Thats 1807123800. Im Caitlin Polantz at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn universities on edge, we are following the clashes on campus is propalestinian protesters dig in and schools are forced to adjust their plans the end of the semester plus the Bidenharris Campaign back and former President Trumps back yard as the Vice President rallies for Reproductive Rights and florida, where a strict new city sixweek abortion ban is now in effect and Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken puts new pressure on hamas to accept the proposed hostage deal with israel. As we learn more about the brutal impact that the war is having on civilians in the gaza strip. Were following all of these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. The Cnn News Central today hey, classes at ucla are canceled after violent hours long clashes broke out overnight on campus between propalestinian demonstrators and Counter Protesters. And it comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom is demanding answers on why it took so long for people to respond. Cnn, Stephanie Elam is live on campus in la. Stephanie, it was a violent night. We saw those clashes. Some of the most violent that weve seen so far. Certainly, i think between protesters and Counter Protesters, whats the situation right now . Yeah, its changed, but definitely theres more people out here and pecker yelling right now from the propalestinian sayyed. Theyve had a reconfiguring of what they were doing out here because there barricade completely fell down once the wind kicked up as daylight came here. So they just reinforce that. Hear from the propalestinian side, you can see theyre still working on that here for one thing, this is where were standing now is where we saw these clashes happening over and night and the question that the governor has, the question that a lot of people here have is, why did it take so long for Law Enforcement to be called in we know that they got here after midnight after things had been escalating where you see that footage where it looks like people using the barricades of pulling them down, throwing things that way and some things coming from the other side as well during last night while we saw i can tell its still tell you theres some blood out youre still and i talked to one woman who did just feel compelled. Shes just a native of los angeles. She saw what was happening on the news that she just felt compelled to come mount here, doesnt have students here or anything. And this is what she says. She saw when she got out here. Take a listen but i just saw that these are Young Students going to school. Theyre protesting for cause. But the people that i saw and that i understood were the people that didnt go to school here that were causing the Blood Violence that they were committing here. Pipes, mace. This a couple of people had knives and i have to tell you, when we got out here overnight, she was actively pulling people apart, pushing people apart who were getting in each others faces. She would just not here by herself doing that. There has been rest its duration of calm here, but theres still plenty of Police Presence. If you look out in the distance that way, you can see that theyre still there and theres still a lot of questions and some of the Student Journalists from the daily bruin pointing out that some of the blame should fall to the administration of ucla, which they say should have acted more quickly to get the response out here when mayor karen bass called for it after around 1 00 in the morning, thats when the Police Presence started to move here. We did see that the chancellor said that this was unlawful, but it does not seem that theyre breaking this down at any point at this time. What they did do was canceled classes today, alex all right. Stephanie eelam. Thank you for that report. Live force from ucla, where so much happen overnight and lets talk now as someone who was actually injured in that chaos at ucla, katherine hamilton, who is news editor at uclas independent student paper, the daily bruin you, katherine wright, you were covering the protests. Obviously youre okay enough that youre able to speak with us. But this look quite chaotic. Tell us what happened yeah. So i was scheduled to be on shift covering anything that happened around the encampment from apm to midnight. And around 9 00 p. M. Is when things started to really heat up, a lot of Counter Protesters where arriving, many of them, and most of them adults and then violence just was incited the Counter Protesters broke down the first layer of barriers to get into the encampment and then started throwing those barriers the people they knew were standing and sayyed the encampment directly behind the line they threw things such as electric scooters and there was also a lot of pepper spray and mayes throughout the Air Counter Protestors also launched fireworks at the encampment repeatedly catherine what do we know about those Counter Protesters . Im looking at your website. You call them pro israel Counter Protesters what evidence is there of their positions of them being proisrael and to the point made by someone that Stephanie Elam just spoke with, to what extent do we know . If they were outsiders or not yeah. So i think our biggest indication in both speaking with them and just watching