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Cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean in need work and we have breaking news out of Northern Gaza tonight where israel is preparing to reopen the erez Border Crossing and agreed to use its Port Of Ashdod to get humanitarian aid into gaza. This as the un humanitarian aid chief calling that situation in gaza, quote, of betrayal of humanity. It is now just hours before the israelhamas war reaches its six month mark with more than 33,000 People Killed this week. A deadly israeli strike killed seven humanitarian aid workers from World Central Kitchen, cnns Nic Robertson is in jerusalem and ni...

♪ ♪ ♪ -my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then here's this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, "hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew." -oh! -you got to remember the hat you're wearing is your flight-surgeon hat, not your family hat. it would have broken protocol for me to bring up an issue to a crew me...

from space shuttle columbia as columbia continues to orbit the earth at an altitude of about 150 statute miles. columbia, houston, laurel, you're loud and clear on air to ground one. -the second day, i drive in to work kind of euphoric because another launch, another successful launch. you know, the flight director's office and the mission control center in houston is working with them. they're -- everything's good. i walked into the analysis lab to start reviewing film from the launch. we started the film at the beginning. [ rockets roaring ] we're watching this liftoff. you see the...

-for the second time in nasa's history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we'd heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today's problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn't have the answers. in every publi...

-columbia, this is cnn. how do you read me? -hey, cnn. we've got you loud and clear. -stand by, and we'll have you on the tele here very shortly. say hello to the crew of the space shuttle columbia, now traveling above the pacific at 17,300 miles an hour, 150 miles above us, waving to us. let's give you an idea of who's who. i remember interviewing the crew in space. rick husband, the commander, second mission. laurel clark... prepping for that interview, i thought about the foam strike and how to handle it. but on launch day, when i saw that...footage, i wasn't sure what to think about it. i'...