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joe biden calls for two state as the call for a cease-fire. we will look at his op-ed in the washington post. and the most powerful rocket ever built explodes minutes after blasting off. some are calling the test flights success. ♪

queerphobia reports of a large explosion at a.u. and run school in gaza and used as a shelter. one called the courage or spying. the video is graphic. the source of the blast has not been determined and no confirmed casualty figures are yet available. the israeli -- aware of the explosion but have no further comments. we will have more on this in just a moment. meanwhile, the world health organization sends a team to gaza's largest hospital on saturday. he described it as a death zone. filled with terrifying people. they said a mass grave with anybody's was right outside the entrance. inside, the choking dust and smoke, the team counted 291 patients including 32 infants, extremely critical condition. officials say patients and staff

have been ordered to evacuate by the israeli military. israel denies issuing such an order. covering the release for use as our jerusalem correspondent and joins us live from soul. a team visited the hospital and we understand there are more gruesome scenes coming out of the refugee camp after the last year and another school in north gaza was also hit earlier. what more can you tell us about the events. >> layla, we will start with the hospital in the w.h.o. being able to spend an hour inside the hospital and there was heavy shelling and fighting outside in the near proximity. is described it as a death zone. it was a dire situation inside saying that there are 32 babies and extremely critical condition, two people in intensive care without

ventilation and also saying that when they spoke to staff and patients, that they all said they were quite terrified for their safety and health and they pleaded for evacuation. the w.h.o. says that it is urgently developing plans to try to get the final patients out of the hospital itself, that the ministry of health has said that they believe there are five doctors remaining in the hospital with more than 120 patients obviously patients which cannot be moved at this point. it would simply be too dangerous. they say, the vast majority of the patients they saw there were from the victims of war trauma. now, when it comes to he went run school in jabal year this is a place where thousands of internally displaced people were sheltering. we understand from an road which is the human body that looks after palestinian refugees that are retrieved seeing the images

that he has seen our horrifying. also seeing thousands would have been sheltering in that area. the images that we have seen most of which we are unable to air because they are just too horrific, they show many bodies lying in different rooms on two floors of the building. many of them covered in dust. now, according to the spokesperson for -- they said at this point they don't know who was responsible. they don't know what happened exactly and they are still trying to clarify casualty figures, the idf, the israeli ministry has said they are aware of the incident and they are reviewing but at this point, that is all the information they are giving us. laila? >> the hostage of families meanwhile have reached jerusalem after watching from tel aviv and are headed to mr. benjamin netanyahu's office and understand they will be meeting the government officials this

coming week? what do we know. >> reporter: we have hurt more frustration for families and supporters of those being taken by hamas believing that they are not being given information and that they are not even able to speak to anybody about the situation. so will be watching that meeting later this week closely. there had been unconfirmed reports that may be hostage swap deal was imminent or was close. but that is really per mr. has said that is simply not the c case. >> translator: we are prevented from discussing details of a prisoner deal that we stand for. we want all of them back whether we do it one stage or two. we will do it in a way that will return entire families, is as clear as the sun. >> reporter: the white house also saying that a deal has not been reached yet but they are working hard to reach some kind of deal.

laila? >> paula hancocks, thank you so much. and was president joe biden is once again rejecting calls for a cease-fire in gaza. he says that would give hamas an opportunity to regroup and rebuild their stockpile of weapons. he also floated his vision for gaza and the west bank wants the world is over. priscilla alvarez has the details. >> reporter: press the button on saturday released an op-ed in which he rejected calls for a cease-fire in the israel/hamas conflict and knowingly when to the issue is taking steps to issue the advances against extremists who are attacking civilians, a key area of concern for the administration. as far as disease for which the president has faced mounting criticisms mystically and abroad, he wrote the following as long as hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease-fire is not peace. the president and administration

officials have instead pushed for humanitarian pauses for the release of hostages held by hamas but also to get aid into gaza. the president went on to say that israel should respect humanitarian law and protect innocent civilians. the president also stressed that a two state solution is the way forward in the israel/hamas conflict. reiterating a message from earlier in the week when he said that that was the solution and he also went on to note the ongoing efforts to get hostages out of gaza who are held by hamas. but above all, the president taking that moment to remind americans that conflicts of voting both in israel and in ukraine effect u.s. national security. that has been a message that he said repeatedly including last month in a primetime address when the white house was also asking for billions inviting to support both israel and you can. that funding has not been met and the person taking robert on saturday to remind americans why

