let me go back to clarissa for a moment. those talks are supposed to take place either in cairo or doha, qatar, on thursday this coming thursday, what are we hearing? >> well, the first thing i would just say is that hamas has not yet said whether they will even attend the talks. so there is already that question mark hanging over. does this strike in gaza gruesome and horrific as it was? does that put something of a question mark around what hamas's response might be, what the response is. well, of countries like qatar, like egypt, arab nations that feel huge amounts of pressure from their own people to really show that they're taking a strong hand against israel but also feel a huge amount of pressure to deliver peace the thing we are hearing again and again, wolf is people questioning and not just an arab countries in the west too? israel really sincere at this stage about wanting peace and that obviously comes into question much more when you have a strike, like we saw today, but diplomats from all over the world are fur

clarissa, thanks so much. and ben wedeman to you he wouldn't beirut and both egypt and jordan have joined a growing chorus of nations condemning this latest attack. what does this strike potentially mean for those talks? fox now fredricka, before i get to that, let me just tell you within the last hour and a half is rarely war planes have flown yet again for the third third time since last tuesday over beirut, breaking the sound barrier. this is something people are slowly getting accustomed to hear but because this is also something israeli warplanes regularly break the sound barrier over southern lebanon but over beirut is really seen as a message not only to his bullet, but lebanon as a whole a warning not to retaliate for last week's israeli assassination of a senior his butler commander. now regarding reaction to that strike on the shelter in gaza that killed more than 90 people were seeing jordan and egypt, two countries that have peace treaties with israel, peace treaties increasingly strained as the ga

clarissa ward, as usual, will continue these conversations right now. i want to bring in a u.s. military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hertling. he's a former us army commander, commanding general for europe and the seventh army general, let's talk, take a quick look at the estimate of his bellas military assets israeli officials and others suspect hizballah may have as many as 150,000 missiles and rockets in lebanon. and arsenal barely dented by the cross-border attacks, at least so far since october. and hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah says his group can field more than 100,000 fighters, potentially general to be clear, hezbollah, even without iran, poses an enormous, very significant military threat to israel right now, how big of a deal is this? >> it's a big deal wolf. and first of all, i'm going to reinforce what ben wedeman just said. it's not just 150,000 rockets and missiles, which we've known about since the start of this war. and prior to the war. but it's the potential new weapon systems. and i'd add to that the potential for the use of various types of d

clarissa standby, i want to go to kevin liptack. he is in washington for us. kevin, what is the white house saying about all of this? >> well, they are voicing some very serious consternation at this israeli strike, but also saying that it makes more urgent than necessity to bring about the ceasefire and hostage deal that president biden is so urgent gently trying to work toward a spokesman for the national security council saying, today we are deeply concerned about reports of civilian casualties in gaza following a strike by the israel defense forces on a compound that included a school the spokesman went on to say, we are in touch with our israeli counterparts who have said they targeted senior hamas officials you're asking for further details. now, the spokesman does point out that hamas has a history of using these types of facilities to gather an operate out of. but says that israel still must take measures to minimize civilian harm. of course, that has been the message from the white house. and president biden for the last several months, but it's not c

heartbreaking to see those scenes indeed, clarissa, thank you very much. clarissa ward reporting for for us the meantime, israel has been bracing for days now for retaliation, strike from iran and its proxy hizballah, raising a lot of concern that the conflict could become a much wider regional war. iran has vowed, would it cause blood vengeance after hamas leader was killed in tehran last week, around hamas blame israel though israel has not confirmed or denied responsibility, israel is taking credit for killing a top hezbollah commander in beirut lebanon last week, the u.s. is warning of a quote, major escalation if iran were to launch this retaliatory attack. and hezbollah says it is ready to strike israel, independent of iran. sources are telling cnn that could happen potentially within days. cnn ben wedeman is covering all of this. he's joining us live from beirut right now. then hizballah and israel have been exchanging fire enough for weeks. how much worse potentially could this get i could get much worse. >> i mean, actually they've been exchanging

wolf yeah. >> and clarissa, as you and i well know, we're both here in tel aviv. >> a lot of israelis want these negotiations to succeed. so these hostages finally, after so many days and months, could finally come back to israel. its it's a tense situation. what are you hearing first of all, right. now, clarissa, about the situation inside gaza. >> well, i would argue wolf a long, particularly with those hostage families, there is nobody who once a ceasefire deal more than the people of gaza. and particularly at the moment, we are seeing another offensive taking place in the beleaguered city of khan younis. this is the third for time that the idf has announced operations in khan younis. they most recently pulled their troops out around july 30. so this is feeding into this fear that many on the idf side have that hamas is just continuing to regroup after the idf pulls out of different areas. most importantly, it is creating an absolutely hellish such situation for the people who have been sheltering in khan younis, many of whom have been displaced 56, even seven times wolf. and we've

