Cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean in need work and we have breaking news out of Northern Gaza tonight where israel is preparing to reopen the erez Border Crossing and agreed to use its Port Of Ashdod to get humanitarian aid into gaza. This as the un humanitarian aid chief calling that situation in gaza, quote, of betrayal of humanity. It is now just hours before the israelhamas war reaches its six month mark with more than 33,000 People Killed this week. A deadly israeli strike killed seven humanitarian aid workers from World Central Kitchen, cnns Nic Robertson is in jerusalem and nic israel is letting these aid trucks in what its going to be hard for them to actually get to civilians, walk us through all of this so what we know about the Border Crossing is that the israeli, israeli officials are saying they are expecting trucks, aid trucks have yet to cross over and arrows. Its not clear how many trucks is not clear what therell be carrying. In fact, very few details at the
this is ali. chris seen on a well-deserved vacation. we have a lot going on today. let s get to it. high drama and high stakes over raising america s debt ceiling. we are now just 20 day ace way from the treasury deadline. president obama will meet again today with congressional leaders for the fifth straight day of negotiations that ended abruptly yesterday. republicans saying the president stormed out of the talks. this morning, democratic source is telling cnn president obama shut down the meeting after house majority leader eric cantor continued to push for a short-term extension of the debt ceiling. something that the president categorically opposes. that s when sources say the president got agitated saying, quote, this could bring my presidency down but i will not yield on this. end quote. then he added, talking to eric cantor, eric, don t call my bluff. i m going to the american people with this, end quote. let s go live to dan lothian at the white house. differ acco