we'll leave you this hour with american planes to iraq. we'll break in if there is any live words from the president. we'll see you at 11:00 eastern time. right now the series "the right now the series "the sixties" begins. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we must open opportunity to all people. >> we feel women will work just as good as men or better. >> the husband should be in charge, should be all of time. >> the latest threat to the status quo is the women's revolt. >> it's a pleading for social change. >> the fear of imprisonment forces most homosexuals to camouflage their identity. >> did not have the whole picture. >> what we are talking about is a revolution and not a reform. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we agree that the sixties saw explosive, social change, but the question is, why in the sixties, eric? >> there are periods in history as far as i can see it when human energy is constructive and seemed to come to the a boil.

♪ ♪ >> you were living in a time of incredible economic growth. in theory, thinks have never ever been better. it was a really american norman rockwell vision but there were all kinds of tensions. >> civil rights movement is the seminil event of the 1960s that ignites so many changes in society. >> the day had come when racism must be banished. >> the civil rights movement was incredibly inspiring but at the same time the women in it were not recognized as leaders in the same way that the men were. it said to us if these movements we love still are not equal, then there has to be a woman's movement. >> the democratic platform

promises to work for equal rights for equal pay. >> i'm sure we haven't done enough and -- [ laughter ] >> in 1961, president kennedy creates the commission on the status of women. that commission produced a report in 196 that revealed things like the fact that women earn 59 cents for the dollar that men earn and women were kept out of the most lucrative professional positions. >> women couldn't open a bank account in their name. they couldn't get credit. they certainly couldn't open their own business. women couldn't serve on juries in some states. >> there was one kind of disadvantage after another that was revealed all together in this one report. >> perhaps you'll be willing to tell the people what is the need for it? >> we'll be sure women are used as effectively as they can in

audition to meeting their primary responsibility, which is in the home. >> women's position as it had traditionally been was that they were husband's helpers. >> what is your definition of a husband. >> it's like driving a horse, he's got to hold the reigns. there are a couple reigns and if there were two people holding the reigns, this horse will go skitter scatter. the husband is the person in charge and should be all of the time. >> well, by the 1960s, women's position was changing. >> there was a big change going on in the country. there was a book called "the feminine mystique". >> women today are made to feel freakish and guilty if she wants to be more than her husband's wife. >> she wrote out of her own personal experience. the book said women were suffering from the problem that has no name, a vague sense of

dissatisfaction with the lack of meaning, the lack of opportunity in their lives. >> so many women read "the feminine mystique" and said that's it, that's why i'm so angry. >> the middle class woman up and down america is just so unhappy that she's sick. you can call it by anything you'd like but it is boring to be with little tiny children one end of the day to the other, especially if you think you should love it all the time. ♪ ♪ >> women were being educated for one way of life, which was one in which they had brains, and then they were supposed to have woun wombs and arms to run vacuum cleaners. >> you cannot be given equality. >> it had a hugely profound

impact. >> young women started to see other women saying women had not gotten enough out of life. the point is you don't have to be this. choose what you want, but you don't have to be this one thing. >> here she is, mrs. helen girly brown. >> helen girly brown had lived without being married very happily, you know, dating men, having sex, supporting herself and she wrote a book "sex and the single girl," which was about her life and it became a huge hit. >> isn't this whole subject of sex being discussed and written and talked about too much? >> i can expect a reaction opinion like that from you. i don't think so at all. >> she openly talked about sex and said you won't get struck by a lightning bolt, you know, if you have sex before you're married. >> for average run of the mill women, it was a bigger deal than

"the feminine mystique". >> it's all right to discuss sex, people are talking about it a great deal and i don't think that's so bad. >> i think talking about sex wastes such a lot of time. [ laughter ] >> helen girly brown pointed out the guys had one standard, the women had another and that was a revelation, rules that had existed for 1,000 years, just overnight they were gone. >> in a recent survey, 44% of the high school and college girls questioned said they approved of sexual intercourse before marriage if they are serious about the young man. do either of you approve for yourselves of intercourse before marriage? >> yes, i do. >> yes. >> sexual revolution or sexual renaissance? the experts are still trying to define it. ♪

