Until the end of this. But a very loud blast, as you see right there, basically all of us ducked down in the office. We thought that was the end of it. Neal, our cameraman, panned over and then a series of more explosions. Turns out this was a number of government buildings that is what is said to have been hit. Its not clear if those are secondary explosions or if those are multiple rockets going into the building. I then started pointing out it was not over at that point. You cant hear the sound but lets listen in now. [ explosions ] thats just the sound, the tail end of it, the last few seconds which we were able to capture on tape. We did not think we were on the air during all this time which is why we werent recording sound, but you heard how loud the blasts were at the end. Consider how loud the blasts were even earlier when we werent recording sound. Really an enormous series of blasts. The percussion of it, you could feel for many, many blocks. A huge cloud of smoke blanketed
Deadline. This is the scene right now in gaza city. Its remarkable. For the first time in days people are out in the streets. They are celebrating. Traffic is bumpertobumper. Everyone, everyone appears to be in celebration. People waving flags and firing guns in the air. While our crews saw outgoing rockets and heard explosions in the hours leading up to the ceasefire deadline, theyve seen little or no military activity since then only the celebrating. [ gunfire ] secretary of state Hillary Clinton and egypts foreign minister announced the deal in cairo after the secretary spent the day in intense facetoface talks with the leaders of israel, the Palestinian Authority and egypt. This is a critical moment for the region. Egypts new government is assuming the responsibility and leadership it has long made this country a cornerstone of regional stability and peace. Were still learning details of the agreement between the israelis and hamas. Egypt and the United States apparently have assum
Secretary clinton sits down with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and with egyptian president Mohammed Morsi tomorrow. I want to bring in cnns wolf blitzer, who is live for us in jerusalem tonight, and Anderson Cooper and ben wedeman, both in gaza city. Wolf, let me start with you if i may. A very tense day with claim and counterclaim coming almost on an hourly basis. There was going to be a ceasefire, then no ceasefire. Both sides trading sort of insults and then offering fig leaves. What do you make of it all . As we talk now in the middle of a night there, what do you make of where we really are with this . Well, throughout most of the day, i thought they were very close to reaching a ceasefire agreement. All the signs looked rather positive. Then all of a sudden, on this day, it was getting increasingly more tense in the southern part of israel and what weve been seeing in gaza, very, very bloody as well. You wouldnt know that they are apparently rather close to some s
Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, under attack. Day six of the conflict between israel and gaza. Is there an end in sight . Tonight, thousands of israeli troops are poised at the border, ready to move at gaza. Negotiations speer headed by egypt are ongoing, and tonight the United Nations secretarygeneral ban kimoon arrived in cairo, just hours after egypts intelligence chief gave an israeli delegation a letter from hamas outlining its conditions for a ceasefire. So far on the israeli side, Officials Say throw people have died. 68 have been wounded as the result of rocket fire from gaza and in gaza, Officials Say 104 people have been killed. 860 have been wounded since the conflict began. As for fire power, israel says militants in gaza have fired nearly 1,000 rockets at israel. 570 of them have actually struck israel. Another 307 have been intercepted by israels socalled iron dome defense system. Meanwhile, israel carried out 80 strikes today. It has now target
Also pat houston, Whitney Houstons sisterinlaw and manager and jeopardy champion ken jennings written a new book. Its tuesday, december 4th, starting point begins right now. Welcome everybody, youre watching starting point. Were honored this morning to have the former british Prime Minister tony blair with us as our guest. Hes going to be weighing in as a number of topics. Were going to talk about the fiscal cliff, were going to talk about the global economy. Were going to talk about the civil war in syria. Well talk about the royal baby coming soon. First we want to get right to Zoraida Sambolin for an update on the days top stories. Soledad, the fiscal cliff debacle, with 28 days remaining before drastic tax hikes and spending cuts take effect, a republican spending plan has been rejected by the white house. Brianna keilar is live from washington. What now, brianna . Well, right now its about the pressure building and the clock kicking, zoraida. As House Republicans in the white hous