and grabbed civilians out and kept going until they were pulled to the hospitals themselves. >> ainsley: god bless you both. we're praying for you and your country and the work they're doing. god bless you, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ainsley: they've seen a lot. >> brian: trey has brought a lot we haven't seen before and see inside the homes bring it to life. >> ainsley: he showed us one family trapped and went into their shelter and there were holes in the door and clearly someone had been shot or killed. we don't know. there was blood throughout the house. >> then they set it on fire. >> brian: ill' talk more about this on radio. >> ainsley: we'll see you tomorrow. >> stay within yourself. >> dana: fox news alert and breaking this morning the u.s. embassy in lebanon telling americans to get out as soon as

possible. this as the hezbollah terror group threatens to open a second front in the war between israel and hamas. good morning, i'm dana perino. bill is off today. good morning to you. >> gillian: i'm gillian turner and this is "america's newsroom." iranian back group is launching attacks on israel from across the border in lebanon. the violence stoking fears of all an-out regional war. is -- israeli forces continue to hit gaza. >> dana: hamas trading fire overnight. idf hammering hamas in gaza. millions of civilians caught in the crossfire. egypt agreeing to reopen a southern border crossing for aid. >> gillian: it follows president biden's trip to israel and u.s. support for the jewish state and deliver a major oval office address tonight on the war. we begin with trey yengst.

he joins us from the ground in southern israel. hi, trey. >> good morning. right now we are continuing our travels with the israeli army going from location to location along the border getting a sense of what things look like here not just the after math following that massacre last saturday, but also the preparations by the israelis for an expected ground offensive that could be ordered in a matter of hours. overnight israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu followed his meeting with president biden, got together the war cabinet in tel aviv. as he was doing that gaza was firing rockets. air raids sending thousands of people to bomb shelters. he determined the next steps following the conversations with president biden on the ground. as for the situation overnight, there was a lull in rocket fire following those attacks on tel aviv. about 15 hours went by before

sirens were sounding in the southern city of ashkelon again. once again today they're firing on tel aviv and the israelis are continuing their air strikes along the gaza strip. we were just watching in one of the communities along the border. black smoke rising from the horizon as different hamas targets were hit inside gaza. not just the south of concern to the israelis. early this morning lebanese militant group hezbollah firing more anti-tank guided missiles into the northern part of the country and drawing an immediate response from the israeli military there. a real understanding on the ground this is developing into a multi-front conflict and then you have the third angle of israelis preparing for unrest in the west bank. protests in ramallah following the hospital explosion the night before and also overnight israeli forces arrested more than 60 hamas operatives in the west bank concerned that violence could erupt there. you have a lot of moving parts here. a government and military preparing for a massive ground operation into gaza and a very active conflict unfolding.

guys, back to you. >> dana: just quickly wanted to ask you how many people have evacuated, how many people in gaza have been able to leave? >> from inside gaza? >> dana: yes. >> from inside gaza we understand the foreign citizens waiting on the border still have not crossed into egypt. this is very concerning for the american government because as we reported yesterday, intelligence sources not only in america but also here indicate there are hundreds of foreigners, americans, u.s. passport holders inside gaza trying to leave. on our air yesterday we played the voice note of a woman that i've been talking to. she told me four times she has tried to go to the border and cross at the rafah crossing with egypt and every time she has been turned back and coordinating with the state department following the exact instructions given to her. she lives in utah. palestinian american, u.s.

