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. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i'm kim brunhuber, it's 4:00 a.m. here in atlanta, 10:00 a.m. in gaza, where egyptian sources say more than 7,000 foreign nationals are expected to leave southern gaza through the rafah crossing today. among that group are nearly 400 americans, british, french, germans. this floels the devastating air strike outside a hospital in gaza city. we want to warn you the video obtained by cnn is graphic. the israeli military admits it struck an ambulance just outside the hospital, an explosion left a scene of carnage and chaos with at least 15 people reported killed according to hamas-run health authorities. the ambulance was said to be part of a convoy carrying

patients to southern gaza. the ambulance was being used by hamas which it said was using emergency vehicles to transport fighters and weapons in the past. we have developments from abu dhabi, eleni, let's start with the strike on the ambulance convoy, what more do we know? >> reporter: well, we know that some of the images we've seen of bodies strewn on the ground, the hamas-led ministry of health saying that 15 people died, 60 people were injured. this is a convoy, according to the palestinian raid crescent, that was carrying injured patients going from the north to go to the south which, of course, is an area where the idf consistently said people need to evacuate to, the international raid crescent has also specifically said they knew about this convoy, they weren't involved with this move and this

trip down to the south but they say even though they weren't directly involved that there is no excuse to specifically target ambulances. the idf, of course saying and reiterating this, they've been targeting hamas operatives and that they have been warning hospitals there could be hamas demand centers in and around hospitals, that's one of the most important lines from them. and the international organizations have consistently reiterated it's almost impossible to evacuate patients from hospitals. i want you to take a listen, or take a look at what the u.n. secretary general antonio ambigu gutierrez responded to this israeli strike. he said i'm horrified by the attack on this convoy, images of bodies strewn outside the streets outside the hospitals are harrowing, for nearly one month civilis in gaza, including women and children, have been bombed out of their homes. he said this must stop.

so really something the u.n. has been reiterating, there needs to be a pause or cease-fire in order for there to be some kind of relief, and aid coming in. antony blinken the u.s. secretary of state was in israel yesterday, he had a conversation with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, reiterating the need to ensure civilians are protected during these strikes. he also called for some kind of humanitarian pause and for the ability to, you know, start some kind of mediation talks. benjamin netanyahu says this can only be a possibility if hostages are released, and frankly we've been seeing incessant bombing into gaza and the death toll, kim, consistently rising, now above 9,000 people. >> all right, so, eleni, many calling for a pause to allow aid to get through. but why is such little aid actually getting through right now? >> well, initially, we actually saw a major delay coming through from the rafah border crossing,

that is the border that is next to egypt. we saw the lines of trucks, and it was just difficult to get aid in. that started opening up, and since october 7th, according to the palestinian red crescent they are saying 374 aid trucks have entered gaza. from the aid organizations operating within gaza they say it is not nearly enough. on a good day, before the october 7th terrorist attack we saw 450 aid trucks coming into gaza. now we're seeing a complete deficit on food, on water, on medical supplies, we're hearing stories coming through from hospitals in terms of the lack of anesthetics to operate on the injured, and really just dire and horrific stories coming through from the ability for hospitals to operate. now, the issue of fuel is one that is continuing, they're very worried about it ending in the hands of hoamas but hospitals can't operate without fuel, they rely on it to keep generators

going. many hospitals have had to cease operations. they're making tough decisions in terms of distributing food. and again the focus on the need for fuel for hospitals in particular and for sanitation and even for offering clean water to people. the rafah border crossing is going to facilitate the evacuations of foreign nationals, something that has been happening since midlast week and importantly this was a qatari led deal, that was a big break through, we've seen some palestinian injured patients that have been heading through to egypt for more medical assistance and then vitally, you've got foreign nationals started and continuing to be evacuated. we're hearing from egyptians, the source from the egyptian side, 734 foreign nationals are expected to cross rafah today. >> appreciate the update in abu dhabi, thanks so much. the white house says the u.s. embassy in cairo helped

