thanks very much for joining us, i m wolf blitzer, in washington. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is cnn newsroom. we re following the major breaking news out of israel this hour. israel declaring it is at war, war with hamas. it follows an unprecedented attack on israeli soil by hamas. at least 70 israelis are now confirmed dead. more than 900 wounded. numbers that are clearly expected to rise in the coming hours. the attack catching israel clearly by surprise. at sunrise, the palestinian militant group launched their offensive by air, sea, and land. hamas fighters infiltrating israeli towns launching more than 3,000 rockets into israel. scenes of urban warfare, as gunfights unfolded features israeli and palestinian militants and just a short time ago, i spoke with the israeli military spokesman. when we target someone, we go for a military target. these terrorists came in this morning, they didn t go only for military ta
Afghanistan, iraq and syria, that s 11 countries. right. bill: what are we missing? libya. that was september 11th that was al qaeda affiliate. what al qaeda does, think about it as you re setting up a mcdonald s franchise. they go into a country. the first stage is to organize. they get the real estate. they have got the training camps. they set up shop. then they start recruiting locally. once they have recruited then they go operational. that is the stage that al qaeda in libya was this summer. there was a report, in fact a defense department report prepared by the library of congress saying al qaeda in libya had reached those first two stages. they had organized, they had recruited and they were getting ready to go operational. in other words to have a big splash attack. al qaeda, these affiliates don t call themselves al qaeda until they go operational. that is stage we were in libya in august. so to not have any preparation or additional security in, on the anniversary of sep
Tight in both cities. joining us now k.t. mcfarland, fox news security analyst, host of fox news live. how serious is this? you have to act as if it s very serious. but there are three parts to it. it s a specific threat. in other words, we know three guys, car bomb, new york, washington. it s from a reliable and credible source. somebody who has been square with us in the past. but it s unconfirmed. but you have to track it down as if it s serious. i look back and say well, you know, al-qaeda has to do something right now. because for ten years, we really haven t heard from them. they haven t had a big splash attack since madrid. this is really their last opportunity to show they re relevant. al-qaeda has changed. gregg: that was my question. is al-qaeda irrelevant? think of it as al-qaeda is 1.0 al-qaeda is bin laden. he is dead, right? a lot of his deputies are dead. when i was in afghanistan,