good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, april 8th camera, walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for being with us. i almost wore my easter pick today. early tomorrow. try for tomorrow. i had had a lavender for one of the days, but you know, we ll figure it out and the color s up for tomorrow. i promise. here s what we re watching two major, very different rulings on access to a medical abortion pill across the country. one judge halts availability of the drug another preserves access to it in some states will sort out the rulings and the coming legal challenges escalating tensions in the middle east. at least three people are dead in separate attacks. we are live in jerusalem with the very latest it s sad and pathetic to think. that our democracy. can be taken away from a voter. vice president kamala harris travels to tennessee after two democratic members are expelled for leading a gun protest on the house floor. their constituents now left wit
house floor. their constituents now left without a voice at the capitol. but those lawmakers vowed the fight is not over. it just really is surreal that that it s something i have to worry about. expected mothers and some rural areas will now be forced to travel longer distances just to deliver their babies as maternity units closed across the country. and we begin with the most significant abortion related rulings since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade last summer to rival rulings on medical abortion pills came down yesterday, the first from texas the federal judge ruled to suspend the fda is two decade old approval of mifepristone. then just two hours later, a federal judge in washington state ruled the fda must keep medical medication, abortion on the shelves and a dozen democratic states. cnn s