jeremy diamond is joining us from tel aviv and natasha bertrand is over at the pentagon, are relentless let's begin with you has this call, this phone conversation been planned for awhile or was it scheduled after these aid workers were killed? >> well, well, if president biden is expected to convey his anger and frustration directly to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu when the two men speak in the coming hours, this call oh, was actually scheduled after that israeli strike that. killed seven aid workers working with world central kitchen in gaza, a moment that is really prompted anger and outrage from president biden. but even as we have heard, this ramped up rhetoric from the president, from the administration, are relating to this incident what we have not seen yet is any change in us policy towards their support of israel's military campaign? against gaza officials yesterday were quite clear that there is no shift in policy at this moment really raising questions of whether israel will face any consequences for the us for this strike that. left seven dead including one amer

cnn's priscilla alvarez and natasha bertrand are joining me right now. the tasha president biden made it clear the us will not help israel with an offensive against iran, right? gharbiyye, whatever officials saying about us support for defensive maneuvers well, this has really never been un negotiable aspect of the us relationship with israel, even amid all of the disagreements and all of the confrontations, the us and israel have >> had over how it is conducting the war in gaza the fact that the us was always going to support and defend israel militarily against threats from iran and iran-backed groups, including hamas and hezbollah, that has always been consistent us policy and it's why we have seen the us, of course, continued to provide offensive and defensive weaponry and military equipment to the he israelis and so reiterating today, just how solid and ironclad is the word that they continue to use that relationship is a senior administration official told reporters that the us is always going to help israel defend itself militarily, even if the us

but now that appears to be potentially changing natasha bertrand. thank you so much for the update brianna, after a two-week siege is really troops had withdrawn from gaza's al-shifa hospital. it's not the first time that they've rated that hospital, but this time that reportedly resulted in hundreds of deaths and entire city blocks being reduced to rubble. a witness in gaza telling cnn, quote feels like a horror movie. israel says hamas and affiliated militants were using the medical complex as a base to regroup. let's go to cnn's melissa bell, who is live for us in jerusalem, and melissa protests obviously, were you are have been calling on prime minister netanyahu to resign. they continue what details? emerged in the aftermath of this hospital siege >> well, a great deal of anger amongst these crowds about exactly the kind of images you've just been talking about, the scenes of devastation nearly six months on a lot just from the start of this war, but also of course, for this crowd here from the hostage taking, that vogt, it and we've been heari

cnn's natasha bertrand joins us now from the pentagon and natasha, the biggest finding reveals whether us troops actually saw the suicide bomber before the attack. tell us more yeah, jake, this review interviewed over 190 people over the course of several months. and what it found is that these service members, many of whom have said since last year that they believe they did see that bomber and had the opportunity to take him out before he actually detonated that bomb. actually did not. those service members did not. in fact see the individual who was ultimately deemed to be responsible for that deadly bombing. his name is abdulrahman allegory and he is a member of isis k, and he was as cnn previously reported, released by the taliban as part of a prison break just days before the fall of columns well, you see him there on your screen now, many service members, including one sergeant tyler vargas-andrews, a marine corps sniper, who testified last year about this, had identified someone that has been described in these reports as the bald men in black, as the individual who is suspecte

consulate building in syria iran, syria, both accusing israel of being behind the airstrike cnn's natasha bertrand is following this breaking story for us. natasha, what do we know? first of all, about the strike and the response for the region >> well, if this appeared to be a very brazen attack, i'm what ron saying is it's consulate in damascus, syria. and according to a ron's ambassador to syria, this console, it was hit with six missiles that he said were fired by idf war plans by israeli warplanes. and according to the iranians, at least seven people were killed in these strikes. all seven of them were part of ron's islamic revolutionary guard corps, which of course is ron's military wing and actually to irgc commanders were killed as part of the strike according to the iranians, now, these rallies are neither confirming nor denying that they were, that they were behind this strike. and in fact, the spoken one spokesperson for the israel defense forces said they were not going to comment on this, but it is their position according to their intelligence. this one it's not an iranian consulate

