tennis match and one tennis superstar. thank you for being here, everyone. at this hour, president biden is getting ready to leave the white house. he is going to oklahoma. he is there to commemorate the tulsa race massacre. 100 years ago a white mob attacked a prosperous black neighborhood killing hundreds of men, women, and children n 24 hours, 35 city blocks were destroyed in what is thought to be the single worst event of white supremacist violence against african-americans in our nation s history. the white house says that the president is not only heading there to honor those lives lost in the tragic legacy left behind, but also to announce steps today to try to help close the racial wealth gap. let s go there. abby philip is joining us from tuls ya tulsa. what are we hearing from biden today? today is all about commemorating what was lost 100 years ago during the tulsa race massacre. also, marking what happens in the 100 years since that massacre. which was the d
we begin with the excavating crisis in the middle is the. is laid is really warplanes targeting hamas targets and flattening elting. welcome to today s edition of america reports . i am sandra smith your end your, excursions rocking gaza city as they launched airstrike on several targets. the described as the heavy essence the fighting began two weeks ago. a comes after the deadliest day of the conflict. palestinian officials say at least 40 to people were killed yesterday the former acting director of national intelligence joins us all of this just ahead. we begin first with on the ground in southern israel. what are you seeing and hearing there? sandra, john, we are well into wheat to, the battle between israel and the hamas militant group. what we re seeing on the ground as there is no seat sign yet of a cease-fire. look at what we saw earlier today. we are hearing sirens now near the city of ashdod in the central part of israel. your looking behind us, as o
watching on pbs in the us, or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. russia is expelling ten us diplomats and blacklisting eight top american officials, in a reciprocal response to sanctions imposed by washington on thursday. russia s foreign minister sergei lavrov said moscow was also tightening restrictions on us diplomats travelling within russia. here s mr lavrov speaking earlier on the latest us sanctions. translation: we will respond to this measure in a tit-for-tat manner. - we will ask 10 us diplomats in russia to leave the country. earlier on friday, a kremlin spokesman denounced what he called washington s addiction to sanctions, but said president putin wanted to avoid escalation. for more on this latest rise in tensions between moscow and washington, here s a former british ambassador to russia, sir tony brenton. there s obviously lots of sound and fury going on at the moment, but both sides are, to some
cheney? let s get right to cnn s gary tuchman, live from cheyenne, in cheney s home state of wyoming. gary, what are voters there saying to you? reporter: jake, we talked to a lot of voters in cheyenne, wyoming. what surprises me a little bit, it s been very difficult to find a loyal republican who says i like cheney, i like trump. let s try to get it together. people are extremely dug in to their positions. what i can tell you at this point is that anyone we ve talked to who says that who lies and says the election was stolen or it may have been stolen, they are shedding no tears for liz cheney. this dispute, do you think liz cheney has the right to be angry with donald trump? no. reporter: why? because i don t think he s wrong. reporter: do you think the election was stolen? i think it s possible, yeah. reporter: whose side are you on? liz cheney s. tell me why. she doesn t divide her thoughts along political lines. she speaks her truth and i appreciat
tornado hit. the girls got in to the bathtub in preparation for the tornado doing everything that they should. but the family was about to be thrown in to the air with a force that nothing could stop. and tragically anniston, the 9-year-old of the three sisters didn t survive. her two sisters miraculously did. 7-year-old avalyn on the left, hours later, described to her aunt what it felt like. she said yes, i was flying around in the tornado. i prayed to jesus to take care of me. he spent me out. the tornado spit me out in to the minus. martha: incredible story of that family and this little baby, oakland, two months old made it through the weekend, but she passed away monday. succumbing to her injuries. they think she had a stroke in the middle of this. we tell you these stories so we can remember these little ones and also to impress on you the shear unbelievable force of this historic tornado that our country is in the process of recovering from. you have 100 people th