hi, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m omar jimenez sitting in for fredicka whitfield. we begin with heavy shelling and fighting in gaza putting emergency centers in emergency situations. the red crescent society said gaza s second largest hospital is out of service due to the dep please of supplies. israel defense forces say they re enabling safe passage from gaza s hospitals, but medics say it s too dangerous to leave because of intense fighting. with civilian casualties mounting, today israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu told cnn the lives lost fall squeri on the shoulders of hamas. i think any civilian slos is a tragedy and the blame should be placed squarely on hamas. it prevents them from leaving the zone. the other day, to prevent palestinians from leaving harm s way, it puts rockets inside schools, hospitals. it has tunnels below children s beds. this is what we re dealing with. so obviously we can t give them i m munlt. today for the first time since thurs
out at just about everyone. he blames for the verdict. cnn s kristen holmes has bore on what trump just saying and doing anyone. i defined donald trump lashing out friday a day after a new york jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. we re gonna fight. i m wired in such a way that a lot of people would gone away a long time ago, the trump air grievances with the trial and level the tax at the prosecutor and the presiding judge, juan merchan, it was a rigged trial. we wanted a venue change where we can have a fair trial we didn t get it we wanted a judge change. we wanted to judge. it wasn t conflicted and obviously he didn t do that even as the former president remains under a gag order that blocks them from speaking out about witnesses, jurors, and others closely tied to the case trump s singled out x attorney michael cohen, a key witness in the case without using his name, not allowed to use his day because of the gag order. but you kn
down the we attack that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is now calling a tragic error. could this be the final straw and us support for the war in gaza? urgent manhunt underway after multiple inmates escaped from the louisiana jail after sliding towards gap in the jail yard fence i m john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is out today. this is cnn news central history in the making today is closing arguments get underway and donald trump s criminal when all try the former president charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payment to stormy daniel s in just over an hour from now, trump s defense let s attorneys will kick things off with their closing argument. there are expected to really focus in on savaging the credit credibility of michael cohen and continuing to power in there. and also ask why other key figures? here s in the telling of these alleged crimes were not called as witnesses prosecutors then go second and hav
this generation is so dramatic! move with xfinity. one thing. it s a series of events is the final flight. now streaming on mac? good morning and happy memorial day, you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, more than 120 million americans are bracing for dangerous, whether this memorial day after powerful storms, including tornadoes swept through the central us, at least 19 people were killed across four states. this weekend, hundreds of thousands are still without power. oklahoma is one of the hardest hit areas. storms leveled homes, leaving widespread destruction and dozens injured. meanwhile, in arkansas state of emergency is still in place. du to so extensive damage from the storms, eight people were killed. there a second storm-related death was reported in kentucky. this warning, this tornado tore through the state on sunday, leaving behind a trail of devastation bayesian everything but at least my dog don t came my husband. okay. and seven
was the president lang a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, just a few moments ago at arlington national cemetery. are kevin lip tack is still with me right now. and as we were mentioning just a few moments ago before this guy i started a few minutes early, we should note we were talking about how this is very personal day for president biden, as well as son beau died at the age of 46 years old from cancer after serving in iraq with the delaware army national guard the president talks about this from time to time how this personal sacrifices obviously left a tremendous mark on his life. kevin, your thoughts? yeah, very much so in the ninth anniversary of that death, just coming up later this week, and i think for president biden then when he s standing there in front of the tomb of the unknown soldier, certainly thinking about the decisions that he has made, an office the very responsibility that he holds two men and women in uniform in this country, protecting fr