Crossing to allow humanitarian aid to millions in gaza as israel continues its relentless air strikes while troops amass at the border. Preparing for a ground invasion. Finally, home, flights carrying u. S. Citizens from israel, land on american soil. As time runs out to give thousands of others out of harms way. Hate on the homefront . The fbi issuing a warning about a rise in threats across the country, aimed at jewish and muslim houses of worship. Good morning, good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The situation in gaza is growing more dire by the moment. Food and Water Supplies are running low. Hospitals say they are on the verge of collapse, and more than a Million People have left their homes, as israel prepares for a ground assault. Palestinian americans hoping to escape the war may be able to do so today, pending the opening of the crossing on gazas egyptian border to allow foreigners to leave. Secretary of state blinken is set to leave jordan shortly and head back to israel
Israel is mobilized right now for war as the country prepares to launch a Ground Invasion into hamascontrolled gaza. Border clashes are intensifying. Aerial bombardments of the territory devastating. You can see there hundreds of thousands of palestinians with nowhere to go. Tonight secretary of state Antony Blinken is in jordan wrapping meetings with arab leaders and six nations. He returns to israel in just a few hours. Today the nfl held a moment of silence at stadiums in solidarity with, quote, innocent civilians in the middle east. In london, where the titans and ravens played, free palestine chants could be heard. Cbss Charlie Dagata is in tel aviv tonight and leads us off. Charlie, good evening. Reporter good evening, jericka. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency cabinet for the first time today, vowing to demolish hamas. While the Israeli Military said theyre ready and waiting for the order to launch an invasion. Under bombardment and under siege ahea
Them grow this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, july 23rd, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The faa says it will decide later today whether to continue a ban on flights to tel aviv. The Israeli Government says airlines that canceled flights to israel overreacted and handed a victory to terrorists. A hamas rocket fired from gaza landed near Ben Gurion Airport yesterday. U. S. And other airlines quickly stopped flights to tel aviv. That was followed by a mandatory ban by the faa and the European Aviation safety agency. The airport is open this morning. Israeli officials insisting its safe and want the ban lifted. Former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg flew to tel aviv on the Israeli Airline el al last night in a show of support. Bloomberg urged the faa to permit u. S. Airlines to fly to israel. Now, overnight, huge explosions lit up the gaza strip sky as the israeli assault continued. Palestinian militants have fired more than 2,000 rockets at isra
Reporter they cleared the usual overnight roadwork in pleasanton and much better news for drivers out of the Altamont Pass westbound 580 from north greenville to vasco emergency road repairs. Some delay in the area maybe some crews off to the shoulder but all lanes are open and they reopened the lanes ahead of schedule. A quick note the roadwork up and down the nimitz cleared, it was southbound hitting downtown oakland exits. Its picked up. Back to you guys. Thank you. Happening today president obama is in San Francisco to attend two fundraisers. Kpix 5s anne makovec is following his trip. The president is taking some heat for fundraising right now. Reporter this morning, he has a big events at the four seasons in San Francisco at 9 20, then a private fundraiser at the home of Real Estate Investors judy and George Marcus in Los Altos Hills. President obama landed at sfo at about 9 20 last night. He is raising money for the Democratic National committee to help members of his Party Runn
Fundraising is out of touch. But president obama has two events this morning. The first at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco at 9 20 a. M. Air force one landed at sfo at about 9 20 last night. The president is raising money for the Democratic National committee to help members of his Party Running for congress across the country. He is expected to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the meantime, his advisers are following developments on the downed plane in the ukraine. The escalated fighting in gaza and the surging number of Central American children crossing our border. By avoiding these big problems, youre talking about what he is doing or not doing instead of the solutions the democrats need to get to if they have a chance this fall. There is no chance that democrats are going to retake congress. So it seems like a particularly, uhm, lost cause for him to be out fundraising for while these other crises are happening. Reporter with technology the way it is, his adviser