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Cnns cedrick prankins was where air raid sirens went off. One sounded when i was on the air with Cnn International anchor colleen mcedwards. Heres what happened. Reporter the crews working on the ground and that seems to indeed be part of all of the rocket that has handed here. People here spend most of their days indoors there is another attack. Theres another rocket alert going on right now. Weve got to get out of here. Okay, go, fred. There you see it, a strike in ashca lan, just a short time ago, were seeing pictures there, weve got the pictures you up as fred and our camera crew get out of the way. The sirens sounding again in ashcalan, a sign that another strike is coming. Can we listen here . Reporter now we have the impact. Colleen, we can stay on. Were with you. Reporter you still there . Yes, were with you. Go ahead. Reporter okay. Colleen, basically what just happened is the air sirens went off, and we then ran to a sort of a shelter we have right here. This is a residential building that were in right here. Were sort of in the house. We heard one impact just now, which appears to be from a rocket. The alarms seem to have died down. Were going to get up and wait. No, down . Stay down . Okay, were going to stay down, actually, for a little bit. It seems as though some people are getting up again. The alarm sirens seem to have died down and now i see people going back on the street again. But we did hear an impact that seemed to be somewhat in the distance, but certainly here in the caashcalan area. As you can see, these rocket attacks having a big effect on people. One of the big differences between the conflict and the last four between israel and hamas that left 1,400 people dead is israels iron dorm Defense System. Weve heard a lot about it, and its playing a big part in stopping rocket attacks, but the Missile Shield can only do so much. Here again is cnns frederick plightkin. Reporter a kill that possibly saved lives on the ground. This video shows an iron dome missile intercepting a rocket fired from gaza at tel aviv sunday. The Defense System had just been installed at israels largest city a few hours earlier. Several days into the conflict, its already clear, the iron dome is having a big impact, picking off hundreds of rockets. I got a tour of the israel aircraft industrys plant that assembles the air Defense System. This doctor is one of those in charge. One key element is an advanced radar. The radar searches, locates, tracks and intercepts and guides the intercepting missiles within several seconds, few seconds within the launching time. Reporter its extremely hard to shoot down shortdistance rockets like the ones coming out of gaza in part because theyre not in the air long enough for older Radar Systems to lock on to them. The target is moving extremely fast. When you want to intercept it, you have to work you have to move faster with more agility, with more man youvering power relative to your market. Reporter the iron dome was put into service in 2011. With breakthroughs and technology, can it can detect and shoot through targets in mid air. But it isnt perfect, this is the aftermath of a rocket strike in ashcalan. One came here and hit this car port and you can see did substantial damage to the car, as well. The iron dome system has been billed as a gamechanger in this conflict, but as hits like this show, it cannot intercept all of the rockets coming at israel from gaza. Still, israels military says its very happy with the performance of the intercepter system. Rockets are usually down. Usually these rockets, the ones sent from the gaza strip from the terrorist factions towards bigger cities, where you have more people living. We usually down them. But its not a 100 solution, unfortunately. Reporter and so the engineers at the Assembly Plant are working extra hours to assemble more iron dome batteries for immediat immediate deployment. A story about the death of a 4yearold boy in gaza. The childs death got a lot of attention after his body was kissed by egypts Prime Minister during a tour of a gaza hospital. We need to warn you about the video youre about to see. Its heartbreaking and may be considered disturbing to many of our viewers. For our report, cnn visited the childs home that neighbors said had been bombed five hours previously. Neighbors and family members told cnn they heard an aircraft before the explosion. The Israeli Military told cnn today it did not carry out any air strikes at the time of the childs death. The Israeli Defense force says it stopped attacks because of the visit of egypts Prime Minister, raising questions about what cause the fatal blast. Among the other possibilities, the misfire of an hamas rocket intended for israel. Cnns crew in gaza said it saw two rockets passing overhead, apparently fired not far from where the boy lived. Since the air strikes began wednesday, at least 65 palestinians and 3 israelis have been killed and neither side is showing any signs of backing down. Cnns Senior International correspondent sarah sidner is in gaza city right now. Sara, what is the situation like there now where you are . Reporter not sure you can hear that buzzing sound but thats the sound of the drone. Those have been in the sky all day for the past four days. Weve been listening to that sound and after that youll hear the sound