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cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i'm jessica dean in need work and we have breaking news out of northern gaza tonight where israel is preparing to reopen the erez border crossing and agreed to use its port of ashdod to get humanitarian aid into gaza. this as the un humanitarian aid chief calling that situation in gaza, quote, of betrayal of humanity. >> it is now just hours before the >> israel-hamas war reaches its six month mark with more than 33,000 people killed this week. a deadly israeli strike killed seven humanitarian aid workers from world central kitchen, cnn's nic robertson is in jerusalem and nic israel is letting these aid trucks in what it's going to be hard for them to actually get to civilians, walk us through all of this >> so what we know about the border crossing is that the

israeli, israeli officials are saying they are expecting trucks, aid trucks have yet to cross over and arrows. it's not clear how many trucks is not clear what there'll be carrying. in fact, very few details at the moment >> now >> that about that possible aid mission into northern gaza, it would be very significant if it does happen, the commitment from the israeli government to open areas is a significant commitment. the white house has said that they're watch very closely. the difficult is that will exist, the roads that link that northern crossing into some of the northern pounds there have been heavily damaged in the fighting. some of them some of the road there are completely blown out. the tarmac gone. so that'll make heavy aid trucks navigating those roads, particularly difficult. we were there today we could hear a lot of heavy machine gunfire in the area of the arrows ball for the crossing. and we could also here the detonation of heavier explosions, not too far away.

again, this will present a problem for any humanitarian convoys are going to move in that typically and in other areas in gaza, there, there are organized safe routes and safe times but often these are problematic. they divert particularly to the ground military realities. and if it's not safe for the convoy to go into a certain area, then it won't be able to get that all of these details have been difficult for other convoys coming into the southern part of the gaza strip to get him. we know that the humanitarian need in the north is big. it's difficult. the un says that many people there are close to starvation. they're estimated 300,000 thousand people in the north. but of course, getting aid trucks directly into the north rather than the south where they get to now would be a very big change. but it's it is there are still many hurdles to actually getting these convoys in

>> nic robertson life-force in jerusalem tonight. thanks so much for that reporting. and also tonight new threats of retaliation from iran is a highest ranking commander after israeli war, planes bombed iran's embassy and syria this week the remarks came at the funeral for seven military officers, members of iran's revolutionary guard killed in that strike. and now america is on high alert for a quote, significant attack by iran in the middle east that could target israelis or americans cnn, white house correspondent priscilla alvarez joining us now, live from washington, dc and priscilla, us officials say the biden administration was not involved in the strike and had no notice of it. >> that's right. and that is also what they've conveyed to iran and they've also warned iran that they should not use this airstrike as quote, a pretext to attack us personnel and facilities. as you said, they're the us and israeli governments are on high alert for a potential retaliation by ran for that is really airstrike. now, they are also

in close contact for what they described as an inevitable attack. now, it's unclear exactly when this would happen or what it would look like. it could happen in multiple different ways. but the expectation from us officials is that it could be as soon as next week now to be clear here, these could be a ran could hear be targeting us, or is really assets in the middle east. so this is specific to that region. now, this has also been a major topic of discussion between president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu during their call. earlier this week week and the big concern here for the united states, these that if there is a direct strike by a ran on israel, it could spark a broader regional conflict. of course, just this is something that the us has been very concerned about. the white house in particular, trying to avoid this conflict, getting any wider bringing in any

anymore countries in the region. so that is where the focus is right now, is trying to keep tabs on what is happening, what could happen, positioning to be prepared for that. and also making sure that this remains a contained conflict, not one that would spread more in the region that has been a priority for them. white house correspondent priscilla alvarez from washington. thanks so much for that update. and for more on this. let's turn to our first guest. now, democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi of illinois. he's also a member of the house intelligence committee, congressman. great to have you with us on this saturday afternoon. thanks for making time. have you received any briefings on this looming threat from iran >> no, not in the last week or so since we've been out of washington, look forward to receiving that when we go back early next week, the biden white house is priscilla just laid out there has worked to avoid this war from spreading in the region. do you think it's possible to continue down

