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Hours ago. john huddy reporting live tonight from gaza city. what is the latest? >> you know, megyn if you came out here saying what a gorgeous morning? sun is rising now. it's beautiful. then, you hear machine gunfire in the distance, explosions that have been going on as mentioned all night, into the early morning hours here. in fact we just heard several loud explosions. there is a major fight happening just north of us here in north gaza. we're in west gaza city. probably a couple miles north there is a heavy fire fight going on. heavy artillery. things being shot. small-arms fire, machine...

Hours ago. john huddy reporting live tonight from gaza city. what is the latest? >> you know, megyn if you came out here saying what a gorgeous morning? sun is rising now. it's beautiful. then, you hear machine gunfire in the distance, explosions that have been going on as mentioned all night, into the early morning hours here. in fact we just heard several loud explosions. there is a major fight happening just north of us here in north gaza. we're in west gaza city. probably a couple miles north there is a heavy fire fight going on. heavy artillery. things being shot. small-arms fire, machine...

>> it's violent there has been a lot of heavy artillery fired, bill. in fact, the shot that you are looking at, you see a building in the background where you see some light there was just two tremendous explosions, two heavy air strikes. we have seen a lot of cannon fire directed at that location. and we just heard a little while ago small arms fire. machine gunfire. which signals the fact that troops now are on the ground. this is day 11 here in gaza of operation protective edge. and from day one, bill, the objective for israel, the israeli military has been going after hamas infrastructure ...

Fund-raisers, he discussed both stories with secretary of state john kerry, and with the president's national security team. for the latest on the ground in gaza, let's check in with correspondent john huddy, who has been on post there. john, hello again. the military saying this is a limited and target operation, trying to take out hamas underground tunnels. so are israeli forces on the ground yet? >> reporter: that's what we're hearing, bret. in fact, just a little while ago, we heard what sounded like machine gunfire. not necessarily small arms fire, but after the heavy barrage of artillery...

Vessels off the coast here, offshore here, seem to be targeting specific areas, in northern gaza and to the east of our location here. just hitting, relentlessly hitting these locations. and flares are going up. after that died down, the heavy artillery fire, then we started hearing that machine gunfire. that's why we believe, and we're hearing at this point that troops are on the ground here in gaza. >> john, stay safe. we'll head back for any breaking details. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is following the other breaking story, the downed airliner in ukraine. jen, you've b...