hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. a team from the world health organization goes inside the al shifa hospital in gaza and describes the scene as a death zone. what they saw, just ahead. plus, the most powerful rocket ever built explodes just after liftoff. why some are still calling the launch a big success. and later, max verstappen rolls the dice and wins big on the vegas strip. we ll break down the f1 grand prix that ended just a few hours ago. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. here in atlanta, noon in gaza, where a large explosion ripped through a u.n.-run school being used as a shelter. one u.n. official called the carnage horrifying. i have to warn you, the video is graphic. now, the source of the blast hasn t been determined and no confirmed casualty figures are available yet. the israeli mil
Happening in Southern California here for the next couple hours. Theres still reports of damage coming in. Julie banderas has that and all of the days news as we take a live look at washington d. C. Ahead of the big celebration. We begin with breaking news. An earthquake rattling Southern California and parts of nevada this afternoon. Im Julie Banderas in for shepard smith. Happy fourth to you. Emergency crews saying theyre getting dozens of calls ranging from reports of injuries to fires. Officials with the national Gee Logic Survey say it lasted about 60 seconds. Listen. I can feel it shaking. It was intense. Take a look at this video
from a liquor store in ridge crest. This is the first of many videos youll see pouring in today. This is near the epicenter. You can see the broken bottles on the floor. The shelves there rattled inten intensely. Anita vogel is reporting live with more. Julie, thats right, the earthquake struck at 10 33 local time in los angeles near the city of ridge c
behaves differently. a lot of ancient volcanic history of little lake, correct? not so little lake is a volcanic region. there s active volcanics. the china lake weapons center runs a geo thermal plant there. there s magna at depth which has been used to tap for geothermal energy. what would you say is your prediction of a likelihood of a quake above 6.4? 9%. over the next week. if we get through a day, then we ll be a lot lower. it s not an even thing over the week. most likely time is right now. as we see we aren t at the moment. the rate of after shocks is
swallowed up by lava. that s the fissure, right there. there she blows. reporter: a barrel of gasoline blasting off. a glowing river of lava devouring cars. it just popped the tire, you guys. reporter: witnessing the destruction from kilauea, the men finally fleeing to safety. any time here, i m going to have to get out of here. reporter: that orange glow, another lava fountain. the problem here, this. you can see the flow has once again cut off another street, making it difficult for people to evacuate. ten more homes destroyed over the holiday weekend, with no end in sight. in some places, the lava is flowing at a rate of 500 yards per hour. it s also breaching a nearby geo-thermal plant, raising concerns of a toxic gas release, but officials say those wells have been capped, and the facility appears contained. david? all right, whit johnson for us tonight. whit, thank you. when we come back, the new health headline tonight about vitamins and your heart. which ones he
panama city beach, the winds is still a factor and this storm has moved inland. if you re in the south keep an eye on the skies. there s a potential for more heavy rain later today. john? thanks so much. appreciate it. new concerns with the erupting volcanos in hawaii. you re looking at live pictures right now of the lava. more residents being told to evacuate to avoid being trapped. our scott mcclain is in hilo, hawaii, with the very latest. what are you seeing? reporter: first off we re in hilo because we re about to see a different angle and different look on this lava. the big story right now is in leilani estates. they were going door to door pleading with people to leave. an old fissure is reacting. it was shooting 200 feet in the air. here s the other problems we re seeing, some of that lava has crept on to a geo thermal plant.