News out of Columbia University in protests across the country are Breaking News is going to continue here on sienna anand dont go anywhere. Im Kasie Hunt Cnn News Central its right now breaking overnight here at Columbia University, protesters breached an Academic Building. They are now inside barricading the doors as this protest here continues into a second week and back in core, donald trump returns to a manhattan courtroom just as there are new reports trump is mad at his lead attorney in lives shattered after four officers are killed in North Carolina, we have new reporting on what put them in the line of fire im john berman with kate bolduan and sarah sinnner. This is cnn news central cnn Breaking News what again, with Breaking News here at Columbia University where things have ratcheted up because dozens of students were able to reach an Academic Building that youre seeing there, just behind me that is Hamilton Hall with guns are inside at the moment occupy that building . All in their protests against for in gaza and against Columbia University trying to get it to divest from any kind of investment that touches israel. We should also let you know, weve been seeing images that coming out from inside of those holes, inside of Hamilton Hall, where dozens of protesters have used everything from chairs, two desks, to Vending Machines to block doors, to restrict entry from any official coming in. And we also have been seeing this morning a huge banner that youll see there that says free palestine hanging from the second or third floor of Hamilton Hall at this hour, we know that there are also some protesters that are blocking the front entrance. We have been four james watching this protests. It is clear that things have gotten even more tense between the students and the faculty and officials here at the university. Let us bring in our polo sandoval, who has been following this for days now, wednesday, well mark right the second week of this protest. And now youve got this situation here. Can you give us some sense of how this all happened . I think its going so clearly going to be an escalation of the situation because of what took place were night in the building thats directly behind us, sarah, i think this is certainly going to now r amp up the pressure further on Columbia University to see what they will do to actually respond because you ill see the potential. Actually we are seeing yet another layer of disruption for some of those students, especially those who have been observing whats been happening, as you mentioned, for two weeks now. But theres still a lot of questions since about who these people were. We been myself, my colleagues have been on campus for the last couple of weeks speaking to members of this in cabin, the encampment itself has been largely peaceful. Theyve done gatherings there and its really been contained more than anything into the hedges. Theyre basically where they have been camped out. However, something happened last night as we saw in these pictures here and it is clearly going to be the reason why University Officials sway. Now have to calculate that next step. We know is that access now to the campus is now going to be further restricted. An opportunity speak to a couple of students a short while ago. Unless you live on campus, its likely that you may not be able to actually we make your way onto campus until we find out a little bit more about what might be the next step. But id like to go back to what happened yesterday, especially when you look at these extremely dramatic pictures of doesnt dozens of people, most of them with their faces covered, basically advancing on the building that you see behind us, which has a history of protests going back decades. And i want you to hear directly from jessica schwalb, who is a student at columbia as she describes what she saw during the overnight hours, she used her phone to capture it all. I think listen the people who are already inside hamilton hauled decided to smash the windows and then put bike locks like around each door handle and they also ziptied the door handles. Theres two sets of doors whereas for each doorway and Hamilton Hall. And so they they also ziptied like the second whats also noteworthy, sarah, from our Vantage Point is, yes, you do see the nypd presence, but theyre still not making their way on campus side of campus ceramic. The camp of it because it is private property as we saw almost two weeks ago. That is when the president university, while she was offering testimony before congress that she then saw an encampment that was that had popped up a propalestinian encampment turned to the nypd for assistance in clearing out that gathering. Only of course, to see it pop up again. So now the question is, will they once again turned to the nypd for assistance . We dont have any indication yet, but again, it is very early and we do hope to hear from Campus Officials they know a little bit more about the people who occupied this building behind. Things have definitely changed. Im going from an encampment outside with tags to inside an occupying a building thank you very things. University looking at whether or not theyre going to call in police or not. We do now have one of our colleagues who is on campus, Julia Vargas Jones joins us now, live and im curious, julie, if you have any sense of who the protesters are inside of Hamilton Hall versus the ones who have stayed in the encampment if they are from the same group of protesters are still a couple of dozen is what im hearing from students camped out here. Ill try to get a look here. Its a pretty quiet seen so far, mostly people i spoke with they our Undergrad Students here at columbia, this is the fight. Very quiet. People are just holding their breath what will happen next . I want to show you look like no windows and door that was used to get into the University Building, chemical building last night, they blocked get it off. Theyre trying to protect the students who are in sight. They dont know whats going to happen. Is a feeling of disability. The school as full eventually bring back the new York Police Department to help people. This is private property, after all last night, im sure youve seen those videos students went the columns. You think kong these spanish tried to rename crimes his hold after a palestinian girls six, well post Kelvin Kelvin in