Good saturday morning and welcome to cnn this morning today is april 6, 2024. Im Victor Blackwell and im amro walker. Heres what were watching for you. This morning. Rattled buildings and nerves, a series of Aftershocks Jolt millions across the northeast after the strongest earthquake in nearly 250 years this hits new jersey, a Ripple Effects felt up and down the east coast. The us is bracing for what senior officials called a quote, significant and inevitable attack by iran in the coming days with live with the overnight developments israel says its approved reopening acute crossing to allow humanitarian aid to flow into gaza for the First Time Since the israelhamas war started six months ago, we are live there with the latest and the eclipse frenzy sweeping across the country, leading to a Population Boom in one tiny town in texas ill take you there later this morning at least 18 aftershocks have rattled the northeast after a 4. 8 magnitude earthquake struck the region yesterday, the shaking could be felt all the way from washington, dc, dc up to maine. There were no serious injuries or damage reported in the strongest earthquake to hit new jersey in more than 240 years. But the shaking it did leave some people and some pets startled more than 23 Million People felt light shaking and a lot of it was caught on camera. Cnns polo sign of all spoke to some rattled new yorkers after the quake a typical morning in middlesex, new jersey suddenly interrupted by a rare earthquake that rocked much of the Eastern Us On Friday Second Angle captured the rattling of the walls violent enough to knock items to the ground you my house was shaking its one of many videos shared online, capturing stunned and scared residents during and after 4. 8 magnitude quake the epicenter was some 50 miles west of New York City in northern new jersey, according to the Us Geological survey, which estimates at least 23 Million People felt some degree of shaking from dc to new england now, tanner was working at a manhattan highrise. My chair, certain kind of bouncing a little bit. And as soon as i looked around, i immediately realized that i wasnt alone everybody else in the building definitely felt something. And so theres a feeling i havent experienced before. It was quite interesting and yeah theres, a little unnerving. The new jersey quake is the largest to strike that state and over 240 years, according to the usgs in New York City, lets Security Council meeting on the war in the middle east forced to pause as the Un Manhattan Headquarters shook. Some yeah, youre youre making the ground shake Critical Infrastructure like bridges and the Transit System fared well. Many built to withstand seismic events stronger than fridays assured city officials, we do not have any reports of major impacts to our infrastructure or injuries but of course we are still assessing the situation polo sandoval, cnn, new york. Polo. Thank you for that report. The us is actively preparing for a significant attack from iran in the coming days, officials in the and israel are on high alert after an israeli airstrike in damascus that killed at least seven iranian officials, according, include your top commander, a State Department says, it warned tehran not to use the strike as a pretext to attack us personnel and facilities in the region. Were also waiting this morning for word on when israel will reopen crossings to allow aid into gaza the Erez Crossing is one of them. Now american officials worried widespread destruction will prevent a from reaching those in need these are positive developments, but the real test is results. And thats what were looking to see in the coming days. And in the coming weeks is the aid effectively reaching people who need it throughout gaza and we have teamed coverage this morning, we will get to Camila Dechalus in just a minute, but lets start with cnns Nic Robertson, who is standing by live in israel nick, can you tell us okay. You know, were were actually Gonna Go To Kamila First and kamila tell us more about the specific intelligence about an looming attack from iran well, at this point in time, us Officials Say they believe an attack against made by iran is inevitable. And even though we dont know exactly how or when theyre planning to strike back. We know that he could come as early as next week. Now, this has been a major talking good point when biden spoke to the israeli Prime Minister over the phone, the last time they spoke. And we know that us officials are preparing for a worstcase scenario and making preparations as we speak but the Bigger Picture here i amron victor is that this could potentially escalate into a wider regional conflict. And that is something that biden has long tried to avoid. Amara, viktor all right. Camila dechalus. Thank you very much are we going to Nic Robertson . Are okay. We dont have them anymore, so we will go now to cnn Global Affairs analyst kimberly dozer. Kim, its good to have you this morning. First off, lets talk about the us actively preparing for significant attack that could come as soon as within a week next week, by iran, this is from our mj lee, who broke this reporting yesterday. What are you hearing about where and how iran and could target us assets well, this would be highly unusual if iran does a strike directly on israeli targets or israeli territory. In the past, what iran has done is used proxies to attack obscuring its hand, obscuring its command orders, even though its known, for instance that iran trained and supplied much of the weaponry that hamas used in its october 7 attacks against israel. Iran said that it wasnt informed of that actual planning and that day that it had yes. Supported the hamas movement. But it tries to erase any any culpability in this case, iran has directly warned that is going to target israel in some way for the attack on the diplomatic