the Counter Protesters mobilize, is that they are using a lot of language that deems the propalestinian movement as antisymmetric and then wave many israeli flags. There are many setup i dont particularly know if theyre still set up currently because i have not been back to campus after the events of last night but they have been around, people have been holding them and they have been shouting things that express their support for israel and some support for Israel Military occupation of the gaza strip and as to that previous point made, it does seem that most of these Counter Protesters are not students, and that they are adults. There are affiliation with the university is unclear to us, and they are not always the most willing to speak on what their affiliation would be but they are not of the typical student age and many of them have said that they come from surrounding areas such as Beverly Hills so i have a question about something that we have heard kathryn from multiple people, which in this included a jewish student who is not happy with the encampment does not feel predict typically safe on campus. But witness some of what was happening and said that police just didnt respond as these folks targeted the propalestinian encampment. Do you have any sense of why that happened or to tell us about as well what you saw when you were there . Truthfully . I wish that i could give an answer on why i think that happened, but what we did see was police cars moving around campus throughout the night on starting past 1 00 a. M. When the official call was made for their presence on campus, and we saw mobilization very early on, but they didnt actively start attempting to clear the area until around 3 15 a. M. Even though we knew that they had been dispatched and that they had been on campus for at least an hour to two hours before they began to engage in the plaza catherine, your your newspapers Editorial Board has issued some pretty stark warning saying to the chancellor of the university there, if someones killed that he will have blood on his hands the ed board has also said that ucla ucla is failing. Its students by not taking action to prevent the kind of violence that we saw last night. So what more do you want to see from camp from ucla administrators i think its been a really difficult and interesting thing for the Ucla Administration to balance having such a large, large, organized protests, especially on a public use university. But i think that the university has done a very interesting job of engaging with the encampment from the people who weve spoken to inside. They have said that the university has not attempted to meet with anyone within the encampment to even hear out their demands. And honestly, while four daily bruin reporters were being assaulted yesterday on campus outside of the plaza by Counter Protesters. There were Police Nearby and i would be unable to understand how they would have not witnessed that. But still they did not come to intervene and they did not intervene in any of the aggression that was seen prior to their mobilization, despite the fact that they were standing watching i think one of the things catherine thats interesting about ucla compared to a lot of other campuses that were keeping our eyes on. You dont wrap things up here on a couple of weeks commencement isnt may 11 are 14th. Youre on the quarter system. Its not going to end until the middle of june are you expecting disruptions for the rest of the year and how does that make ucla different than some of the other campuses yeah. I think that if the encampment is to stay until the end of our Spring Quarter and until commencement, which is in the middle of june that it will be a much longer display of this Solidarity Movement than other Campus Communities have been able to achieve and i think the interesting facet is that we were expecting the university two allow the encampment to stay until the end of this quarter unless there were altercations that they deem to be more violent than yesterdays that necessitated the removal of the encampment however, yesterday, they also released a statement saying that the encampment was unlawful and that it was unauthorized, and that if students and faculty do not leave, that, they should expect to be faced with potential disciplinary actions, including sanctions expulsion, and suspension. So as of right now, were prepared for it to be until the end of june, but that could change at any day all right. Well be watching ucla. Katherine hamilton. Thank you so ahmad for glad that youre feeling better, but obviously youve been through a lot, so thanks for taking time with us thank you, guys. I appreciate it. At Columbia University in new york, the nypd says it may need to deploy up to 20 office for serves on campus through graduation. And that comes after around 300 people were arrested last night after police were called in to help clear out those protesters who occupied an Academic Building that theyd broken into. Cnns Polo Sandoval joins us now from columbia. So hello its the latest from there so breen, just yesterday that i was observing one of the occupiers of Hamilton Hall on top of the roof waving a palestinian flag at the time, or the students that was actively had been previously engaged in those negotiations with university was calling on those failed