more than 100 u.s. citizens and family members get out of gaza. the departures which dpan began on wednesday are the first since the war dpan began a month ago. 734 nationals are expected to cross through the rafah border crossing today, including 386 americans. many people are still waiting desperately for a chance to leave, but as melissa bell reports, for some leaving brings a different kind of turmoil. >> reporter: for nearly a month now gaza has been almost entirely cut off. now, finally, some are getting out. bringing images like these captured on their phones along with their stories. >> i don't think there are enough words in the english dictionary to actually describe what every gazan is going through right now. >> reporter: the pictures of amal and yakapo as they got

through rafah on wednesday speak of their relief. as an italian he was lucky to be one of the first out as his wife amal was allowed through with him even though she's palestinian. >> for two days we were completely blacked out. think of the worst and you keep on telling we're going to be next. that's what you keep on telling yourself. it's going to be us next. the humanitarian situation is catastrophic. we can't find water, food, bread, when people go to bakeries, they're freaking dying because they have bombed almost all of the bakeries in gaza. >> what different would a humanitarian pause make? >> it's -- with strong conditions. >> a gazan would say they are giving us some painkillers and then they're going to continue wiping us out. but we will manage to get some water, and some food, and then they can just kill us.

>> reporter: tell me about the feeling of people inside about that, that sense of what's happening to them. >> like i think they feel alone, abandoned, that's the issue. children who died, or like women who are delivering very poor hygienic situations. >> this is so inhuman. and then they come on the news and they tell you israel has the right to defend itself. come on. what are we talking about? come on. they are wiping us out. we have entire families killed. i'm just wondering what the world is waiting to see so they can actually start doing an action. >> reporter: but with no hope in sight amal and yakapo made the hardest of choices, believing behind an entirely besieged and

bombarded gaza. >> was leaving a difficult decision? >> it was definitely a difficult decision. always to stay together with the population, like people in need, so it was so difficult to take this decision. the situation wasn't safe anymore for us. so many people are talking about this coming out as a victory for us but it's not a victory, like we are like -- it's a loss for everyone. >> to be -- regretting going out because i was the entire day i was unable to reach my family, so i couldn't even tell them that i made it safely and i'm okay and i know that's -- my mom, she actually begged me to go out. for me i wouldn't have done it, and i still feel i shouldn't have gone out, you know, the survival guilt.

>> reporter: they say the future is impossible to imagine even as they head to italy with their heads full of gaza and their hearts desperate to return. melissa bell, cnn, cairo. >> anna coren spoke with tom white, and he described what he's seeing on the ground. >> for the shelters we are operating once again, you know, in the last few days we've had four of those shelters that have been hit, and numerous people killed and injured. so, for a lot of people in gaza right now it's basically find somewhere that they are safe from the conflict, from these air strikes. >> tom, how much aid is getting in? and tell us about your supplies of water, food, medicine. >> anna, our supplies are critically low. the reality is that most of the aid we're pushing out right now

is stocks that we already had in gaza, for example, we were already running a food operation for 1.2 million people prior to the conflict, so we've been drawing down on those stocks. we are starting to see some aid coming in. it is a very complicated process where all the trucks are screened by the israelis before they can move in. the short answer is, we are not getting enough aid go gaza right now. and i'd also add that humanitarian aid is not going to fill the gap if the public sector and the private sect collapse here. to give you an example, you know, all of the sewage pumps out of cities in gaza is done by municipalities, if they run out of fuel, for example, the sewage is already starting to flow in the streets. so it's humanitarian aid, we need to make sure the municipal services continue, and we also

need to be working alongside a private sector. >> u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is now in jordan after visiting israel. among the officials blinken's meeting with in jordan is the caretaker prime minister of lebanon, before he left for his trip blinken said he planned to discuss, quote, steps that need to be taken to protect civilians. that was a top priority when he sat down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other officials on friday. here he is. >> we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. failure to do so plays into the hands of hamas and other terror groups. there will be no partners for peace if they're consumed by humanitarian catastrophe, and alienated by any perceived indifference to their plight. >> blinken offered support for israel's right to defend itself against hamas. chris van holland is one of the lawmakers calling for a

