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der promise. that's our promise our promise today to them the president also spoke of his own personal loss, the death of his son, beau in iraq war veteran saying, i know it hurts thanks for joining us. >> the situation room starts now happening. >> now amid global anger over a deadly israeli attack on a rafah. repeat g camp. prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he's now calling the killing of dozens of civilians, a quote, tragic mistake also tonight with states for donald trump and the nasal shouldn't as closing arguments are set to begin tomorrow in his historic hush money criminal trial, and breaking news, the death toll is rising from an outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes it's imports of the us kentucky's governor is set to join us this hour with an update on his states storm emergency. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. and wolf blitzer is off today. i'm boris sanchez because and you're in this situation are tops story

this hour, the israeli strike that. turned a camp for displaced people in gaza into a fiery death trap. tonight, top you. when officials say the scenes are horrific and a testament to how the city of rafah has been turned into quoting now, hell on earth. this as the israeli prime minister is now calling the killing of does since up civilians and mistake. cnn's jeremy diamond is following all of it from jerusalem. jeremy, tell us more about the reaction to this strike wellbore is sadly this incidents in which dozens of palestinian civilians were killed in an israeli airstrike is not an outlier in gaza in the nearly eight months of war that we you have seen. >> but what isn't outliers the way in which the israeli government and the israeli military are responding to this. the israeli military's top lawyer today launching a full-scale invasion estimation

into this incident with the israeli military even saying that they did not expect that there would be any civilian casualties as they conducted a pre strike assessment, the israeli prime minister himself on the floor of the israeli parliament this i launch along shallowly. you've got will move of despite our best effort not to harm those not involved. >> unfortunately, a tragic mistake happened last night we are investigating the case and again, boris, we have just never seen these israeli government respond in this way. >> so swiftly and it is a sign, of course, of what is happening outside of israel. and that is to say if the international condemnation that we have seen increasing of israel's conduct in the war in gaza, the condemnation from the united states israel's growing isolation on the world stage. think of the fact that just days ago, the international court of justice ordered israel to halt this military offensive. in rafah. and indeed

this strike, even if the israeli military is saying that it was a tragic mistake. this is the kind of strike that. underscores why the united states and so how many other countries have been urging israel not to go all out in rafah because there are so many people packed into such a dense areas like this camp for this placed palestinians in the western part of rafah and the images from this strike were just absolutely tragic as you could see, people not only hurt by the immediate blast, but by the fire that engulfed these makeshift shelters that people have been living in for months. now, people emerging from the fire bodies burned corpse is blackens being pulled out of the rubble. there was even an image of a baby with no heads circulating online fine from this very incident. so absolutely tragic scenes and one, that the israeli military is now vowing to investigate borse jeremy don, and live

life-force in jerusalem thank you so much. >> we don't want to get the us reaction to the attack on the rafah camp. >> cnn's kayla tausche is live for us at the white house. kayla, how does the biden administration view this incident? boris, the biden administration has called some of the images in the wake of that attack heartbreaking, saying that israel has a right to defend itself against hamas. >> but laying out the us physician once again saying, as we've been clear, israel must take every precaution possible to protect civilians. we are actively engaging the idf and partners on the ground to assess that's what happened and understand the idf is conducting an investigation just last month, boris, the idf conducted a different investigation into a different attack that killed civilians the ends that time killing seven world central kitchen workers that were part of a convoy that was struck overnight, which the idf, in its preliminary investigation cold a grave mistake caused by thermal imaging that made some of the markings on those vans unidentifiable at night, but it was after that attack that the

administration and became incredibly frustrated president biden in a phone call with prime minister netanyahu said that the us could begin conditioning aid to israel if it feels that they are in disagreement over the way that israel is prosecuting the war. and president biden laying out a carefully calibrated position on a potential military operation in rafah with cnn's erin burnett and saying that the administration could do more to restrict aid depending on how israel proceeded. here's what he said, just a few weeks ago they go into rafah. >> i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities that deal with that problem we're going to continue to make sure because you're less secure in terms of iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks like came out who you the least recently but it's assists wrong. >> we're not going to we're not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells use that have been used, resolves as

