We will have plenty of time israelis will have plenty o ever time to look into that. The focus now is making sure israel has what it needs to deal with the attack and making sure its citizens are safe and secured. That was u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken on Meet The Press sidestepping the deadly attacks. Well have the latest on the escalating conflict in just a moment. Plus, a look at how chaos in the house with the republicans scrambling to find a new speaker could impact support for israel. And some candidates are spreading misinformation blaming a deal with the Biden Administration. Well explain that straight ahead. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, october 9th. Im ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. And we begin with the israeli hamas war. 1,100 have died and the number is expected to rise. Hamas militants stormed the gaza strip destroying several israeli towns and communities. The chaos spread across land, air, and sea as thousands of rockets were fi
question remains, can president obama win the gun control at this point, christine, it doesn t really appear that what he s saying is having any weight on them. brianna keilar in washington. just about 20 minutes we re going to talk to the connecticut senator, richard blumenthal about federal gun control efforts. new developments this morning in the ever-increasing tensions between north and south korea. the north announcing in just the last couple of hours that it is pulling all of its workers out of the kaesong industrial complex that it shares with the south. cnn s jim clancy is live for us in seoul, south kia this morning. good morning, jim. good morning, john. shut it down. that s the message from north korea. a lot of people thought kim jong-un wouldn t go this far, wouldn t take this move. he s going to pull out his 53,000 workers from there. that means about 1,000 south koreans will also be forced to leave and 123 companies will cease doing business in what was the only s