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Welcome to all of you watching here in the United States, canada and all Around The World. Im kim brunhuber. I want to get to our Breaking News this hour. Israel is retaliating swiftly and with force against hamas at this hour targeting sites in gaza and engaging the militants on multiple fronts as the Prime Minister said a short time ago, we are at war. Now this after an hours long barrageover rockets took the country by surprise and set off sirens as far as away as jerusalem. Its worth noting this is the 50th Anniversary of the war in 1973. Most alarming for israelis are confirmed reports of...

Since march. anderson? >> and in terms of american hostages who are held or have been held in syria, is there any sense of whether this isis target was in any way connected to them? all reports are that he was some sort of a financier. he was the so-called oil and gas guy of isis, but in recent months, we are told by our u.s. government sources, he had taken on an increasing role in military operations planning, communications with top isis officials, and the u.s. believes at this point both he and his wife had been involved in hostage-taking operations. one of the things they wanted to do is ...

Him in that firefight. his wife undergoing interrogation, think about this little piece of information right in front of all of us the u.s. able to monday der someone inside syria where presumably we have no intelligence assets since march. anderson? >> i told you, american hostages who were being held or have been held in syria, is there any sense of whether this isis target was connected to them all the reports are that he was some sort of a financier. he was the so-called oil and gas guy of isis but in recent months we are told by our u.s. government sources, he had taken on an increasing r...

Group is interrogating his wife umm sayyaf. to find out more about isis hostage taking operations. >> the operation was led by the army's delta force. it had been planning this since march. we have been pulling together our sources and learning exactly how this went down. watch. >> reporter: the ground operation was led by the army's delta force who entered the target area on blackhawk helicopters and an osprey. after landing, two dozen commandoed scrambled off the aircraft and took off and hovered overhead. they destroyed the building from inside and outside positions. but special forces were...

Lawmakers noted when isis is making some advances in ramadi, and while iraqi forces are desperately trying to hold on to that city, and that's something speaker of the house, john boehner, noted, and he said this mission was a good one, and he said, quote, i remain gravely concerned on the assault of ramadi that threatens the saufen tea of iraq, which is vital to america's interests. >> thank you. and there are so many questions about sayyaf, and he goes by other names. he is a tunisian cityson overseeing the gas and oil operations, and he is also involved in the hostage taking operations. l...