You are watching our special extended coverage of the israel hamas war. New this morning, the u. S. Embassy in israel is offering americans and immediate relatives evacuation by sea from haifa to cyprus. On monday, at 8 am local time, it is on a Space Limited basis. The embassy says chartered flights are also being arranged. Meanwhile, the rafah Crossing Point between israel and gaza remains closed this morning as egyptian authorities continue negotiations with israel and the United States over allowing u. S. Citizens to cross into egypt. The State Department urges the more than 500 americans estimated to be in gaza to quickly move south as the window to cross will be brief. A second u. S. Aircraft carrier is headed to the Eastern Mediterranean to help deter escalation in the region. It joins another Carrier Strike group that arrived earlier this week. And according to the Israel Defense forces, at least 1300 people have been killed in israel since the fighting began, with the Palestin
wind we re house solomon in new york and this is cnn hello everyone. thanks for joining me. i m alison maratha in for fredricka whitfield. today. we re following several major developments around the globe that will present challenges for president biden at home and abroad this week the first us defense secretary lloyd austin, meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in singapore. today, secretary austin reiterated, quote wavering us support for ukraine in the face of russia s war were also awaiting word on hamas s response to a new ceasefire proposal with israel as detailed by president biden on friday, the president is expected to address these and other global challenges when he visits france to commemorate right, the 80th anniversary of the d-day invasion of normandy cnn s natasha bertrand and facil alvarez are tracking all of these stories for us. so natasha, you re in singapore. what happened at the meeting today? well, secretary of defense lloyd austin
of the agent infrastructure in a planter. one thing that the water commissioner did say at a press conference on saturday was that the cause? before at least one of the water main breaks was decay. so that gives you an idea of what they re dealing with right now. but again what they had have to do right now is put an end to this crisis, bring water back to these communities because people that, people that we ve been talking to here are very, very frustrated. allison no, i can imagine rafael romo. thank you very much for an update so 110 trial is set to begin tomorrow for the first time, the child of a sitting president will stand trial russia for trying to spy on us. we were spying on them i m sorry, frank this is a war. but secret war. secrets and spies, a nuclear game premieres tonight at ten on cnn water
of the cabinet meetings he referred to us that his own cabinet, the people he s appointed, are trying to be loyal to him but look back at that press conference on saturday and subsequent comments, absolutely devastating and it s driving down his support among all people, democrats, you know, republicans, blacks, whites, asians, latinos in the state. he s losing his ability to govern. one final point, big-league politics, the one that broke the northam story and is breaking the story about fairfax, initially indicated that they got there leak on fairfax from levar stony s supporters. he s the mayor of richmond. he is a political rival of fairfax. you talk about game of thrones. we ve got it going on in richmond. sandra: it s tough to keep track of all the details of the story. dana referred back to the washington post report on monday saying it s, being aware of the allegation against fairfax for over a year but was
here in the united states, this is cnn newsroom. i m natalie allen. i m george howell. the headlines we re following for you this hour. the embattled governor of the state of virginia now claims it wasn t me, saying he was not in a racist image published 34 years ago, despite saying a day ago he was one of the people there. democrat ralph northam did admit to once darkening his face to impersonate michael jackson. many prominent democrats calling for him to resign. the white house says the theme of u.s. president trump s state of the union address will be choosing greatness. he has been hinting he ll announce his plans to fund his border wall. his options include declaring a national emergency to secure the money. venezuela s ambassador to iraq has apparently defected from the government of president nicolas maduro. he made that announcement in a video released on saturday. this would make him the first known ambassador to do so. cnn, though, has not independently verified that