. >> i'm joined right now by cnn's chief international correspondent, clarissa ward. she's here with me in television. cnn, jerusalem from correspondent jeremy diamond is joining us from haifa in northern israel, not that far from lebanon and see it as chief national security correspondent, alex marquardt is watching all of this unfold in washington. alex so what would be the significance? first of all, the significance if hezbollah were to strike israel first? >> well wolf, it would show that hezbollah is willing to hit israel independently without the support or the recognition of iran. it would mean that they're not doing it in conjunction. but of course that could just be the first wave of an attack and iran could follow what we're being told by sources is that hezbollah appears ready to act independently, that they're farther, farther along in their planning process. they're targeting process of, of israel while iran still appears to be making up its mind about what is going to do. one us military official told my colleague katie bo lillis that ron is moving piec

you're cnn's clarissa ward with more on the attack the strike hit before dawn as worshippers gathered to perform the fuzzer prayer shortly after rescue workers arrived to a scene from hell does not have the meeting was daddy it's girl screams. where is daddy amid the carnage? there is no way to know the answer. the ground is covered with blood and bodies but it is the whaling that is perhaps most harrowing gaza's civil defense says that around 6,000 people were sheltering at the altai by an islamic school compound in gaza city. many had recently arrived from the north after the idf issued new evacuation orders, there mohamad comforts her son, sobbing over the loss of his father they were all in pieces and dismembered. she says, i went to look for my husband and i couldn't identify anybody. they were all dismembered israel defense forces claim the strike targeted hamas and islamic jihad fighters and says approximately 20 to 25 militants were killed cnn cannot verify the number of casualties or if any combatants were among the dead but video from the scene shows the remnants of one muni

let's first go to clarissa ward in tel aviv. what more are you learning about the strike? >> so fredricka, this strike took place just before dawn. worshippers were gathering to pray the fuzzer prayer they were for sheltering according to gaza civil defense roughly 6,000 people in this tobii, an islamic school in mosque compound inside gaza city. a number of them had actually arrived recently being displaced from northern gaza, where the idf has recently issued evacuation orders. again now, according s2 gaza civil defense, there were roughly 200 people who were gathered in the room to pray fuzzer when the strike occurred. and the footage that we are seeing and i should warn our viewers, it is very distressing footage indeed is truly horrific. just showing scores of people body parts, blood, all over the floor. we have been able to confirm just through going through that footage, that there were certainly women and children among the dead, according to gaza's civil defense 11 children killed six women killed a total of more than 93 killed. although the al-ahli bummed danny

ward is joining us now from tel aviv clarissa for a while now, there has been a real fear and israeley were going to have to deal with attacks on two fronts. at the same time. what do you make of what the sources are saying well, it's interesting because when you've listened to speeches, sara from sayyid hassan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah. >> he's sort of left it open as two whether iran would act on its own whether it would act in coordination with its proxies, whether hezbollah would act on its own. and we don't know what's been going on hi, i'm the scenes whether iran and hezbollah have reached some kind of an agreement or consensus that hezbollah is free to pursue unilateral action against israel and that iran may or may not joining with that. at some point in the future. but what we do know for sure is that as strike from hezbollah now appears to be the primary concern. we haven't seen any change in the posture of israel's home command front. there hasn't been any directives terms of being more circumspect about your actions and your day-to-day routines. other than those

cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward is live in tel aviv, israel for us. but let's start at the pentagon now with cnn pentagon correspondent oren liebermann or and what are you hearing from officials there tonight boris, this is arguably the largest shift of us forces to the middle east, to the region since the beginning of the war. >> now the u.s. sending a carrier strike group with the uss abraham lincoln to the region that will replace a strike group that is currently operating in the gulf of oman. but that's not it according to a statement from the pentagon defense secretary lloyd austin, also ordered destroyers and cruisers, both to the middle east end of the mediterranean sea. those warships are capable of intercepting ballistic missiles. and that's something we've seen before in the iranian barrage that was launched on april 13 or in may it april, it was destroyers, us destroyers in the mediterranean sea that intercepted several of those launches. so they may be in position to do that once again, depending on what iran is anticipated, retaliation lo