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let's bring in cn and white house correspondent priscilla alvarez along with cnn correspondent natasha bertrand who is live for us at the pentagon. it was really interesting to me, priscilla, that he said they expect these announcements and pretty soon in the coming hours and days but they don't just want words. he said it's about implementation and so they want to hear specific promises and then they want to see that carried out. and then they're going to assess that. but we don't really have a timeline for that. we don't have an idea of how that process is going to play out. and we don't know if it is clear to netanyahu that this is a red line. >> we don't know the timeline. we also don't know what they're measuring it against because we have heard the biden administration say this multiple times there has to be more aid going into gaza. there has to be the protection of innocent civilians. >> and yet >> over and over, we continue to see this catastrophe continue to play out and unfold in gaza. but just to take a moment and to take a step back. this is a significant development we have been t

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natasha bertrand the pentagon. thanks so much for joining me now, military a-list, us-centric leighton first to that question there. what does that sound like to you if iran communicated to turki about options, it was considering it would know turkey's n80 ally that turki might pick up the phone and call washington and say here what we're hearing is that deliberate? >> i think it is driven by the way i look at it after i heard that reported was like, yeah, the uranium is we're clearly sending us signal to the us through the turks. like you said, they're turkey as data, ella, and the big thing here is that we have so many different different elements. this is, this is turkey right here. bordering iran. and the main thing that the turks do, of course, is they have an integrated defense system with us and they've had a relationship with us as well, even though that relationship is it's been rocky of late. but the uranium knew that they were going to talk to the us. and i think clearly when did you telegraph this? >> a

but it doesn't seem like they're willing to do that at this point, boris natasha bertrand, life for us from the pentagon john, thank you so much. >> all right. let's discuss all of this now. a cnn military analyst and retired us army major general james spider marks. i do want to talk about this world central kitchen strike that. killed aid workers. but first i want to ask you about this one. up and sale because president biden has been trying to show general that he's critical of israel but as he faces this political pressure to do so, is there really any incentive for israel to internalize that criticism and adjust course? when the us is selling israel f5 teens without any conditions >> while the us is going to continue its military support for israel. and that that will be persistent what there are conditions. look when the, when the israelis are getting support, when any nation gets support from the united states, specifically in terms of military aid there are rules around which that aid can now be used. and so the united states is going to continue to tell, here's and we'll give

seen as natasha bertrand joins me from the pentagon a busy morning over there for you to a good morning. >> good morning, jim. yeah. so us officials were anticipating as we reported earlier this week, that israel might in fact launched some kind of limited strike inside iran and the reason for that is because of that massive aerial barrage. of course that we saw from iran just last week, they felt like they had to respond in a very substantial and meaningful way. and one that actually was a kinetic attack of physical attack inside iran itself. now, the response, though, was always expected to be limited in scope and that has a lot to do with all the diplomatic heavy lifting that the us was doing over the last week to try to convince israel not to overreact the message. of course, had been, take the win because israel in conjunction with its allies, they really did prevent or runs at ballistic missile attack drones cruise missiles from causing any significant damage inside israel itself. and so that was seen as a pretty big victory here over the last week, us officials and allies western

visit my fans around the world via that kind of property that's what i do that is my gif i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. >> and this is cnn it's hard to watch, but this is actually good news the bars, the bandage mean he has been saved my do. >> this is a home for all from elephants the human carers do not know if the parents are dead justice. these young have been separated from the herd. normally because of injury yeah i get sadly, despite this care, elton died a few weeks later sounds like it must mean something in particular. >> but the facts here say it's basically reflection of the fact that she thinks food is coming. and some elephants have very different personalities. they think arati because perhaps in them grumpy the fed, human baby formula in huge quantities but the number of orphans coming here is rising year-on-year ever more, showing signs of being wounded by humans in these cases perhaps losing their parents to the conflict these are the rare few who get patched back together again, most of the time, elephants just die quietly in the wild from their wounds about 50 year

