joining us now is elizabeth benjamin. she's with the community service society of new york, a nonprofit that advocates for low and moderate income new yorkers on multiple fronts, including on health care. elizabeth, my apologies to you. we have to go straight to madison, wisconsin, where law enforcement is giving an update on the shooting yesterday at that private christian school. let's listen in to police chief. >> got the noon, everyone. good afternoon everyone. >> good afternoon. >> thank you for coming. thank you for being here today. we will be providing an additional update as we have moved now into the investigation phase of this tragic incident. i'll be making some prepared remarks and we will not be taking questions. my name is chief shon barnes s h o n b a r n e s. and i'm the chief of police for the madison police department the past 24 hours have been a flurry of emotion, sadness, anger, disappointment grief for the madison community. we were brought together by a tragedy. and today, three families woke up thi

. >> i'm elizabeth wagmeister in los angeles and this is cnn. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is not only engaged in a war in gaza and potentially facing threats from the wider turmoil across the region. he's also on trial for corruption. today, netanyahu finally took the witness stand, more than five years after he was indicted. 75 year old is israel's first sitting prime minister to be charged with a crime. >> he's accused of accepting gifts from millionaire friends and for allegedly seeking regulatory favors for media tycoons in return for favorable coverage. netanyahu denies any wrongdoing. we're joined now live by barak ravid, a cnn political and global affairs analyst. barak, thanks so much for being with us. so there are three main cases here. he's accused of bribery, fraud, receiving gifts from businessmen overseas, trying to boost favorable coverage in a top israeli newspaper. which of these allegations do you think most worries netanyahu well, boris and brianna, i think all of them were in netanyahu very much because at least in one case, there's really no argument o