these conflicts abroad are important for the united states in a key moment. priscilla alvarez, cnn, traveling with the president. i'm joined now by ron brownstein. he is an endless and senior editor for the athletic. it is good to see you. six weeks now into this world and president biden is facing a post of dilemmas. let's start with the op-ed in the washington post. how would you characterize it? and who is the intended aud audience? >> well, it is a reassertion of what has been the traditional u.s. role and certainly in the area that joe biden culminates pull the -- politically is the leader of the western world. the secretary of state under bill clinton describing the u.s. as the indispensable nation and he is asserting the centrality of u.s. leadership both in europe in terms of repelling the

assault from primary putting on ukraine and in the mideast, in terms of both working with israel and in some ways constraining the israeli government, benjamin netanyahu. it is a challenge on both political fronts. the resurgence of unilateralism and isolationism under trump who had much more transactional vision of how the was interacted with other nations and from the left, in terms of the enormous criticism that he is facing from portions of the democratic party over the birth and extent of his support for israel. >> and also for the rest of the world, watching the carnage in gaza, the use appears increasingly isolated with the israel policy rather. with respect to how this war is being conducted. do you know whether there are discussions within the white house about whether this continues to be the right approach that they should be supporting?

do you see this administration conditioning its supports if there is potentially even more hardship in gaza? >> you know, president biden is trying to find a pathway here between irreconcilable -- you know, think that he has certainly given broader support to israel and affect more rope to israel than you might have seen under barack obama. but he has also been more critical of israel and more willing to exert pressure on them both publicly and privately to restrain their behavior and also to envision what comes after than you would have seen from donald trump and it is a lonely island in the fact that he is on. you know, this is an issue that as we have talked about before, generally divides as coalition. it is striking that if you look at polling offensively democrats

divide about 50/50 on whether they support military aid to israel whereas republicans are predominantly in support of it and it is true with ukraine where democrats are purportedly in support of 80 to you can and most republican voters were sitting on the influence of chubb on the party opposed it. so this is something that is difficult for him. it is also in alliance with a figure in netanyahu, the democrats have historically not fully trusted for good reason. he has identified very much with the republican party in american politics and his government is one that is well to the right of what most democrats would want to see. you know, in israeli policy. joe biden is trying to read a very lonely course here and one in which he is balancing both support and constraint or restraint on israel and one that

threatens to leave him, you know, with disappointed reaction on both sides. >> and all of this, you know, as we are nearing a presidential election, i mean, where is the u.s. public on all of this? >> you know, look at u.s. public, you know, it is divided and as a side, the sharpest divisions are on the democratic party and that more americans overall safety support israel and the palestinians and more americans support aid to israel, then don't but among younger wiccans, it is a different opponents. there is much more critical view of israel behavior and as i said, to some extent, i i mean, netanyahu is reaping what he has sown. he is going back to the iran deal when he openly lobbied u.s. politics to oppose the policy of barack obama, the way he interacted with trump, the way he interacted against obama in

-- with matt brown me, he is not a figure that many democratic leaders have a lot of faith in. and the distrust i think you know, spilling over in terms of what we are seeing in the public reaction on this. you know. biden's approval on handling this is underwater, but it is better than his approval on many of the issues. what he needs ultimately is a resolution to the fighting and a movement toward diplomatic aftermath, whatever that is going to look like. you know, you can see in that op-ed and elsewhere, he is putting more pressure than he had before this attack on the israeli government to begin something that looks like a negotiation port aid to state solution and i suspect he will move heaven and earth to ensure that something like that begins at -- you know, whenever the active hostilities have cooled down, getting to the point is it

is going to be extremely painful for him politically as it is for the public in both israel and gaza. >> always good to have your perspective. thank you so very much. >> thanks for having me. ♪ still ahead, the security of taiwan was a big topic during the aipac summit. put the future of the self-governing island is far from clear. we will have a detailed report from taipei. and voters in argentina will head to the polls in the coming hours to choose their next president. a look at what is at stake and how the two candidates could change the country's future, next on cncnn. ♪♪

