and dangerous, at large. the grief and mourning engulf a tight knit town of lewiston, maine. i m bill hemmer. dana has the day off. aishah, nice to see you. aishah: we ll take you live tatty press conference. facing a lot of challenges out there in the maine wilderness looking for this guy. it s a region surrounded by miles of forests, mountains, lakes, ponds, streams, everything. they are trying to identify all of these 18 victims. one heartbroken father now struggling to come to terms with losing his son while knowing that he died a hero. listen to this. people loved my son. my son was in sports all his life. people got to know him that way. they got to know the kind of heart he really had. i had the greatest son in the world and it s a tough one. it s a tough one to lose. your son died a hero. he did. i m proud of him, yeah. i love him with all my heart. aishah: hard to hear. the latest with nate foye. 38 hours in the manhunt the community waiting for answers t
today. secretary of state antony blinken meeting with the chinese counterpart and then china s foreign minister has a sit-down with president biden. we re monitoring that today. first, however, want to get to this now. the center of israel and its commercial capital under attack again. a rocket fired out of gaza slamming into an apartment building in tel aviv. that s where we start. good morning, everybody. it s friday. you ve almost made it, america. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, aishah in washington. aishah: i m in for dana perino and this is america s newsroom. let s get right to it. the u.s. retaliating carrying out air strikes against iranian-linked sites in syria after drone and rocket attacks against america forces there and iraq. israeli tanks and troops briefly enter gaza in a second raid ahead of a larger ground invasion. now time could be of the essence. i think it needs to be immediate. they need to understand what is going on in israel is going on in israe