are you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we are following a number of new developments in the israel-hamas war. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting with arab leader in jordan. blinken stressed support for israel to implement humanitarian pauses, as he s calling them, in the fighting in gaza. short of a cease-fire demanded by arab countries and international aid agencies. the u.s. official says hamas is blocking foreign nationals from leaving gaza for egypt through the rafah crossing. hamas is demanding that israel guarantee that ambulances from gaza, that they can reach that crossing. and egyptian source says more than 700 foreign nationals were expected to cross through rafah earlier today including 400 americans. free, free palestine! people around the world are marching and singing in rallies against the war today including this one here in washington. you can see the capitol in the background there.
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which keep our loving the 43-year-old pop singer to police at the time of his are being stopped to a vet. he only had one martini when he was arrested. his next virtual court appearance is scheduled for july 26, hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield a dangerous he waived is growing across the us, leaving more than 100 million americans are under heat alerts. this weekend, many cities including washington, dc, could eclipse record temperatures over the next three days with highs in the upper 90s, even triple digits. joining me right now, cnn correspondent polo sandoval is joining us from brooklyn, trying to keep it cool there. and meteorologist lisa rafah from the cnn weather center in atlanta. good to see you both. all right. polo, you first, how are people handling this heat it s so hard to escape this heat. fred, especially if you don t have any air conditioning, of course for some of the youngest of those roughly 100 million ame
hands covered, we didn t even know what he was going to do to her, so are just first instinct was just my dad just pulled them off and pinned him in the corner of the building i understand that your father got injured in all this house. he how s he doing can you repeat the question, please? sure. i was asking how your father is doing today because i understand that he may have gotten injured during all of this yes my father, yes, he did get scratched. he did get a bit. but he is fine right now? yes, ma am. well, i am sure that the young lady that he helped saved as so so thankful this morning. and thank you for coming on and telling the story. i appreciate you. all right a new our cnn news central starts right now all right. we re standing by as a new hearing and donald trump s classified documents case is about to get underway. could we see jack smith blocked from prosecuting the former president? we re live outside the florida courthouse and new numbers from bor
with us. our biggest hour of cnn news central starts right now all right. new york times, maggie haberman says donald trump is prepared to go after president biden on hunter. biden cnn s historic debate. now, just a week away, new details on the final preparations. that s ahead. plus were standing thing by for a possible a huge supreme court decision. many decisions major questions involving trump s immunity and of course, abortion rights unlinked the line and repeatedly reckless with guns, how prosecutor planning to go after alec baldwin, kate bolduan, out today. i m sarah sided with john berman. this says cnn news central just one week to go until the first presidential debate here on cnn no general election debate has ever been this early or potentially this important. and we re you are getting details on how the candidates are getting ready. president biden is headed to camp david. we re told that donald trump is talking to his vice presidential hopefuls, outside alli