well. yeah. i totally shelf now, the administration had withheld the provision of some heavy bombs to israel for fear that those could cause mass casualties in rafah, where so bar up until this point, officials have suggested that the operation that israel has an rafah is limited and targeted. >> it is unclear exactly where the us will come down on the attack that we've seen in the last date, whether that would cause a change in position and a change in the provision of aid to israel going forward for us. >> kayla tausche live for which from the white house. thanks so much let's get more on all of this with unisex spokesman james elder, cnn national security analysts, beth center, and cnn political and national security unless david sanger, we should know david is the author of new cold war's, china's rise, russia's invasion, and america struggled to defend the west. thank you all for sharing part of your memorial day with us, james, first to you, you were on the situation room and not long ago and you who had been in rafah

with unicef, you visited tent camps like these, put into context what this attack means, how much it compounds the suffering of palestinian civilians that are there it is catastrophe upon catastrophe, you have to understand the people in rafah. rafah, which was a city of 300,000 people and then 1.4 million twice the population density of new york city. but with none of the high-rises so hundreds of thousands of people who fled because their own homes, the homes that they had saved and bought, had been bombed or destroyed in doing so, it had lost family members. so these people who are living in tents 456 months you've got children who've lost fat, who've had mothers killed, you've got husbands whose wives have been killed. you've got children. i've sat with children, these tents, borrowers who have had amputations, who need to be in hospitals. both for their psychological trauma that they've enjoyable also the physical, but hospitals can't

cope with them. so we are in uncharted territory in terms of the trauma. and then you've got people side-by-side on top of each other. a teenage girl, a pregnant mom, and elderly woman they will queue all day. they will ten hours to use a shower sanitation at woeful levels. but this is where they've been forced to go. but we know nowhere is safe. we've been saying that for five months, legally safe. you must have vomit, but legally saved must also mean it has to have food water protection. those things out there, david, so children look in their mother's eyes and they know their parents can protect them. and the same thing parents it's known that they can protect their children. so we have this moment, boras, where it blows up into this inferno, where the worst-case scenario is a direct strike in an area with massive amounts of civilians turns into a fire and i guess far us the point is that we should be appalled. we should be heartbroken and we must be outraged, but we should

not be surprised. this will continue to happen. this is the level of ferocious attacks that have hit the people of gaza for eight months now beth do you see this as a violation of president biden's red line against attacking population centers in rafah. >> how do you imagine the white house might respond wow, they've been threading the needle here, trying to define what is this red line of a major offensive and last week, jake sullivan said that he felt that the way that israel had explained to the united states what they were going to have much more targeted types of operations rather than what we've seen in other parts that the white house was satisfied now i think it really comes down to what the, not just what the idf investigation of this that netanyahu has promised, but what the us intelligence community can figure out about what actually happened here. and so it does depend. >> we don't know exactly but

if it was an actually as the israeli government says, a very targeted strikes that went terribly wrong. i suspect that the biden administration will say that it doesn't cross the red lines, but this just complicates the situation so much and so tragically, for so many because i mean, this tragedy means that no matter what happens here, no matter how it's defined it, it means there will be more and more tragedies coming forward. it makes the end of this much harder david. >> there have been a line, a list of mistakes that the idf has committed. they also called the deadly world central kitchen strike a grave mistake that christmas eve strike. and the al-maghazi refugee camp that killed at least 70 people a regrettable mistake. it's still haven't hasn't given a full account of the february mass killing of starving civilians in a food line in northern gaza. does this latest

mistake in your mind potentially change the dynamic between the united states and israel i'm afraid what it does bars is continued the dynamic between the united states and israel the president's red line was clear. initially it was don't go into rafah period that with 1 million, 1,000,000.5 people there. most of them refugees from the north accidents like this. we're going to happen, didn't believe that the israelis were deliberately going to go after civilians, but merely that civilians were packed in so tightly that it would be difficult to avoid mistakes like this. >> then the food, the central food kitchen disaster happened. >> and that's what prompted the president, of course to cut off the 2000 pound bombs. it doesn't look right now from what the israelis and said is if that's a weapon that we're using, but obviously they use something that was quite lethal

