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So maybe maybe this is the year or its coming up this afternoon. Heres what were watching for you this morning. Commencement ceremonies have become the latest target of protests that have grip College Campuses across this country. How school plan to deal with the protesters and the agreements theyre now making to put a stop to the demonstrations. Also, Longtime Donald Trump aid hope hicks took the stand friday in trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial where she told the court about what was happening getting inside the campaign after the release of the access Hollywood Tape, the cdc says the Maternal Mortality rate is down, but significant Racial Disparity please remain will dig into the numbers and whats being done to close the gap and this could be the 10th de in a row. Weve had a Confirm Tornado here in the well detail where that may end up occurring in just few minutes dan, Caitlin Clarks wnba career is now off and running. She made her debut Last Night And Dallas and she did not disappoint. I got to show you all the step threes and what she had to say about her debut coming up in school will begin this morning with universities across the us, raising Security Concerns at their campuses as they prepare for Graduation Ceremonies. This comes after weeks of propalestinian protests. The university of Southern California says it will hold a small family graduate celebration. Last week, the school cancel the main Graduation Ceremony one that would have brought in as many as 65,000 Attendees A Protest Encampment will disband at the university of California RiversideSchool Administrators and protesters reached an agreement concerning Investment Transparency, but it does not appear to promise divestment or divestment from israel. Now, were also getting new details about the major your protest this week at Columbia University in new york. A total of 44 people were arrested for storming and barricaded themselves Inside Amylopectin Hall at Emory University here that lanas some Faculty Members approved a vote of no confidence against the universitys president cnns Nick Valencia explains what that means for the school faculty, Senate Members at Emory University voted overwhelmingly no confidence on emorys president , greg fenves. The vote comes just over a week after 28 people were arrested during demonstrations on campus of those 28 who were arrested, 20 hey of them had connections to the school in his initial statement, emory president Gregory Fenves had said that the group was outside agitators, which was inaccurate. His statement was criticized as was his decision to call in Police Officers with the Atlanta Police department and troopers from Georgia State patrol. Now, this vote of no confidence is not legally binding, but the results will make their way to the Board Of Trustees and they have the discretion to remove fenves if they wish we reached out to Emory University and this is what theyre telling us in a statement saying, quote, while we take any concerns expressed by members of our community seriously, there are wide range of perspectives being shared within the emory community. Those propalestinian demonstrations continue on emorys campus. They polantz, you, cnn, atlanta. Nick, thank you so much. The Biden Administration is ramping up its response to the unrest on College Campuses yesterday, education secretary Miguel Cardona sent a letter to University President s condemning antisemitism. Cnns can we lead to shallows joining us now from wilmington, delaware . Good morning to you, camila, the Biden Administration has been slow to respond to these Campus Protests. Tell us more about whats in this letter will amara, the education secretary Miguel Cardona strongly condemned the antisemitic incidents that are happening on College Campuses across the country. And this letter just really encapsulates what President Biden and what his top officials, what their stance is when it comes to these college lets protests. That is, they believed that there is no place for hateful rhetoric or for violence on College Campuses. Now theres a part of a letter that really encapsulates and really gets to this part. And it says i am particularly disturbed by the sharp rise in reports of antisemitism targeting jewish students on some College Campuses no students should have to hide symbols of their faith or ancestry for fear of harassment or violence we take these reports very seriously and will investigate discrimination aggressively on that last part, its really important to note that the Department Education has said that since october 7, they have launched and are now pursuing more than 100 investigations into complaints but they have received of harassment and discrimination. So this is an issue that they can no longer ignore. Amara viktor, back to you, camila to chalice. Thank you so much. And also coming up later this hour im going to speak with Angus Johnston. Hes a History Professor who studies Student Activism. Im going to ask him how these protests on campuses are impacting Graduation Ceremonies at universities and where after the students leave, where does this energy go . What happens next . So stay with us for that conversation. The second week of Witness Testimony and the Trump Hush Money Trial ended with very emotional testimony from hope hicks, once one of Donald Trumps closest aides, hicks was noticeably uncomfortable, as she testified, and avoided eye contact with her former boss cnns paula reid, has more hope hicks, one of trumps former closest advisers took the stand and the new york hush money trial. Im really nervous. She revealed to the court as she began her testimony, she did have some warm words for her