that path or does a wider conflict seem inevitable at this point? >> now it's not inevitable. i think that the iranians don't necessarily want a full, full all-out war at this point. at the same time >> i think that at any can, at any point in this conflict, you can have a conflagration that kind of gets out of control, especially if >> hezbollah starts to unleash its hundred 50,000 missiles on israel, for instance, from the north of israel of course, the who ties have continued there attacks on shipping and on other interests. so you have a very volatile situation and that's why it's so important that the katara is and others who have influenced with a different actors, put pressure on hamas us and others to come to the table and have an

immediate ceasefire in israel and gaza so that we can actually deal with the underlying issues >> and israel's military has said the strike that killed the seven food aid workers from world central kitchen was unintentional and quote, a grave mistake we also know that the idf has fired two of its officers but some western leaders and the world central kitchen still want an independent investigation at this point, the national security council says there's no plans for the us to conduct a separate are independent investigation here. what's what's your take on this? >> my take is i think that we have to look at all the results or the israeli investigation and determine whether it's credible or not. but most importantly, we have to see further steps to a make sure that they minimize harm to civilians be that they might let a lot more humanitarian aid come into the gaza strip and then see, as i said before, we

need to get an immediate halt in hostilities. this is crucial so that hostages can be released humanitarian aid can flow in then you create some political space for actual negotiations for a much more longer ceasefire, longer truce, a longer-term solution to actually occur i've been helping to lead calls in congress for this two-state solution, there has to be a light at the end of the tunnel otherwise, if you don't have it, you're going to have endless violence, but you can't have those types of negotiations or even a broader regional set of negotiations, unless you have this immediate halt to hostilities, not only on the israeli side, but on the hamas side, where the qataris, for instance, have tremendous leverage and while, you all have been on your recess, there have just been a lot of shifts happening and a lot of movement in the israeli relationship. we now know that more than 30 house democrats, which includes former house speaker nancy

pelosi, have written president biden asking him to stop sending arms to israel until there is an independent probe on that attack. we were just talking about and stronger humanitarian protections for gazans. senator bernie sanders is taking a similar stand. we can play what he said to jake tapper for this week >> bottom line is, we are looking at one of the worst humanitarian disasters that we have seen in a very, very long time were literally this moment, looking at hundreds of thousands of children starving to death because israel is not allowing the humanitarian trucks into gaza to my mind, israel should not be getting another nickel in military aid until these policies are fundamentally changed. >> and congressman, just to remind everyone, there was an aid package for ukraine and israel and taiwan that passed out of the senate. it is stalled in the house, not been put up for a vote. >> what do you think >> all of this means for aid to israel?

>> well, i think that what it means is that for practical and other matters, speaker johnson needs to bring these components the floor. i think they will be probably split it up as separate bills >> and >> very importantly, which i don't think has been mentioned there's a 9 billion monetary and aid component to what the senate sent to the house. that also requires immediate, immediate passage as well. >> i think that if you put all four of those components on the floor, whether together or separately, that they will each receive requisite support to pass the house but it needs to happen right away because we haven't gotten into this, but ukraine is in a desperate situation this point they're getting outgun to maybe five or nine to one every time they fire one artillery shell, five to nine come back their way. and so if we are to have any hope of helping the ukrainians

preserve their position, let alone gain, we've got to pass the ukraine bill asap along with those other component parts. >> and where do you stand on pudding conditions around aid to israel? there some say that you absolutely can't do that for an hour. why the they deserve to have that money and use it as they need to others, like nancy are like other democrats have said that it needs to be conditioned around other factors. what do you think? >> there absolutely are conditions right now as the national security memorandum, 20, which just got issued by the white house, reiterated the conditions exist with regard to any arms transfers to israel or other countries with regard to allowing for humanitarian aid to enter the conflict zone, especially us humanitarian aid. and secondly, that the weaponry

that we provide is used in in compliance with international law. and so i'm looking forward to that >> what the >> white house assessment is underway that particular memorandum which is supposed to come out in the next several weeks. that's going to be something that many of us in congress are looking at it very carefully >> before we let you go tomorrow will mark six months since that horrific, deadly attack by hamas on israel that started all of this we also know that tomorrow hamas representatives or do in cairo at the stalled hostage negotiations >> what do you think >> the cia director bill burns is also going to be there? what do you think the us can do to try and get those hostages home, stay home to their families, which include some american citizens still well i think. >> the us is going to have to put pressure on all sides of this point. i just don't think that mr. netanyahu is

understanding the level of concern that people have here with regard to bringing an immediate halt to hostilities to bear. i think that the other issue is that the qataris i think are giving too much room to hamas in the negotiations. so that they can kind of play around dither, and preserve the opportunity to regroup for another set of attacks. remember? remember, hamas has yet to say that they would actually not perpetrate another october 7. they've said that they will do it again and again and again so when you >> have this type of >> situation, the us must bring as much pressure to bear on the egyptians and the qatari is to leverage what they have with hamas to bring them to the table, even at the same time that we're trying to get mr. netanyahu and his government to get to a deal asap >> i congressman raja krishnamoorthi, thanks so much for taking time. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much

