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long. morning joe starts right now. i have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle used to carry out this crime. the time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure. which is why i now call on the united states congress to ban assault rifles like the one used by the sick perpetrator of this mass killing in my hometown of lewiston, maine. for the good of my community, i will work with any colleague to get this done in the time that i have left in congress. that s democratic congressman jared golden of maine, changing his position on gun reform following wednesday s deadly mass shootings in his hometown. we ll have a live report from lewiston, maine, as the manhunt for the suspect is expanding this morning. also ahead, we ll go through the major development out of the middle east overnight. the united states military carrying out air strikes in syria. this comes as iran is threatening the u.s. in connection with the isr ....
continuing our coverage of breaking news of ongoing explosions in gaza. nbc s raf sanchez is reporting from ashdot israel, what do we know at this hour? reporter: chris, tonight is feeling different from other nights. we are hearing intensified bombing in gaza, 10 miles south of where we are. i m looking over my shoulder because just a moment ago we were seeing israeli iron dome missile interceptors in the sky, a sign of rocket fire coming, but israel s chief military spokesman is confirming that an intensified bombing campaign of gaza is underway three weeks after the october 7th hamas terrorist attack. he also says israel is expanding its ground operations inside of gaza. that s not a sign that they have launched. chris, you may be able to see over my shoulder here, this is one of these iron dome interceptors, and if you bear with us one second, you re likely to see it explode. there you go. now, that is likely a sign that it just intercepted a palestinian rocket a ....
strikes inside his country. iraq today has almost become another province of iran today. you are right. u.s. force coofs easily strike in iraq and there are 2500 u.s. troops based in iraq. also you have some up north with the kurds in irbeal. this decision to strike is based on the map as you showed geography. not going to have the civilian cawrkteds. hardware done early in the morning when nobody was likely there. if you want to start killing forces probably start hitting a barracks not a weapons depot. brian: exactly. we have hit iraq before and they can protest. if they are not going to control the militias and aim at us, we are not really asking for permission. lucas, thanks so much. appreciate it. check in with you next hour. meanwhile, where does the time go in the second hour of fox & friends starts right now. i will go downstairs. steve: it is 7:00 on the east coast and a fox news alert. right now we are 36 hours into an all-out manhunt in maine for 40-y ....
israel. this is very close to gaza city. israel is continuing to ram up up its strikes this evening in gaza. it s 10:00 p.m. in southern israel. the country extends its ground operations this evening. what a possible ground invasion might looks like. at this point it s unclear. it has felt imminent the last 48 to 72 hours, really. israeli officials today telling us that the world should expect to hunker down for a long war. they have two missions. the first is to eliminate forever the threat that hamas can present to the country of israel. so that they can never be threatened or hurt again. they say that too many of their children live in fear, go to sleep in fear at night. they want to erase the threat of hamas and the threat of what they watched unfold on october 7th. now, secondly, and not particularly in this order because these two things obviously are very interwoven in terms of what they face right now. 229 hostages. you can see some of their faces here. we will ....
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with breaking news. the israel defense forces announced this evening it is expanding its ground operations against hamas in gaza. this was the scene just moments ago. it has been nearly constant rocket fire and explosions. gaza residents tell cnn that these are the most intense air strikes that they have experienced since the war began 20 days ago. and there are reports of widespread power and cellular and internet outages across the gaza strip. it is unclear what these ramped up attacks will mean for hostage negotiations. today israel said it believes hamas is still holding 229 innocent people that they kidnapped october 7th. in the united states, the white house says it is in, quote, active conversations with israel about a humanitarian pause to work on the release of the hostages. diplomatic sources told cnn earlier today that significant progress had been made. u.s. officials are insistsing those talks are going to co ....