fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that
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new tornado emergency for you that storm right there is on the ground producing damage. we do know that it is a large and damaging tornado right now that just moved through winnie and parts of arkansas just to the north west of memphis, likely mrs memphis, but we ll keep watching that iowa city big storm just to your northwest was rotating for awhile. tornado was on the ground and things but on the ground since ottumwa, iowa, a long path so this area here from chicago through devenport all the way down to louisiana and mississippi, all part of the same system with e f to e f three s and larger likely with this not by tomorrow, this thing even gets to some of the big cities. now i m not e f two and e f three s. but watch this is hour by hour. i set this up because i know you all don t live in parts of arkansas but hour by hour as we roll this through the ohio valley down through tennessee, we go from seven o clock to nine o clock in advance again. back into the evening hours.
that s 184494200. wellcare medicare done well, melanie s nana in washington and this is cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with the formal expulsion of two black state democrats from tennessee s house of representatives. the expulsions coming a week after they let a gun reform protests from the house floor in response to a school shooting that killed six, including three children in nashville, justin jones and justin pearson. we re also joined in that protest by their colleague, representative gloria johnson. you see them all there. holding hands, raising their fists. vice president harris met privately with the so called tennessee three on friday, she was in nashville to advocate for stricter gun reform. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me now with more on this, isabel. what are we learning about the expulsions and what s next? good afternoon to you, fred? yeah we re hearing from t