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chief talking about what is officer had to do to save his own life >> during the process the officer to officer discharged a firearm one of the officers the one who was struck with four years of service applied a tourniquet on himself immediately after being struck even after he discharges fire extensive training that our police officers undergo is a testament to why that officer is alive today. >> yeah. so troubling, not sure how the crossfire worked in who was hit by what bullets of course, that's all going to be figured out several different agencies involved in this. but when you talk about doral, which is just outside of miami, it's in miami-dade county it's one of those areas that is very safe. this is a mall area. people were shocked by this level of violence that happened here. of course it happened after 3:00. that's a very popular bar that people were in so far. no names have been released and as we tried to figure out exactly what happens next, we've tried to figure out that motive because obviously so many people shot,

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could start as early as sunday if you're doing some traveling will find some snow wrapping around on the backside in the rockies and the northern plains showers making it into places like cleveland in indianapolis by sunday night, then as we go into monday, this front starts to stall a little bit and you're looking at the unsettled weather with the clouds and the showers, from houston up into arkansas. there's atlanta and maybe some showers even in the ohio valley when you're looking at the clouds. so definitely be most widespread. maybe the thickest from texas into arkansas will find maybe some clearing in the ohio valley with the clearest skies up in new england. now when you're looking at cloud cover, its percentage of how much of the sky is covered. >> so even if >> you have mostly cloudy skies, you'll still have peaks of the sun from time to time. so you might be able to see some of the crescent coming over, maybe just not all of it. well, you'll definitely still get is that darkness, whether you have clouds are not, if you're in the path of totality, you'll definitely get that. so we wanted to show you

what the clouds could look like, where you're at, like if you're in a place like dallas, you are looking at mostly cloudy skies throughout the stretch of the event. but again, with the peaks of the sun here and there, your peak at totality is one 40 by 3:00 in indianapolis when you're hitting your pq, we'll have a little bit more clearing, maybe a better shot at seeing the corona and the crescent and some of those other cool parts. now if you're in the path of totality it is 10,000 times darker at 100% along that path than it is at 99%. now, that darkness that hits can actually drop temperatures as we block out the energy from sun. so you can see where we've got temperature is rising as they usually do in the afternoon. for a place like caravel and rochester. and then as the darkness hits for the eclipse, those temperatures do briefly drop once it's over, they'll come back up, but it's incredible to see the weather services already forecasting for this temperature dip on monday all right >> elisa, thank you. and

roughly 32 million americans live along the route that moon's shadow will take as it goes across the country, millions more pouring into towns and cities in the path of totality to get a firsthand view of the total solar eclipse for more on the science behind it all. and what scientists would be able to learn from it. cnn's aerospace analysts, miles o'brien joins us now. miles great to have you with us. let's just start with the basics for everyone. what happens during a total solar eclipse? >> well, jessica, we're taking advantage of a coincidence that we don't know of any other planet and moon combination has, which is the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun. and yet the sun is 400 times the distance away. so that cancels each other out. and so from where we sit on the surface of earth they appear to be the same diameter. now, the moon is on a tilton orbit, so this doesn't happen every month, whatever there's a new moon. but on occasion, relatively

frequently, we get this occurrence where the moon passes right in front of the sun eclipsing the sun and many times this happens over the oceans, so we don't know about it in this case, what makes it extraordinary is it's just going to rip across a huge population center, which is to say north america, from mexico's with the continental united states exiting newfoundland, probably 30 to 40 million people just living under the so-called path of totality so it's gonna be a big event. >> yeah, it sounds like it and it's also a chance for scientists to learn more about our universe. nasa is going to launch rockets into the path of the eclipse. >> what makes this a unique >> research opportunity? and what do you think they're hoping to learn >> well, we want to know about the sun's corona looking at the sun with most instruments, there are some instruments which create artificial eclipses but most instruments are unable to view the corona,

