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recall. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the israel, and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com announcer: this is cnn breaking news. right now, we re keeping a very close eye in the skies over gaza after the truly extraordinary images of war we saw here on cnn just a little while ago with flares raining down for some 30 minutes as israel appeared to unleash an intense new assault in its battle against hamas. our correspondents are standing by here in the middle east as well as in the united states. first, i want to go to cnn s nic robertson. he had a direct view of the bombardment of gaza as it was under way from his position in israel not far from gaza. nic, tell our viewers more about what you saw and what s happening there now. reporter: yeah, wolf, we just had a very heavy detonation coming from the direction of where all those flares were drop ....
The three, up about 3. 38 . Overnight in asia, shanghai came back bigtime. As you see there, up 5. 3 . The hang seng, 3. 6 . The chinese did seem to intervene a bit to help things along in china. As for our tenyear note, we started this week. We were below 2 on the tenyear. No longer. Back to 2. 20 despite those comments. Crude oil above 40. The first time i have seen that in a few days. Lets get to our road map. Has the market bottomed for now . For good, for a while . Another upgrade for amazon. Why now is, quote, an attractive entry snoint. Retail pain continues. Tiffany and Williams Sonoma both disappoint and both stocks are looking down this morning. We begin with stocks on track to maintain momentum from wednesdays big rally. Futures extend gains after data shows Second Quarter gdp revised upward to 3. 7 . Thats up from an initial estimate of 2. 3 . This comes one day ....
Good morning Debbie Reynolds leading lady and hollywood icon passing away wednesday a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher. The news shocking the world and leaving many to ask did she die of a broken heart . E said you can die from a broken heart. There is a syndrome called broken heart sin drome. Its stress induced cardiomyopathy. The center at Womens Cardiovascular Health and says 90 of the patients with broken heart syndrome are women. And the symptoms mimic a heart attack. We know that about the mortality rate for it is 4 during the hospitalization. Fisher died tuesday, days after suffering a heart attack on a plane. Reynolds son says the stress was too much for his mother. Although reynolds suffered a stroke, doctors say the stress associated with losing a loved one can trigger broken heart syndrome. S ....