live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with lynda kincaid. well, it s 10:00 a.m. in israel and gaza. day three of deepening hostilities that began friday with israeli airstrikes in gaza which have since escalated in rockets fired toward israel. they say an israeli airstrike is to blame for killing people on saturday. the israeli military deny it is was responsible and released video that it says show as militant rocket going off course. israel says that s what cause thad deadly explosion. cnn can t verify either claim. here s what one palestinian woman said after her home was destroyed. translator: i started to cry and scream. and then the drone hit. and after that, there was an airstrike, which, as can you see, put our homes to the ground. all of that was destroyed. what can i do? where will we go tonight? cities across southern israel have been sounding warning sirens as militant rockets streak out of gaza by the dozens. the israeli military say the majority ar
temperatures. plus escalating tensions between israel and gaza militants. the most violent in over a year. we ll go live to southern israel for the latest. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with lynda kinkade. we begin in washington, d.c. where a marathon voting session is currently under way in the u.s. senate. democrats are hoping to push through a sweeping healthcare climate and tax bill that tackles some of the key policy objectives. first, they have to clear one more procedural hurdle, what is known as a vote-a-rama, a series of back-to-back amendment votes with no time limit. the bill is ultimately expected to pass, then head to the u.s. house for a vote. cnn s jessica dean reports. reporter: senate democrats are pushing through midway through this complex budget process that will allow them to pass legislation focused on climate, healthcare and some tax provisions with just the senate democrats voting. they will not need senate republicans. but
the next and possibly final hearing set for primetime thursday evening. president biden is on air force one after wrapping up his first trip to the middle east as commander-in-chief. the exchange with biden and mohammed bin salman al saud was direct, frank, and open and included president biden raising the issues of human rights and the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. promised the u.s. will remain an active and engaged partner in the middle east. the united states is gonna remain an active and engaged partner in the middle east. as the world grows more competitive, the challenges we face more complex, it is only becoming clear to me that how closely the world and america s interests are, with the successes in the middle east. we will not walked away. and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia, or iran. milwaukee will likely be the host for the 2024 republican national convention. it now heads to a final reproof of all process, after the gop recommended t
could, in the end, be meaningless. according to reporting in politico reinhart carefully reviewed signing off and considers the affidavit to be reliable. judge reinhart also notes that donald trump s legal team has not at this point filed anything, anything at all in the legal battle over the affidavit that is despite their public demands that the affidavit be made public in all of their bluster and extreme rhetoric about a supposed lack of transparency from doj. rhetoric that, of course, has led to a surge in threats against doj and the fbi. team trump s total silence on the issue in court raises even more questions about what politico terms the throw everything against the wall response to the search itself. they write this. trump and his team have not yet settled on a single approach about what may come, in. trump has often used litigation to delay and has loathed to go on offense particularly when he s likely to lose. while it is unclear whether the former president or an
inflation was high before, certainly before the war in ukraine broke out. martha: senator john kennedy was in that hearing with jerome powell. he s here to react to that and respond to it in moments. first, we re glad to be joined by james spurling, senior adviser to president biden. thanks for making time for us today. what is your reaction to what jerome powell just said about the real driver of u.s. inflation? there was no contradiction at all with what president said and your tape of federal chairman powell. president biden is talking about what has happened with gas prices. on that, there s no controversy. on january 17, when putin starts doing military exercise in belarus, the price of gas is at $3.31 at the pump. that is actually below the average for real prices in the previous decade. after he does that, after that unthinkable aggression by putin and the response to it, gas prices have gone up $2 in much of the world and $1.7 oh. martha: the truth is they sta