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while you were in the cnn newsroom, i'm pamela brown and washington and we are following some breaking news coming into cnn. >> sources are saying more than a handful of top house democrats are now calling on the president to suspend his reelection campaign. this came during a call today with house leader hakeem jeffries. and as president biden hit the campaign trail on pennsylvania, telling supporters today he's quote never been more optimistic about the future of america. and when someone asked him, do you still have the support of the democratic party, the president and radically said, yes. but are reporting it suggesting otherwise at this hour, let's go straight to cnn, white house correspondent are arlette saenz, who was traveling with the president today, are let well, pamela, the pressure is growing on president biden from within his own democratic party to step aside in this race.
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now, this afternoon, house minority leader hakeem jeffries held a zoom meeting with the ranking members of the committees to kind of get a feel their temperature take the temperature about their feelings about the 2024 election before congress is set to return tomorrow. and sources tell cnn that in that private phone conversation, that the number of lawmakers who want to see the president's step aside outweighed those who spoke up in support of him staying in this race. cnn has learned about six of those democratic lawmakers said that they believe it is time for the president to leave the 2024 race, that it included lawmakers like congressmen to cato so congressman nadler also, congresswoman wild of pennsylvania, a key battleground state sources have also told cnn that lawmakers like a congresswoman, maxine waters hunter's as well as congressman bobby scott, spoke up in support of the president staying in this race. now, one of the concerns that was expressed in this phone call is
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the potential that keeping biden at the top top of the democratic ticket could weigh down other democrats running in competitive races in the house and senate. there is a concern about democrats been unable to win back the house majority if biden remains at the top of the democratic ticket, though, these are private calls from these lawmakers join the already other five democratic lawmakers who since the debate have called for president biden to step aside a publicly now, president biden himself believes that the democratic party is still behind him. that is something that he's told reporters today as he was traveling and pennsylvania trying to make his case directly to voters, the president spent some time visiting a black church and then also speaking at a campaign headquarters where he showed note signs of backing down from this race. take a listen to what he told supporters. there election is going to be about blocking jacklyn simple basic politics, simple it's gonna be a matter how many sides you get out, how many doors are not gone, how many calls me make, and how
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many requests? yes, we answer i got my glasses i tell you what dark brand and is coming back now while you might have seen in that video that while the president was in pennsylvania, he tried to have this show of force of elected officials there with him traveling with the president and fill it selfie and pennsylvania were senator john fetterman as well as congress woman madelene dean ascender, bob casey was also on hand for part of the trip. >> the biden campaign trying to put forth some of those supporters of the president at a time when you have started to see these defections from the president's own party, uh, play out now, so much of the debate about president biden remaining in the race has played out a wild congress has been out on vacation, so there is a good chance that the pressure could continue to build on president biden even further these lawmakers returned to the house and
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senate. and are in front of reporters and are also holding their own types of meetings and gatherings to talk through the 2020 race. but so far president biden has completely remained defiant in this, saying that he plans to stay into the race in the race until the november election, even as these calls and serious doubts from democrats continue to grow and are being expressed both privately and publicly and of course, the president is around friendly crowds right now, who are his forbids reporters but how are voters react in a president biden on the campaign trail? what are they saying about the debate and whether it's still weighing on them now well i've, been traveling with the president over the past few days, both in wisconsin and in pennsylvania, i was outside of that church service where the president spoke this morning and i spoke to a handful of the prisoners who were in attendance for the church service, and they all told me that they still wanted to see president biden move forward in this race. one of those voters told me that they believed it was too late for the president to drop out at this point. others saying that they believe that he is allowed
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to have a bad night and that they wanted to see him continue forward when i was in wisconsin, i heard really ics reaction from voters. some people, a fervent supporters who wanted to have him stay in the race. others who did have some concerns after the debate and what it would mean for voters and how that would sit with them heading into november's election. so president biden is hoping that he can try to convert some of those skeptical voters as he's hitting the campaign trail, he will be in michigan again on friday. that'll be the next battleground state that he will be visiting. i'm told. but of course he is also facing those very loud calls from within his own party, from democratic officials, from donors who are very concerned about what this race will look like in five and stays at the top of the ticket alright, arlette saenz. >> thank you so much for joining us now. cnn senior political commentator former special assistant to president george w bush got jennings and democratic strategist and co-founder of lift our voices. julie organ ski i guess the first question to you, julie, is help us make sense of this, right? we are now at this stage