to at least 45 civilians. and so it strikes me the president's red line has been crossed here. but it was the initial one which was don't go into rafah or risk having the united states cut off offensive weapons james, i think it's going to be really tough decisions for the president. >> sure. james, how much does this strike? and obviously the ongoing operation in rafah make it harder to get humanitarian aid and medical support to civilians desperately varus and it's a great, it's a great second part to this horror show that we have spoken to so many months that there was all one please. the risk that you would start to see people dying of disease on the ground in the same way from this ferocious bombardments from the skies. now, in the last few weeks, in say, april supplies started

getting in. we have an imminent famine in the north. i've stood with mothers in the north who've done everything to keep their children save from that relentless bombardment of the north and they're standing over skill dtl children despite a board across it crossing being five or ten minutes away and yet in the last three weeks since then military offensive in rafah, that gate has been closed. that is the lifeline for humanitarian aid to come in. that is what will prevent starvation. that is what we'll enable medicines to come in, fuel, to come in for hospital. so many that a lot of those birth children last night will go to a hospital that is desperately overcrowded we're doctors are doing 36 hour shifts where they're short of anesthetics were quite possibly they don't have fuel, so they won't be operating with light. so we cannot pretend that there's a humanitarian response or anything like the level we want borrows. and as david mentioned, there, world central kitchen this is the most dangerous place to function as an aid worker right now. so there has been there has been a complete breakdown

in the way that age should operate based also on the safety and that comes to language, that comes to this idea that we constantly told that aid can operate freely across the gaza strip. i've sat in many convoy please, for hours at a time, boras with the idf knowing full well that we sit there to a certain hour, we can operate at nighttime. we will have to go back. this was called a limited offensive in rafah, 800,000 people have now fled. there's been 60 air attacks in the last three days. when i was there in november, we were promised that the south would not possibly in june. what the north had and in khan younis, in the south, i've never seen my 20 years unicef. a city is devastated like that. we must be clear to move away from the language that's being used and looked at the evidence on the ground and the evidence on the ground, and 40 actually is not just this quote, unquote tragic mistake. but there's 14,000 children reportedly killed. >> i don't know how they are defined, but that is something

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that's probably the biggest graphic here are the biggest storm we have right now. but in a please make it stop category on up into iowa and missouri. hail coming down again few thunderstorms down across parts of south georgia as well. let's get to the big cities up here. we had a wave of whether go through new york city earlier, but there's more behind it into the polka knows the delaware water gap that will develop redevelop again today and then back out here down here the bigger storms here from about norfolk all the way down to the hampton roads area. that's where the tornado watch that you just mentioned is that's the red zone right through here. some of these storms could rotate all the way here in the yellow, all the way down to the gulf coast, they could be at least severe with some wind and also some hail the big story i think still right now, 460,000 customers without power across parts of the ohio valley with the obviously bulls-eye being right there over kentucky we just learned that the death toll from over the weekend climb to 23. what are we learning about how severe those storms were

there were just everywhere. >> boris, look at the size of this typically will see, you know, one or two states involved. but we're all the way from the east coast, all the way to the rocky mountains. and really kentucky did take its share of damage yesterday from eddie ville all the way over toward dawson springs. there was a large tornado on the ground i mean, this was easily an ef-3, maybe even approaching 180 miles per hour will have. obviously let the word the service do their job. but this was a violent day. you can look for these red spots all the way from texas through oklahoma, all the way up through here, even not that far west of chicago all of those red dots were tornadoes on the ground or chad myers. thank you so much for the update. joining us now, over the phone is kentucky governor andy beshear, governor. thank you so much for joining us a short while ago, you shared that there was a fifth storm-related death in your state. what can you tell us about the victims of the storm and whether you fear that the death toll might continue to climb well, this is certainly been a devastating

