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to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company and well welcome to this special edition of cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the powerful geomagnetic storm happening right now. all around the world are storm classified as extreme level five out of five phenomenon that last half happened more than 20 years ago. and it's causing the northern and southern lights to dazzle many places that rarely, if ever, see them, have a look at the scene here in atlanta or in the southern us a short time ago, parts of the midwest and even northern california have seen chances of seeing the aurora, the skies over the uk and ireland, lighting up in vivid colors earlier on friday night. and there continues to be a high likelihood of aurora over parts of europe and asia meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, the aurora australis was spotted over new zealanders well as argentina it

all started when the sun erupted with a series of solar flares. and what's known as coronal mass objections. and when those particles reach earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, it creates the spectacular light shows that many of us are witnessing. the lights are expected to peak in the coming hours, although the storm will likely continue through the weekend the biden administration says it is closely tracking the possible impacts of the solar storm as it could disrupt communications satellites, and power station electrical utilities in the and canada are making preparations just in case cnn's chad myers has more now on the historic solar storms and where you might see those auroras right? >> so everybody wants to know whether it's going to be visible, where i am, right? it will be visible across most of north america, maybe not all the way down to the gulf coast, but it'll be close. and it's not a one-day event. so even if you have cloud cover for

tonight, you will still be able to see it tomorrow because there's more than one coronal mass ejection on the way. so what is it? well, it's just a ball of plasma that's being shot at the earth. these things happen all the time but rarely do we have them that goes straight at the earth. think about how big 3-dimension could we go that way? could go to the back, could depends on where the sunspot is. well, we know this is coming toward the earth because of what we call the halo effect. when you see the cloud mass kind of come out of this. this is the sun right here. this is the sun being blocked by a disk but when you see the coronal mass ejection come this way, it's like looking at somebody blowing smoke ring at you, you know, it's coming and you know, it's on its way that's the same idea, same kind of smoke ring that we're seeing. so yes, we have more than one still coming. so overnight, a big ones still landing on the earth's atmosphere. and we are still seeing think that really bright, colorful cloud all the way around the globe. typically, you place you're not seeing it is where it's sunny,

where the sun is already come up and you can't see it, but it was very, very spectacular somewhere around i would say maybe one z, one zulu time, greenwich mean time somewhere around 9:00, not quite 9:00 on the east coast of the us. >> but it was still light. we couldn't see it in north america but another one and then another one and another one. this is still going to be going for quite some time this is what the solar wind looks like i want you to think of it like a, like a the seismograph in when you're looking at california and you see the earth shake. well, the sun wasn't shaking at all. the solar wind was doing just fine, being nice and flat but then all of a sudden around two, 30 or two 40 this afternoon, the earth began to shake, literally. and so did the solar wind. and it came in very, very quickly, get this number around your brain. 1.6 million miles per hour. that's how fast this solar wind is coming. aurora seen farther south with a g5 big number. this is five out of five, this is as big as we get

there are still levels of five but g5, we're already up their power outages are likely and also satellite disruptions are also likely. so yes, it's certainly possible where the red coronas and then the most common are the green. this is what we see all the time across as parts of canada, but the less common are the purples and the reds. we are seeing a lot of them tonight now, thanks to chad majdi. >> now canada, no stranger to the potential disruptions and dangerous from geomagnetic storms like this. cnn's paula newton is live for us, this soundly a kannada. that's just outside the canadian capital of auto and good to see you, my friend, you canadians are used for the northern lights. how has it been there? what were the concerns and what's play it out? >> you know, it's interesting with chad said we are used to seeing them fairly regularly here. and you doesn't have to be a severe solar storm for canadians to see them, especially in places where you don't have the light pollution. but as he just said, you would normally see it in

