be staying in touch with you throughout the hour. our hearts and prayers, of course, are with the people there that you are talking to. joining us now over the phone is the coroner for lee county, alabama, bill harris. bill, thank you for taking some time out of your night to talk with us. i realize you are probably in the process of finding the families of the vikctims. what can you tell us about the devastation in the home county? i have not been able to see any of the damage yet. but i have set up my command center in the school parking lot down here to receive the descendants. we have 14 confirmed dead that the time. i expect that number to go higher. probably be here through the night. they re just having trouble getting into these roads and
i did and it was a great release. you guys are so great. while the save program has helped eliminate the nightmares, it can t reverse the past for the vikctims, nor the future fo these convicted killers. in iowa, first degree murder means life without parole. on our last day at animosa, we ran into t-bone taylor as he was moving to a new cell. as he unpacked he talked about his own mortality and the place where somebody his sentence will end. ain t nobody going to take my body, right? when i do die. so my plans is i ll let the institution bury me up on the hill. i didn t even have a staff say that they will come and tend to my grave site for me. so you ll stay in anamosa forever?
terrible situation. it is hard. and tom, you were one of those investigators. how much did you i mean the job was to find out what happened and the search and the rescue, and so forth, but how much dealing with the families and communicating with the families and consoling the families as part of the job? well, fortunately the fbi runs a victim assistance program which includes anything any situation where an american is a victim of a crime or the terrorist act anywhere in the world whether it is in the u.s. or out, and in the case of the twa overseas was believed to be a terrorist act because of the way it went down and took years to determine that it was a mechanical failure and at the time the vikctims were arranged transportation for family members to be right there at los angeles where the plane debris was brought in, and the victims were brought there from recovered from the sea. i remember that. it was horrible.
because of the magnitude that you can see yourself is exceptional because of the extraordinary fodder it has been creating and exceptional in this very time at the very time when we are meeting together. it is a duty of memory for all the vikctims, whether military or civilian whether allied and even here the german victims of nazism. we also wish to convey the message through this ceremony