and drones fired towards israel by iran were shot down senior national security correspondent natasha bertrand joins us now from the pentagon. natasha i wonder, how did this intelligence help israel its allies prepare? and what do they believe the intention was here? do they believe it was deliberately telegraphed? >> yeah. jim, so we don't know exactly how the information from turkey exactly played into how the us was planning for this. but according to senior administration officials, the us has been planning for a potential iranian strike on israel really since the moment that israel struck that building in damascus in syria, what iran has called, of course it's consulate there, the us understood and it's always understood. this was likely to prompt a very serious response by the iranians who took that very seriously because they viewed it as an attack of course, on their sovereign territory. and so from that point on over the last ten days, according to us officials, they started planning very meticulously and an intensive coordination qian with allies with israel to prepare for what was l

for israel as congressional leaders remain at odds over additional funding cnn correspondent natasha bertrand is with me here in the cnn newsroom. natasha, how is the us prepared to defend israel from further attacks? >> well, we know that in the wake of the october 7 attack, the us military surge firepower and military assets to the region because of the possibility of this very scenario just in case something were to spiral and the israelis needed more help from the united states to defend against an attack either by iran or by its proxy groups. and now of course we're learning that president biden also surged additional military assets to the region, including additional fighter aircraft as well as air defense systems and destroyers to the eastern mediterranean sea. after israel struck this building in damascus, that iran has claimed was its consulate. and so from that moment on what happened about ten days ago, the us and its allies, they were really preparing for a significant retaliation by the iranians and they prepared a such, they moved assets. and what we're told is that the destroy

i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn we can i'd sit eight tonight are three, 60 new reporting to get the full story. >> then we'll to fight how important is that? be unafraid? >> the reasonable grounds to believe that alleged war crimes have been committed have compassion. >> and that's real trauma. would you have been through seek truth? >> is israeli real in full control of its territory and go with a search for answers takes you anderson cooper three, 60 weeknight today on in an this is cnn breaking news >> hello and welcome. i'm becky anderson in abu dhabi for you. while wrongs, unprecedented drone and missile attacks on israel appear to have subsided. that is, according to us officials, this though, is what it all looked like. >> a >> few hours ago idf says, more than 3,300 missiles and drones were fired on israel overnight and 99% it's worth intercepted. that's 300 missiles fired on israel overnight, 99% intercepted the attack lasted approximately five hours. israel says a seven-year-old girl was in

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i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon and this is cnn welcome back. just off the >> hop ball state in the morning here in abu dhabi. and becky anderson from middle east programming hub here on cnn, israel, trying to get back to normal as it were after being bombarded with a wave of missiles late on saturday that ramped up tensions in this region. schools will reopen on monday morning and restrictions on large gatherings and israel have been lifted. official say they are determined to respond to the attacks, but it's still figuring out the timing and scope of any action cnn analyst barak ravid says some ministers are pushing for immediate retaliation, while others are urging caution due to international pressure and world leaders are concerned, all of this could spiral into a wider conflict. >> such a direct iranian attack against israel is unprecedented today, we, the leaders of the g20 seven, condemn this in strongest terms we express our solidarity and support to the people of israel and reaffirmed our unshakeable commitment towards its security ira

. >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn regular, news president biden is unleashing some of his harshest as sharpest criticism yet of the israeli prime minister >> benjamin the tiny you and the way he's conducting the war against hamas in gaza are senior white house correspondent mj lee, as details us mj, what did the president say during this new interview? just released? by univision >> well, if president biden is issuing a blunt end blanket criticism of prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the war that he is waging in gaza, calling it a mistake. now, this is significant because while we've heard some tough words from president biden in recent weeks about specific aspects of this war, including on humanitarian aid and the civilian death toll in gaza. this marks such explicit criticism of the overall approach that the prime minister is taking in gaza and before we play the clip, i just want to make an important note about when this univision interview was taped. it was taped just on the heels. of the death

