Countries that continue to do business with the regime. michelle, thanks. breaking news coming in to msnbc from the middle east. new reports from israeli officials confirm there has been an air strike on southern gaza, killing five and injuring many. the violence in southern israel today has claimed at least six lives and injured dozens more. assailants armed with heavy weapons and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession near the egyptian border. those attacks targeted a bus, a military patrol car and a private car. the violence has stoked concerns about growing lawlessness in the sinai peninsula following the ouster of hosni mubarak. the father of the florida teenager accused of planning to bomb his former high school hasn t seen his son for six years. jared cano s estranged dad says he tried to visit his son at the juvenile facility but was turned away. he says his son needs help. if i were president today, i
In syria has begun and it s time for assad to get out of the way. we understand the strong desire of the syrian people foreign country should intervene in their struggle and we respect their wishes. clearly, this announcement today has been coordinate would the united states closest allies. the canadian leader coming out and four square calling for assad to step down. little bit later on today the president s vacation begins and he will be in martha s vineyard and he arrives there a little later this afternoon. craig? mike viqueira from the white house for us this morning. thank you. to tampa now where school officials say fear set in after one of their students was arrested for plotting to blow up their school. jared cano was found with stuff
thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that i m glad we re sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimately find? what they ultimately found in the bedroom of his apartment where he was living, found bomb making materials, found shrapnel and wiring. they found things that you could definitely make an explosive device with, but they did not find anything that resembled a firearm. there were no guns there. that was a relief. no evidence whatsoever to suggest that there was anybody else involved. again, another source of relief. but he did have the materials there to make some device that is could