green. some of the colic colors all over north america have been incredibly spectacular not so much here in canada though this time, about ten miles from us, they had some beautiful purples and pinks in the sky, but unfortunately we have some cloud cover here is still, so we're going to be a little bit more patient and see if it comes out. >> the issue here, michael, is that in 1989 and they had a blackout in cabac that is a canadian province actually, just over the river behind me. >> and that was a lot of chaos that happened in 1989. but what's fascinating here is that they just didn't have the sensors, the monitors, the satellite certainly technology that they have now than they had in 1989. so they are better prepared, they're better prepared and all the hydro grids all across canada and the united states, they do not believe that that would occur this time around for various reasons in terms of the infrastructure backups they have in place and new technology. having said that, as chad clearly explain, this

is a very strong solar storms. so they're thinking a bit out of the box here. i'm wondering, okay, what could go wrong and they were trying to foresee all the possibilities so far so good midnight just. after midnight where i am here, eastern time apparently they're supposed to be some really strong some solar storm activity coming in the next hour or two in this location in canada will see if the clouds cleared up. but right now, it is just a lot to look at. in the sky on the ground, everything seems normal for now. michael all right. >> good. deny some lovely images. we've been watching as you been speaking, pool and newton there in auto, appreciate it. good to see you all right. let's talk more about this and break it all down with sean doll. he's the senior forecast or at no space weather prediction center busy night for you? this was ranked of four on a scale of one to

five. now it is a gif file if the top number, what makes it a five and shubi be more worried than we were when it was four thanks for having us glad to be here and sharing this information with your viewing audience yeah, this is, we were anticipating a g54 but that was still significant at severe levels. >> why? because we haven't issued a g4 storm watch since 2005. so it's been a long time. that's because we had a pretty high level of confidence. these we're going to be earth-directed coronal mass ejections. it's chad described that we're going to reach earth well, we didn't know for sure is the timing. we're trying to forecast something from 93 million miles away, very difficult to get that down to the hour or so please take those timings with some caution. but we did get a cme arrival. we don't know if it was several hitting together because some were moving faster than others but in either case, we did it have a chance for the g5 but we do not issue watches

for g5 because there's too much unknowns. >> and sure as heck, we did meet the g5 at least twice now, yeah. i when we go back the most disruptive solar storm ever recorded, correct me if i'm wrong, that was 18, 59 and it was known as the carrington event how did that differ to this we'll call it this way. >> everything's correct that you said that carrington event, the level of activity right now, what we're experiencing, let's call it to my head level, that carrington a level event went another three stories up over my head. that's the difference. you can have from one g5 to another. we're on the low end of the g5 and that's still been disruptive. we've been hearing about some impacts and effects to include our neighbors up north that you were just talking with? the transmission operation, operators are working very hard to mitigate any problems because they're having irregularities on their voltage systems up there. we've heard reports of this already, but it's things that they're able to manage, but it's a

very busy night for them. and here in the united states, when we talk about impacts, i know there were a lot of worst-case scenario but one of the ones that struck me was if there could be a threat to satellites and how they operate and how they all but, and there's a lot of them up there how would that work for this type of storm? it really messes up the outer atmosphere, so especially for low earth orbiting satellites, they start to slow down because the atmosphere spanned expanded. it's heated up. >> and that slowdown makes gravity win the war and they started to pull back down if the operators don't control them and keep them at the problem upper orbital level. so that's one problem the satellite controllers are dealing with another one is that we also have a solar radiation storm going on at the same time that s on our scale. and we hit two at that level earlier on that one through five. and that can cause particles energized particles from the sun to get into. the interior electronics and cause anomalous commands to happen. as one example, wow, how long

could the impacts carry on the technical ones, but also the aurora which are just so incredible to watch as we said, even as far south as here in georgia and that just doesn't happen now, that's pretty rare as it at two, i just saw the aurora here from our house and northern colorado really haven't seen in the nine years, i didn't hear yeah, it's pretty rare for these events to happen. >> and but that's why we do what we do. our job here is to not necessarily report on the aurora, but it's certainly some people are interested in. so that's why we talk about it. >> but we're really tailored and making phone calls and contact and all the infrastructure operators. >> weather, satellite communications, the gps navigation, by the way, we've had a lot of reports of gps inaccuracies and issues today for certain types of systems because of these storms. and that's what we do here. it's mitigating problems problems talking to customers and users of our information to make sure the operators can avoid as many problems as possible. >> when you go back and even talking about what happened in

