We want to begin with our big story here. Coming up, hope for a ceasefire in gaza as the attacks keep coming, the blood keeps spilling. Heres what we know this morning. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has just wrapped up this meeting in the west bank in ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas. She will reportedly meet again today with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before jetting to cairo for talks with the president of egypt, Mohammad Morsi. The urgency underscored by the carnage in benghazi. Rockets are lobbying back and forth. Israeli air attacks killing 27 more palestinians bringing the death toll to 137 just in the last week. Now a spokesman for hamas sounded cautiously optimistic that a ceasefire could be at hand telling cnn we are close, we are on the edge. Cnn has reporters blanketing the region to bring you the most comprehensive coverage of this crisis in gaza. Fred pleitgen is in ashkelon, ben wedemans in gaza city. Ben wedeman, good morning, set the scene for me. Reporter
The New York Post photographer who took the picture of the man in the subway tracks before he was hit sits down to tell his side of the story. Well hear from him this hour on cnn. Good morning, welcome to early start. Im Christine Romans. And im Zoraida Sambolin. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Breaking news massive earthquake in japan. It happened off the coast of japan, about 300 miles northeast of tokyo you can see on the tower cam that we are going to buildings swayed for several minutes there. Lets go to alex zolbert live in tokyo what can you tell us . This happened friday evening b an hour and a half ago. An unnerving scene. A 7. 3 magnitude earthquake. As we understand it, this came along the same fault line that triggered that massive tsunami in march of 2011. We have been watching all the local stations, trying to gather all the information we can. Heres what we know at this point in terms of a tsunami. We have seen several small waves come in, about four waves. The biggest one
Orbit has not been completely confirmed. The north American Aerospace defend command, norad, says the rocket deployed an object that appeared to achieve orbit. The u. S. , japan, south korea and the United Nations all denounce the launch with washington, calling it a highly provocative act that threatens regional security. This hour the u. N. Security council is meeting behind closed doors on todays rocket launch. That isnt likely to matter to north koreas new, young leader. Kim jong un, who appears to be following in his fathers foot accepts even dodged calls on this launch. Chris lawrence is following this at the pentagon. Chris, if you can tell us a little bit about the launch. It might seem surprising, but was it really surprising given the history we have with these leaders . Reporter it was only a surprise, ashley, that it happened last night. They knew this was going to take place, but when north korea asked to extend the launch window to the end of the year, most thought it wou
Hospitalizations. Florida had the most deaths in a single day since this pandemic began. Across the country, 900 new deaths reported overnight. The director of the cdc warns that this fall and winter will be, quote, one of the most difficult times weve experienced in American Public health. Despite those warnings, the white house is again openly attacking dr. Anthony fauci. Think about that. 136,000 dead americans, rising hospitalizations, and the white house response is to attack the scientists that Americans Trust most on this subject. There was some promising vaccine news overnight. A highly anticipated vaccine trial. I want did produce certain immune response. This drug from moderna will now advance to the next crucial stage of testing. The president really not focused on any of this in this bizarre, rambling rose garden news conference. This was, in fact, a Campaign Event in the rose garden, focused mostly about his grievances with joe biden. Another development overnight, the New
Im christine romans. Im laura jarrett. Its thursday, august 13th here in new york. 82 days to the election. We begin here with Kamala Harris laying out her first speech as joe bidens running mate. Everything we care about, our economy, our health, our children, the kind of country we live in, its all on the line. Were reeling from the worst Public Health crisis in a century. America is crying out for leadership. Were experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country demanding change. Harris and biden making their first appearance together in bidens home state of delaware on the same stage but socially distanced. Harris sharply criticized the president s handling of the pandemic and the economic fallout. Jessica dean has more from washington. Reporter the first look at an historic ticket. I had a great choice, but i have no doubt that i picked the right person to join me as the next Vice Preside