humanitarian pause. he spoke with wolf blitzer. >> we are calling for and what secretary blinken and president biden by extension have been calling for is a humanitarian pause which as you said is simply designed to allow desperately needed assistance, water, food, medicine, to the 2 million gazans including half of them children who have nothing to do with the horrible hamas attacks on israel of october 7th. that doesn't mean that israel can't continue to prosecute the war against hamas, but it does mean take a step, allow the humanitarian assistance to go through, and it is very disturbing. that prime minister netanyahu rebuffed directly secretary blinken's request while he was there. >> it wasn't just blinken,

president biden has been saying stuff like that as well, the secretary of state, he's here in israel, he was here in israel today saying more must be done to protect innocent palestinian lives. is the biden administration, senator, pushing israel, do you believe, hard enough on this issue? >> well, i think they need to push even harder, wolf, which is why i was glad that secretary blinken was in israel today. really making that very important point, everybody recognizes that israel has the right to defend itself, everybody recognizes that they have a right to go after hamas, after the horrible attacks of october 7th. and also everyone recognizes it's hard to do when hamas hides among civilians. that said the civilian death toll is unacceptably high. you see these bombs dropped on refugee camps.

you now have 70% of the casualties and deaths, women and children. and so secretary blinken is absolutely right to say you have to find a better way to prosecute this war against hamas. and for now also allow that humanitarian pause so that the 2.2 million civilians who had nothing to do with these attacks are not deprived entirely of water, food and medicine. the leader of hezbollah makes his first public comments at the start of israel's war with hamas. what hassan nasrallah said next on cnn.

at least two rockets fired from gaza made a direct hit in the israeli city of sderot friday evening and one of them fell close to journalists, including our cnn team on the ground. look at this. now, that blast hit a kindergarten courtyard with

shrapnel damaging cars. no casualties reported. forces now encircling gaza city u.s. officials expect the air campaign to subside as idf soldiers advance. a closer look at israel's evolving military tactics. daniel davis gave his tank to -- his take rather to abby phillip earlier. >> take a quick look at the gaza strip here, this is where we've seen so much activity, especially in the last couple of days. today at the hospital down here and then notably jabalia, that refugee camp, if this changes in nature, is that a reflection of israel being actually concerned that the narrative around civilian casualties is not one that is in its favor? >> they need to. that's a no kidding problem. you have about half a dozen states in just the last 48 hours

have recalled their ambassadors, bolivia actually broke diplomatic relations. so it's having a big impact. all of these are coming especially after the issues at jabalia, those are getting some of the most horrific scenes, and everybody understands that israel was attacked by hamas terrorists, civilians were brutally murdered. everybody understands you can respond, but they don't understand you can put aside the laws of warfare. the very things we want to hold other nations to, like russia, they have to follow it and so do we on our side. i think that israel has not been doing that enough, and biden is right that he's going to have to hold them to it. >> can they still accomplish their military objectives by moving back from air strikes and maybe this more kind of almost dangerous conflict, this is just -- explain to folks, this is just a picture of where some of the troop activity has been in northern gaza. they are surrounding right here, this is gaza city. >> yes, and what you see here,

very clearly, is there are three main actions of advance, one here, one down the coast here, and then this other one that's just almost completely cut off down to the coast here, what the purpose of this part is, is to completely block this off and then to come down here and completely isolate hamas within gaza city. so that none of that aid can get through, they'll have blocked that off and now they'll have this contained. past a lot easier to go in and blow up all the buildings and destroy everything where hamas is. it's much harder and more expensive on manpower to go block by block and house by house to be deliberate. but that's unfortunately the horrible part of war, you can't just kill citizens wanton, you have to do it the hard way if you want cokeep western support. >> we were listening to the hezbollah chief about what could happen if this becomes a multi-front war. talk to us about that. >> the big issue of lebanon, this northern border right here, that's where you see right now,

