Saying theyre invading the strip soon with Tens Of Thousands of soldiers. The u. S. Embassy in israel is offering of iq Asian Of Americans and immediate relatives by sea, just cyprus on monday at 8 am local time. It is on a Space Limited basis. The embassy says chartered flights are also being arranged. Meanwhile, the rafah Crossing Point between egypt and gaza remains closed this morning, as egyptian authorities continue their negotiations with israel and the United States over allowing u. S. Citizens safe passage into egypt. Secretary of state Antony Blinken will arrive in egypt today, and speak with that countrys president later this morning. A second u. S. Aircraft carrier is headed to the Eastern Mediterranean to help deter escalation in the region. It joins another Carrier Strike group that arrives earlier this week. And according to the Israel Defense forces, over 1400 people have been killed in israel since the fighting began, with the Gaza Health Ministry reporting more than t
them later tonight. we begin right now with the news in the new book by former congresswoman liz cheney. as you ve just heard, she is out on book tour. but she is saying some pretty newsworthy and important things. a little context upfront. you know liz cheney, but that s because she s a politician who emerge from the hard right flank of the was bush cheney era. she rose to the republican party leadership in the house where she added some gravitas. she was the highest ranking woman at one point in the gop. today, when you think about her, former speaker mccarthy lost his post because of maga insurgents. cheney lost her entire job and political career, as far as congress is concerned, all because she s stood up against trump s coup. when it occurred in the days after, she was clear on the floor of the house and in the impeachment process that we cannot sit by and allow coups and attacks on democracy in this country. that was the baseline. that was it. that proved to be too muc
also american permanent presence in the country in the year ahead. another attack in the south of the country in kandahar where two were killed by a man wearing an afghan army uniform we understand from an army commander down there. in fact, he may have been trained by the two nato personnel he killed. we hear they possibly were australian but they re not confirming that. nick paton walsh, thank you so much from kabul. here in the u.s. from the mid-atlantic it to new england, a rare october surprise. a powerful snowstorm could paralyze parts of the region this halloween weekend. preparations for the storm are already in full swing. among the big concerns, power outages and travel delays, and it s already, by the way, snowing in parts of new york, massachusetts and other states across the region. some areas are expecting more than a foot of snow. pretty hard to believe, and we re not even at halloween yet. alexand andra steel. that s monday and days away. surprise. i tak
they also agreed to boost the eu bailout fund to a trillion euros, details still pretty vague. they re requiring european banks to keep more cash reserves as a cushion against losses. so why should americans care? well i mentioned stocks but that is just the start. my colleague alison kosik has a whole lot more from the new york stock exchange. first, catch us up on the markets, both here and abroad. okay. randi, first stocks are at some of their best levels of the session, the dow up 293 points. if you look at this month as a whole, it is shaping up to be among the best ever. the dow is up more than 1,200 points so far for the year and the strongest gains today actually came from overseas, from europe. in paris we saw the paris index rise 6%. in frankfurt we saw a rise of 5%. france and germany have been financing much of the bailouts in europe and you re seeing this rally because this deal winds up sharing the burden, kind of sharing the pain. they re not going to be th
not going to go over my levees, but i m not confident that enough of this is going to cave off and i m going to have a breach. i d say it s 50-50. president obama is face to face with israeli prime minister be benjamin netanyahu. the president wants the 1967 borders to be the starting point for negotiations on a palestinian state. netanyahu is said to be furious over the president s proposal. shouts of god is great peppered with gunfire. anti-government protests followed friday prayers in cities across syria today. activists and witnesses say that security forces have killed at least 12 protesters today. and today marks 60 days since the u.s. and other nato allies launched air strikes on libyan forces. the war powers resolution requires that the president get congressional approval to continue or u.s. troops have to stand down. the obama administration has not said how it plans to handle this deadline. well, the man who kidnapped and raped utah teenager elizabeth sm