Im Boris Sanchez with Brianna Keilar live in washington, d. C. Anderson cooper is in tel aviv where sirens are going off. Anderson . Yeah. These Air Raid Sirens have started 30 seconds before we came on air. We saw one interceptor going up from iron dome. We have not seen heard any explosion and now it seems like sirens are down. It would seem whatever it was, was either intercepted at a greater distance or its done. Oh. That was an interception. Just took a while, perhaps, for the sound to reach us. Theres low cloud cover so its a little hard to see exactly all the rockets when they come, they come from that direction, obviously, the direction of the gaza strip. Today Secretary Of State Antony Blinken was back here in tel aviv meeting with israels Defense Minister and newly formed cabinet. Thats one of the big developments that occurred on the ground today in israel as the Military Gears up for the next phase of the war. Fighter jets struck hezbollah targets in lebanon as well. Cnns N
will be lifted until complete denuclearization happens. nic robertson has the story live in seoul. what have you learned, nic? reporter: good morning, alisyn. a strong push back from secretary of state mike pompeo with journalists on the issue that the joint document that was signed by president trump and kim jong-un didn t include the words verification or irreversible. mike pompeo saying very clearly it was understood by all sides that complete implicitly meant therefore i or reversible and verifiable and said any thought to the contrary was ludicrous and insulting. contrary to what the north korea an people are hearing in their media that sanctions could come off as a result of the progress of negotiations and talks, they are mentioned on their side of denuclearization, mike pompeo
i think south is of the border there is a collective gulp because everyone knows about the human rights abuses north of the border. but they really want the talks to get going. so they are willing to suspend their concerns about that sort of statement by president trump to try to move this process forward. but it is something that is a worry here really interesting. nic robert son, thank you very much for that reporting. huge news. in a few hours the inspector general expected to release a report on the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe. what will it reveal and how will the president react? i forgot. chevy also won a j.d. power dependability award for its light-duty truck the chevy silverado. oh, and since the chevy equinox and traverse also won chevy is the only brand to earn the j.d. power dependability award across cars, trucks and suvs-three years in a row. phew. third time s the charm.
mostly in the center of the city. you can see signs of violent demonstrations around them. they told us that 16 people had been killed at the intersection several days earlier. but this protest, peaceful but definitely civilians with weapons. also people coming from the army side to support the anti-government protesters. nic robertson in zawiya for us. bloodshed in libya. demonstrations in the streets of bahrain, yemen and jordan and the egyptian military cracks down in cairo. beyond the current turmoil the u.s. faces long-term economic and security challenges. senator john mccain, ranking member of the armed services committee and homeland security chairman senator joe lieberman traveled to the region. among the stops, tunisia, lebanon, jordan, israel, egypt and the palestinian territories. earlier i spoke with them from cairo. senators, thank you both for joining us after what s been a
averting a federal shutdown democrat kent conrad. then, red ink in the states. fewer services or higher taxes with two of the 45 governors facing those choices. connecticut s dan mall loy and florida s rick scott. with gas prices up and home values down, will recovery falter? we have economist douglas holt aiken and mark zandy. i m candy crowley. this is state of the union. libyan leader moammar gadhafi is holed up in tripoli, but there are signs the country increasingly is split in two. the territories are held by rebels and that by gadhafi. we spoke to nic robert son earlier. tell us about your trip. reporter: we drove from the capitol about 35 miles. most of the shops were shuttered. we passed receive checkpoints on the way letting most vehicles