2003 and so on, we become ever more dependent on technology, on and on gadgets, on things like gps. >> does that, does that make it more likely that things will be affected by something like this? >> or we also more knowledgeable and we learn how to mitigate it my goal, it's true some technologies we're still learning about. this is a test case scenario for some of the technologies to see how they're actually impacted because some things have developed so quickly, we just don't know, we haven't had this type of storms since 2003 so we're still learning as we go through this. meanwhile, things we've learned in the past, measures of protections have been done. you're calling to the north and canada, there was mentioning about nothing experienced for power outages in canada. that's true. some of the things that have been stalled inhibit the induced currents that happen from these storms on the high voltage transmission line there call inhibit there's some of those have been spun up in there being utilized and to deflect in keep the current from

building up, which is harmful to transformers. >> when will you be, when we talk about how long this goes on and so on, when we, you be relieved that we got through it without major mishap we are anticipating still potential issues all the way up into monday at this point because we had yet another one of these coronal mass ejections leave the sun earlier today and potentially another one not too long ago from solar flares that are still taking place. >> these oftentimes associated with each other, and it's all due to the region. the chat described, the gigantic sunspot complex in the southern hemisphere of the sun. >> we're not going to be out of that threat for certain types of storms and all our scales until it rotates two and beyond the whim of the sun. >> and that's going to still take yet another several days. >> what what can we people like you actually people who know what they're talking about, what can we learn from events like this? if we can learn how

to message properly and we've done a great job of that so far from everything we've learned in the past, we've broadened our audience, our government here in the united states as well as international partners, even in the united kingdom and elsewhere around the world. >> they are all concerned now because of things you mentioned with our technology and they want to have measures in place to properly mitigate problems, have rules, make sure things are being followed. here in the united states. these are those executive orders. there's bills and legislation working groups, all assembled to design to help protect from a major space weather event? because if we ever experienced something like the carrington event, which by the way was over ten times stronger than the event that collapsed the power grid in canada in 1989. we were gonna be in some trouble potentially wow, wow so fascinating to talk with you and we appreciate you staying up. you'll night is is far from over rye. i ventured as shown dow, thanks so much

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something we haven't seen in more than 20 years this is what the northern lights look like from maine earlier, lighting up the sky and green and pink. >> it's just a hazing, isn't a singer and actor, nick jonas shared this photo of the lights from the set of a movie he's filming in ireland now the white house says it is keeping an eye on any possible impacts from this rare solar storm, including disruptions to communications and gps systems. cnn's brian fung explains what could happen the good news is if you're an average cell phone user, this solar activity may not affect your devices very much. the exact reasons for that are really interesting. >> and it gives you a fascinating glimpse into how our everyday technology really works. not to mention the science behind the storm as you've been hearing all day, the sun has been sending radiation toward earth. that interacts with our magnetic sphere. that's what's causing these auroras everywhere a byproduct of all that can be fluctuations in the upper atmosphere that's scatter or

even block radio transmissions and certain specific frequencies now this shouldn't interfere with cellular signals because those run on different frequencies than the ones were talking about here, your calls and mobile data should still go through but what can these storms effect while the list includes satellites in orbit as well as any signal trying to reach them through the ionosphere. that's the upper layer of the atmosphere. we were just talking about so that could mean glitchy or less accurate gps readings on ships or airplanes. but again cell phone gps might be less affected because phones usually rely on self towers in addition to satellites to get a location fix. >> now, shortwave radios will likely have issues that's because in order to increase their range, people typically try to bounce them off the underside of the ionosphere with the storms that obviously gets a lot harder. >> lots of commercial businesses and government agencies use this type of communication. and so do amateur ham radio operators. all of these users could be affected now there is one way in which the storm could