of planes flying overhead and air strikes. Were also seeing quite a few rockets coming out of gaza, in particular some areas of gaza city in very densely populated areas, seeing the trail of smoke and sometimes actually hearing those rockets shoot their way towards israel. A lot of concern, obviously, on the ground by people just, you know, kind of trying to go about their daily lives. Most things are closed here. Most of the businesses are shuttered. There are very few people in the streets. In some of the neighborhoods where the air strikes have happened, were seeing more people come out in those neighborhoods looking around and trying to assess the damage, maybe pull things out of some of the homes that have been hit. But certainly, this is not the kind of city to be completely quiet and lately it has been eerily quiet. Very few people in the streets at night. If there are cars, speeding to get to their destination. No one wants to be out at night in particular. Don . You can absolutely bet that. Sara, take us to the streets and whats happening there. People are interested in whats going on in gaza. And we keep saying people are being injured, people are dying. And we should say, its not just israelis, obviously. Palestinians are dying as well. And im hearing a lot of people saying we want to hear more about these people and what exactly whats happening to them. Reporter sure. Men, women, children, certainly some militants have been taken out and there have been a few commanders of the hamas military wing. And isra and israel saying theyre looking for top brass of the hamas government, as well. And thats why you hear those drones. Theyre trying to do these targeted strikes. In some cases they have. In other cases, people on the ground are saying they have either missed or targeted an area where there are so many people that there are a lot of people getting hurt, a lot of people getting killed. We do know that the hospitals have been dealing with men, women and children. And weve seen for ourselves children coming in with things like shrapnel wounds, many children have also been killed, as well. We also know, though, there are quite a few militants who have also been killed, especially those from hamas military wing. So, of course, theres concern on the ground whenever they hear the sound of the drones, they hear the sound of the air strikes, anywhere near their neighborhood, it really does rattle you quite a bit. There has also been a lot of activity and a lolot of action the past 48 hours from the sea, something that seems to be ratcheted up over the past 48 hours. Were hearing a lot of bangs and booms, and artillery fire coming in from the israeli navy thats off the coast of gaza. Sara sidner reporting. Thank you for your reporting. It has been nearly three weeks since Hurricane Sandy. Many are still without electricity, water and heat. The federal response to the disaster is being heavily criticized. Straight ahead, well talk live with the head of femas Recovery Efforts about what, if anything, could have been done differently. As station about once a month. Last time i was at a gas station was about. I would say. Two months ago. I very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. 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Vice President Joe Biden is in new jersey, visiting areas destroyed by superstorm sandy. Biden visited a Volunteer Fire Department in sea side heights, meeting First Responders who lost their homes. He talked about his personal connection to the region and pledged longterm help. Nearly three weeks after the storm, only about 2,000 people are still without power in new york and new jersey. More than 900 of those are on long island. Meanwhile, the red cross continues to see an outpouring of support. As of friday morning, the Relief Agency raised 145 million. Many communities are still reeling from the aftermath of sandy, but the most difficult time may be to come. Joining me now from new york, federal coordinating officer mike burn. He is in charge of femas Recovery Efforts. Youre a native new yorker, former new york firefighter, worked on the Recovery Team after 9 11. I mean, this has to be a tough time for you. How is this recovery from this disaster different . Well, its just the sheer enormality in terms of egravy. 9 11, most of the impact was confined to lower manhattan. This is taking up the greater part of three states. We all remember, you know, after hurricane katrina, the fema trailers. Do you think fema is doing a better job this time around, and its just, as you said, because of the normality of the situation that there may be some criticism of the job that fema is doing . Its not my job my job is to think we always need to do more. And thats what im focused on. I think theres some things that have gone incredibly well. For example, the dewatering of the tunnels and the subways. Over 475 million gallons of water were removed. I dont think anybody predicted it would be done this fast, given the sheer scale of it. The fema assistance that weve gotten on the ground, we have over half a billion dollars in the hands of survivors. And new york alone. But thats not enough. We know weve got to do more. Theres a huge challenge for housing, because of the just the lack of available rental and hotel space. Yeah. Mr. Burn, our deborah ferric talked to residents on Staten Island on thursday. Lets