aerial bombardment continues. this situation here is basically when you combine months of anxiety and stress, and it all comes to a boiling point. in that one area, the rafah crossing in southern gaza, the lifeline essentially between egypt and the line of aid trucks that can try to come in, people so desperate to get their hands on the supplies that they rush the trucks and try to grab what what they can. you see in some of the videos people have huge bundles they are carrying on their shoulders, trying to make a run for it. at some point, on top of all of that chaos, somebody opens fire. people in the crowd panicking from the gunshots. you can only imagine starving people who are panicked and stressed, and then they get in a crowd situation. this whole just nightmare that they re living through, just listen. just take a moment and listen. [ gunshots ] what this means, unfortunately, is that the aid that needs to go in in an orderly fashion and be distributed in an orderly f
good morning, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 9th. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your easter sunday with us. i don t i don t really remember the easter speeches from childhood. i just know i gave a lot of them. did you used to speeches? i remember that some of that may be in a break. all right. here s what we re watching this morning a weekend of religious celebrations, but also escalating tensions in the middle east. the israeli military has carried out retaliatory attacks in syria, and we re live in jerusalem, with the latest on that happening now. pope francis delivering his easter message after presiding over mass at the vatican, his message to the world is coming up. the department of justice is investigating after trove of apparent u. s intelligence documents were posted on social media. what the documents show and the potential implications for the u. s and its allies. we got a chance. and oklaho
here s the very latest developments. a manhattan grand jury indicting trump on more than 30 counts related to business fraud stems from the hush money case involving stormy daniels before the 2016 election sources tell cnn trump is expected to turn himself in on tuesday and be arraigned in new york city. the nypd is on high alert this morning. every member of the force has been told to report in uniform today as a precaution. meanwhile in washington, house speaker kevin mccarthy and other house republicans are rallying around trump blasting the indictment as a political attack. and as of this morning, president biden has not weighed in on the indictment, not a surprise there. we ll see what he says. we have all the latest reporting cnn this morning. special live coverage starts right now. very early on this friday morning and look at the papers you got was worried this morning when i left at the papers would not be ready. but they are yesterday. you and i were talking about h
the battle for the nation s soul is not over yet. those words from president joe biden as he officially tells america he wants four more years to finish the job. the mission statement he just laid out and his message to those he called maga extremists. prosecutors call them donald trump s army. five members of the proud boys on trial accused of assembling and leading the mob on january 6. that trial is now coming to an end. will a jury soon find them guilty? just as the u.s. was getting in position to rescue americans trapped in sudan, reports of a ceasefire breach. what this means for the thousands of u.s. citizens in that war-torn nation. all this and more on cnn news central. let s finish the job. president biden making it official as he makes his 2024 case to america. after two years in the oval office, months of speculation and a lifetime of politics, he officially now wants four more years. when i ran for president four years ago, i said we were in a battl
hello, everyone. thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. a dramatic takedown and now a race to recover pieces of that suspected chinese supply balloon. the u.s. military shooting it out of the sky on saturday just off the coast of south carolina. you watched it with us live. president biden on wednesday ordering the balloon to be destroyed as soon as possible. his top military brass advising the president to wait until it was safely over the ocean. efforts are now under way to collect the fallen debris which will be taken to the fbi lab in quantico for analysis. the balloon had made its way across the country after first being spotted in montana on wednesday. its appearance over the u.s. and the military operation to take it down complicating the already tenuous relationship between the u.s. and china. beijing accusing the u.s. of overreacting and expressing strong dissatisfaction over the balloon s destruction. we have reporters around the world coverin