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top of the hour here in the "cnn newsroom," im erica hill. good to have you with us on this very busy wednesday morning. countdown is on at this point, six days left now until the midterm elections. this morning a new cnn poll shows republican voters are more enthusiastic than democrats heading into election day. the economy remains a top concern as people cast their votes. cnn is on the trail around the country. also watching today the federal reserve set to hike interest rates again,...

1200. Welcome. Antony blinken has arrived in israel, in a show of us solidarity after the weekends unprecedented attack by hamas militants, he will meet israels Prime Minister netanyahu, as the us and other nations try to prevent a wider conflicter runs in the middle east. He will try to secure the release of hostages kidnapped by hamas, some of whom are americans. His visit comes amid growing diplomatic pressure to get Essential Sup Supplies into guards which has been sealed off. These are some...

Launch events so far in year, including just today also, 100 or so artillery rounds fired into the waters off of peninsula. the reason why he feels so confident is because there is this authoritarian brotherhood, its kim jong-un it would be like the little brother, xi and putin the big brothers but they essentially are all giving each other the green light, they have each others back, they will veto any action in the united nations, they will not necessarily enforce all of the sanctions even tho...

The state department ordering to evacuate ukraine. >> carley: russian attack on its neighbor could be eminent and russia says it will respond appropriately if the u.s. deploys more troops to the region. steve carrigan is live in kiev, what is the latest? >> steve: the state department in ukraine telling american citizens it is time to leave this country. there will be no airlift possible, no evacuation of u.s. citizens if russia does invain ukraine. they are ordering out family members of embass...

Well call you when things are just as wonderful... [phone rings] but a little less crazy. were doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. tsunami are. nato reports it will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow on the fight against the islamic state. turkey called for the meeting to discuss the terror threat near its border with soria. it comes a the u.s. and turkey team up to push back militants from the area, ...

>> harris: chris kyle was married with two children. he was 38 years old. we move on to the islamic militants taking a pounding islamists, i should say, as french war plains launch a massive air strike in the country of mali. the planes targeting some extremists training camps in the north. several weapon and fuel depots were destroyed as well. you may know just yesterday french president visited this reason. he got a heros welcome. take a look in tim buck do you, one of three mali cities once o...

Children. rebels have launch add massive attack in the countrys largest city, aleppo, in what they call a decisive batter. the sook al medina, the site was burned to ashes. they showed us bombed out buildings and told us hes frustrated by the government war plains. he said if the world warned know fly zone, this 18-month-old war would be over in two days. so far there is no end in sight, and while many fear this could become a wider regional conflict, theyre predicting as many as 700,000 refugee...

Violence, shep. >> shepard: the israelis are weighing in now, jennifer, saying they are concerned syria might use its chemical epps with. in fact, just moments ago secretary panetta met with visiting president shimon perez of israel. clearly syria would be one of the issues that they discussed here at the pentagon. there were strong words of concern from jerusalem over the weekend. a warning from a top israeli general that syrian missiles, including their chemical weapons could reach all of isra...

And we need thob the leaders. do you agree with that? >> all of this should have been in place a longtime ago. there is no reason why only now we should be consulting with nato. that is i think the problem we have. the key thing i think is we do see qaddhafi doing what many of us worried about a week ago. using helicopters and war plains as he gets more desperate and the opposition makes advances. how can we level the playing field to let the oppositions momentum take it to tripoli. one thing we...

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