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
In other developments, a hamas delegation is expected to attend ceasefire talks in cairo on sunday, following an invitation extended by egyptian mediators. Israels war cabinet is reportedly set to discuss whether to send a delegation, whilst a British Royal navy ship is sailing to the Eastern Mediterranean to support the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the gaza strip. Our first report this hour is from hugo bachega injerusalem. In tel aviv, protesters are back on the streets. It has been six months since palestinian gunmen stormed southern israel from gaza, and more than 100 israelis remain in captivity. People are urging their government to reach a deal with hamas for hostages to be freed, and they also want their Prime Minister to go. He should resign after what happened. Six months ago the war start, and hamas and everything. He claimed that he wants to go to war and make hamas go away and bring all the hostages home, back home. For one israeli family, the hope is over elad k
Victim to an Armed Robbery and suffered a health scare but finally the end is in sight. Russell should cross the finish line in tunisia this afternoon, and our reporter ellie price has been looking back at his journey. Lets go day three day four day six his nickname on social media is hardest geezer. Day 349 of running the entire length of africa. After more than 350 days, 10,000 miles and 19 million steps, hes probably earned it. Hes run through deserts, rainforests, savannahs, mountains, jungle and 16 countries, and hes raised well over £500,000 for the Running Charity and sandblast, posting updates on his progress on social media. 0riginally, hed planned a mere 9,000 mile trip, but complications with visas, health scares, geopolitical issues and even an Armed Robbery meant the 26 year old was forced to extend the challenge. But hes taken it all in his stride. I was absolutely bricking it, to be totally honest. Everything goes through your head in those moments. And i was. I was pre
kids back into the classroom. the cdc is advising 3 feet of distancing instead of 6 feet for most students as long as masks and other measures are in place and depending on the community rates. joining me, andy slavitt who heads the covid response team. many states regardless are relaxing restrictions as cnn s alex alexandra field reports. k to 12 schools that operate safety can open. reporter: if even is masked, just 3 feet of students down from 6. the bottom line is there never was very good evidence for doing it alt 6 feet, not if kids are masked up. reporter: it s not clear how soon schools will implement changes as one said they ll, quote, reserve judgment. the push across the country accelerating as the new covid-19 cases hold steady. fewer than 55,000 new cases daily. still, alabama is one of the latest states moving ahead with plans to eliminate a mask mandate. the actual legal krgs of making it a mandate or not, you know, is not up to me, but we, you know,
we have to understand how to deal civilly with issues. and we ve got to do something to change that. not tomorrow, we ve got to do something now. i know there s hate crimes legislation, but it s uncons unconscionable, it s unacceptable, it s inhumane, and st not american. it s been six decades since your father shared his dream that one day you and your siblings and your daughter would live in a country that would not judge people by the color of their skin. and you said that day still has not arrived. no, that s the problem. people may think, and it doesn t i mean, my situation personally might be different, but what about the masses of people? our daughter, my wife would say, which is true, has fewer rights today than she did the day she was born. the voting rights act was struck down in 2013. women s reproductive rights struck down in 2022. affirmative action struck down in 2023. so there are fewer rights than