in hours in now a major primetime address. President biden delivering his message to the nation from the oval office, calling for additional aid to israel and also to ukraine. Im Brianna Keilar with Boris Sanchez here in washington. Kaitlan collins is live from tel aviv. The State Department is warning all americans overseas. This is a rare warning and says to, quote, exercise increased caution citing rising senses all over the world. It comes as the humanitarian crisis in gaza grows more dire. Egyptian Security Officials told a cnn journalist on site that the rafah crossing between inmate and the gaza strip will be open on friday to deliver critical aid. Workers were seen making preparations. Yeah. That would be critical aid. Today an israeli strike on a neighborhood about ten miles from where the crossing is killed a number of people and also injured dozens more. Thats according to the Interior Ministry in gaza. A spokesperson for the Israeli Defense forces said he did not have information but said the military was looking into it. Jeremy diamond has been tracking this. Well begin with Nic Robertson who is in sderot, israel, near the gaza border. What have you seen on the ground today . Reporter well, more incoming rocket strikes. Some headed north to where jeremy is. They were intercepted by iron dome. Rockets aimed at sderot, they came in, at least one impact that were aware of here. No casualties associated with that. There has been there has been this northern end of gaza, relatively quiet. I say relatively because we have heard amounts of small arms fire, heavy machine gun fire, and hearing a helicopter, weve heard jets and the Occasion Missile Strike into gaza. But this those terms, it has been relatively quiet. That strike further south from here. As you say, the hamascontrolled Interior Ministry saying a number of people injured, number of people killed, dozens of people there injured. It is kind of symptomatic of the many, many israeli Missile Strikes that have gone into gaza targeting hamas, targeting the infrastructure, targeting their tunnels. Ive been speaking with two Government Ministers today. Both say israel is not targeting civilians. Both of them rejecting the pressure thats coming from the International Community for a humanitarian pause to alleviate the civilian suffering at this time. Both of them, though, expecting that humanitarian aid that right now is at the rafah crossing on the egyptian side, expecting that to come into gaza in the coming days. So nic, walk us through whats going to be allowed to enter from egypt. What is the operating procedure, what are we supposed to watch happen tomorrow . Reporter its expected that 20 trucks will cross, that is as you say the road was being prepared by workers. We know that on the gaza side there have been some impacts of missiles or shells, israeli missiles or shells on the road connecting the egyptian side into the palestinian side. Those if theyre repaired completely and if there are no Security Incidents around the border overnight and if any number of other things dont go wrong, then these 20 trucks should be allowed in on Thepprovize Oh that none of the humanitarian goods that theyre carrying falls under the control of hamas. That is a red line for israeli authorities who still say as far as getting any humanitarian support and relief for gaza is concerned, none of it will enter from Israeli Border crossing points because they believe the absence of humanitarian aid is leverage to get the 203 hostages that hamas controls released. The 20 trucks is essentially a drop in the ocean compared to what the 2. 2 Million People in gaza need. But it is coming at huge pressure from the International Community on israel, pressure that actually weve heard from egypt today, weve heard from jordan today, both saying in a joint statement they actually want a humanitarian pause completely, a stop to israeli Missile Strikes and artillery strikes so that there can be a bigger humanitarian effort. Yeah. I heard from someone who has family in gaza yesterday saying those 20 trucks of humanitarian assistance, its what they could go through in two hours in gaza. Nic robertson, well continue to check back with you. Jeremy diamond, what have you been seeing on the ground today . Reporter well, this is we are here in asculon, the most fired upon city in israel. 25 of the rockets fired from gaza have targeted this city. That amounts to about 1,200 rockets. While the iron dome does intercept the overwhelming majority of those rockets, about 200 of them have made direct hits here in the city, displacing families, causing casualties, even some fatalities. And what we visited today was the Command Center where City Officials coordinate the Emergency Response to these rockets. Sometimes tracking the trajectory of these rockets before they make impact, figuring out where they are going to land if, indeed, they get through that iron dome Missile Defense system. Now what we saw today was a city that is really calm. A city that has come to a standstill in many ways. About 25 of the citys population has already left. The population that remains, though, many of them are resilient and determined to stay despite the barrage. Were in a supermarket when an Air Raid Siren went off. What you saw was some people in fear, running inside the store, while others really just continued to go about their day, continuing to do their shopping as they saw it. About 90 of businesses in this city are, indeed, closed. What