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. >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn >> welcome back. fighting is intensifying between israel and hezbollah this morning with a significant number of rockets being fired from southern lebanon into the golan heights it's area of the israeli-occupied part of syria. the militant group in lebanon issued a statement after the attack saying that it wasn't supportive palestinians in gaza israeli air stkes in lebanon ed by hezbollah forces. and c's ben wedeman joins as ben, tell what is going on and whether this isomehow related to the iran, israel attack what christnia is, as you mentioned in its statement regarding that katyusha strike on the isrli >> occupied syrian golan and hides. it. did say that this was in support of the palestinians and in response to strikes along the lebanese side of the border with israel however, was significant that the target, according to his bellow, was, is rarely anti-missile. and nt error defense positions. now, we don't know how much damage was done to them, but it was just before about an hour-and-a-half bef

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. >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon and this is cnn this week, secretary of state blinken, traveled to china where he met chinese president xi jinping at a press conference before he left, blinken accused beijing of powering russia's brutal war of aggression against ukraine by supplying products to make things like munitions and missiles. >> it's one of the many stock disagreements between the us and china. joining me is matthew pottinger, who served as donald trump's point man on china. he is the author of an upcoming book called the boiling moat urgent steps to defend taiwan, which comes out in july matt, welcome you also have this extraordinary essay in foreign affairs that i wanted to start with because in a jew basically say that you think the biden administration has taken some very good and tough steps on china, but it's basic goal is wrong. you say the biden administration is trying to manage competition with china. whereas the goal of the united states government should be regime change. it should be just as it wasn't the soviet union. a policy of containment designed to es

week, turkey and no ally in turn inform the united states cmbs national security correspondent natasha bertrand. she's got more. we also just learned that iran set to private message to the us after its attack concluded. what else are you learning? >> yeah, wolf, so the us and iran think, do you have back-channel communications and that is clearly very important to managing escalation when it comes to this conflicts. but according to a senior administration official, iran did privately message the us through the swiss embassy, which is primarily how they communicate, telling the us that the attack had concluded and that essentially they were not going to launch any more drones and missiles that evening. now, iran also said, though earlier today, it publicly, in fact that if the us were to engage in any kind of retaliatory strike alongside israel than none of the us's military basis inside the region would be safe and they would quote, be dealt with. and so while the one on the one hand, israel as messaging to the us that the attack has concluded and that they don't want any additional action he

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. >> all right, done not to do four more who would get i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon and this is cnn the first week of former president trump's criminal hush money trial saw three key witnesses testify. >> former tabloid publisher and longtime trump friend david pecker, wrapped up more than ten hours of testimony. jurors also heard from trump's former longtime personal assistant rhona graff, as well as michael cohen's banker, who arranged his home equity line of credit, which cohen used to pay stormy daniels $130,000 in hush money. cnn's paula reid has more so we have another day or or freezing courthouse. it's very cold. the former president donald trump's still not warming up to the reality of being on trial in the new york hush money case. >> today in court, david pecker, the former publisher of the national enquirer, was back on the witness stand, tying pecker is non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors to an agreement he made to sell the national enquirer ideal contingent on the investigation into his company being resolved from a timing standpoint, it would hav

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save them on i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. >> and this is cnn at least ten people have died anding after a dam burst its banks in kenya amid heavy flooding it comes after the government said the death toll from the flooding de, has now topped one let's get the lasers. now from larry madowo joining us by phone. so larry, what more are you learning about this? rosamira, we're seeing the devastation from this recent heavy rains along in east africa and in kenya, where the government now say is the death toll has risen to 103, but overnight, a devastating situation, just about 50 kilometers. >> north west of nairobi. in my mathew nakuru county a dam in kgb burst its banks and swept everything in its path. the governor of kenya's narrow in cruel county telling cnn that they fear at least ten people we'll have been confirmed dead so far, but the exact number of the dead could be tens more. they just don't know yet, right now, a search and rescue operation is ongoing by team so the national county government, as well as the kenya red cross and other private sector emergency teams were

