thousand of reserve troops in israel have been called up and israeli tanks are lining the border. today, for the first time, hamas fired rockets at the holy city ofm. dawn is about to break in israel. rocket attacks. david lee miller is on live on the israeli/gaza border with the latest. reporter: greta, it seems increasingly likely that there could be a ground incursion taking place shortly. in addition to the troops massing and the armored gear near the border, the area near the border, much of it has been closed. it is a sealed military interrogatory no. zone. nevertheless, in the last 24 hours, militants in gaza have fired more than 150 rockets into israel, more than half of them
half hour ago but the pace has quieted in the central part of israel. all eyes still on this one question whether or not israel will launch a ground invasion into gaza. reserve troops are still being called up, still moving to the units, joining the regular army, poised on them of gaza for the order that they don t know if it will come. meanwhile, there s very strong negotiations going on especially among arab countries with hamas and trying to get hamas to agree to a truce with israel and get israel to agree, too. israel prime minister talking to the american president talking to the egyptian president, who s talking to hamas. a possibility of a truce midweek, which could head off would head off an israel invasion in the short term anyway. in 2009 we saw 200 of these rocket attacks into israel. this year alone, there have been 700. do we have any idea why this has increased so much? reporter: that s a good
what a shame. adam, thank you very much. adam shapiro. bill: labor dispute puts 18,000 jobs on the line at a time when the unemployment rate is ridiculous. martha: due to the union. bill: saw what happened with the weekly jobless number yesterday. it shot through the roof. martha: will be higher next month thanks to that. bill: david petraeus is testifying at the moment in front of a senate intelligence committee behind closed doors, answering questions what happened in libya. we expect some of those senators to come before a microphone as house members did last hour. when that happens we ll bring it to you. martha: this is the other huge story right now. israel, calling up 16,000 reserve troops ahead of a possible ground invasion of the gaza strip. this after three civilians are killed in a direct hit on their apartment building. we ll be right back. 4g lte is the fastest.
megyn: we are getting more video from israeli news services showing men, women and children taking shelter as hamas continues a series of rocket attacks. welcome, i m megyn kelly. we have breaking news. we received reports that israel is taking steps to mobilize potentially 75,000 reserve troops for a possible ground invasion of gaza. palestinian militants ramping up their assault, launching rockets against israel s busiest cities including tel aviv and for the first time in decades, targeting jerusalem. air raid sirens warned of
north as tel aviv where i am in danger. if they can do it from the air, israel is saying repeatedly by the way, they make it more and more clear in a way that i personally haven t experienced for many years. they re saying in all possible ways broadcasting the message that a ground invasion of gaza is imminent if they cannot stop the rockets from being fired. the israeli army is poised with the regular army. they called up reserve troops, and this evening the defense minister gave permission to call off another 30,000 israeli reserve soldiers to be ready for a ground invasion of gaza. tamron. thank you very much for the live information. we ll have more in this hour for our audience as well. up next, senator john mccain missed a briefing on the benghazi attack while holding a news conference. well, he slammed the president and susan rice over her potential nomination that doesn t exist at this point for secretary of state. meanwhile, mccain is now being criticized for slamming