hello. and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. you are watching cnn s continuing coverage of israel at war. it is 3:00 a.m. here in atlanta. 9:00 a.m. in gaza. israeli air strikes, again, lit up the skies overnight. israel s military says its forces have reached the outskirts of gaza city, for the second time in as many days. israel hit the refugee camp in northern gaza with the devastating air strike on wednesday. local hospital officials say 80 people were killed. here s what an idf spokesperson told cnn earlier. you should have evacuated. you and your family, you shouldn t have been there. that doesn t mean that we wanted to kill anybody. it means that when we warn palestinians two weeks ago to evacuate that specific area, because there was going to be major combat operations, they should have heeded the warning and should have left. the sad reality that is unfolding now is that the civilians in gaza is
this shooting follows that standoff in philadelphia wednesday night six officers shot, two others pinned down for hours. that suspect also using a semi-automatic rifle. matt gutman joins us now. matt, i m being told the suspect just surrendered? reporter: yeah, just moments ago, he surrendered to a s.w.a.t. team. the two officers who were shot, one of them has already been released. the other is in stable condition. tom? matt gutman with the details just coming in. and now to politics. president trump doubling down on the economy after a roller coaster on wall street. the dow rising 306 points today, but ending with its third weekly loss in a row. the president declaring the economy is strong at a rally in new hampshire, telling the crowd they have no choice but to vote for him or lose their 401(k)s and everything else. here s kyra phillips. reporter: 24 hours after wall street took its deepest dive of the year, president trump warned his supporters that without him, they c
the dow since 1931. look, bigger picture, the dow lost 5.6% for the year. the worst year for stocks since 2008. look, at the end of the day, stocks were bound to fall. you can t have a bull market run forever, but it s the way that stocks are declining that is causing real serious investor concern. specifically, this month has been punctuated by panic selling, and extreme volatility. investors are worried about what s ahead. they re trying to measure the prolonged impact of a trade war, a global economic slow down and dysfunction in washington, d.c. for the average person, we re seeing a decline in consumer confidence. bottom line, there are a lot of headwinds ahead in 2019 and investors are going to be pessimistic until they have reason not to be. as we know, investors like certainty. and you point out some reasons why there isn t certainty right now in a few fronts. cristina alesci, thank you so much. i want to bring in cnn s global economic analyst steve
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