passport holder trapped inside gaza. so many similar stories like this and yet another puzzle piece the american government is trying to figure out how does it fit to all of this? conversations taking place behind the scenes. the hostages and also that pending ground operation. >> gillian: president biden when he returned yesterday from israel announced the reopening of the rafah border crossing. we learned overnight that before aid is able to -- before people are able to get aid into gaza through egypt they will have to repave the road there. are you hearing anything from your sources on the ground about how long that might take or when aid might eventually start to penetrate? >> yeah, we saw about 20 u.n. aid trucks at the border from images that were put on the wires. we do understand there is a lot of aid waiting near the border to enter gaza and it has been part of the political equation in all of this. remember, overnight president

biden indicated humanitarian aid was going to enter but also you had a situation where this morning israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that no aid would enter gaza but there was a caveat. that was that it wouldn't enter through israeli territory. the israelis have to play politics here as well. e edge -- remember, everyone has sort of a piece of this pie they're responsible for. and it is incredibly complicated because following the massacres that took place last weekend the israelis have a complete siege on gaza. there are 2 million civilians inside there and americans are trying to cut the deals behind the scenes with the israelis and jordan and egypt who are putting pressure on the u.s. to make sure the aid gets to gaza. a very complicated story on the humanitarian front. the full military action hasn't gun. that is expected to start in the

coming hours or days. >> gillian: very complicated but you lay it out succinctly. stay safe. the outbreak of the israel/gaza war, tens of thousands of protestors demanding a cease-fire as the conflict continues to escalate by the hour. alex hogan joins us from the london bureau with details on what exactly is happening inside the mass protests. hi, alex. >> some of the major protests we've seen have been not far from the u.s. embassy in beirut and now the embassy there is issuing a further word of caution asking all americans in the area to leave as soon as possible. this is some footage we can show you from outside the u.s. embassy in athens where even more protestors gather, some of these protests also turning violent in recent days.

protests spanning not just area from the west bank but across the middle east, africa and europe. this is footage we can show you from jordan where anti-israel protests broke out outside the israel embassy in jordan. security forces there used tear gas and some of the crowd you can see in the footage were throwing rocks and throwing water bottles at police. meanwhile protests also broke out last night in turkey. these lingered on for hours into the night. very, very angry protestors. these protests took place outside the israeli consulate and outside the u.s. consulate. many of these images do look quite similar. this anger that we see repeated again and again in protests all over the world. there were, of course, protests that took place in the u.s. as well both in support of israel as well as in support of palestine. what we saw in london in the last day major protests breaking

outside of downing street. today worth noting british prime minister is in israel meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and as far as the protestors here in london, they say this weekend there will be even larger demonstrations taking place across the city. gillian. >> gillian: alex hogan in london. thank you. >> dana: the riots targeting u.s. embassies in the middle east bringing back memories of the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi during the obama administration. a former u.s. marine who was a member of the security team that fought off the assault. it is great to see you again, mark. want to read to you from the federalist saying that our media lies setting the stage for another benghazi style attack on american embassy. after reports began sur dpasing tuesday morning that a missile hit a gaza hospital. the media had baseless claims

issued by hamas that israeli forces fired the missile. whether "the new york times," associated press, the media narrative was set. israel blew up a hospital and hamas's word is not to be questioned. even this morning, mark, i was listening to npr where they're tying themselves up in knots trying to say maybe it wasn't israel but it was painful to see. this misinformation is fueling a lot of these protests. >> yeah, that's exactly what it is. very similar to what happened in benghazi with the narrative that got pushed out about it all being caused by a video that had surfaced. words matter. we need to make sure our media needs to make sure what we say and do is validated before we go putting that out there because there are these type of incidents that will happen and put more and more americans in

danger around the world. >> dana: what would be the difference, if any, of the security for a consulate like the one you were at in benghazi and some of our embassies around the world? >> the embassy, there are certain levels of and certain rules when they build the embassy and what it has to have for security procedures. stand-off, the amount of people there at an embassy. you will have a marine contingent there as well. and the other assets that could be brought in at a rapid pace would be the marine corps fast companies, fleet anti-terrorism security teams to help reinforce embassy around the world. before or after or do an operation, non-combatant evacuation operation in whatever country that's needed. >> dana: at least there is warning for this one, right, mark? >> yeah. you know, i think we have time to plan and we also have most of