which is like 1 million times fainter than the sun itself. >> when the >> moon is eclipsing the sun, you see that outer edge, that crown the corona. understanding it's properties. what's in it, the chemical composition that sort of thing just tells us more and more about the most important point and star we know of which is to say, our son. so nasa will fly some high-altitude aircraft to gather that kind of spectroscopy information infrared photography. they'll take a look at how the eclipse effects the ionosphere, the upper atmosphere. when you take away the sun briefly, it gives them an opportunity to test what the sun does to the atmosphere on the ground. there'll be testing some radars they use to predict so-called space weather to refine their accuracy. so it does its nature is opportunity and natural experiment which scientists always loved to take advantage of.

>> yeah, what sin is doesn't love nature's experiment. it sounds pretty great. it's also just an awe-inspiring moment that we, as you mentioned, don't get to see that often. >> but you in terms >> of safety, there's the thing. don't look directly at the sun cover your eyes. is that true? what do people need to know about, about how to observe this safely? >> well, as we all know, we should never look at the sun directly ever. and unfortunately during an eclipse, we're kind of tempted, right? we want to see what's going on up there. so if you are in a situation where it is partial, a partial eclipse, either you're in a place where it's never going to become total or you're waiting for that 4 minutes or so when there's a total eclipse you need to wear some of these eclipse glasses, these mylar glasses which block out enough of the sun's rays to safety. look right at it. now, if you're in the path of totality and you get to the point where the moon is completely cover the sun. i would invite you to take those glasses off so you can see and marvel at the

corona. the glasses are so dark that you might miss out. so be safe about it, but also don't forget to take them off when it's safe to do so because that's the real thrill >> yeah, that's the really special part. it sounds sounds like. and what will you be doing to watch the eclipse >> i made plans to go to dallas. i will be in the cotton ball with about 30,000 young people unfortunately, the weather forecast is not looking fabulous. for dallas as you were just talking about but i am heartened by the fact that this event is staged by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration >> and who has more control over the weather than them, right? maybe, maybe they'll part the clouds and give us all we need is four minutes at the right time. >> let's just appeal to know and see if they didn't get it done before i let you go, i want to talk about a spec i show that we have here on cnn tomorrow night. it's a c in an original series space shuttle columbia, the final flight. it's premiering and it takes a look at the 20 mission of the

columbia space shuttle that ended in tragedy. we can show everyone a short preview >> i walked in to the analysis lab to start reviewing film from the launch >> we started the film at the beginning we're watching this lift off and see the roll maneuvers beautiful blue sky we do the. normal review. we start pointing out all the things that we normally see and we got 81 seconds and then we see this object come off of the external tank area it moved down and then strike the vehicle and explode into white cloud my reaction was, oh now, miles you

cover that story as it unfolded what strikes you the most as you look back on those events and that footage now wow, i had a parallel reaction to it, jessica, i was at the kennedy space center. we all saw that foam strike and i wasn't looking at that. the the closest most high-speed images, but when they played the laundry plays not long after the columbia was safe in orbit. we all saw it and it looked like, you know, you're dropping a bag of flour and it just it was a big piece of insulating foam from that fuel tank we i reached out to several sources of mine inside nasa and they all downplayed the concern. and these were high level level people in the shuttle program and so i let that story go. unfortunately, it was a story that i probably should have put on tv right away. maybe that might have prompted nasa to do

a little more to try to identify the problem and perhaps come up with a way to save that crew. so looking back on it, i feel a great deal of sadness. i feel a little bit of shared guilt for the fact that i didn't push that story on the air and i'm also reminded of just how much as much as i love the shuttle program it was an inherently unsafe vehicle. we don't go to space like this anymore where the people are downstream of objects that can harm their vehicle putting them at the top of the of the ride is a good idea. i think overall, i'm sad about it, but i am heartened that the space program has moved onto something else that is safer for people. >> yeah, as we go forward. all right. miles o'brien, great to have you. thanks so much for spending some time with us. we appreciate it and enjoy the eclipse i i'll do my best, jessica. thank you >> and be sure to tune in the brand new original series space shuttle columbia, the final flight parts one and two premier tomorrow at 9:00 p.m.