indirectly affect your electronic devices, and that's if the disruptions caused widespread power grid issues utility companies say they're monitoring the situation and are prepared, but storm watchers have upgraded this to the most intense level that exists in the government's classification system. that could mean overloaded transformers and grid disruption. if that happens, it could cut power to cell towers, datacenters, and other critical infrastructure but then it just becomes more of a garden variety power outage problem. not really a direct issues stemming from the solar storm and all of these providers have backup generators. so any interruptions and self-service should be limited if it happens at all. the bigger problem for most of us in that scenario, it'll probably be how to keep our devices charged. brian fung, cnn washington now in the the dazzling light show may be seen as far south as alabama in california joining us. now, if cnn's bill, we're in new york i mean, it's extraordinary

bill. i mean, this is happening coming from 93 million miles house away when when do you think we're going to have a good idea of impacts or i know you covered this. i certainly did. or whether it's going to be a y2k in that sense of nothing happened much ado about nothing. yeah. well, the hope is that we dodge this huge cosmic bullets. that's headed our way right now. the best-case scenario is that the scientists, that the space weather prediction center, swift's see there in colorado and others around the world, learn on how to protect humanity for future storms going forward even just in the obama administration generation ago, craig, few gate, who is the head of femur, took over and said, what do we do if there is a g5 storm? that hits the us and most people said, what is that? would they didn't know what space weather was. just ten, 15 years ago, the field has come so far since then, but there are so many different vulnerabilities depending on whether we're in the bad place. so wrong spot at

the wrong time, there are the gps satellites that fly very high, 15,000 miles up and they have these geo synchronized atomic clocks that are down to the billions of the second that affect everything from airline travel to financial transactions that could be vulnerable. there as well. we talked about what happens on power grids, the alternating current that runs much for the north american grid if it gets mixture with direct current from the sun, that could gum up the works and create passive blackouts. so far no sign of that right now so far nothing but giddy sort of wonder at this light show in the sky, in key largo. i mean, normally you have to plan for a decade and go to iceland or northern alaska and joy they or a borealis but it's just as happening everywhere because of that intense energy, we worship the sun, we need it. we lay out under it without really realizing michael. most times that that is a thermonuclear bomb. this has been going on for 4 billion years, so much

energy popping off of there. and if you're just in the wrong spot at the wrong time it could hurt. >> yeah absolutely. i mean, it's it's talking about the auroras i mean, here in georgia and named the i'd been if years in georgia never seen any sign of it and you get up on the roof of the building. there's a glimmer which is just amazing, even with all the atlanta light pollution. do you do you get a sense and you've been talking to a lot of the scientists that this is also a a learning event totaling. yeah, i mean, knowledge is power in these things and there's so much we don't know. and again, it's 93 million miles away so a lot of margin for error when it comes to predicting when that pulse will arrive. but scientistic few years ago looked at the big events you mentioned the carrington event. there was another one in 1921 that the electricity actually started fires that train stations in new york and radio telegraph operators were unable, able to unplug the batteries and just

send messages through the election which are fight air. that's how intense that storm was. they ran models and just to predict what would happen if a storm of that size hit the north america with a direct hit, it could affect 130 million people. they predicted could cost between 12 trillion to repair that can take from four to ten years to pick up the pieces. if something that devastating what has happened, that's absolute worst-case scenario and odds against it are infantile symbol. but you never know, right? and so, the way we can depend on these devices in our lives more and more, the more we know about what could threaten them, the better. >> yeah. yeah. well, let's hope that it was the y2k cnn family to sydney for y2k. so i got a great fireworks display out of that. and the world kept spinning yeah, let's hope it's that bill we're good to see you there in new york. appreciating lego's mike all right quick braking on the