is open, though, grocery stores, pharmacies, et cetera. But Everything Else is pretty much shuttered. Yeah, daily life here has just been changed so dramatically everywhere. Of course what everyone is kind of waiting on, what seems to be looming over the entire over all of israel is whether or not they are going to go into gaza, what that looks like. We heard from the Defense Minister saying troops, israeli forces, will soon see gaza, quote was from the inside. Once forces are inside gaza, how long theyre there and what that looks like and what it means for the civilians who are still in Northern Gaza . Reporter yeah, not only does the timing, the exact timing of that Ground Invasion still remain unclear to us, although it does seem to be approaching as you listen to not only the Defense Minister making comments to troops about seeing the inside of gaza, but the israeli Prime Minister making bellicose comments indicating that the command to go inside of gaza is very much approaching. But what we know is that that command is going to come. That is something that Defense Minister said clearly today. Whenever it does happen, though, there is, as you said, still significant uncertainty about how long that mission actually lasts. Israeli officials have made clear that this will be a different kind of ground operation than anything that has happened before the last time that they went in in any significant numbers was in 2014. This will be a much wider scale campaign. The question is will they be able to achieve the objective of eliminating hamas as israeli officials including the israeli Prime Minister have made clear that that is the objective. And also what happens next . Who if not the Israeli Military, you know, who takes control of gaza . And will hamas indeed be eliminated when it is a militant force that can embed with the Population National parks can blend in with the blend in with the israeli population, if that is an achievable goal, and what happens after. Reporter yeah. Israeli officials have warned it will take some time. Jeremy diamond, thank you. I want to get more from the white house where the president is set to take his second Oval Office Address since taking office. He previewed that he is going to be asking for a massive aid package from the u. S. Congress. What are we expecting to hear from him in terms. Not just selling it to lawmakers but to the public who will be listening . Reporter this is going to be a direct appeal to the American People for why the u. S. Has a National Security interest to sustain the fighting in ukraine and to come to israels defenses in an even bigger way. Senior officials tell cnn that the president is going to make the argument that the cost of inaction is far higher than the cost of authorizing the funds that weve now learned the white house is going to request. Its going to be a strikingly large package, about 100 billion through next september. About 60 billion of that is going to be earmarked for ukraine, and rest of it would go toward israel. Taiwan readiness, Securities Measures on the u. S. Border with mexico. But the president is facing a skeptical public when hes making this argument. Recent cnn polling found that on israel while the vast and overwhelming majority of respondents are sympathetic to the civilian plight in israel and gaza, they are unsure about exactly how to come to israels defenses and whether congress should authorize more funding there. On ukraine, Public Support has been waning in recent months, and theres become a very clear partisan divide with the majority of democrats supporting sustaining that money and majority of republicans arguing that perhaps its time to let some of that funding run out. The administration has argued that theres just a couple months left of supplies that the u. S. Has provided to ukraine that remain left. And john kirby has said ukraine can afford zero days to let that funding and weaponry lapse before it would have issues being able to sustain the fight on the battlefield. The president has a tall order. Of course hes going to be infusing some of his personal imagery from his time on the ground in israel and time visiting with president zelenskyy last month as he tries to make that case directly to the public. Reporter hes been to both war zones. Kayla, thank you. And boris and brianna, obviously President Biden is going to be speaking to congress tonight. Thats who hes making this ask to. I want to let you know what ive heard from sources on the ground. President biden was not here for very long. A matter of hours that he was here in tel aviv yesterday. But even during those conversations that he was having with this newly formed wartime cabinet, what theyre dealing with, of course, as jeremy was noting with when this Ground Invasion is going to happen, how long its going to lasts, the drama that is happening on capitol hill came up during those conversations im told. President biden was telling these israeli senior Government Officials that he was going to be making this big ask of congress, about 10 million for israel itself. But during those conversations he was lamenting what was happening almost at the same time. Jim jordan was failing again to secure enough votes to become the Republican House speaker. Because, of course, officials here are fully aware of how that affects him. No matter what President Biden asks congress for, there is no congress that can act if theres not a House Speaker to allow that legislation to pass through the