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We want to begin with our big story here. Coming up, hope for a ceasefire in gaza as the attacks keep coming, the blood keeps spilling. Heres what we know this morning. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has just wrapped up this meeting in the west bank in ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas. She will reportedly meet again today with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before jetting to cairo for talks with the president of egypt, Mohammad Morsi. The urgency underscored by the carnage in benghazi. Rockets are lobbying back and forth. Israeli air attacks killing 27 more palestinians bringing the death toll to 137 just in the last week. Now a spokesman for hamas sounded cautiously optimistic that a ceasefire could be at hand telling cnn we are close, we are on the edge. Cnn has reporters blanketing the region to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of this crisis in gaza. Fred pleitgen is in ashkelon, ben wedemans in gaza city. Ben wedeman, good morning, set the scene for me. Reporter yes, brooke, it was a noisezy night and we saw intense bombardment just behind where im standing. That was proceeded by increasing sort of mounting reports that a ceasefire was about to be announced or a period of calm. But it appears that there were problems within the Israeli Government that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his foreign minister lieberman didnt see eye to eye with the defense minister who was leaning towards accepting this draft proposal sent by hamas via the Egyptian Government. So once it was clear that those efforts had sort of run into a brick wall, we saw an intensification of israeli air strikes and of course rocket fire out of gaza as well. One of the rockets, rather, one of the air strikes hit very close to the hotel where many journalists are staying right on the coast right next to the gaza city beach. Now most recently within the last hour the house of a Senior Adviser to hamas, Prime Minister ishmael hamiya was hit and killed. As you mentioned, the death toll has now reached 139 according to palestinian medical sources. At the moment, its relatively quiet, but unless theres Real Progress broke towards a ceasefire, we may just slip back into this exchange of fire that we have been seeing now for eight days. At the moment its quiet. Let me ask you, though, about the leaflets that are dropped from the sky from israel to basically warn civilians in gaza as a headsup. Look, we are sending a missile youre way, heres where you need to go to stay safe. Reporter well, we have seen two different kinds of leaflets. One is sort of a generic stay away from anything affiliated or connected with hamas. And its a message to the Israeli Defense forces. And it also says we are trying to only go after hamas and not the people of gaza. What we saw yesterday, however, were leaflets being dropped on the northern part of the gaza strip with very specific instructions for people to leave those areas, how to get out of those areas and take cover in areas of gaza city which are safer. So those leaflets really did spark something of a panic exodus by people from the Northern Areas of the gaza strip. They flocked on donkey carts, pickup trucks, whatever kind of transportation they could find to this area. And they were put up in schools, but the schools werent ready. There was no preparations for them to come. So they have left their homes and they have come here with a situation that isnt dramatically better. Waiting as the world is for a ceasefire. Ben wedeman in gaza. Thank you. Next up, secretary of state Hillary Clinton is meeting with president Mo Hamad Morsi who could be the best deal to broker a piece deal. Good morning, reza, set the scene for us this morning and how important mr. Morsi is in the solution we see here. Reporter yeah, christine, this is another critical day in this conflict. A lot of people anxious to see what happens in the coming hours. Its a little after 12 00 noon cairo time and in a couple of hours secretary clinton is scheduled to arrive in cairo meeting with the egyptian president Mohammad Morsi as well as the arab league. Whenever big conflicts happen in the middle east, washington wants to be seen as playing a major role as peacemaker. That is clearly why mrs. Clinton is in the region today, but it is also clear that throughout the past few days its been egypt thats taking the lead as peacemaker. Obviously, they have strong links to hamas and they also have links with israel with that peace treaty they have promised to abide by. So they seem to be logical peacemaker. Yesterday they were optimistic that a ceasefire would be established. Mr. Morsi says he expects the aggression to stop. Obviously, christine, that didnt happen. Heavy fighting throughout the night and the Early Morning hours. Not exactly boding well for egypts status as peacemaker, but they seem to be remaining optimistic. They are hopeful something can get done today. Reza, have egyptian officials told you why they cant get the two sides to agree to a ceasefire when they claimed they were so close . It looked as though from signs on the ground they were so close and the heavy fighting continued all night. Reporter yeah, well, we have not been able to get a response from egyptian officials but we spoke with a deputy head of hamas, and this is no surprise, he points the finger at israel saying the talks stopped. Initially hamas made an offer, israel rejected the first offer. According to hamas they made a revised offer and they never heard back according to hamas officials. But what is good news in all of this, even hamas officials seem to be optimistic that today and in the coming hours something could happen. All right. Reza, thank you. At the bottom of the hour well talk to dan, our foreign officer now a guest scholar for middle east policy. Next hour at 6 30 eastern, stuart holiday is joining us, head of the Public Policy group that works with the state department. No other news here, eight minutes past the hour, sorry twinkie fans, it appears hostess is almost history. They are headed back to Bankruptcy Court in new york today after this lastdigit mediation effort with the bakers union failed. The bankruptcy judge has ordered the talks to try to save more than 18,000 jobs at this company. Several companies have expressed an interest in buying the brands and the recipes. Former boxing champ hector macho camacho is in serious condition after being shot in puerto rico. The shooter fired at camacho and another as they sat outside a bar in taiwan. He was shot in the face and doctors say the bullet fractured two vertebrae in his neck and he may have trouble walking. 