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where you have a president who is digging in his heels saying, i'm not going anywhere, i am staying atop the ticket and then you have more and more defections and his party. now the latest count is 11 house democrats saying he should step aside. and what i'm told from sources is actually there will be more coming out this week as members of congress come to the hill what weight does this carry? if these are house members calling him to step aside, but not necessarily some of them are ranking members. but not necessarily leadership. like a keen jeffries or nancy pelosi well, ackeem jeffries is a very shrewd politician and he could convene this call knowing that the leaks we're going to emanate he certainly knew that you couldn't have as many as whoever many out on the call today without this getting out immediately. it's also not a coincidence. i think that a lot of these ranking members spoke up to effectively. i think give hakeem jeffries the leeway to
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maybe go with muth. chuck schumer to the president and say, look, we've heard now from ranking members like jerry nadler, who are certainly in no danger of losing their seat this november, but also from frontline members like susan wild in northampton county, pennsylvania, which is the swing use county and the sweeney state in the nation, who are worried about you and worried about the down-ballot effect. this may have and that's before we get back from july 4 recess. and congress reconvenes where scott well knows these guys feed off of each other and they're not all necessarily progress files encouraged, but they all do speak to each other and they may all team up together to deliver that message to leadership and have leadership send that message to the white house. and so this is not trending in a good direction, or the president, i'll also say that every day that goes by where we're talking about this and we're not talking about donald trump and the threat he poses to the nation both with his personal record of 34 felonies and with his plans for
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a second term where he promised to effectively be the vengeance for all of his maga offended party is not a good day for democrats. so with every day that goes by, and we're focusing on this and not focusing on the former president is not a good day for us. and so i strongly think that it's it's time for president biden to take a look at what this may look like. if this continues on into next week and the next month, we don't have time, we need to refocus this campaign on donald trump. the threat he poses too democracy into our nation there are certainly, as you talk about julie, there's been a lot of breaking news within the democratic party that has taken away from what the democratic party would like us all to be talking about. >> and that is double trump. you have a president who's some have characterized as quote, in denial about members of his party turning against them. i mean, just today he said no, i had the democratic thank party on my side and now we're having 11 members. that last count say he should step aside. meanwhile, you have a senior house member telling me that on
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tuesday, the widespread view is the dam will break, that hakeem jeffries is going to hold his caucus meeting, and that is when it will be i'm abundantly clear where the caucus stands and the view is and talking to sources that is leaning more toward pushing president biden to step aside, than the other way. do you think though scott, looking at this president that we saw in that interview on abc, looking at the president we saw today do you think this will move the needle for him? >> well, he sounds dug in and the family sounds dug in. and so i don't really know because it seems like the people he is listening to are principally his wife, the first lady, and his son hunter biden. there's credible reporting now that hunter biden has become the de-facto gatekeeper to his father and his now in white house senior staff meetings. and so when your circle gets that tight and it's made up of
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family you wonder what information is getting through actually, in watching the stephanopoulos interview wondered what the president's been told about his own polling and his own political situation. and so when you that was friday, now fast forward with these new house members coming out and other things that democrats apparently are going to be saying this week. you wonder how much of that is actually going to get to the president. and so it strikes me that it would take a jeffries and a schumer to directly go to him and say, here's your situation, but it's it's not a look just to stand up for the president for a minute, which might surprise you. he did what he did win the votes. yeah, he did win the nomination and it is his and his alone to give up. it's not like they can rouse him out. i would say this if if if he does give it up, it raises the question to me whether he should just resign the office because effectively what the democrats are saying is we don't have confidence for you to lead us for the next four years. will the av confidence to lead us today? i think it's a real question about whether he should remain
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at that point and let kamala harris just run as an incumbent and i want to note too, because i heard from can be or a say, look, you know, biden should should stay in, he should stay atop the ticket coming up in the show, we're going to hear some more voters from voters on the ground and what their views are right? and we just heard a little bit from our lead as well. but the reality is right now julie, that the president is it's sort of an echo chamber, right? i mean, he is around his aides were sort of keeping him in this bubble. we don't know what's getting through to him. he's going to these events where he's surrounded by supporters. and i wonder like news like we're just talking about they 11 members, more members, ranking members, i'll say he should step aside i wonder in a moment like this how much could actually get through to him and what it would take to pierce his inner circle at this point and get through to the president on the reality well, what's gonna get through to him as scott mentioned, as i talked about earlier, is going to be somebody like chuck schumer speaking to him as a
