as the nation hurdles towards yet another government shutdown. i want to know if new republican house speaker, mike johnson and his lack of experience have what it takes to get a deal done. we are live on capitol hill where today we could learn part of the plan to keep the government open. overnight, strikes israel war on hamas intensifies after another wave of bombings. benjamin netanyahu makes a trip to the gaza border. live in israel with the latest on the 35-day war and the humanitarian crisis growing worse by the minute. later, trump tower of lies. the former first family taking turns testifying in a civil fraud suit. how ivanka trump s repeated claims of, i don t recall, could come back to bite the most indicted one term ex president in u.s. history. all of that and more is coming up. good saturday morning to you all. i m katie phang. we start today with another case of déjà vu on catol hill. this time next week, the government could be shut down. with only six days
what are we expecting from this hearing today. reporter: yeah, phil. this is a status conference hearing. the next step in this legal process. so we re expecting really the attorneys to go back and forth with discussion as far as evidence is concerned, but really no big headlines to come out of it. just again another big step in the process as heuermann is six charges in rels to the murders of the three women whose bodies were found not far from here more than a decade ago. we re not expected to hear from rex heuermann himself. we did hear from the divorce attorney for his soon to be ex-wife. i want you to hear what he said on cnn last night. it s been extremely overwhelming for her and the child trying to piece life back together what it was two and a half weeks ago. i don t know if they will ever return to normalcy, but day by day she is getting better. she needs to show her strength so the children have something to focus on, strong focal point of their mom getting better. she
his face was red. his eyes were full of tears. his temples were popping. his body was shaking. all this while he was sitting in the jury box in his tan jumpsuit, shackled by hands and feet. and his hair in a pony tail. this was a very short hearing, as we expected. the judge informed him of his charges, and after a very brief discussion, the judge determined that there would be a pretrial detention hearing and a status conference hearing scheduled for friday. jake? and rosa, officials tell cnn the suspect had a list of more than 100 people that he planned to send packages to? do we know anything about who was on that list and how many packages he sent? reporter: you know, we don t know the names of everyone on that list. but cnn has learned that we have reported on some of the names on that list, that law enforcement officials have contacted everybody on the list. and jake, i should add, in a gaggle with sayoc s attorney