Nbcs Martin Fletcher is in tel aviv where air raid sirens were heard this morning. Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat. Overnight 30,000 reserves were given potential order to report for duty overnight 16,000 soldiers were told, reserve soldiers, were told to report to their units. They will be joining army units that massed on the border of gaza. Armored personnel carriers, hundreds of thousands of troops ready for Ground Invasion. As you suggested in introduction, a show of force or the real thing . Its partly a show of force but could end in a Ground Invasion because israelis keep insisting whatever it takes theyll stop the rockets from being fired into gaza. While the egyptian president was visiting, they would hold their fire. The palestinians didnt do the same so israel resumed their rockets. There was an intense exchange. 85 rockets were fired into gaza in a period of only 45 minutes. Targeting those stockpiles of weapons and long range rockets in part
Palestinians unleashed a fresh round of air attacks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not backing down. The past 24 hours israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. Well, nbcs Martin Fletcher is live for us in tel aviv. Martin, whats the latest . Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat. Last night 16,000 Israeli Reserve soldiers were called up for the army. The okay was given to 30,000. Theyve already called up half of that number. Many of those will be moving south where the army has already matched on the border. Theyre moving down tanks, armored personnel carriers and trooms. By the way, among those reserve soldiers called up it also included officers and soldiers who are experienced whose specialty is dealing with enemy civilian populations. Again, yet another hint, if you like, that an Israeli Ground invasion is very much in the cards has not yet been ordered but still is very much on the cards
Palestinians unleashed a fresh round of air a being at thats. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not backing down. The past 24 hours israel has made it clear that it will not tolerate rocket and missile attacks on its civilians. Nbcs Martin Fletcher is live for us in tel aviv. Martin, whats the latest . Reporter lynn, good morning. Following up on netanyahus threat. Last night 16,000 Israeli Reserve soldiers were called up. Theyve called up half of that number of 30,000. Theyre moving south of where the army is moving south of the border. Theyre moving down tanks, armored personnel carriers. Among those reserve soldiers called up also included officers and soldiers who are experienced specialty is dealing with enemy civilian population. Yet another hint that an Israeli Ground invasion is very much on the curb. Its not been ordered. There was a cease fire briefly in gaza this morning because the egyptian Prime Minister have been visiting gaza on the one hand as a show of suppo
Oh, my god. We need to be. Its right there. This ominous sight was videotaped from the interstate near mobile, alabama. The driver wisely stopped and turned around. I want you to listen to the funnel cloud as it approached the city. Christmas day tornado. Going through mobile. Oh, my god, look, thats a tornado. Oh, wow. Oh, jesus, look at that tornado. Look at that. It caused a lot of damage. And knocked out power to more than 20,000 customers. Incredibly, no one was killed, although at least two stormrelated deaths were reported elsewhere. But even natures most Destructive Forces can have a beautiful side. The storm generated this endtoend rainbow as it passed near jackson, mississippi. Lets get to alexandra steele. The legs on this thing are insane. Certainly one for the record books. On the snow side and on the severe side, mobile, two tornadoes, one yesterday and then one five days before that. It was the greatest Christmas Day tornado outbreak on the records, for the record books
Youre in the situation room, americans get ready for the new years eve ball to drop as president obama and republicans stare down the fiscal cliff deadline. Plus, a new worry for hundreds of American Families who want to adopt. Well tell you what is behind the controversial move by russian lawmakers. And a new exposes what it calls the gun next door. Is it a way to protect communities against gun violence . Welcome to United States and around the world, wolf blitzer is off. Im candy crowley. Youre in the situation room. Washington is a deadlineoriented city, and this coming week brings one that is a real doozy, billions in tax increases and acrosstheboard spending cuts take effect. It forces members of congress and president obama to spend the last few days of 2012 on the job. We want to bring in cnn chief white house correspondent, jessica yelen, we all know they would rather celebrate new years eve elsewhere. How did they get here . Reporter it is such a good question, you know, cand