house. This is something that it certainly is of concern here. They dont seem to be deeply worried because the president offered assurances that they did believe it would be taken care of. But it is remarkable that that drama that is playing out in the republican conference is something that was being discussed in the basement of a hotel here in tel aviv as the president was meeting with the israeli Prime Minister and other officials who are dealing with a war on their hands. Reporter the world is watching. It is chaotic, it is messy. And it is something that is in full view of allies and enemies alike. Thank you so much. If we can go now to capitol hill because republican congressman jim jordan is pushing the pause button on his bid to be the next speaker of the house. Sources say jordan will not hold a third vote for the speakership but hes not dropping out. An interesting wrinkle in this. House republicans, obviously, have been bitterly divided over the issue of speaker. Moderates have refused to back the ultra conservative jordan. And now sources tell cnn hes leaning toward backing the interim speaker, Patrick Mchenry, as a temporary fix until potentially as late as january. Meantime, he will keep in the race for speaker. We have more live from capitol hill. Why is jordan staying in the race if hes losing support, and what are the holdouts saying about this plan . Reporter jim jordan thinks he has a new strategy that could eventually get him to the speakership. The new idea now, im told, is that jim jordan is going to get behind this resolution to temporarily empower interim speaker Patrick Mchenry until january. Now he can only oversee floor votes related to the speakers race. He cannot move legislation. Jordan thinks this will give him more time to build support for his Speakership Bid. There are a lot of risks to this plan. First of all, it is very unclear that thats going to win over any holdouts. I talked to one of them, he said this does nothing to change his mind about a jim jordan atmosphericship. The other speakership. The other risk for jordan is this is sparking fierce pushback from members of his own party, conservative members who had been backing him for speaker. They say they do not like the plan of empowering speaker mchenry. Listen to what they said earlier today. Absurd. Its the biggest f you to Republican Voters as ive ever seen. A big mistake. A big mistake. And i over half the republicans in that room are against it. I dont think its the rye way. The speaker dramas not going to go away with extra time. I dont know why this is happening. Im disappointed. Hell no. No. No. No. Hate i hades, no. We need to lead, not kick the can down the road. Reporter im told republicans are still meeting Behind Closed Doors. This meeting got heated according to sources in the room. At one point theres a conversation with matt gaetz and a number swearing at him saying this is your fault. There were jordan supporters who got up and said this is a selfserving move for jordan, that he should get out of the race. These are very heated, emotional. Its unclear whether there is a path forward for the resolution, whether jordan is going to stick by it. Other wrinkle is its going to take democratic votes to put up this resolution. They had their own meeting this morning. Still weighing their options. At this point it looks like this might be the only potential viable option to end the chaos and rope the house and reopen the house, and thats looking on thin ice at this point. The rifts, plural, rifts are growing deeper and the house is shutting down in a month. And we heard nancy pelosi saying democrats arent going to go along with that. They are going to provide support. Perhaps republicans should not be banking on it. Thank you so much for the reporting. Ahead, just one day before her trial was set to begin, sydney powell, former trump attorney and fierce defender of Conspiracy Theories, she just flipped, pleading guilty in the Georgia Election subversion case. What this could mean for former president trump. Were back with some new developments out of fulton county, georgia. Thats where one of former president Donald Trumps 18 codefendants in the States Election interference case just flipped. Sidney powell, who was one of Donald Trumps fiercest defenders, going back to spinning Conspiracy Theories after the 2020 election, shes now pleaded guilty to six charges related to election subversion. This is the deal that comes just one day before her trial was due to start. As parts of this three deal she has agreed to testify in any future trials which raises the possibility that she could testify against trump in the future which obviously is a huge deal. Joining us now, we have cnn National Security reporter zach cohen, also cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliott williams. Okay, take us through the reporting. What else do we know about this agreement . This was a surprise by powell, and every indication was that she was preparing to go see trial. She was not to go to trial. She was not into the plea deal or what was offered before. In the last 24 hours prosecutors and her Defense Attorneys got together to hash out the terms of something they could both live with. For powell it means pleading guilty to misdemeanors. She was facing a felony, a major felony that called for prison. Now shes pleading to much less serious charges. One of the cool things, unique things, is theres cameras in the courtroom. Weve been surprised hearing