Im tom foreman in for erin burnett. Outfront tonight on the edge of war. The u. S. Is preparing for a possible Ground Invasion into gaza. Hundreds of israeli troops have been moved to the gaza border and another 75,000 reservists are being called to serve as the violence intensifies. This as president obama gets the phone call that tfrom the israe Prime Minister to get an update on the tent situation and gets briefed by Henry Morrissey who he hopes can dissuade the conflict. Ten people have been killed in gaza and three people in israel. Today they released their largest air raid in decades, including jerusalem. Their air sirens echoed. Hamas also fired several rockets at the coastal city of tel aviv. In this dangerous game of tit for tat, both sides are vowing to press ahead. Sara seidner is live in gaza where she showed her support for the people there. Sara, youve done remarkable work covering this for people around the clock. What is happening in gaza now . Are people bracing for a
Being dragged out of the compound. Republicans are still blasting the white house response to that attack. Ill talk to senator john mccain in a minute. In new york city, president obama meets with storm survivors where more than 25,000 households are still without power. More than two weeks after super storm sandy hit. We begin with the big story. The latest on the benghazi hearings. Joining me is pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. Welcome to you both. Barbara, this is really fascinating me. So general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. Its basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours, petraeus basically says he knew the moment this happened that it was a group called answar al sharia and that after that there was a stream of other intell
Morning, welcome, everybody, our starting point this morning, israel mobilizing thousands of troops for a possible fullscale ground war with hamas. Violence in the region intensifying overnight. The Palestinian Militants launched hundreds of rockets into israeli territory. Air raid sirens sounding in tel aviv. Thats the very first time thats happened since the gulf war. Israelis responded by pounding hundreds of terror sites as they call them in gaza with artillery fire. Ben wedeman reporting live now from jerusalem. We know, ben, that the israelis have called up 16,000 reservists. What exactly are they going to be doing . Well, what theyll be doing is heading down into the area around gaza. Very similar to what we saw in 2008, 2009, when they had a similar outbreak of violence between the two sides. We also know that theres a lot of heavy armor, lots of tanks being transported to the area around gaza, as well, for a possible ground incursion. But what we saw back in 20082009, was that
The final version. The change was not made for political reasons. Bear with me now as congressman, Ranking Member of intelligence. Welcome to you. Good to be here, pierce. We now know the white house, the statement coming from tommy. The talking points about the intelligence, and the white house and state department changing consulate to diplomatic facility for ak ras pep a line being drawn by the white house that they didnt change anything that the Intelligence Report went to susan rice other than what you named the consulate or dip the maic facility. What do you make of that . Well, what is the issue that has been raised as a result of that . I think we all know the Intelligence Community had created the talking points that did come out about the incident that occurred. The purpose is to make sure that any information or that they would give to the media would not be classified. I think thats how a lot of these issues with the talking points started and the issue thats been raised in
Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. 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 are ongoing and tonight, the United Nations secretary general ban kimoon arrived in cairo just hours after egypts intelligence chief gave an israeli delegation a letter from hamas outlining its conditions for a cease fire. 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 targeted 1,300 sites in gaza since l