good evening. right now it s 2:00 a.m. in gaza, but there will likely be little sleep for many people there tonight. tonight we ve been watching multiple images of multiple explosions lighting up the night sky around gaza city. cnn s nic robertson in sderot witnessed some big secondary explosions and a huge fire in gaza. nic and his crew witnessed eight rockets being fired from gaza and israel. the idf tell cnn six of the eight rockets were intercepted by the country s iron dome defense system. israeli police say there are no reports of casualties that they can pass along at this moment. meanwhile, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting with arab leaders in jordan. he s heading to turkey. blinken stressed support for israel to implement what s being called a humanitarian pause in the fighting in gaza, that is far short of the cease-fire wanted by arab countries and international aid agencies. minutes ago israel s military said it would allow a a w
A half trillion dollar tax reform bill this brings President Donald Trump closer to his first major legislative win gabrielle is on the following the story and joining us from new york to tell us what just happened gabriel. Right yeah a little after twelve forty five am on wednesday morning when the Senate Passed by a margin of fifty one votes in the affirmative forty eight negative passing this historic tax overhaul bill that was heralded by President Donald Trump a very controversial bill it is now one step closer to becoming law it will go on wednesday back to the house of representatives for one final vote after there was a procedural error in the earlier vote by the house of representatives but its expected that the house will again also vote in favor of this huge victory for President Donald Trump primarily because it is his first legislative victory but beyond that the president and his supporters and the republicans say that this bill bill will cut taxes on Corporate America an
Into the east bay valleys. Not the case for the next several days. In fact, we will bring the temperatures up not only into the upper 80s but the triple digits. 70s and 80s from the coast of San Francisco. 80s and 90s around the bay. We will detail how long the heat wave will last coming up. Thanks, lisa. A handful of High School Seniors with diplomas in hand, despite not passing the exam. School officials in San Francisco decided to ignore the state and let those kids move on with their lives. We have the story. Eric morales is from guatemala. He didnt speak any english when he enrolled at San Francisco International High school. Its tough learning english. Ite kind of hard. But he did it. He met all the requirements needed to graduate, except he didnt pass the california exit exam by five points. He should have had a chance to retake it, but the state cancelled the july offering because lawmakers are considering no longer requiring the test at all. For students to be told that you ju
Are in good shape so far. I26 is looking good in town. Everything is up to speed in both directions between brevard road and long sholes road. If you are traveling to the upstate this morning along i26 eastbound, you shouldnt see any problems here. Its 22 minutes from 4 seasons boulevard, 21 minutes rather. Over in hendersonville down to state line. And finally, here is a look at your commute along u. S. 25. The drive from Biltmore Village to i240 timing out to 6 minutes for you. Thats a look at your ontime traffic report, brought to you by the wired mouse. Back over to you. Holly ski and snow board season is in full swing at cat cataloochee ski area. Jay Lauren Brigman joins us live, and lauren, the snowmakers have been hard at work . Lauren they have. A while. The ski area has been open since mid november and its day 35 for them of the season. They recently extended their hours. The snowmakers have been blowing for a while, and several feet to take advantage of the fresh powder out h
Resignation. Is tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan 3s American History tv. Now on american artifacts, we visit the Smithsonian National Postal Museum to learn about its collections and its new space, the william h. Gross stamp gallery. The largest stamp gallery in the world. Welcome to the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. My name is allen kane, im the director of the museum. Youre standing in our newest gallery, the william h. Gross stamp gallery. We have almost 6 million postage stamps. The images on the stamps tell the story, history, heritage and the heroes of this country. It is pure education. Pure education. We are a history museum. So, we use those stamp images and what we do in exhibits and programs is try to teach people about history. Our goal here is to give you visuals so that you can personally connect with stamps. Somewhere in this space were hoping youre going to find a stamp that has some meaning for you. Because stamps tell stories, Great Stories. So f