welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and canada, you are watching cnn newsroom. israel s bombardments of hamas targets is now in its third day. since the truce collapsed early friday. fighter jets and helicopters have been striking hamas installations across gaza including tunnel shafts, command centers and weapons storage facilities. the idf is urging thousands in gaza, many of them already displaced, to keep evacuating to the south. internet service in gaza has been spotty at best and it is not clear they are getting the message. the pause in fighting is not likely to be repeated again soon. on saturday both sides quit the hostage negotiations with each blaming the other for the breakdown. all balanced against israel s operations are warnings from the u.s. about mounting civilian casualties and many israelis are the many the government to more to free the remaining hostages. reporter: israel is still pounding the gaza strip, hitting as many as 400 hamas targets according to
destinations just in time for labor day weekend. nbc s jake ward is in south lake tahoe for us with the latest. that area normally sees more than 100,000 visitors over labor day weekend. what progress are firefighters making and what impact is this having on the area? linsey, today, friday, right on the eve of labor day is when you would come up with your family and pick up a rental canoe or a bike in downtown south lake tahoe, but instead you will be turned away because the area is still evacuated. as you mentioned, the fire is at this .29% contained, but it is far from over with over 200,000 acres burning it still poses a threat to the regional though this particular place has been spared. south lake tahoe which was under threat just 24 hours ago. when you walk around the town it s incredible to see the adan take, heavenly, the resort ski area just off to my right here has been running its snow makers
christine, one last question. obviously many viewers will be looking behind us and thinking where is the snow? is this a problem? there is not much snow out there. i can t tell you the number of olympic games, paula, where there have been conversations about there s no snow, it s too warm, fog in the mountains. they always seem to pull it off. i think in this case they will as well. but absolutely it is an issue. here we are in the mountains and we re seeing very little snow. reporter: christine brennan, thank you very much. sports analyst. i can tell you it s certainly not too warm here at the moment. it is cold in pyeongchang, not a huge amount of natural snow, but i just spoke this afternoon to one of the snow makers. they say that they believe they have enough for the competition. they actually stopped making it in the mid madle of january say they believe they have enough. rosemary? let s hope so. paula hancocks joining us in pyeongchang, south korea. we will chat with you
italy helps manage the team that provides the artificial snow in. the media and we had a meeting with the olympic committee to discuss safety of the heights and we were told to remove the snow makers sarkis on the outside rick ross power pop one phoenix park will be the venue for the freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at the twenty eight thousand winter olympics in two months machines have produced up to seven metres of new snow now the machines have to be removed. the athletes are starting their training but one machine is only communicating in korean today where . you can you can change your engine turbo not even get heard of. this high tech machine usually turns seven leaders of water into snow every minute . but not today.