their homes. they say they re going to strike that urban area because the israelis say that s where about 38% of all the rocket launches against israel have been fired from. israel says those rocket launches are in urban areas, in schools, underneath buildings, near mosques, and they say they have no choice but to attack those areas. but the united nations says about 4,000 palestinians have left out of a population of about 70,000 in that area. so there s still a lot of palestinians in that area that israel says it will start to hit very strongly. in a briefing to some of the foreign media by telephone, a senior military official, an israeli, said that israel would, quote, strike with might starting sunday evening. that s about now. so we re all waiting to see what that really means. does that mean more attacks from the air? more attacks from the sea? or does it herald the beginning of a ground invasion? we re not sure. we re waiting to see, melissa. how do the israeli people feel? a
stoop if we can go back tomorrow, this only about half of the stoop is actually visible. the other half is under water. i know that deli well. they are standing there. if they go any lower they will get wet. they will have to go back in that building. it will be like waist high. shepard: amid the talk of local concerns of my apartment and yours, there are serious concerns about what is happening beneath the city. all over the city of new york today, you could see where they had duct taped down these doors that open where you can go underneath buildings all over the city. the water flowing into the subway stations of enormous concerns. the reporter there was mentioning of course the water will recede as the tide goes out and they will. salt water and salt water corrodes metal. it s metal that takes care of the electrical system all over this city. so they there are great questions about what lower manhattan at least will look like. if you look here in midtown,