Government the talks right now on ice and well hear what leadership from both sides of the aisle is saying without that stimulus money, major cities in the United States are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place and a new report lays out how bad things could get power lunch starts right now it does welcome the power lunch. Tech continues power ahead with the nasdaq leading the way near its record high which it hit on august 7th one tech stock not joining the party. That would be cisco having its worst day since 2011 even though the s p isnt there yet, its pretty close but not there yet. Check out the names hitting record highs tyler, back to you the stimulus stalemate in washington continues today threatening to further delay payments to struggling americans and failing to provide much of a boost to the u. S. Economy. Lots of big names on cnbc talking about the issue today. Lets go to eamon for more. Reporter its a total stand still. While theres not a lot of real negotiations
Happening now, israel formally declares war on hamas and the Palestinian Terrorist groups strikes back. Breaking news. Hamas has just fired a new barrage of rockets at israel tonight. And were learning that there has been a direct strike on the city of ash. We welcome our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. And im wolf blitzer and this is a Special Edition of the situation room. Israel at war. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. And were following all of the Breaking News, our correspondents are positioned in israel and indeed Around The World to bring you all of the latet developments in this escalating crisis right now. Raising enorm ow fears of a major war in the middle east. Lets begin with Nic Robertson, youre not far away from the border with gaza. What more do we know about the new round of attacks that is underway right now . Reporter weve been able to see a couple of things from this location, wolf. Were seeing rockets taking off that are not intercepted q
We meet one of the survivors in the attack on the Turkish Border town that killed more than 30 people. U. S. Defense secretary ash carter mayor daley an unannounced visit to iraq, his first since he took office in february meeting commanders and the Prime Minister al abadi. It comes at an important time for the government which is preparing to launch a counter offensive to take ramadi from isil fighters. Carters visit comes as isil takes responsibility for a car bombing, one of many attacks targeting shia neighborhoods in the capitol on wednesday. 17 others died in those explosions targeting busy markets. Lets speak to imran kahn. Carters been in israel, jordan, saudi arabia, talking about the iran deal. Tell us whats happening with his visit to iraq. Hell certainly be talks about iran when hes here. It goes to show you just how dangerous the americans perceive the security situation here in roc. He announced his visit to all the rest of those countries. Here it was unannounced for sec
Won both of them. So much for history repeating. Along with janie colby her new show is set to premier on monday. Much more on that. In the meantime well be back next week. Did charlie do anything . I digress. Charles payne. What do you think . The mixed messages two different president s, two different reactions. That was a moment right there, off scripted off telepromter moment where the president said i won both of them. Completely forgetting the last election. Bill clinton said i want a legacy of achievement that will be validated by the scoreboard. Economic, a scoreboard of what washington can get down. What president obama is doing is saying hey, as long as i win, as long as i can convince the American Public im the better choice say it was a past president in a Mean Congress maybe thats the new paradigm in washington where it doesnt even matter if you get anything done because obviously, thats the path hes going on. Its not a path. So, hes saying im not going to go that route. I
Won both of them. So much for history repeating. Along with janie colby her new show is set to premier on monday. Much more on that. In the meantime well be back next week. Did charlie do anything . I digress. Charles payne. What do you think . The mixed messages two different president s, two different reactions. That was a moment right there, off scripted off telepromter moment where the president said i won both of them. Completely forgetting the last election. Bill clinton said i want a legacy of achievement that will be validated by the scoreboard. Economic, a scoreboard of what washington can get down. What president obama is doing is saying hey, as long as i win, as long as i can convince the American Public im the better choice say it was a past president in a Mean Congress maybe thats the new paradigm in washington where it doesnt even matter if you get anything done because obviously, thats the path hes going on. Its not a path. So, hes saying im not going to go that route. I