our embassies like in beirut or any country that has a standing army of a good police force and under international law, they are there to protect the americans as well and the american property. so they should be keeping -- some of these protestors are trying to keep the protestors standing back away from the wall. let them protest because we support it. don't agree with it. let them do what they want to do in a safe manner. that's the responsibility of the host country. >> dana: last week you headrest cue people from israel. what kind of trauma had they experienced? >> a lot of it was indecisions. they were getting misinformation. they -- not real clear direction from the state department because it was very early and everything that was going on. a sister of a friend of mine who was part of that party had reached out and just asked what

i could do to help. and i had been able to talk to some people that i know in country finding out a little about what's going on and gave them options how to get them out. luckily they had their own buses already and finally made the decision to go to the jordan border. they got there. they had to wait. there was a long line getting across but they were able to get across and cross last tuesday and able to get home by thursday of that week, of last week. >> dana: thank you for doing what you do, mark. great to have you as our guest this morning. >> thank you, dana. >> dana: take care. >> gillian: american troops have been injured in iraq overnight after three drone attacks on u.s. military bases in the region. jonathan hunt has the details for us. >> good morning to you, gillian. the information we've got most recently is about a drone attack on a u.s. base in eastern syria,

what we understand is that there was a drone attack. these one-way drones as they call them. not designed to fly back to wherever they came from. they're just designed to do damage. we don't have any word at this point on any injuries or damage to that particular base. but look where it is. it is right on the border with the borders of iraq, jordan and syria meet. a strategically critical base. so it's obviously raising huge alarms for the u.s. now. it came on the same day that two of our bases where u.s. troops are based in two places in iraq were also attacked. those were the air base and a second air base. in that instance there were injuries to u.s. troops. who is sending these? all roads point back towards iran. there are iranian fighters based

in eastern syria. there is a very good chance that they were involved. once again as we look at a potential regional conflict all roads point back to iranian involvement in almost every part of what is unfolding in the middle east right now. >> gillian: thank you. >> shame on you, shame on you. >> dana: pro-palestinian protestors packing the streets of chicago demanding a cease-fire. one of many rallies across major u.s. cities. on capitol hill demonstrators flooded the rotunda calling for an end to the violence in gaza. capitol police arrested nearly 300 people since protests are not permitted. three were charged with assaulting a police officer. students at harvard university staging a die-in blaming israel

for the hospital blast that killed hundreds in gaza. students lying on the ground in solidarity with the palestinian people. they say murdered by israel. >> i haven't -- yes, i have known him and haven't talked to him in years. >> dana: senate focusing on filling the u.s. ambassador to israel job as tensions rise in the middle east. republicans pressed biden's pick on his ties to iran and a controversial special envoy for iran who is now suspended. we'll talk to senator marco rubio who was at the hearing. >> live to the southern border as a growing number of special interest aliens as the government refers to them are crossing into the u.s. how president biden plans to address the nation's homeland security concerns tonight in his address. >> dana: hamas pushing the narrative that israel is behind the hospital bombing in gaza. dem squad members are putting

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>> dana: president biden's address to the nation will discuss not only the u.s. response to the hamas terror attacks on israel and the war in you a cran but also the deteriorating situation along the southern border in the u.s. we have the story from eagle pass, texas. >> good morning. it should address that. we have an alarming number of special interest aliens from countries with ties potentially to terrorism and we have numbers that have never been seen. the september numbers haven't been made public. it will be the highest month ever on record. look at our drone here over eagle pass. we can show you this sector ground 0 for the crisis. a group walk up just behind us about 20 minutes ago. they had to be redirected back to the processing under the bridge here behind us. look at this group. a drone shot from yesterday afternoon. a group of about 250 that came just down the road from us. majority of them are venezuelan.