one of the things nasrallah said, the head of hezbollah today, that we're already in a fight, we have been since the 8th of october and there has been low-level attacks back and forth, there was 19 yesterday, i didn't see the count for today, it's basically within the border area and they have not gone further than that, so israel has not gone further than that. both want to avoid a big war and an escalation. that's one of blinken's biggest efforts in this visit right here is to make certain that this doesn't escalate. that would be the worst thing for both israel and american interests. >> just a quick note for our audience to understand, hamas is a much smaller organization here, 20 to 25,000 fighters, if we're talking about hezbollah, this is 50,000, almost twice the size, much more fire power, it could be a much more dangerous front if it does open up for israel. >> leader of hezbollah says america is fully responsible for the war in gaza. hassan nasrallah reiterated a call for a cease-fire which he

said the u.s. is preventing, and that's why islamic resistance factions are targeting american positions in iraq, the secretary general also warned that all scenarios are possible on the border with lebanon and israel where hezbollah is based. here he is. >> translator: the worry is that the possibility of this front actually estalating or going into a fully fledged war or becoming a wider war is a realistic one. it can happen. and the enemy has to make every provision for this. and i'm sure they do make every provision for this, and i'm sure they do think about it. >> nasrallah said all israel has done in the last 75 years is, quote, commit massacres but that israel will not win this time and gaza will be victorious. hezbollah is backed by iran and has been skirmishing daily with the israeli military on the israel-lebanon border. more to come after a quick break. we'll go along with the survivor of the brutal hamas massacre at

the nova music festival as she returns to the scene for the first titime. stayay with us.

welcome back to all of you watching us here, the united states, canada and all around the world, i'm kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. the u.n. secretary general is condemning an israeli air strike targeting an ambulance outside gaza's largest hospital. hamas-run health authorities say the blast killed 15 people and wounded 60 others. israel says the ambulance was being used by what it calls a hamas terror cell. the international community of the red cross says the ambulance was part of a convoy carrying

wounded parishes from northern gaza to the south. meanwhile the biggest number yet of foreign nationals is expected to exit gaza into egypt in the hours ahead, and an egyptian source says 730 of them will enter through the rafah crossing. 400 americans are said to be among them. four weeks ago today the brutal hamas massacres killed 1,400 people. among them, more than 260 people slaughtered at the nova music festival in southern israel. cnn's nic robertson speaks to a survivor and walks with her as she returns to the scene for the first time since october 7th. >> reporter: alisa samuel is trying to be brave. for the first time the 24-year-old is back to where her friends were brutally slaughtered during hamas's murderous music festival rampage october 7th. >> people's bracelets are here.

>> reporter: the bracelets from the festival? there's another one here. >> reporter: four weeks later fear still scattered in the fields. >> people's bags, everybody just dropped everything and left. >> reporter: she is struggling. >> i don't want to walk further. >> reporter: getting this far has been made easier with the help of her cousin dr. genzler, one of the first emergency medics sent to the attacks. >> first casualty was by the drain point. >> reporter: he too for the first time since revisiting the terrors of that day. shot in the back of the head plus a bunch of places in the back of his body. he also was -- he was shot -- oh, interesting, you can actually see a bullet still. >> really? >> this is actually crazy, wow. there was a ton of shell casings

laying all around. >> reporter: as we're about to move on -- >> guys, siren. >> reporter: an incoming rocket warning. alisa is visibly shaken. >> you're okay, all right, you're safe. >> come, we'll get in the car and we'll go, okay? so sorry. it's reliving it for you, yeah? >> i'm really sorry, are you okay? >> yeah. >> for her it's extremely traumatizing part of how it started with her was being at this party and rave, and the rocket attack starting like that, and then hearing this, but not knowing what was to come. so for her to go through this again is extremely, extremely scary. it's crazy because it's still very real. now that i'm seeing those

