>> good morning. welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, march 9. i'm victor blackwell. >> his horizontals in for amara walker. thanks for joining us. and you look refreshed, coming >> back from >> vacation. >> thank you very much. i'm a couple of shades. darker. got a little red toner into there. what i want to beat, feel better >> all right. >> here's what we're watching. were you this weekend will get a preview of what to expect in a head-to-head rematch between president biden and former president trump as the to hold dueling rallies here in georgia today. plus, we'll discuss a biden campaign strategy to try to seize on momentum from the state of the union address tornado watches are in effect across parts of the southeast this morning with some major cities at risk for tornados and dangerous >> hail we're also tracking a significant flood threat. >> cnn got exclusive access to one of the first ship set to bring cool. so humanitarian supplies to gaza well, show you what's being delivered and how the us is helping in the relief that testimony began this week in the trial of james crumbley, the father of the oxford school shooter. the charges he's facing and why he's no longer allowed to make phone calls to anyone except his attorney. >> was the >> military is developing a ufo detection system. >> why how does it work? >> and what have they seen so far, we're getting some answers to those questions ahead on cnn this morning. the biden trump rematch is underway. now, fresh off his state of the union address. president biden is set to hit the road on a battleground. states swing that includes a visit to georgia. biden, former president trump, expected to make appearances today in georgia with biden holding an event in atlanta, trump holds a rally in rome, georgia. that's in the northwest part of the state. >> the biden campaign hopes to continue the president's momentum coming out of the state of the union speech while trump popes to win over nikki haley voters after she dropped out of the race. georgia was a key battleground state that biden won in 2020 by less than a percentage point it is the biggest delegate prize and the only swing state among primary contests taking place on tuesday. super tuesday put both biden and trump on the brink of having enough delegates to synch their party's presidential nominations. >> cnn white house correspondent camila dechalus is in wilmington, that with the president is starting his day. camila. what are the messages that the president is trying to highlight in this first wing after the big address well, victor isabel, one of the things that biden really wants to highlight is what he has done while he's been in office >> when it comes to the economy, like investing in thousands of drops or investing in public safety, or his efforts to try to lower the high cost of prescription drugs. he wants to remind the voters what he's done, but also lay out what he wants to do if he gets re-elected into office. and one of the things that we saw last night and his speech in philadelphia is he going to talk about what's at stake in this election cycle and talk about his former predecessor, donald trump. he mentioned him by name about him, about eight times yesterday, and a lot of that is that he really wanted the distress that he believes that donald trump poses a threat to democracy. and so those are some of the biggest things he's going to highlight. and atlanta and in the months ahead when we arrived down the street, or as a trump fan, i was fu on it and a little and a six-year-old kid putting up as middle finger >> did you ever sit? no, i'm serious. the general thank you. hear people talk the way they do look at domains, domains who we are. that's not who america, that's not america >> as you saw, victor is about biden is really just going to highlight what's at stake in this election cycle. and really just how he believes that donald trump poses a threat to democracy camila dechalus for us there in wilmington. thanks so much. so to me now is michelle price is a national politics reporter for the associated press. >> good morning to you. all right. so camila talked a lot about policy. let's talk about tone during the state of the union address, president biden referred to former president trump as my predecessor. but in this address in pennsylvania, this rally, he called trump out by name regularly. what does that tell us aside from policy, the tonal the tone that the president in the campaign will use moving forward >> yeah, i mean, remember that the state of union is still a speech. he gives as president. it's more on the government side. there certainly pollack plays, plays a central role. but naming, naming trump when he's out explicitly on the campaign trail is a little bit of a shift to make it more of a direct contrast. >> but that speech >> on thursday was still very fiery and i think we can expect joe biden to continue that. you see that that's something that some of the folks in trump world, we're kind of taken aback by. they've been kind of casting joe biden as kind of sleepy and not fully on top of his faculties. and the way he came off in that speech is something that kind of shut some of that down to think we're gonna expect him to continue to do that. but this the way he's been taking on trump directly shows this is the matchup he's ready for it. he wants to draw those contrasts. you want stark contrasts on democracy, on tone you mentioned that the little child who was holding of the middle finger, that's a coarsening of society that's all something that joe biden is expected to probably talk about today. >> yeah, that narrative of the soul of the country fighting for the soul of the nation so you talk about what you're talking about today. they are both in georgia obviously a swing state georgia primary is tuesday. no suspense there. they're each going to win their respective primaries. but what do we know about what the voters want to hear from