that's significant because for the first time the administration is flying migrants back to venezuela. it's a good start for the administration. we can show you video of the flight that departed. 127 flown back to venezuela. they are allowing this one. there is hope there will be more. the chief of the border patrol was there. here is what he had to say. a message to the migrants. listen. >> the message for the migrants that are skipping the line and crossing between the ports of entry, this is what you have to look forward to when you do that. we're working behind the scenes every day to get more and more of these flights that will take you straight back to your country if you choose to ignore our immigration laws. >> dana, there is an important point here. when we saw that haitian crisis under the del rio bridge, it was

flights back to haiti that really got things to calm down. haitian numbers. see if it works with venezuela. one last stat. in the first 17 days of the fiscal year more than 108,000 migrants have been encountered across the southwest border . 83,000 have been released, not returned. a 75% release rate. officials worry it can draw more. >> dana: i can understand why they think that. griff jenkins, thank you. arizona democratic congressman and senator candidate is blasting fema for rejecting calls for its administrator to tour the border. the border is not part of fema's mission space. he called that response insulting to his state. >> gillian: tensions across the middle east ignite now. senators back home are scrambling to confirm a u.s. ambassador to israel.

a post remained vacant since the beginning of president biden's term. he is facing criticism from republicans. jack lew faced off yesterday against critics of the iran nuclear deal. >> how are we supposed to see that and somehow confirm you to this very important post when you deliberately in my view misled me and the congress on what was happening behind the scenes to regard to all this. >> do you believe the jewish quarter and western wall are illegally occupied territory? >> senator, i do not believe that -- that it is illegally occupied territory. >> why did you support a u.n. resolution saying it is? >> it was an atm to the writtenian ayatollah. >> gillian: senator rubio joins us now. you accused jack lew yesterday of lying to or misleading you and your colleagues over the

core tenets of the iran nuclear deal. is there a potential candidate from biden world who worked on the nuclear deal at all that you might be able to get behind? i ask because if the bar is no one who worked on this deal, it will be very slim pickings. >> well, there are plenty of people who worked on the iran deal or gave it support that are out there serving now in different capacities. i don't think that's the standard anyone is talking about. in this particular case you have somebody the secretary of the treasury, testified before congress and said we're never going to help iran get access to our banks. we know he did that. he precisely did that through a special license not published because it doesn't need to be but kept secret and got out in the press. we asked him are you doing anything to help iran circumvent the sanctions? they were. they were pressuring two banks to help iran turn dollar counts into euros and he denied not

once, but twice in responses to my letter in 2015 and 2016 that they were doing it. turns out this wasn't the case. they deliberately misled us. you add all these other things that i don't get a chance to get to. only five minutes of questions. but another example of some of the things that happened while they were there is his support of that resolution at the u.n. that basically says all of east jerusalem is illegally occupied by the israelis. the list goes on and on about things that they've done. it's about the deal. he went on and gave a speech saying this would be the toughest inspections ever but knew that the deal would not allow us to inspect military facilities. where do we think they would build nuclear weapons? a military facility. now he wants to be an ambassador and anti-netanyahu. you took shots at him. this is the wong time to send someone like this there. the president is entitled to ambassadors but it can't be

someone who undermines in this moment our relationship with israel because of their past. >> gillian: yesterday the president went to israel, his primary takeaway deliverable to the american people upon his return was the announcement that u.s. intelligence has shown israel was not behind the attack at the gaza hospital. take a listen to, though, congresswoman tlaib following a pattern of some pro-palestinians in the house refuting or refusing to accept the president's claims. take a listen. >> this is just continuing to watch people think it's okay to bomb a hospital with children. you know, what's so hard sometimes is watching that and the people telling the kids

don't cry. president biden, not all of us are with you on this. >> gillian: she has not put forward any evidence to support her claims that israel is behind the bombing on the hospital contradicting the president and u.s. intel community. have you seen or heard anything behind the scenes on capitol hill that she has something to back up the claim. >> evidence that she is trying and she is parroting a hamas line. three things are important. we need to stop referring to the gaza ministry of health. it is the hamas ministry of health. senator warner, the chairman of the intelligence committee and i put out a statement together and reviewed the intelligence available not just israeli intelligence but u.s. intelligence and others. we are convinced. it was an israeli strike. there is video evidence it was a rocket that mal functioned and landed on this hospital. so look, at the end of the day

