Aides and tragedy in texas floodwaters sweep away little boy as his parents trying to get the family to dry land. And today millions are under threat of more severe weather. Im kate baldwin was sara sidner and john berman in this is Cnn News Central happening now as possible Ground Invasion of Eastern Rafah in gaza could be imminent with hostage and Ceasefire Negotiations teetering on the brink of collapse. We have brand new video, justin of a plume of smoke. After a loud explosion in rafah Israeli Forces could putin launched what they are calling a limited scale operation. The idf Drop Leaflets with a map to socalled safe zones in the message, evacuated immediately. This has a direct impact on as many as 100,000 people, cnns Jeremy Diamond is in jerusalem. Jeremy was the latest your hearing from there . Elmilitary thousands of leaflets on Eastern Raffa, ordering an area were about 100,000e currently living to begin evacuating north to what the Israeli Military is describing as an expa
the sooner the better. we should not listen to those that are threatening, we cannot build a policy according to threats. that s what happened when we established israel in 1948, when we declared it is capital. we believe the embassy should move to jerusalem. its an american decision. we think it should happen. mr. ambassador, final question, donald trump just said that the palestinians are ready to reach for peace. do you believe they are? unfortunately, i think we need to see actions, joe, not talks. when abbas is talking in english in d.c. or when he met president trump, he s saying one thing. when he speaks in arabic to his people, it sounds completely the opposite. so, we want to see actions. we want to hear them condemn terrorism and educating the children for peace. i educate my children for peace. i expect the same that they will do that. once we do that, we will be hopeful about it.
dumb & dumber very quickly. anyway, i want you to know later today i am leaving connecticut and i am going up to boston. and when i m in boston, i m going to let my red sox fans know that i just came back from new england and, boy, the weather was bad there. geez! lloyd christmas. look it up. it would be funny if it wasn t so sad. joining us live from jerusalem, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, andrea mitchell. andrea, what are your takeaways so far? have you ever seen a trip like this? well, i am in jerusalem. i ve just come back from the middle east. so i m now here in jerusalem. and one of the disputed areas, of course, between israelis and palestinians. there was some serious business done today. the president just laid a wreath and spoke.
you and jonathan turley about when we come back, joe, what are we talking about here? obstructing what? how about obstructing the russia investigation and was he a corrupting influence? it appears so because he was trying to obstruct the russia investigation. i m not sure why people are so afraid to say that because that s what we re looking at unless we get more information that puts that away. by the way, we haven t even talked about the michael flynn part of this. that part of the story is still ahead. later, the president defended himself against something no one has accused him of. we ll bring in nbc s andrea mitchell live from jerusalem when we come back. rd from capit. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business. which adds fuel to my bottom line.
hour, and the world is watching president trump this morning with america s closest ally under attack. and a white house facing striking and stunning new allegations of trying to influence u.s. spy services at the very highest level. just moments ago, the president took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the holocaust memorial in jerusalem. is he expected to make remarks at the israel museum at any moment now. that will be his last scheduled address in the middle east before leaving for rome later this morning. back at home, new reporting says president trump not only pushed james comey to squash the russia investigation but leaned on the head of the nsa and the director of national intelligence. joe, this appears to be closing in on president trump. i understand that mueller has a major investigation before him and there are many more details