Never even agreed to it. One of the big reasons, this comes a day after another deadly air strike near a u. N. Shelter that drew some of the strongest criticism yet from the United Nations and the United States. Anderson cooper is joining us from jerusalem on the ground there this morning with the latest. What is it looking like just a few short hours into this ceasefire, anderson . About three hours into this ceasefire israel has said theres been at least 23 rockets fired into israel from gaza since midnight east coast time. But i want to get you the latest details on the ceasefire. Despite the early trouble we told you about, were about three hours in with four hours to go. Israel agreed to hold its fire despite refusals by hamas. Israel say it is truce does not apply to soldiers working to destroy terror tunnels including tunnels into israel. The Israel Defense forces say it will respond if fired upon. A Senior Palestinian jihad operative was killed. We believe donian monsieur was t
Live picture of gaza city, where some five hours from now, a ceasefire is set to take hold. All sides have agreed to this, israel, all the palestinian factions, they say theyre going to meet in cairo, egypt which brokered this ceasefire, theres a lot of hope in gaza city tonight that this ceasefire will take place, and will in fact hold starting some five hours from now. On the righthand side of your screen, live pictures of mount sinai hospital, theres great concern where a man is in strict isolation, who has returned from west africa with a fever, he is being tested for the ebola virus. Not clear at this hour if he will test positive for that. We dont have word, well have the latest on that situation, in new york. That would be the first case of ebola in new york, if this man tests positive, well also bring you up to date with sanjay gupta on the two americans who were flown back from west africa, after testing positive, they are now being treated with a new and untested treatment. T
Respond. Today two people were killed in jerusalem and what Police Called a terror attack. They say man from an arab area ran to a construction excavator into a bus. John wlab can you tell us about what happened in jerusalem today . Reporter that was 1 of 2 attacks. Police say a guy got into that excavator, rammed the bus several times, knocking it over, flipping it over. Several people inside, along with the bus driver, were injured. Not hearing that they were severely injured but a pedestrian was run over by that construction vehicle and killed before police opened fire on the guy behind the wheel there who was in that construction vehicle shooting him several times, as you probably hear in that video. That was the first attack. A short time later police say a guy on a motorcycle rolled up to an israeli soldier and opened fire on that soldier hitting the soldier several times. The last we heard that soldier is in Critical Condition right now in the hospital. The motorcycle rider got
Damage. More an this story in just a couple of minutes. In california, a rare torrential storm killed one and stranded thousands in the southern part of that state. The storm unleashed nearly four inches of rain over a short period of time in the Angeles National forest. One person died when their car washed into a river. More than 2,000 people in the towns of oak glen and forest falls were stranded as well because roads were covered in deep, thick mud. In our nations capital, 50 african heads of state will meet later today with president obama. The first summit held at this scale and level focused on boosting economic ties between the u. S. And africa. Secretary of state kerry kicked things off with a handful of one on one meetings. This happening as western africa fights the worst Ebola Outbreak in history. A second american missionary infected with that virus is going to be back in the states tomorrow. That is Nancy Writebol with the North Carolina Charity Samaritans purse. Shes goi
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The death toll from the worth Ebola Outbreak to date has grown to at least 887 in the african nations of guinea, sierra leone, liberia and nigeria. U. S. Officials are downplaying the threat here in the United States but del cats to the africa summit in washington arriving from atrisk countries are being screened at the airport. The world bank announced today that as much as 200 million in aid will be provided to the affected countries. An american missionary who was infected in liberia is being treated tonight in atlanta and another is due there tomorrow. Heres dr. Jon lapook. Reporter today the m. I. H. Revealed dr. Kent brantly and Nancy Writebol received an experimental serum called zmapp, previously only tested in monkeys. They both received the serum in liberia before brantly was flown to atlanta in a specially equipped plan. The serum has antibodies that prevent the virus from enter