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cbs reports birth control and the law. this is a very personal program, sometimes the most private matters are also public matters. it is about babies that bless a home and babies that can haunt a home. >> reproductive freedom means it's a basic human right to decide whether and when to have children. but reproductive freedom had not been annunciated in that way. >> the basic disagreement stems from the differences in the moral attitudes towards birth control. >> in 1957, the pill was approved by the fda for severe

menstrual distress. what was funny, everyone seemed to be suffering from severe menstrual distress. >> it wasn't until 1960, the pill was actually approved by the fda for birth control. >> the pill was originally very hard to get. it wasn't like you went down to the pharmacy and picked it up. that took quite awhile. >> this woman asked the doctor for birth control information. >> he said the best thing for me to do is not be close to my husband and if i didn't want to get that way, it's up to me. >> i'm 100% against birth controlment it's i'm porl. it's the same as prostitution or abortion. >> when the fda approved the bill, it was still illegal for many women across the country. so the president of planned parent hood in connecticut decided she would challenge this and she began handing out birth control knowing full well that she would probably be arrested,

which she was. >> on the 24th of november, we issued two warrants, one against estelle grizwald and buckson. >> the case changed everything. >> i think it's very evident that the law is unenforceable. if you had a policeman under every bed in connecticut, they still could not prove anything. we are continuing, maybe illegally, but we are continuing our program. >> the case went to the supreme court and made birth control legal finally for married couples only and it was several years later that birth control became legal for all women. >> it was very, very important because it decriminalized contraception. >> how many states repealed the law against birth control in the past year? >> ten states changed or repealed their laws against

birth control but if i can add the end of 1964 to that, it makes it 13. that's a national movement. >> nearly 7 million american women are now taking oral contraceptives and they are said to be almost 100% effective. ♪ ♪ >> the birth control pill meant suddenly women could finish their education. they could go in the wor radica life for women in america to not only plan their families but to plan their lives. >> what happened when you went inside? >> well, when i went inside they said no. >> what do you feel about this idea they won't hire women? >> we feel it's unpair. we feel women will work just as good as men and better. >> we're not hiring women at this time for the reason the jobs we have available are jobs that only men are able to do.

>> when the 1964 civil rights act was going through congress, an amendment was asserted to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender, as well as race. no one took it seriously. the national organization of women is founded to press forward on that one issue. >> what's the objective of the new organization now? >> full equality for women in truly equal partnership with men. the campaign is to make the civil rights act of 1964 really be enforced. >> suddenly, the ivy league colleges began to open their doors to women for the first time. the quotas against women in the accounting field and legal field ad the medical field began to drop away. betty fordan wanted results, she wanted something to happen and it started happening. ♪ ♪ >> basic training for steward

eszs turns a girl into a woman, gives her beauty tips, they must be slinky sex symbols. >> they had hearings on the airline industry and the steward eszs had to be unmarried and have a certain height and weight and had to have soft hands. >> behind the age retirement lies the future of the whole profession. >> the airline executives are saying the that their clients are not going to get on board the plane unless there is a beautiful, young, unmarried woman greeting them at the stairs. >> ms. bolan, what are you girls asking the congress to do for you? >> to give us an equal chance to continue in the job that we have chosen as a profession. there is no bonn fied reason for

terminating girls that reach 3 two years of age. >> don't you know that will happen when you take the job? >> we know the companies applied this policy. we're hoping in our asking to find away to change the policy. >> congress began enforcing the title seven job discrimination laws. the barriers start coming down, and it was real results. that 3e traffic in a city is caused by people looking for parking. that's remarkable that so much energy is, is wasted. streetline has looked at the problem of parking, which has not been looked at for the last 30, 40 years. we wanted to rethink that whole industry, so we go and put out these sensors in each parking spot and then there's a mesh network that takes this information, sends it over the internet so you can go find exactly where those open parking spots are.

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my name is hugh hefner and i'm editor, publisher of "playboy magazine." i've built an empire of 20 million. >> gloria was a reporter and very pretty and she went under cover as a bunny at the playboy club. >> i remember the young woman who took my false bio. i said i was a secretary and thought being a bunny would be more exciting and she leaned forward and whispered to me and said honey, if you can type, you don't want to work here. >> bunnies are forbidden to wear jewelry, lipstick or gold or green nail polish. the cotton tail must be clean. >> she exposed how playboy bunnies were treated and how they were running around in a club with breasts exposed and a tail on their butt and with men snapping the napkin at them as they walked by and so through her reporting, she was showing