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atmosphere, it creates the spectacular light shows that we're witnessing geomagnetic storm activity for earth will pick between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m. eastern time on saturday. if you're watching us around the world are just 12:30 a.m. that's like around 90 minutes or so from now. but the storm will likely continue through the weekend. the solar storm could disrupt communications, satellites, and pounds i'll stations and as the most extreme geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years makes its way across the earth's cnn's kristin fisher explains how this historic phenomenon can bring about possible disruptions and breathtaking views at the same time through the weekend it's called a coronal mass ejection. >> and those highly charged particles have been barreling towards earth at 500 miles per second ever since the first particles began striking earth's magnetic field, friday afternoon and forecasters

expect it to intensify into the night and perhaps through the weekend. >> just think of gazillions of protons coming toward earth at the same time, there's also electrons in there. there's also magnetic fields. and when they hit the earth's magnetic field, or any other planet's magnetic field, they interact with that field and knows changes generate currents which can damage power grids satellites, anything that has an electrical conductor involved the national oceanic and atmospheric administration is describing this storm as an extraordinary and very rare event. one that also has them a little concerned. >> the biggest threats are to satellites into global power grids. >> know it says it notified critical infrastructure operators and that mitigation efforts have been taken but it's still warning of possible widespread voltage control problems. >> the last time we had a big power outage due to a geomagnetic storm was in the 80s. have we fix things since

then? we're going to find out satellites will also be tested 40 of its starlink internet satellites during a geomagnetic storm that wasn't as strong as this one. >> and then there's the threat to people in space. >> this is jamestown actual 12 astronauts. we've got a solar storm coming in and it's a hot one. >> apple tvs for all mankind envisioned astronauts on the moon running for cover to dodge the incoming radiation during a strong solar storm in reality, it's the astronauts currently onboard the international space station that may need to shelter in more protected portions of the orbiting outpost slice radiation is a known phenomenon that is dangerous to biology, whether it's during a geomagnetic storm, but just the general tryst into outer space. >> but despite the potential danger, a solar storm also rewards us with some of the most spectacular auroras and

this time, over a wider area extending as far south as alabama the beauty of dice coronal mass ejection is that we get to have an astronomical event basically come to us from space. that's visible to the naked eye. we all just recently experienced this with the total solar eclipse that happen happened in april. so now, see the northern lights. that is another extraordinary astronomical event. >> kristin fisher, cnn, washington mark mentioned a space scientist for the university of colorado working at noah's space weather prediction center. he's in boulder, colorado joins us now and thanks for doing so for a lot of people and some people have been reaching out to me let's start with the basics. what, what is the event and why is it important? >> yes, michael, thank you for having me. can you hear me? yes. it's been this is as

you've heard before, before the break, this is the largest geomagnetic storm and about 20 years since the famous halloween storms, and then occurred around october, late october, early november, in 2003. and what happens is when one of these cmes or coronal mass ejections travels from the sun to the earth. it compresses and it disrupts the earth's magnetic field the magnetosphere, and that surrounds our planet when that happens, it can, it can cause problems for power grids, for satellites it anyway, whenever you wiggle a magnetic field, it induces currents and any kind of electrical conductor. and we as humans have put a lot of electrical conductor is in the rat in the ground from power grids to oil pipelines to two railroad tracks. and so anything that's electronic or conducting can be affected when

when one of these cmes hits everybody hopes it passes without much of an impact but in a worst-case scenario, what could happen, what would be the thing that would worry you most our how my and how might it affect you and me yeah well the worst the biggest effects are likely would likely be power grids and satellites that we've depending we start, we've depend on more and more on electricity, on power grids on on spacecraft gps. and as those knowledges become disrupted, they can have a cascading effect on our society we take for granted when we plug plug into the wall into an electrical outlet, that power will come out, but during a blackout, that's not the case

but that is that is a worst-case scenario that we are for doing our job correctly and we do work with the power companies we've worked with the satellite companies and mitigation efforts are taken. so we can we can divert energy, we can shut down on certain certain circuits. we can shut down certain satellite it's for the the, what geomagnetic storm occurs, so it can save this infrastructure without damaging it were lasting impacts, i guess because the thing is yeah we have so much more in terms of technology and elect trawniki and everything else. but at the site, which gives us more exposure to something like this. but at the same time, i suppose we're getting smarter when it comes to mitigation and protection, right? >> absolutely, yes. yes. so we become we've become more