part of your point there is that the us, the biden administration, this is new reporting from natasha bertrand did just recently authorize more bombs for israel. and the reason is because it is the biden administration's policy that israel does have the right to defend itself and does support their attempt to dismantle hamas. >> that's, that's absolutely right. the biden administration and biden himself will say they're concerned, their outrage, they've been saying for months, they want more humanitarian aid to get into gaza. now gaza's on the brink of famine. it's just like catastrophic humanitarian situation on the ground. so on the one hand, they're saying we disagree with the way israel is prosecuting this war. the civilian deaths are too high. aid workers need to be protected. the humanitarian situation is disastrous. but on the other hand, they're not conditioning or threat or even threatening to condition eight and any way at those at the same time that they express outrage over these various incidents that have happened over the last few months. they very quickly we'll say no, our poli

cnn's natasha bertrand has this forest. tell us more natasha >> yeah. so we're told that the us in recent days did authorize a new transfer of two of two over 2000 munitions to the israelis, including over 1,500 pound bombs and another 1,000 plus small diameter palms. and these are notably munitions sales that had been notified to congress and approved. many years ago. and so they did not require new congressional notification. instead, once these orders essentially became fulfilled, that the state department was able to authorize that transfer to the israelis but we are told that this transfer authorization came before this latest strike on an aid convoy by these rayleigh's on world central kitchen, but still, it is likely to generate further questions over the administration's policy of continuing to provide these weapons this kinds of equipment to the israelis amid public condemnations by president biden, by senior administration officials of how they are carrying out this war in gaza. we are told by a former senior state department official that if

and we're also delighted to have in conversation with alex tonight, natasha bertrand, who's a national security correspondent for ccn, then based in washington, d.c. as well. so let's give it up for alex. natasha, thanks so much for being here. thank you, guys. should i use this migration? okay. thank you guys for coming. i'm super excited to be talking to alex about his great new book, the internationalists. it really does chart the rise. biden's foreign policy team as such that he has around them currently around him, currently. and it does a great job of going through his first couple of years in the many crises in the foreign policy world that that they have faced. so i kind of want to start there and you dedicate really the beginning of your book to talking a lot about it how this team kind of came together before biden was even really considered the front runner as the democratic nominee and how they all kind of knew each other and they were kind of disillusioned or shouldn't even say kind of they're extremely disillusioned by the 2016 election. and the fact that trump won. and t

pride that everyday million say, i use splenda >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn chance erupted inside the arizona state capital as republican lawmakers blocked efforts to repeal >> a civil war era law that bans nearly all abortions this was actually a republican who had tried to move forward on an effort to roll back the ban with the help of some democrats after the state supreme court upheld the law that dates back 160 years. >> now, vice president kamala harris is set to travel to arizona. that is tomorrow. she's again adding her voice to the fight for reproductive freedoms. as president biden launches a new ad campaign aimed at voters in arizona cnn's kayla tausche is at the white house and kayla clearly the biden campaign is making reproductive rights one of the pillars of its message to voters well boris for democrats, it's been a critical campaign issue since the 2022 midterms. the midterms, of course, after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade, and it's reclaiming the forefront for the biden harris campaign, which leaves that it will be

. >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn all right, 15 people are recovering from minor injuries today after a tram crash at the world-famous universal studios hollywood last night investigators say a rent at around 9:00, one car collided with a guard rail and several passengers fell out of the tram the studio uses the trams for its popular studio tour, which takes visitors to various filming locations on the iconic hollywood back lot police say the tram driver is blaming and mechanical failure. >> the california highway patrol is investigating and mortgage rates have yet again, top 7% this week, just take a look at this breakdown. >> in 2016 on a $300,000 home loan, your payment would have been about 40 $1,800 a month. >> well, today that same $300,000 home would cost you $600 a month, more at 2000 a month. >> mortgage rates climbed last week based on expectations that the fed will not cut interest rates any time soon joining me right now to discuss, is michelle singletary a personal finance columnist for th

