The day's other headlines start with more on the Chinese hack of American telecommunications

firms earlier this year. Officials with the nation's cyber defense agency and the FBI tell

the news hour that after seven months of investigating, they still don't know the true scope

of China's cyber attack. The officials also said the hack is ongoing and that there's no evidence the

Chinese actors have been kicked out yet. They found that the hackers mostly stole phone

metadata from a large but unspecified group of Americans. Senate intelligence chairman Mark

Warner recently called this the worst telecommunication hack in U.S. history.

To the Middle East now where the limits of a shaky ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah are being tested with new violence and new threats.

Since last week's truce went into place, both sides have claimed violations by the other.

Chesbola's Monday attacks into an Israeli border area were met by an Israeli response,

airstrikes that killed at least 11 people in Lebanon.

Israel's defense minister told troops that if the ceasefire broke, Israel wouldn't limit its

strikes to Hezbollah, saying, quote, there will no longer be an exemption for the state

of Lebanon. In a meeting with his

cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ceasefire doesn't mean that Israel

will sit idly by. We are currently in a ceasefire, not the end of the war. We have a clear

goal to return the residents to rehabilitate the north. We are enforcing this ceasefire with an iron fist acting against any violation, minor or

Syria.

In nearby Syria, insurgents have pushed forward with their offensive.

A war monitoring organization confirmed the militants captured four new towns today

as they pushed toward

Hamma, the fourth largest city in Syria. In the meantime, government forces have retaken a village

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