dependent on these devices. so who had a gps in their car 20 years ago and 20 years ago, the iphone wasn't even invented yet so we're becoming more dependent, but yes, it's true that engineers and scientists have worked in mitigation strategies they have design engineering designs that take space weather effects into account. so if we're all doing our job right thing most people should not moat notice much of a disturbance. yeah. >> well, i've got some of us are old enough to remember driving around with a mat book on our lap. i hope it doesn't come to that. yes. since i need a gps to get de my mailbox, now, of course this this happens not frequently, but yeah regularly enough. is it a bigger deal this time then on previous occasions? >> well, the sun goes through periods of activity. so there's something called the solar cycle, which lasts

approximately 11 years about every 11 years or so the sun gets more active and these periods of solar activity of high solar activity are called solar maximum. and the sun has gone, gone through these cycles since longer than people have been on this earth. so it did the son has been doing this for a long time and every 11 years we have peaks of activity. this is of hurricane season for the equivalent for space weather but last, solar maximum in 2014 was the weakest one in a century so to get to it back to a level of solar activity that, that's as high as it is. now, you do have to go back 20 years to the last big storm that big g5 storm so but, but we're just entering solar maximum now and we expect that the next few

years we'll have, we'll have more of these perhaps not as high as the g5. but there are many severe geomagnetic forums, a level four storm for example, we expect many more of these to come in the coming years we are entering a period where more of these may occur. >> it's funny, we rely on people like you at a time like this to break it down for us and reassurance yes. what could happen, but i'm wondering for you as a scientist is this exciting stuff yes, absolutely. that we don't extreme storms that they don't come along very often. >> so everyone that comes along is an important data point to learn about that. it spend in addition to our every day ology satellite technology, spacecraft technology the instruments ground-based

instruments, telescopes have advanced tremendously in the last 20 years so we can study this event more closely. we can scrutinize it, then then previous events. so yes it is exciting. >> now i know why i'm glad to hear that and enjoy the rest of it. mark mentioned boulder, colorado. really appreciate your expertise on it. >> yes. thank you for having me. you're welcome. have a good rest of your life and we will continue to keep an eye on this solar storm. >> but after the break, we'll take a look at how prosecutors are setting the stage for donald trump's fix that. to testify in that hush money trial, you're watching cnn newsroom. >> we'll be right back oscar pistorius was at the absolute peak of his celebrity in olympic heroes, shocking murder trial, we learned i must darker individual power would really happen with jesse l.

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and then paying so it was a legal expense that somebody happened to be meeting. >> i didn't do the bookkeeping. i didn't even know about it. this is what the case is about cohen told his political beat down podcast co-host on thursday that he looks forward to testifying sooner or this thing starts. the sun to this thing finishes after a defense request, judge juan merchan told prosecutors he wants cohen to keep quiet about the case. >> before he takes the stand, but he can't issue a gag order on a witness. something trump express frustration about as he left court there is no gag got to michael what did you actually did? who is amazing actually was amazing. everybody can say whatever they want they good. so whatever they want i'm not allowed to say anything about anybody it's a disgrace prosecutors called witnesses to the stand to help lay the groundwork for cohen's upcoming testimony in at&t analysts introduced cohen's

phone records and back on the stand, trump's former white house aide, madeleine westerhout, testified about trump's reaction to the release of daniel story in 2018 westerhout testified trump was upset by it and her understanding was that it would be hurtful to his family. >> she later clarified trump did not specifically speak about his family in that conversation. trump's lawyers suggested he made the $130,000 hush money pay off to daniel's in order to protect his family. meanwhile, prosecutors argue he did it to influence the 2016 election, which was two weeks away, and came on the heels of the access hollywood tape damaging his campaign. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. >> you can do anything but trump's lawyers, susan necheles has westerhout about the process of trump signing checks? westerhout said trump would sign them while multitasking, doing things like talking on the phone or meeting with people bo she described fedex thing, the sign checks back to the trump organization prosecutors used westerhout to show the chain of command of