compound inside of syria. That of course israel has said was a quds force or Revolutionary Guards command center, as well as being a diplomatic compound. And it killed highranking officials in the quds force, which the us also considers a terrorist group. So could it be some sort of his below Rocket Attack on from the at a level we havent seen before, or an iranian drone strike on israel proper. I think if its the latter that would possibly trigger some sort of larger response by israel, or possibly by the us. And in the past, iran hasnt wanted to risk that. It tell us or about how you expect a us to respond to. I guess, any attack on us interests and particularly on israeli interests as well, because you heard the us warning iran, do not use whats going on. Israel as a pretext to attack us interests. So what could you expect from the us then if iran doesnt . Deed go ahead well, iran has said things like dont get caught between us and israel on this to the us that even, even on twitter or the platform now known as x, or some of its officials have tweeted dont get in the way. And there has been a two pause by iranian proxies in the region on us military facilities. But it could be Something Like iran has threatened to attack anyone transiting certain parts of the gulf or more precisely, its threatened to respond if some of its tankers are seized by us, there are a number of different ways that there are us troops throughout the gulf. There are us naval ships all of these present potential targets. But again, any one of them could trigger response its by the us or israel that escalates this into a hot war, which all sides have hesitated doing cnns reporting is also that the Biden Administration is embracing for one of the worstcase scenarios, and that would be a direct strike on israel by iran what are your thoughts on that . I mean, is that likely again, they havent risked it in the past, but what youre ron could do is target a Military Facility and scrupulously avoid civilian areas which is hard to do in israel, which is a very small country and and military facilities are often sheik by jowl with with israeli neighborhoods. And depending on the level of that kind of attack, that would we know that israel is a nuclear power, even though it doesnt admit to being one. And that could escalate to at least a volley of missiles backandforth. And then i dont know where you go from there. Yeah this is the escalation that the world has been extremely concerned about. Lets go back to the potential or the expected reopening of the Erez Crossing it would mark a major shift by israel, but also which is notable. Were seeing a major shift in tone by the Biden Administration, a notably that conversation between biden and netanyahu on thursday after that Deadly Strike on the seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen. And on that call biden demanded several things to netanyahu, including allowing aid to get in i want you to listen to what john kirby how to say about that call. Well watch closely and monitor how they do on the commitments that they make. And as i said earlier, if theres no changes to their policy in their approaches, then theres going to have to be changes two hours it sounds like an ultimatum. Kim, i mean, what do you think about the fact that biden is basically saying the us policy on israel could change it was certainly language that was perceived in israel as an ultimatum, but ultimatums are also tools because the Israeli Government isnt just one monolithic group of people youve got the conservative cabinet that netanyahu put together after now not having enough seats to take power and thats got a lot of right wingers that dont want to, they want to cut off aid altogether from gaza. And then youve got the war cabinet, which includes some of his opponents and that war cabinet is much more open. Understands the need im getting aid in there. So by issuing an ultimatum like that, netanyahu was able to silence some of his critics on his extreme rightwing government and say, weve got to open the passageways in the north and get more aid in there because this has been such a public mistake by the Israeli Defense forces. Weve got to give something back, or we threaten our weapons supplies, we threaten our western support. We threaten our white house support, which we need no matter what happens in the election, come the fall, it regarding the strike of the Deadly Strike on the wck. There was an internal investigation by israel they determined that there were some grave mistakes made mistaken identity was basically what happened and they mistook the convoy for hamas, a terrorists were hearing from around the world, from the World Central Kitchen and also from the un secretary general, that their needs shipping independent Third Party Investigation what are your thoughts on that . I mean, do you expect israel would would allow an independent party two step into investigate this . Israel hasnt in the past especially when this is a Military Matter that involves highly classified intelligence on their side. I think what youre going to hear from the white house and the pentagon, whove been studying this detailed report behind closed doors. Is that look, they accepted fault. People got fired weve done similar mistakes. Weve hit civilian targets as well. I dont think theyre going to push any further. This was a public enough acceptance of culpability that it will be enough for the white house, if not for World Central Kitchen and the us is also said it has no plans to conduct an independent investigation. Can dozer good to have you this morning. Thanks. Still ahead this morning, police are searching for a man. They say set part of senator Bernie Sanders office on fire. What were learning about the incident and a possible motive plus forecast of. 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