One week away from the president ial debate between Vice President harris and former President Trump. This morning, a new look at how differently they are approaching this big moment breaking overnight, israel says it has killed a top Hamas Commander responsible for the October 7 massacre and its a whale of a tail. The video you have to see this morning launched into the air by a whale, a snorkeler gets to surprise of a lifetime. Im Sara Sidner with John Berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn News Central check your calendar as its the first day of that. Always talked about post postlabor Day Sprint to the finish. In this election cycle. That is 63 days to go nine weeks, exactly. And soMe Ballots though will start hitting the mail in North Carolina this week in pennsylvania, early voting starts, theyre in two weeks. So calling it a sprint, no exaggeration. And one thing to president ial candidates are sprinting to right now is to get ready for their big debate ahead of their first faceto
Thinking about you were thinking about your cousin ofer, the best to you and your family a new hour of cnn, new central starts right now. Happening now the funeral for and israel rarely american hostage killed by hamas as Thousands Ofrotestertake to the streets of Tel Aviv demanding an immediate Ceasefire And Hostage deal. In the us a critical meeting is about to begin with Hodges Negotiators and the white House Situation Room and President Biden will be in that critical meeting and then he heads out with a new purpose surrogate Number One for Kamala Harris his president ial campaign, plus a busy night of sports, not seen by millions. Can Disney And Directv . Settle their disputes before Thursday Nights big nfl season opener. Im Sara Sidner with john berman, Kate Bolduan is out this is Cnn News central Breaking News for you right now if israel right now, funeral for israeli american Hostage Hersh Goldbergpolin is beginning in jerusalem over the weekend. His body was recovered with five
President Kamala Harris to speak together at a Labor Day Rally in the key Battleground State of Pennsylvania President stepping up his new role as a top Paris Campaign surrogate also this hour, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing hamas will pay a heavy we price after the bodies of six hostages were recovered In Gaza. And hes asking for forgiveness amid huge protests over his failure to secure a hostage release deal. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt and youre in the Situation Room we begin with the race for the White House we begin with the race for the White House as Labor Day, marks, the unofficial kickoff to the final sprint to Election Day. Were standing by for Kamala Harris to make her pitch to Working Class Voters in pittsburgh with a high profile assist from president Joe Biden, cnns kayla tausche. She is on the ground for us and joins us now, kayla, pennsylvania is a mustwin for K
Health to the amateurs. Choose doctors preferred im meteorologists Elisa Rafah on jekyll island, georgia, and this is cnn youre in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in new york. And Tonight Id growing tensions in israel has spilled out into the streets. Heated and passionate protests seen across the country earlier tonight there in Tel Aviv organized theres estimating 550,000 people taking to the streets and these protesters are demanding prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach a Ceasefire And Hostage deal with hamas. The countrys largest Labor Union is joining that fight, vowing a nationwide general strike tomorrow. And the mounting anger coming after the tragic news. The idf recovered the bodies of six hostages including an american from a tunnel in Southern Gaza the israeli Health Ministry thank all six of these hostages were killed by short range shots, likely sometime between thursday and friday of this week as the idf was closing in cnns Nic Robertson is joining us live from Tel
Jerusalem. So what do we know about where thesE Bodies were found . The reaction from officials. And is there any definition yet any clarity around the description of therE Being found being killed a short whilE Before they thE Bodies were discovered we know that they were found in a Tunnel In Rafah in the south of gaza during ongoing Combat Operations by the idf. But on that specificity of the amount of time that they were killed before the troops got there. Thats not clear. We dont know how they died and we dont knoW What led the troops to that tunnel during that combat operation. So theres a lot of unanswered things here. And in that vacuum a lot of pain, a lot of suffering, a lot of angry accusations that the vast majority as you were saying of the families of the hostages, are saying that the Prime Minister should take responsibility and own the fact that it is his own personal style of negotiating and terms of negotiating that have led to the deaths of these hostages. The Prime M