good morning. it is saturday, may 13th, 2023, of course, that is the year we are in. i m amara walker. thank you for the reminder. sometimes we need it. ikt victor blackwell in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the escalating violence between israelis and palestinians in gaza. the israeli defense forces, they ve launched a series of attacks today. the idf attacked islamic jihad sites in the gaza strip, they say. these deadly strikes on palestinian targets have been ongoing since tuesday. palestinian officials say at least 33 people have been killed so far including militants and civilians and an israeli medical service says a rocket hit a residential building there this week. one person was killed, five were hurt. cnn s ben wedeman is live in southern israel, near gaza, hi there, ben, what s the latest. what s going on there on the ground? reporter: what we ve seen throughout the day here is there have been occasional volleys of rockets being fired out of gaza, and mor
. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, may 13th, i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. welcome to the best day of the week. your favorite. nobody it is likes saturday. even if you have to work, saturday is pretty cool. good to have you along. here is what we re watching this morning. i have to admit it is nice to be able to breathe one more time, but we can t let our guard down because we still know it is coming. city leaders and workers along the u.s. mexican border say they are bracing for an influx of migrants after title 42 expired this week. the concerns from officials and the legal challenges the white house is now facing after letting the policy expire. guilty on all counts, an iowa jury convicted daybell in the murder of her children. and what her family had to say after the verdict. we all just want to new explosions reported in eastern ukraine. we ll take you there to the frontlines as ukrainian troops work to
viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church, just ahead on cnn newsroom, the blood of black america is on your hands. so stand up and do something. police reform in the u.s. this follows outrage over the harrowing video we saw of police beating tyre nichols to death. why many say change begins at the federal level. three woks after a first grader allegedly shot his teacher, students from one virginia elementary school will finally return to the classroom. we ll look what s being changed. and the u.s. secretary of state arrives in the middle east amid rising tensions between israelis and palestinians live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. and we begin this hour with the boating death of tyre nichols and efforts to prevents will become a water shed moment in the push for criminal justice reform. hours after the video was made public showing nichols ruthless beating at the hands of memphis police, officials shot
officers. we have the latest on a very painful weekend. a new nbc news poll shows just how concerned americans are over president biden s and former president trump s handling of classified documents. steve kornacki is back at the big board with a look at the numbers. students are back in class at a virginia elementary school for the first time since a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher. we ll tell you about the new safety protocols now in place. moments from now, secretary of state antony blinken will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the midst of the worst explosion of israeli-palestinian violence in years. back at home, the super bowl lineup is set, the eagles versus the chiefs. buffalo bills player damar hamlin speaks out for the first time since collapsing on the field earlier this month. it s just been a lot to process. i can t tell you how appreciative i am of all the love, all the support and everything that s just been coming in my way.
good morning and welcome to cnn this morning weekend. i m boris sanchez live in memphis, tennessee, a city that s still processing the horror caught on camera, the horrific beating of tyre nichols at the hands of police. good morning to you, boris. i m amara walker here in atlanta. that encounter from start to finish, the video was released last night, giving the public its first glimpse into what happened on that night. the four clips are each taken from different per specktives, but they all show a deadly encounter between tyre nichols and memphis police officers earlier this month. the images are graphic, disturbing and heartbreaking, but they re critical to understanding the gravity of what happened. i didn t do anything. turn your ass around. all right, all right, all right, all right. on the ground, on the ground. all right, all right, all right. you don t do that, okay? get on the ground. we see and hear a lot. what we do not see is nichols bein