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Assassination of the top hamas military commander. Brings us right to sara sidner. Shes live for us in gaza city. Sara, good morning. Good morning. Yes, weve been seeing air strikes again and again here in gaza city. Weve seen more than a dozen air strikes since weve been here, which is a few hours. On the other side of the border, weve been seeing rockets coming in. Were talking about dozens of rockets since the targeted killing of ahmed al jabari, the head of hamas military wing. Now, what we have also seen in the streets are thousands upon thousands of people who participated in the funeral for al jabari. Hes not only the head of the military, he was not only a man, a commander of the military, but a man who was one of the founders of hamas, a symbolic member of hamas. So many, many people out to commemorate his death. We saw shooting in the streets, as you see a lot of times during funerals and also for times of celebration. But this one, certainly a commemoration. And then we have ....
Its unfortunate that the egyptian ambassador had to go, so we will see, but that should not be a reason to stop any kind of that we have to face. Israeli defense minister ehud barack joining us live from tel aviv. Do stay safe, and we wish the best for not only the people of israel, but the palestinians, and we hope that you can somehow come to some kind of a consensus to stop this violence between your two parties. Thank you for being with us and for answering. Our apologies for the difficult connection, but we have been struggling throughout the hour to make that connection with the defense minister, and now we know why. The air raids going in israel. Particularly in tel aviv. Thank you for watching us in this hour. Please stay tuned now for my colleague Suzanne Malveaux who takes over with newsroom international. Welcome to newsroom international. Im Suzanne Malveaux. ....
Being dragged out of the compound. Republicans are still blasting the white house response to that attack. Ill talk to senator john mccain in a minute. In new york city, president obama meets with storm survivors where more than 25,000 households are still without power. More than two weeks after super storm sandy hit. We begin with the big story. The latest on the benghazi hearings. Joining me is pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. Welcome to you both. Barbara, this is really fascinating me. So general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. Its basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours, petraeus basically says he knew the moment this happened that it was a group called answar al sharia ....
We begin with the big story. The latest on the benghazi hearings. Joining me is pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. Welcome to you both. Barbara, this is really fascinating me. So general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. Its basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours, petraeus basically says he knew the moment this happened that it was a group called answar al sharia and that after that there was a stream of other intelligence saying it may be linked to the video we all knew about but his belief was always that it was this group and they had to rule out the other intelligence before they could officially confirm it. Is that right . Thats pretty close to it, piers. Very good source ....
Joining me is pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. Welcome to you both. Barbara, this is really fascinating me. So general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. Its basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours, petraeus basically says he knew the moment this happened that it was a group called answar al sharia and that after that there was a stream of other intelligence saying it may be linked to the video we all knew about but his belief was always that it was this group and they had to rule out the other intelligence before they could officially confirm it. Is that right . Thats pretty close to it, piers. Very good source of mine who is directly familiar with what general petraeus plans ....