Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, under attack. Day six of the conflict between israel and gaza. Is there an end in sight . Tonight, thousands of israeli troops are poised at the border, ready to move at gaza. Negotiations speer headed by egypt are ongoing, and tonight the United Nations secretarygeneral ban kimoon arrived in cairo, just hours after egypts intelligence chief gave an israeli delegation a letter from hamas outlining its conditions for a ceasefire. So far on the israeli side, Officials Say throw people have died. 68 have been wounded as the result of rocket fire from gaza and in gaza, Officials Say 104 people have been killed. 860 have been wounded since the conflict began. As for fire power, israel says militants in gaza have fired nearly 1,000 rockets at israel. 570 of them have actually struck israel. Another 307 have been intercepted by israels socalled iron dome defense system. Meanwhile, israel carried out 80 strikes today. It has now target
Hamas militants [ gunfire ] there they are. Hamas militants in gaza keep unleashing rocket attacks on israel and get alarmingly close to jerusalem. A new provocation as they continue the air assault on what it calls terrorist targets in za. The death toll i rising along wiars of anallout Israeli Ground invasion. The Israeli Cabinet has just approved the callup of 75,000 Army Reservists in addition to the troops already positioned along the border with gaza. A visit to gaza by egypts Prime Minister failed to stop the bombardment and pull the region from the brink of allout war. U. S. Officials blame hamas for starting this conflict. But they are also urging to be measured in its response. The defense secretary leon panetta says israel and the palestinians need to negotiate a more permanent piece his words, a more permanent piece in the region. Our pentagon correspondent barbara starrs been watching whats going on. Barbara, what is the u. S. Military most concerned about right now . Wolf
Border, ready to move in in a Ground Invasion if necessary. Israel says a ground war is a possibility, but does it add up . And new questions tonight in the benghazi investigation. The cia talking points. Congress wants to know who changed the talking points an why and we think we know who did. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, under attack. Day six of the conflict between israel and gaza. Is there an end in sight . Tonight, thousands of israeli troops are poised at the border, ready to move at gaza. Negotiations speer headed by egypt are ongoing, and tonight the United Nations secretarygeneral ban kimoon arrived in cairo, just hours after egypts intelligence chief gave an israeli delegation a letter from hamas outlining its conditions for a ceasefire. So far on the israeli side, Officials Say throw people have died. 68 have been wounded as the result of rocket fire from gaza and in gaza, Officials Say 104 people have been killed. 860 have bee
Jerusalem and she goes to cairo today. This is varney company, an all star, preholiday lineup. Here we go. top story. The unions are excertifying maximum pressure right now the at worst possible time. People want to shop and unions are making both difficult. Sciu expects more than a thousand marches at Los Angeles International airport and say the company they work for, a contractor for the airport broke the union and took away Health Insurance and demonstrating. And protests planned at ohare in chicago. A new Company Providing custodial services there, nonunion, protests. And a strike, and another one at the port in portland. And a huge protest planned at one thousand Walmart Stores on friday. Workers angry about wages and benefit and threaten to tie up walmart parking lots on what is a crucial shopping day and hostess, the bakers union refusing to make a deal and now the company is going to be liquidated. Yes, it is, 18,000 jobs or thereabouts lost, and unions throwing their weigh
With the new egyptian president , mohammed mersi and turkish Prime Minister. They have relations with has mass according to the senior official they were encouraged to engage hamas to get them to stop the rocket strikes which the official characterized as the precipitating factor in this exchange of rocket fire from israel and hamas in the gaza strip. Finally prospects for a ground offensive by israel into gau scat white house official would simply say israel can make their own decisions about tactics and operations. Okay, Mike Viqueira, thank you very much for that. From mike to tell awe vooef we head to nbcs martin fletcher. Martin, what is the nature of the conflict on the ground there now for both sides . Reporter well, alex, as mike just said, what president obama said sound a little bit like a green light for israel to do whatever it takes necessary. Whats happening right now is with the army here is doing all it takes to prepare for a Ground Invasion of gaza. But no order has be