bullets, they were never cleaned up and that's -- you know, and still feeling that level of insecurity here. >> reporter: we met dr. genzler soon after the attacks still treating patients, a month later he's helping his family heal. >> the people that are close to you that you love you see them struggling, and that's very painful. >> i think it's important for me to come back because i think to help me move forward, it's not easy, and it's not going to be easy, needs to be done. >> this is where it started to get even more real. >> reporter: dr. genzler too needs some closure. we stop again, more trauma relived. >> so we had treated a bunch of people but then there was a few soldiers that came out -- came out this way, and over here there was one soldier -- >> kind of looked, there's still a medical equipment laying here. >> yeah. >> from that day? >> yeah, so this is definitely

from that day, this stuff. >> reporter: this is incredible, wherever we're going almost four weeks later it's not changed, everything's still laying around. >> yeah, it's surreal, i'll be honest, coming here, i feel a strong -- a real strong emotion, because i'm seeing, reliving what i seen -- >> reporter: his colleagues say he is a hero, saved dozens of lives that night. he says he was just doing his job, and wishes all the innocent suffering on both sides of the border was over. >> i really cry about the kids in gaza that are suffering that didn't make the choices that some of these operative -- these hamas terrorists, that it bothers me. it tremendously bothers me and it hurts to know there are kids that are suffering as a result of it. >> reporter: a for my miles, he gets us to the festival site. alisa recognizes it immediately. >> these are the trees that we hid in. >> reporter: we stop. she leads us into the bushes.

>> this is where you hid? >> yeah. right in there. >> reporter: you're hiding in here? >> yeah. >> reporter: oh, my goodness. >> we saw everything. i saw people get shot, lined up, friends of mine, they were lined up, i saw one of my friends, she was begging for life, 20 years old and begging for her life. she asked him to not kill her, to not kill her, to not kill her, and they didn't care. they were laughing. >> reporter: hiding for almost three hours in absolute fear for their lives. >> my friend, i had to come all the way over here to hold her mouth shut literally to gag her because i couldn't let her make noise, you make noise, you're dead, you are killed or taken kidnapped. >> reporter: hour after hour, witnessing murder, after murder, after murder. >> and i saw the hamas take a

bunch of people and went to their commander and asked if to kill them or take them. he said to kill these people and take these people. shot them right in the forehead, right there. once they were dead, they didn't stop. they kept shooting them. you saw the body jump and jump from the bullets. >> reporter: she is here to help with her recovery. but returning has brought everything flooding back. >> sitting here right now i hear -- i hear everything. i hear the screaming, i hear the bikes, and i hear the gunshots. hearing the gunfire, hearing everything, hearing people crying for their life to save their life, to give them just a few more days. just to go to see their family again. >> reporter: eventually she gets the courage to get a closer look. >> but look, look how many things there are here. >> reporter: most everything where it was dropped --

>> where was your tent? >> over there. more down there. yeah, we set up camp here. >> around here? >> because i remember this, this little -- the white thing. >> the white one here, you remember that one? >> we always made fun of it. >> reporter: aliza -- >> that's why we did it. we needed a place to remember -- i think it's right next to there. >> it's the first time we see her smile but it's fleeting. >> we're going to come out of this stronger and all the survivors are going to have a story to tell and they should tell it, and no matter how painful it is they should tell it because this is something that the world needs to know. >> reporter: nic robertson, cnn, israel.

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campus protests in the midst of the israel-hamas war. >> from the river to the sea -- >> from the river to the sea. >> palestinian will be free. >> i'm palestinian, i have family -- this has been an issue that's affected me my entire life. i'm calling them, there's bombs in the background, they need to go somewhere safe. >> i have a lot of family and friends in israel, having so much hate thrown at and misinformation about what's going on shared on campus, and on social media has been challenging. >> there's tension at hundreds of colleges, at tulane a fight broke out after someone tried to burn an israeli flag. at harvard and columbia -- anti israel statement. >> i'm shocked at the temperature on campus. i could never have imagined it would be like this. >> there's a level of i don't want to say hatred, but anger and fear.

