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the cnn newsroom. i wolf blitzer in washington, and we re following breaking news. israel now appears ready to formally publicly sign up to president biden announced ceasefire plan i m for gaza. in a statement attributed only to a government official, but widely understood to be the prime minister s office says, israel won t end the war without reaching its objective. but it now says, and i m quoting now the proposal presented enables this route to achieve those goals. and israel will indeed do so. and quote, our white house correspondent are left signs and standing by over at the white house are achieved national security correspondent, alex mark court is here with me in the cnn newsroom. alex pressure has been growing and growing on the israeli prime minister benjamin at tiny. but this appears to be a major breakthrough. it does appear to be significant or hearing more and more positive signs from both sides, from both hamas and israel. we have this new statement, a ....
deliberations could start at any minute with hunter biden s fate in the jury s hands? we re live outside the courtroom. a big meeting today for former president trump ahead of his sentencing and his hush money felony conviction, trump will meet with save probation official free pre-sentencing interview, and it could be the next big thing for apple, the company just announced new artificial intelligence feature there s for the iphone we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central we begin this hour with breaking news right now, prosecutors in a hunter biden trial our giving their rebuttal after defense attorneys wrapped up their closing arguments moments ago, biden s team is trying to prevent the president s son from becoming a convicted felon. and keep him out of jail. the defense telling jurors at the prosecution s case is built on suspicion and conjecture, and they accused prosecutors of taking biden s wor ....
So it s going to be an issue to get help. to bet water, food to the areas. paula standby. christi has a question for you as well. we re looking at flooding pictures. the new pictures, 8:00 a.m. local time there on sunday. the area most affected by the tsunami waves. can you tell us more about sendai, the area? we know because of its proximity to the epicenter it was very much affected, was it also affected baa of the low lying terrain? reporter: certainly that will play into it. it s also one of the highly populated areas of that particular prefecture. probably a million people live in sendai at one time. or not 20,000 to 30,000 if not more were evacuated. a the thing officials will be ....