atlanta alongside sara sidner in tel aviv. as we start a new hour, we re following breaking news, israel s defense minister announcing a short time ago that the idf has moved to a new phase of war against hamas. israeli soldiers are now operating inside the gaza strip. armored vehicles and tanks were on the move overnight, but it remains unclear if this is actually the beginning of israel s anticipated major ground assault in gaza. ahead of troops entering the enclave, overnight israel unleashed an onslaught of aerial bombardments that rocked gaza. the idf renewed its warnings for civilians in northern gaza to evacuate. doctors say they treated hundreds of wounded overnight, but also there were many killed in the air strikes. the idf says the air strikes targeted 150 underground spaces and terror tunnels. they claim they killed one key hamas operative who, it says, carried out the deadly attacks on october 7th in israel. we re also watching israel s border with lebanon. the i
you have to also understand, everything we do is a methodical approach and be safe and make sure our officers are safe, and we were fielding hundreds of calls in our call center and there was also the tip line that i heard today, how many calls came in, there as you can imagine, it was an astronomical amount of resources being used across our community, and not everybody is in marked police cars, and not everybody is in full uniform, but there was a lot of resources from across new england that was here, including helicopters, moments after i arrived on the scene, we used every resource that was available, and we, you know, i think it was this gentleman down here, asked me, you know how long you searched for, and you expect to find him, and every officer there wasn t going home until we found the individual. . [ inaudible question ] so maine recycle was cleared thursday, it was cleared on thursday, and then we, my officers, trying to think, it three hours sleep over the co