>> the jewish fraternity was hit with a graffiti attack of the jews are nazis earlier this weekend. >> cnn visited three campuses where the response to the war has had major consequences, university of pennsylvania in drexel, students were part of a nationwide walkout in support of palestine. in cornell, this weekend facing anti-semitic threats. >> i was on my way to the kosher dining hall when i looked down and saw the threats. >> reporter: how did you feel? >> i mean, it's terrifying. like, this isn't -- this isn't anything that we thought we would ever have to deal with in the united states. >> reporter: the posts on a greek life website threatened to shoot up a kosher dining hall and kill jewish students, they were signed hamas soldier, but on wednesday patrick dai a 21-year-old cornell student was arraigned on a federal charge for making online threats. >> i think the quick response by the university really did quell a rot of students' fear, i know a lot of people are choosing to do zoom options for classes are

asking for special accommodations, they don't want to put themselves at risk. >> what did you think when these anti-semitic threats were posted online? >> very disturbing to see hateful comments made in the name of a lie. anti-semitism will never be accepted in your movement and hateful comments such as these have no place on our campus, or anywhere really. >> the head of cornell students for justice in palestine, a group whose national chapter has drawn a ton of criticism for saying the hamas attack was a historic victory and other college chapters are have -- images of para glider. but her group acts independently. >> cornell sjp, we make statements based on what our students are feeling, what needs to be said, just having that equal treatment from administration. >> reporter: some muslim students say they're frustrated they're constantly asked to denounce hamas, that it's a distraction from their message

about palestinians. >> there's a lot of concern that pro-palestinian students are pro-hamas, and pro-terrorist tactics. >> yeah, yeah. >> going all the way up to national politicians, is that true? >> absolutely not true. my condemnation is inconsequential. i think it's quite racist, islamophobic, that before i'm allowed to have a view on genocide, i have to condemn a terrorist organization. >> but is it so hard to say, yeah, condemn hamas? >> what does that do? why is the immediate association, i support hamas, i can say clearly categorically i appall the killing of all civilians, no matter where they are, and who does it. i don't go around asking white people do you condemn the kkk? why is there an assumption you support the kkk in the first place? >> reporter: from the river to the sea palestine will be free, heard in my campus protests has become a lightning rod. >> free palestine is when palestinians can live with food,

water, electricity, and the equal rights that all humans deserve, you're completely ignoring the fact that people chanting that have lost all their family members, have had neighborhoods wiped out. >> reporter: many jewish students leaders see the chant as a threat, a call for jewish genocide. >> from the river to the sea, the jordan river, palestine will be free, free of what, free from who, what will happen to the people who live there, that to me sounds like a call for genocide or an ethnic cleansing and that does terrify me honestly. >> chanting slogans of from the river to the sea is never going to invite a conversation with jewish students of, hey, look at me, i'm also experiencing suffering as a result of the events in israel. >> from what the river to the sea means is that palestinians will live freely in that region away from violence. that's not calling for the extermination of jewish people.

>> it works two ways, i don't hear people talking about israeli violence pre-october 7th. i'm not hearing it. if the term makes you uncomfortable, then ask why it makes you uncomfortable. >> being inflicted on palestinians. >> reporter: the students remain proud of who they are. >> i feel encouraged, at the end of the day we are on the right side of history, i can go to bed comfortably. >> i'm proud to be a jewish student on this campus, seeing the resiliency of my community, seeing the unity of my community, it really has only strengthened me, and my pride since october 7th, and i hope that that will continue for a very, very long time. >> three university students penned an opinion essay in the "new york times" entitled what is happening on college campuses is not free speech, students write in part quote although one may think anti-semitism has an impact only on jews, it poisons

society at large. they have a moral responsibility to counter hateful violence in all its forms. cnn's laura coates spoke with the authors of that op-ed how they would like to see things changed. >> open discussion is really their way to further educational goals rather than intimidation. >> reporter: gabriel, on that point we talk about open discussion. this has been cut quite a mine field for a lot of people to try to on the one hand climb a steep learning curve in a relative short amount of time to understand the nuance of what has transpired over decades and generations. let alone the horror of what has happened since and on october 7th. what are you finding have been the most helpful types of conversations to have? >> well, i think there's two types of conversations that we

