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recall. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and youre in "the israel, and youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. right now, were keeping a very close eye in the skies over gaza after the truly extraordinary images of war we saw here on cnn just a little while ago with flares raining down for some 30 minutes as israel appeared to unleash an intens...

The three, up about 3. 38 . Overnight in asia, shanghai came back bigtime. As you see there, up 5. 3 . The hang seng, 3. 6 . The chinese did seem to intervene a bit to help things along in china. As for our tenyear note, we started this week. We were below 2 on the tenyear. No longer. Back to 2. 20 despite those comments. Crude oil above 40. The first time i have seen that in a few days. Lets get to our road map. Has the market bottomed for now . For good, for a while . Another upgrade for amazo...

Good morning Debbie Reynolds leading lady and hollywood icon passing away wednesday a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher. The news shocking the world and leaving many to ask did she die of a broken heart . E said you can die from a broken heart. There is a syndrome called broken heart sin drome. Its stress induced cardiomyopathy. The center at Womens Cardiovascular Health and says 90 of the patients with broken heart syndrome are women. And the symptoms mimic a heart attack. We know that about...

The clock is ticking down for the dozen of officials to leave the country. There is tension but everything outside the embassy appears to be normal. For the compound in maryland you heard about, scott thuman flew over that this skytrak7 flew over the building there. Its the white roof there. The green roof belongings to the state department. Jonathan a sheriff deputy is in Critical Condition after being shot responding to a Domestic Violence call. It happened in chestertown last night. We catch ...

Diplomats. But putin said no, not to retaliate for now. After obama shut down russian come pounds in new york and maryland where we have already spotted moving trucks. I dont think its a new cold war. This is more like cold war 2. 0. It has been going on for several years. I appears putin is ready to hit reset button with President Trump accusing president obama of trying to undermine the new administration. Trump still denying russia tried to meddle in the election. I find it fascinating that t...

Later this afternoon he tweeted out great move of delay by putin. I knew he was smart. We are hearing about the pushback on capitol hill from both sides of the aisle with hearings. Coming up next week to investigate the alleged hacking. Live in northwest washington, richard reeve, abc7 news. Michelle speculation tonight that those sanctions are an attempt by the Obama Administration to box in the president elect. It may not be the only controversy. Q mccray reports that now the sitting president...

Identified as Esteban Santiago. According to the latest information in the news room he flew in Fort Lauderdale today. The gun he used was in his checked bag. Chaos on the tarmac as passengers are forced to evacuate Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International airport. Inside a gunman. According to law enforcement, he opened fire on innocent people in terminal two. The deadly attack happening in the baggage claim area. Typically in the baggage claim there could be hundreds of people at any one time. ...

You can see the entire front of this very large home similar to one Still Standing next to it has been wiped out, along with an entire family. Its unbelievable, man. I try my best. I try my best, lord. Brad a Facebook Live video captures the horror. Spencer robert had just seen flames tearing through his neighbors home. He saw a mother and three children make it out but he knew there were more kids inside and there was nothing he could do for them. I heard the kids crying. My daughter heard them...

Electric space heater in the home might be to blame. Its hard to say anything other than to pray for the family. And ask baltimore to pray for the family. Brad so again, back live, you can see what is going on at the house, a little bit of it anyway. The entire front of the structure was wiped out. I collapsed. That is one of the real problems here and why the fire was so bad. So the investigation as we said is underway. But the early focus is on that space heater. We are told that there were sm...

Been falling in the afternoon. We have had a number of reports, even gaithersburg, manassas sleet mixing in with the rain. North and west the snow here. Everybody is picking up on the gusty winds. The National Weather service cut back a wind advisory dropping montgomery, fairfax, arlington, the district out but northeast of town until 7 00 some of these may peel off as well. But the winds, the strongest winds so far is probably it. It wont get windier. It should ease up a little bit. The doppler...