we ll get to you in a moment, wolf. we re watching several new developments across the middle east as israel pushes through hamas. secretary of state antony blinken met with arab foreign ministers in georgia for a summit. blinken made it clear that now is not the right time for israel to enter a ceasefire. it s our view that a ceasefire now simply would leave hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on october 7th. you don t have to take my word for it. just a few days ago a senior hamas official said it was their intent to do october 7th again and again and again. we re seeing more air strikes across gaza today as israeli forces close in on gaza city. and significant developments at the rafah border crossing between scriegypt and gaza. the u.s. official says israel is blocking until it guarantees ambulances can make the crossing. we re continuing to watch major developments on the ground here in the region. cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertso
washington and then news, this morning, severe weather is battering several states, right now, extreme storms. let s start in dallas. they left disruptive mark. they look at this. this is what happened over this was a shell gas station after a possible tornado touchdown. it s not far from their 18 wheelers blown over. search crews, operations happening right now this morning, more than 200,000 customers across missouri and kansas, texas, oklahoma, nebraska, in the dark and more than 100 million people are at risk of severe weather across the country today, we of course, are tracking at all. another breaking story. we are watching this morning, a stabbing spree across to massachusetts communities. police hit suspect stabbed four young girls at a movie theater before driving to another town and stabbing two others at a restaurant. an hour later, we will have the latest on that amara walker, i m victor blackwell here for you on this busy sunday morning or breaking news r
hold it against the defendant for not testifying in his own defense the judge, though, has push back on the defense s efforts to add more language to the jury instructions that would be more favorable to 100, for instance, the idea that he would he didn t knowingly violate the law, which is something that defense is really all about. and they also wanted to they also want to make the argument that hunter biden did not think he was addicted to drugs when he bought that gun? in october of 2018? that s the reason why we re here and why hunter is facing these three federal charges that could send him to prison if he is convicted, but it s you pointed out, we could very much have this case in hands of the jury today if a hunter biden does not testify and john, i mean, the fact that we re here we had about ten witnesses. i think i was to ten witnesses or four-and-a-half days of testimony on the part of the by the prosecution s this case really is what the jury is going to be co
in on the four israeli hostage just rescued from how long her delete starts right now beaten and malnourished that from a doctor who treated the four israeli hostages, rescued from the terror of paris group hamas by the idf, new video of the operation is just in, as we learned details about the mission and the dozens of palestinians killed in the process and former president donald trump meeting today with a probation officer, what we re learning about his virtual hearing coming smack dab in the middle of a 2024 campaign stop. but first the breaking news who s in the trial of hunter biden, president biden s son closing arguments are now done and the jury. now has the case cnn breaking news welcome to the lean anja tapper and we start this hour with breaking news. we re now in verdict watch as the jury deliberates and hunter biden s federal gun trial. president biden, son faces three criminal charges, two for allegedly lying on a gun form application, claiming he was not o
on cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i am jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news out of the middle east as israel welcomes home four hostages rescued this morning from gaza during a special military operation all for kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the a6 october 7 attacks eight months ago they include 22-year-old oman, admire john, 25-year-old noa argamani, twenty-seven-year-old, andre kozlov, 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andrii in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks we also heard screaming as hamas fighters drove away with her on a motorbike. we know her boyfriend was also kidnapped and it s still being held captive israel says this morning s rescue mission took place it to separate locations in central gaza, your refugee camp palestinians, they re described the raid as how on earth is heavy shelling and artillery fire bombarded. tha