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This is big news. 13 minutes past the hour here on this morning before turkey day. Well check out the early reads here to look at local news making nation had in headlines. First from the New York Times reporting the cia is permanently closing the doors on the Climate Change for National Security. The controversial department was set up three years ago. Republicans blasting the unit as wasteful and a distraction to the agencys mission. The cia is not saying whether it was closed by Budget Constraints or political pressure. The agency will continue to monitor Climate Change and its impact to our National Security but not in a standalone department. In the San Francisco chronicle clothing optional is not about to be an option. Nudists are losing the right to bear it all. They passed a measure banning public nude did. When they passed this law, people decided to bare it all. Nudists have filed a lawsuit saying the ban violates Free Expression rights. 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Dense fog advisories out for the lower half of michigan, northern parts of illinois and wisconsin. That will be enough to cause ground stops later on in the day in chicago and st. Louis. Right now we dont have any but i expect in the next hour or two they will start to rack up. San francisco, low clouds and rain with a storm out there. We have been talking about the storm in seattle and portland that continues to hammer the area. Heres the radar. Starting to turn with snow levels a little bit. Even flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. Certainly a rare event for the i5 corridor but they are getting everything with more flash flood watches in effect with the rivers continuing to rise, although the rain will diminish with the cold air rolling in. This big mess stretches down to San Francisco. So the storm is lowering and intensifying as it pushes inland. Across the midsection of the country, other than the fog, by the way, they got some across the gulf coast and the upper coastline of texas through houston this morning. We are looking okay. A little breezy across parts of the east coast for today. As we head towards turkey day there, you go. Gobble, gobble. We are looking at sunshine for much of the east coast including the thanksgiving day parade. For your flight tomorrow, brooke, or today, back home to atlanta, you should be okay. Excellent. It will be a nice drive if you want to go that route. I think ill be hopping on a flight. Thank you very much. On a much more serious note we want to get you to this breaking news as we cover the conflict between israel and gaza. Youre looking at live pictures. This is a bus. We have learned according to Israeli Police that there were people injured, there was some sort of explosion here on this bus. Take a look at the front of the bus that appears from my vantage that the front windows are shattered. This is tel aviv. One of the huge cities in israel. As we are watching the last couple of days from rockets from hamas lobbying into israel, they have reached places, they have reached neighborhoods in and around tel aviv and jerusalem and the rest of the country. So again, we dont know what caused this explosion. This is all very fresh. You see People Racing about. We dont know injuries, presumably there are injuries based upon these pictures and the bus there. You can see the pictures on the left side of the screen. Thats coverage from a television station in tel aviv. The fighting raged overnight. They were not able to secure a ceasefire. The fighting raged overnight into the morning and now youve got secretary of state Hillary Clinton on her way to a meeting there today with Mohamed Morsi to broker a nearterm ceasefire piece. But just showing you the violence continues with this explosion on a bus in tel aviv. We know there are injuries and well update you with details as we get them. We have reporters on the ground in israel and gaza and egypt. We are all over this breaking news here. Stay with us. We are back in just a short moment. Drea about that steak. Im going to dream about that tiramisu. What a night, huh . But, um, can the test drive be over now . Head back to the dealership . [ male announcer ] its practically yours. But we still need your signature. Volkswagen sign then drive is back. And its never been easier to get a passat. Thats the power of german engineering. Get 0 down, 0 due at signing, 0 deposit, and 0 first months payment on any new volkswagen. Visit vwdealer. Com today. As part of a heart healthy diet. Thats true. But you still have to go to the gym. The one and only, cheerios. But you still have to go to the gym. Try running four. Ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately weve got ink. 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As tensions continue to be ratcheted up in the middle east and as hopes for a ceasefire so far have not yet happened, we want to let you know we are just learning this morning from Israeli Police there has been a bus explosion in tel aviv. You ca