over joining me from around the world. i m richard quest in london. this is the cnn newsroom. israel says it s going to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties in gaza. it seems to be giving palestinians few options on where go. i ll put that very point to a senior adviser of the israeli prime minister. america s borders are at breaking point, and federal officials are encountering record levels of migration. nearly 10,000 a day. the surge and what fuels it. a report from the weather center tracking a storm system across the southwest ahead a busy holiday travel weekend. it is 10:00 in london, 12 noon in gaza. israel s military says it s pressing on with plans to expand the operation in gaza despite growing pressure to scale back on its offensive. an idf spokesperson says the campaign will widen to new areas. the emphasis on southern gaza. it follows the u.n. security council which adopted a long-delayed resolution calling for the increase in aid to gaza. the uni
good morning. welcome cnn this morning. merry christmas eve out there. santa is making his rounds. new developments from former president trump s legal team in a filing submitted late last night. the president is urging a federal appeals court to slow out the federal election subversion case against him in washington, d.c. his attorneys driving home the point trump was working in his official capacity as president to make sure the integrity of the election results. in the document they said before any single prosecutor can ask a court to sit in judgment of the president s conduct, congress must have approved of it by impeaching and convicting the president and since that didn t happen, trump has immunity. well the appeals court expedited the process and will hear arguments january 9. the judge for the case paused procedural deadlines. it s up to an appeals court to decide if presidential immunity applies here. he is not the first president to invoke presidential i
supreme court says, not so fast, to special counsel jack smith, giving the former president s go-slow legal strategy a big boost. the former president says he knows nothing about hitler, while repeating and defending his hitler-like language. plus a survivor of the october 7th massacre and her remarkable journey. good evening. anderson is off tonight. and we begin with the supreme court s decision not to decide, at least just yet, the central question that could invalidate many of the charges against the former president. namely, does donald trump enjoy immunity from prosecution for actions he took as president? the judge in his january 6th trial ruled he did not. special counsel jack smith asked the supreme court to bypass the d.c. circuit and take it now. and today the court said no. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us with more. kate lynne, we have a decision, not a clear understanding of an explanation of why the justices decided this. walk us through what we know, how man
pass border is constant, over the last few hours we have seen how group after group of migrants get here, and that doesn t stop at night, either, after the immigrants surrender to u.s. border patrol agents at the border, they are brought here to this holding area behind me, where they have to wait to be processed. just yesterday customs and border protection released the numbers of what they call encounters with immigrants with border patrol agents. for the month of november, there were 191,113 apprehensions along the border, and that number rises to more than 242,000, nearly a quarter of a million people, if we add those who seek asylum at ports of entry. as high as those numbers seem, officials say they re lower as compared to the same period last year. congressman tony gonzalez, a republican who represents two-thirds of the texas border with mexico says, help from the federal government here at the border is desperately needed, especially considering that those in charge o
newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we re following some breaking news out of florida right now, during the busy holiday shopping season, law enforcement officials say multiple people were injured at a mall in 0 call that, north of orlando. the mall is being evacuated, but add there is no longer a threat in the area, and that the suspect has fled the scene. moments ago, police holding a news conference, said one person was killed in this shooting, one person was seriously injured in this shooting. and they say at this point, the shooting appears to be a targeted act of violence. we are closely following this story, we ll bring you any new developments that come in throughout the evening, so, stay with us, but in the meantime, just want to reiterate, police just held a news conference in ocala, florida, they are seeing one dead, one injured as a result of a shooting at this mall. of course, this very busy holiday shopping season taking place across the count