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
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three of them are dead. two are in the hospital. they are expected to survive. the tulsa police chief says it is the worst thing he has seen in more than 40 years on the force. a white man is targeting people in black neighborhoods. all the victims are black, so questions of race and hate crimes are being asked to the police right now. in a news conference a short time ago, the chief says not so fast. the whole race issue, the hate crime issue. there s a very logical theory that would say that s what it could be. i m a police officer, and i ve got to go by evidence. i m not going to make the statement at this time that that s what it is when we ve had no evidence. there s been no racial slurs, we haven t arrested anybody that may have had literature. it s not time to say that. the chief has puts together a 25-person task force, and tulsa leaders say the city is sparing no expense in tracking down the killer. we are all of one mindset to find this person, arrest him, a
h he s innocent. and the president s private comments are caught on a hot microphone. time to play reporter roulette. rallies and more as the highest court in the land begins to hear arguments over whether the affo affordable health care act can require nearly all americans to have health insurance coverage. you ll hear from the justices in just a moment. but first, a congressional correspondent kate baldwin live outside the supreme court. you were inside the courtroom when this was all going on. what happened today? what happened today is a bit of what we re calling a bit of the warm-up act to the main event. the question was should they be taking this up now. the individual man date requiring nearly all americans have health insurance in 2014 or they ll take a penalty. in taking that up, they gave pretty clear signals they did not think there was any barriers taking up the big question of the consequence tunlty of the individual mandate. gave some pretty strong signals in