checks like the one sent to cohen to reimburse him for the hush money. cohen testified before congress about the allegations in 2019 donald trump wrote you a check out of his personal account while he was serving as president of the united states of america to reimburse you for hush money payments? yes, mr. chairman, another witness, a paralegal at the district attorney's office, read one of trump's tweets about the monthly payments to cohen which trump called a retainer. trump said mr. cohen and attorney received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, the tweet came around the time his former lawyer, rudy giuliani, told fox news host sean hannity that trump reimbursed cohen for the hush money that cohen paid for it out of his own pocket, having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman 130,000. i mean, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal that money was

not campaign money. they funneled the true law firm follow-through and the president repaid it just kept a week where the jury saw that that prosecutors say were falsified in this case, the invoices the general ledger entries, and the checks. >> they also heard from the woman stormy daniels. that's at the center of the hush money payment next week, it will be michael cohen squaring off against the man he said he would once take a bullet for prosecutors say they could rest their case by the end of the week. kara scannell, cnn, new york a new white house report says, it is, quote reasonable to assess that israeli forces have used us weapons in gaza in waves, inconsistent with international humanitarian law. >> the report stopped short of saying that israel violated but international law, but it is sharply critical of the toll him glide gaza. part of the report says, and i'll read some of it, quote, while israel has the knowledge, experience, and

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palestinian since they say conditions that what the idf calls the quote humanitarian zone, just simply not adequate. some areas have no running water. there's no sewage, no electricity, people being forced to live in tents and makeshift shelters on the side of the road deborah, hello, my name is there is no water, there is no food, no one is asking a us. >> know when is looking for us, as you can see? that is our situation. we can we have god looking for us the un secretary general says things will be much worse if israel dove conducted all out offensive in rafah that all went under thousand palestinians are moving north from rafah. >> humanitarian partners have no tents or foods starts left in sauce gaza massive ground attacking refer would lead to a

epic humanitarian disaster. and pulled the plug on our efforts to support people as famine looms international humanitarian law is unequivocal civilians must be protected us president joe biden threatening to withhold additional us weapons shipments if israel goes forward with an all-out ground offensive ukraine says it's second largest city is not in danger of falling after russia launched a new ground offensive in the kharkiv region ukraine i didn't sources say russian troops swept across the border in the northeast on friday advancing up to five kilometers in one area residents of some border villages later evacuated at least to civilians, reportedly killed president zelenskyy says ukraine's artillery stop the russian advance, but the situation is still precarious.

>> hello, the man kharkiv, she the main focus is the kharkiv region. russian forces today attempted to expand operations against ukraine we understand the extent of the occupiers forces see their intentions our soldiers, our artillery, our drones respond to the occupy washington approved $400 million. >> of course, in new military aid for ukraine on friday. that's on top of the more than $60 billion an ounce last it's monday the us defense secretary says most of that new aid is headed to kharkiv. >> and we leave you. >> now this out with the massive geomagnetic storm that is hitting the earth right now. giving people in many places across the globe a rear view of the northern lights, the southern lights as well. this is happening in the southern hemisphere to the sky over staffordshire in england, turning green. and in the, the northern lights were seen as far south as here in georgia painting the sky pink, the space, weather prediction center says we haven't seen a

solar storm this intense in more than 20 years, and it should continue for the next few days. by the way, the storm could affect the power grid as well as satellite and radio communications were watching this story closely, we will keep you updated in the hours ahead. meanwhile, thanks for spending part of your day with me. i'm michael holmes. you can follow me on x and in the gram at-home cnn stick around. i'll be back with more about coverage after a quick break sunday on the whole story playing on a boy's team would be live. >> i would have to deny my truth to make other people feel comfortable. >> the debate over transgender athletes, we can't neglect fairness and popes to be inclusive female fifth three matters and fair competition matters. >> what it means for students. >> i believed i needed to sacrifice being trans, in order

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