gaza. Theres a lot of a lot of questions. Sarah, people dont know whats going to happen next. Color would just closed its doors to all students. I was very lucky. I am students here at Columbia University and i was one of the last people allowed in with my columbia id. If you dont live on campus and you should not an essential member of staff. You can no longer come in to campus. So im not even sure how long were going to be able to stay here to show you how the situation unfolding Julia Vargas Jones. Thank you so much for giving us a look. And as you said, you were columbia student, youve got on campus what your id and you were describing what you are seeing certainly the tensions have ratcheted way up because there was now this occupation of the building behind me, Hamilton Hall as you mentioned. Thank you so much to you and pull it down two ball out for your reporting. I want to go now to texas to austin, texas where our ed lavendera is. There were clashes overnight between protesters and police. We were watching some of that unfold during the day. Let us know whats happening now on campus and what youre hearing well its quiet right now, but yesterday we saw dozens of protesters who were taken into custody by Law Enforcement official, State Troopers, austin police, as well as the University Of TexasPolice Department. And many of those protesters were taken away on buses because there was so many of them. So we saw people carried away refusing to leave the premises. These protesters were ordered to leave after they started setting up tents in the area behind me on the south mall of the University Of Texas campus, university of visuals have been saying for days that that would be the line in the sand that could not be crossed in terms of setting up an encampment of the idea of occupying any kind of space on this campus was not going to be allowed in that triggered in pence moments through for several hours yesterday on the campus. Even as the buses full of State Troopers were trying to leave the campus yesterday, they were pushed back by protesters which followed the buses throughout the campus for hours there were flash bangs tear gas sprayed so intense days now, we dont know the exact official number of people arrested yesterday, but the County Attorney, which whose the official that prosecutes Misdemeanor Crimes here in austin is now saying a very different tone for what we heard last week. Remember last week, there were 60, almost 60 protesters arrested in all of those charges were dropped the day after the protests here at the university kristi of texas, the County Attorney is now saying that she is deeply concerned about the events here at the university escalating, and that she has begun discussions with University Officials on how to best handle this situation. So a different tone reading between the lines there kind of alluded to the fact that perhaps these criminal charges will not be dropped this time around we will continue to monitor how that continues to play out ed lavendera. Thank you so much for your reporting there in austin, texas for us, these protests test has ratcheted about across the country from california to ohio, to here in new york. This has really been the epicenter of the beginning of those protests, but they have spread out throughout the country. And now universities are trying to figure out what to do while the students here are very passionate about their cause, saying that they want these universities to divest from it from israel and any type of way also, they want to see ceasefire in gaza. I know all of those things are being discussed by the State Department as well. But here, just reminding people that this has changed where we have seen dozens of students breaking into a building and now occupying Hamilton Hall somewhere that has a history historical value when it comes to protests, as has happened here before Jonathan Cape and sarah, its great that we have that a producer, a cnn producer on campus as she was explaining, she is a student of columbia, why shes able to be in there. And were going to have to get back to her as much as possible because this is really the first eyes on the ground right outside where it looks like they broke into the building that weve been able to get since this all started exploding overnight. Youre gonna be back, sarah is right there and were gonna go back to the producer on the ground. For sure. Were also following this today. Welcome to week three of Donald Trumps first criminal trial. 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Now streaming on macs all right, this morning we are standing by for testimony to resume in the New York Criminal Trial of donald trump. He is accused of falsifying documents to cover up hush money payments to an Adult Film Actress now a comes as the new york time reports that trump has complained his chief defense lawyer, todd blanche, has been quote insufficiently aggressive. Maggie haberman, a Jonathan Swan report that sources say mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses attack with the former president sees as a hostile jury pool and attack the judge seen as brynn gingras, outside the court this morning, who are we expected to see on the stand . Where are we yeah john you know, that report very interesting and possibly some of that iron that were hearing about from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan comes from last week, if you remember that Gag Order Hearing now, were todd blanche jackpot, his arguments against it, and the judge saying there that he was losing all credibility, so possibly it stems from now, but just quickly about blanche, of course, he is one are said to be one of trumps favorite. Attorneys. Hes representing him and two other criminal indictments. Obviously, this is the first one to go to trial, but according to the New York Times reporting he is saying that hes not being aggressive enough in this trial and actually complaining about how much his lawyers are costing him. But i have to tell you when i was inside the courtroom last week, they are talking to each other the entire time during testimony for this trial. So well see where that goes. But yes, trial pick back up. This is the third week of this criminal hush money trial. And it is going to resume a testimony of gary farro now that is that banker that Michael Cohen oh, and actually worked with to se