One day soon we will bring back the animal videos. I will see you up in new york tomorrow. See you done. Bret good evening i am bret baier. Coming to you life from inside the u. S. Capital just down the hall from the house chamber. The house essentially frozen and searching for a speaker. The process begins tonight and it has taken on new urgency following the weekend. Strikes against israel. We are waiting for a meeting of House Republicans scheduled to begin it right around now as to begin to vet the two major candidates for the top political post in the chamber. There could be surprises, including from the man who was just removed from the post. The pressure to settle on a speaker quickly has increased exponentially because without a Speaker Congress ability to help israel is greatly reduced. We will talk about all of that as this program proceeds. First, the latest from the middle east. The death toll is estimated at more than 1600 on both sides at this hour and that includes at le
Our coverage continues with wolf blitzer. Happening now, Breaking News. Israel warns its punishing air strikes on gaza are just the beginning of its response to the unprecedented Surprise Attack by hamas. The death tolls on both Side S Climbing as the war is entering its fourth day. At least 11 americans are among those killed in this Terror Attack on israel and President Biden says some u. S. Citizens are likely being held hostage as hamas is now threatening to execute civilians it captures. All of this happening as the u. S. Congress is paralyzed by the fight to select a permanent speaker of the house after mccarthys ouster. Republican lawmakers are meeting behind closed doors this hour as the crisis in israel is escalating pressure on them to end their infighting. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get to the deadly attacks on both sides of the israel gaza border as Israeli F
Fighters are seen storming the main Border Crossing between the israel and the gaza strip. Fighters have infiltrated israeli cities and there have been gun battles in the street. Cnn teams are deployed Around The World to bring you all the latest developments. Cnns Nic Robertson has just landed in israel. He got off the plane at the Main International airport where sirens warned of possible incoming rockets. And before we get to you, nic, i want to show our viewers how it unfolded on the tarmac. [ sirens ] we literally just got off the plane here, the sirens have gone off. People are taking cover. We got off the bus, people are taking cover, and you can hear the intercept missiles banging in the air. Nothing incoming here. But everyone is taking cover. Theyve gotten down. A lot of concern about whats going to happen here this night. Again, nic, we just showed our viewers what happened when you and your team arrived at the airport in israel. You have now made your way to an area right o
Pyromaniacs and saboteurs are the republican words about his colleagues responsible for removing the speak e of the house, and now furious phone calls in a fight the replace the speaker, and what we are hearing from those jumping into the race now. And reversal of President Biden now supporting a new barrier on the mexican border. A massive strike in ukraine today, and the deadliest russian strike in ukraine for over a year. Im kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman, and this is cnn news central. This morning, the house is essentially frozen and unable to legi legislate, because it has no leader. The house members have gone home to their districts and that means any legislative work is stalled until the House Republicans can come together to elect a new speaker to replace Kevin Mccarthy hoohios jim jon and Steve Scalise say they will take the job, but the road to 218 votes is fraught. This is what one republican congressman told john berman last hour. If we dont change the found
The history of the United States. The office of Speaker Of The House is declared vacant. Conversations with the former president leave me confident. The institution fell today. The speaker makes a promise to either side of the aisle, they ought to keep it. An election expected next week. We lose all the time to get t Appropriations Bills passed. The white house is trying to project an image of calm contrast with chaos on capitol hill. The house is paralyzed and they cant conduct any business until they elect a new speaker. Good morning, everyone. Happy to be joining you from the nations capitol. A beautiful day. But the house is paralyzed. This morning the house is paralyzed after this republican revolt and we are seeing no speaker for the first time in american history. Its important to step back. The house is often paralyzed about lots of things. Thats the beauty of the institution. Its a little bit messy. Its representative of the entire country. We have never seen this in the histo