planning to free the dali cargo ship from the debris that has been laying across. its bow, allowing the ship to eventually be floated and moved from the waterway. this comes a few days after the six and the final body was recovered from the water. investigations will also are in investigators will also be having a hearing on capitol hill next week to discuss federal response to the catastrophe all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me out for greek all right, we begin this hour with dramatic new developments in the middle east. israeli military forces are calling for the immediate evacuations of some neighborhoods in in the southern gaza city of rafah. the idf says about 300 people have already fled the orders, come ahead of an anticipated idf ground offensive in an area more than 1 million palestinians where they are seeking refuge. this on the heels of a new report from the white house the biden administration says, it s reasonable to assess that
is now prepared, see him they re wearing of viking helmet as he showed up for the italian open today to the cheering crowds who were all like right in front of him as opposed to being overhead the world number one player is scheduled for his next to match on sunday against chile is the hundred two below good luck hello again, everyone. thank you. so much for joining me out for greek. a whitfield were monitoring several new developments in the war in gaza. israel s military is ordering immediate evacuations and parts of each mr. rafah in gaza, south, the idf says about 300,000 people have already fled the evacuations happening following deadly overnight airstrikes in northern and central gaza. hospitals in the area say the strikes killed at least 47 people. while another 15 were killed in separate strikes in rafah earlier today, the idf seemingly intensifying operations despite this morning from president biden earlier in the week i made it clear that if they go into rafah, th
aides and tragedy in texas floodwaters sweep away little boy as his parents trying to get the family to dry land. and today millions are under threat of more severe weather. i m kate baldwin was sara sidner and john berman in this is cnn news central happening now as possible ground invasion of eastern rafah in gaza could be imminent with hostage and ceasefire negotiations teetering on the brink of collapse. we have brand new video, justin of a plume of smoke. after a loud explosion in rafah israeli forces could putin launched what they are calling a limited scale operation. the idf drop leaflets with a map to so-called safe zones in the message, evacuated immediately. this has a direct impact on as many as 100,000 people, cnn s jeremy diamond is in jerusalem. jeremy was the latest your hearing from there? elmilitary thousands of leaflets on eastern raffa, ordering an area we re about 100,000e currently living to begin evacuating north to what the israeli military is descri
we love space news here on the context. and tonight, it s the next step in china s ambitious space programme. the country s space agency has launched a rocket that it s hoping will make history. this is the moment the chang e 6 mission blasted off from the wenchang space launch centre in southern hainan province. on board is a probe that will aim for the first time to collect samples from the far side of the moon. the spacecraft will attempt to make a soft landing on the south pole aitken basin, one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system. it then hopes to return the samples successfully to earth. the journey is expected to take 53 days to complete. i m pleased to say former nasa astronaut, who was once the commander of the international space station, leroy chiao joins us now. leroy, always a delight to talk to you. i love talking to you about space, and give me your sense of how significant this is not only that china has launched this probe that it s be
when he was called up by the bronx bombers, he replaced a 19 year old mickey mantle, who was optioned for aaa and he became roommates with yogi berra. how s that for friday ticker. thanks to our panel. tnks to you for joining us. i m kasie hunt, cnn news central starts right now f is four friday and breaking this morning, damage control, donald trump s lawyers try to mitigate the dramatic, tawdry testimony from the first witness in the criminal hush money is it possible adult film star stormy daniels takes the stand today protests and golfing college campuses, college professors getting arrested and now one university is canceling their main graduation ceremony at tiktok fights back the wildly social media app does. it will not be sold out through a law that could lead to a nationwide ban. real that bad happened. i m sorry, sided with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central this morning. how much damage was done, how much can be undone? a critical moment in the