Leader of the free world flying into a war zone very soon and President Biden said to visit israel tomorrow and visit jordan upon that trip. This amid fears of expanding conflict with devastating consequences. Good morning, he can be. Dana has the day off. Im bill hemmer live in new york and we kick off a big two hours coming up. Submitty, good morning. Good morning, bill. Im sandra smith. Iran ramping up the rhetoric and hamas sponsor threatening preemptive action against israel unless it stops bombing the Hamas Terrorists responsible for killing more than 1400 israelis. Best of my recollections all that only fueling the panic. Israel getting ready for a Ground Invasion and keyboarder crossing with egypt not open and they need to get aid in. Sixer now Jacqui Heinrich is live at the white house. But first we need to get to trey yingst live in israel. Reporter good morning. Hamas and Islamic Jihad firing on Population Centers and remarkable given were 11 days into the conflict and i pos
we start this hour of cnn news center with a touch of drama. the donald trump s civil fraud trial today in new york. his expert witness going after a lawyer for the new york attorney general. telling him, quote, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. some fireworks here. trump attending these proceedings to take a. a lot of attention on these. he is expected to take the stand next week as the final defense witness. cnn s kara scannell live for us outside of the court. tell us, kara, who is this expert witness for the defense? why did he get so upset? reporter: boris, breonna, this is an expert witness, the final expert witness that the trump team called on his defense. and accounting professor from new york university. professor eli bartov. he was asked questions, he had been testifying all morning on this. the lawyer for the attorney generals office subjected to one of the lines of questioning saying the accounting professor is not a banker, so he is not qualified to answe
close, could bring some of the hostages home very soon, but i don t want to get into details or things because nothing is done until it s done. and we have more to say, we will. but things are looking good at the moment. sandra: at this hour, awaiting updates from both the state department and the pentagon on the war in the middle east of a the president there says a hostage deal with hamas is very close and he is optimistic. and also an update is expected from the pentagon a short time from now after the u.s. military carried out an airstrike last night, killing several militants from iranian proxy group. a lot to learn in the coming minutes and hours. hello, welcome, john, great to be with you. john: good to be with you as well, sandra. john roberts in washington. america reports . an agreement could be announced at any moment but what we know at this hour about the hostages. the deal on the table would free about 50 israeli women and children in exchange for 150 pales
The families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago depart for Washington to seek support from U.S legislators and government officials for their return.
The top U.S. envoy to the U.N. on Thursday highlighted the imperative to maintain North Korea s human rights issues at the forefront of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) s agenda as she met with the families of Japanese citizens abducted by Pyongyang decades ago.