fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that
that s 184494200. wellcare medicare done well, melanie s nana in washington and this is cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with the formal expulsion of two black state democrats from tennessee s house of representatives. the expulsions coming a week after they let a gun reform protests from the house floor in response to a school shooting that killed six, including three children in nashville, justin jones and justin pearson. we re also joined in that protest by their colleague, representative gloria johnson. you see them all there. holding hands, raising their fists. vice president harris met privately with the so called tennessee three on friday, she was in nashville to advocate for stricter gun reform. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me now with more on this, isabel. what are we learning about the expulsions and what s next? good afternoon to you, fred? yeah we re hearing from t
then they can nominate him with a supermajority. that s 27. council members are proving to nominate him. if they fail to suspend that rule. this is all going to be drawn out a lot longer. for weeks, they will have to wait for weeks in order to nominate him now when it comes to rubber, former representative justin pearson his his district over memphis, shelby county were told by the chair chairman of the shelby county board of commissioners that they will not address pearson s individual situation until the regularly scheduled meeting happening on wednesday. it s not clear when or if they re going to schedule a special meeting to talk about pearson s individual situation now, as you mentioned, fred, we did hear him deliver a sermon. at the church of the river church on this easter sunday. here s what he had to say about echoes to his own personal story. what s happening to him? listen. oh, mr. literature expel
mm to actually solve the problem . reverend doctor marlow. the king jr was killed by gun violence. and i tell you what. his words from what he spoke just days before he was assassinated, are still true. the movement lives or dies in memphis. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me live from nashville. isabel. what s in store for these lawmakers for the week ahead. fred tomorrow is a very important day for former representative justin jones. and that is because the metropolitan council here in nashville will be holding a special meeting. the goal for these council members is to reappoint jones back to his seat and send him to the state capital. now there s actually going to be three voting events happening first to nominate him. then they were going to have to vote to suspend a rule within the council that prohibits nomination and appointment of somebody within the same meeting. if they succeed in suspending that role,
live for us at augusta, don no tiger woods on sunday at the masters, um as a troubling thing. but where do things stand? well no tiger woods, and to be honest, he was never going to be in contention anyway, fred, he was really, really struggling. remember the conditions here 24 hours ago were very different. they were absolutely brutal and he looked absolutely miserable. then when we all woke up this morning, we learned the news that he had withdrawn from this tournament for the first time ever. it s a tournament he loves. he s played in it 25 times. he s won it five times, and it s really now becoming apparent that he is no longer competitive force. he only played three majors last year. he missed the cut in one. he withdrew after the third round in the other, so tiger woods now i would say facing an uncertain future in this sport. as for the tournament, as it continues, the leading pair will be teeing off literally any minute now. the american player brooks kept car is currently at t