. >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon.& this is cnn just within the last hour, the house voted in a bipartisan manner to advance a key foreign aid package. >> major step towards sending support to ukraine and israel it was a pretty extraordinary move. more democrats supported that procedural measure than the republicans did. republicans, of course, are in control of the house of representatives. it was 165 democrats compared to 151 republicans. and those democratic votes were key for speaker mike johnson, overcoming opposition from his right flank. that reliance on the other side of the aisle means johnson's future may be in jeopardy now, the third republican said, just moments ago that he supports ousting the speaker. i want to get straight to cnn's melanie zanona on capitol hill. melanie malibu dana. >> yeah, there you go look. speaker mike johnson's job is certainly at risk here he is on very thin ice, but he knew heading into this day that putting these foreign aid bills on the floor and needing to rely on democratic support to do so was going to spark an uproar on the right,

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million dollar questions we have some worrying new reporting from our colleagues, oren liebermann, natasha bertrand in that us intelligence is seeing military assets being moved around by iran, specifically drones and cruise missiles. one source saying that they're reading as many as 100 cruise missiles that can mean a number of different things. they're posturing, they're trying to do deter iran. but it, or deter israel, but it could also mean that they're preparing an attack from iranian soil that would be the first time during this war. that would be a very significant move by iran. but there are a number of different scenarios that we could see. we've also heard intelligence officials and experts talking about the possibility of proxy groups in neighboring countries. carrying out waves of attacks using rockets, missiles, drones, against military targets inside israel because this is a retaliation against an alleged diplomatic post iran could carry out attacks against israeli embassies around the world one thing we do not expect to happen, jim is iran going after us targets? that is something th

in fact, our colleague natasha bertrand reported this morning that the us recently approved, authorized sending more bombs. israel to add to their arsenal. so there will be big questions for president biden going forward, whether the israel will face any kind consequences from the us, the wake of this devastating strike >> all right. arlette saenz over the white house. thank you very much. keep us posted. i want to bring in kimberly dozer, cnn's global affairs analyst, kim, i guess i do want to talk about what leverage the president might have in his talks with the israeli prime minister. but let's talk a little bit about what chef jose andres is saying. essentially accusing israel of systematically targeting his groups, workers. what's your sense of that? >> i think this is in part a reaction not only to the horror of losing them, but to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's callous. this happens in war reaction with no apology yet they are under pressure now to look at every aspect of their targeting, to defend how they do it. but it is clear from this incident that one arm of t

. >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon and this is cnn we're continuing to follow breaking news pro-palestinian protests breaking out on college campuses from coast-to-coast. that's right. protests about the war in gaza.& we're seeing it escalate here. we've been following of course columbia university, but we're now also watching usc in los angeles and ut austin. there in texas, where we've just seen police presence grow and the i guess animosity in a way between law enforcement and some protestors definitely escalate. we've seen that with a lot of people just obviously observing what's going on, but there's been quite a bit of chaos there at those scenes. we have reporters across the country, cnn's omar jimenez is at columbia tell us about what you're expecting, especially because they house speaker mike johnson is set to speak yeah. >> so hoe speaker mike johnson is expected to be here wiin ts afternoon. and what y'reooking arit now, you're just eing the encampment that is here now for an eighth day here at columbia university, it reay firs went up to coiide with the university president whe

. >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn welcome back to a breaking news packs special edition of state of the union on jake tapper. it's live and expanded and we we are here this morning, israel as weighing right now how to respond to that iranian aerial attack or response at president biden told prime minister netanyahu will have to happen without american assistance joining us now, live from london, cnn chief international anchor chris gentlemen for christiane. this was such an overt course of action from iran after so many years of this shadow war between iran and israel, more than 300 drones and missiles fired directly from iranian territory to israel can you put this in perspective? what it means for the way israel and iran might interact in the future? >> well, interact is only through this kind of way. they didn't have diplomatic interactions and there are many people who say that actually one of the things that has emboldened you're on and actually taken away some of the constraints, at least was net