she is aligned with not just the palestinian cause but looked for was in the past to justify violence against jews in israel. they are leading to action. we see unrest in ayman and lebanon and growing unrest in the west bank. we see it developing all over the world. so when you go out and have people parroting the line that israel is targeting hospitals, it is going to lead to ancillary violence in all these other places and in many cases begins to threaten the governments of countries critical to stability in the middle east like jordan and lebanon and potentially like egypt. >> gillian: i could chat with you the rest of the morning. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> dana: president biden prepares to address the nation tonight on hamas's brutal attack a growing number of pro-palestinian protests are happening across the country. >> there is no peace without justice.

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bank yesterday. a refugee camp there. they rounded up some 80 wanted men in the west bank, 63 according to the idf were hamas operatives and they seized a number of weapons as well. air strikes continue to go into the gaza strip. the idf claims another high value target. an individual described as the head of hamas national security force. he was hit and killed in air strikes overnight. you still have the ground forces here camping, massing, staging along the gaza strip. they got a visit from the defense minister and gave them a pep talk. it sounded like the ground invasion is still imminent. >> the fight will be long. the fight will be hard. we will be shot precise and lethal. there will be a price we will need to pay until we complete the mission. >> the northern border is active every day as well. the israelis say they hit inside

of lebanon, hit a hezbollah observation point from which israel claims anti-tank fire was shot at israeli forces on the israel side of the border. back here to the gaza strip, we've seen the soldiers periodically looking for infiltrators. they got one yesterday. not clear when he crossed into israel but dehydrated and exhausted when they picked him up. >> dana: thank you. >> gillian: tonight on the heels of his trip to tel aviv president biden is set to address the nation on america's response to hamas terrorist attacks. biden will reportedly affirm his full support to israel and promise more major aid packages to the region. alexandria hoff joins us from the white house with the latest. >> tonight's oval office address will be a call to the american people and congress. while in tel aviv he said later this week he would ask lawmakers

for unprecedented support for israel's defense. it would come by way of more ammunition for the country's iron dome system to help protect themselves from missiles and according to the "new york times" the ask would be part of a $1 hundred billion military aid package to assist both israel and ukraine while arming taiwan and strengthening the u.s./mexico border. in a rare press availability on air force one yesterday he spoke to a deal made while abroad that will allow egypt to deliver supplies via trucks to civilians in gaza through the rafah border crossing. >> president biden: the need to support getting humanitarian aid to gaza. get it to gaza and do it quickly. >> the president announced $1 hundred million in aid for palestinians in gaza. part of a pre-authorized funding so congress is not needed to act on that. it comes with a condition. if hamas tries to touch the aid, it's gone, says the biden

administration. >> we believe the trucks will get into gaza in the next day or so. the president has been quite clear if we see that aid being misappropriated and taken essentially by hamas for its own purposes, that will affect the continued distribution of assistance. >> back to tonight's address, the expectation is that it will focus just as much on ukraine as it will israel. the president is hoping to gain bipartisan support for both of these democracies currently in peril. >> gillian: alex hoff, thank you. >> dana: let's bring in david freeman, a former u.s. ambassador to israel. good to see you this morning. can you tell us if there is any truth to reports that the u.s. is privately pushing israel not to initiate war with hezbollah as the northern border fighting intensifies? >> well, dana, thanks for having me. i am hearing that from sources. i haven't heard it from the open

sources but it is of some concern. i will tell you why. i should say the biden administration over the last 12, 13 days has been great bringing in the carriers, great, warning lebanon, warning hezbollah, warning iran, great. coming here, president biden coming to israel where i am 6,000 mile trip for just to give a hug, a real hug to the jewish people, very important. but signaling that israel's handcuffed in lebanon is sort of where i would find some criticism because as long as hezbollah hears. they hear it from multiple sources that israel is not able to engage in a preemptive strike because that's the consideration, if you will, for the gerald ford and dwight eisenhower being in the region. as long as hezbollah hears that they have no incentive to stop