listen. No Government Agency has shown up here to do anything to help us. So these people from the goodness of their heart have come here to help me. Reporter if you ask people who is helping, who is it . Is it the official people . No. Its the everyday people that are coming out. But its not the government. Let me tell you. Weve heard that over and over and over from people. There are six Fema Disaster Recovery Centers on Staten Island, mr. Burn. Yet you heard the residents there what they were saying. How do you respond to that . You know, first of all, im encouraged to know that theres other agencies out there, other voluntary groups, because were really all one team, the city, state and federal government. But i do know that we have over 200 Community Relations folks going door to door. But its the sheer scope of this disaster. Its hard to hit everybody. But were trying. Were working hard, and were going to keep at it every day until we reach everybody. Where could you have done better . You know, i always think that we could do things faster. I always think that theres a possibility that, you know, we could get into a neighborhood quicker, that there is this place im always im comfortable with what i know. What makes me worry is what i dont know, which is why i blanketed the new york area with over 1,000 Community Relations, and thats just a forced multiplier to the local fire departments, police departments, other First Responders and were here to support them also. Lets talk about preparation. I remember being on the air two nights before the storm hit, and then the night before the storm hit. Telling everyone to get out. Everyone to prepare. Talking to all of the officials in new york, new jersey, all along the eastern seaboard. And the critics of your response and recovery effort say the region had plenty of time to prepare for sandy. We knew it was coming. Why werent we better prepared . You know, we moved a lot of commodities, we had a lot of commodities we moved up to our staging areas. But we can only bring it so close. You dont want to bring everything into the impacted area before the storm. We were on the ground. I was on the ground days before the storm hit. And in preparation, bringing fema into the management teams in place, coordinating with our state officials and city officials. You know but again, this was a really enormous storm. It lasted a long time. It had a surge that was catastrophic in nature. So, you know, i think we were prepared. We can always do better, but i think we really did move heaven and earth to get in place before the storm. Mike burn, thank you. Thank you. Is the u. S. Doing enough when it comes to helping in the bloody israelipalestinian conflict . Many say no. What else could be and should be done . Were going to weigh the options, next. Again . Its embarrassing its embarrassing we can see you carl. We can totally see you. Come on youre better than this. All that prowling around. Yeah, youre the king of the jungle. Have you thought about going vegan carl . Hahaha you know folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. How happy are they jimmy . Happier than antelope with nightvision goggles. Nice get happy. Get geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Try running four. Ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately weve got ink. It gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at Office Supply stores. Rewards we put right back into our business. This is the only thing weve ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. Make your mark with ink from chase. Its real israel and hamas on the brink of war. Is the u. S. Doing enough . What is the appropriate role for the u. S. , if any, at this point . Today presidt obama said he is actively working with all parties involved to try to stop the missile attacks. He also said he fully supports israels right to defend itself. Some said the president has been indifferent. I spoke with a senior fellow last night. Cant afford to ignore this conflict. Because we look back on the last four years, and the indifference, if you will, of the Obama Administration to whats happening on the west bank in gaza. And is i think we are there will there be pressure from jipts, there will be pressure from turkey, there will be pressure from qatar, the three countries most sympathetic to ham hamas. There will be pressure to produce some kind of settlement. Lets bring in cnn contributorses, will cain, elzy granderson. Elzy, youre first. Is president obama being indifferent . Does the white house need to do more . I dont understand how someone can consider the white house being indifferent when this administration has given more money to israel than any other administration before it. I dont understand how you can consider this president to be indifferent when its because of the president they had the technology and military equipment necessary to protect themselves from the bombs coming into the country. I dont want to see us go to another war. I know quite a few americans feel the same way. And i talked to some sources in d. C. This weekend and a lot of the congressional staffs also feel the same way. We dont want to see the American People dragged into another war. And so i think what the president is doing is exactly what needs to be done, which is finding a diplomatic solution, using our friends as well as