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anger. could that turn florida blue? it s still a long shot but it does give dems another opportunity to say look, voters, this is what happens when you let the other guys win. and while dems have this opportunity, republicans are hoping for their own opportunity on an issue they think they have the upper hand. let us start with abortion. joining us now, washington post national reporter covering abortion, car caroline kitchened matt dixon. you guys have done a lot of reports on what s happening in florida. matt, this ruling, talk to me about the political underpinnings of it. yeah, it s a huge win for democrats here in florida who haven t had a win in a decade or more. the biden campaign released a memo yesterday first given to nbc news that sort of said they re going to build their florida strategy around the issue of abortion and really tieing it to yesterday s two-part rulings. so democrats are really hoping this is going to sort of put florida s battleground st ....
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. welcome to our continuing breaking news coverage of israel at war. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying the second stage of its war, the ground war, has begun. the goal, to destroy the military and government, he says, of hamas. translator: our heroic fighters have one goal, to destroy this enemy and to make sure the existence in our country. never again, never again is now. at this hour, the conflict is escalating. this is new cnn video from a cnn producer in gaza capturing rockets being fired into israel. [ sirens ] and cnn s sara sidner and her team captured this video of rocket barrage over tel aviv earlier today. israel s iron dome defense system intercepted those incoming rockets. civilianness northern gaza say they endured the heaviest last night. cnn s nic robertson joins us live from sderot, israel. what are you seeing right now? reporter: relentless, jim. absolutely relentless barrage ....
holiday weekend, more than 70 million people are under a severe weather threat as intense tornadoes baseball hail add near hurricane force winds hit the central plains and parts of the midwest. let s bring in now cnn meteorologist, at elisa rafah. so at least so what areas are you watching most closely? we are really bullseye in parts of oklahoma and kansas today. again. and what s been a very active severe weather season. we have a moderate risk level four out of five there you can see in the red from it s your todd down towards oklahoma city where we could find baseball-sized hail intense, strong, long live, violent tornadoes possible, and damaging wind gusts. notice is if you re weather threat though, does stretch down across the deep south, including places like atlanta. and then there s another little portion of it up in the northeast as well. but where we could find these ef2 or greater tornadoes with the intense winds that could pack up to 100 or more miles p ....
jesse: fox news alert. israel s ground invasion of gaza has begun. tanks are in the strip. they re launching raids against hamas targets all over the border. the israeli government says tonight is the night. they will feel the wrath. all the international community that saw the crimes, atrocity that hamas is responsible for, we are going to destroy hamas, in doing so eradicating a despicable enemy of all humanity. israel naval battalion conducted a egyseige. watch. why did israel wait so long? sources tell primetime that hostage negotiations had collapsed because of what hamas was offering, the israelis realized hamas wasn t serious, was using hostage negotiations to delay the ground invasion. now israel has one focus, completely decimate the terrorist presence to their south. the idf shut out the lights in gaza, no internet or cell phones. a blackout. they received the highest level of intensintensity. a bunker buster bomb was dropped in gaza, to demolish tunnels ....
calling on a judge to stop donald trump from continuing to claim fbi agents were involved in a plot to assassinate him during his search of his mar-a-lago home during the classified documents investigation. trump made a suggestion in a campaign fundraising email and has been repeated by conservative media outlets. late friday, smith filed a notion in judge eileen tenants court saying, those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him smith added that the false statements expose sba agents, some of whom will be witnesses at the trial, to threats of harassment. we have reporters covering all of the developments for you. we will begin with julie sirkin on capitol hill. julie, welcome. the prosecutor s request is different from a gag order, but what exactly are they asking of the judge? reporter: this is a first, let me ju ....