mississippi picking up the pieces after devastating storms over the weekend left over two dozen people dead and prince harry, elton john, and others take their fight against the british tabloids to a london courtroom. this is what we re watching at this hour. and thank you for being here. i m amarillo walker in for kate baldwin. we begin in israel, which is paralyzed right now by protests over benjamin netanyahu s plan to overhaul the country s judicial system. take a look at this video right now of protesters blocking a highway in television. police tried to disperse them by blasting them with water cannons. and while israelis take to the streets in protest, a historic general strike is also bringing the country. to a standstill all flights at israel s main airport were grounded for several hours , but they have now resumed now this is all happening just hours after netanyahu fired his own defense minister who had called for a pause in the government s judicial reform effort
for a pause in the government s judicial reform efforts. critics say the plan threatens the country s democracy and removes checks and balances on the government. so far, netanyahu has shown no indication that he will drop it. let s get straight ahead. ask gold live in jerusalem with the very latest had asked. you can see all the action there behind you update us on what is happening now and just a sense of the scale of these protests, because remarkably, it s really impacting nearly every sector of israel. yeah well for more than 12 weeks now, there have been regular protests hundreds of thousands of israelis taking to the streets to protest against this massive judicial overhaul plan, but the last 24 hours has brought something different after the defense minister was fired for daring to give a speech where he himself called for a freeze in the reform plan. he s a member of benjamin netanyahu s own government and member of his own party, so this is very drastic step to take. we saw t