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[gunfire] neil all right, now it is a war, and were getting indications that it could be spreading. We do know now the biggest escalation in the middle east weve seen in a number of years as hamas surprises israelis on a holy day and launches a Rocket Attack on what we now know is that in that attack better than 100 israelis have been killed, hundreds for injured. The palestinian authority, there have been counterstrikes in the palestinian areas occupied by the same individuals who might have been behind the attack on israel and there they have reports of more than 300 dead and 1600 wounded. A...

Possibility of an israeli attack, make it very difficult for israel to carry out that strike. and so the u.s. may just be focused very much on the near term here, averting a conflict, and just getting into some kind of dialogue with the iranians, you know, based on any sort of deal they can get. jenna: it sounds like what you're saying is both administrationses, the one here and in iran, would prefer a little more time to figure things out. we have an election this year, iran would like to delay this a little more. is that -- are we on the same page, ironically, with iran in that way? >> ironi...

We'll be able to handle it. >> what does the president mean by "we'll be able to handle it?" paula hancocks is on the other side of the world, the other side of the clock for us this morning. let me ask you this -- succesuccess -- other administrationses have tried for years to isolated north korea. we have an american citizen, a 22-year-old student, who is dead after being held for a really stupid, unfair reason by the regime. this is a new low. it puts pressure on this administration to try to find a new way to deal with north korea, doesn't it? >> reporter: the problem is, christine, that t...