sexism in all the different flavors. >> the assignment, it was not a great experience, but in retrospect, i'm glad i did it because i got a notice from hugh hefner and they did change the working conditions of those women for the better. >> gloria challenged every stereo type of a feminist. she was this fabulous looking, incredibly smart direct speaking woman. >> forgive me, but i always thought that you had to be stacked, absolutely stacked to be a bunny girl. how did you get the job? >> well, you don't have to be stacked to be a bunny. in fact, all of that is usually stuffed with gym socks or something. it's where the girls keep their tips. it's just sort of traveling cash depository is all. >> gloria could disarm her harsh's critics with humor and

humility but willing to challenge patriot every step of the way. >> she became a brilliant spokesperson. >> we've been too law a-abiding and too docile for too long. >> the latest threat is the woman's revolve. this is a symbol for the female. the women's liberation movement added the equal signs. as a lot of women know, inp collu -- including this one, equality is missing. >> you have a bubbling up of a desire for real equality. and then you get women beginning to gel from community based activism to real solid organizing. >> the women's liberation movement was a parallel movement to the national organization for women. so almost as soon as now as formed in 1966, women's

liberation groups are emerging around the country. this younger generation moves in and very much broadens the perspective of the women's movement. >> these build on one another and this younger group believed you needed economic power but that you needed a revolution in the relationship between the sessise sexes. >> there was a revolution outside but on television, it wasn't a real live girl and that's what i wanted to do. ♪ ♪ >> that girl, now that is an incredibly great television show, absolutely amazing. ♪ ♪ >> daddy was just giving me a l lecture on sex education. >> why would you need a lecture on sex? i meant is answer all there is

to know about sex. >> i wasn't har married to dona my boyfriend. i was doing a television series about a single girl that wanted to live on her own. this was unheard of. >> the character marlo thomas played was a model of women hood itself. >> that girls the first time ever on television that a woman was allowed to have an independent atomous life and adventures of her own. >> it's amazing we waited until the '60s to break the walls down but it was time. how do you get the spotlight and focus it on the issue? >> we decided for at least one week, starting yesterday, to do everything we can to fight pollution and donald thanks means all kinds of pollution. air pollution, food pollution, waste. >> i feel strongly about the fact we could not ignore what the issues of the day were for everything. >> there appears to be growing concern among scientists that

the possibility of dangerous long-range side effects from the wide-spread use of pesticides, have you considered asking the public health service to take a closer look at this? >> yes, i know they already are, i think particularly, of course -- good evening. i'm anderson cooper here in new york. we're interrupting the regularly scheduled broadcast of "the sixties." we're breaking in to bring you president obama speaking shortly tonight about the mission just completed to fly humanitarian relief into northern iraq. as we've been reporting, president obama and his national security team are considering air strikes against isis taking over large chunks of iraq and threatening people, especially religious minorities. the president will speak in the next two or three minutes. jim acosta standing by, lisa and

chief congressional correspondent dana bash and with us throughout the coverage, wolf blitzer and a panel of national security experts, fran townsend and rick francona. dana bash, you have been talking to congressional sources who the white house have been reaching out to within the last several minutes and hours. >> that's right. as i said earlier, these are congressional sources that were very tight lipped saying that much of what they have been told was classified and now we know why, because the mission was on going and we can now report, as you said, that the mission is over and that's what the president is going to talk about. but what i thought was interesting is the reasoning that some congressional sources are saying administration is giving when they are making the rounds of phone calls to capitol hill. why this is different from just a few weeks ago, months ago when isis was making ways toward

baghdad, that was complex. that divide and situation was much more complex than this. this is very cut and dry from their protective and this is these kurds, religious minorities persecuted and talked to are worthy of the u.s. defense and help. >> you just heard a two-minute warning at the white house. that's the state dining room where the president will make remarks. jim sciutto, for those not watching the coverage thus far. let's talk about a what is going on on the ground here this is several things going on at once. you have some religious minorities who are basically trapped on a mountain in northeastern iraq being threatened by isis, that's the humanitarian mission dana bash said was completed by the united states dropping some relief supplies to those groups. but there is also now concern about arbil in kurtish

controlled iraq. explain what is going on. >> you have a couple immediate threats and a longer-term threat. 40,000 some, hold up on a mountain top surrounded by isis under threat of a massacre, and then at the same time, you have a number of american personnel in arbil and kurtish controlled areas and the irony of irony, many of these staff were evacuated from baghdad some weeks ago when baghdad was under threat to go to arbil at the time was presumably safer. they are under threat as isis advances. those are immediate threats. you have a broader threat, over the last several weeks, isis has been gaining more ground across iraq and has a great foothold in

