This is cnn Breaking News. Top of the hour, welcome to cnns Breaking News coverage. Im abby phillip in washington. We begin with reports of live explosions heard in Central Israel near tel aviv as hamas is claiming to target the airport. And tonight the atrocities of hamas are being revealed. The images that were about to show you are graphic and disturbing. This here is the aftermath of the attacks on a Music Festival site in western israel. A rescue Organization Says that at least 260 bodies were found at that site. The survivors of that massacre describing fighters storming the festival yesterday morning, attacking civilians with rifles, rpgs, killing or kidnapping anyone that they came across. The death toll now in israel is more than 600 people. We learned tonight that at least three americans are among that number and at this moment, we do not know of the fate of dozens of people who have been taken hostage by hamas and other terrorist groups. The Israel Forces are stepping up th
particularly with the concentration of russian fire power on the capitol kyiv. here there s deep concern that a signature number of tanks amassing just inside the border. 20 miles away about 25 minutes drive. a bit longer for a tank. very large numbers of tank seen crossing from russia into ukraine. just north of where i m standing. reports the town of sumy of heavy fighting. they have fallen to the russians. that s a border town about 100 kilometers from here. 60 miles. at the same time the authorities here are blown to brindges to slow down a movement of tanks against this city. that has the advantage perhaps of being in circle by a road. that maybe used to lay siege to it. it s a million and a half
months? let s look at why. why is the president s approval down near historic low? on covid he is still above water, if you will. 54% of americans approve of the president s handling of covid, 45% disapprove. a majority disapprove in the economy. a big majority. nearly 56% disapprove. many disapprove on what joe biden promised to do. 45% say they disapprove. foreign affairs, the president also under water. let s walk closely through this. this is a signature number here. listen to these numbers. remember, joe biden ran. i get it, i m not donald trump. i can fix it. your life will get better. only 30% say biden s policies have improved the economy. 45% say they have worsened things. and 25% say no effects. add this up. 70% of americans say things are either the same or worse when it comes to the economy in joe biden s presidency. that is alarming for the democrats. and it translates again this