including the weather right now. it is here. decision day in iowa. good afternoon. i am erin burnett in washington. i am in new york. we want to welcome you to live coverage of the iowa caucuses. we are counting down to the official start of the first contest in the republican presidential race. we want to confuse people. washington, you are in new york. everybody, get ready. the battle for iowa taking place against those record cold temperatures we have been talking about. some places in iowa, the real feel temperature is 35 below zero, which has not stopped the candidates in a contest all about turnout trying to get every single person out they can. these final hours, they have been making one case for the candidacies. we know that this is how we are going to get our country on track. remember, today is the day we make history. i am running on your issues and family issues to turn this country around. here is what is interesting. you did not see trump, right? he
command center. today the israeli military released this new video showing the inside of a tunnel on the hospital s grounds. we ve reached out to hospital officials about this footage but have not heard back. oren liebermann got a chance to enter with the israeli defense forces saturday and joins us now live from tel aviv with more. orin, what did you see? reporter: paula, we spent about six hours inside of gaza crossing the border fence at 9:00 in the evening and not coming back out until about 3:00 in the morning so the entire time we spent there was at night, and much of the time in gaza city itself which has been without power for days was in nearly complete darkness, but what we went to see was the newly exposed tunnel shaft, this had been revealed by the idf only a couple days earlier but haven t gotten to look inside. even though it was pretty much the middle of the night and had to use our headlamps to see it was clear there was something substantial there, take a l
Nic robertson is joining us in tel aviv. I understand an elderly woman in her 70s was killed in the Terror Attacks just hours after hamas released video of those three israeli hostages. What else are you learning . Just specifically on that video from hamas, Hamas On Sunday when they released that video said they would update about the hostages on monday, and they did. They released another video. And the Idf Spokesman hagari referenced that today when he refuted some of the allegations that hamas had made in this second video that he called essentially psychological torture against the families of all hostages. He said that the idf had been in touch with the families of two of the hostages who were depicted in the video, and he said as well that the idf was concerned about their welfare at this time. But that was the extent of the
Reprinted from Consortium News with the author's permission. The argument over the Israeli accusation that Hamas used Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital as a shield - Gareth Porter for Antiwar.com
Gareth Porter begins his dissection of a U.S. journalist's unequivocal backing of Israel's justification for closing down Gaza's largest hospital with a simple test: Who is the source?
By Gareth Porter
Special to Consortium News
The argument over the Israeli accusation that Hamas used Ga