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former colleague and somebody who represents the united states senate, which joe biden doors and loves and is a multi-decade veteran of to go at him and say, mr. president you have lost the confidence of the senate democratic conference whether that's going to happen or not, whether chuck schumer is going to be able to do that or not is a different story. >> i'm sure he can do it if he wants to, whether he wants to do it as a separate issue. but look, there is something to be said for the fact that we continue now, ten days later to talk about this every day that goes by, this is not helpful to the democratic cause. if the purpose of this is to defend defeat donald trump, and the purpose of this is to ensure that anybody would trump is the president added states then i implore the president president biden, to think about the fact that we need to change the narrative. now, if he's capable full of changing that narrative, i'm not sure how but whether he and his staff are capable of changing that narrative, they should do it. and if they're able to do that and have the president run and his wonderful record than they should. but if they're not
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able to change the narrative of narrative has gotten away from them we're going to be talking about the president's infirmities and the president's ability to carry the democratic message between now and november then that point, the horse has left the barn and we are going to be focused on something other than what we need to focus on, which is donald trump and the threat he poses to this democracy. president biden is first and foremost an american patriot. i know he is because i've known him for a very long time. and i am positive that he does not want to be the downfall of the democratic experiment in this country. and i keep saying we have two years until the 250th anniversary. three of the founding of this country, we need to be a democracy and 20 2026 because there's a good opportunity now for us not to be if joe biden loses the selection, or if donald trump more importantly becomes president needed states now scott has his views, has his views on that, but i just wanted to follow up with you what you said just about time being of the essence and the stakes been so high and your
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view julie, it would take a chuck schumer going to the president and really having a heart-to-heart with him about this. but how much time would you give it? right? 44. i mean, chuck schumer silent. i came jeffries is staying silent. needs to pelosi a few days ago, she brought up is this an episode or condition but she has a really said where she stands fully how long do you give it until that happens? if that happens, where they would go to him and say it's time it's got to be this week. >> right? and the excuses that they were out last week for the fourth and now they're back and there conferencing with their respective caucuses and they're going to be speaking to the respective conferences and they're going to be hearing from their members, both their frontline members, but also their ranking members who are not really in any danger. most of them not in any danger of losing their seats the house is on the precipice of flipping. the senate needs to remain a democratic hands. that's going to be a tall order regardless of what happens with the presidential and both these both senator schumer and leader jeffries need to think about
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the fact that there are there's a separate branch of government, the legislative branch that needs to be the bulwark to any potential trump presidency so they also need to consider the fact that having an enfeebled front runner or president excuse me on the ticket is not necessarily good for them and their prospects. and so the fear here for people, excuse, wild who just mentioned earlier is not necessarily just that donald trump wins. it's also that the legislative branch will go republican, which will make sure we which ensures that there's absolutely nothing standing between project 2025 and all the crazy things that trump wants to enable. and not. and the supreme court's certainly not going to do it as we all saw recently. so the only thing that stands between trump and complete, just freedom to do whatever he wants so that any guardrails is the legislative branch and they need to make sure that the legislative branch stays in democratic hands. hopefully believe with the democratic president. but worst-case
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scenario, least in democratic hands and the legislative side. >> how do you see it i think well, first of all, it's amazing to me, democrats are just now coming to the realization that joe biden is enfeebled, has been pretty obvious that he's in decline for quite some time. it took this debate to finally get them there, but more than that, it took some bad polling to get them there so it may be by the way that he's still there best option. i don't know that he is and we may also be that he's the worst option. it's not clear to me that kamala harris is any better and i don't think they can give it to anybody else. but harris, i mean, she is the most unpopular vice president ever even more unpopular than a my old boss dick cheney. and he shot a guy in the face. i mean, let me she is very unpopular. okay get just handing this off to somebody who's untested the last time they ran for president, she was terrible at it i mean, that's a big role of the dice to do that. the one thing biden has going for him is that he has run and he did
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win any currently is the president i recognize he had a bad performance so i'm truthfully not sure what the correct strategic answer is for the democrats stay within fabled guy at mid the 30s job approval or handed off to very unpopular vice president who doesn't have a great track record of running for president. it's quite thick, right? >> noting though in our latest cnn poll that she would actually fair better against trump than than biden. and in the trump camp are sources are saying they believe actually that trump would they want biden to say a top of ticket according to our sources, they believe that trump has is it better chance of winning. but julie, i wanted you to respond to what scott said, but also, it is worth noting that while you do have 11 defections, you have around 200 members, right? who haven't come out and publicly asked for biden to step aside. is it a wet is there still a way is there still hope for biden to to kind of turn turn the corner it to turn the corner and have it stop here, stop the bleeding where it is here?
