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
Helping hand for ukraine, in dealing with the aftermath of the mud implied. President obama to tour the disaster area. A busy day at the Supreme Court as the justices issued a ruling in one major and heard arguments in another. A High Court Blow to affirmative action. Judges upheld michigans ban on admissions. An impact across the country. Libby casey is there for us what did the justices decide, what was the justification . It went back to 2006 when voters in michigan banned racial preference through the polls. Admissions offices at colleges and university, publicly funded ones could not consider race, ethnicity and gender, and give people a preference based on those items. A lower court overturned this, saying it was discriminatory. But the Supreme Court today went over that and reversed it. On a vote of 62, the majority said that the michigan law gan stand. A justice recued herself, she was solicitorgeneral when the case was before the local courts. The one that wrote the majority o
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