our, you know, allies in the area to try to find a resolution that we dont have to get more involved than just talking. Will, what is the appropriate role for the u. S. , if any, at this point . I mean, can can we really do anything effective in the israel Hamas Conflict right now . Yeah, don, im not going to pretend to be an expert on this. But i would say that our measure of influence is somewhat limited. That being said, we can to one thing clearly and thats to have israels back, right . Israel is surrounded by an everincreasing unstable and dangerous world. And this conflict could spill over in so many in so many ways we couldnt fully talk about them, we couldnt encompass them all. I have a Great Respect for few add ajami who you just played a clip from. And when he said the United States is indifferent, i think what he means is this, the entire world has changed drastically in two years. It went from a great amount of influence with terrible dictators to a world where we dont have much now. And a lot of these countries, egypt, turkey and so forth were the countries to put pressure on hamas, diplomatic pressure from that end of the spectrum to end these conflicts. So now, do we have that lever . Thats hard to say these days, and maybe we need to be more proactive. Okay. Switching gears now. Republicans are blasting mitt romney for his gifts comment, saying president obama won because he gave huge gifts to key groups like africanamericans, hispanics and young voters. This is not where the Republican Party needs to go. Look, we want if you want ters to like you, the first thing youve got to do is to like them first. And it is certainly not helpful to tell voters that you think their votes were bought. Thats certainly not a way to show you respect them and like them. I just think its nuts. I mean, first of all, its insulting. This would be like walmart having a bad week and going the customers have really been unru unruly. The job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we cant offer a Better Future that is believable to more people were not going to win. I mean, weve got to give our political organizational activity, you know, a very serious proctology exam. I think thats the only we need to look everywhere. And so as the gop grapples with the election loss, are they scapegoating romney or searching for new identity. . Will, what is going on with republicans, are they covering their own behind or is this a genuine gop oh rebooting . A little bit of both. I think a lot of those guys are being political tunists. I have said in this week, don. When you look at mitt romneys comments, first of all, i can we can easily say its not very sportsman like. You just lost and now youre saying all the reasons you lost when really drinking the haterade. However, what mitt romney had to say was also not inaccurate. It wasnt politically advantageous but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you just say it isnt inaccurate, bill . Did you just say it wasnt inaccurate . First of all, i think you guys two reaction is outstanding, amazing. Yes, i was saying that i think your lack of reaction is amazing. All right. Im a little taken aback by the chorus of surprise. I really am. From both of you guys. Yes, his statement is accurate. The Democratic Party has been crafting policies that are tailormade whether by gender, age, ethnicity. Absolutely those policies have been crafted to win over votes and appeal to every demographic. Isnt that the point of an election, will . I see where youre going with this, but thats the point of an election. That is a winning strategy. If the republicans had done it on their side, that would be a winning strategy. Great. Thats an awesome political analysis. But im talking about governance here and whats a better way to govern. If you want to win elections, its absolutely wonderful to pander to every group. Hold on. Lz, ill let you handle this. You know what, will . The thing is, willow owe. This is an astounding interview. Let me finish, will. Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether black, white, women, straight, gay, republican and so if someone is tailoring their message for one group or another, thats what they should be doing. Thats what a leader of the free world should be doing. No, thats amazing contradiction you just said within two sentences of yourself, don. If youre governing for everyone, why would you craft policies that only apply to some people . I didnt someone was talking in my ear. Hold on, will. Say the end of your sentence again. If youre governing for everyone, why would you craft policies that only apply to some people . Is. I dont think thats what i thats not what you said. You said what he said was correct. Will, heres the situation. I think you need to rationalize these two things. Im not inconsistent here. Willow owe. Im listening, lz. President obama is not handing out gifts, all right . Hes being a president. The only thing i found really consistent with this is that romney has been essentially hating on half of the country for almost two years. I didnt necessarily find his comments out of line with Everything Else he has talked b. Weve been characterizing them as gaffes. Ive been trying to say this is who he really is. He really believes half the country is a bunch of moochers. I think whats really interesting, if you strip away all the areas, the