conspiracy theorist alex jones has been ordered to pay even more to the parents of a 6-year-old little boy who was killed in the 2012 massacre at sandy hook elementary school. $45.2 million more in punitive damages on top of the more than $4 million in compensatory damages already award at the civil trial just yesterday for those deeply harmful lies that the shooting was a hoax among many other completely false and outrageous claims. now, under texas law there are limits on punitive damages of $750,000 per plaintiff. so it seems he won t be forced to fork over quite that much yet. he s still facing two more defamation trials, and one of them is in connecticut. but it appears the jury did listen to this plea from the attorney for the sandy hook family. we ask that you send a very, very simple message. and that is stop alex jones. stop the monetization of misinformation and lies. estimated to the jury that jones may have a net worth as much $270 million but has been trying
after u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to the self-governing island. details plus the warnings from china about how volatile the situation is. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade. right now it s 10:00 saturday morning in gaza, where israeli warplanes continue to pound islamic jihad for a second day. israel s military says its air strikes on friday hit militants inside gaza who were allegedly about to launch a terror attack. 19 members of islamic jihad were reportedly arrested saturday in the west bank. islamic jihad says one of its senior commanders was killed in the strikes. a short while ago the israeli army said militants in gaza have fired nearly 200 rockets toward israel since friday evening. it claims almost all of those rockets were interseptembered, fell short or landed in open areas. no casualties have been reported. according to the palestinian health ministry, at least 11 people were killed since friday s air strike
There s one silver lining from the past day s hostilities, it is that so far, and we stress so far, hamas, the larger and stronger militant group in the gaza strip, has not entered hostilities. it really is a fight at this point between the israeli army and islamic jihad in gaza. neri zilber in southern israel. thanks very much. disturbing new indications that north korea may be ramping up its nuclear ambitions. satellite images from planet lav show new structures being built at north korea s punjiri nuclear test site. it comes as a confidential u.n. report obtained by cnn shows that pyongyang is taking steps to prepare for a future nuclear test. panjiri is where north korea has conducted six underground nuclear tests. the u.n. report says that development has been ongoing there as well as at other locations. taiwan says it s detected
After u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to the self-governing island. details plus the warnings from china about how volatile the situation is. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade. right now it s 10:00 saturday morning in gaza, where israeli warplanes continue to pound islamic jihad for a second day. israel s military says its air strikes on friday hit militants inside gaza who were allegedly about to launch a terror attack. 19 members of islamic jihad were reportedly arrested saturday in the west bank. islamic jihad says one of its senior commanders was killed in the strikes. a short while ago the israeli army said militants in gaza have fired nearly 200 rockets toward israel since friday evening. it claims almost all of those rockets were interseptembered,
Bank. in response islamic jihad was vowing to retaliate in some form or fashion. the israeli authorities said that one of those means would be a cross-border terror attack from gaza into southern israel targeting either israeli soldiers or civilians. a large part of southern israel in and around the gaza strip for the past four, five days was under a de facto lockdown in anticipation of just such an attack until friday afternoon, when it seems the israeli government essentially lost patience and launched those pre-emptive strikes, in its words to counterstall the potential counterterror cross-border terror attack. and neri, so far 11 people killed in the israeli air strikes including a 5-year-old girl. what is the risk that this could escalate further? reporter: well, in this part of the world there s always a risk that things could escalate further. it does seem that overnight things have calmed down at least