the low intensity war. people are dying and getting killed and this low intensity can turn into a high intensity battle in a second if some significant loss of life occurs. so i wish that the biden administration would just give unqualified, unequivocal support to israel to defend itself as it sees fit. i don't think israel would do anything to start a massive war without clearing it first with american but at least don't telegraph the fact that israel is limited in the north. it is perpetuating the battle that's potentially very lethal. >> dana: what can you say about any possible disagreements within the israeli cabinet about what to do next? >> you know, i don't think there are disagreements per se. 12 days ago this was not on the agenda and now you have the worst attack on the jewish people since the holocaust. and the effort to go in and obliterate hamas is a worthy

goal and an important goal. i believe it will be -- it will occur. but the method of doing that, when do you go in and dana, here is the key point. when people ask me what can america do for israel. just give it time. if the military is calibrating its military response by a function of how much time they have, if they have to act quickly before they lose american support they'll move in too quickly and it will jeopardize any rescue of the hostages and i think it will result in unnecessary loss of life both for israel and for the palestinians. so israel should just be given the time it needs without handcuffs to rid out hamas. that's the most important thing america can give israel right now. >> dana: it has only been 12 days and people need to remember it takes time and care. my last question has to do with the president's speech tonight. as i recall from my time at the white house if you're a president you speak to several

audiences at once. the domestic audience, also your allies such as israel in this case but also your enemies. what will you be most interested to hear from the president tonight in the prime time address for the audience there in israel? >> look, i think the ultimate enemy here is iran. iran has its fingerprints on all these incursions, hamas, hezbollah. they are the leading state sponsor of terrorism. the president has i think been too charitable to iran over the last three years. their oil sales have gone from $7 billion to $42 billion a year in 2022. i hope he stops it. i hope he freezes the $6 billion and i hope he reinforces the sanctions and brings back the old sanctions. at the end of the day the messaging to iran is the most important international message the president can deliver. >> dana: ambassador friedman,

thank you. we'll be in touch. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> gillian: the son of one of hamas's founding members is speaking out against the hamas -- he converted to christianity after seeing the horrors. he joined fox and friends to explain his decision. >> i was born at the heart of hamas leadership and i know them very well. they don't care for the palestinian people. they don't regard the human life. and so their brutality firsthand back in 1996 when i spent a year and a half in the ghetto prison. they killed so many palestinian people at that time. what will they do? if they succeed in destroying israel and building their state what will they do? kill our people. >> dana: what an important interview and voice in this time. you can imagine it would be great if he could pay a visit to our capitol hill to visit

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>> gillian: hamas is holding 203 people from around the world war captive inside gaza. the family members of some israelis being held by hamas now fuming after netanyahu announced israel will let humanitarian aid without any concession for their loved ones. hard to believe hamas won't try to take control of that money. netanyahu's office says it will

intervene if hamas steals any of the humanitarian assistance. >> dana: rocky was one of the 52 victims of the iranian hostage crisis held for 444 days after militarized students took over the u.s. embassy in iran. i want to have you listen to president biden yesterday. call for number one, control room. this was when he was in israel talking to the families. >> president biden: for those living in limbo waiting desperately to learn the fate of a loved one, especially to families of the hostages, you are not alone. we're working with partners throughout the region pursuing every avenue to bring home those who are being held captive by hamas. let me assure you, for me as the american president, there is no higher priority than release and safe return of all these hostages. >> dana: rocky, i know your circumstances were different but

still you were held hostage for all of those days, 444 days. great to have you here. your reaction to the president's comments yesterday and what you think these hostages are going through right now. >> well, number one, we must continue to pray for those individuals not only for the hostages but also the families that they are going through so much. but dana, you know, 44 years ago the war on terrorism started the day that the islamic republic of iran attacked the american embassy using women as shields as they broke through the basement and just as you heard that story about gaza, having a missile launcher right next to a hospital. it is their fingerprints all over this thing. it is very sad. >> dana: the president didn't specifically mention american hostages yesterday and probably unlikely that they are getting any sort of information but what might it be like for them? what are they feeling right now? >> you know, back in 1979, dana, as we were talking earlier, you