these two men? >> well, each of these folks today, they're going to be speaking to people who are probably inclined to support them, who were physically in front of them because they're coming out to these rallies. but these messages that they are brought are there. they're each going to be trying to reach some of these swing voters. so he's independence and some of the people who were hoping to support nikki haley, you're going to see joe biden tried to reach some of those folks and he already has started trying to reach out to some of those folks. >> donald trump thing >> that donald trump struggles with is when he gets before a rally crowd like he will today, he tends to speak to his base so what we're going to try to see today is whether he continues that he will be in a very heavily republican part of the state. he's in georgia where there's still fresh memory of what happened at the university of georgia student laken riley, something he has been speaking about a lot. immigration has been central to him. >> whether he can leans into his heart, immigration policies, or whether he cast a wider message that brings people into something to see. but we're going to see a stark contrast between these two laying out what is going to feel like you very long general election stretching out before us, former president trump will be in marjorie taylor greenes district. today in georgia. and of course, she want war the maga hat and buttons calling out the president at the state of the union. so let's talk about the rnc. now the new team is in place. you've got at the top, michael whatley as the chair, lara trump as the new co-chair. chris loves sida lacivita. i should say, as the chief of staff, what does this portend? what does this new leadership mean for the arm? and see, as we contrast it to the organization under ronna mcdaniel to the biggest thing that this symbol is that donald trump is the ohis, the perceived nominee by those in his party. he has fully asserted his grip on the party. these are his hand-picked people, but it's also a merging of the rnc with his campaign, chris lacivita is going to be running a lot of the day-to-day operations at the rnc, but also at his campaign. so whatever, wherever the republican party is active in elections this year with, their campaigning for not only donald trump, but for, for down ticket races. that is all going to be coming in filtered through the trump campaign. so you're going to see him fully commanding that political apparatus now what, what is interesting is some of the things that they're talking about, these new leadership. they want to focus on fundraising, which was struggling with the rnc. but one of the biggest things that they talk about as a new priority, one of the reasons that michael watson was business chair is because if the emphasis he keeps putting on election integrity measures this is something that stems from donald trump's false claims in 2020 that he lost the election because of fraud. he is still bringing that up pretty much every time he speaks. and what he has charged these folks with as they take over the rnc is to have a much more robust program in place to monitor the vote to file legal challenges, to just be much more aggressive this time around than they were in 2020. >> i was look ahead to the potential debates. former president trump has said that he is ready to debate president biden anytime, anywhere. listen to what vp harris and president biden said when they were asked about debating president trump >> but given what you argue is at stake here, will you take the chance to show voters more of what they saw last night to take on trump directly in debates we'll get to that at some point and we'll deal with that >> well, you commit to a debate with former president trump's depends on his behavior now, is that michelle just to appear not to be too eager, or could we see an extension of what happened during the >> primaries? know debates? >> we, could see no debates. it seems like they're very non-committal right now. they're not saying no. >> but the >> way that donald trump handled his republican primary, where he didn't appear at any debates. the reason he gave was that if you're leading, if you, if you're if you're winning, you don't need to debate. they gave joe biden kamala harris that reason give them a reason that they could take up on their own as a reason they don't feel like they need to debate. but you got to remember in 2020 when joe biden and donald trump debated the first one was almost unwatchable because donald trump was interrupting so much that the next time they got together, the debate condition actually invented this mute button to cut off his microphone because they just couldn't hear anything when he was interrupting all the time. so we don't if we get to that again, will i hope we will have the mute button because we might appeal to here to the answers, but we don't know whether it will get there are not in this general election this year. yeah. well, the american people certainly deserve debates. i hope we get to michelle price. thanks. thanks so much >> stronger. storms are sweeping through the south, putting nearly 14 million people at risk for dangerous flooding. there's also the possibility of tornadoes, as this system heads northeast, cnn meteorologists elisa raffa is in atlanta, which saw flooding last night. and the lisa, this is an area pretty much much already saturated, right? they've seen re >> yeah. i mean, we got a month's worth of rain here in atlanta in just a week, we got an inch and a half of rain here overnight, and then we got two-and-a-half inches on wednesday rack peach tree creek would really got some problems on wednesday? it flooded this entire your walkway here we're on a part of the belt line here in atlanta and you can see the creek is still rushing fast and it's rising this morning after we gotta get another engine, a half of rain overnight. there's some debris down here to when you