clarissa, what more are we learning about what happened in gaza? >> this strike took place just after or during the pfizer prayer. that is the dawn prayer, according to gaza civil defense, there were roughly 200 people who were gathered in the room at least 93 had been killed but they're saying 11 of them were children, six of them were women. i can tell you, wolf, we have been going through this footage for the better part of the day. it is extremely disturbing looks like a scene from a horror movie honestly, fires were still going when rescue workers arrived on the scene. just absolutely the gruesome scenes. now the idf has said that there were islamic jihad militants and also hamas commanders who were present. they dispute gaza civil defense casualty figures. they say they believe that 2020 he five militants were killed. i will say they haven't provided proof to show us that cnn has obviously not able were not able to work independently on the ground and gaza and we're not able to verify the casualty rate or to ascertain whether there were comba

clarissa, what are you learning? there is a great deal of fear of attacks coming both from iran and from hezbollah that's right sara, and we have some new reporting from cnn contributor barak ravid for axios. so he is reporting that secretary of state tony blinken has actually called g7 ministers to warn them that that attack, that retaliation that everyone has been anticipating led by iran could take place as soon as today here in israel, the home front command still has not changed the alerts that as people are going about their lives, as usual jewel there was however, a back-and-forth between israel and hezbollah overnight, hezbollah claiming that it had attacked a military base with attack drones israel saying that it intercepted those drones and that it hits several hezbollah targets in inside lebanon. also some rockets, according thanks to the idf being fired from gaza and operations continuing intensively inside the gaza strip. sara throughout the weekend, at least two schools which were being used as shelters

this coming week, cnn's clarissa ward is joining me here in tel aviv. clarissa around just weighed in on the ceasefire talks. what are they saying? >> so this is interesting wolf, because we've been talking a lot recently about whether iran could be persuaded to put off some kind of a retaliation with an emphasis on those ceasefire agreements. we now have this statement from iran permanent mission to the un, where they give the biggest clue yet they say, our priority is to establish a lasting ceasefire in gaza. any agreement accepted by hamas will also be right recognized by us, the israeli regime has violated our national security and sovereignty through its recent act of terrorism. we have the legitimate right to self-defense. a matter totally unrelated to the gaza ceasefire. however, we hope that our response will be timed and conducted in a manner not to the detriment of the potential season as far that seems to leave iran with wiggle room to at least avert a retaliation while still withholding its right to defense defend itself after the assassinat

clarissa ward. clarissa, what more are you learning about this? and also this compound so amara, this is horrific massacre even by the standards of what we have seen in gaza over the last ten months, save the children saying that it is the deadliest single attack on a school compound since october, obviously school is not in session in gaza, but this was acting as a de facto shelter for displaced people according to the gaza civil defence, about 6,000 people were sheltering there. >> 200 of them had gathered before dawn for the fuzzer prayer. it's the first prayer of the day in islam when that strike landed and as you said, we can't confirm the death toll. gaza civil defense saying at least 93 people killed, including 11 children and six women. i can say amara, that i have been scrolling through horrifying images and video from the site. and it is very clear that there are scores of dead, that there are women and children, and clearly civilians among the dead, the id yeah, if israel defense forces,

ward is live in tel aviv clarissa, how is israel preparing for this imminent response by iran? >> well, so far, paula, the atmosphere here is still relatively calm. we did attend a rally last night. it, was notable that many of the people attending that they had hesitated to go, that they were somewhat scared about this and highly anticipated spawns from iran, from hezbollah or whatever that response might look like. we are starting to see preparations beginning. we spoke to a hospital, a hospital? but all here in tel aviv that says it has cleared out a below ground parking lot of all cars so that it can potentially be used to treat patients that there was some kind and it was strike, we have also heard from jerusalem's municipality, which has urged people to prepare and clean their shelters to make sure that wherever they go they are able to get to a shelter within 90 seconds, which is the amount of time they would have from an alert been given. and also telling people to stock top on supplies to basically be prepared for potentially a power outage of several days also one of

