Plus, one of americas least reliable friends going into the iraq war resurfaces. And just like then, he wants to run the country. The question tonight, is Ahmed Chalabi doing this administration what he did to the last . We do begin, though, with the breaking news, Tropical Storm arthur, the first of the season, predicted to become the first hurricane of the season too. And the path it is on could send it straight into sandy territory, right up the eastern seaboard. Seconds ago, the National Hurricane center released an update on the storm and where its headed. Lets get down to atlanta and chad myers crunching the numbers for us. Chad, so how big is this, archer . And where is it going . Earlier today, it was nothing. It was 35 Miles Per Hour. Now the Hurricane Centers latest forecast says by the fourth of july, around 2 00, a 90 Miles Per Hour still category 1. But on the border of that. There is the storm. Much more menacing this hour, john, than weve had over the rest of the day. Al
hebron. ben, what s the late itself tonight on troop movements? well, it seems to be a fairly quiet night so far. there are israeli operations in various parts of the west bank, but in fact nothing out of the ordinary. there have been no air strikes so far this evening according to the israeli military, however, there is a security cabinet meeting ongoing by my account, it s now going more than five hours and 15 minutes. before that meeting, we heard the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying israel is sort of following three lines of action. at the moment, they are pursuing the kidnapper, the killers of those three teenagers. they re drucracking down on the infrastructure of hamas in the west bank. until that security cabinet meeting concludes, we probably won t have a clear idea of what
but gaza remains in control, and some israeli officials are beginning to say perhaps hamas cannot be budged from gaza. and the worry is if you were to remove hamas, who takes its place. ben weeden on the west bank tonight, stay safe and we appreciate it. back home we do have some breaking news to tell you about. a standoff in southern california over immigration. protesters blocking three buses carrying undocumented families heading for an immigration processing facility, forcing the bus to back off. stephanie elam is there. she joins us now. stephanie, give us a sense of what exactly happened there today, and the bus is filled with these people. where are they now? reporter: right, john. it was an interesting scene to watch play out here. early in the morning there were protesters already lined up on the street outside of this facility, which is usually held here to house people who are smugglers or caught on the nearby interstate. but they changed it over to process these 140 u
tensions extremely high between israel and hamas tonight with more air strikes overnight in gaza amid increasing calls for revenge after three israeli teenagers were found dead. hamas has denied it is behind the abductions. still, air strikes have been stepped up. the israeli military saying it is responding to rockets being fired from gaza. funerals for three teens were held today. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is promising the teenagers deaths will be avenged, that the people involved in their kidnapping/murder will bear the consequences. their bodies were found yesterday nearly three weeks after they were abducted hitchhiking home from school in the west bank. ben weeden joins me tonight from