urban areas thats predominantly minority, right . He still lost a whole bunch of white people, too. The man is refusing to take personal responsibility, which is the height of irony when you think about what he went around and talked about with 47 of the people not being personally responsible for their own lives. Here he lost an election, mostly because of the fact that he was a bad option. The gop knows he was a bad option. Thats why they fought him so hard during the primary, because he was a bad choice. But they ended up with him, they reluctantly had to get behind him. And what youre seeing now are the chickens coming home to roost. Thats all youre seeing. I know youve got to run. Weve got to go. I know you do. So many things to i just cannot believe you said what he said was accurate. I can. It was the height of insulting. It was so insulting and so condescending. Let me make a suggestion. Hold on. And to say that its just insulting to a whole bunch of people. I cant believe you would even think that way. Okay. So let me make a suggestion, since you guys happen to know me and happen to know the kind of statements i make, let me explain them. I know youve got to run on to the next thing, but i can assure you, what i said is highly logical and makes sense. It makes sense highly logical and makes sense to you. And it makes sense to the numbers and the polls all made sense if youre doing some fuzzy math. It doesnt make sense, will, im sorry. Now youre lumping me in with people that didnt believe the polls. And its insulting. All im saying is he didnt even win maine, dude. Maine is filled with white people. Thank you, guys. All right. Byebye. Israel versus hamas. Can the conflict ever be settled . Ahead, well ask an expert on the region what it will take for the violence to end. Les you can actually use. Sadly, their brothers White Christmas just got blacked out. [ brother ] but its the family party really jingles your bells, doesnt it . My gift to you the capital one venture card for any flight, any time thats double miles you can actually use how illuminating. Whats in your wallet . Let me guess, am i on the naughty list again . Ho ho ho [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make it worth watching. The new 2013 lexus ls. An entirely new pursuit. [ male announcer ] jill and her mouth have lived a great life. 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The crisis in gaza is just the most recent flare up of the everpresent tension between hamas and the israeli government. Although palestinians elected hamas to power in 2006, israel and the u. S. Both consider it a terrorist organization. Joining me now with the perspective on the conflict is aaron david miller, Vice President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars. Its a long title there. Welcome back. You and i have spoken before about these conflicts in the past. Will these violent eruptions continue as long as hamas is in power, mr. Miller . I mean, look, the reality is, don, last time you and i talked about this in 08 and 09, we agreed, i think, you cant have solutions, only outcomes and thats what youve had for four years. In large part because youve got israel and hamas, the religious manifestation of Palestinian Nationalism that have fundamentally different objectives, both military, security and political objectives. So under the best of circumstances, given the track that everybody is on, we can hope, perhaps, for another interim agreement that somehow stabilizes the situation. If you wanted more than that, if you really wanted more, you would have to do a couple things that right now neither the americans, the israelis and the palestinians are willing or able, frankly, to do. And that, i think, is the real tragedy here, because chances are, if these things arent done, then you and i are going to be having the same conversation next year at this time. Can you drill down more on this for me . Whats needed to achieve a ceasefire. Well, heres the thing. You want more than that. You want more than something that is interim, because if thats if thats all youre going produce, thats not sustainable. Look, i think you need four things. Number one, youve got to shut down the tunnels. And youve got to get the Egyptian Government to assume ownership and responsibility for stopping the imporetation of high trajectory weapons. Thats number one. Number two, youve got to open up gaza. Youve got to allow million and a half palestinians in gaza to breathe economically, to create some measure of hope that there are economic horizons for them. Number three, youve got to figure out a way to unite the Palestinian National movement. Because right now its like noahs arc. There are two of everything. Two security services, two constitutions, two leaders, two Prime Ministerministers. And the fact is, unless you have one gun, one authority, one negotiating position, there is no way the palestinians are ever going to get their state. And finally, youve got to figure out whether you have a government in israel willing and able to negotiate with a unified reasonable centrist palestinian government, all the big issues. Those four things would take us way beyond where we are now. And frankly, sadly, tragically, i suspect where were going. Yeah. Better before it its going to get worse before it gets better . How about this, don. Its going to get worse before it gets