negotiations to again restart get anybody know that the wheels were already set in motion, that the president of the university yesterday, and you should be have already submitted a letter to the new York Police Department calling on officers two once again, make their way onto campus to read not only to clear out whats left of the encampment, but also to regained control the situation of the president of the university saying that the reason why that happened was because the university had been pushed to the brink. And so today, for the first time in two weeks now, any member of the Columbia University campus who wishes to participate hey, than any sort of demonstration. Now, presumably would have to do it on the sidewalks and much of the afternoon we saw these sort of roving propalestinian protests which have gone silent for now. Now. But certainly is possible that they will once again return. We also heard from not only New York City mayor eric adams today, but also members of the new York Police Department describing going into a great detail about the planning that went into place. Eric adams say that there was, as he described it, outside agitators that as he said influence some of those demonstrators and had also seen signs and traces that there was a coordinated effort to certainly disrupt operations on campus. And then finally there is also an important voice and all this. Briana and alex said is some of those columbia students, a majority of the students who were not actively participating in these demonstrations. One of them so its might not bad graduating hopefully next month he says that that it was looking forward to any sort of normalcy and now he like so many other students are concerned that an nypd campus, nypd presence, i should say on campus for the next several weeks is uncalled for unnecessary, as i see it. Yeah, a very very controversial presence. Polo sandoval at columbia. Thanks very much for all your reporting. Nauta, whats at the heart of these Campus Protests all across the country . That is the israelhamas war that has been going on for almost seven months. Now, Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken has now left israel after meeting earlier today with Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Blinken said that they discussed the current ceasefire and hostage deal that is on the table that they are waiting for a response from hamas on. He added that it is now hamas is choice on whether or not that deal moves forward. The secretary has also said that there has been meaningful progress in getting aid into gaza, but a new report port by Doctors Without Borders warns that Tens Of Thousands are at risk of dying and not just from his israels bombardment, but from a lack of health care. And of course a lack of food and water cnns Paula Hancocks is in abu dhabi with the latest polat. Tell us about the city duration and gaza right now well beyond that, we have seen more aid trucks getting into the gaza strip. Theres no doubt about that. In fact, nra has said that just last month, that was the moment where more trucks got in than at any time since october but but the fact is unrested still says in the same breath as the Secretary Blinken that it is still woefully inadequate. There is simply not enough being able to get through. Now humanitarian aid groups are still blaming israel, saying that there are too many restrictions to get things into the gaza strip the security is too slow. There are arbitrary decisions being made at the same time as israel saying that it is doing everything it can to allow more food and aid into the gaza strip. But this was really a focus today with Secretary Blinkens trip and his meeting with the israeli Prime Minister as well. Talking about how to secure this ceasefire so that they can swamp gaza with aid. This is what humanitarian aid groups want to do. They want the ceasefire and then they say they can avert the famine. Now, as you have mentioned, they have said, Secretary Blinken says the ball is now in hamas is corti has said this is the best proposal, the best deal that will be on offer saying that israel has been extraordinarily generous in this deal. We havent heard officially from hamas through the egyptian and qatari mediators at this point, we did hear from one senior hamas officials saying that what israel hasnt managed to achieve during war, it will not achieve during negotiations and pressure. So trying to downplay the likelihood somewhat, but we havent had an official response at this point and certainly there are hopes on many sites that there will be a decision to carry out a season as fire at this point, it looks potentially as the first phase would be up to 33 hostages for several weeks of ceasefire and palestinian prisoner releases. That to you yeah, that would be amazing so many families weve been hearing from who have been waiting for so long. Paula hancocks. Thank you for that report i had former President Trump taking advantage of a day off from his is trial in the hush money case. Hes on the campaign trail. Hes got to rallies in two key swing states. Meanwhile, Vice PresidentKamala Harris is campaigning in trumps backyard and florida, the white house seizing on the fact that the states strict new to sixweek abortion ban goes into effect today. 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