We're covering some very significant stories tonight.

We've been working on really for much of the week about

I'm going to break down for you with only the legal facts and evidence

is actually strengthening Jack Smith's hand in the DOJ case which is the first criminal

case of any major stature that Donald Trump will see himself go on trial.

That is remember coming up in March.

So that special report will be part of this opening segment of our broadcast in a few moments.

But our top story is the escalating crisis in the Middle East with Israel

pounding Gaza with these massive explosions that are heard through the night over there.

You can see some of what we have been able to capture from our aerial cameras.

And that's 1 a.m. now on the dot in Gaza at local time.

This is according to the experts and the accounts that we have some of the heaviest bombing of the war so far.

It also matches that is to say what we've seen in the field matches what Israel has been

expressing quite candidly or bluntly and publicly today which is that they are dialing this up tonight.

So Israel says they are increasing the quote ground operations in Gaza.

They say they also have specific targets including what they believe is identified

under ground terrorist infrastructure a reference to the caves that Hamas the tunnels and caves that Hamas has built and used.

Now Gaza is also under a near total internet and cellular blackout.

So they don't have good communications with the outside world.

This is some of the footage we have from earlier Friday in Gaza City.

The United States also we should tell you as you look at the threat and the concerns about a widening regional set of conflicts carried out

two air strikes in Syria Syria which is on the northern border of Israel.

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