Raid sirens going off in jerusalem. Hamas, the group that controls gaza, landed south of jerusalem. More rockets aimed for tel aviv ende in the water. No reports of damagen either case, though. But Officials Say 27 palestinians have died since weesday from israels strike in gaza. This is Israeli Defense forces video showi what they say, look at this, they say this is munition sites. Israel points to the stockpiles as more proof hamas is trying escalate tension. Hamas says israel is to blame. People live in fear of how close the attacks will come. Listen to one man in gaza just last night. I fear my life is at risk by merely being out the streets. I literally felt i could lose my life at any moment. Target i targeting israeli civilians, i might as well he was able to reconnect with us moments later. Other nations are scrambling to try to get israel and hamas to take a step back. Egypts Prime Minister and president arrived in gaza today. A planned ceasefire for the visit never materializ
With precisionguided missiles. In this case, striking what is said to be the home of an hamas leader. Egypt is trying to prevent this war from getting out of hand. Spearheading talks aimed at ending the violence. Israels Prime Minister says hamas can end all this. Ben wedeman is watching the conflict play out. Reporter weve seen apparent urgent action by the israeli army in this area to get as much material, tanks, armored personnel carriers and troops in the area around gaza in obvious preparation for a potential Ground Invasion of the gaza strip. But a decision to actually go in has to come from the leadership, from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and from his security cabinet. That has not come yet. On sunday, its expected that the secretary general of arab league is going to come to gaza with four arab foreign ministers. It may be difficult to launch a Ground Invasion while just a highlevel group is there. We understand that intense contacts are under way between israel and the U
That this was a heart breaking tragedy, by any standard. And many, many people will be affected by this terrible act of violence every day for the rest of their lives. And we should keep them in our thoughts and prayers. On the other hand, i think we all need to be very thankful that this incident wasnt much worse. We will take you live to portland for more on the shooter in just a moment here. But first, the victims. And this is where this briefing got emotional. I want you to listen here to the sheriff spokesman describe the victims and the requests on behalf of the families. This first statement comes from the family of cindy rule, age 54, from portland. Cindy was everybodys friend, she was a wonderful person who was very caring and put others first. The family has advised us they want time and space to grieve their loss and will not be giving interviews at this time. The family will make a statement at an unspecified later date through the sheriffs office. This is a statement from
Were still trying to sort out exactly why he was here, but he wasnt here for very long, it seems. He left in the last hour. Also, we were able to see some of senator mcconnells staffers. I was able to speak to one of them coming in and out of these kind of closeddoor planning meetings. He said theyve been here since 9 00 a. M. They plan to work all day and we may see his boss, senator mcconnell, later today. That shows us kind of where things stand. I wanted to break this down simply because theres so much that complicates the story. Lets look really quickly at a graphic of the basics, whats happening right now. Heres where we stand with the fiscal cliff. First of all, whos doing the negotiating . Ice the top two senators, senator reid for the democrats, senator mcconnell for the republican, and it is their staff who are working out details right now. What are they talking about . Mainly trying to find a way to avoid those tax hikes for most americans. That could also include an extens
It is 3 00 p. M. On the east coast, noon on the west coast. This is your money. Im ali velshi, were following breaking developments on the fiscal cliff. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. There has been a major snag in the negotiations toward a fiscal cliff deal with fewer than two days remaining on the countdown clock, dana bash is on capitol hill. Tell us what the main point of contention is now. There are few according to sources in both parties. The biggest one when it comes to the democrats, from their point of view, is the fact that republicans in an offer that they made last night included what is known as chained cpi in laymens terms and in terms that matter to many americans, it would effectively make Social Security checks lower each month. We learned this from sources earlier. The Senate Majority leader, harry reid went to the senate floor and talked about the snag. List ton what he said. The one thing i do want to mention is that were not goin