Sunday night on c. Span. Israel has declared jerusalem its capital, but that is not internationally recognized because of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Congress passed a law requiring the u. S. To move its embassy to jerusalem. But the law allowed the president to issue a waiver preventing the move. President s clinton, bush, obama and trump have blocked the move. The House Oversight committee on National Security recently heldiheld i a hearing on the issue. The subcommittee on National Security will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. In 1995, Congress Passed the Jerusalem Embassy relocation act which states that jerusalem is the capital of israel, it should remain an undivided city and the embassy should be relocated from tel aviv to jerusalem. Yet for 20 years they have signed waivers forestalling the embassy move. To this day 50 years after the liberation and reunification of jerusalem, the state of israel, one of americas s
Starting tonight and that is why weve issued a first alert. Lets get right to nbc 10 meteorologist glen scharts to talk about all this snow. This is one of the snowest moving systems that weve ever seen and the main impact of it for much of the area is going to be overnight tonight until noon on wednesday and affecting all areas eventually. The snow mainly coming tonight and the slippery wednesday morning commute across many parts of our area. Its already started in Lehigh Valley, burks county has had some snow this morning may have some this afternoon, but its not going to start much of chefrt county, montgomery counties, bucks county until after the afternoon rush today and from the philadelphia area down through south jersey until around 11 00 tonight and the first flakes will probably be melting in this area. And then not until 7 00 tomorrow morning as you head towards the shore. Thats just an amazingly slow progress. And you can see its not moving in this direction, we had this li
Rage. So in yemen, isil fighters have said they are responsible for the two attacks in the south of the country. Four soldiers from the United Arab Emirates were among at least 15 killed in the port of aden, also a villa occupied by forces from the saudi coalition. Along with a hotel used by government leaders. Hashem ahelbarra has the story. Reporter these are the four suicide bombers isil says were behind the attacks. They drive cars packed with explosives into a hotel, where government leaders have based their headquarters. This is the moment the hotel was hit. A compound used by soldiers from the United Arab Emirates was also targeted. Translator i heard huge explosions and rushed to the area. I was told two Armored Vehicles exploded inside the compound used by uae soldiers. Reporter early the coalition blamed the houthi fighters and troops loyal to former president saleh for the attacks. Isil has emerged as a force in yemen over the last year. In this video posted on sunday, its f
The government of ukraine says separatists have shot down two of their fighter jets. Plus, final voyage, the Kostka Concordia leaves the island where it was wrecked more than two years ago. Hello, the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry says International Efforts to broker a ceasefire in gaza have made some progress. Israeli soldiers are battling with hamas fighterings near the southern strip. Dozens of families have been forced to leave the area due to fighting. The Palestinian Death toll now stands at well over 600. Israel says its aim is to stop rocket fire from gaza. John kerry met with Benjamin Netenyahu, they are trying to broker a new truce between israel and hamas, which controls gaza. In this hour well have the latest from the region, with nicole johnston. She is at a hospital in gaza itself. And james bayes in west jerusalem. To nicole first, though. How is central gaza being affected at the moment by the fighting . Well, it really does appear as though the fighting has moved