good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, april 8th camera, walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for being with us. i almost wore my easter pick today. early tomorrow. try for tomorrow. i had had a lavender for one of the days, but you know, we ll figure it out and the color s up for tomorrow. i promise. here s what we re watching two major, very different rulings on access to a medical abortion pill across the country. one judge halts availability of the drug another preserves access to it in some states will sort out the rulings and the coming legal challenges escalating tensions in the middle east. at least three people are dead in separate attacks. we are live in jerusalem with the very latest it s sad and pathetic to think. that our democracy. can be taken away from a voter. vice president kamala harris travels to tennessee after two democratic members are expelled for leading a gun protest on the house floor. their constituents now left wit
we ll move on. here s what we re watching two major and very different rulings on access to a medical abortion pill nationwide . one judge halts the availability of the drug. another preserving access to it . in some states, we re going to sort out the rulings and, of course, the coming legal challenges tensions in the middle east. at least three people are dead in separate attacks. we re live in jerusalem with the latest vice president kamala harris makes a last minute trip to nashville to support to democrats expelled for leading a gun protest on the house floor. how monday could mark the next step in the lawmakers vowed to continue to fight. i ll never forget that look, you know of realization that hey, you know, finally somebody into the state is listening. and uh, you know, now he has a chance. and oklahoma death row inmate who has been served his last meal three times may soon have his murder conviction vacated the reason the state attorney general says he can no longer
dueling decisions, creating a flash point in the fight for abortion rights in texas. a federal judge s halting the fda is more than two decades old approval of the drug medford pretzels own one of the main medications used to provide abortions. but less than an hour later, conflicting court ruling out of washington state judge their order the federal government to protect access to the drug and 17 democratic led states and the district of columbia. the two decisions are the most significant on abortion since the u. s. supreme court overturned roe v. wade last summer, cnn s rosa flores and arlette signs are following all of the developments rosa to you first. why did the texas judge suspend the fda approval of this drug take us through the judge s order? it will. fred this judge did not hold back in this order . 67 pages 67 pages, he rips apart the fda approval of oppressed own, saying that the approval was flawed that the fda did not consider the risks to girls and women. let
of strikes aimed at southern lebanon and gaza. and we re learning this morning that the idea has mobilized its reserve forces, the latest on this fluid situation. cnn is on the ground important new jobs numbers just in moments ago, 236,000 jobs added, but that is below expectations. the unemployment rate is down to a low, low low 3.5% there are signs that things might be cooling off. expelled in an extraordinary move. tennessee house republicans vote to remove two young black democratic members for protesting on the capitol floor backlash and how republicans are defending it. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central . major retaliatory strike in the middle east is really forces firing rockets overnight hitting palestinian targets in lebanon and gaza. and the i, d f is now ordering the mobilization of reserve forces. israel strikes are in response to the dozens of rockets fired from southern lebanon into northe
lot of new information in the middle of all of that. yeah, that s exactly right, john. so from the very beginning, the marion county sheriff kept alluding to this idea that detectives were looking into whether or not at least one of these three teenagers that were killed were involved in some type of gang activity. i interviewed the sheriff earlier this week and i asked him look, is this one? is this going to be a case where possibly ah, some of the folks that were in the car. some of the teams that died may not have known that one of their friends was involved in a gang. he said. they were looking at that possibility. however we now know this morning that at least according to the sheriff, as well as the detectives in marion county, it is now clear that all three teenagers that died were involved in some type of gang in marion county, the one thing that was asked a couple of times throughout the news conference was exactly why these three suspects the three people that are b