Contracting every bit of bad news in europe. That lines up with u. S. Companieses that does business there. Mixed Economic News here at home m weekly unemployment claims came in higher than expected but the Housing Market, yeah, that remains a bright spot. Existing home sales we found out today, they rose and home prices have been going up. That was good news. Stocks were lower but they have bounced back up. Thats a nice way to end the hour and the day with the markets and good news. A couple bits of good news. Thank you so much, alison kosik. Thats going to do it for me. The situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. Fred, thanks very much. Happening now, a brazen shooting leads to a deadly Chain Reaction crash all within major sites of major casinos in las vegas. The major investigator in the pistorius case has been thrown off the case. And a senator admits that he fathered a child with another onetime senators daughter. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. All that
Israel executes a Ground Invasion into gaza. Its third in six years. We do want to welcome our viewers in the United States, and all around the world. Im rosemary church. Im michael holmes. Were following two major stories this hour. In fact, israel launching that Ground Invasion in gaza. They say to stop rocket attacks by hamas and go after tunnels that go under the border between gaza and into israel. Were going to be live in jerusalem for the latest. But we begin with the tragic crash of Malaysian Airlines flight 17. All 298 people onboard are presumed dead. Witnesses say the plane exploded in the air, raining charred debris over Eastern Ukraine. The u. S. Believes it was shot down by a surfacetoair missile, but has not determined who did it. Investigators will be collecting clues from the gruesome crash site. Ukraines president blames prorussian separatists for what happened. Translator i want to point your attention to the fact that we call it neither accident nor catastrophe. Its
President obama pushes for an immediate cease fire in gaza as the death toll rises on both sides. Two more Israeli Soldiers were killed on monday bringing the total to 27. And some 573 palestinians have been killed. So lets begin with the latest news in the flight 17 crash investigation. Cnns Nick Peyton Walsh joins us live. Whats the latest . Reporter we know that at 3 10 local time, 8 00 your time, the train carrying 200 of the bodies of the victim of flight 17s departed from the donetsk. They took a different route than anticipated. It was expected to travel straight to kharkiv. Theres been a lot of contrary information about when the train was supposed to leave, what direction it was taking. And it will probably take at least seven hours to make its way toward kharkiv where it will be met by an increasingly large number of australian, dutch, consular officials, those trying to go through the extraordinarily grim and difficult task of taking these bodies which are now a number of da
This is tough. No rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, tornado warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. Harvey has been downgraded to the Tropical Storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. One confirmed death and injury. Most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. Local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. It is rockport, texas. Take a look from the air. This is what is left of rockport. There was no escaping harvey. Rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. Leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. Lets bring in the texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick by phone. Always good to be with you. I wish it was under dif
A very emotional time. Reporter her survival seemed like a miracle. I didnt know if i would live. Reporter was this a random crime or did someone want her dead is this. Someone was out there. We were scared. Reporter secret number two, 1,600 miles away. It was snowballing. Like a punch in the gut. Reporter and mystery number three, who would they turn out to be . Its like, damn, what did this lady do . Reporter faith, temptation and a twist the size of texas. Lets be very clear Justice Needs to be served. I dont think it has been. Reporter chaarrollton, texa just north of dallas, the schools are good, golf courses got the landscape and churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. Theres not a lot of crime in the area. Its a good place to raise a family. Reporter but travel east a hundred miles or so, you enter the piney woods of east texas. Jobs are not as plentiful here and some keep bonds bailsmen on speed dial. Theres a lot of drugs there. Reporter and those two worlds collided in a