Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today direct redefining insurance how it really happen tomorrow at nine on cnn hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im proud a whitfield. All right. New today, israels military says it is intensifying operations in central gaza and ordering the immediate evacuation of severe are several more neighborhoods in the Southern City of rafah where millions of displaced palestinians are seeking refuge. The idf says about 300,000 people have already fled. These evacuations following new deadly round of air strikes across gaza. Cnns scott mclean has more frederick, a new airstrikes in northern and central gaza have flooded hospitals with a new round of victims included amongst them, a journalist, his wife, and 12 son and the death toll may yet still rise as people search through the rubble of those airstrikes thanks with little more than their bare hands searching at this point for bodies. And the video of the aftermath and the chaotic hospitals that have taken in those victims is pretty hard to watch. Many of the victims are children, some of them are very tiny infants the idf declined to comment on the strikes other than to say that it was working to dismantle hamas and insisting that it follows International Law and takes measures to mitigate civilian harm. That is notable only because the Us State Department released a report yesterday saying that it is reasonable to assess that israel has not always followed internationally and the the idf just this morning has told people in parts of Northern Gaza to evacuate to save for areas. And in several districts of rafah as well, to move to a humanitarian zone along the Coastline Zone where people have pitch tents along the roadway and along the coast. And theres very little in the way of infrastructure to support that volume of people. The idf says that there are now 300,000 people there. That is the double. The estimate that they gave on thursday. There are also people in rafah who are struggling to leave at all. Some are unwilling to go, some are struggling with the logistics of moving around this active war zone, or the cost of moving around one person told cnn that the situation there is beyond bad. It also seems like israel is undeterred by the us pausing shipments of weapons to israel because of its continued to advance in rafah. The idf says that it has enough weaponry to go this alone. The Israeli Security cabinet has approved an expansion of the operating area. All of this just as aid into Southern Gaza slows to a trickle. If that fredricka thank you so much, scott mclean all right. Very few nongovernment agencies or aid groups are able to get into gaza to provide basic needs and food among the few which are able to help the Nonprofit OrganizationInternational Network for aid relief and assistance the president and cofounder is a familiar face to many of our viewers over the years are with damon. Shes joining us right now. Arwa great to see you. You are very familiar with conflict locations as a reporter, youve covered so many from afghanistan to iraq and syria. And youve also been a humanitarian aid worker, a long the way what have been your observations there in gaza . Its great to see you again, by the way, but i know youre now fulltime with your organization. What have you been able to see firsthand in gaza that strikes you given the familiarity that youve had with so many conflict zones i was in gaza last month and a lot of us within both the Journalism Sector and the humanitarian sector. But having this conversation about exactly what is it about gaza that makes it so different. And it actually good goes beyond the scale and scope and intensity and severity of the physical destruction and just the countless deaths and injuries. Its when you get there and you realize the real psychological obliteration that has taken place when you are moving through a place like this . This is just to show how densely populated it is. A road that would take you normally say ten minutes to drive can take you about two hours to navigate because every single building that could be converted into a shelter is a shelter. And then the tense just spill out of these areas and they cover the sidewalks and in front of them, you have small stalls that are selling this and that. And then you have the Human Traffic just moving through all of this, navigating its way in between the handle of vehicles that are on the road that donkey carts, because donkey carts right now our substitution for public transport because there is no fuel. And when you look at peoples faces, frederica, you dont see life peoples movements are looked argillic, mechanical, dead end, and add to all of that. Now this increased wave of fear and panic and anxiety because people dont know where to go. Humanitarian aid has not gotten into gaza through it. Off, or kerem shalom since may 5th bright because block a routes are closed. As you just mentioned, a the roads are impossible and when we talk about todays news involving israel, that now says immediately evacuate can wait from rafah. People dont have anywhere to go because the threat of this Ground Offensive is very real. Where are people expect it to go if they leave or are asked to immediately evacuate rafah look israel has this delusional notion of oh, move to mawasi, which is basically a beach front area its sand dunes and people have been moving there. Its absolutely packed and its not a safe zone. Its not a humanitarian zone. Theres zero sanitation, theres very little access to humanitarian assistance. There, and there also expecting people to move to khan younis, which is little more than a pile of rubble but people dont have a choice and so they get shepherded around the gaza strip and they themselves will say its the sec, twist, cool aim, because well all remember that originally, israel told people to move to the south. The south was supposed to be a safe zone. Rafat supposed to be a Safe Zone Acceptant number was and now theyre being forced or told to move to move from there and face the consequences and you really end up with this situation where people are almost paralyzed to a certain degree because they dont know where to go. They dont know how to stay safe, and yet they have to keep moving because what choice do they have at this stage . But the the fundamentals on the ground are that nowhere in gaza is safe. And these humanitarian zones, these safe zones that israel keeps talking about, they do not exist, have never existed, and israel is not and has not ford needed with humanitarian organizations to establish something viable yours it is a small team comparatively, and you write on cnn my small inara, the acronym for your group Team Provides services across 13 shelters and makeshift camps. We distribute everything from hot meals to washable sanitary underwear, but the crux of