worse. Really . Yeah. Thats a good way of putting it. What can mid east states do to aid a ceasefire . Well, i think theyre on the right track. I mean, the good news is that you have a government in egypt that is itself the progenitor of hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood really was the inspirational force for the creation of this organization in the early 80s. And mohamed morsi, although he resigned, once a brother, always a brother, the fact is, he can have influence, and hamas needs him. Remember, gaza shares a common border with egypt and its a very important connection. So you get the egyptians, you get the turks, the qataris, maybe the saudis to weigh in and the israelis to provide the space and time to allow this diplomacy to take hold, and maybe, although nobody ever lost money betting against arabisraeli peace, maybe, just maybe, you can get out of this. Aaron david miller. Thank you, sir. Always a pleasure, don. Cyberspace is part of the israelhamas battleground. Ahead, how both sides are pushing their messages on twitter and other social media. Two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. Bp has paid over twentythree billion dollars to help those affected and to cover cleanup costs. Today, the beaches and gulf are open, and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. And bps also committed to america. We support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere else. Were working to fuel america for generations to come. Our commitment has never been stronger. I want you to take a look at this incredible piece of video sent by an ireporter, troy roach. He is in tel aviv, israel. [ sirens ] you can hear the air raid sirens going off, rockets approaching the southern part of the city. You see the israeli dome missiles fire up, two of them. And a few seconds later, intercept the rocket fired from gaza. You see the flash . And you hear the boom. There it is. As soon as the rocket is intercepted, the sirens stop. Roach says people get back to normal. Walking their dogs and driving away. Obviously, very secure in the israeli iron dome Defense System. Brand new images, information and tweets coming in virtually nonstop from both sides of the israel Hamas Conflict. Josh levs is at the desk with the latest. What are you seeing, josh . Don, throughout the day and night and really throughout this entire conflict, this cnn newsroom right here, including this international desk, has been following the latest images as they come in from both sides of the conflict. Look at this video here, one example of what we have been getting out of gaza. This video takes you inside one of the Media Centers that was hit. An israeli strike. You can see the devastation and damage inside there. We also have something similar to what was in that ireport there. Take a look at this from israels channel 2. [ speaking in Foreign Language ] what youre seeing here are responses to the iron dome. There you go. Interceptors going into the sky to halt those hamas rockets as they come in. And you can see some of the drama thats been unfolding inside tel aviv from the israel side of the conflict. These are the kind of images people are seeing. But im goabout to show photos slices of life, whats going on right now on both sides of the conflict very different from what you might be seeing. Take a look here. First of all, some really striking pictures at cnn. Com. This is a family grieving in gaza after members of the family were killed. Take a look at this one. This is a car that weve been talking to you about today that was hit in southern israel by a rocket from gaza. This one is really striking. This is a picture out of the west bank. This is after some people in the west bank clashed with israeli troops on saturday. One more picture i want you to see here. This is a man returning to his home in southern israel. Now, i want to get one more picture here, because twitter has become really important part of all this. And what were seeing on both sides here are tweets that involve a lot of images. This video here, the idf has sent out a Youtube Video saying hamas is using all sorts of false claims and they take you through it on youtube. And one more thing to show you here. This is a picture that hamas has put on its site on twitter. This is the hamas militants, brigades, showing a militant with a foot on what appears to be the head of an israeli soldier. And twitter has become an essential part of the fight for the public support in this battle world worldwide. Thank you very much, josh. Egypt is sending aid to palestine, and cnn is there when a convoy of supplies crosses a border. That story is next. [ gordon ] for some this line is a convenience. How you doing today . Im good thanks. How are you . Im good. [ gordon ] but for others, its all they can afford. Every day nearly nine million Older Americans dont have enough to eat. Anything else . No, not today. Join me, aarp, and Aarp Foundation in the drive to end hunger by visiting drivetoendhunger. Org. As israeli rockets continue to rain on gaza, 500 egyptian activists open the territory today through the city of raffa. Demonstrators called on the Egyptian Government and other arab states to intervene to stop the offensive that started wednesday. Besides showing support for gazas nearly 2 million residents, the convoy planned to deliver mill supplies. Cnns reza