syria but gaining ground across iraq. forces have not been able to push back or really to keep it from advancing, let alone push it back and gain some of that territory back. those are the problems facing administration now. >> and jim, as we wait and the president should be coming out at any moment so i may interrupt you here, this is this immediate problem but the longer term problem -- let's listen in to the president. >> good evening. today i authorized two operations in iraq, targeted air strikes to protect our american personnel and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain without food and water and facing almost certain death. let me explain the actions we're taking and why. first, i said in june as the terrorist group isil began an advance across iraq that the

united states would be prepared to take action in iraq if and when we determined the situation required it. in vent days, these terrorists moved across iraq and moved toward arbil where american diplomats and civilians serve in the consulate and personnel advice iraqi forces. to stop advance on arbil, i directed the military to take targeted strikes against isil targeted strikes should they move towards the city. we plan to stand vigilant and take action if they threaten our facilities anywhere in iraq, including the consulate in arbil and embassy in baghdad. we're providing assistance to iraqi government and kurtish forces so they can wage the fight against isil. second, the at the request of the iraqi government, we begun operations to help save iraqi

civilians stranded on the mountain. as isil marched across iraq, it waged a campaign against innocent iraqis and the terrorists have been barbaric against many. countless iraqis have been displaced and chilling reports described militants rounding up executions and enslaving women. in recent days, the women, men, and children from the area have fled for their lives and thousands, perhaps tens of thousands are hiding high up on the mountain with little but the clothes on their backs. they are without food, they are without water, people are starving and children are dying of thirst. meanwhile, isil forces below called for the systematic destruction of the entire people

which would constitute genocide. so these innocent families are faced with a horrible choice, descend the mountain and be slaughtered or stay and slowly die of the thirst and hunger. i've said before the united states cannot and should not intervene every time there is a crisis in the world. so let me be clear why we must act and act now. when we face a situation like we do on that mountain with innocent people facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale, when we have a mandate to help in this case a request from the iraqi government and when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. we can act, carefully and responsibly to prevent a potential act of genocide. that's what we're doing on that mountain. i therefore authorized targeted air strikes if necessary to help forces in iraq as they fight to break the siege and protect the civilians trapped there.

already american aircraft begun conducting humanitarian air drops of food and water to help the desperate men, women and children survive. earlier this week, one iraqi in the area cried to the world, there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. i know that many of you are rightly concerned about any american military action in iraq. even limited strikes like these. i understand that. i ran for this office in part to end our war in iraq and welcome our troops home and that's what we've done. as commander in chief, i will not allow the united states to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq, so as we support iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, american combat troops will not be returning to fight in iraq because there is no american

military solution to the larger crisis in iraq. the only lasting solution is reconciliation. however, we can and should support moderate forces who can bring stability to iraq, so even as we carry out these two missions, we'll continue to pursue a broader strategy that empowers iraqis to confront this crisis. iraqi leaders need to come together and forge a new government that represents the forces of all iraqis and can fight back against threats like isil. iraqis named a new president, a new speaker of parliament and speaking consensus on a new prime minister. this is the progress that needs to continue to reverse the momentum of the terrorists that pray on iraq's divisions. once iraq has a new government, the united states will work with it and other countries in the region to provide an increased support to deal with this humanitarian crisis and

counterterrorism challenge. none of iraq's neighbors have an interest in this terrible suffering or instability so we'll work with friends and allies to help refugees get the shelter and food and water they so desperately need and help iraqis to push back against isil. the several hundred american advisors that i ordered to iraq will continue to assess what more we can do to help train, advice and support iraqi forces going forward. and just as i consulted congress on the decisions is i made today, we will continue to do so going forward. my fellow americans, the world is confronted by many challenges, and while america has never been able to right every wrong, america has made the world a more secure and prosperous place. our leadership is necessary to under wright the global security and prosperity or children and grandchildren will depend on. we do so by adhering to a set of core principles. we do whatever is necessary to