♪ u.s. president joe biden and president xi jinping had a substantial discussion about taiwan during their meeting at the apex summit last week. xi made it clear that concerns about the island were the biggest and most dangerous issue in the u.s. and china, bilateral relations. where does taiwan stand after

aipac? >> reporter: to will never forget those four tense days when former house speaker nancy pelosi's visit triggered unprecedented chinese military drills widely seen as a dress rehearsal for war. more than a year later, on the streets of taipei, for some, the prospect of war feels closer than ever. >> translator: of course we are concerned that what happened to ukraine, happen to taiwan. i'm a mother, and i have kids. president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping's marathon meeting in san francisco aided talent to put her on a host of hot-button issues. especially taiwan. these most important and sensitive issue in u.s./china relations, xi was quoted in cheney state media in washington has no plan to stop selling billions of dollars in weapons to taipei. military cooperation including u.s. training of taiwanese troops at the highest level in decades. that he was formally switch diplomatic recognition from

taipei to beijing in 1979. >> we maintain the agreement that there is a one china policy and that i'm not going to change that. >> reporter: as for the future of this self-governing democracy, she mixes china will realize reunification this is unstoppable. >> beijing [indistinct] >> reporter: the director of taiwan's institute for national defense and security research warns china's military buildup, the biggest in a century, maybe just beginning. he says it can only be deterred by massive military power. does that need to include the help of larger militaries like the u.s., like japan? >> sure. taiwan enjoys very important location. is beijing can occupy taiwan,

has become -- chinese to hawaii. and they can reach the west coast of the united states to strike the united states. >> reporter: last year, beijing fired ballistic missiles over taiwan. here in taiwan, people have lived their entire lives with the reality that china has an arsenal of missiles pointed at his eyelid that could be raining down in a matter of minutes. that is why here in taipei alone, there's an estimated 90,000 air defense shelters ready for whatever comes. with the people's liberation army surrounded the self-governing democracy, chinese state media said they were simulating a blockade. practicing a possible precursor for a full-scale invasion. jolting taiwan into a new risk filled reality. putting high-stakes diplomacy to

the test. we are also watching some major development in taipei. on saturday, two opposition parties announced their joint presidential ticket. they will pose an unexpected and very credible challenge to the ruling dpp, the current vice president is a presidential candidate. he was considered issue invite many analysts until this surprised unit between these two opposition parties which notably tend to have a more pro-beijing or at least pro cooperation with regime where's the dpp has long said that you have to stand up to china with strength if you give an inch, they say they will take them out. either way, the result of next year's taiwanese presidential elections will have huge implications for taiwan and also the u.s./china relationship. will ripley, cnn, taipei. voters in argentina go to the polls sunday to pick their next president. it is a tight runoff election that could change the direction the country is heading.

our reporter has the details. >> reporter: it is just a matter of hours before the polls open in buenos aires and it is closely watched around the world because it means a far right candidate who is disruptive and populist candidates against the finest and the career politicians. currently serving as argentina's finest minister and has pretty much billed his career in and out of public office. on the other side, javier's challenger has entered politics 36 months ago and before that, he was working as an commerce for the private sector. a win. he is telling from the hard part right would mean a change of momentum for conservatives worldwide.

associated himself with the likes of -- in brazil and donald trump in the united states and the supposedly moved argentina to right for example proposing to completely privatize the argentinian public health sector and also support private education in the country that has always supported public education in the way this election could [indistinct] argentina for good is because he is proposing to raise the economy of argentina by getting rid of the argentina search rank and replacing the argentinian peso with the u.s. dollar. argentina is once again berglund record high inflation and struggling to repay international debtors. the plan to switch their currency from the argentinian peso to the u.s. dollars has triggered a debate among the

economic think tanks. for example, it is not so hard to imagine the incident in the united states considers dollarization the best way for argentina to finally provide the reforms that the country so desperately needs. however, his opponent is not leading in the polls but has already pulled up a surprise victory in the first round of the argentinian presidential election and is here for a fight. in just a few hours, the polls open in argentina and by monday at this hour, we will know who the next president of the country will be. dueling protests over a controversial new amnesty law in spain that the prime minister, pedro sanchez, agreed to in order to win a second term in office. and is 170,000 people gathered in madrid to vent their anger

over the new law, which would give amnesty to catalan separatists who tried unsuccessfully to succeed from spain six years ago and didn't do much in the northern basque city of bilbao, thousands of pro-independence protesters march in support of the deal. mr. sanchez won a majority in parliament with the support of pro-catalan parties in exchange for agreeing to the law. he says it will help to defuse tensions in the spanish region of catalonia. still ahead, some family members of hamas hostages say they feel let down by the israeli government on oct october 7th and fear they may never return to their homes that the militant group destroyed. we will hear from them next. plus, families and friends of hostages filter street in tel aviv, pushing for their release. with the israeli publisher is saying about reports that a deal has beenen reached..

