Until the end of this. But a very loud blast, as you see right there, basically all of us ducked down in the office. We thought that was the end of it. Neal, our cameraman, panned over and then a series of more explosions. Turns out this was a number of government buildings that is what is said to have been hit. Its not clear if those are secondary explosions or if those are multiple rockets going into the building. I then started pointing out it was not over at that point. You cant hear the sound but lets listen in now. [ explosions ] thats just the sound, the tail end of it, the last few seconds which we were able to capture on tape. We did not think we were on the air during all this time which is why we werent recording sound, but you heard how loud the blasts were at the end. Consider how loud the blasts were even earlier when we werent recording sound. Really an enormous series of blasts. The percussion of it, you could feel for many, many blocks. A huge cloud of smoke blanketed
Israel and we saw israels iron dome air Defense System actually take out some of those rockets in midair. So it doesnt seem like they actually reached across the border into israel and actually land in israel. Weve seen explosions really over the last several hours, though not as active as we saw last night, but it was a very busy day here in gaza, a day deadly day as well. Take a look. [ sirens ] day six of the battle between hamas and Israeli Defense forces. Day six of rockets crisscrossing the border, despite efforts to broker a ceasefire, the specter of Israel Ground invasion is still very real. This strike occurred monday around 2 00 a. M. When we were live on cnn. Also two Media Centers whoa that was a rather large explosion. That occurred, just look out here, i cant actually see where the impact of that was. Its actually set off a number of car alarms but that was probably the largest explosion that weve heard just in the past really in the past hour. By daylight, the results of
are hailing this as being the great breakthrough. it s a great breakthrough if you don t want to hold bashar al assad responsible for the bloodshed. colonel, i want to go to you because i have plenty of questions for you and i had other questions for you, but i want you to respond to what he said, do you agree with fouad ajami that it s about the reputation of the president and not about the people of syria, saving them from their own government? yeah, i do agree. and if you i am sure fouad is reading the syrian press and i ve read a lot of it the last couple days. they are pilloring this agreement. they say it s okay if you kill us if you don t do it with chemical weapons. that s a shame. what bashar has done is buy himself some time. we ve yet to hear from the syrians. he said he would like the israelis to sign the same agreement. he d like us to commit that we re not going to continue to support the rebels which is not
looked tired, i looked at them and said we don t have time to be tired now. no one has labeled thursday s fire suspicious but investigators were sifting through ashes today to try to determine a cause. they say they ll have no comment until the investigation is complete. okay, my great panel is back with this weekend to talk about back this weekend to talk about syria. next i m going to talk with cnn military analyst lieutenant colonel rick francona and stanford s fuad ajami, i ve been saying it for five weeks now, it looks like we may be closer to a nonmilitary resolution on the syria crisis. are we? we ll talk about that. and this where we want to be in this particular situation? he always made us think every time he speaks. he makes us think. and these day bill cosby seems to make a lot of folks a little bit angry as well. still, he is never shy with his words, but you never heard stuff
this. let s bring it back here to america, because this was one of the first questions i had, if the folks were the lawmakers were relieved that they don t have to vote on military strikes. yeah, i think that s true. there are a lot of people who are relieved that they don t have to vote on this because it was a very contentious issue. however, there s still the question of down the road what happens if saddam saddam. what happens if assad doesn t do what this agreement calls for him to do, and then they may be right back in the very same position at some later date, don. yeah. yeah. both dictators, joe, we know what you re talking about. thank you, sir. you bet. we ll get back to joe johns. great reporting there. we want to talk about the weapons deal, rick francona is a cnn military analyst and with me here in new york is fouad ajami, what a difference a week makes, seven days ago washington was in