good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. my favorite day of the week, may 14th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. happy mother s day to you. happy mother s day to you. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. here is what we are watching for you. a ceasefire appears to be holding between israel and the islamic jihad after days of violence. more than 30 defensive end deaths. the likely hood this holds and the reaction from the biden administration. i think we are moving along. hard to tell. we are not reaching the crunch point yesterday. president biden and republican leaders expected to meet this week as they rush to avoid an unprecedented debt default. the warning coming from the white house as that crucial june 1st date inches closer. officials on the u.s./mexican border say they have not yet seen the chaos they were expecting after the expiration of title 42. speculation as to why things have been calmer than ex
good morning. it is saturday, may 13th, 2023, of course, that is the year we are in. i m amara walker. thank you for the reminder. sometimes we need it. ikt victor blackwell in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the escalating violence between israelis and palestinians in gaza. the israeli defense forces, they ve launched a series of attacks today. the idf attacked islamic jihad sites in the gaza strip, they say. these deadly strikes on palestinian targets have been ongoing since tuesday. palestinian officials say at least 33 people have been killed so far including militants and civilians and an israeli medical service says a rocket hit a residential building there this week. one person was killed, five were hurt. cnn s ben wedeman is live in southern israel, near gaza, hi there, ben, what s the latest. what s going on there on the ground? reporter: what we ve seen throughout the day here is there have been occasional volleys of rockets being fired out of gaza, and mor
hello, everyone. th thank you so much for joining me. we begin in texas when a gunman opened fire into a crowd at an outlet mall in texas just north of dallas. some of what you re about to see is disturbing. a witness dash cam capturing the moment the gunman got out of his car and he immediately began firing and ambushing unsuspecting people walking by. we re pausing the video as people began walking by. others began shooting as the attack unfolded. you hear multiple rapid gunshot. you see people running for their lives and a photo obtained by cnn appears to show the gunman after he was shot by a responding officer. he can see an a.k.-15 rifle. he appears to have extra magazines strapped to his chest. ed lavandera is on the scene in allen, texas. i understand you have learned new details, even though a law enforcement agent said they re not going to have a press conference today? reporter: it s a stunning announcement. we ve reached out to get clarity as to when there mig
joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom, and i m rosemary church. just ahead, we are following two tragedies out of texas. new details on the man who opened fire at an outdoor mall in the city of allen, killing eight people. his possible ties to right-wing extremism. in brownsville, investigators are trying to determine why the driver of a car crashed into a group of people outside a migrant shelter, killing at least eight. and a covid-era immigration rule expires this week. we will talk to a priest in el paso, texas, whose church shelters dozens of migrants. thanks for joining us. residents of allen, texas, have been mourning the eight people killed in saturday s mass shooting. officials, first responders, and other members of the community gathered at this vigil on sunday to remember the victims. the mayor-elect delivered an emotional speech calling for prayers to help heal the city. we re going to need prayer. so pleas
a tragic end after a mother s trip to mexico with friends to get a medical procedure. now two in the group are dead. two others found alive. how the group got lost and ended up in the hands of armed criminals. plus i m taking over this plane. taking over this plane, he says. terrifying moments on a cross-country flight when a man threatens to hijack the plane. the video as freaked out p passengers tried to react. plus, cnn s upclose look at how the chinese will go to control its country s messaging. welcome to the lead. and we start today with our world lead and new details in tin vest game into those four americans kidnapped in mexico last week. local officials say one person has been detained after two of the u.s. citizens were found d dead. the two others are thankfully alive, though one is severely injured, according to a u.s. official, and those two have returned to the united states for medical treatment and observation. family members say that the four were