President obama is in texas this evening pushing his 3. 7 billion plan to deal with the influx of uncompanied immigrants from central america. The president has called it a humanitarian crisis. He arrived in dallas just a short time ago when he was discussing situation with elected officials and faith leaders. He planned on making a statement, well bring it to you when it happens. Well get to libby casey at the white house. What can we expect to hear from the president when he speaks in dallas. Hes engaged in a round table discussion. Were hearing that the president is meeting with a member of congress along with faith based leaders, and the mayor of dallas, and he has had time with rick perry, the republican governor who has had Harsh Criticism of president obama. Think road on marine one together and have been taking the drive over to the round table discussions. The president has gotten a lot of flack for not actually going to the border in this trip, which is in part is a fundraisi
And Electronic Cigarettes are they a healthy alternative to smoking . And we begin tonight with that new dip lo t maic deal for ukraine. Crew crane and the union agreed on the first steps to solve the stand off. Our correspondent will have much more on that just ahead. Kiev is confirming that Government Forces have skilled four protestors. 24 afternoon, u. S. Military options are not on the table, and in the eastern city, leaflets were that they have to register with authorities. Two separatist leader who is on those, say they are phony, still, secretary of state kerry says the u. S. Is alarmed by it. There is not just intolerable, it is grotesque. It is beyond unacceptable, and any of the people that engage in these activities from whatever marty or whatever ideology, or whatever place they crawl out of there is no place for that. Kerrys comments came after diplomates meeting in switzerland announced that deal to start diffuse it is crisis. Officials on all sides said they had low exp
Recreational marijuana. Tensions and violence rose today along israels border with the gaza strip. Israeli army released this video of rockets after hamas vows revenge for their deaths. Confessed to the crime. Those confessions come as Israeli Military calls up reservists for the first time in almost two years. Amuds the large escalation of the number and reach of rockets fired from gaza into israel. Nick schifrin, what can you tell us about this escalation on both sides, israelis and palestinians . Michael you laid it out well. These two sides are at their most tenuous point, in the past two years. There is a great fear of higher escalation. Lets look at both sides from the numbers. From gaza we have some 40plus rockets being fired just in the last couple hours into israel. About 12 of those have been intercepted by the iron dome, thats the Missile Defense system that israel has. Dramatic are increase in the number and reach. The distance is about 50 miles frr israel, what israel has
Time issues licenses to sell medical marijuana. Tensions are rising, air strikes in gaza after rockets were fired into southern israel. At least nine people were killed in those air strikes. Hamas is vowing revenge for their deaths. Last weeks killing of a palestinian teenager has confessed to the crime. Calling up israeli reservists in almost two years. Are Nick Schifrin is in jerusalem. Nick tell us more about this dramatic escalation from both sides. Yeah, basically we are looking at the most tense moamenmoments between israelis d palestinians perhaps in the last five to six years. Obviously technical difficulties with Nick Schifrin in jerusalem. I believe hes back right now. Nick im sorry we had technical difficulties we only caught the very first part of your report. Reporter yeah, basically, this is most tense time along the gaza border in about a year and a half. Thats when the Israeli Military launched the large operation there. If you add the tension in jerusalem and northern
First to casey stegall. Lets go to casey at the white house first. Casey, what can you tell me . Reporter forgive me. I was looking down at my blackberry. All the information seems to be changing by the minute. The latest information we have that you were tossing out to me, the information that apparently this patient you were talking about that has symptoms thats being brought to an area hospital had some contact with patient zero. That appears right now not to be the case. It was a situation where someone went in to a medical clinic, an urgent care clinic and was having flulike symptoms and they had said that they had been to west africa recently. So theres also this word of caution. The cdc officials on the ground here in texas investigating the Thomas Duncan case say that they do not have any possible information about this situation in frisco, which is just north of dallas, by the way. Remember, there have been a number of false alarms all over the country. Were hoping this happen