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♪ welcome back to our views indian states, canada, canada, and all around the world. i'm lolla hard rock and who are watching "cnn newsroom." some family members of hostages say they feel let down by the israel defense forces slow response to the attack. survivors say they may never return to the homes that the militant group destroyed. unless the israeli government can guarantee their production. >> reporter: these are the momoments octobeber 7th when thy began to nightmare.

by the time the idf arrived that afternoon, nearly one fifth of the residence would be kidn kidnapped. [indistinct] was one of the more than 70 taken. he was here in his workshop when hamas attacked at 6130 in the morning to eventually he was able to make it back to his house. he barricaded his wife and children into the bomb shelter. that was the less they saw of him. >> he made his wife swear that she would not open the door for anyone. >> reporter: jonathan is caring for his son's family, campaigning for his release. >> he is the kind of son who can complete thoughts for me. honestly, because of the other losses. >> some of the entire families actually that were murdered. their lives were intertwined with my family's life for the last 40 years. >> reporter: what is left of the

community is still intertwined. most everyone together, hundreds of miles away. they have each other. but the point nightmare continues. how do think the committee is coping? does that help? >> yes. yes, and no because it is not always -- sometimes it is dragging you down. >> reporter: really? >> yeah. because people are traumatized and hurt. >> reporter: hurting his brother dameer is another one of the hostages taken october 7th. >> some days i feel great and i feel strong and i'm optimistic and i have some days i feel the complete opposite. >> reporter: surviving the attacks, hiding in here in his bomb shelter with his two young daughters. he was [indistinct] as the hours

long battle raged around them. >> shooting not only from a space guns but rpg's and grenades, breaking my house, so i told my girls that a tree fell down on the house. expect it was not until he came out of his house that they began to realize his brother may not have been as lucky as him. just a few meters away, his brother's house was on fire. his brother's house was gutted. the proof of life hamas for him or jonathan's son. >> is excruciating and he is the father of two little girls, married to avi tolle, who is now eight months pregnant. so it is a nightmarish situation. we don't know if he is healthy or wounded. we know nothing. it is a faded shared by as i said almost all of the 75 hostage still being held. >> reporter: already feeling let down by the idf's slow response october 7th, concerns in the

community growing. the government may let him down again. >> a talk about to make a deal with the kidnapped people and to bring back the babies and the women. i'm afraid that the men were left behind. why? >> because they think since that day, can't really trust the government. the lack of trust in the government is also adding to their nightmare. even if they do get their loved ones back there could they ever return? >> we don't know if we will ever be able to move back. >> reporter: are people ready for that? >> in order to go back, certainly for your family, my children and grandchildren would have to have a guarantee from our army, from a government that this could never happen again. >> reporter: would you go back? >> it is a very hard to answer.

if the situation is the same as now, never, never, no chance. >> reporter: the community is working on other locations that will help them stay together. their dream life is not a distant memory. but still, a living nightmare. nick robinson, cnn. massive crowds protested on saturday calling for the release of hostages being held by hamas. is really per mr. benjamin netanyahu getting ready to meet with families of hostages on monday. cnn's jeremy tabin reports from tel aviv. >> 42 days after hundreds of israelis were taken hostage and kept inside the gaza strip and the families those hostages and thousands of their loved ones gathering here demanding the release of those hostages. they are also putting pressure

on the israeli government to reach a deal in order to release those hostages. we now know that for weeks, there have been discussions between the israeli government and hamas be negotiated by the qatari government that could see the release of thousands of those hostages in exchange for a multi-day pause in the fighting. thousands gathering not only here in tel aviv but also in jerusalem to urge the israeli government to reach such a deal. we heard chance of now, now, now, demanding that a deal be regional. we spoke with the family of one of those hostages, yarden, and this is her cousin talking about what her message is to the israeli government. >> a message which we have also, you know, communicated to them directly is we think there should be a deal now and we understand our very first there are things we don't know, there are considerations we can't be told about. we believe in you. your daughter believes in us. she always tells us that she