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>> well, first of all, if biden doesn't have to listen to anybody, all of them can come out against him and he's got the delegates and their pledge to him and he doesn't have to do anything other than standard ticket if that's what he wants to do, scott, i'm gonna say this. i mean, we're not exactly that'd be running against this row here, run against donald trump. so as much as you want to talk about the president's numbers and the vice president's numbers donald trump's not exactly beloved by a large swath of the american people. and look, i mean, we have spent the last week and a half talking about joe biden i didn't and that's not good for democrats. but if that conversation were two shift, the insanity that donald trump was peddling during the campaign to the fact that his supreme court overturned roe versus wade to the fact that there's a project 2020 five, which half of staff is working on and he's going to be absolutely picking from to staff as administration the wants to i don't know, ban idf create effectively a theocracy for this country going forward the fact that he's an adjudicated rape as a faculty it's been convicted on 34 charges. the fact that he wants to effectively obliterate nato, the fact that he wants to get rid of the pox americana in
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europe. so ukraine, a vladimir putin, i could go on if we had five hours so i can keep talking. i mean, you're not exactly running against this huge statesman who is beloved by the people you're running against donald trump. and i fully believe that if we have a presidential candidate was able to talk about everything that i just talked about every day, all de and at length that this is going to be very different campaign. now, if joe biden is able to do that, joe biden is able to somehow switch this narrative from what it is right now. and i'm not confident that he can but if you can i believe this race is very winnable. if he cannot, i truly hope that this week he makes the decision to give it to somebody. if somebody else the opportunity to be able to talk about what i just talked about. but trump is not exactly lied. want to be comfortable running with if i were a republican either, not beloved by any stretch of the imagination, not even very, very quickly julie, just very quickly. i mean, i know you say it's up to biden he is abdel said anyone but it does matter if more and more defections, if there are more and more depictions, public perception, right? i mean, it
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does matter of course it matters and matters tremendously from an electoral perspective. it doesn't matter to joe biden if he doesn't want to get out. now, as i said, i think the president is a patriot. i think the president or understands the fear that would ensue if you were to stay at the top of the ticket of the rest of the party thinks he should get out and i think he understands the risks inherit and that and so ultimately i think this is gonna be a tough decision for him, but a decision that he'll arrive at a sooner rather than later but i do think he needs to hear from leadership about that before he makes that decision public all right. >> it's gotten julie. thank you both for that lively, interesting discussion on this really, i mean historic, unprecedented moment that we are hugely consequential for every single american, no matter what your politics are. still ahead, breaking news, a surprise result in french snap elections, a win for the left managing to fend off a strong showing recently by the far-right, we are live in paris as people are celebrating in the streets. i'm gonna it all
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but then in the first round of voting in these parliamentary elections, france votes the two rounds, first-time round. this stunning victory of the far-right that had really garch many people on the moderate part of french politics extremely worried that it might be in this second round the biggest force and france's parliament, in fact, the stunning reversal has come. first of all, because of the remarkable alliance that was cobbled together on the left. really unusual unity for that part of the french political spectrum but also then the tactical voting between the two rounds so far from coming first, the far national rally comes a distant third officer that left-wing alliance for sunday. i'm adria emmanuel macron's centrist. second, but one of the big headlines tonight is of course, how much more divided and fractious france's parliament going to be like hey, pam, a much more difficult country for a manuel mecole to govern over the coming months, even then it was before and what do the results of this election? mean for americans, those who are watching this show right now i
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think one of the big fears that people had about the foreign right governing pam was that he would have marked a big rupture between france and the rest of the world, between france's leader in europe. >> in terms of france's position on the issue it's like you trade and that could have made a big difference to how france is governed and what kind of an ally it is to the united states. the fact of the far right's been stopped that's shown that that political center of political unity, the republican front as the french pulled it, has come out stronger. and that france is more likely to remain not sorts of your for a p and pro-european, pro multilateral force that it has been so far all right. >> melissa bell, thanks so much. well, the breaking news tonight several top house democrats call on biden to step aside from his campaign during a leadership call tonight. but what did voters have to say? that's next tonight so classic
