hello i m abby phillip in washington. welcome to cnn newsroom we begin this hour in the middle east, where both violence and tensions are escalating. today israeli forces unleashed air strikes in southern lebanon and gaza and israel says it struck targets belonging to the palestinian militant group hamas. israel blames hamas for firing 34 rockets from lebanon yesterday and the latest barrage since the two countries were at war back in 20 in 2006. now that has raised fears of an escalating conflict across the region, and just overnight, we learned that israel has mobilized some of its military reserves. a short time ago, israel s defense minister ordered security bolstered across the country after two israeli women were shot to death in the west bank. israel has called it an act of terror. let s get straight to cnn s fred pleitgen, who is near the israeli gaza border, and scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, for us as well. but let s start with you, fred. fred you did talk to t
Some big moves in that already huge search for the escaped killer in pennsylvania. Thats where we begin this morning. We just learned moments ago from state police that the escaped killer is on the move, and the search area is now expanding. They released new Security Cam Images of how he was spotted overnight. The photos are coming from an area of a vast Botanical Gardens, pushing the search area to move and forcing authorities also to close area schools as a result. Lets get over to cnns Danny Freeman there with the latest. We just were hearing from the Press Conference. Tell us what it means. Reporter this Press Conference just wrapped up with Pennsylvania State police and Chester County officials. What we have learned is, as you said, this manhunt has expanded. Initially over the weekend, we were told by Law Enforcement officials that it the bulk of the Search Operations were centered two miles south of the Chester County prison where that inmate broke out back on thursday. But the
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that it hates to be. it s it hates to be there, but recently has been there quite a lot. ariane s vogue. thank you very much for all of that. so let s continue this discussion. joining us now is former ethics lawyer for the bush white house. richard painter. he s also a professor of corporate law at the university of minnesota. so richard, here s what i don t understand here, um, justice thomas, at one point had disclosed some of these types of gifts from harlan crow. but then he stopped doing it over the last 20. years. so do you see his nondisclosure as illegal or unethical? just order that it just maybe looks bad. well this makes no sense to me because there s a personal hospitality exception. yes but that s a friend invited you over for dinner at their house or cocktail party, perhaps, too for weekend stay at their house up in the pocono mountains or something like that. the