knows we are working to get the. she sees us all working all the time. and she knows we are all doing it together. so kind of in the same way, i have to believe that they are doing everything together -- to get her back and our faith, you know, i hope that you can improve our faith was not wrongfully given at that you can prove as bright and make sure that they start coming back home because the families need it. the families need it desperately. we don't know whether these marches have brought the pressure on the israeli government f for them to reach a deal for the hostages but it is at least getting something. the israeli prime minister confirmed that he will meet with the families of these hostages on monday just two days after these rallies took place in jerusalem and tel aviv. so at least these families will be able to to deliver their message. it will decide whether or not to reach the kind of a deal with hamas. jeremy diamond, cnn, tel aviv. and still to come, a

spacex rocket explodes minutes after lunch. we will tell you why some are calling that a success. also had, donald trump has been campaigning over this weekend and heading out with president joe biden. those stories and much more after the break. ♪

♪ spacex's massive starship rocket headed for the skies on saturday in the second ever to fight making it further than the initial flight back in april before exploding. and its after lift off. cnn's justin fisher has more from the launch site in texas. >> reporter: engineers in spacex will spend the next several days and weeks poring over all of this data trying to figure out what exactly went wrong. but this is what spacex likes to do. i like to push the ball rockets and their spacecrafts all the way to the points of failure

because that is how they learn. they have done that with all of their older successful rockets and spacecrafts and ally are trying to do it with starship, the biggest most powerful rocket that ever applied and sunday, the ultimate goal is for this rocket to allow and carry up to 100 humans to the surface of mars and ultimately colonize mars and make humanity multi-planetary. that is the goal. but first, spacex has to get this thing up into orbit and the test flight on saturday was a success in that 33 engines did fire all of them. the launch pad and survived. there was a successful stage separation between the booster and t spacecraft on top and it d make it up for past where it flew on its first failed flight test back in april. it made it all the way up to the edge of space. but then something happened and that is why this test flight was also a failure. there were two explosions, both the booster and the spacecraft

exploded after separating and the spacecraft's all had gone according to plan was supposed to make almost a complete lab across planet earth and splashdown in the pacific ocean. that is what is characterized as a mishap by the faa. they are now investigating a mishap with spacex. it is and that spacex will lead. but it is not unclear exactly how long that will take before spacex is given the green light to fly again. but nassr administrative bill nelson who needs the starship spacecraft to land as notes on the surface of the moon as part of its artemis program congratulated spacex yesterday and said that saturday's test flight was a sign of real progress. on south padre island, i'm kristin fisher, cnn. former u.s. president donald trump campaign in our this weekend and he urged his supporters in the hawkeye state

to get out to vote and made accusations without evidence about current president joe biden. cnn's alayna is with the trump pain in fort dodge. >> reporter: donald trump is back in iowa this weekend with just eight weeks to go into the republican caucuses on january 15th. and even though he is polling ahead of his republican contenders in the state, he warned voters not to get complacent and to ensure that they come out for him in a big way when the hour caucuses rolled around. he also used some of the most explicit language yet that we have heard when talking about his need to win this state in order to knock his primary contenders out of the race. now, donald trump also spent much of the speech on saturday attacking joe biden and specifically his record on foreign policy as well as his approach to china and potentially undermining u.s. agriculture is something that is very important to our voters.

he also at one point, donald trump, attacked joe biden's mental fitness and called him a "stupid person" and suggested he may be on medication. let's take a listen. >> our leader is a stupid person. our leader -- [ cheers and applause ] our leader can't get off the stage. you see that? when he is finished with his speech, by the time whatever it is he is rose has taken wears off and he is looking to thank you. thank you. >> reporter: those remarks are in line with the donald trump's increasingly vitriolic rhetoric that we have heard from here on the campaign trail of late. remember, last week in new hampshire, donald trump received a wave of backlash for calling the political left being like vermin and saying he wanted to root them out. one more just really interesting thing i want to your attention

to his photo disrupted after his remarks but he got off the stage and went into the crowd. he signed hats and shook their heads and that is very rare for the former president. he typically will immediately exit the stage and start getting into his motorcade after he wraps up the speeches and so a big moment for those in the room and i think it really underscores the aggressive attitude that donald trump and his campaign are taking to iowa in the final stretch. alayna treene, cnn, fort dodge, iowa. and there's no evidence that mr. bright and has been on medication that would affect his cognition. cnn is reaching out to the white house for comment. a nearly 300 georgia congregations are leaving the united methodist church. 261 churches in the state chose to leave the denomination over its 2019 decision to ordain gay priests and contact same-sex marriages.