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pamela, it's been a very interesting split-screen greene between the news that you reporting at the top of the last hour and the event that was wrapping up pretty much at the same time. >> listen, this was a very receptive audience here for president biden at the union by me in harrisburg. people were excited to see him. they came out, they braved 90 plus degree weather. and i should note that the president spoke for only about seven minutes, unscripted. it was more of a casual setting, but then he worked the rope line for about 45 minutes back here, shaking people's hands, taking questions from from voters. he wasn't taking questions from reporters, but that's the image that the campaign has. really wanted to put forward in light of all of this mountain criticism and scrutiny over his age and viability, the idea of this pennsylvania trip was to get them out there and get a minute. a home turf and have him actually do that retail politics that joe biden is so well known for, but make no mistake. this question of his viability he was still very much on voter's minds. take a listen to what some told us right before the event began
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what do you need reassurance about? >> i think just in general about his mental acuity by loss of brain mother and 104 oren, she was sharpens attack through 95 so i absolutely believe that it's possible to do it's just that that debate performance was concerning. if are you concerned after his debate pharmacy today about his viability as a candidate? yeah. i mean, it is something i thought about. i can't lie to you as he stated, 90 minutes or whatever it was, doesn't erase three harris and his visa clearly the winner of the csu biden and trump's. so i it's not going to make me support him any less here right there. >> again, remember this is a group that will be voting for joe biden on the whole the majority of them will be voting for joe biden, right? that's what voters are telling us. but there were still this concern about this swirling conversation about his viability to hold hold this office. but again, the campaign is really hoping that more of these events like this where
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he's out there, where he's shaking hands, where he's speaking off the cupp, the cuff rather will hopefully help when it comes to convincing those people who might be on the fence right now, pamela, and there are also several lawmakers, as we have seen with biden on the campaign trail today, what stuck out to you about those around him? as we report this breaking news of more house democrats calling on him to step aside it's interesting that was one of the things that we were looking very closely at. >> who exactly was with the president when he came on this trip to philadelphia, we saw a senator bob casey. he's in a reelection battle of his own. we saw senator john fetterman. he's spoken this rally. we also saw for a brief moment, governor josh shapiro and off the record events a little brief stop in harrisburg, but one of the things that stuck out to me pamela was when priscilla was supporting that actually pennsylvania congresswoman susan wilde was one of those who is now skeptical of joe biden's reelection chances if there is, in fact the case susan wild, she's a congresswoman from the
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downtown area and the lehigh valley. she's in a very competitive reelection campaign. the cook political report says that hirsi is a swing district so it's interesting that of the people who definitely came out to support that show of force for president biden. we did not see one of the democratic congresswoman who is it's actually in a very competitive race heading into this fall. so i just wanted to note that as something that we saw because otherwise there were a lot of electrodes here showing their support but that's going to be potentially where some of this dam might break in the coming days, pamela. all right. danny freeman. thank you so much. and still ahead. the texas lieutenant governor when are warning people not to underestimate tropical storm beryl the storm is strengthening back into a hurricane and will make landfall and just hours before bringing d tourists conditions, we are live on the texas gulf coast tonight dr. sanjay gupta reports on hold for the devastating effects of
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getting stronger as it closes in on texas. now, just hours away from making landfall, likely as a hurricane, texas's lieutenant governor appearing on cnn just a short time ago, warning residents do not underestimate this storm don't turn your back on. >> beryl. this is a serious storm and where it lands, there's going to be significant devastation. power will be out structures could be blown over and destroyed phrase will be operated. streets will be flooded and heavy rain. so take the store, i'm very seriously cnn meteorologist of derek van dam is along the texas coast. >> so how are people preparing? >> yeah, pam, we are preparing for what will likely be the first us landfall in hurricane of the 2024 season of a storm that has defied all odds. it's been named for ten days and it was the earliest on record to reach category five status currently now a tropical storm.
