to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m michael holmes. appreciate your company and well welcome to this special edition of cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the powerful geomagnetic storm happening right now. all around the world are storm classified as extreme level five out of five phenomenon that last half happened more than 20 years ago. and it s causing the northern and southern lights to dazzle many places that rarely, if ever, see them, have a look at the scene here in atlanta or in the southern us a short time ago, parts of the midwest and even northern california have seen chances of seeing the aurora, the skies over the uk and ireland, lighting up in vivid colors earlier on friday night. and there continues to be a high likelihood of aurora over parts of europe and asia meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, the aurora australis was spotted over new zealanders well as argentina it all started when the sun erupted with a series of
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freedom of speech does not include freedom to harass. freedom of speech does not include freedom to threaten. for jewish students the need is urgent. the time for solutions is now. we have to hold the administrators accountable for what they are doing or not doing. mohammed abdul who was hired after the october 7 terrorist attacks against israel. he, on october 11th posted yes, i am with hamas and hezbollah and islamic jihad. what are the consequent as in this case? i have five will be to been taken out of the classroom were dismissed. is he one of those? he will never work at columbia again. top of a brand-new hour we are keeping an eye on capitol hill with the house hearing on anti-semitism so far we have heard columbia university president and the school s board of trustees defending their response to anti-semitism on the campus. all of this as anti-israel protests on that very campus today. hello and welcome everyone i m sandra smith in new york and look w
out here in new york city. joining millions of americans witnessing this extraordinary sight. if you were not excited about this this morning when you watch this actually happening it is a phenomenal site and one that we will not say and might not see to this extent because all the conditions are exactly right for some super super viewing of this today in the next one is not for another 20 years so a short time from now we will be under maximum coverage here in new york city. we are going to get around 90% of the sun blocked by the moon and it is a beautiful spring day. we haven t had too many like this but we ve got great visibility here in new york. so when it comes over new york we re going to get 90% as i said. so the total eclipse past that we are watching sweep across the country is about 115 miles wide and 4000 miles long and it has more than 33 million people who are under that. the last one was about something like two minutes. this one is twice as long it will get
thanks for being with us inside politics. sunday is up next i have a great day. everybody breaking point. these least a war against humanity itself biden puts israel are noticed we re looking to see accountability has pressure over gaza ramps up israel should not be getting another nickel will move the needle plus trench warfare exclusive new details of democrats plan to take back the house the path is clear when you ve four seats to win back the majority, that s it. where they re spending their millions and as republicans tried to pull up a sterner in maryland going to the united states senate, tried to knock some heads together and straighten things out. governors a whole, another race. then go into washington what i know is that money can t buy maryland. we would decide control of the senate this fall and total eclipse, how solar eclipses have captivated washington over the years it ll be night. birds will chirp cricket will crick is fantastic inside po