good morning it our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 2, 2024 and we begin with breaking news. japan airlines plane bursting into flames as it touched down at haneda airport according to nhk. cnn s will ripley is live for us in tokyo. will, this just happened. information still coming in. what can you tell us at this hour? reporter: the headline here is that all nearly 400 people on board this plane, as horrific as the pictures look, they walked away. they evacuated safely after what appears to be some sort of a collision between two planes on the runway. this airport sits right next to a japan coast guard base. it is right in the same area right along the bay. and what nhk is reporting and cnn working to confirm independently is that as this japan airliner from a very, very popular tourist destination especially this time of year, especially on a holiday weekend, that is why the plane was packed with 367 passengers an
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and another thing happening later this week, secretary of state antony blinken is expected to stop in israel on a mideast tour and probably reinstate the u.s. position that israel should shift the phase of the war away from the massive bombing campaign that we ve seen and more towards targeted operations. so jim, the other story in israel that we re following is this unprecedented ruling where israel supreme court struck down a key part of the controversial law stripping the judiciary of its power to overturn government decisions. it is called the reasonableness law. what do you see as the impact of that and how that evolves next? reporter: it should be said that this was an amendment that was proposed nearly a year ago. and something that had not a lot to do with the gaza war, but once the gaza war started, and we had this war cabinet put
antony blinken and benjamin netanyahu meeting in jerusalem as the cease-fire holds with hamas. blinken says the u.s. is committed to making a significant contribution toward the rebuilding of gaza. the secretary meets with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas this hour before heading to cairo on the next stop of the mideast tour. more than 300 children are missing or separated from their families after a volcanic eruption in congo. the death toll there is at 31. it s expected to rise. these are children who were lost as thousands of residents fled the city of goma into rwanda. more than 1 million people are being evacuated as an intensifying tropical cyclone churns toward india s eastern states. it comes after the strongest storm to ever hit india s western coast made landfall last week. that killed more than 100 people. and an emergency shelter at ft. bliss, texas, is reportedly like a warehouse for thousands of migrant children. now immigrant officials are immigration offi