wolf alex marquardt and clarissa ward, to both of you. thanks very much. we're going to stay on top of this story. obviously the stakes are enormous back in the united states. meanwhile, both the democratic and republican ticket's are taking their messages straight to the voters right now, it's an all-out swing states sprint with just what 90 days to go. oh, until election day in the united states, camila harris that are newly announced running mate, tim walz, are headed to the midwest right now stumping today in both wisconsin and michigan. that's where the gop jd vance is holding campaign event in michigan and will then head straight to wisconsin later this afternoon democrats embrace the minnesota governor in his debut last night in philadelphia, we all watched it live right here on cnn. and while harris is eager for voters to get to know walls, trump and his allies are already on the attack. painting the democrat, as quote, dangerously liberal. they're also slamming his response to the civil unrest following the murder of george floyd back in minnesota

last week, cnn's clarissa ward is in israel. nic robertson is in saudi arabia.ay, the organization of islamic cooperation met in jeddah, saudi arabia where you are to discuss hamas leader ismail haniyeh's assassination. what are you hearing about that meeting and the possibility of an attack? back on israel yes. >> the media lasted about four hours, 50 or so foreign ministers. interestingly, diplomat i think least significant because it kind of looks like a bit of a snub the saudi foreign minister, his home soil, he wasn't there. the deputy foreign minister was that iran came into this wanting to get the hold of the ioc to condemn israel for killing ismail haniyeh on their territory. of course, they hadn't said they did it, but the oic believes they did also they got unity on criticizing israel for deaths of palestinians in gaza. and they got a call for the un from the oic for the un to get more actively engaged and push for a ceasefire in gaza. now, while that, because diplomatically at the moment that sun as a potential off-ramp for iran. if iran is told look

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clarissa, what more do we know amra, a truly horrific attack these people were gathered for the dawn prayer, the fuzzer prayer, approximately according to the gaza civil defense 200 of them gathered in a sort of prayer room to carry out that prayer. when an airstrike hit the building and according to the gaza civil defense, as you said, at least 90 people were killed. this is the fifth strike on it. the school in just the last week, the 17th strike on a school in the last month, these schools obviously are not in session, but they are being used to house the many, many displaced almost everyone in gaza is displaced at this stage or has been displaced many on multiple occasions, the scenes of the aftermath are just horrifying. we have been sifting through some of the most disturbing video i have ever seen. among the dead clearly evidence of women of many children, even of a baby and so there is a real fear that this could call into question all of these efforts that are being made by the u.s. by the qataris, by the egyptians to try to broker a ceasefire because of the level of violenc

clarissa ward there live for us in tel aviv, john. >> all right. with us now is retired army major mike lyons major. thanks so much for being with us. what kind of strategy are you predicting are anticipating from iran? >> so israelis had the advantage of having an enemy that's not coordinated, synchronized their attacks in the past. so this time if they don't want to be embarrassed, like they were last time they through the basically the kitchen sink at them, they'll look at four possible avenues of attack. the first one is coming from, from yemen. >> well, let me just give you run. >> going from this direction. you'll see likely attacks coming in from iraq, from syria, proxies. you'll see hezbollah rockets come this way and then likely from iran, it's self rockets coming over the horizon. and then in plus, if you look at if you look at the area where they're most vulnerable, and that's kinda let's right here. and i'm concerned about, i'm concerned about the fact that if if the jordanians don't get involved, if the jordanians will get involved the

cnn's clarissa ward is in tel aviv for us. kayla tausche is at the white house. clarissa. let's start with you. are there indications? that iran is close to taking military action against israel well, the latest indication that we heard jake was earlier this morning local time when a spokesperson for iran's foreign ministry essentially reiterated what iran has already said before, that, it would be nice necessary to inflict some kind of punishment. >> he did say that iran did not seek to escalate tensions more broadly across the region, but made it very clear that there would be some kind of response. now, interestingly, here in israel, the home front command has just put out another statement on x basically saying that they have not changed or given any directive meaning that there is no heightened state of alert so far here on the ground in israel, we have seen obviously a huge amount of activity in terms of comings and goings. we had the head of centcom, general, erik kurilla in town today, you have had the minister of defense here. you have golan to having conversation

cnn's clarissa ward covered navalny extensively joins us now from tel aviv clarissa, i was surpriseduch jake said about where things were before alexey navalny's death do we know anything more about how close this came to actually getting across the finish line? >> well, i can tell you, phil because i was in communication with yulia navalnaya's team and others who were very closely working towards alexei's release as part of this broader swap and really up until his death, which came as a huge shock just so many there was a deep sense of optimism that this deal was going to be pulled off, that there were many different moving parts, but that all of the stars might just align in such a way that would allow for navalny to be released along with the others who we saw today. and i think it's a demonstrator striation of the huge heart of the navalny's family that they released this statement today saying that they wept with tears of joy to see vladimir kara-murza, evan gershkovich, paul whelan and all the others who were released as part of today to be finally free but there's no question