were about seven years old but 75 the vietnam war had just ended. here i was sitting there tied to a chair for the first 30 days thinking if nobody remembered the vietnam veterans who will remember the americans being held hostage? ted coppel of night line news nest places had started to day 300, 400. people were tying yellow ribbons. we as americans should never forget those individuals that are over there and we must work diligently again sadly enough, the islamic republic of iran has done this for 44 years. they have humiliated every president that we have had and here they are to this day doing the same thing. >> dana: a good point, rocky. listen to this mother of a girl who was taken hostage by the hamas terrorists. >> the first reaction was

screaming and shouting. the other reaction was the happiest moment in my life and the third reaction after everybody went home and i sat alone and watched the video, i couldn't stop crying because i see my baby in pain. >> dana: you had family and a loved one, your fiance waiting for you. >> yes, i did. you know, my poor parents, my mother, she fainted the day that she was told i was taken hostage. they then coming from a small town in missouri, population 50. they had media living in their hard for 424 days. it took a toll on them. she was a very religious. my parents taught me love of family, faith and country. i never forgot those three things and such a strain not only on myself but my parents and yes the young girl that i

had met right before i went over there. she had waited for me for 444 days and we've been married 42 wonderful years. and a wonderful job i have with folds of honor, there were eight people that lost their lives in an attempted rescue operation. i never forget those eight individuals. each day i earn my -- each day of living in memory of those eight by giving my support that provide scholarships to children and spouses of fallen disabled militaries and first responders. >> dana: rocky, your release along with the others was my earliest political memory. i can remember just like yesterday with the green carpet and the tv that you had to turn the dial. i was glued to the coverage and it is an honor for me to meet you. thank you for what you do for folds of honor as well. let's stay in touch. thank you, rocky. >> thank you. >> gillian: right now new video into the newsroom of u.s. cargo

planes arriving in israel. >> this is a u.s. cargo plane delivering armored vehicles to israel. one of the first such deliveries of heavy equipment to the israelis since hamas terrorists attacks on israeli territory. you can see the vehicles there part of an ongoing commitment that president biden has talked about. the u.s. currently sends $4 billion a year in aid to israel. president biden has vowed to step that up. he is likely to talk about that in address tonight. they are talking about increasing it by as much as $10 billion. this is the first practical display of that aid arriving at the airport just outside tel aviv. these vehicles designed to replace some of those that have

been damaged in the ongoing fighting in israel. this is the first practical sign we have seen of that stepped up u.s. aid to israel in the wake of those hamas terrorist attacks, gillian. >> gillian: jonathan hunt in l.a. this hour. thank you. [explosions] >> dana: israel's military hitting hamas targets in gaza city where cold blooded terrorists are using people as -- israel forces seek to weaken hamas clearing the way for a possible ground invasion. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. bill is off today. great to be with you. >> gillian: i'm gillian turner. israel has approved the delivery of humanitarian relief to gaza as long as it doesn't go through any israeli territory. 20 trucks filled with food,

water, medical supplies are set to cross through the rafah gate with the border with egypt. israel is hitting hezbollah position after taking fire from tank missiles. the u.s. embassy is urging americans in beirut to make plans to depart as soon as possible. >> dana: president biden is back at the white house. he will be addressing the nation tonight in a prime time address following yesterday's visit to israel. we have fox team coverage for you. mark meredith is at the pentagon. hillary vaughn on capitol hill. first greg palkot is live in northern israel along the border with lebanon. what are you seeing there today? >> we're here at the israel/lebanon border. a little rainy at the moment. in recent days we've been watching israel duke it out with the iranian-backed hezbollah militants as the whole region royals in turmoil. clashes spread to istanbul over