Downed power liens started this fire. The big problem for the firefighters, a lack of water appreciate your. 50 homes have burned to the ground. Two dozen more are in the process of burning. We are following the story for you as the day continues. Well have more information on that. More to tell you about, including floods and Power Outages. New york city brought to its knees in a large way. Superstorm sandy was an epic weather event, many people are calling it. Millions of lives have been disrupted now. A transformer explosion happened at a con ed plant about 15 blocks from where im standing right now. What that has done is put basically this neighborhood in Lower Manhattan completely in the dark. They were concerned about this transformer so theyve shut it off as well. That has plunged tens of thousands, people here but more than 600,000 people across new york and into Westchester County are without power today. Backup generator failed at nyu langone Medical Center, probably about 35
Palestinians. The death toll in eight days there up to 137. The secretary of state Hillary Clinton is finishing up those direct talks this morning with the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. Thats happening in ramallah on the west bank. And netanyahu, the Prime Minister, in jerusalem, another conversation shes having. Now she goes to cairo where shes meeting with the egyptian president mursi. Mrs. Clinton making it clear that she is not interested in a quick fix in gaza. The goal must be a durable outcome that promotes regional stability, and advances the security and legitimate aspirations of israelis and palestinians alike. Cnn reporters flanking the middle east today to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of the crisis in gaza and in jerusalem and in israel. Ben wedeman is in gaza city. Frederick pleitgen is in ashkelon city. We begin with sara sidner at the scene of that bus explosion that happened just a little while ago in tel aviv. Sara first of all describe fo
Good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. Tonight, under attack. Day six of the conflict between israel and gaza. Is there an end in sight . Tonight, thousands of israeli troops are poised at the border, ready to move at gaza. Negotiations are ongoing and tonight, the United Nations secretary general ban kimoon arrived in cairo just hours after egypts intelligence chief gave an israeli delegation a letter from hamas outlining its conditions for a cease fire. So far on the israeli side, Officials Say throw people have died. 68 have been wounded as the result of rocket fire from gaza and in gaza, Officials Say 104 people have been killed. 860 have been wounded since the conflict began. As for fire power, israel says militants in gaza have fired nearly 1,000 rockets at israel. 570 of them have actually struck israel. Another 307 have been intercepted by israels socalled iron dome defense system. Meanwhile, israel carried out 80 strikes today. It has now targeted 1,300 sites in gaza since l
On the other side of the border, air sirens screamed out in several cities. Israel says it intercepted dozens of the nearly 150 rockets hamas fired including two targeted at tel aviv. The shelling is intense on both sides. Cnns Anderson Cooper witnessed it firsthand. Hes been reporting live from gaza city. And earlier, i was on the air with anderson when a massive explosion took place nearby. Watch what happened. In that blast, we know ten members of one family, also two Media Centers built [ blast ]. Whoa that was a rather large explosion. That occurred just look out here. I cant actually see where the impact of that was. It is actually set off a number of car alarms. But that was probably the largest explosion that weve heard just in the past really in the past hour. There have been a number of explosions in the past hour or two. But that one that one was pretty loud. We actually the rockets continue to be fired from gaza toward israel, about three or four hours ago, there was a quit
Ground in gaza city, richard plight again is in ashkelon in israel, Jessica Yellin is live in cambodia where secretary clinton has departed heading for the middle east. We begin with christiane. Welcome. Give us a sense of this new announcement from israel. How long do you think israel is waiting to silt on this halt before it would move forward with sending Ground Troops in . Well, what was reported was that a senior Government Official in the loop close to the talks has confirmed to me this morning that after the latest intense round of conversations and meetings between Prime Minister netanyahu and his inner security cabinet, which went on into the Early Morning hours here jerusalem time, there has been a decision taken to hold on the ground offensive. To give time, he says, limited time to make the diplomatic solution work. That is their preferred option. However, he also adds that Israeli Military is prepared and continues to make its preparations in case, if and when, a decision