bill: these are scenes on the streets of jerusalem. watch here now. you see the gunmen get out of that white car. identified as palestinians in jerusalem getting car and opening fire at a bus stop. it wounded half a dozen and killed three. the measure of the level of tension within israel as we continue our focus on the gaza strip and elsewhere. a big day of news today. bill hemmer live in new york city. good morning. dana: good morning. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. one of the reasons that we have all this video now is because cameras are everywhere and you get to see what they re up against. the deadly attack in jerusalem comes as israel and hamas agreed to extend the truce for another day. it allowed more than 70 israeli hostages to return home and we re starting to learn the harrowing details of their captivity. bill: there are many. the youngest american freed by hamas, 4-year-old abigail edan. terrorists murdered her parents in front of her and
reporter: overnight, we saw scenes of absolute chaos here in tel aviv and on the streets of jerusalem in the hours after that divisive piece of legislation passed through the israeli parliament, the knesset, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets once again blocking major intersections, blocking highways. police at one point using water cannon to try to dislodge them. i want to show you one video from central israel late last night where you can see this is from the highway in central israel a car ramming into those protesters who were blocking the road there. now, police say three people were injured, fortunately none of them seriously in that incident. and the driver has been arrested, but that shows you just how high the tensions are. the protests themselves have died down today. but as you mentioned, chris, what started as a political crisis is now potentially endanger of becoming an economic crisis for israel. the stock market is down.
reporter: apparently so, jose. i mean, it s a good day and a good time to be outside by the beach, in the water, but a really bad time to be outside particularly working outside. we ve done a lot of interviews with first responders, ems workers, and as well as medical staff at ers, physicians both in phoenix, and we ve talked to people that do the same here in south florida, and really, what we re seeing across the board is just how dangerous this is for people who either don t have the ability or the privilege to be inside of air-conditioning, right? and we re talking about people without homes, just how dangerous that can be. we re also talking about situation where is people are working outside. they might be migrants. we know there are farm workers, laborers. and then of course first responders. we had a chance to speak with the chief fire officer, and they re telling us the precautions they are taking for their men and women as they re taking to the streets! we re definitely see
was surrendering to authorities. and what happened yesterday that brought hundreds of thousands of protesters to the streets of israel? you re watching josé diaz-balart reports on msnbc. ée diaz-balart reports on msnbc. at pnc bank, you can find us in big cities and small towns across the us,
opposition lawmakers stormed out of the chamber chanting shame. thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest the measure, which opponents say weakens one of the few checks on power. and as this is all happening, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is recovering from having a pacemaker implanted this weekend. joining us now from jerusalem is nbc s raf sanchez. netanyahu backed off trying to push through these changes earlier this year. what s different now? reporter: well, jose, it s a really good question because the scale of the opposition remains absolutely enormous. protesters have been here on the streets of jerusalem in front of israel s parliament all day, as they have been for the last seven months in cities all across israel. they ve moved a little up the street now closer to the supreme court. the business community is opposed to this legislation. 150 of israel s biggest companies have shut their doors