Thank you for joining us. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. As the six hour window Safe Passage Out of Northern Gaza expired last hour, israeli troops were seen amassing near the gaza border. We want to show you video taken in the last hour showing heavy weaponry arriving in southern israel. Inside gaza, Tens Of Thousands of people have left but israel has urged 1. 1 civilians in gaza to relocate. Idf claims hamas is stopping people from leaving. Hospitals have said they cannot and will not leave because if they were to leave, a Death Sentence would then be on their patients and now the u. N. Is warning that many people who are pregnant, are elderly or have a disability also will not be able to leave. This is a humanitarian crisis in gaza. The u. N. Is warning that the situation in gaza is a Matter Of Life And Death and not just for those who are evacuating but also for the 2 Million People who risk running out of clean water. The u. N. Says they need aid sent to gaza now are people will
Temper 30th, my colleague and friend, ali velshi. Members are back on capitol hill this morning, but there does not appear to be a viable deal to keep the federal government funded, and to avoid a costly shutdown. Federal agencies have already notified workers, and prepared Contingency Plans in the event of a shutdown occurs this weekends. That is a possibility that is appearing more and more likely at this late stage. There are just 13 hours left before the end of the fiscal year. Yesterday afternoon, House Republicans tried and failed to pass a Stopgap Measure thats their own members crafted. There was a group of 21 republican holdouts who voted against it. Even though it was a small group, there was more than enough to take the bell, and send republicans all the way back to the drawing board. Republican Congressman Matt Fulton of new york spoke to our nbc news capitol hill correspondent, Julie Tsirkin, just minutes ago. He says republicans need to get another short term bill on the
d delania yuan. this is so heart breaking. he took a mother, a wife, a daughter and a sister for no reason. this family is broken because of this man. on capitol hill the first hearing in 30 years on anti-asian discrimination became tense and emotional over this republican lawmaker s comments. there s an old saying in texas about find all the rope in texas and get a tall oak tree. i m not going to be ashamed of saying i oppose the chi coms, i oppose the chinese communist party and when we say things like that and we are talking about that we shouldn t be worried about having a committee of members of congress policing our rhetoric. your president and your party and your colleagues can talk about issues with any other country that you want, but you don t have to do it by putting a bull s-eye on the backs of asian-americans across this country, on our grandparents, on our kids. this hearing was to address the hurt and pain of our community and to find solutions and we w
i m laura jarrett. happy friday. happy friday. i m christine romans. nice to see you. march 12th. 5 a.m. exactly in new york. start the clock. president biden offering this hopeful path out of the pandemic and he s giving a time line by early summer. in the first primetime address he urged all-americans to do their part. if we do all of this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th there s a good chance you, family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard, neighborhood, have a cookout, barbecue, celebrate independence day. here the president urging all states to make all adults eligible for a vaccine available in two months. jasmine, we have dates here. vaccines on the way for everyone. lay out the president s goals. reporter: well, last night, laura, the president really did two things. he tapped into the empathizer in chief role that we are getting to know from him so well meeting with americans, as you said, to do their part. he
A 7th in a believe but to do fleet. 2 sites with crafty coach as 2 sides with top talent but only one team will lift the trophy on sunday as a quick reminder of the breaking news at this hour theres been an attack in the port city of daraa in southwestern pakistan reports say up to 4 gunman entered a luxury hotel and opened fire its understood Security Forces are battling them to get the situation under control well keep you updated will be back at the top. Name as an attraction even if he never wanted it this way. The 30 year old male elephant lives in chiang mai a Northern Province of thailand. Here tourists can ride elephants and admire their acrobatics yet many Animal Welfare
organizations are convinced that young elephants in captivity are subjected to a cruel procedure to make them tame. The management of the Elephant Camp would rather not talk about whether ning and his fellow elephants have been tortured in this way. Its very early in the morning just after 7 oclock name is res