our Activities Centers around running Mental Health and psychosocial activities for children. These include group play, games, arent and other creative outlets. I mean, how do you see that your teams are making an impact and kinda filling the gap . Upper others cannot you know, when youre there. And this is sort of a part of the tragedy of all of it. You realize that what you do actually it feels small because the need is so great, its so vast, its so overwhelming but we have to keep reminding ourselves that just because were only able to serve a small portion of the population that does not negate the impact that were able to have on them. And especially for talking about the Mental Health space for children in this kind of an emergency where the trauma is still ongoing and the trauma is still constant and triggers are happening constantly. Every single day. Its really just about creating a small distraction for childrens about bringing that spark back into there. Eye. Even if its just for a little bit of time and we do things like we set solar panels up, but on shelter that was basically pitch once the sun went down but were also in a very sort of difficult situation right now because we have childrens clothing, we have diapers, we have baby powder, we have food parcels, we have all of this aid that right now is stuck in egypt and cant actually get inside to the population that needs it and supplies that are inside, they are going to finish very, very soon. And were going to just see an extra added layer to this complete and total nightmare arwa damon. So glad to be with us. I mean, youve always done extraordinary work as a journalist and now extraordinary work providing this humanitarian aid and assistance. Thanks so much all the best to you too. All right. 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Lets just see them ten night, depending on where you are. Of course. Allison chin, char and i plan to look to the sky this evening. Weve got a schedule, dont we hate something to treat because typically speaking, when you see the aurora is green is the most common color. But on these types of events, when they are such strong wrong solar storms, you actually tend to get more of the pink and the red colors, which is not as common, take a look at this image behind me. This is from seattle and you can actually see all of those colors we just mentioned. Youve got the greens, the blues, purples, reds, pinks, all of it all mixed in one now, granite, they are a little bit farther north, but even areas farther south are seeing this is actually this southern lights, this image taken from new zealand again, you can see that very deep pink, red color. Now, we can still see these. These are more rare to see this particular kind of color, especially here in the. So take for example this one, this is seen just south of jacksonville, florida . Yes. Even that far south, they were able to see the lights, but notice too that its were of those red and pink colors. And again, its because of the latitude, those lower latitudes tend to see more of this color on the spectrum than they do some of the others. But as we mentioned, if you missed it all last night and youre feeling upset about it, youd like another chance. You will get that opportunity tonight. Now, in terms of timing, the earlier in the evening is going to be the better timeline, especially up until about 11 00. You can still see them after that, but it really starts to diminish pretty quickly. The where obviously the farther north you are, the better odds youre going to have. But even areas farther south georgia, florida, southern california, the only thing that really may limit it for it is going to be a lot of these clouds you see here under the gulf coast and up and areas of the northeast as well okay. Fingers crossed no cloud cover or, you know, my eyes are working. Lets hope all right. Alison ginger, thanks so much for more on this global light show. Im joined now by paul d. Melee expedition leader for the Nasa Johnson Space CenterAstronomical Society great to see you to talk about auroras with you. Its so exciting. So paul, youve also going leading Public Outreach tours to view the Northern Lights since 2012. So if youre on a tour, if i were on a tour with you this weekend, how would you explain what is happening . Well, whats amazing about this is that the sign every once in awhile suffers explosions in the atmosphere. And generates highenergy particles that propagate toward the earth. Sometimes. And other directions at other times. And we just, were lucky enough to be hit by a big burst of very High Energy Particles that hit us at the right time. And created what might be called one of the great storms that have occurred over the last 500 years. Its been about 16 of those that have been logged and we were just lucky enough to be in the middle of one. Im here in the lower edge of arizona and we never we have aurora is here that are visible to the naked eye. But last time i took my camera went out and took some photos and really had a hard time not looking, just continually wanted to stay out later and later regarding what it was really cool. Oh, so feeling a little sleep deprived at this morning and it was well worth it. It sounds absolutely. But what i was going to say is that the stores that i lead our to alaska generally, ive seen auroras by airplane, by ship, and of course on land and alaska, but thats where you really get the best are orange because they are directly underneath whats called the aurora oval. And so there are auroras, theyre mostly all the time except of course, of the summer weathers theres not enough darkness to see them like were getting into now. This is kind of a rarity. The lower latitudes, meaning from lower canada all the way south towards the coast got an a exceptional treat, last night. I dont think its going to be strong tonight, but im keeping my fingers crossed. Okay. I mean, so often people make big plans to travel abroad particularly going to iceland to see Something Like these. There were a borealis. So how would you compare what you saw last . Hi to what people spend big money to go see i would say it was somewhat disappointing in the sense that where we are we we saw the reddish color and the aurora. And that was pretty cool, but we didnt see it that well, there was not any action like are showing right now where the lights theyre moving around. It was a fairly stable type of appearance. It came and went mostly one color, reddish, and butt up north. Just got some photos from Friends Of Mine at boston. They had a lot of action so depending upon where youre located. It mightve it looked a whole lot better as the farther north in latitude that you were wow. I mean, its hard to believe, but, you know, saying these beautiful pictures, so many folks saw some Amazing Things such as yourself last night, im looking forward