action on the part of the israels. the israel cabinet in emergency session, just wrapped up a meeting in tel aviv. now the prime minister is back, i hear, in jerusalem. and they seem to be gearing up for some limited ground operations, going after certain tunnels, underground bunkers in northern gaza. they ve distributed leaflets and told palestinians in northern gaza and elsewhere in gaza, as well, get ready and move out of these areas. i do anticipate, there will be some heightened military activity in the coming days. although, behind the scenes, there are still efforts underway to try to convince hamas to go ahead and accept a cease-fire. i know the objections, the turks, the palestinian authority of president mahmoud abbas are all working behind the scenes to convince hamas to go along with a deal. they rejected it earlier today. we ll see what happens in the next few days. wolf blitzer, thank you. wolf is live in jerusalem tonight. i want to go to ben wedeman in gaza city. you
while also mobilizing forces for a possible ground operation. we go live to the israel/gaza border. tell us more. reporter: first of all, we ve seen probably numerous rockets being fired within the last 15, 20 minutes from gaza behind me there in the distance and by our account about six or seven of them were intercepted by israeli s iron dome rocket defense system. those missiles that get fired from the missile bunkers that we ve been showing you the past couple days. speaking of these rockets, there s video that was released today of palestinian militants loading rockets from underground bunkers and firing them. there are two types that have israeli officials concerned in particular. m-75s that have a range of 40 to 50 miles and then m-302s that have a range up to 100 miles.
the newsroom. say it isn t so, trace. what s doing on? 34 officers. men and women who sit in underground bunkers in montana prepared for a nuclear strike. the deal is they had to take this proficiency test every month and they have to get 100%. it turns out one of the nuke launch officers texted answers to 16 of his fellow officers and 17 others officers knew about it but kept it quiet. cheating uncovered during an investigation. officers using illegal drugs. apparently a few of the officers involved in the drug investigation were also involved in the cheating scandal. critics say that s a big deal because your nuke launch officer should be proficient and sober because clearly a mistake could be catastrophic. the air force says nobody was ever in any danger and those involved have been punished. listen. we decertified all 34 officers involved. they are restricted from missile
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why do you need underground bunkers. why do you need icbms. only to carry pay loads to the israel, europe and the united states. if you get clearcut evidence to your satisfaction incon toe verbally would you hesitate to take military action? i wouldn t hesitate at all in that eventuality. but i hope it doesn t come to that. because we prefer a peaceful solution. we re in new york right now. the government in america has shut down. i don t think you ve ever had to put up with this particular eventuality yourself. but what do you think of what is going on now? how does it impact israel? are you concerned as it goes on too long to starts to really damage the global economy? they ll work it out. been there done that. but i ll tell you. you say we weren t there before. we actually were.