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but in terms of how people well here in the central portions of coastal area of texas where i'm located in port lavaca, how they're preparing well, this area is often visited by tourists and of course, we're ending the long holiday weekend. so businesses here are switching gears from being customer facing two more protecting their businesses. of course, authorities here telling people to plan for the worst. but this is how business owners are preparing themselves so anyway, we're probably overpreparing that it's better to be safe if you're a visitor here, you need to go home. >> we love you and we're glad that you were here this week, but it's time to go home i think she said it as kindly as she could now, there are some positives working for us. >> the storm is running out of time to strengthen, but there are signs that it is doing so. let's get to the forecast because that satellite and radar tells it all the ai is starting to become a bit more visible, meaning it is it's tapping into the abnormally
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warm gulf of mexico waters which are sitting at roughly three degrees above where they should be this time of year that's like mid august, water temperatures, that is jet fuel four, hurricane development. that's why we expect strengthening to continue up to landfall. now, the forecast path calls for an overnight landfall sometime between 2:00 and 5:00 a.m. near the south of galveston bay and into the port lavaca region where i'm located. so we could see the brunt of the storm a storm surge levels have already been upped by the national hurricane center for two up to seven feet that is above normally dry ground. now, of course, there's a wind can conan to this, and that has also been extended. so any locations west of ai i5 and south of ai ten could see winds in excess of 74 miles per hour. that's a category one hurricane that could take down trees. of course, power and cause some minor structural damage as well. and we can't forget about the flash flood potential here. a lot of people want to compare for this to a benchmark store and we think of harvey
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back in 2017, this will not be another harvey. and the reason being is that it's going to be a fast-moving tropical system. i'm meanwhile, her harvey was actually kind of meandering around eastern texas for days after it made landfall. so in three days time, i'm talking by tuesday what, will be left of what is now beryl will be racing towards the u.s. and canada border. pam alright. >> derrick van dam, thanks so much well, tonight, a cnn exclusive we go inside rafah for a first-hand look at the destruction since israeli bombardment began in early may, you're in the cnn newsroom we'll be right back there's no wolf so hateful. >> a war between kim more so bloody war between tracks the crown with was huge victory. use any we march on king's landing and taken through to challenge, i want to come if it has face we're type bigger
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into northern israel. >> today, the 31-year-old man was taken to the hospital where he was first listed in serious but stable bulk condition. but hospital officials now say he is worsening. cnn, by the way, has been given rare access to war torn rafah as a city in southern gaza that has been ravaged by months of relentless israeli military operations. and in this new report, cnn's jeremy diamond embeds with israeli military to bring you a clip closer, look from the front lines of the war. it's important to note cnn reported from gaza under israeli defense forces escort at all times, cnn retained editorial control over the final report and did not submit any footage to the idf for review. >> seek clouds of sandi shroud the road to refer. but as the dust settles, the destruction is on mistake able flattened homes and bombed out buildings gaza's last refuge, devastated
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by the israeli military assault on this city we're now entering the third month of israeli military operations in rafah. and you can see all around me that kind of destruction that these last two plus months of military operations and have rot inside of the city of rafah all around destruction, very similar to the kind that i've seen in central gaza as well as in the northern part of the strip this is the first time cnn has gotten access to this devastated city israel and egypt have bar journalists from gaza, except under tightly controlled military embeds like this. >> we're working in this area very, very precise, very accurate unfortunately this trial function is one to blame hamas. the israeli military says it has killed over 900 hamas fighters here and believes it is close to defeating the groups rafat brigade the fighting is clearly not again nor is the effort
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uncover hamas is vast network of tunnels in rafah. >> this donald goes down over 28 meters underneath the ground as well as long gaza's border with egypt right behind me here is the egypt gaza border. we are now driving along what is known as the philadelphi corridor the strategic corridor that the israeli military c's two months ago, they say they did so because they believe hamas was smuggling weapons across from each and then from this area deeper into gaza israeli forces say they have uncovered dozens of tunnel shafts here, but cannot definitively say if my of the tunnel stretching into egypt were operational. >> we found dozens like the tunnels. you so and we are researching those tunnels carefully, making sure which ones were functional which ones are not functional anymore because maybe they were from
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the egyptian side stopped. so will this, will this be the last ground operation then refer i won't say that because what what were you will see is when we'll have intelligence that may be there, hostages. one of the points gaza, we will operate before leaving gaza are convoy drives by what's left of the gazan side of the rafah border crossing. once a lifeline for millions ends of palestinians, it now lies in ruins the israeli military says, it is now facilitating a safe corridor for these trucks to deliver aid to gaza via israel's kerem shalom crossing. but humanitarian aid groups see the roads are still not safe and simply not enough aid is getting in as the war rages on and during the nearly three hours that we spent on the ground in rafah, we didn't see a single palestinian, this city that was once a safe haven for displaced palestinians from
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