hello and welcome to you if you re joining me around the world, wherever you may be watching in the united states, europe, asia. i m richard quest. together, we are in the cnn newsroom . president biden reveals that he didn t ask for a cease-fire in his long call, telephone call, with the israeli prime minister. at the same time, the military in israel is expanding its ground offensive in gaza. christmas eve for many, to be sure, as the war rages on in gaza. christians in bethlehem and around the world, it s a celebration much more difficult than in previous years. and at the cnn s weather center, some in the united states forget a white christmas. think rainy christmas, instead. it s an extreme ly busy morning, and i ll get to those stories in a moment. only after i ve updated you with one twor deve developments in d trump s legal battles. the former u.s. president has now asked a federal appeals court to throw out the criminal election subversion case against him. the
what we re learning about that call. and the intensifying war of words between the u.s. and russia. top u.s. officials warning vladimir putin of catastrophic consequences just days after the russian leader issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat. all that playing out as outrage builds forcing hundreds of thousands of reservists into combat. the growing desperation leading to violence at an enlistment center. we begin with the threat from hurricane ian. we just got an update on its track and intensity. sam brock is in tampa, florida, and metrologist bill karins has a look at what we can expect. first to you, sam. i understand a mandatory evacuation is being called for the county where you are. what can you tell us? reporter: the threat is starting to feel a whole lot more real. right now for residents of this county in tampa, we re in tampa, hillsboro county is 1.5 million people. we found out that mandatory evacuations have been issued for portions of the county, zones a
Are expected to rise as the attacks are ongoing and many remain unaccounted for. In addition, over 100, possibly more, is really so and military have been reported captured by armed groups, including women, children and the elderly. Some are being held hostage inside israel and many others have been taken inside the gaza strip. Meanwhile, hamas and Palestinian Islamicjihad have launched thousands of rockets, which reach central israel. I recognise the legitimate grievances the palestinian people, but nothing can justify these acts of terror and the killing, maiming and abduction of civilians. I reiterate my call to immediately cease these attacks and release all hostages. In the face of these unprecedented attacks on israeli air strikes appointed gaza. Im deeply alarmed of reports of over 500 palestinians, including women and children, killed in gaza and over 3,000 injured. Unfortunately, these numbers are rising by the minute as Israeli Operations continue. While i recognise israel be
miles an hour, which is quite fast. so how much debris is kicked up, what happens to the spacecraft. then they ll look at changes from the orbit but that s more from telescopes. those images will be pretty cool. and this is just one of the planetary defense systems nasa s works on. what else do they have? another idea might be to put like a big detonation device in armageddon, something like that. blow it up. so i think that s another option that they ll look at, but this seems to be, i don t know if thest the simplest, but it s the one that i think would be a first choice if we had to do something like this. it doesn t create a secondary set of debris that might cause trouble later. got to ask you about artemis. had one launch day, it was scrapped. another, scrapped. now a third.
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