get that heavy rain, it picks up all of our plastic pollution and sends it right into the waters. and we've been watching it kind of rolled down the creek this morning once the sun comes up we able to see it a little bit better, but yeah, rising here with another inch-and-a-half of rain overnight. and we've got even more significant flooding just to the south of us and southern georgia. i want to show you the radar because we've got this storm that's pretty expansive. we've got some showers stretching from upstate new york all the way down the east coast and that heaviest rain is in southern georgia where we've thought all of that, the lightning strikes there. now we do also have a tornado watch that's in effect until 11:00 this morning along southern georgia the florida panhandle, where we could have some spin tornadoes as we go through the morning as well, flash flooding has continued it should be a risk. we've got flash flood warnings that continue through the morning here because we've got heavy rain, we've gotten 2.5 inches of rain and spots and where piling on that some of these rainfall totals have been an excess of five to six inches over the last couple of days. and the southeast has been pretty saturated in an undated all of winter. we've had some rainfall totals that have been well above average so far this year. so far this winter, it's just been well above average and that has let these ground conditions be pretty saturated and keeping the flooding risk of there right when the ground is saturated and you get more heavier the rain on top, the ground really can't take that much more. now we do know that we find that these two inch heavy rainfall days are increasing as our atmosphere becomes warmer, it can hold more moisture and we squeeze out more of these heavy rainfall days. we do have the rain that's wrapping up here in atlanta, but all of that moisture heads up the east coast. so if you're watching from areas like new york to maine, brace for some showers, even some snow and interior new england guys. >> lisa, stay dry out there. thank you. >> all right. we are just getting started here on cnn this morning. >> straight ahead. a cnn exclusive we'll go inside the massive mission happening now to get lifesaving humanitarian aid in the gaza bus, what it talks for a ceasefire state ahead of tomorrow's ramadan deadline. and former president donald trump pays a bond of more than $90 million. in one case and then has a deadline to pay nearly a half billion-dollar judgment a few weeks from now new questions on how he's going to pay for all that still ahead. >> while savannah gone is rolling out new tools to track possible ufos. and it goes on the record about any evidence of alien cnn technology. that story a little later, i'm seeing in this one, lead with jake tapper weekdays it for on cnn did you know that only one in ten americans consume adequate amounts of fruits and 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has discussed efforts to achieve a six-week ceasefire in gaza with the egyptian foreign minister and in this moment, in this hour, we're also intensely focused on seeing if we can get a >> ceasefire with the release of hostages the expansion of humanitarian assistance, and an environment for working on an enduring resolution and there the issue as hamas, the issue is whether hamas will decide or not to have a ceasefire that would benefit everyone the ball is in their court. we're working intensely on it and we'll see what we'll see what they do well, president biden cast a lot of doubt on the prospect of striking a deal that includes a temporary ceasefire paired with the release of hostages by >> the start of ramadan and an exclusive interview with cnn, the european union says it hopes to launch an emergency maritime aid corridor from cyprus to gaza this weekend, citing the dire humanitarian green situation in the enclave cnn's nada bashir joins us live from larnaca, cyprus with more on this historic mission. not well we've had a firsthand look at preparations for what is set to >> be one of the first, the first ships heading to gaza as part of this maritime effort to transport humanitarian aid. and crucially food supplies to the gaza strip. this is a significant development as we've seen over the last few months getting aid and has proven extremely difficult. the amount of aid that we're seeing getting in at this point is just a drop in the ocean in comparison to what is needed in gaza yesterday, we were able to spend day with volunteers and aid workers here at this port in cyprus, preparing for that first and worst at the groundbreaking at mission in hopes that they will get an uptick in here. we want to turn aid into gaza. take a look >> at the port of larnaca. cyprus. preparations are underway vital food supplies, carefully loaded onto this barge ready to be transported to gaza. ngo workers at world central kitchen have been laying the groundwork for this mission for weeks. following difficult ground crossings along gaza's obstructed borders and limited air drops. this is their latest effort to supplying crucial humanitarian aid to the palestinian people well, these products off filled with rice and flower, these volunteers are preparing to carry them by this vessel behind me to gaza. this could be one of the first, if not the first aid missions, transporting food and humanitarian aid by sea >> a bold the open arms ship. volunteers and rescue workers assess the precarious route to gaza's embattled coast the mission comes as the european union, the uae, and other international partners announced the opening of a new maritime corridor allowing ships to carry humanitarian supplies from cyprus to the besieged strip. >> today, we are facing a humanitarian catastrophe in gaza and we stand by the innocent civilians in palestine, search and rescue coordinator as to camps is herself preparing to make the journey to war-torn gaza. >> the worst part of the 1.2 meters. >> this is a deeply