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good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. et i m victor blackwell. and i m amara walker. we re in the final window of the safe passage window for people to evacuate to the south. gaza s health care facilities in the north say they will not be evacuating, saying this warning is a death sentence for patients. the israel defense forces is accusing hamas of actively trying to stop people from leaving so that they can use them as, quote, human shields, but hamas says that israel is still carrying out air strikes. now, cnn has verified videos from the scene of a large explosion along an evacuation route south of gaza city. we want to warn you this video is disturbing. yeah. this was recorded friday before the safe passage window was set up. look closely here. you ll see the plumes of smoke, the cars burping. hamas says 70 people were killed in this strike, 200 others were wounded. cnn has reached out to the idf for comment on any air strikes in that area. now, the sudd ....
department against the barrage of gop attacks. also tonight, trump campaigns in iowa sharpening his focus on the first republican presidential contest. this as a brand new cnn poll now reveals who s on the ridse and who s sliding in another critical early battleground, talking about new hampshire. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy facing a new disappointment during his u.s. visit. sources now say the biden administration is not expected to grant his request for longer range missiles when he visits the white house tomorrow. zelenskyy telling me that s an area that would be a quote, loss for his country during our one-on-one interview. welcome to our viewers around the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . let s get right to our top story tonight. a verbal assault on the u.s. attorney general by some of the most hard line republican critics of the u.s. justice department. let s go straight to cnn s sara murray. s ....
as the houston community prepares to say good-bye to 12-year-old jocelyn nungaray we are learning brand-new details about her brutal murder, allegedly at the hands of two illegal migrants. authorities are awaiting official confirmation she was sexually assaulted. if so, the death penalty could be on the table. welcome back. another tough story. i m sandra smith in new york. bret, great to be with you today. bret: i m bret baier in washington in for john roberts. this is america reports. prosecutors say jocelyn fought so intensely that scratch and by the marks were still visible on one of her alleged killers. both suspects now being held on $10 million bail, facing capital murder charges. speaking to sean hannity last night, jocelyn s family slammed the biden administration s immigration policies. it s just sad that i mean, it happens all over the country. we need a safer country. these men, illegal men, took that opportunity from my daughter, from our family ....
election interference. here at home today, new covid tremors, 770,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week, a week to week increase and it s more proof of the pandemic s continuing wrath. plus, the case count, and its trajectory is, again, causing alarm. 17 states on the u.s. map now trending in the wrong direction. air travel topping more than a million passengers for seven straight days. the president later today delivers remarks on the vaccine race. one in eight americans are fully vaccinated, 1 million shots is a goal the president wanted to meet, and perhaps today, 40 days ahead of his campaign promise. progress, yes, but some jitters too. this morning the biden health team warns variants, and vaccine hesitancy, could pull the country down into another covid spiral. and there was this. listen, the tense fight between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul over masks and if wearing one still matters once more americans are vaccinated. wh ....
the grenfell tower tragedy. it comes as theresa may says there must be a major national investigation into the use of cladding on high rise buildings. and 50 years on from the first cash machine, we take a look at the changing face of banking. good evening and welcome to bbc news. companies across the world are reporting they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber attack with british firms among those to confirm their it systems had been targeted. what do we know so far? the attack started in the ukraine, with the country s state power company and kiev‘s main airport among the first to report issues. the confectionary manufacturer mars said part of the company s pet food unit was targeted in the attack, but they had isolated the issue. and the british firms reckitt benckiser, who manufacture nurofen and dettol, and the ad agency wpp confirmed their it systems had also been affected and they were working to contain the virus. with me is ross brewer who s a cybe ....