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invasion of the gaza strip. theyre moving in as the war approaches a critical point. their colleagues already inside the strip have surrounded gaza city. these men might be part of the next stage, locating hamas tunnels and fighting street by street. israels prime minister promised his country a mighty vengeance against hamas. but with so much firepower, one question — is israel following joe bidens advice not to be blinded by rage, to defend itself, but also protect the lives of pal...

This is the interface point where u.s. personnel, they are -- this is where the gate that they were talking about, where u.s. personnel kind of have this very dangerous moment where they have to do a physical search of each person before they are allowed to pass through and enter the airport. and here is why yesterday general mckenzie explains that point is so dangerous. >> this is close up war. the breath of the person you are searching is upon you. while we have overwatch in place, we still ha...

0 much but if it is significantly pushed back and what are you seeing in terms of flow to abbey gate. is it less people being allowed in or still a rush of people? which could lead to some -- what are you seeing today? >> so, what i can report as my discussion with the commanders there on the the ground is that multiple activities have taken place to increase the force protection specifically in communication with the taliban of how they are executing their check point operations and communicati...

There. have to let people on the air field. thats why were there. were not there to defend ourselves. were there to defend ourselves while we process american citizens first and the other categories of people to a place where we can fly them out to a safer, better future. >> to be clear, this suicide bomber was going through the gate being searches, checked by u.s. service members when he detonated his vest? >> david, that would be my working assumption. he did not get on the installation. it wa...

Last point, i would tell you i dont know the size of the bomb. the size of the bomb is directly related to how many people are going to be affected by the blast raid i didius of the weap. were going to investigate that. at the interface point at the gates, someone has to look someone else in the eyes and decide theyre ready to come in. well find out exactly what happened beyond that. i would not want to speculate at this time, jennifer. thank you. >> any other american citizens from the state de...

Ourselves. were there to defend ourselves while we process american citizens first but also the other categories of people that i mentioned, get them to a place where we can fly them out to a safer, better future. >> just to be clear, this suicide bomber was going through the gate, being searched, checked by u.s. service members when he detonated his vest? >> that would be my working assumption. he did not get onto the installation. it was at the interface point where this attack occurred. were ...

Nature of the casualties. were trying to gather more information about it. so the last point, i would tell you, i dont know that -- i dont know the size of the bomb and the size of the bomb is directly related to how many people are affected by the blast radius. were going to investigate that. as i noted before, youre at the interface point. somebody has to look somebody in the eyes and decide if theyre ready to come in. well find out what happened. beyond that i would not want to speculate at t...

Werent watching. i had picked out the confirmation of the number of| the confirmation of the number of casualties, he said 12 servicemembers have been killed and more than 15 injured. he said that the mission continued, the evacuation mission continued, the evacuation mission continue and gave no indication that it was going to stop or be shortened because of the attack. he said that there were about 500 on the ramp, as he called it, ready to get onto a plane. that was still going forward. he al...

0 >> officials believe isis-k was behind the attacks, but theyre still working to confirm that. the state department had been warning for days of a terror attack at the airport. we have reporters standing by. lets start with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about these military members who were killed and what were expected to hear from the pentagon? >> in just a very short while we are expecting to hear from general frank mckenzie, the head of the u.s. central command which overse...