sharp shooter and 20-year-old of texas was killed in texas in the gaza strip. steinberg knew what he was getting into according to a family friend. he wanted to be out there on the front line. he that is what he wanted. it really was. he had options as an american citizen when you join, the idea is you can select to not be on the front line and this is what he wanted. israel says seven members of steinberg s unit were killed when a bomb hit their armored car. secretary of state kerry heading to egypt today to try to broker a cease fire between israel and hamas. and as susan mcginnis reports the trip comes as the international community raises big concerns about the rising civilian death toll. reporter: palestinians in the gaza strip woke to more rocket fire this morning. as the ground war continued to escalate between israel and hamas militants. calls for a cease fire grew louder on sunday, the deadliest day of fighting. the united nations security council held an
captioning sponsored by cbs. this is the cbs evening news. good evening, i m elaine quijano. three days after the crash of malaysia air lights flight 17 outrage is growing around the world over how the rebels in eastern ukraine are handling both the victims bodies and the physical evidence. more on that in a moment. but first this has been the deadliest day yet in the gaza conflict. 90 palestinians were killed today as were 13 israeli soldiers. two of them american citizens. that pushes the 13-day death toll to at least 425 palestinians and 20 israelis. the white house says president obama expressed, quote, serious concern over the escalating death toll in a phone call today to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. secretary of state kerry will soon be heading to the region in search of a cease-fire. and the u.n. security council is meeting on gaza tonight. we have two reports this evening beginning with barry petersen in gaza. reporter: this was a day of running
let s find with meteorologist bill henley. bill, talk us through this. the thickest fog is in new jersey. we ve been watching it at times the visibility down to zero. now, some of that moisture is making it into center city. look at the low clouds over the city. it s a clear view, though, across the delaware. so, fog really not an issue in philadelphia, but mount holly, wrightstown, atlantic city all seeing dense fog this morning. the visibility is right back down at the airport and atlantic city may lead to some delays this morning. we re watching some areas of fog in delaware, georgetown is down to half a mile. it has been a bit thicker in dover and right now one-mile visibility. this was chilly temperatures this morning, especially north and west. those areas that are fog free. mount holly is 38 degrees and right at 40 degrees at philadelphia international and 46 degrees. but that number will, indeed, be climbing. fog disappears. 50 by 9:00 and 61 degrees by lunchtime.
the homesburg neighborhood. and on top of that it s a first alert day here as nbc 10 s team of meteorologist is tracking snow that could move in to affect a lot of people in terms of getting out of school and making the evening commute pretty rough this evening. good morning, this is nbc 10 news today on this wednesday. so far no schools are closed or delayed this morning, but many say they are going to make a decision in the next few hours as to whether or not to send students home early. we ll, of course keep you posted on that information as it comes in. now to meteorologist bill henley with his first alert forecast, we re set up for snow to move in later this afternoon, right? during the afternoon hours, sleet and snow. and it may be early this afternoon for much of the area. but this morning there s another hazard. the potential for icy spots this morning. that s part of why we have issued a first alert weather day. overnight, some areas of fog. and yesterday, sh
violent conflict. good morning and welcome to al jazeera, i m stephanie sy, california authorities say a botched camp fire erupted in a massive wildfire thursday and swept across 2000 acheers in the mountains and the first fire in the mountains since 2009 and flames damaged homes, garages, barns and other buildings, swift winds had it spread quickly and caused evacuations in again dora and the wildfire is no longer advancing and 30% contained but the national weather service says a red flag warning of danger will remain in effect for the area and we have brian rooney live with a report on the fire and first al jazeera gives us the details surrounding the massive blaze. and it only happens, what, a few minutes and it was everywhere, all around us. that s how quickly a wildfire sparked at a campsite spread across 17 0 0 acres in the bone-dry foothills of glen dora outside of los angeles and dawn and night more than 700 firefighters across southern california rushed to con