sayah spoke with several activists before they headed out. We were at the raffa Border Crossing where egypts border meets gaza. Gaza is a very small piece of land, about twice the size of washington, d. C. It has four gateways, three of them are inside israel and theyre pretty much locked off in an effort by israel to choke off gaza. This ladieads from gaza into an arab ally, thats egypt. [ speaking in Foreign Language ] reporter while the air assault continues in gaza, while the violence increases, whats increased here is the anger by egyptians who want egypt and the government to step up and intervene. The people have changed, we have changed and were not going to take that for were not going to wait for the government move. Were going to take things in our hands and were going to lead the government into certain positions that is required for egypt. Reporter theres roughly 500 protesters here. They have made a sevenhour journey from cairo. Now theyve lined up down the street, each of them are showing their identifications to Security Forces and then heading into gaza. Weve asked them, when you think youll come back. They say we dont know, were just happy were going in. Are you scared . Yeah, absolutely im scared. You hear bombs, you dont know what youre going in there for. But i think thats i think thats what weve got to do. You have to be scared and overcome that fear by just going in there. Reporter as more demonstrators continue to file into gaza, back in cairo, the arab league, a group of 22 arab states announced tuesday theyre going to send in more than two dozen arab Foreign Ministers into gaza, part of the push to publicly stand with the palestinians. Also the chief in talks with hamas officials and its really officials trying to establish a cease fire, the same spy chief that in 2011 helped secure the release of israeli soldier sha least. Many say if there is going to be a ceasefire, egypts spy chief is going to play a key role. Reza sayah, cnn at the Border Crossing. Its a deadly epidemic, Prescription Drug overdoses. Our dr. Sanjay gupta joins us live to reveal which Prescription Drugs might be the most deadly. Or geico. As most of you know members it. Congress. I propose savings for everyone im talking hundreds here. And furthermore. Newscaster breaking news. The gecko is demanding free pudding. And Political Parties that are actual parties . 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So you know, we consume a disproportionate, a much disproportionate share of the pills. We could give a dose of pain pills to every man, woman and child every four hours for three weeks. And also theres another issue which is we have this perception who these people are who are overdosing, and you would be surprised, one of them was a former friend of former president clinton, and i want you to hear of how this man was described. Take a look. He worked for the state department, and he was going to graduate in a year with a dual law and mba degree. A type of person where it doesnt even run through your head hes having a problem because he does so well. Heindustrious, but he was normal, he likes to have a good time. I promise you that night he had no idea he was turning out the lights. None. And if its true of him, its got to be true of a lot of other people. I mean whrx you have the former president of the United States come out and Say Something like this, two friends this year. He had two friends within ten days of each other that had both lost sons in this manner. A gentleman who worked at the state department for secretary clinton. This preconceived notion of who these people are, our friends, orfamily, our neighbors. Its all around us. The special you have at 8 00 p. M. , after this broadcast, a little over an hour away. You say people who use pain killers less frequently are more at risk in some ways. This may be counter intuitive because were thinking ofadic ofadicictess, people who are dependent, and there are people who are in pain who need tease meds, but sometimes people who are quote unquote naive users, their bodies arent used to the medications, they havent built up the tolerance, and they have these pills sitting in their cabinet and they decide to take a couple of those in combination with wine or beer or Something Like that and that could be a lethal problem. Its these naive users, you give them to friends, kids can get into them. Thats where how the problem really starts in the vast majority of these people. Remember during whitney houston, we were talking back and forth this is going to open in the conversation about this. Now youre talking about this. Is there one pain killer thats worse than another . The thing to keep is mind is mo aphene or oxycodone, they are come from opium, opiates, you think about a pain kill, something i got from a prescription, from a pharmacy, so different from heroin or morphine, often times not. It could be a longer half life. Its going to stay in your body longer, but theyre powerful medications. You need to watch this special. You need to watch it. Make sure you tune in tonight, 8 00 eastern for more of dr. Guptas special report, deadly dose. Hes going to be back in the next hour to tell us more about what we can expect to see. Thank you. Try running four. Ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately weve got ink. 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