Call 1803558999, or visit home serve. Com im eva mckend in washington and this is cnn all right everyone, thanks for joining me. Im omar jimenez in today for fredricka whitfield. Weve got some Breaking News to start this hour. The us has begun airdropping desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza its three cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles today, they included mainly food but no water or medical supplies. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez this is in washington. Paula hancocks is in abu dhabi and the united arab emirates, which has also been airdropping aid into gaza. But priscilla, i want to start with you because were getting some news around the possibility of a ceasefire ceasefire. What are you hearing . Yeah, omar, were hearing from Senior Administration officials here in the last hour who said that israel has quote, basically accepted the framework of a hostage deal that would include a sixweek ceasefire. This would do two things and would allow more humanitarian aid into gaza,
Exciting. All right. Andy shovels. Thank you so much. Texas that could get some downpours have damaged homes swept away cars, and forced people to evacuate some areas got hit with almost two feet of rain causing widespread flooding and more rain is on the way lets bring in cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar so theres more youre tracking yeah. Unfortunately, the last thing this this place needs is more ran, but texas is about to get a bunch of it. Take a look at the video behind me. This is from livingston, texas again, you can just see all of that widespread water flowing into homes and businesses and covering the roadways. But its not just the rain that fell onto the roads. You also have to worry about the rivers, creeks, and streams because those swell after that much rain. Take a look. Youve got 39 river gauges at Minor Flood Stage 16 at modern and about a dozen river gauges at major flood stage. And these take time. In fact, some of these have yet to even peak and likely wont for a
amanpour in london. thank you for watching and i ll see you again next week hello everyone thank you so much for joining me this saturday on a greek a whitfield. and with just five days until the historic presidential debate between president joe biden and former president donald trump, both candidates are spending today preparing in their own unique ways for the upcoming showed him that will air right here on cnn this morning. biden is at camp david, where he and his team are spending the weekend poring over we re briefing binders and holding mock debates sessions as he prepares for this high-stakes moment. meantime, trump is shunning traditional debate prep and spending his saturday on the campaign trail in an our trump will speak to a gathering of christian conservatives in washington before traveling to philadelphia fia for rally tonight, we ve got team coverage. kevin lipped is covering president biden s debate preps. but let s begin with even mckinnon in washington at
for poland was kidnapped by hamas at the nova music festival october 7. and now his mom and dad are back in washington in studio with a message for the world s leading this hour, so many americans are wondering just how safe air travel is as we keep hearing flight controls getting jammed as pilots try to land or an entire piece of a plane billowing out mid-flight. today, we re hearing from a boeing whistleblower, a former senior manager at the company you said on cnn that the manufacturing at boeing is rushed and employees are under pressure to get planes in the air. whistleblower ed pearson also slammed boeing leadership calling the ceo david calhoun greedy and invasive. pearson is so concerned he won t even fly on boeing, max planes anymore i did four a plane and i actually had to get off the plane when i found out it was a max and that s a terrible thing. they have to say to somebody that worked for boeing calhoun was supposed to address some of those concerns and his co
welcome everyone. you re on the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington in just two weeks, cnn will host the first presidential debate. there it is. i was looking for this guy right here, 12 days to weeks. boom, first presidential debate of this election season between president joe biden and former president donald trump. and this weekend the candidates are out on the campaign trail after spending the week on the world stage at the g7 summit, president biden is trading world leaders for hollywood leaders biden is in los angeles tonight at a fundraiser that is breaking a new record for the democratic party when have more on that in a moment, but tickets range from 250 to $500,000 with a contest for small dollar donors, they could when tickets to the event and a chance to meet president biden, former president obama, and oscar winners, julia roberts and george clooney, jimmy kimmel will moderate a q&a with biden and obama tonight. cnn white house correspondent arlette