Morning, welcome, everybody, our starting point this morning, israel mobilizing thousands of troops for a possible fullscale ground war with hamas. Violence in the region intensifying overnight. The Palestinian Militants launched hundreds of rockets into israeli territory. Air raid sirens sounding in tel aviv. Thats the very first time thats happened since the gulf war. Israelis responded by pounding hundreds of terror sites as they call them in gaza with artillery fire. Ben wedeman reporting live now from jerusalem. We know, ben, that the israelis have called up 16,000 reservists. What exactly are they going to be doing . Well, what theyll be doing is heading down into the area around gaza. Very similar to what we saw in 2008, 2009, when they had a similar outbreak of violence between the two sides. We also know that theres a lot of heavy armor, lots of tanks being transported to the area around gaza, as well, for a possible ground incursion. But what we saw back in 20082009, was that
Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Lets begin with developing news this morning. A tsunami threat to tell you about was just lifted in japan. The country was rocked by a powerful 7. 3 magnitude earthquake. It hit off the coast of tokyo. The buildings there shaking. You could see some of the video showing the degree to which they were shaking. Alex, whats the latest . Reporter it has been a very, very tense few hours here in japan after you mentioned a 7. 3 magnitude earthquake striking late here in the day on friday. But just in the past 90 minutes or so, the all clear has been given. The tsunami warning has been lifted. Thats great news for the people here. Theres no signs of any significant damage. No reports of any deaths. Just a few injuries at this point. We also have to keep in mind the Nuclear Power plants. We have heard from the operator of those. They say everything is fine. But as you mentioned, this brings back very painful memories up for the people in the region in northern
Cycle . Thats his gift to janet yellin. Those stories and much more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone, im larry kudlow. This is the kudlow report. We are live here 7 00 p. M. Sxeern eastern and 4 00 p. M. Pacific. Much of the east coast digging out from a big snowstorm today and man,s is it cold. Single digits here in new york. Nbc newss ron mott joins us live from boston, where it may be worse. Good evening, ron, and thank you. Reporter hey, larry, good evening to you. Let me tell you, it is so cold out here its hard for me to really convey to you how cold it is. The muscles in my face are really straining to be able to get this mouth to talk, but i can tell you its 9 degrees right now with a wind chill of about 7 below. The temperatures are plunging quickly. And overnight were expecting the wind chills to hit minus 20. So theres . Real concern about the Homeless Population in boston. There are teams going around the city trying to get them int
Im zoraida sambolin. Im john berman. Eight battleground states and 12 days left to turn them red or blue. Both men crisscrossing the country, targeting the tossup states. Ohio may be the most pivotal. In a new poll from Time Magazine, the president is ahead by five points in the buckeye state. Early voting is trending in his favor. The romney camp has something to crow about as well. Cnn is shifting the state of North Carolina from a true tossup to leaning romney. Both candidates are driving home their message to cheering crowds yesterday. Theres no more serious issue in the president ial campaign than who can you trust. Trust matters. Who is going to look out for you. Those debates have propelled our campaign forward in a major way. Attacking me is not an agenda for the future, and america wants a bright and prosperous course ahead. There was another Big Development overnight. The president want on the tonight show last night and jumped hard into the battle over abortion and for women
Then youre going to love this. Right now theyre only 14. 95 wowa grt deal just got a whole lot better. Hurry. 14. 95 wont last. Times up for us. Thats all for early start. Starting point with Soledad Obrien starts right now. Good morning, welcome, everybody. Our starting point this morning, extreme weather. A thousandmilelong line of severe storms including tornados and severe flooding is leaving a path of destruction from the south to the northeast. Here comes the cold. Also this morning, some tense negotiations happening in alabama right now. A 6yearold boy has been held hostage since tuesday. Were expecting a News Conference to update us on this situation any moment. Were going to take you there live when it happens. Get ready, confirmation hearings begin as chuck hagel fights to be the next defense secretary but it could be an uphill battle with an old friend, john mccain, leading the resistance. And here it is, this is the new blackberry 10, soledad. So what makes it so different