by the missiles >> reporter: beyond the fighting today, some like former israeli prime minister ehud olmert are now sounding the alarm that there is no post war plan. >> the main problem in my mind is not the fighting there we are fighting to the extreme heroic way we can the problem is that israel has no vision, no thinking, no planning as to what's then >> reporter: and despite international pressure to scale back the intensity of the fighting in gaza, polls here show that israelis remain overwhelmingly in favor of the war lester >> hala gorani, thank you. >>> we're tracking some major storms tonight, expected to wreak havoc in the east throughout the weekend. al roker is here now al, what can we expect >> lester, we're watching this thing get together in the gulf coast, and what it's going to do tomorrow, some showers around florida but by saturday, heavy rain impacts the sunshine state a high rain rate, saturated ground going to cause more of a flood risk sunday. this storm intensifies as it moves up the east coast heavy rain, strong winds in the midatlantic states by monday, it zips up