Very much for joining us. Cnn newsroom with jim acosta starts right now. Im jim acosta in washington. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world to cnns breaking News Coverage of israel at war. It has been one week since hamas launched its attack inside israel that killed more than 1,300 people. Today israel appears to be on the verge of responding with full force. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a video online of his visit with troops at the front line near the gaza border. He told them, quote, The Next Stage is coming. A Ground Invasion appears more inevitable by the hour. Israel has called on more than a million civilians to evacuate Northern Gaza for their safety. Today the State Department is urging Palestinian Americans in gaza to move closer to the rafah crossing into egypt. The reason, there may be little notice if the crossing opens but if israels sixhour window for safe passage from Northern Gaza has expired lots of questions are going to b
yesterday morning it got itself together. got as strong as it could get. began to wrap tighter and tighter. central pressure began to dip. we got to 125 millibars, then 922 millibars. finally down to 919 millibars. the third lowest pressure ever reported in america. and what for a miracle it hit one of the least populated areas of the entire coast of florida. in florida they like to talk about from coast to coast to coast meaning the florida panhandle coast, the gulf coast of the peninsula and the entire east coast of florida. if you were to take your finger and go up and down that coast, all the way around, hundreds and hundreds of miles of beach, where is the place that if the eye of the storm came ashore, it would affect the fewest people? you re horrified for, praying for the ones that hit. but where is the lowest density? right there. right where it hit. this hurricane will forever be
out our friends. reuters news has been driving around in all of this. as this water began to rise in brickle in downtown miami. griff jenkins is on the roads down about naples. unless the storm veers one way or another which it may, it s headed to this area. it s come here 75-mile-an-hour gusts. we have been driving around. we stopped for one second because we heard three loud booms. we saw a fireball in our live shot, and if you put the window down, this tree has caught on fire. it hit one of the power lines. i want to show you, it smells like smoke. this will turn into a larger fire. the embers going.
avalanche sweeps mount everest in depaul. it hit one of the camps on the mountains at 21,000 feet. the guys were in the area to fix the rope for hundreds of climbers on the round. they were attempting to scale the mountain next month when the weather conditions are favorable. could it be a credible clue? today the blue fin submarine is back in the waters of the southern indian ocean in the search for missing malaysian airline flight 370. they are searching the sea floor where signals were picked up by a pinger locator on board the ocean shield. so far all data will could elected turned up no evidence of the plane. 11 aircraft and 12 ships will be searching the surface today. about 20,000 square miles of ocean. students at a missouri high school they are holding a protest for a fellow classmate who got a warning for carrying a
persons of interest. none of those have been eliminated from the increase so far. this case is still very active and police have no solid leads since she disappeared from the resort when she was three years old back in 2007. of course her parents are very desperate to find any information that might tell them what happened to their daughter. jenna: thank you. jon: some amazing dash cam video shows iowa stat state troopers responding to one accident, and finding themselves in the path of another. a tractor-trailer rig rear ends the smaller truck sending it flying through the scene of another crash. it hit one of the patrol cars injuring a trooper, but things could have been much worse. 13 seconds earlier a deputy moved out of the way of the path where that truck went off the road. jenna: an invasion in colorado,