protect our people. we support our allies, when they are in danger. we lead coalitions of countries to uphold international norms, and we strive to stay true to the fundamental values, the desire to live with basic freedom and dignity that is common to human beings wherever they are. that's why people all over the world look to the united states of america to lead them. and that's why we do. so let me close by assuring you there is no decision i take more seriously than the use of military force. over the last several years, we have brought the vast majority of the troops home from iraq and afghanistan and i have been careful to resist calls to turn time and again to our military because america has other tools in our arsenal than our military. we can also lead with the power of our diplomacy, our economy, and our ideals, but when the lives of american citizens are

at risk, we'll take action. that's my responsibility as commander in chief and when many thousand innocent civilians are faced with the danger of being wiped out and we have the capacity to do something about it, we will take action. that's our responsibility as americans. that's a hallmark of american leadership. that's who we are. so tonight, we give thanks to our men and women in uniform, especially our brave pilots and crews over iraq for protecting our fellow americans and saving the lives of so many men, women and children they will never meet. they represent america at their best. we should be proud of them and our country's commitment to uphold security and dignity of human beings. god blessed the arm forces and god bless the united states of america. >> president obama speaking from the state dining room saying not only he has a mission to bring

humanitarian relief to religious minorities particularly to a group surrounded on a mountain by isis forces, he said that mission has taken place. he's authorized targeted air strikes to protect u.s. military and u.s. officials in the city of arbil, which is kurtish controlled area and authorized air strikes to break the siege in that mountain. again with us, wolf blitzer and jim acosta and lisa and chief congressional correspondent dana bash and ivan watson, fran townsend and rick francona and steven ferrell. ivan watson to you on the ground in arbil, how dire is the situation in arbil and how did it get so bad, for months now, fighters have actually been able to effectually fight against

isis forces. >> well, kurtish officials say they suffered setbacks in the last 48 hours because they were simply out gunned, that the isis forces had captured armored vehicles from the iraqi army, armored vehicles that had been provided by the u.s. government, which the kurds say they don't have and isis attacked in broad waves of these vehicles, driving at fast speed on the flat land to the south and southwest and they were able to push the lightly armed out of the towns and trigger displaced civilians that really trigger aid lot of fear here in arbil wednesday night. so hearing that the u.s. did in fact use air strikes, that will probably be a moral booster to the kurtish forces to the population here even though it appears president obama was indicating the air strikes were

to the west of here, quite a far way away from arbil, that will serve as a moral boost to the region, which is shaken in the confidence within the last 48 hours. >> he authorized air strikes, wolf blitzer, correct me if i'm wrong. it doesn't sound like they occurred. he would -- he authorized targeted air strikes against isis convoys and targeted air strikes to break the surrounding of the group of people on the mountain. >> they have only been authorized. they would begin if u.s. personal military or diplomatic personnel were endangered and then the president would go ahead and not only authorize but the u.s. military, air force and others would launch the air strikes against isis targets in and around arbil. what already is happening is the humanitarian air drops the

president earlier authorized. that's continuing. the desire is to save the lives of about 40,000 of these people who are stuck on this mountain, this small ethnic religious group in iraq and offshoot of the kurds, they speak kurtish but they are treated as infidelities who deserve to die. they have been stuck on this mountain top. they don't have food, water and they will certainly die within a day or two or three if these air drops don't provide them the food and the water and the other things, medical equipment they need. that's why the u.s. is dropping these containers to help save these lives but the air strikes will begin i'm told if there is a clear danger to those u.s. military or diplomatic personnel in arbil. >> steven ferrell from the new york times that spent time in this area in these villages, explain the ethnic makeup in

this area. there is a huge mix. i don't think a lot of people heard of them, we're talking about christian minorities and other groups. >> this is a large plat plain with good highways and roads and you come off the highway into a little lane and find yourself in a small christian town and go a few miles further along and unless you really know the area well, it's incredibly complicated patch work of an excellent religions and theology and people and they are vulnerab vulnerable. >> when the president talks about authorizing air strikes, what does that actually look like on the ground? how are those conducted? often as we discussed, you need forward operating troops to put a laser on a fast-moving object.

