With the most intense night of israeli airstrikes to date. We have reports unconfirmed by nbc news at this time of israeli troops crossing into gaza from the north and clashing with hamas fighters. Information is scarce. Right now, gaza is in a near total communications blackout. Gaza is the largest internet provider, as well as multiple gaza Cell Phone Service providers, they are all off line. That is due to both lack of fuel, and infrastructure that has been destroyed. The humanitarian aid group, red crescent, reports that without Cell Phone Service, they are now unable to dispatch their ambulances. The World Health Organization says it has lost contact with its staff, and its Health Facilities in gaza. Just hours ago, nbc news managed to make contact with a member of the nbc crew in gaza, he told nbc, ive managed to get connectivity for a minute with a lot of difficulty and i wanted to let you know that all internet, electricity, and everything has been cut off. The situation we are
Payback against hamas is starting now. Three weeks after the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. The difficulties of urban warfare, as much of gosnell plunges into darkness with phone lines and internet cut. The concern tonight about civilians. More targeted attacks on u. S. Forces in the middle east. After american f16s launched a retaliatory strike on iranian backed facilities in syria. Tonights other top story, the urgent search for the suspect in the deadly maine shooting. What we are learning about the investigation. The manhunt here intensifies. Behind me, you can see a staging area with armored vehicles. They are planning on sending divers into the water. While this is looking like a major focus today with a lot of people we have a lot of irons in the fire. Norah we honor the victims. Our interview with the family of a man who died a hero. My husband went into the kitchen and grabbed a Butcher Knife and went after him. Saved the patrons that were in his esta
Gaza. Will and smoke is now filling the air in gaza as the the Idf Is Reporting Attacksen on their northern border. Officials saying the shooting is coming from lebanon. That is a new development. You see the images on your with screen throughout the morning of explosions other gaza over gaza. If there are now and youve heard sporadic reports of firing on the northern border with hezbollah and lebanon, but we are crossing new bridges there on the escalation there in the north. That is certainly a notable development. Pete that is exactly right, will. Lets go to trey yingst who might have more for us. Hes lye on the ground in southern live on the ground in Southern Israel. The banner on our screen just read theres renewed fighting in the north. Would you expect that an offensive triggering in the south could mean more violation in the violence in the north too . Reporter yeah, guys, its the a great question. I do have some new information from the north. We can confirm this is an exchan
Of state blinkennings powerful message of u. S. Support for israel. We will have more on the escalating violence in just a moment. Here at home inflation is the big financial and political news of the day. In the last 12 months, Consumer Prices is have gone up 3. 7 . Thats the same increase as reported for the previous month. Now, before those numbers were are released, stock prices had moved quite sharply higher, dow was up about 120, 150. Heres where we stand now. The dow is still up but not as much. Its up 50 points at this stage, s p up 4, nasdaq up 11. Still a little green. Before the inflation numbers, Interest Rates were edging lower. Now we have the 10year moving up, 4. 60, and the 2year, same story, moving up in yield. Youre now at 5. 05 on the 2year. This is good news who drive gasoline cars. Gas keeps edging lower, down another 2 cents overnight. Back to 3. 64. Diesel down 1 cent at 4. 48. Okay. More details from the war. 25 americans confirmed dead in israel. An unknown num
But gunmen have been reported in towns near the gaza border and israelis have been warned to stay inside. There are also reports of a number of Israeli Soldiers taken captive by fighters. Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif announced the start of the operation in a broadcast on hamas media, calling on palestinians everywhere to fight. Israels military has been striking targets in gaza in response. At least two palestinians are confirmed dead so far. Neri zilber is a journalist and analyst on middle east politics based in tel aviv, and an adjunct fellow of the washington institute. I asked him how he became aware of the palestinian attacks this morning. I like all the residents in tel aviv was woken up by air raid Rocket Science over the city in central israel, not that close to the gaza border region. That was the first indication that Something Different was under way. I and many other analysts and even israeli officials already view this as a colossal intelligence and military fai