need to be having. i think the first is within the jewish community and talking about how we can really come together. i think i've seen at a lot of campuses that jewish students and faculty are really coming together to show support and unity. i think the other conversations we need to be having are across the aisle, with non-jews, with people whom we disagree with and really trying to learn from one another. this is the purpose of university, right, it's to learn, it's to challenge your mind, it's to learn to think, and right now we're seeing that students aren't able to do this because there's a culture of intimidation and on some campuses even escalating into violence, and incitement to violence. >> jillian, we have heard people say that they are shocked at the temperature on campus, i mean, that what's happening is perhaps a tragic microcosm of what might be happening more broadly.

are you shocked, or did you feel the simmering of a lot of this beforehand on your campus? >> i think we're all shocked. i think that in the wake of what happened on october 7th a lot of us were expecting this to be a moment of moral clarity where there was a tragedy that occurred that was inflicted by terrorists, against israeli civilians, and that the entire world would come together to condemn what happened. what we're seeing on campuses across the nation is the very opposite of that. >> it's not just one community feeling the effects of the anger around the israel-hamas war. maya berry, the executive director of the arab american institute says hate is rising across the board. here she is. >> we've seen an increase in both anti-semitic incidents and anti-muslim, anti-arab, regrettably, anti-black, every single category one can think of we've been having record-breaking years in terms of hate crimes in this country.

that's the context in which this latest episode of violence breaks out and now we have what we term the backlash effect, which is events that are happening somewhere else in the world tend to kind of seep into our lives here in a way that's really very, very harmful. >> still ahead, a judge gives donald trump the go ahead to speak freely about the federal election subversion trial against him. for now, details coming up on cnn newsroom, stay with us.

in nepal a strong earthquake killed at least 129 people and injured 140, and officials expect the death toll to rise. u.s. geological survey reports the quake was a magnitude 5.6 with the epicenter in the western region of the country. people felt the tremors as far as the capital. nepal's prime minister visited the area near the epicenter and spoke with a number of victims. india's prime minister is expressing his condolences for the earthquake victims. an appeals court issued a temporary freeze on a gag order that kept donald trump from speaking out about his federal election subversion case. the former president can now publicly criticize possible witnesses in the criminal case.

paula reid has more. >> reporter: in just over two weeks a three-judge panel here in washington will hear arguments about whether or not this gag order is constitutional, and while that is pending the former president is not subject to these specific restrictions. judge tanya chutkan overseeing the election subversion case, the case filed by special counsel jack smith, she imposed these restrictions at the request of prosecutors, most defendants know they are not supposed to attack witnesses or go after the prosecutor but the special counsel's office asked for a broader set of restrictions on trump after he made a series of statements appearing to attack the judge, witnesses and prosecutors. now, his lawyers have argued that these restrictions are unconstitutional, that they violate his first amendment, but judge chutkan has said that trump's first amendment rights

must yield to the orderly administration of justice. she points to the fact that she has a trial to put on and these restrictions are essential to protecting people, she says, who are just trying to do their jobs. now this case will be heard before two judges appointed by former president barack obama, and one judge appointed by president joe biden. again, that argument will happen later this month, it's unclear when we could get an answer. but this question about whether you can restrict the speech of a presidential candidate who is a criminal defendant across multiple jurisdictions, this is something that the courts just have never contemplated before, and it could possibly wind up at the supreme court. paula reid, cnn, washington. courts in colorado and minnesota are hearing lawsuits aimed at keeping donald trump off the 2024 presidential ballot in those states. on friday witness testimony wrapped up in colorado, and the denver district court is set to hear closing arguments on the 15th of this month. the lawsuits say the former

president is ineligible to hold office under the 14th amendment because of his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election. now, one of the sticking points in both cases is whether enforcement falls under the courts or under congress. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom," i'm kim brunhuber, please stay with us.

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