Look weak. Walmart may have protesters outside its doors on friday. Deer misses earnings, and the market shrugs it off. Turmoil in israel with a bomb explosion on board a bus today and a rumored ceasefire that never happened. Crude is up 1 as the secretary of state has arrived in cairo. A big day full of planes, trains and automobiles with tens of millions of americans set to embark on their Holiday Weekend journeys. Our phil lebeau is in chicago with more on the Holiday Travel landscape. How painful is it going to be . You know, carl f youre traveling, you always need a little more patience thanksgiving weekend. For the airlines, theyre keeping their fingers crossed because if you look at a map of the United States, you really dont see any major storm systems. That means if its a smooth weekend, you talked about this being important to the profitability of fourth quarter, thats certainly good news for the airlines. Take a look at the number of people who will be traveling this thanksg
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
We want to begin with our big story here. Coming up, hope for a ceasefire in gaza as the attacks keep coming, the blood keeps spilling. Heres what we know this morning. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has just wrapped up this meeting in the west bank in ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas. She will reportedly meet again today with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before jetting to cairo for talks with the president of egypt, Mohammad Morsi. The urgency underscored by the carnage in benghazi. Rockets are lobbying back and forth. Israeli air attacks killing 27 more palestinians bringing the death toll to 137 just in the last week. Now a spokesman for hamas sounded cautiously optimistic that a ceasefire could be at hand telling cnn we are close, we are on the edge. Cnn has reporters blanketing the region to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of this crisis in gaza. Fred pleitgen is in ashkelon, ben wedemans in gaza city. Ben wedeman, good morning, set the scene for me. Reporter
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Im zonaida sambolin. The i realsraelis pounding targets while Palestinian Militants continue to launch rockets into israel. Israel calls up reservists in preparation for war. Ben joins us by phone this morning. Egypts Prime Minister paid a visit to gaza. Somehow that going so far . Well, it was originally planned it would be a threehour cease fire while the egyptian Prime Minister was making this visit to gaza. According to our sources, it doesnt appear either side significantly reduced their level of military activity in gaza. Certainly before the sun came up there was an intense air attack on gaza itself. It may have been lessened somewhat in the morning while the Prime Minister was touring gaza. But after hes gone, its expected to get back to the same pace. There are elections coming up not too long from now in israel. Palestinians are saying that may be part of the impetus for israel to be taking action. Certainly this is what you hear oftentimes. Tc it was the casame case in the 2