former boss, praising his ability to message. He just deserves the credit for the different messages that the campaign focused on in terms of the agenda that he put forth. But she never looked at him during most of her testimony, instead, focusing directly on the lawyers asking her questions. She testified at length about the impact of the access Hollywood Tape on the 2016 trump campaign, and how but was a crisis. She was the first person in the campaign to learn of the tape what she was contacted by a reporter. I was concerned. She said she also witnessed trumps reaction to the story. Asked if he was upset. She said, yes yeah, he was she also told the jury about conversation she had with former trump fixer, Michael Cohen and trump when reports of Karen Mcdougal and Stormy Daniels first surfaced in early November 2016 saying trump wanted to make sure that there was a denial of any kind of relationship in a significant moment. Went for prosecutors, hicks revealed trunk communicated directly to her about the payment to daniels. I only know about one instance sometime in the middle of february, mr. Trump told me about it and trump was relieved that the story did not come out before the election. It was mr. Trumps opinion that it was better to be dealing with it now and that it would have been bad to have had that story come out before the election. Hicks appeared nervous throughout her appearance on the stand and after that key exchange as Defense Attorneys were starting their crossexamination hicks broke down in tears sorry about that. She said as she returned to the stand and when trumps attorneys have the chance to question her, they got her to confirm that he was worried about his wife, melania is reaction to some of the stories, President Trump really values mrs. Trumps opinion and she doesnt weigh in all the time. But when she does, its really meaningful to him the big question now is who will take the stand on monday . Prosecutors have been tight, lipped about who they will call next and when they will call the man at the center of this alleged conspiracy, Michael Cohen emmer of victor, paula reid. Thank you so much mandatory evacuations are underway in texas after heavy rain and flooding, rivers have surged to levels not seen since Hurricane Harvey back in 2017 floodwaters have submerged vehicles and homes, forcing dozens of rescues cnns Ella Lesson Chinchar is monitoring all of this from the weather center. Thats a lot of water there. Any relief in sight there is, but its only temporary say today, for example, we arent expecting a tremendous amount of rain, which is great because we need time for this water to receive the unfortunate part is that rain comes. All right. Back again. To so heres a look at all of the areas. Look at this, all of these dots represent rivers, creeks, or streams. The gauge at minor, moderate or either even major flood stage across these areas. And that water when youre talking about rivers that takes time to come back down. Again. Weve also got some of these areas that weve been dealing with across some of this take for example, all of the rain here. Youre talking widespread six to ten inches, some of these areas have picked up 15 to even 20 inches of rain. Thats why you still have a lot of these flood warnings, even though were not anticipating a ton of rain today, it takes time for that water to go away. Now where the heavy rain is, thats farther to the north areas of the midwest and into the Central Plains where weve got some of those strong thunderstorms thats going to set the stage for today because we are still anticipating severe weather. Todays stretching from chicago all the way back towards the texas mexico border. That target point is really going to be here across texas. Thats where we can see very large hail. Youre talking larger than golf balls and damaging winds and yes, even some tornadoes that would mean we end up with a Confirm Tornado. This would be the tenth day in a row of a Confirm Tornado somewhere in the but take a look at this 224 total tornado reports just in the last few weeks. Again, excessive amount of severe weather. It is the busy time of year, but even still, this is the area where we highly anticipate some of those tours nato is today the focus right there around midland abilene, texas, but also the risk for large hail and that extends up through st. Louis, kansas city, oklahoma city, even into some of the western chicago suburbs. And yes, weve talked about additional rain. This is what we can expect for tomorrow. Now notice some of that heavy rain is not going to necessarily be in the same areas of houston where we saw them the flooding, viktor and amara. But you have to remember, its all those areas where that water is going to flow downstream into those same rivers, creeks, and streams that are already dealing with high flood stage all right. Allison chinchar. Thank you very much still to come the Republican National committee and donald trump for holding a fundraiser at maralago, which is expected to feature has potential Vice President ial hopefuls, marta, who we can expect to see on that guestlist, cia director bill burns is in cairo for negotiations over a ceasefire and hostage deal, and that israel, hamas war, the latest on those talks. And although Maternal Mortality rates have dropped, black women still have higher rates of maternal deaths than other women. We will ask a doctor why the man is hospitalized . Infected with anthrax tomorrow. This became the bureaus number one crying to sell how it really happened with jesse l. Martin two wed nine on cnn you need your eyes, jack good id go to americas past for a comprehensive quality. I exactly good call. 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