. >> be heard, be hopeful i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. >> and >> this is cnn >> new today, a bridge near pittsburgh has now reopened after briefly closing due to more than two dozen rogue barges. official say 26 vessels broke loose from a pennsylvania marina overnight. and when adrift on the ohio a river, this is of course, coming just a couple of weeks after the francis scott key bridge collapsed in baltimore. now, the mickey's rocks bridge closed out of an abundance of caution and has since reopened. cnn's polo sandoval joins us now with the latest. so polo, what are officials? saying here? why did they take these precautions so quickly? >> so o'mara, the owner and operator of these barges, as you point out, 26 and all been safely recovered, most of them actually pinned up ainst the banks of the ohio river and the compancampbell transportation suspectthat it s recent heavy rains. likely increase the flow of the ohio rer causing some of those previously tethered bar, just that we're carryin mainly some non-hazardous dr goods to break loose and the float wn the oo river overn

they four we built to because it takes one to build one i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. >> and this is cnn president biden is, again applying pressure on israel over its actions in gaza. >> the president spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu over the weekend. whiteout said biden made it clear that the us would not support a potential invasion of rafah rafah without an explicit plan to protect civilians, but a source says the primary focus of the call was a potential hostage deal with hamas. it comes after the group released a video of two hostages on saturday on the left is omri miran. on the right is american, israeli keith siegel. in the video, siegel pleaded for israel to negotiate a hostage release deal at appeared. he was speaking under some duress and then cannot verify where or when the video was shot. meanwhile, the secretary of state is in saudi arabia right now as hamas is considering a new deal, calling for the release of hostages held since october 7 in exchange for a pause in the fighting in gaza this morning tony blinken said, israel has presented h

natasha bertrand. thank you very much for that background joining us now a key member of congress representative ro khanna, democrat of california congressman. thanks very much for coming in. what's your assessment? who is responsible for these airstrikes in damascus? >> well, we need to know and get the facts, but we need a clear answer from the israeli government. and where are they responsible or not? what do you think? >> i'm not going to speculate, but no comment doesn't cut it especially when we are shipping so many arms to them. look, we have to make it very clear. the american people do not want a war with iran. we do not want on israel to escalate a war with lebanon. we do not want them to go into rafah and kill civilians. and the shipments need to stop if they don't make the commitments to abide by what the president of the united shipments of us weapons, syzran shipments, shipments of us weapons. what you're talking about because it's it's going to escalate that it's not just about the civil

five-star reviews, women everywhere i breaking up with bad bros, i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon and this is cnn >> this morning, the first parents convicted for a school shooting, their child committed will face sentencing prosecutors seeking up to 15 years for james and jennifer crumbley. >> they were >> both found guilty on four counts of involuntary manslaughter after their son killed four students at an oxford michigan high school, seen as genes casarez has been following his case from the very beginning gene. what, are you watching for today? >> it's gonna be very serious who is going to be extremely, extremely emotional? james and jennifer crumbley are actually going to be in the courtroom together. this is the first time in months that they have seen each other been together they will be sentenced at the same time, mouth why they had separate trials because you can have victim impact statements. you're going to have the families of those students that were murdered, gunned down by their son, have to go up once again to that podium and talk about how their lives have been

and download rocket money >> i'm natasha bertrand at the pentagon. and this is cnn >> vice president kamala harris is blaming arizona's new abortion law on donald trump, the vice president went on the offensive in tucson yesterday, telling the crowd, quote, trump did this after arizona bonus supreme court this week revived a civil war era law banning nearly all abortions in the state. here's cnn's priscilla alvarez victor an am or the vice president's trip >> against former president donald trump only moments before the vice president took the stage, donald trump said that he broke roe versus wade and also said that states are doing what they're supposed to on this issue. the vice president taking aim at the former president for his remarks and just minutes ago standing beside speaker johnson donald trump just said the collection of state bands is quote working the way it is supposed to and as much harm as he has already caused a second trump term would be even worse donald trump's friends in the united states congress are trying to pass a national b