Assassination of the top hamas military commander. Brings us right to sara sidner. Shes live for us in gaza city. Sara, good morning. Good morning. Yes, weve been seeing air strikes again and again here in gaza city. Weve seen more than a dozen air strikes since weve been here, which is a few hours. On the other side of the border, weve been seeing rockets coming in. Were 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. Hes 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 commemoration. And then we have
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com outfront tonight, we have late breaking developments in the petraeus scandal. First, we are just learning the name of the fbi agent who helped start the investigation that eventually led to the resignation of the nations top spy. The name of the agent is frederick w. Humphries ii. Hes 47 years old. He was the investigator who first learned of a complaint from jill kelley that she received harassing emails. The government has taken away for now, the top security clearance of Paula Broadwell, the former mistress of David Petraeus. This is after investigators found substantial classified information on her computer and the glaering question tonight is did broadwells relationship with David Petraeus give her access to these classified documents . Outfront tonight, Cnn National Security contributor, fran townsend. Shes also a member of the cia external add voizry committee and knowed a lot about what it means to have top clearance. The name of the fbi agent
Ifill and we assess the administrations postelection agenda with senators dick durbin and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Woodruff then, ray suarez gets the latest on the escalating violence in gaza after israeli air strikes killed the military leader of hamas. Ifill plus, there were new calls today for laws to police pharmacies like the one linked to the meningitis outbreak. Betty ann bowsers update includes the story of one familys loss from the disease. I cant really think of one them them without the other. He was such a vibrant person that who lit up the room and theres such a great big hole missing. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the president faced the White House Press corps today in a wid
The influence of alcohol. Now, back out live, we see that city workers are again trying to do a lot of cleanup this morning here and try to restore those traffic lights in the area. A lot of debris and mess left behind and we saw one vehicle also in this area that has a dent in it. Chp says this is an active investigation and there will be more information later on. Cate caugiran, cbs 5. A house fire left a neighborhood in San Francisco covered in smoke. Cbs 5 reporter anne makovec on the scene with the cleanup. Good morning. Reporter the people who lived in the building that was on fire have now been able to return home. They were lucky. Here are the pictures of the place in the duboce triangle. It was challenging for the firefighters because it was traveling through the walls of the building. The fire damage was isolated tonight try ways of the building. The damage was isolated to the entryways of the building. It could have been deadly if the smoke detectors didnt wake people up and
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 its 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 weve 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, of ha the leader of hamas mi