you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with breaking news right now. the university of pennsylvania, the president there, has resigned. this comes after her testimony earlier this week before congress about anti-semitism on campus. our polo sandoval is live with more on all of this. polo, not that surprising we re getting this news this afternoon, given what took place this week. the devastating testimony for the president of the university of pennsylvania, that she delivered up on capitol hill. her attempt at cleaning up that testimony, which was also pretty widely panned, and then matching pressure, sounds like, from the board of trustees of that university for liz magill to step down, that s what s happened this afternoon. what s the latest? confirmed directly from the university. jim to your point, not surprising giving the days of outcry we ve seen and heard from throughout the university, state and federally elected officia
voters polled signaling new concerns over president biden s age good evening i m jon scott and this is a special two-hour edition of the fox report. jon: those stories in a moment but first the latest from the war front in israel. idf portions advancing further into gaza today trading fire with terrorists overnight as aerial bombardments continue here at home calls grow for a cease-fire and more protests. as the war enters its fourth week, we have team coverage steve harrigan as well as defense troops storm gaza mark meredith with attacks in the middle east and alexandria huff is tracking the biden administration s response after pro-palestinian demonstrators vandalize white house but we begin with alex hogan live on the ground in southern israel. alex. hi onidf has taken out nearly 2500 hamas targets. this is things like infrastructure, ammunitions warehouses and, of course, those tunnels but here tonight along border we have rocket attacks by israel by the direction
brian: fox news alert, idf announcing death of hamas commander who directed major attacks on october 7. lawrence: the idf is pushing deeper into the enclave as we learn total of 240 people are being held hostage. ainsley: that number keeps going up and israeli forces are hunting hamas inside the tunnel network. steve: trey yingst is live in southern israel with the latest. trey, good morning to you, good afternoon there. day 25, what is the latest? trey: yeah, hi, guys, good morning. significant breaking news. israeli military says the arrow missile defense system intercepted one fired from yemen. the arrow defense system was used for the first time. likely ballistic missile fired by houthi rebels, backed by the iranian regime. fighter jets were scrambled to shoot them down. last hour initially thought to be drones were launched and traveled over the red sea may have been cruise missiles along with one ballistic missile. step out of the scene and show you the scene
they would rather focus on hunter biden. they would rather focus on other topics where they can make headway, they believe, against president biden and the democrats. and because defending former president trump on the merits is something that leaves them very uncomfortable. so, curt, congressman jim comber is expected to lead the oversight committee. he was on fox talking about what he plans to do. the democrats have had the majority in both the house and the senate. and they ve completely turned a blind eye on the biden administration, to their disastrous policies, to their runaway spending and to the elephant in the room, this influence peddling that this family continues to do. we are basing our investigations on evidence. everything we have brought forward we have reason to believe is from an investigative or oversight standpoint. you wrote an op-ed talking
or not fully vaccinated children and children under 5 who cannot be vaccinated. so, you know, the measures that we should be taking because, frankly, our schools should be the last to close and the first to open, we all need to behave in a way that will keep us safe and keep our children safe and need to get everybody vaccinated and with good ventilation and masking we ll minimize the spread. there s that one other thing, fredricka, which is rapid testing. if we had abundant rapid testing we could test every child every day and guarantee that schools are safe. in fact, you wrote in the washington post an op-ed talking about the failure by not having the rapid testing available and i want to quote a portion from your op-ed. it says, it makes no sense that federal and state governments continue to rely almost entirely on expensive clinic based pcr testing when staring them right in the face is a much less