recall. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the israel, and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com announcer: this is cnn breaking news. right now, we re keeping a very close eye in the skies over gaza after the truly extraordinary images of war we saw here on cnn just a little while ago with flares raining down for some 30 minutes as israel appeared to unleash an intense new assault in its battle against hamas. our correspondents are standing by here in the middle east as well as in the united states. first, i want to go to cnn s nic robertson. he had a direct view of the bombardment of gaza as it was under way from his position in israel not far from gaza. nic, tell our viewers more about what you saw and what s happening there now. reporter: yeah, wolf, we just had a very heavy detonation coming from the direction of where all those flares were dropping a
The three, up about 3. 38 . Overnight in asia, shanghai came back bigtime. As you see there, up 5. 3 . The hang seng, 3. 6 . The chinese did seem to intervene a bit to help things along in china. As for our tenyear note, we started this week. We were below 2 on the tenyear. No longer. Back to 2. 20 despite those comments. Crude oil above 40. The first time i have seen that in a few days. Lets get to our road map. Has the market bottomed for now . For good, for a while . Another upgrade for amazon. Why now is, quote, an attractive entry snoint. Retail pain continues. Tiffany and Williams Sonoma both disappoint and both stocks are looking down this morning. We begin with stocks on track to maintain momentum from wednesdays big rally. Futures extend gains after data shows Second Quarter gdp revised upward to 3. 7 . Thats up from an initial estimate of 2. 3 . This comes one day after a 4 jump on the s p. The dow also posted a gain of more than 600 points. That was the first time it had gai
Good morning Debbie Reynolds leading lady and hollywood icon passing away wednesday a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher. The news shocking the world and leaving many to ask did she die of a broken heart . E said you can die from a broken heart. There is a syndrome called broken heart sin drome. Its stress induced cardiomyopathy. The center at Womens Cardiovascular Health and says 90 of the patients with broken heart syndrome are women. And the symptoms mimic a heart attack. We know that about the mortality rate for it is 4 during the hospitalization. Fisher died tuesday, days after suffering a heart attack on a plane. Reynolds son says the stress was too much for his mother. Although reynolds suffered a stroke, doctors say the stress associated with losing a loved one can trigger broken heart syndrome. She has treated patients with it before. Its no seen with a loss, especially if the loss is unexpected. Doctors say the symptoms are chest pains, shortness of breath and loss of consc
The clock is ticking down for the dozen of officials to leave the country. There is tension but everything outside the embassy appears to be normal. For the compound in maryland you heard about, scott thuman flew over that this skytrak7 flew over the building there. Its the white roof there. The green roof belongings to the state department. Jonathan a sheriff deputy is in Critical Condition after being shot responding to a Domestic Violence call. It happened in chestertown last night. We catch up with Richard Reeve live. Do we know the officers condition . Richard yes, he is in Critical Condition. You can see the cars behind me. The vehicles that are all rallying around the deputy and the family. The other man involved dead. This began with a Domestic Violence call. A quiet chestertown neighborhood witness to a horrifying shootout between a sheriff deputy and homeowner. A shot to everybody. Killed in exchange of gunfire. You never know from day today. Hogan required a woman to pick up
Diplomats. But putin said no, not to retaliate for now. After obama shut down russian come pounds in new york and maryland where we have already spotted moving trucks. I dont think its a new cold war. This is more like cold war 2. 0. It has been going on for several years. I appears putin is ready to hit reset button with President Trump accusing president obama of trying to undermine the new administration. Trump still denying russia tried to meddle in the election. I find it fascinating that trump says time to move on with an active cyber war with russia but he cant move on from a bad restaurant review or not winning emmy for apprentice. Kenneth before he takes off, John Mccain Ann week the intelligence officials will testify on capitol hill. Reporting in northwest, kenneth moton, abc7 news. Q we are learning more about the massive russian compound on the Eastern Shore that emptying. Its just across the by a in centreville. Jonathan elias is live in sat lie center with what the abc7