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Thank you for joining us. Along with george howell. It is 9 00 in israel and gaza where a ceasefire has been in effect for the past hour. Israel and hamas treated rocket fire and air strikes until the last minute with large and powerful explosions in gaza. This truce is scheduled to last until 8 00 p. M. Local time, 11 more hours. We have live pictures for you now from gaza where you can see some barely visible homes. Relatively quiet since the ceasefire began and not so right up until the very minute it began. Of course this pause in the fighting is meant to bring medical supplies into gaza a...

Making that assumption. >> i wanted to ask you, erin, do you know why they expanded the search area after they had narrowed it yesterday? >> well, they didn't give us a specific reason. every day they've been refining this search area based on their analysis of the oceanic. this is the search area for the debris, keep in mind, and today they expanded it by some 6,000 square miles which may sound like a lot but considering the current search area is about a quarter of what it was some ten days ago, it's really not that much. while they have made a lot of progress in terms of narrowing down the ...