formally launch their impeachment inquiry into president biden will they move now to hold his son in contempt. markets soaring, the dow reaches a new high. retail numbers in, beating expectations, stock furthers up again. how high can it do? i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner, this is cnn news news central. just moments ago we watched as rudy giuliani arrived at court in washington d.c. after saying he intends to take the stand in his defamation damages trial. in a move to counter emotional claims from two election workers who say his lies and conspiracy theories after the 2020 presidential election turned their lives upside down. over the past two days, the court heard gut wrenching testimony from former pole workers. they described how giuliani s lies spawned a flood of racist messages and even death threats that forced them to leave their jobs and home, cost them some friends and made them feel so unsafe they were afraid ton even use their own names. ka
yet there are quite obviously thousands and thousands of innocent people that the idf is killing who are not members of hamas. and whether you blame hamas for embedding within the palestinian population after the october 7th brutal terrorist attack on israel or you blame the idf and netanyahu or both, this is the ugly and brutal reality of the slaughter of innocents that clarissa ward brings us now. a warning. that many of the images we re about to show you are difficult to watch. reporter: you don t have to search for tragedy in gaza. it finds you on every street, strewn with trash and stagnant water, desolate and foreboding. so we ve just crossed the border into southern gaza. this is the first time we ve actually been able to get into gaza since october 7th, and we are now driving to a field hospital that has been set up by the uae. up until now israel and egypt have made access for international journalists next to impossible. and you can see why. since october 7th
driving rain as he stepped out of his truck. my mom called me and my uncle had to break it to me. reporter: his family says a tree limb severed an artery in his leg. as they waited for medical help to arrive, a relative held him. she was with him when he took his last breath. i m so thankful he was not alone. reporter: they say he recited the our father prayer. he asked that one last message be slar shared with his wife. tell hope i love her. those were his last words. storms like lhurricane ida changed lives. the damage can t be measured by the physical destruction. storms take symbols of the past. lot of plaster damage. reporter: joy banner is the communications director for the whitney plantation museum west of new orleans.
a nearly 100-foot tall oak, crashed down on him in the darkness and driving rain as he stepped out of this truck. my mom called me and my uncle had to break it to me. reporter: duplessis said a tree limb severed an artery in his leg. as they waited for medical help to arrive, a relative held him. she was with him when he took his last breath and i m so thankful that he was not alone. they say duplessis recited the our father prayer and asked that one last message be shared with his wife. tell hope i love her. those were his last words. storms like hurricane ida changed lives. the damage can t be measured solely by the physical destruction. storms take symbols of the past. a lot of plaster damage. reporter: joy banner is the communications director for the whitney plantation museum, wes .
that s the nightmare chasity fathery and her family are cleaning up. i close my eyes and just see the tree hitting him. it s just it s horrible. the tree that he hated. the tree that he hated. he wanted it gone? he wanted it gone. reporter: 60-year-old dennis duplessis was finishing last-minute storm preparations at his home in louisiana. that tree that he hated so much, a nearly 100-foot tall oak crashed down on him in the darkness and driving rain as he stepped out of this truck. my mom called me and my uncle had to break it to me. reporter: duplessis says that a tree limb severed a an artery in his leg. as they waited for medical help to arrive, a relative held him. she was with him when he took his last breath. and i m so thankful that he was