set of storms, for kentucky. >> we have now lost five of our citizens, all children of god miss by their families and their communities four, we lost in the storm itself in the two ways. in this fifth, we lost during the cleanup overheated and had a heart attack. that's a storm-related death, just like any other and his family is going to grieve just like any other so we're asking everybody that's out there all across the country cleaning up today, be careful you are important. your family wants you to come home tonight. but what i can tell you is we've got a lot of amazing people i mean, outside of a home right now that had its entire roof blown off, but there are probably eight cars up here of people helping now there are a world is filled with really special people and they show up when, it's that it's bleakest governor where we're sorry to hear the news about that fifth person and our thoughts are with the families of the others

as well. >> can you give us an estimate of how many people were heard, how many people are injured right now? >> well, we don't have many significant injuries which is a great blessing. that's both because we had medical teams out there, but we even had a four or a five-year-old girl who is riding a tricycle and a tree fell and barely missed her while hitting the tricycle. that's now the hand of god at work. but outside of the five we've lost. we don't have well, we have one individual who has a very serious injury. we were worried would not make it as long as he has, but things are looking at least a little bit better for him. we're glad to hear about that and about the young girl as well. it sounds like you're touring some hard-hit areas. you've obviously spoken to local officials and families what did you see as you were looking through these neighborhoods and what are the most urgent needs in kentucky right now well, certainly we

had a significant tornado come through parts of hopkins county, came just north of dawson springs to too small unincorporated towns whose whose addresses dawson springs, but they are called charleston. >> and barnsley. and it hit them hard i agree with your meteorologists that we're looking at an ef3 or bigger, just devastated some homes where nothing is left and the people that are here, some of them were hit that same spot in barnsley, the same exact spot was wiped out on the december 2021 tornadoes and there was one lady i was talking to his best friend had come over to help her after her home was devastated and her friend had lost her mother and that last set of tornadoes. so there's also a lot of trauma that goes along with having a, another big tornado come through a place where our deadliest one came through. now, just two-and-a-half years ago, we've got tough people. we love each other and kentucky, we're going

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tomorrow will be the closing arguments. this is the final chance for the lawyers on both sides to get up, make their final pitches directly to the jury interestingly, in new york, the defense actually goes first, so we will hear from todd blanche making the summations and we're expecting the defense only put up to witnesses over the course of about 90 minutes. donald trump did not testify in his own defense, but of course, the defense doesn't have to put up a case. it is all up to the prosecution to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. and that's exactly what the defense will stress here, and they'll probably focus much of they're closing on michael cohen. they'll talk about how the jury should doubt his credibility. talk about the fact that he's a convicted liar, and then ask the jury to really be he's skeptical of michael cohen pointing the finger at donald trump, tying him directly to this scheme. and more importantly, tying him directly to the repayment when it comes to the prostate fusion, they'll talk about michael cohen, but they'll say it's not just michael cohen's

testimony. testimony, it's also all of the evidence we have painstakingly amassed through well, those other witnesses and they'll point to the basis of the 34 count indictment for falsification of business records, which includes the 11 checks to reimburse michael cohen, many of which were signed by donald trump also the 11 invoices and then the 12 vouchers. so they will really focus and probably on that hard evidence as opposed to just michael cohen's testimony. so it's going to be hours of closings tomorrow. it could run all day after that point, whether it's tomorrow afternoon sooner, even wednesday morning, the judge will then charge the jury, give them the jury instructions, and then its deliberations, and we'll see how long those last yeah it's supposed to take about an hour. >> the delivering of the instructions could be pivotal in the case depending on how jurors read those it probably will be pivotal how the judge tells the jury to evaluate the law, and then how they apply to the facts. >> jessica schneider, thanks so much for walking through that. look forward to a busy day. so much.

