Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum live in washington today for our special coverage tonight of president Bidens Oval Office address on americas role in two wars. Now in israel and also in ukraine. Were going live to the pentagon. A very important briefing about to get underway. Well take you there live as soon as that gets started. In israel, john roberts stays with us this hour in jerusalem. Mike tobin in southern israel and israeli Prime Minister netanyahus spokesman joins us live. First, the pentagon about to update on the situation as americans have four warships now in the region. Our u. S. Forces are in the region as well or headed to the region. A huge u. S. Commitment is underway and we expect that were going hear more about that from the pentagon in just moments. A u. S. Cargo plane delivered armored vehicles. Heres video of that as they rolled off of this c17 in israel. The Israeli Defense minister gives his troops the green light for entering gaza.
neighbors and may be unable to help if they come en masse. translator: in my opinion, we shouldn t take them in. the ukrainians are worse than the russians. translator: our town is too small. we don t have infrastructure to accommodate refugees. reporter: now, there are already a million ukrainians living in poland. they started emigrating really with the troublings in 2014, the takeover of crimea and the destabilization of the eastern part of ukraine. but even with a million people here, they may be unable to absorb ukrainian refugees if they come by the millions as some are predicting, jon. jon: mike toe tobin mike tobin reporting live, thanks. so president biden met with his national security team today
us is a warrior. a warrior in his or her right place. i m sure that each of us will win. glory to ukraine. martha: and many, many people across that country are listening closely to what he has to say. there s mike tobin reporting live. this brewery is making molotov cocktails around the clock with putin s face on the bottles as citizens continue to line up to acquire their own weapons so that they can fight. we begin with thousands of ukrainians that are desperately and understandably trying to leave the country. benjamin hall is live in kyiv where there s a humanitarian crisis building. benjamin? yeah, the crisis getting worse by the day. that s because we re seeing putin take the gloves off. he was dealt set backs. the ukrainians holding form.
west with the attack near lviv s international airport. putin knocking on nato s door. mike tobin reporting live. mike, you have watched escalation of this for sirens and explosions outside, what is it like right now? sun is setting soon. mike: the sun is setting, right now relatively peaceful in the western part of ukraine. on occasion as we got at dawn this morning, air-raid sirens blare. when you hear the air-raid sirens blare, there is no impact, today was different. four cruise missiles made impact just outside the lviv airport. the regional governor for lviv region says they were crews missiles fired from long-range bombers over the black sea. the target was lviv state aircraft repair plant, the only plant according to ukrainian
investigators say that killer was wearing a mask and body armor when he opened fire with a modified rifle. one capable of holding magazines with hundreds of rounds. the police chief saying, if officers hadn t taken out the shooter before he got to that bar, the bar to which those crowds were running, the chief says it would have been catastrophic. hundreds of people in there. little comfort perhaps to those that today woke up without their loved ones. the latest victims of a mass murder in america. mike tobin reporting live. mike? shepard, this is where it all went down. it was just after 1:00 on a warm summer night. people were floating back and forth between the night spots here. with the video, some of it has sound. others you see people freeze for a second. wonder if it s real and then they panic and run. the gunman appears in his body armor carrying 250 rounds