welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and canada, you are watching cnn newsroom. israel s bombardments of hamas targets is now in its third day. since the truce collapsed early friday. fighter jets and helicopters have been striking hamas installations across gaza including tunnel shafts, command centers and weapons storage facilities. the idf is urging thousands in gaza, many of them already displaced, to keep evacuating to the south. internet service in gaza has been spotty at best and it is not clear they are getting the message. the pause in fighting is not likely to be repeated again soon. on saturday both sides quit the hostage negotiations with each blaming the other for the breakdown. all balanced against israel s operations are warnings from the u.s. about mounting civilian casualties and many israelis are the many the government to more to free the remaining hostages. reporter: israel is still pounding the gaza strip, hitting as many as 400 hamas targets according to
on to us. so every time i see that i think about the fact that i was an innocent child that knew absolutely nothing about what was happening that day. we will be his innocence and eventually her pain is a good reminder that for a suffering world, both at home and abroad, courage can win, even if in the tiny shoes of just one little girl and on one particular november day. laura, my daughter has a book, it s called lady legends off a bit, and b is for ruby bridges. and i am grateful for that today and every day. you know, i am to. norman rockwell painting hung in my dining room as a child my entire life. it was passed down to my sister jennifer, now it is in her home. and i can tell you, there is not a moment that goes by when i was a student, one of very few number of black students in my schools ever in my entire life growing up. and i always thought about what it was like, and i am forever grateful for that little girl. and when she became. so i m so glad you monitor to
opinion? we continue to believe people who have left the area have a right to come home if they wish to do so, a right that should be upheld. i asked the other day when you are in asia, and then asked the european desk, and ask you, too. do you consider the occupation your allies, turks, occupation or something else. they said to me we believe all countries should be respented and protected but they don t say if there is if the occupation of cyprus is an occupation. we believe we support a u.n. facilitated effort to unify. occupation, you know that. we think it needs to be resolved through u.n. facilitated efforts to reunify the island. thank you. i have two questions. two plus two ministerial meeting in india, after that indian foreign ministry stated of bangladesh for the indian, and raised concern over rising extremism with third country intervention. what will be for india as well as for usa. i don t have any comment. the second one, while u.s. and
to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. wherever you are around the world, at this hour, you are watching cnn newsroom. ongoing coverage of his most war with hamas. i m john vause, just past midnight here in atlanta, and 60 am and gaza. it is now divided into by israeli ground forces battling militants in the north. president have been forced to evacuate to safety in the south, as dawn breaks, the israeli military says gaza city is completely surrounded. in the past two hours, cnn crews report flares and explosions lighting up the night sky over northern gaza. around the city of not far from the water with israel. so far, 20 israeli soldiers have been killed in a military ofoffensive, whihich is focusesn locateted anand destroyingng a t tunnels networks, and eliminating explplosives and other obstacles. our soldiers have been operating in gaza city for the past few days, surrounding it from several directions, deepening the operation. our
hamas hitting a tent camp, killing dozens of palestinians. prime minister netanyahu calling it a tragic incident. the global outrage tonight. the urgent search for survivors in papua-new guinea. a catastrophic landslide hitting in the middle of the night. more than 2,000 feared buried alive. the horrifying rampage inside a u.s. movie theater. four girls stabbed but surviving. three of them sisters. their mother speaking out. the mid-air scare for boxer mike tyson. the medical emergency he suffered on a cross-country flight. remembering nba hall of famer bill walton. he was a legend on the basketball court and in the broadcast booth. and on this memorial day a final salute to a pearl harbor hero more than 80 years in the making. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening on this memorial day. i m tom llamas in for lester. we begin tonight with the severe storms slamming the east coast. just as millions of americans are returning home