>> let's bring in our legal experts now, jennifer rodgers and victoria nurse are with us. >> jennifer, how important are closing arguments in a case like this, especially after the jury's had about a week off yeah, it's incredibly important. boars, it's always important. the summations are critical time for both sides. but here, where there's been such stopping and starting with the evidence two, they really need to remind the jurors of what happened weeks ago. now david pecker was the first witness and that seems like ages ago, so prosecutors will really they want to take the jury in a really organized way through the evidence and explain how it is that the evidence meets up with the law as the judge will describe it to them, so that they've met their burden and the defense really will do the opposite, right there. summation is critical as well, but more for saying, listen, this is messy, this is not clean cut there's so much reasonable doubt here. you can't possibly convect so critical for both sides, really high-stakes. >> so victoria just based on

what jennifer laid out for the defense, i imagined that part of them showing this whole thing is messy and not clear cut is going after michael cohen's testimony on his credibility. do you think that'll be central to their approach to closing yeah. >> i mean, i think that their only job here is to convince them that there are reasonable doubts and that's what they're going to say. you can't listen to michael cohen. he said there was no retainer because that's key to the question of whether trump lied on the business records. they'll say that his story just doesn't add up i think it's for the advantage of the prosecution that they are going last because they'll have the chance to give the jury and complete rolling story that's where it's as jennifer indicated, this is very important for the prosecution. the jurors have not been in for a long time. they need to hear the whole story put together simply that donald trump paid off a porn star and then he falsified the records to hide

it for the purposes of winning an election and they've got to prove all, each element of that jennifer when it comes to the prosecution. >> and they're going last how important is it for them to make the case to jurors that they could prove trump's guilt, even without michael cohen's testimony. >> yeah, boars, they definitely will make a point. you know, it's interesting in new york, the defense goes first, prosecutors go last in federal court, prosecutors get to go first. the an last. >> so that's what certainly at least todd, blanche, and emil bove air are used to. >> so this is, this is a different way of doing things, but it's critical for them to say listen, michael cohen usually you would say something along the lines of you don't have to like him but let me tell you why you should believe him. here's why he's corroborated, et cetera, et cetera. but i think prosecutors who will also want to make the point, as you mentioned, that even without michael cohen, they can still convict some of that is because there's only really one area where michael cohen provides the only direct

evidence and that's as to whether the former president new, about the way the reimbursement scheme was happening. >> and even their prosecutors will say, listen, you heard evidence from so many witnesses here that he never paid a cent without knowing exactly what it was for, you knew that the invoices were stapled to the checks? >> no, there's just no way given all that you've heard that he didn't know exactly what was going on? use your common sense with all of this. >> i think they certainly will make the argument that while jurors should believe michael cohen, they don't have to in order to convict the jury, is there a key piece of evidence or testimony that you expect the jury is going to focus on during deliberations well, they have to focus on the documents and questions. >> if they're false records. i mean, this is like an obstruction case so they can believe the whole thing about the catch and kill scheme that david pecker enunciated, but not believed that the records

we're falsified, there'll be looking at the records. they say retainer, michael cohen says no, there was no retainer. obviously, that's about his credibility. but it was also the story is whether that all coheres whether it makes sense with hope hicks and the catch and kill scheme. so the documents are key to this to stay exactly what we've just heard, boris, which is that they want to say, even without michael cohen, you can see that these things are falsified it is going to be a complex picture to paint will see how they do it. jennifer rodgers, victoria nurse. thank you both so much of course just ahead. we're following the deadliest attack on ukraine by russia in weeks or cnn team is there as ukrainian forces now ramp-up protections of a major city at risk a fallen to the kremlin tomorrow. >> the evidence is the testimony has ended, but it's not over yet before the jury

