Gaza city and destroy the enclaves current leadership. Theyre also saying the idf will soon invade the gaza strip with Tens Of Thousands of soldiers. Secretary of state Anthony Blinken is now in cairo, egypt. He is expected to speak with the president of egypt later this hour. This comes as the rafah Crossing Point between egypt and gaza remains closed this morning as egyptian authorities continue their negotiations with israel and the United States over allowing u. S. Citizens safe passage into egypt. Meanwhile, the u. S. Embassy in israels Offer Americans and immediate relatives evacuation by sea from haifa to cyprus on monday at 8 am local time. It is on a Space Limited basis. The embassy says chartered flights are also being arranged. According to the Israeli Defense forces, over 1300 people have been killed in israel since the fighting began with the Gaza Health Minister reporting more than 2300 people have been killed in gaza. Joining me now, nbc news correspondent from the israe
headquarters in new york, a lot of big stories today, including a stunning warning that stopped us in our tracks from the fbi director about what he saysed is an across-the-board rising terrorist threat level here in the united states. i see blinking lights everywhere i turn. martha: we ll hear more about that. he will we ll get more of what he said and explain what he s talking about there. it was stunning. first, a huge story to continue to tackle today. in recent years we have covered what many see on u.s. campuses as the deterioration of education, an active open scholarlish debate that were the foundation of these once great institutions. while that was happening, these universities spend a lot of time and effort of memo sending to champion safe spaces and zero tolerance for everything from trans rights to offensive dining like tacos. after having protected so many groups, it looks like there s a glaring hole in the policy. it doesn t appear to extend to jews post