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command and control center in the compound, but cnn cannot verify that, at least not yet seen as clarissawe've been tel aviv watching all of this unfold. what is the latest clarissa well, international condemnation has been pouring in. >> this was a particularly gruesome attack, wolf, according to gaza's civil defense of the 93 who were killed, 11 of them were children six of them were women and i do want to caution our viewers again, that's some of the images in this report are incredibly distressing the strike hit before dawn as worshippers gathered to perform the fuzzer prayer shortly after rescue workers arrived to a scene from hell i'm not going to be meeting with daddy. this bruce where is daddy? amid the carnage? there is no way to know the answer the ground is covered with blood and bodies but it is the whaling that is perhaps most harrowing gaza's civil defense says that around 6,000 people were sheltering at the altai by an islamic school compound in gaza city. many had recently arrived from the north after the idf issued new evacuation orders, there mohamad comforts her son, so

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cnn's clarissa ward joins us with the latest clarissa, what do we know about how israel and the united states are preparing now for this expected retaliation from iran and perhaps also its proxies in the region well, john, of course, the u.s. has now announced that it is sending another carrier strike group to replace one currently near by, but it's also sending a warship fighter squadron additional warships. >> and this is coming as israel is taking a slightly different tone not urging anyone to change their daily plans the home front command hasn't issued any warnings, but we are seeing signs of preparations. >> we've spoken to hospital today. who said that they are moving there rather that they've moved all of the cars out of this underground parking lot to prepare it for patients potentially usually, if there was some kind of a strike, we've also heard from the municipality in jerusalem issuing instructions to people to make sure that their shelters already that they can be accessed within 97 seconds and crucially to make sure that they have enough supplies to last if there's a pot

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it would not be until 32 years later that the mex women clarissa mcman served in the board of supervisorsst it came as a surprise when i became as supervisor. i was working as a deputy director in the yo]r's office and there were some challenges with the then supervisor mayor gavin newsom at the time removed that supervisor from office. i was asked to serve on the role. it was a i got into public service because i really believe that government is a place where you can create opportunities and level the playing field. >> madam clerk, would you please call the roll. >> i was on the board of supervisors from 2001 to 20111. i have been involved in working my community, there was scheduling to be ■a redevelopment area plan and as african americans we knew that meant, that was usually a removal of certain kinds of people. so because fs path, there had to be a committee formed of all community. everybody had to be involved in this committee and there were certain rules and regulations and we had to get neighbors to vote for us and so we did that and i did that, and i won the seat on that commit

it started 12 years ago when clarissa wilson was in sixth grade.ut, so she sent us these photos of this year's event. it always is held on the first weekend of august this year. she again collaborated with several sponsors, including the warriors and o'donnell foils foils, kerosene lamp foundation. the contra costa health services also provided free school required vaccines for hundreds of children. at the event, miss wilson says it's hard to believe how much the event has grown, so just to see how it's grown over the years to touch so many families within the whole county has really been truly amazing, >> i don't even have the words to express how it makes me feel as a person, but i just think that, you know, god gave me this, passion. and i've been really lucky to continue it, through college, through high school, having received my bachelor's, working on my master's, and still making sure to prioritize this event every year, miss wilson is also started the forever me foundation and says the goal is to have a fully established program that incorp

it would not be until 32 years later that the mex women clarissa mcman served in the board of supervisorsen women have continued to make significant contributions to the board of supervisors. so who are these women? and what impact have they made with their time on the board. >> to be honest it came as a surprise when i became as a supervisor. i was working as a deputy director in the mayor's office and there were some challenges with the then supervisor and mayor gavin newsom at the time removed that supervisor from office. i was asked to serve on the role. it was a quick transition, but i got into public service because i really believe that government is a place where create opportunities and level the playing field. >> madam >> i was on the board of supervisors from 2001 to 20111. i have been involved in working my community, there was scheduling to be a redevelopment area plan and as african americans we knew that meant, that was usually a removal of certain kinds of people. so because fs path, there had to be a committee formed of all the people that lived in the community. everybod