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>> reporter: well show you straight away. so are where we are is hebron, a jewish settler community of some 7,000 people inside. what were seeing down toward the barricades is children really, teenagers perhaps at the oldest, pretty regularly hurling rocks, projectiles, in toward israeli soldiers just around the corner there. you cant see them from where we are standing here. its a little calmer now. it was more violent through the morning. but all of this is a response to the same circle of vio...

Good morning to you. >> we want to get straight to this breaking news, three palestinians have been killed in three separate incidents now. israeli authorities saying one tried the stab a jewish civilian. who others, they say, tried to stab border police in jerusalem and headlines in the west bank t. video you are looking at here is from that scene and, obviously, all attackers were killed. we want to go live to cnn international correspondent phil black in hebron where two of todays attacks too...

>> oh, my gosh, this cars going hit us. oh, my gosh! >> a woman is trapped in her car when a mud slide hit. but she managed to take amazing video of the scary ordeal. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> were always so grateful for company. we start with breaking news out of the middle east. the rash of knife attacks and the growing tensions extending into the weekend now. three more palestinians have been shot and killed in separate incidents in jerusalem and west bank city of hebron. >> they went ...

Israel says hes done nothing to quell the overall violence. palestinians accuse israel of trying to divide one of islams holiest sites. >> trace, thank you. >> as we mentioned, president obama spoke to the situation in israel from the white house earlier today. listen. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms. violence directed against innocent people and believe that israel has a right to maintain basic law and order and protect its citizens from knife attacks. and violence on the streets....

Phil black has been a witness to the escalating tensions there. phil, whats happening where you are right now? >> reporter: so what were seeing here, christi is more of the street clashes in the palestinian street of hebron and israeli security forces. young palestinian, some teenagers, some younger, some older, some young men, they are lobbing verbal assaults, as well as rocks, missiles, whatever they can get their hand on. some of them have sling shots. they are throwing that off in the distan...

Younger. i guess people who would be guest against that kind of policy in the united states would point to that saying not everyone in the u.s. has been trained. do you have any thoughts on that? >> i think a lot of people are taking the lone wolf terrorism threat seriously. you ask people why they want to own firearms you say its self-defense. although they have strict requirements for carrying firearms they are embracing the fact that civilians have stopped these knife attacks and they want mo...

Peopl people. >> and i dont want to justify this violence, but secretary of state john kerry mentioned settlements, and saying that israel having expanded the settlements in the recent year, and he did not use it for justification for violence or knife attacks, but he did use that to accuse israel of helping to inflame the situation, and what is the response there? >> well, they were clear they dont see the linkage of the two things, andly let the words there speak for themselves. there is a dis...

Last eight days, but even when it is not a day of rage, there are still clashes along the line lin lines, which really underscores how unstable the situation is. it is premature to call it an intifada, but this spate of knife attacks and clashes seems to have been going on longer for longer than anyone anticipated and perhaps indicative of the general decline of the situation. here we are 48 years after israel conquer ed the west bank in east jerusalem, and still, no resolution to this problem, ...

Jerusalem, but we always are concerned about the spread of violence elsewhere. we condemn in the strongest possible terms violence directed against innocent people and believe that israel has a right to maintain basic law and order and protect its citizens from knife attacks and violence on the streets. we also believe that its important for both prime minister benjamin netanyahu and israeli elected officials and other people in positions of power to try to tamp down rhetoric that may feed viole...

Knife attacks that have killed dozens of people. theyre contemning an arson attack by palestinians. the tomb of joseph. >> it could be a whole whole new ball game for fantasy sports. what a nevada judges ruling could mean for other states and millions of fans nationwide. plus, torrential rain triggers mud in southern california, swallowing cars and trapping drivers. were live in the fox extreme weather center with that next. >> its so bad, its like a lake. its incredible. this is wild. its not...