ROMANS: Forty-nine minutes past the hour. There's still hope for a long term peace agreement between Israel and Hamas. The two sides agreeing to extend their cease-fire another 24 hours. It's now set to expire just over 12 hours from now. It's giving negotiators in Cairo more time to hammer out a plan to bring genuine peace to Gaza. Frederik Pleitgen is live in Gaza for us. What's the latest, Fred?</s>FRED PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Christine. They're certainly going to need those 24 hours. There was a member of the Hamas delegation at those talks who said that so far, the two sides have not made any sort of progress, which is quite interesting, because last night, for awhile, it seemed as though they were actually quite close to a deal. For awhile, a deal was being announced, then things almost fell apart. They now agreed to the 24-hour extension of a cease-fire. And certainly, it's something people here in Gaza will monitor very, very closely, because they are very much fed up with the fighting. They are afraid the fighting could resume. One of the things Israel's prime minister said is after the cease- fire, if there's rocket fire from Hamas, there will be a very, very strong Israeli response. We could see it last night, we could see that last night. We could see how they were crowding the air space here with drones, watching out whether or not anybody would try and launch any sort of rockets. Certainly, it's a very tense situation and one where people here in Gaza are watching very, very closely what's going on in Cairo today, Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Thanks so much, Fred Pleitgen, in Gaza. Twelve hours until that cease-fire expires. All right. Breaking news this morning, violence and chaos, again, in Ferguson, Missouri. Tear gas, gunfire, Molotov cocktails filling the streets. Angry protests over the deadly police shooting 10 days ago of unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown. Hear from a journalist caught in the chaos, next.
Gaza Cease-Fire Extended 24 Hours