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electrical fires and power outages are adding to the misery in the eastern united states. to give you an idea of how massive sandy still is, fierce winds are blowing in from canada all the way to georgea. this morning, some 7 million homes and businesses are without power and heat. sandy is also whipping up huge amounts of snow from maryland to tennessee and west virginia, a blizzard could dump three feet of rare october snow. our reporters are at some of the worst points of the super storm and breaking down the details on how all americans could feel sandy s impact. right now, we re following rescues and evacuations under way in much of the region. in northern new jersey there s been a breach in a berm and several communities are now flooded. one police chief says there s up to five feet of water in the streets of moonachie and little ferry. and in carlstadt rescues are taking place. having trouble getting to the scene because the roadways are so bad. when she arrives ....
administration, the democrats were going to make sure he did not appoint anybody to the suprcourt. cynthia: today grassley said , after giving it more thought, he implied he wouldn t rule out holding hearings on an obama nominee, but would only say senator grassley i will take it : a step at a time. he hasn t nominated anyone yet. cynthia: the constitution states the president can nominate with the advice and consent of the senate. matt sinovac, who questioned grassley about the process, was not pleased with his answers. the kept repeating that we will take it one step at a time, but he tried to be very vague and continued to play political games with this nomination process. cynthia: president obama today challenged republicans to offer any plausible rationale for refusing to consider a supreme court candidate, and he vowed to nominate an outstanding legal mind. stacey: the man looking to unseat senator grassley comes to the selection process for the next supreme cou ....
this is cnn breaking news. we begin this morning with breaking news. a new crisis in the middle east, israeli and palestinian militants exchanging deadly fire near the israel/gaza border. they say it s in retaliation for ongoing rocket attacks into southern israel. triggered by an air strike that killed the top hamas military commander. sayre sara sidner is following the story. reporter: you can see gaza behind me. there has been air strike after air strike after air strike. we ourselves witnessed three air strikes, major hit. we could see fire and then three plumes of smoke. since then we ve been also seeing and hearing rockets coming over into southern israel. we now know there are three people who have died in israel in an apartment building very near, within a 7 kilometer radius of gaza in israel. we also know that at least seven people have been killed here in gaza and the air strikes are continuing. right now we do and we are watching the funeral happen, o ....
assassination of the top hamas military commander. brings us right to sara sidner. she s live for us in gaza city. sara, good morning. good morning. yes, we ve been seeing air strikes again and again here in gaza city. we ve seen more than a dozen air strikes since we ve been here, which is a few hours. on the other side of the border, we ve been seeing rockets coming in. we re talking about dozens of rockets since the targeted killing of ahmed al jabari, the head of hamas military wing. now, what we have also seen in the streets are thousands upon thousands of people who participated in the funeral for al jabari. he s not only the head of the military, he was not only a man, a commander of the military, but a man who was one of the founders of hamas, a symbolic member of hamas. so many, many people out to commemorate his death. we saw shooting in the streets, as you see a lot of times during funerals and also for times of celebration. but this one, certainly a comme ....
tomorrow. and that is one four-star general named david petraeus. two and a half weeks after sandy, president obama prepares to see the on going misery in parts of new york city. we are live in staten island this hour. but we begin with general petraeus. no longer the top most of the echelons of national security. but not consigned to oblivion either not by any stretch. we ve got two signature pieces of reporting this hour. time magazine is reporting that petraeus s biographer turned mistress once toyed with entering politics. she reportedly told acquaintances backing in jul that will gop money men had approached her about a senate run from north carolina. she says she was tempted. time magazine reports but petraeus was strongly against it. is it time is also reporting on the internal fbi struggle over whether to tell the white house what and whom they were investigating. it turns out the white house wasn t informed till the night of the election. three days ....