york city tonight. buckle up, we have two breaking stories happening simultaneously. at this hour the manhunt for the maine shooter still ongoing. police have recovered his cell phone and a suicide note addressed to his son. a live report from maine later in the hour. but, first, just hours ago, the israeli military announcing that their ground forces are expanding their operations in gaza. the announcement came as the israeli military pounded away with unprecedented artillery strikes on the gaza strip. now, it should be pointed out that as hamas apologists call for a unilateral cease-fire that s the word you hear everywhere from israel. the terror group continues to fire a barrage of missiles into israel. a majority of them toward the civilian population in tel aviv. a live report from there and all across israel throughout the hour. with a ground invasion by israel eminent, it s important to note that this is not happening in a vacuum. the decision to expand the effort by t
this baier doesn t push anybody down. sandra: watch out. have a great show, bret. bret: we will see ya. following two major stories a massive manhunt by land, water and air underway in maine tonight. the target a u.s. army reservist suspected in the massacre of 18 people wednesday in lewiston. authorities are still urging residents in the area to use extreme caution because he is armed, experienced and very dangerous. we ll have a live update there shortly. but we begin with an expansion of the war in israel. huge explosions tonight rocking gaza. we re also getting new insight about the expected ground invasion of gaza by israeli troops will look like or might look like. israel s defense minister saying it will require destroying a vast network of tunnels and the campaign will be long and difficult. senior correspondent mike tobin is in southern israel again tonight with the latest. good evening, mike. mike: good evening, bret. an adviser to prime minister benjamin neta
they re also urging people to remain in their homes. let s start right away with cnn s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. this is a very much an ongoing situation, it appears. what is the latest that you re hearing from your sources with the manhunt and the suspect still at large? well, they have a picture. they ve crowd-sourced that picture. people have called in with tips. we don t know if any of the times right now are the tight tip. they have a picture of a car. so they have another lead. they don t seem to have that car. the instructions they give are, if anyone sees this car. when you look at the photo of the car, and maybe we can bring it up while we re talking. it seems to be stopped with the headlights on, the door open. there seems to be a possibility that this is captured from a surveillance video where he rolled up in the car, opened fire, ran back out, got in the car. they don t give a license plate on the car but it s not visible from
destruction still raging today. later this afternoon president biden will hold his first news conference since hamas carried out the terror attacks and escalating threats from iran target u.s. forces in the region. a bunch of things moving on that front as we say hello. i m bill hemmer. here we go today. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. hamas terrorists also trying to infiltrate israel from the mediterranean sea and foiled by the israeli navy. a who s who of top officials of hezbollah, hamas and islamic jihad holding talks how to achieve total victory over israel. the pentagon revealing more than 14 attacks, one more than yesterday against u.s. forces based in the middle east in the last week. the white house trying to connect the dots saying all these militia and all these terror groups are working hand in glove with tehran. iran is certainly complicit here. without them there is no hamas or hezbollah, without them there is no militia groups fi
politics nation. tonight s lead, campaign countdown. happy mother s day to all the mothers. this weekend marks 100 days to the democratic convention in chicago and less than six months to election day. showing the contest between former president trump is as close as it can be. but the contrast between the two men would approach to this race could not be more stuck. the biden team has been with the president and vice president and using them to highlight the administration s side and point out the threat to democracy that is posed to their opponent. as he spends his weekdays tied up with his hush money trial. then jetting off to the rallies of the supporters, like the ones he held beachside last night in wildwood, new jersey. only time will tell whether the reason over wage will win out when they head to the polls. we start tonight with michael tyler. michael, thanks for joining us tonight. thanks for having me, and happy mother s day down in atlanta. i should say that. y