Place across lebanon. Heres a crowd gathered in beirut, in the aftermath of explosions. Weve also verified these videos of ambulances apparently taking the wounded to hospital in tibnin, in the south of the country. How many were injured . Reports say more than 2,500 people were hurt, with some killed. So what happened 7 it appears that what were blowing up were these pagers used to receive messages. The militant Group Hezbollah had switched away from using phones to using pages over Fears Israel could track those phones. But that decision appears to have been exploited to target them. We cant verify this Close Up of what appears to be a blown up pager, but the markings appear to match a particular brand. Its not clear how they were detonated simply hacking into them remotely or making them overheat would not be able to make them explode. And so, one possibility is that all the pagers were physically intercepted at some point and had small amounts of explosives planted inside, ready to
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The civil war and using 50 objects, while the multi layered and political history, takes in the totality context of the war, it does not consider the history, or sequence of battle. Harold what do you think about that . Well it is a fair enough comment of course the objects that we are discussing are all in some way related to new york history so it relates to the soldiers who served the leaders who helped or hindered the union war effort, and along the way here, over these last few weeks weve touched on bells. Those who experience them, and certainly the battle for new york city because early on we dealt with the draft riots, indeed indeed. So we are doing okay i think. That is a fair comment. I agree. I thought we might as well air. It yes. Tonights evening has two objects. The portrait of ulyssesesque grant from 1860, eight and a coined by Benjamin Franklin butler. So first up is the london portrait of grant such 1864 and ulysses as grant arrives in washington to receive his promoti
Still going to be seeing some sun or is there some fog up there . No blog yet. The might be a teeny bit showing up. There will be a lot tomorrow. Still a lot of sun today and we will still be in the 90s inland. We will start to see the temperature coming down a little bit today. More so coast and bay. No fog yet. I wouldnt be surprised if some pops up really soon. We are seeing more 50s. Santa rosa down to 52. 57 the city. Oakland 59. Still 60s livermore and san jose. Some cooling begins today and will continue with, well, well above average, but temperatures are heading down. We are off one 25 degrees, 5 for oakland and hayward. Half moon bay is 4. The temperature trend. Out yesterday and its on its way down today. It will really fall off the table on friday taking us into a significantly cooler weekend. We were in the 100 yesterday and 90s today. 70s and 80s and 90s for one more day. Over to salwa now. Still quiet out there or something popping up on the screen . It is still quiet. I