lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. there in nashville. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people dead, three adults and 39 year old children. two expelled lawmakers. jones and justin pearson are black. laurie johnson, who is white, kept her seat by a single vote. jones and pearson have called for protesters to return to the capital tomorrow, when the house is back in session, so let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel i guess. first of all, if you can tell us do we expect those protests and materialized ? might they be as big as we were seeing? at the end of last week as they were huge, and the nashville city council doesn t appear they have the votes to get jones back in the statehouse. jim the passions don t seem to be tampering down . we are expecting a day of action is what has been organized on social media with folk
start around 12 30 eastern, they re going to go up and pears from split tees holds one and 10. all right. thank you so much. longoria continues her culinary adventure in a waka the new episode of the cnn original series. eva longoria, searching for mexico airs tonight at nine on cnn. the next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. good morning to you. welcome to cnn this morning. it s sunday. april 9th. i m victor blackwell walker. thank you. so much for spending a part of your easter morning with us. happy easter. if you celebrate. i ve got my easter egg hunt ready? i got the easter baskets ready? because the easter bunny came last night . so the kids are all excited for their goodies and ready to go only goody that i had, um, i picked up the kettle corn peeps . i saw that. yeah. did you really eat that? bit people head off, and that s all i had. yahoo commentary on the kettle corn peeps that good alright here is what we are watching this morning a weekend of religious c
order is nearly extinct in liberal cities, take san francisco, were even more business are being forced to pack up and leave. high-end retailer nordstrom is the latest to close up shop after 35 years, they are going to be shutting down both stores because of the dynamics of its downtown have changed dramatically. sounds like corporate speak for crimes ran us out of town and it is not safe for our workers. and this comes on the heels of a flagship san francisco whole foods closing its doors after just 13 months. the place was plagued by violence, drugs, vagrants. the business made an astounding 560 emergency calls before throwing in the towel. so far, 28 stores have shut down in the bay area since 2020, and the ones that stay are forced to run what looks like a maximum security prison to sell deodorant and toothpaste. oh, and if you fight back against this type of insanity, you will be the one that gets charged, while the criminal gets to escape. [bleep]. [bleep]. [bleep]. g
fredricka whitfield and we begin with escalating tensions in the middle east. israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem. scott mclean is in beirut, lebanon, fred, let me begin with you. what is the latest hi there, fredricka. well certainly it is still quite concerning here on the ground. i would say it s still very tense and very volatile situation as well. and of course, one of the main reasons for that is what you were just mentioning is those rocket attacks that
pardon happen. abbott blaming radical prosecutor jose garza funded by george soros in election 2 years ago. governor stating, texas has the strongest stand your ground law of self-defense that cannot be nullified by jury of progressive district attorney. sergeant perry claims he acted in self-defense when a mob of protestors surrounded car and one of them pointed gun at him. the texas lieutenant governor also weighing. he should never have been charged with murder. detective says there s evidence that would not have had him indicted and the detective argued over the da over this. when you have the justice system write down at da and court level something has well, that s the deal. cheryl: joey, the lead directive, he sign ad sworn affidavit and signed garza s office and the police in the area said not guilty. i don t know all the evidence but i can take a step back about stand your ground law in texas. i can tell that governor abbott is not using conjecture when he