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is rarely heard. >> to a blast hit four well feet from these two soldiers dug out, there more you might, it'll take weeks to learn if they'll see again. now the stabilization point has to just keep them alive what i knew. >> i would move progress in in the past days, possibly because forces are wounded ron, from there via ukraine and russia north towards kharkiv to stop the new russian offensive. >> there suddenly he feels pain

in his right yeah. >> internal injuries from the sheer force of the blast them as quickly intervene the doctor says last year during bakhmut was much busier. >> this official children looking at the beds here, empty now, not because the war is getting better, quite the opposite. this unit and 93rd mechanized brigade say is because they're running low on infantry and that's how they live in complete darkness with their headlights off so worried, are they about the russian spot? thing, this place now you heard there about a manpower shortage in ukraine's ranks that may be behind

comments from ukraine's military chief, the de, saying that he prepared paperwork to enable the french military descend trainers. >> here inside ukraine to train ukrainian troops. a french have not denied that's something being discussed at the make it sound like much more distant prospect. but again, we are hearing ukraine crying out for more nato assistance. and nato, it seems discussing or even imagining things that just six months ago nato, french troops on the ground here in ukraine, training ukrainian troops it would, have been simply unimaginable just months ago, really this war continuing to drag the westin as it seems, ukraine photos on various fronts, boras thanks to nick paton walsh for that report coming up sports sportscaster bob costas joins us live to remember his friend hall of fame basketball legend bill walton, who passed away today. 71 we're here to get your side of the story. a fares library prostitution. why do we keep ending up here?

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sports world is mourning the loss of a basketball legend, nba hall of famer bill walton, who passed away today after the long battle with cancer at 71 years old. >> we want to discuss his career and his life with someone who knew him well, veteran sportscaster bob costas, drawings us now on the phone. bob, thanks so much for sharing part of your memorial day with us. bill walton was unforgettable ride. he was larger than life and not just for what he did on the basketball court. >> what will you remember most about him well he was. a distinctive individual. bars just one aspect of it. >> he went to hundreds and hundreds of grateful dead concerts and often showed up even a broadcast or that kind of grateful dead t-shirt that barrage of colors and was, was this app to quote jerry garcia as he was the quote aristotle? he was well-educated man. but as a player, let's talk about

that just the objective facts. as a player at ucla his record is teams records through his first 73 games were 73 and o he didn't lose a game until they lost the game at notre dame by one point in his 74th collegiate game in 1973 and cwa championship game against memphis state. he took 22 shots and may in 21 of them, as he scored 44 points, he was one of the greatest players, almost directly succeeding luau cinder as he was then known later, kareem abdul-jabbar, the couple of years in between, but he and karim where the greatest ucla players who sparked that dynasty under coach john wooden. so he was one of the greatest college players as ever but then in the pros with the portland trailblazers, he was one of the great centers for a brief period of time. he belonged in a conversation with wilt chamberlain and with kareem and bill russell and others who were thought of as the top centers. and his 1977

portland trailblazers team wasn't just the nba champions. they were wondering for those teams that played the game at a selfless level, it was almost a synchronicity and intuitive selfishness and the way they play the exemplified what made the game great. and then a series of injuries kind of derailed him. he was such a unique individual, low boris he had a stutter. he was very shy at ucla, john wooden shielded him from the press because of that. and yet he worked to overcome it and became a broadcaster. and for much of his life, he had debilitating back pain to the point where there's joyous man confided that he considered suicide, and then eventually their after like some 50 surgeries, not an exaggeration. and finally, there was a solution he was people to be up and about he was so joyous and everything he did and so genuine. he was quirky. there was no one like him he wasn't trying to be cool. he was trying to be warm because he was genuinely warm-hearted yeah.

>> and there was no one else like him. what stands out most to me, bob, is that despite all those injuries, despite that pain that he endured and his admission that he contemplated suicide remained extremely positive throughout his life and he lived with unmitigated joy. bob costas, we very much appreciate you sharing that story about your friend bill walton dead at 71 still to come the high-stakes days ahead for donald trump as his unprecedented criminal trial is expected to be in jurors hands this week the assignments are going off and playing the 20 fatal here. i'm thinking, i'm going to die. and i thought that was it. >> finally, earth with liev schreiber, premiere sunday at nine on cnn as the earth issues or distress call in the face of appending climate crisis, i we're done by is advancing this agenda for a greener future

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