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[sirens] dana: barrage of rockets fired deep into central israel setting off sirens in tel aviv and surrounding areas. hamas targeting that area for the first time in three days. shrapnel from the rockets injured two people in tel aviv. showing why exactly israel is fighting hamas. i m dana perino. bill: a long week, huh? dana: but a good one. bill: good one, long one. nice to see you. i m bill hemmer, good morning. the latest rocket firing coming as israeli ground forces are reportedly pushing closer to gaza city s shifa hospital closing in on believed to be the heart of hamas operations and leadership. thousands of palestinian civilians fleeing south as there are short pauses to fighting to do that. dana: trey yengst on the ground in southern israel for us. good morning. good morning. i will quickly step out of the frame so you can see what s happening as we speak. you will see some lights there, trails of smoke. those are cluster munitions the israelis ar ....
i m bret baier. breaking tonight, growing concerns that president biden may not be adequately responding to increasing attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east from groups sponsored by iran. iranian proxy groups, another incident today. that makes 47 since mid october. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin starts us off tonight live from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. today another attempted attack on u.s. troops. a kamikaze drone targeted a u.s. outpost in syria. iran and its proxy forces could not seem to be getting the administration s message to stop trying to kill u.s. troops. the pinpoint attack by a pair of american f-15 warplanes on iranian weapon storage facility in eastern syria wednesday has not slowed the rockets and drones fired by iranian proxies. today, u.s. troops shot down a drone headings toward their base, the fifth attack since the u.s. airstrikes. defense secretary lloyd austin issued another warning ....
that this one senator is having this kind of an impact on our operational readiness and if you don t think it isn t, i would urge him or anybody else who doubts this, go on down to tampa, florida and talk to the folks in central command about the priorities and what they are trying to do on behalf of our administration s policy in the middle east, especially right now with everything going on. it s having an impact and as karine rightly said, an impact on family members, can t get schools for the kids, can t buy or rent houses, don t know where they are going to be living next. absolutely ridiculous. the vice president was over in london and said if israel and ukraine were bifurcated the president would veto it. you over the last couple of days have explained that you would be something offset, especially involving the irs. but i wanted to be clear, if the president was presented with a clean israel funding bill without ukraine, he would veto that as well? the presi ....
for the first time people getting out of gaza, an opening at the rafah crossing. hundreds of foreign nationals could getit out over the next f days. a second strike has rocked the refugee camp in northern gaza. what we are learning about this blast. the strike yesterday in the same area took out a hamas commander, but dozens others feared dead, as well. donald trump junior set to take the stand in a $250 million trial where donald trump has been found liable for fraud. i m john berman with kate bolduan. sara sidner is on assign. this is cnn news central. two big developments right now in the israel-hamas war. first, let s talk about the rafah crossing. according to officials on the palestinian side of the crossing, as many as 110 foreign passport holders are traveling through the checkpoint at the gaza border. the crossing, you remember, has been closed since hamas attacked israel sparking this war. since then people have not been allowed through. now they ....
america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. good morning, bret. bret: i m bret baier. elevated threats to the homeland coming as a record number of people on the terror watch list were caught at the southern border last year. more than the previous six years combined. the white house yesterday dodging a question about the risk of foreign terrorists taking advantage of weak border security. is it possible that somebody who wants to commit a terrorist attack during a time of elevated threat crossed the southern border into the united states already? i couldn t possibly answer that question, peter. all i can do is tell you that we have remained vigilant to that potential threat. dana: all this as we say a disturbing rise of anti-semitism of college campuses and cities across the u.s. police arresting an ivy league student for making violent threats against jewish students at cornell university. bret: senator josh hawley ahead. rich edson on s ....