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kayleigh: explosions in the skies over israel right now. listen to that. idf continue to make preparation for a ground invasion go gaza. trey yingst in northern israel with the latest. trey. trey: kayleigh, good afternoon, we ve been following developments near to the gaza border. over the past three weeks, we ve heard nothing like we have heard tonight and seen nothing like we have seen tonight. effort by israeli military to strike targets in northern part of the gaza strip from the air and also the ground and the sea. we ve seen artillery units active here. hais fire going into gaza. we have seen 155 cluster rounds on northern part of the strip. the navy is shelling. i just want you to listen to that there, sense how heavy airstrikes are, they are shaking the ground near the gaza border. kayleigh: trey, no doubt, you said that is heaviest you have heard and certainly that we ve heard here on the couch. you spoke to the israeli defense minister and he said it is ....
boston. thousands of flights delayed. the tsa bracing for what could be the busiest travel day ever. 45 million americans expected to drive or fly over the holiday. trevor ault standing by. the chilling headline in haiti. two american missionaries, a husband and wife, shot and killed by gang members in port-au-prince. their murders coming after president biden and the president of kenya pledged support for a new u.n.-backed police force in haiti. selina wang with the president of kenya. breaking news concerning defense secretary lloyd austin. the pentagon revealing he s undergoing a medical procedure today, transferring his duties to a deputy. it comes months after he was secretly hospitalized for complications from prostate cancer. not even president biden had been told. the american father sentenced for bringing ammunition into turks and caicos. he was facing a possible 12-year prison sentence. what a judge decided instead, and what this signals to four other americ ....
that italy border patrol agents are now on the ground to aid in the hunt for robert carr. the suspect in wednesday night s deadly mass shooting at a pair of locations in lewiston, maine, that left 18 people dead. but it s not just my hometown, it s my neighbor. you know, i mean, it s it s crazy. i have a neighbor that did something really horrible. devastating story. we ll keep an eye on it for you. and welcome in, everybody. i m kevin cork. hey, kevin. i m griff jenkins. we re also keeping a close eye on the middle east. u.s. fighter jets striking iran linked sites in syria a short while ago in retaliation for attacks on american troops in the middle east. the strikes followed 19 attacks on u.s. bases in iraq and syria. that s injured at least 21 u.s. personnel. we kick things off tonight in israel, where fox news correspondent lucas thomson is standing by with the latest on these u.s. airstrikes in syria. good evening, lucas. getting in grief at president biden ....
secretary of defense lloyd austin said president biden ordered self-defense drags onto facilities in eastern syria used by iran s revolutionary guard. he added the strikes our response to attacks against u. s. personnel in iraq and syria by iranian-backed militia groups. joining me now on the phone to discuss, my colleague msnbc white house correspondent peter alexander. peter, what can you tell us about how biden order the strikes and why they were carried out today? stephen, a first, i think we should put this in the contt of what we ve been watching happen in the middle east. and as we heard from lloyd austin tonight, the u.s. military action, these defensive strikes, if as you describe them, they do come amid the rising tensions in that region with the rising tension between israel and hamas, but also called these attacks and his words separate and distinct from the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas. they said they do not represent anything in the u.s. app ....