four congregations that requested to split were denied. for those who were successful, the separation will go into effect in november and the churches that leave the conference can no longer use the united methodist nam denomination's slow go. still ahead, new delhi tops a troublesome list of -- despite the efforts of adms supreme court to clear the air. he told after the breaeak. ♪ ♪

♪ new delhi is once again choking in slot and topping the list of the world's most polluted cities. the organization iq air which monitors air quality categorized air in the indian capital as "very unhealthy." a mix of car emissions, and smoke is made worse every year by cold temperatures which trapped toxic particles in the air. so far efforts like banning construction and limiting heavy vehicles on the roads has not mitigated the problem for long. recently india's supreme court

band burning to cut down on smart. many farmers are defying the new orders and winds are sweeping the contaminants into cities which further degrades the air quality there. at week stay in india where the cricket world cup final is underway. going head-to-head with australia with australia and you can see fans there, wow, so many of them pouring into the stadium in a motherboard which seats about 132,000 people. australia won the toss and elected to field first. we would bring you more updates on the state of play as we get them. and in brazil, taylor swift delayed her saturday concerts in rio de janeiro as a scorching heat gripped the country. the move comes after a fan died before her friday show in rio. swift says that news left her with a "shattered heart." the high temperatures have led

brazilian authorities to make new rules for public events. in our the organizers should provide free water and allow attendees to bring water into the venues. organizers will also need to provide enough space to ensure a quick emergency response. the measures will be in place for at least 120 days. and thousands of wildfires are killing animals in nature reserves in the bolivian amazon. deer, rodents, and several species of birds are dying from poisoning. right now, firefighters and volunteers are working to pick out nearly 100,000 fires. environmental activists gathered in bolivia's capital friday to demand that more be done to prevent the fires. one of the present. >> periods of the year is just now kicking off for americans. and the weather is not going to make it any easier. cnn meteorologists has the

outlook for thanksgiving week. >> as millions of people gear up to travel for the thanksgiving holiday, mother nature not likely to cooperate for all locations. we have multiple systems that are going to make their way across the u.s. over the next several days, bringing rain and snow, some patchy fog and some even gusty winds. it starts with the system across the western u.s. you can see as we go saturday morning, the main focus is across washington, oregon, id idaho, and northern california. then we start to see that system begins to make its way across the mountain west and eventually in towards the central plains by the time we get towards the latter half of the day sunday. so again, morning time, morning to you see the rain and also the snow for the higher elevations and more rain developing here along the central and southern plains. that system is going to continue to progress if words. that low pressure system is going to deepen and intensify and a new thread will develop along the gulf coast in the form of severe thunderstorms with the potential for some tornadoes. hail and even some damaging

winds especially late in the day monday and curing into the evening. elsewhere still looking at rain however further to the north. kansas city, chicago, even indianapolis looking at the chance for rain. by tuesday or more of that rain begins to shift off to the east. now you're talking some pretty big trouble cities. connectors. if you got connections at airports across new york, washington, dc, atlanta, or chicago, you are likely going to experience some delays at some point on tuesday as this system continues to slide east. and even some of the roadways, 75, 85, 95, corredor's are looking at the potential for some wet roads as we go to the day to take and that will continue into tuesday evening as we see a lot of that moisture began to research into portions of the northeast. now, in terms of the severe weather that that we are focusin on monday, you are talking will walk down through shreveport, houston, and over into new orleans. the main threats here will be damaging winds. but it is not out of the question to see some potentially large hail and even some

isolated tornadoes. in terms of travel disruptions, for sunday, the main focus is going to be on the west coast as that system begins to progress eastward. you will start to see more of that develop in the central u.s. sunday into monday and then by late monday your focus really becomes the midwest down across the southeast. essentially stretching from the canadian border down to the gulf coast. and that by tuesday, you're looking at it starting to spread into the mid-atlantic and continually into the northeast once we get later on into the evening hours. and this wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm laila harrak. more after the break. keep it here. ♪

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