had a bit -- >> colonel lleyton, we'll interrupt you real quick because we do have erin back, but stayh us. because we're still going back and forth. >> reporter: whoa, it's right above us. >> do we have you back now? >> reporter: you do. you do. you might have just missed we had a whole lot of them come in. if you give us another second, we'll see if there are more. very loud and close. to the cadence of dome, have a different sound when they're above you. it's a lot louder than when you see them on the horizon from your position. >> erin, can you give a sense of how often this is happening right now, at least based on your position since you've been there. we have been talking to you since the top of the hour. >> reporter: i would say since the top of the hour here we're about 38 minutes into your show, i mean, dozens upon dozens of rockets have come into this right above us and on the horizon near gaza from where we are. it's been every few minutes. we had a barrage that you all saw live on the show, dozens of them. two or three minute break then more. right before you just talked t

. >> colonel lleyton, this begins as the ground invasion begun. u.s.pecial operators have been with them in the course of the last several weeks in a supervisory. are you surprised it took this long for the first special operations effort or do you belief the ground incursion was critical to that? >> i'm not surprised it took that long, phil. i think the key thing to realize here with this is that it takes a long time to get the intel right. so they needed to know where she was. she may have been moved between the 7th of october when the hamas attacks occurred and she was captured to the time that she was reunited with her family. and taken, of course, by the idf and the isa. so, this is one of those areas where it becomes really critical to prepare that battle space and go in and actually find these people exactly where they are at that moment in time. and that's one of the most difficult tactical intelligence tasks that the israeli forces have at this point. but it could mean that they can do this again. but now that this has happened, they also have

. >> colonel lleyton, stay with us.e'll come back to you throughout the course of the hour. >>> i want to turn now to the biden administration response. president biden confirming that americans are known to be among the hostages held by hamas after its rampage over the weekend. at least 20 americans are currently unexpected for in israel according to the administration, though it's not clear they were all taken as hostages. we're learning more about some of them now. adrian's daughter and son were on the phone with her when they heard attackers break into her home and then a scream and then nothing. 23-year-old hersh poland, we spoke to his parents. hersh loves music festivals and was at the music festival on saturday when hamas began taking hostages. they heard he and a friend took grenades that landed in the shelter and threw them back out. he was badly injured. relatives of people like adrian and hersh asking for help from the u.s. government. >> the u.s. government has direct responsibility to the lives of the u.s.