a warm welcome to this hour s coverage of israel at war. i m richard quest live from abu dhabi and you re most welcome if you re watching in the united states or indeed from wherever you re a watching around the world. it is 10:00 on sunday morning in gaza. and idf helicopters have already been seen flying along the israeli coastline in ashkelon earlier today. the city is only 20 kilometers from gaza, where the idf says hamas is holding 230 hostages. now, in gaza, we are waiting to see the latest images of damage from overnight, and of course, receive the reports on possible casualties. overnight, the reports of near total communications blackout, internet, telephone, mobile phones and the like, is believed to be, that has now eased up, but it was an extremely dangerous and busy night. israel says it s been targeting hamas tunnels and underground spaces. and again, warning people to go south. this is the israeli prime minister. our heroic fighters have one supreme goal, to
Through 9 00 p. M. We are dry across the area. You can see a crayola effect of colors. The blue indicating the snow. Green indicating the rain. Ice. Ink indicating the temperatures are definitely cold. It is 1020 Degrees Higher than it was at this time yesterday. 17, manassas. Kids that are already going to be going to school this morning, if they are not already dry at thewill be bus stop. We will have some rain and it will be freezing rain falling and creating some icy road conditions, but we have a bigtime warmup coming our way later this week. When i join you in 10 minutes, i will take you through our futurecast coming out the precipitation in your neighborhood. Common this time of year. Crayolaou said it was a box of colors, was that a 64box . Or the 16 box . Eileen the 16 box. How about that . [laughter] main we have water breaks. We have crews out there working your red top road because of the water main breaks. Only the left lane is able to get by at this time. We also have the
Woodruff the alabama crimson tide and their powerful coach etch their place in history. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by babbel. A language app that teaches reallife conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. Babbels 1015 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. More information on babbel. Com. Funding provided in part by 20th century fox. The post, in theaters everywhere january 12. Bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff we begin tonight with politics, and a striking look inside highlevel talks over how to reduce and reform immigration here in the u. S. Today, a group of both republican and Democratic Senators and house members met with President Trump at the white house to discuss this c
Tide and their powerful coach etch their place in history. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by babbel. A language app that teaches reallife conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. Babbels 1015 minute lessons are available as an app, or online. More information on babbel. Com. Funding provided in part by 20th century fox. The post, in theaters everywhere january 12. Bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff we begin tonight with politics, and a striking look inside highlevel talks over how to reduce and reform immigration here in the u. S. Today, a group of both republican and Democratic Senators and house members met with President Trump at the white house to discuss this contentious issue including da
Because of her sexual orientation. Tonight a group of parents is rallying around the popular educator. Good evening to you, im jessica dean. Waldron Mercy Academy in merion is responding to night to the firing of teacher margie winters. Some parents say the schools actions are unjust. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers is live in fairmount where a meeting in support of wints just wrapped up. Matt. Reporter that meeting wrapped up within the last hour and a half or so. It was about two hours long and there was over 130 people here who showed up including the teacher who was fired margie winters. All of the people came out here were told to show their support support. Our cameras are not allowed inside that meeting room but were told margie winters received a standing ovation a show of serious support. Margie winters has been married to her wife since 2007. And she worked add waldron mer cease cad me for about that long that is until last friday when parents were sent an email notifyin