CBS Evening News - 2012-11-17

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[0:00] Tonight, widening air war over Gaza.

[0:03] Israeli jets pound Hamas positions in

[0:05] Gaza and down rockets aimed at Tel Aviv.

[0:08] Alan Pizzy has the latest on the

[0:10] fighting and the first efforts to stop

[0:12] it. Searching for answers in yesterday's

[0:15] oil rig fire off the Louisiana coast.

[0:18] Manuel Bahorquez is tracking the

[0:20] investigation.

[0:22] What's next in the drive to legalize

[0:24] marijuana in Colorado and Washington

[0:26] State? As Carter Evans explains, [music]

[0:29] it's complicated.

[0:34] And the sound of music. John Bentley

[0:36] visits the only school teaching Afghan

[0:39] students about their musical [music]

[0:40] heritage.

[0:45] >> This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:51] >> Good evening. I'm Margaret Brennan.

[0:53] There is no ceasefire as yet between

[0:55] Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza,

[0:57] though diplomatic efforts are underway.

[1:00] Here's the latest. Israel says it's

[1:02] launched nearly 200 air strikes against

[1:05] more than 800 targets. Gaza officials

[1:07] say today's strikes killed 12 people,

[1:10] including eight militants. All told, 42

[1:13] Palestinians and three Israeli civilians

[1:16] have been killed in four days of

[1:18] fighting. Alan Pizzy is in Tel Aviv

[1:21] tonight.

[1:22] Only hours after it was set up, this

[1:24] anti-missile battery in Tel Aviv

[1:26] intercepted a longrange rocket fired

[1:28] from Gaza and aimed at the heart of

[1:30] Israel's commercial capital.

[1:34] Five such batteries called Iron Dome

[1:36] have been deployed and three more are

[1:38] being rushed into production. In an

[1:40] expansion of the air war against Hamas,

[1:42] the Israelis struck the office of the

[1:43] movement's prime minister overnight.

[1:46] Attacks were also aimed at other pa

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