>> yeah, if they will try and break the siege, those targets will be more fixed. they can do that with drones. they can get coordinates off that and program the weapons using something gps guided, something like that or laser designated. that can be done from the air quite effect sievely. if you're trying to hit fast-moving vehicles, that would be more difficult. >> the u.s. has enough drones in that region? >> we beefed up the presence in the last eight weeks that there is 24-hour coverage over that whole area, not only with drones but aircraft and probably armed recognizance now and i just want to say that, you know, this operation for the humanitarian as wolf hinted has to be on going because you have to keep resupplying this until this siege is broken. >> also, if you want to actually break the siege, that's not just humanitarian mission. that is -- you have to military break the siege. >> yeah, i think that's the issue that we really haven't

done yet. we can probably keep these people alive but for how long? there is no shelter up there. we can provide, you know, tactically provide humanitarian relief but at some point they have to come down off the mountain and if they come down, there has to be somewhere for them to go. we have to create a corridor or move the isis forces out of the way. >> the white house, you know, for a president who ran on ending the war in iraq, bringing u.s. troops out of iraq, this is obviously a difficult call, many president supporters are going to be nervous about the idea of mission creed. the president really speaking to those concerns tonight and i just want to point out what he said about why he said this particular instance requires and he believes is appropriate for u.s. action. he says that there is no american military solution in iraq but when we find a situation like we do on that mountain, a humanitarian mission, a request from the

iraqi government and unique ability of the united states to help, the u.s. will take action. >> that's right, anderson. that's why you heard the president really sound reluctant to take this action this evening, but when the president made the decision to put u.s. advisors in iraq to assess the military situation, the threat imposed, they invited the scenario where advisors could become threatened and the president would have to take the action to authorize air strikes to get them away from these adviso advisors. the scenario they did not envision is this humanitarian crisis taking place in northern iraq. they did not imagine the scenario where tens of thousands of people could be trapped on a mountain without food or water and that's why you hear the president autorise not just one mission tonight but two missions tonight, one to autorise a auth strikes and authorize a mission.

one thing we heard prom the white house earlier today, anderson, they were drawing parallels between the humanitarian crisis and the situation in libya three years ago. they believe that trigger apparently has occurred here back in libya three years ago, it was gaddafi's forces advancing. they felt like those forces would have been slaughtered in 2011. that prompted the air strikes and it's a similar very urgent crisis like situation that forced the president's hand here. >> fran townsend, you were in on meetings like this. take us behind the scenes how these decisions get made. we saw the president's meeting and saw an animated discussion, jim acosta pointed out. take us inside. how does this work? >> well, you know, anderson, because of the reach and the capability of isis and isil, the president talked about isil related group, very capable,

we've talked about foreign fighters on this program before. you can be sure the national security considerations also incorporate the potential for a threat against american targets around the world or here in the united states and so the department of homeland security will have been brought in. the fbi will have been brought in to look at the potential for retaliation attacks against u.s. targets. and that will be a real concern and so while you see the president's attention and the foreign policy team focused on what is going on inside iraq and the humanitarian crisis, there will be homeland security and counterterrorism considerations taken into account at this hour. >> we got to take a quick break. more when we come back including late word from the middle east. rockets apparently fired, seize fire broken. we'll have full details on that when we come back. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase.

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breaking news from washington and now the middle east. jake tapper is in jerusalem with late word that the ceasefire has been violated according to the iszly defense forces. jake, what have you heard? >> the israeli defense force, anderson, are saying that the terrorists have violated the ceasefire. that's a quote they say the two rockets were fired from gaza into southern israel.

that is all the information we have as of now. of course, this news comes just hours before the 72-hour ceasefire was set to expire anyway. and as you know, hamas' military wing, the qassam brigades said unless their demands had been met, hamas was going to refuse to extend that ceasefire, even though other palestinian factions plus the united states, israel, and the egyptian government which has been hosting these discussions in cairo, egypt, to try to find a way out of this crisis, all of those groups wanted the ceasefire extended indefinitely. but hamas said no. they had some demands to improve the lives of palestinians, they said, including lifting the blockade on gaza, allowing exits and entrances from the border areas with egypt and israel, and also a seaport. none of those demands, of course, were going to be met. israel did not want to give

hamas any sort of victory, any sort of evidence that firing rockets into israel got the palestinian people any sort of benefit. of course, that's exactly what the palestinian people -- that's exactly what hamas wanted to show the palestinian people, that they got something for these four weeks of fighting. right now all we have, of course, is this statement from the israeli defense forces that terrorists, they didn't identify whether it's islamic jihad or hamas or whoever it was, it might not have been authorized by hamas per se. but they are saying that rockets were fired into southern israel from gaza. we'll continue to monitor the situation for you, anderson. >> and jake, what is interesting about this, the ceasefire wasn't even set to expire for basically another three hours or so. >> that's right. and hamas in their statement just a few hours ago, the military wing, the qassam brigades came on al aqsa

