year. the dow finished ahead 25.5 to a new record close. the s&p 500 fell 27. the nasdaq dropped 245. bret: growing concerns tonight about a wider regional conflict in israel. heavy fighting reported in gaza in the south a day after israel said it was withdrawing thousands of troops. correspondent trey yingst is following it all from tel aviv. trey, good evening. trey: bret, good evening. the conflict in the middle east escalated once again as israel took out the highest ranking hamas official since the war began. the fiery aftermath of a drone strike illuminates a street south of beirut. the strike s target hamas deputy chairman sal la, a key hamas
aviation expert was saying if it was at a passenger gate you would need more people involved to actually if he was in the cockpit getting ready to fly you need other people to push it back from the gate. that s not what happened. it was in a maintenance area. abby: begs the question how do you monitor all of your employees and make sure they are mentally well that something like this doesn t happen again. that s a question we asked sal la gotten i can t. here is what he said. he had credentials. let ability to get out on the ramp and be among the airplanes. so it s hard to say that we are going to stop somebody like that from doing anything unless we figure that he may have some nefarious thoughts. remember, how many people go around and service an airplane before it s ready for departure. 12, 15, 18 people, depending on the eyes of the aircraft. can you keep traffic of all of those people all the
making bombs to attack tourist hot spots in new york city including the statue of liberty. we could soon honor our military with a parade marching through washington. u.s. defense officials say they are in their preliminary stages of planning the celebration for some time this year at the request of the president. president trump previously considered the idea after attending france s bastille day last july. a look at your headlines, guys, back to you. steve: a lot of people at the pentagon would love to show off equipment and personnel. brian: i don t know. seems like a waste of money. 12 minutes after the hour. we were just talking about the fisa abuse memo. turns out investigators may have violated their own rules. congressman louie gohmert wants those court transcripts released. he s here next. ainsley: plus, real life american heros who stopped a terror attack on a train are now hollywood stars. spencer stone, alex and anthony sadler from the new clinton eastwood movie 15:17 to pa
but certainly what we know is the family of sal la is still here, the mother, father and mohamed one of his brothers. he was arrested, one of the seven people that was arrested since friday here in belgian. he was later released. the police believe he s got nothing to do with the attacks and the brother appeared on french television today making an appeal to his brother. he said turn yourself in. go to the police. well, of course,ing that hasn t happened yet. and, of course, he is still on the run and the police are looking for him everywhere, richard. nbc news reporter claudio lavan lavanga, thank you very much. let s bring in valerie garrote for euro news based in france. so there s been some talk about this investigation. police now think they re looking for two active suspects, two people who were directly involved. what more do we know?
the libyan government says it is sberve observing u.n. cease fire but opposition forces say they are still under attack and casualties are mounting. all the while in paris, members of the no-fly zone coalition will meet on how to enforce it, which may include air strikes in libya. it was the site of massive anti-government protests in bahrain. now it is rubble. bahraini authorities said they demolished the pearl monument to improve the infrastructure. the u.s. and human rights groups are protesting the arrest of opposition figures there. and in yemen, at least 40 people have been killed, more than 100 hurt in clashes between protesters and security forces. this happened after friday prayers when tens of thousands protested in the yemeni capital. president sal la has declared a state of emergency. and those are the headlines i m