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four for the first time in more than 40 years, alabama's nate oats for the first time in school history, i caught up with each of those coaches and ask them how they're helping their players and it's all the perceived pressure ahead of this biggest stage in the game. listen >> you've got to have a great balance between having fun and obviously the business like you don't have fun with up until the game, then you've got to be serious. >> know we're going to talk a lot about 94 by 52 yesterday. i wanted everything to be 50, >> 50 business having font focus on what's going on a call right now today, let's have 75% business, 25% font. >> take some of it in and have some fun leading up to it. we've got to try to eliminate the distractions. just focus on 90 before by 52 tamar, it's all business and so we've we've kinda broken it up a little bit and that's what we're trying to do >> now, the other coach leading the way tonight is uconn's dan hurley looking to lead the huskies to become the first repeat champions in college basketball says 2007, florida

gators did it and he has an entirely different set of emotions to deal with labs you're after winning the title with his son andrew on the team, he told me it was really special. well, now andrew is a senior and his days as coach dad are coming to an end. i caught up with dan hurley and his wife andrea to talk about that >> it's going to be tough. you miss a lot when the kids are younger. so while it's extra special to get the time we've had the last four years and it's going to be tough >> all right. you can watch all >> the games and tonight on our sister channels, tnt, tbs, and trutv well, so streaming on macs tip off, starting as six eastern jessica and coy women's basketball having a big moment right now in large part to caitlin clark and what she's been able to accomplish sweat last night. also, there was this controversial call in that game. tell us about that

yes. yeah. spacing uconn in one of the most highly anticipated women his college games we've seen in quite some time. it lived up to the hype, but yes,t did not come witht some controversy in the first half, caitlin clark was held to just six points. incredible deep as a performance by uconn, caitlin clark would come out in the third quarter though and helped lead a surge nailing two three-pointers to kind of set it off and they would take the lead. she finished with 21 points, but then with just seconds to go and down by one uconn had a chance to take the lead, >> but aliyah >> em sin hi edwards said is caught caught with an illegal screen and that would be how it end lebron james and many others >> composing seeing how they did not like this call. but iowa would go ahead and get the win and they will now get a chance to face south carolina in the final tomorrow night and dawn staley's gamecocks are undefeated this season. they have lost just three games in the past three seasons.

>> they put a >> weapon on nc state and they're fine now for a up to get a chance to go and play it tomorrow night against the fighting caitlin clark and iowa guys. and i think it's safe to say we're going to see viewership records threatened to be broken that again, jessica. >> yeah, it's really exciting stuff. all right. coy wire force in phoenix. thanks so much >> still ahead. it is known as the cowboy capital of the united states. how one texas town is going all out for the eclipse during the cnn >> get your viewing glasses ready and experience so rare, it won't happen again for another two decades. joint cnn for live coverage around the country of the spectacle in the skies eclipse across america pick up live monday at one on cnn or streaming on mac

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of bandera, horses and dinosaurs are donning eclipse glasses even eyewear for a giant cow boy, monster eclipse party >> we are downtown benzo, texas files here is the court house band, erez population of under 1,000 >> everybody knows everybody. hi, eilene >> is expected to quadruple monday says the mayor, there were some folks from china in the 11th street lag all over the place >> at 11 streetcar boy bar, the meat medium, rare and greet is about the eclipse. >> you drove 1,700 miles 1,700 miles. >> do see the eclipse >> these two friends caravan from pennsylvania not been preparing. i bought a camper. i bought a jeep i didn't. every camp >> i hear that it might storm embed dara >> beautiful day. are we doing positive thinking about this? >> it's not just bandura's cow

girls praying for good weather. millions are expected to flock to texas and more than a dozen us states and the celestial path of totality. some officials are worried about traffic jams this is wooster in bandera cow girls solved that problem. >> i'm going to jump on booster i'm going to ride by everybody and i do my little princess play is even eclipse mania, expected to add $6 to the us in one estimate, texas, a slice of the >> astronomical pi, 1.4 billion. the eclipse merchandise and bandera they sold like that is practically sold out well, this is beautiful country, alec? >> yes, ma'am. >> so our venues like the historic dixie dude ranch. and when did you start getting calls about the eclipse >> our first reservation for the clips was in 2017 we sold out completely about four years ago >> what never runs out here are

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