of strikes aimed at southern lebanon and gaza. and we re learning this morning that the idea has mobilized its reserve forces, the latest on this fluid situation. cnn is on the ground important new jobs numbers just in moments ago, 236,000 jobs added, but that is below expectations. the unemployment rate is down to a low, low low 3.5% there are signs that things might be cooling off. expelled in an extraordinary move. tennessee house republicans vote to remove two young black democratic members for protesting on the capitol floor backlash and how republicans are defending it. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central . major retaliatory strike in the middle east is really forces firing rockets overnight hitting palestinian targets in lebanon and gaza. and the i, d f is now ordering the mobilization of reserve forces. israel strikes are in response to the dozens of rockets fired from southern lebanon into northe
lieutenant colonel richard hicks , tell me tell me some of the things that you guys were doing around gaza but also in south lebanon overnight, so there s been a convergence of frontiers right now for israel of regions. an event started off in jerusalem got expanded to gaza, hamas and into lebanon so basically is due to the events that happened and again. we re in very volatile times two nights ago, an event and temple mount kicked off a response from gaza who is trying to escalate with a lot of special niche social networks, this region. and they started firing rockets after that some palestinian factions in lebanon, predominantly hamas also started fighting israel. so we had like a multi arena with one main adversary. the palestinian capabilities, saying is very volatile time. obviously we saw that last night. what we re hearing today is that israel is calling up some reservists specifically in air defense and also in the air force. can you tell us how many and y you re