Middle East Crisis: Evening Notes

By Brian 

> Right, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams interviews Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It’ll air tonight…

> NBC’s Richard Engel blogs: While standing on a hilltop overlooking Beirut, something that “looked like a missile” launched nearby. “We saw it leaving the ground, spinning in the air and all of us watched as this thing that looked like a missile turned and started coming straight for us.” Here’s what happened next…

> CNN has more than 70 personnel deployed to the region, according to a press release today. Here’s a map of the correspondent deployments…

> Tonight on Nightline: David Wright reports from Beirut, John Donvan reports from Haifa, and Chris Bury interviews legendary Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens

> Tonight on FNC: Benjamin Netanyahu on Hannity & Colmes and Ehud Barak on On The Record…

> Middle East fighting and global market tensions are helping CNBC’s ratings. On Thursday the net’s business day was up 47 percent in the demo compared to Q3-to-date averages. It was up 26 percent on Friday. The numbers are small, but a spike is clearly evident. Worldwide Exchange — the only live cable news at 5am — is doing especially well…

> AP: “Israeli police on Monday detained the Jerusalem bureau chief of the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera for the second time in two days, authorities said…”

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