complex mission but one which is desperately needed. as gaza teeters on the brink of famine, it's really important because we are like the pilot phase. so if we get this food inside many other so people can do the same we are proving the world that we can do it. so we must do more the establishment of a new maritime corridor has been endorsed by the united states president biden himself directing the us military to establish a temporary port on gaza's coast to facilitate access for humanitarian supplies. israel, for its part, says, it welcomes the development and we'll continue to coordinate with international allies but un experts have accused israeli leaders of quote, intentionally starving the palestinian people in gaza with over half 1 million according to the un's world food programme now at risk of starvation >> and of course, >> while this is a positive development, there are still many questions around how this will actually work in practical terms, there are still a lot of unknowns around how this humanitarian aid and there's food supplies will actually be transported physically once these vessels make it to gas. and as we have heard from us officials, efforts by the us military to establish a temporary port or peer on gaza's coast could take up to two months. is still a lot of questions as to how quickly this maritime corridor will be up and running and of course, how much aid will be able to get into the gaza strip? >> not a, there had been some hope to broker the ceasefire by the start of ramadan, less than a day away. very unlikely it's going to happen. what's the latest on the talks? >> we've seen a lot of back-and-forth. we've seen delegations from both hamas and israel as well as other regional international partners traveling to cairo over the last he weeks taking part in these negotiations, we've heard previously from the united states saying that there is some sort of broad agreement on the terms of a potential truce that would last around six weeks. it would be a pause in fighting. hamas hopes so this could lead to a gradual withdrawal of israeli soldiers on the ground. and of course, israel is still pushing for full release of israeli hostages held captive by hamas in gaza. at this stage, as we know, it is looking unlikely that a deal will be struck before ramadan. we've heard that from us officials, including think president biden wins. i'll say situation at this stage is tough despite the fact that he said both he and his administration have been working tirelessly to broker some sort of truce agreement or at least a temporary pause in fighting at this stage. it is looking unlikely the fear is that we could see perhaps that's an escalation in violence. we know of course that israel has previously warned that if there isn't any sort of agreement for what i'm all done at the hostages aren't returned for hoard. i'm a dad and they could launch a ground incursion instead of that. of 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according to the oakland county sheriff's office, they did not say who was on the receiving end of those messages. crumbley is facing a michigan jury just weeks after his wife, jennifer, was convicted on these same four charges of involuntary manslaughter or guilty verdict marks the first time the parent of a mass shooter was ever convicted. james crumbley is the parent who i actually bought the gun for. ethan crumbley, who used it to kill four people at a michigan high school, oxford high school. cnn's jean casarez has those highlights from friday's testimony victor in is about one of the prosecution's witnesses on friday was detective joe brian. he heads up the special investigation unit and he testified that once ethan was in custody, he spoke to him and he asked him who has parents were who is father was? he said james, and the detective called james and told him to get down to the substation because that's where ethan was. so he and jennifer went down there. i think you can see from this video, once they got there, they were ushered into this interview room. there are two detectives, including detective brian in there and they started talking to the parents and james spoke a lot. jamie said that they had gotten in an argument the night before with their son, ethan because of a geometry score and that he had taken to ethan to school that morning, the morning of the mass shooting and he really thought everything was calm down and he told his son, just do the best you can in school he also was asked about does he have any issues and he said, well, he lost his best friend recently, moved out of state, whose dog died. my mother, his grandmother died in april. and then it went too well. are there any disciplinary issues involving him and he said he's never gotten in trouble we're school. but then on the cross examination, the defense, they honed in on a pivotal issue in this case. the safekeeping of that gun six and it's and 45 seconds. james, full view that he had a six hour handgun? >> yes. >> there was 650 seconds. he said that it was hidden in an armbar correct? >> it's six minutes, 58 seconds. >> and these are approximate time stamps. i'm not holding you to britley. appreciate it. >> six minutes and 58 seconds that the bolts were hidden in a different spot under g z signs yes, ma'am. >> when the trial ended on friday, the judge turned to the jury and said, we are really making time on this trial monday, tuesday, and wednesday of next week. we will work and then she told the jury, and after that, you could be getting the case so obviously this case is going at record speed and we'll see what next week holds. >> victor, isabel. >> and that was jean casarez reporting, joining us now to talk about this case is cnn's legal analyst, joey jackson. joey right off the bat. do we know much more about the nature of those alleged threats? james crumbley's accused of making. >> and >> then what are your thoughts on that >> yeah. isabel, good morning to you. so we do not