television. that's the station in gaza, and said that they would honor, they would continue to honor the ceasefire up until 7:59. but that at 8:00, they would consider the ceasefire over unless their demands were met. you know, one cannot always go by what somebody says in this part of the world, as a sincere promise. but that was what the qassam brigade said. my understanding is actually the qassam brigades were planning on giving an even stronger statement. and some of the palestinian negotiators in cairo had urged them to tone it down a little bit, which apparently they did, according to the information i got. but in any case, somebody has violated according to the israeli defense forces, somebody has violated by firing two rockets. we don't have any information as to whether these rockets caused any injuries. as you know, the iron dome defense system has been very effective in preventing the kind of casualties that these rockets

presumably are intended to cause. also, a lot of these rockets just aren't very effective. but as of now, the israeli defense force is saying two rockets fired from someone in gaza into southern israel. and they say the ceasefire has been broken. the israeli defense forces already planning for the end of the ceasefire. so we'll see what kind of response they give militarily, if any. anderson? >> and jake, we'll have more from you obviously in the next hour, our continuing coverage. stephen farrell from "the new york times," you actually wrote a book it's interesting. this certainly raises questions about how much control these other palestinian factions that claim they're all speaking with one voice now at the negotiating table in cairo, how much control they have over some of the factions. >> who knows who fired this. it could have been another faction. it could have been an element

within hamas who decided they wanted to hurry things along or destabilize things. there is any number of reasons these rockets could have been fired. hamas doesn't completely control all of its own qassam brigades. and even if it does, does it control other factions who may want to start things up again for their own reasons. >> i want to go back to our other breaking story in the few minutes that remain us to. jim sciutto, for viewers that are joining us near the top of the hour, president obama speaking from the state dining room, saying that not only has he authorized and conducted a humanitarian air drop of relief supplies, desperately needed supplies to religious minorities, the yazidis and others basically stuck on a mountain surrounded by isis force, but he has also given the authorization if and when necessary for what he describes targeted air strikes against advances isis sources if they advance toward endangering lives of american personnel and also

targeted air strikes to try to break the siege around this mountain buy isis forces. >> the air strikes announcement really was the news from the president's statement. because we learned a couple hours before about the humanitarian mission to drop aid to the stranded yazidis. but when you look at a statement about air strike, it leaves the u.s. open to further action in iraq. one, he says he will conduct the air strikes to protect the u.s. forces and personnel, not just where isis is advancing, but he says anywhere in iraq including erbil and baghdad. two places the u.s. could act to protect u.s. personnel. he also authorized air strikes to break the siege, the isis forces surrounding these yazidis up on the mountaintop. and then he continued later in his statement to say he will provide increased support to iraq to deal with the counterterrorism challenge in iraq. and he said they'll continue to -- the u.s. advisers that are now in iraq, working with iraqi forces, will train, advise, and support iraqi forces going

forward. so he leaves the door open to additional military support, military action in iraq, in addition to what he specified today. and this is the mission creep we've been talking about for some time, anderson. and now as the threat has grown there from isis, the president giving himself more options in effect going forward, including military options. >> and we're just get mortgage word on this humanitarian air drop. 72 bundles of supplies said to be dropped. three aircraft involved in dropping that escorted by two f-18s. obviously, lieutenant colonel francona, for something like, that you can't just have c-130s or whatever dropping supplies. it has to be done very carefully, very low and they need military support. >> and the fighters would be equipped to detect any kind of air defense on the part of isis and be prepared to take action to protect those aircraft. >> i want to thank everyone on our panel for this breaking coverage. that does it for us in this hour of cnn.

obviously, our coverage is going to continue on now through the evening. cnn coverage continues now with wolf blitzer and alisyn camerota. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> good evening. this is "cnn tonight." i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're following breaking news. events in iraq now spinning out of control as isis, the group that is being called even more violent than al qaeda is spreading its vicious reign of terror north, leaving a trail of death and destruction amid fears that isis will target american military and possibly civilian diplomatic advisers in and around the area of erbil in northern iraq. president obama has just authorized air strikes to protect the americans. >> to stop the advance on erbil. i directed our military to take targeted strikes against