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>> merry christmas. today is the day that more than 2 billion christians around the world are celebrating the birth of jesus. the bible says that happened here, bethlehem, and its now the west bank. pilgrims gathered at midnight for a special mass but had to be cautious. just a day earlier the israeli military responded to a sniper attack with air strikes and tank fire in gaza. and then in baghdad militant groups have often used this holiday to target christian churches. it happened again just...

Daily norm, its gotten uglier than that. the u.n. said more than 100,000 people have already been killed and now this deadly new tactic. hear this, snipers are setting their sights on pregnant women. ive got to warn you, some of the video that you are about to see is very graphic and disturbing. heres atika shubert. >> reporter: its a chilling image of just how horrific the syrian civil war has become. a snipers bullet in the skull of an unborn fetus. the pregnant mother was the victim of a snip...

Taken a horrific turn. theres evidence now that snipers are targeting pregnant women and children. atika shuberts got the story. weve got to warn you images are graphic and this is disturbing. >> reporter: it is a chilling image of just how horrific the syrian civil war has become. a snipers bullet in the skull of an unborn fetus. the pregnant mother was victim of a sniper attack. the surgeon volunteered at several hospitals in northern syria with a charity syria relief. >> you see the bullet ho...

Options. to surrender or to defend ourselves using the options available. using all means available. >> in the meantime, u.n. weapons inspectors are still on the ground in damascus, trying to investigate that alleged chemical weapons attack. despite difficulties that they have faced, including a sniper attack on their convoy. you can see the bullet holes in one of their vehicles there. meantime, the spokesman for the u.n. secretary general says diplomacy is still by far the preferred means of en...

Inspectors but they said also quite a productive day. their car came under fire right after they left from the hotel they were staying at. they said all of this happened in the buffer zone between the area controlled by the government and the area controlled by the rebels. its hard to say who exactly could have been behind that sniper attack. the government, of course, blames the rebels saying it was, quote unquote, terrorist who is do this, while the rebels issued a statement saying it was a go...

In yosemite national park. thats the word from the u.s. forest service. a little comfort, but still such a long way to go. the fire has scorched an area about the size of chicago. its only 7% contained. its threatening a reservoir that supplies san francisco with water. the southwest could see more of this today. the threat is for moisture still lingering from the remnants of tropical storm ivo in the pacific. no ones looking forward to more flooding. all the rain could help alleviate wildfire...

Im ashleigh banfield. monday, august 26th. lets get started and get straight to the big headlines. in syria, the united nations says sniper fire hit one of its vehicles carrying u.n. weapons inspectors who were just trying to check for evidence of an alleged chemical weapons attack. there were no injuries, luckily, and no word on who was pulling the trigger in that sniper attack. activists say the inspectors later reached the alleged attack site and had been checking for evidence with doctors th...

Train coming through. we grabbed the women and children, ran to the bathroom, threw them in the tub and my brother-in-law and i stood watch over everybody. >> an ef3 twister was reported in myths miss with speak winds of 140 miles an hour. gregg: funerals are set for two firefighters killed in the christmas eve ambush in webster, new york. calling hours will be held tomorrow at the local high school for michael chaparini, and tomas tomaski. they will be laid to rest following separate funerals, ...

you can decide whether the man in the video looks like someone who minutes before had been in a fight for his life. this police surveillance video begins with george zimmerman being taken out of a patrol car at sanford police headquarters. hes wearing the same red jacket and blue jeans that he was wearing when he came across trayvon martin. now, the police report says he was bleeding from the nose and back of the head and was examined by emts at the scene before being taken in for ques...

and blue jeans that he was wearing when he came across trayvon martin. who is on his way home from the 7/11 with a bag of skittles and an iced tea. now, the police report says he was bleeding from the nose and back of the head and was examined by emts at the scene before being taken in for questioning. attorney sonner says he believes that martin broke zimmermans nose. we have frozen a portion of the video showing his nose and face so you can look more carefully and see if its consiste...