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Strikes would happen. but then there was the cease fire, and the un humanitarian cease fire where they stopped firing for five hours and then more talks about possibly a cease fire tomorrow. however, after that 3:00 deadline, rockets were fired at israel. israel countered with a more air strikes, and then we started hearing that possibly -- there was momentum for some kind of ground offensive. that is when we started seeing and hearing the heavy artillery fire, the cannon fire from offshore, the hellfire missiles being fired, and also some of the air strikes, and then now to the east, where al...

This. those are tracer fire. that is -- that is cannon fire from a naval vessel offshore hitting -- you can see that they're targeting a location north of us. see if there's anything else. tremendous amount of fire there to the north. that's probably maybe a quarter mile -- a half mile, mile up the coastline. this area has seen a lot of action over the course of the last ten days, and including over the weekend, when we saw an intense firefight from basically that area just up there. we were so close there was tracer fire going over our heards as -- over our heads. we're hearing choppers in th...

Ground. a day that the ground invasion started. we just got an alert from the ids, the israeli defenses forces, saying that an additional 18,000 reserve troops have been called up. so that kicks the number, the total number of reservists on duty now, ground infantry, to 58,000 amassed along the border. so here we go. what we've seen so far is what we've been describing. heavy artillery fire, to the north and to the east. many locations getting targeted. missile strikes as well throughout the day, along with rocket launches targeting israel. cannon fire from offshore. we've seen helicopter, mos...

>> these look like flares the israeli military often uses to light up an area as they move in. >> reporter: we have seen a lot of that as well. we have also seen the artillery fire and also seen hellfire missiles being fired from apaches offshow, and i'm hearing the rotor blades in the distance. i'm keeping an eye to the northeast to see if we see any other tracers, any other flares, any other artillery. bottom line, this has been intensifying now for the last hour. so it's really -- the artillery fire has been ratcheted up quite a bit. >> this began at 10:30 local time there. so, what, close ...

Thousands of americans out of baghdad in a crisis, but there are only 300 u.s. troops there. u.s. arms could help. this week 100 hellfire missiles, now flying over baghdad, as well. prime minister nuri al maliki says there will be amnesty from those who fought the government unless they killed iraqi forces. but the prospect of sectarian war still looms large. u.s. intelligence reports increased presence of iranian qods force personnel coming into iraq to train shia militias. so far no word on when u.s. military advisers may head into northern iraq as was originally planned because, of course, ...