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territory in the east. and conflict erupts in jerusalem amid a controversial celebration. we will take you there for a live report. emotional day in texas as u.s. president joe biden and the first lady try to comfort the heartbroken community of uvalde. just days after a mass shooting inside an elementary school. the two met with families and local officials and laid flowers at a memorial outside robb elementary school, where 19 students and two teachers were killed. this is the second time in less than two weeks mr. biden traveled to the site of a mass shooting to meet with grie...

Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and All Around The World as we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im Rosemary Church at Cnn Headquarters in atlanta. And im Becky Anderson in tel aviv for you, where we are standing by for u. S. President joe bidens arrival here. Biden is stepping directly into a geopolitical mind field made even worse by a blast at a hospital in gaza that the Palestinians Say has killed hundreds of people. The Subject Matter and the video that we are about to show you are graphic. Palestinian Officials Say the hospital wa...

Elliott gotkin. it will be interesting how much a fourth dose can make to a society. >> reporter: that's right, max. this is a test bed for the rest of the world. as you say, we were talking about it a couple of weeks ago. naftali bennett was welcoming it. but the director general of the health ministry was a little bit more cautious. he waited until new year's eve to give the go ahead and yesterday gave approval for the over 60s and health care workers as well. amongst this back drop we are seeing a rise. the rco efficient, the person it was infecting with covid, that's creeping up to 1.88, a...

Seen since june. there were some very dire prog snows cease. naftali bennett talking about 20,000 daily cases by the end of the week topping out at 50,000. we had professor aaron siegel and he's talking about potentially 2 million israelis out of a population of 9.5 million being infected with omicron. the only bright spot, i suppose, is that could lead to some kind of herd immunity which could enable israel to get through a fifth wave of covid. max? >> elliott, thank you. neither seeing more cases than israel. the increase is reducing and the government resisting any more restrictions. >> rep...