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tonight on whether to demand a humanitarian pause in fighting between israel and hamas, but with representatives trying to come to an agreement on the exact wording of the resolution, its been postponed at the very last minute to tomorrow. well talk to a spokesperson from the israeli government. could that pause in voting have something to do with the us defense secretarys visit to israel today? also tonight, the british oil giant bp and a number of key shipping companies have halted a...

Suppression. the idea we need to fix the piracy problem when, in fact, the far bigger concern when it comes to information so regulation is one thing when we are talking about smog. regulation is one thing when we are talking about child labor laws. regulation is one thing when we are talking about the hours of workers. but when we are talking about the flow of information even creative information, we generally are going to want to error on the side of providing more margets and opportunities f...

details. we wrap it up here. "starting point." im going to hop on a plane and get to south carolina. we hand it over to "cnn newsroom." ill see you back here tomorrow ill see you back here tomorrow morning. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. we start this hour with that doomed cruise ship off italy and fading hope to find anymore survivors. people are still missing in those frigid waters. two americans. at least 11 people have been killed. rescue operations...

Merchant ships are being protected. somali pirates are holding crews and ships for a long period of time. were doing nothing to get them released at this time. we are against paying the ransom to the hostages but i think it is up to yacht people, people on yachts, emergency crews to take a larger role in their own defense because as you stated earlier, it is a large area of water to patrol. jon: yeah, it does seem a little odd this family was sailing in these waters when apparently they knew abo...

Weiner wants clarence thomas to recuse himself from the debate over the health care law. why? well tell you, when congressman weiner joins me live. see you at top of the 1:00. jon: breaking news as pirates threaten to kill a danish family if anyone tries to rescue them. right now somali pirates are holding more than 600 hostages, hijacking ships on a regular basis. last week they executed four americans and our navy appears helpless to stop the growing wave of piracy. captain joseph alstrom, pro...

Actually engage in an assault against a ship, u.s. navy or private ship, the u.s. feels compelled to seek charges against them somewhere somehow. >> jim, i understand this has really brought up some questions about possibly setting up an international court for piracy suspects but there are countries that really arent onboard with this, no pun intended. but is this really an area that maybe officials dont really know how to handle? >> well, you know, ultimately they say the final solution to thi...