at this point and then the critical issue obviously is how they play into this trial, if at all right to this point, the judge is not admitting anything regarding these communications, only saying that his communications will be the limited moving forward. now, if he testifies isabel and matters come up, it's possible he could be confronted with respect to the threats, but at this point, it's very murky as to that, and it should be because it could prejudice him in this case, he's got much more to worry about in terms of defending himself. so let's see, moving forward, whether we burn more and whether any of those threats come out in a court of law. >> joe, we have this clip from james crumbley's defense attorney. let's listen in real quick >> ladies and gentlemen >> you will not >> hear that james crumbley, new what his son was going to do you will not hear that genes. can we even suspected that his son was a danger? >> all right. that was from the opening statements. what do you think of this sort of defense? can james crumbley saying he wasn't aware of the danger even though ethan we know from text messages as tim and his wife for help with his mental health and accused his parents of not listening to him yes so this is a critical issue, right? because it falls on the matter of foreseeability and it falls on the matter of negligence. what's that about? well first, in terms of foreseeability in the event that you purchase your child a weapon. first of all, which was four days prior to this, and you have knowledge as to his mental health? formalities, right? that's problematic. and so to what extent now were you negligent? furthermore, you saw the clip there with respect to the defense asking about the hiding of the gun, did you hide it enough? where was it in connection with? where he would that is ethan crumbley, the shooter himself convicted, as we know, pled guilty spending the rest of his life in jail such that he could have access to it. so all that's important. you are the father you shot with them. this was your hobby. you have a responsibility will be the argument to make sure he doesn't get a hold of that gun next issue, what extent, if any, are you aware as to what your child's going through and should you have been aware? i have that? >> and so when you saw the clip of the defense focusing on the issue of knowledge, it's important because the juries and say, what did you know about the sun and why would you got them? why would you have gotten him a gun if you knew that? and that's why you saw the defense focusing in on that. they have to separate that issue. father had no knowledge. father secure the gun if they have any hopes of exonerating him in this case is about and speaking of knowledge and precautions that were were not taken, jurors heard from the person who sold james crumbley the gun and saw its unused cable lock still in its packaging. how big is up for the prosecution? and could that impact the jury? >> yeah. i mean, look at the end of the day, going back to the issue of foreseeability. foreseeability is it likely is it potentially possible that this could happen because you were negligent? and so they're going to hone in the prosecution on the gun. what was the nature of where was the gun hidden? when was it there? what did your child know about it? did your child have access to it? should he have as a parent, did you take the proper precautions? remember, is about the father is not charged with shooting at all. the fathers charged with setting the circumstances in motion such that the shooting can occur. so issues concerning the gun and anything related to the gun are very critical. the jury sense of what the father did and whether the whether he did enough is very critical because it goes again to the issue of negligence. what you negligence did you set this chain in motion and was it foreseeable because of what you did not do or what you did do as a father, that this would happen. those are the issues in contention at this trial. >> so let's talk about that emotional testimony from the school victims how powerful is that for the jurors? if james crumbley was not the shooter yeah. >> yeah. you know, is about the reality is this obviously the issue of emotion is something that the jury has got to be instructed about. it's not about emotion, it's not about who you like, who you don't like. it's not about your personal feelings, it's about the evidence having said that p people are people. human nature is human nature. and as a result of that, it's hard not really to make a connection with the fact that there are four kids dead. why who's accountable for that? could it have been prevented? and so when you hear this emotional testimony, when you hear the impact that it had on the school, the impact that had on the community, the impact that had on but you're looking to see why and who's responsible, why we even here, who could have done something better and father, if that was you because of your lack of hiding, concealing the gun, or knowing how to treat your son when he needed help? then what we may be more likely the jury, to assess guilt in the event, right? that that's not the case, then perhaps not, but emotional components are always very difficult to overcome, even with the judge instructing the jury to overlook it. >> and these are such uncharted waters, putting the parents under the legal spotlight, except i guess jennifer crumbley, his wife, joey jackson. thank you for your time. >> so the pentagon says that it has no evidence of aliens among us. that's good news. but they will not stop looking more on the new ufo kits developed by the military. that's coming up cnn saturday >> first of all, with victor blackwell smerkonish, the chris wallace show, the oman who are our the week's biggest stories. the weekend in its hottest topics starting today at eight on cnn. >> now, adt professionally installs google nest products >> 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