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. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber, we're following breaking news out of israel. where that country's military is now mobilizing, including its reserves, in response to this morning's surprise rocket attack from gaza. the security cabinet is expected to meet in the coming hours and israel's president says the country is facing a very difficult moment. the attacks kban early today as many people were still sleeping. hundreds of rocks have been fired into israel with no letup so far. israeli officials say there were multiple injuries, some serious, and at least one fatality. israel's defense minister just proclaimed israel will win this

war. the number of militants have infiltrated israel from gaza. hadas gold joins us from jerusalem. the scale of the attacks is just extraordinary, what's the latest? >> reporter: this is completely unprecedented and this is war, kim, something that israel has not seen the likes of this sort of surprise coordinated attack, many people are comparing it to the yom kippur war which perhaps purposely is on its 50th anniversary as we speak. it started october 6th 50 years ago, a surprise attack on israel, and that's what we're experiencing, started the a 6:30 in the morning, barrage of rockets, non-stop since then. here in jerusalem we've had at least five or six air raid sirens go off. i have lost count of the number of explosions i've heard in the air above us. that could be interceptions or rocket impacts. if we get a siren on air we'll take you into our protected space. getting news right now as we

speak from the military. they're having a briefing right now. there have been 2,000 rockets fired. ha mas has claimed 5,000. they say these infiltrations tlaupt air through para gliders, through the sea and the ground. as we speak there are active fire fights going on in various cities around gaza, including two army bases, gives you an idea of the number of militants who have infiltrated, managed to infiltrate from gaza into israel. unclear whether they were there or the sea and sky as the israeli military said. we're hearing media reports of citizens in these cities saying they are barricading themselves in their bomb shelters because they hear fire fights outside their door. the israeli military is saying they have active fire fights in southern israel, including two army bases, including one of the border crossings, one of the

main border crossings from gaza into israel. they have called up thousands of israeli military reservists and now named this operation swords of iron. hamas has called this the storm operation, connecting this directly to tensions that have been building at the compound also known as the temple mount to jews, a place so holy to both religions. while there have been tensions there over the past couple weeks, especially during jewish holidays, there hasn't been any sort of trigger point of an israeli military raid or arrests being undertaken at the compound, while we've been reporting for a year and a half of clashes and tensions in the occupied west bank between hill militants and the israeli military there hasn't been a trigger point. that's why there's so many questions now for the israeli military how it seems as though everybody was caught off guard. another thing we're following closely and we don't have this confirmed yet are reports of potentially israeli soldiers or

civilians who have been captured or killed. what we know so far for sure there have been at least 100 injuries within israel itself, we know of at least two fatalities. they say this person who was killed while in a fire fight with militants on the streets, but we are expecting to hear of more fatalities, potentially in the coming hours. there are more reports of injuries coming from two separate hospitals. they have declared a state of war alert, advised all israeli civilians in the south to stay in their shelters, lock the doors, all other israeli civilians are being advised to stay close to their shelters. all the way out here in jerusalem, a place normally kept out of these conflicts we've heard five air raid sirens, tel-aviv has been affected, the area around the airport, the

main international airport has not been shut down yet. it is still operating. we do know that air raid sirens have gone off there as well. and now, we also have confirmation that the israeli military has started its air strikes in gaza, and we should expect a very, very heavy and strong israeli military response to this, because of this unprecedented attacks, combination sort of coordinated these rockets, plus these military infiltrations, again something that israel has not experienced, a sort of surprise attack since the yom kippur war. >> i want to ask you about that hadas, how unprecedented this is, israeli seeing images of armed attackers driving around the streetings. it must be terrifying. what is the mood right now among israelis? >> i think the mood right now is a bit of shock, how could this happen? i mean, rocket attacks have become, i don't want to say normal, but they've become sort

of a part of the equation that we expect, especially with conflict with gaza. but what is different is these infiltrations. there will be huge questions for the israeli security establishment of how they let this happen. just seeing these videos of militants on the backs of pickup trucks driving through israeli towns, militants on the streets, militants in army bases, managing to enter army bases, and engage with soldiers there, these are fire fights happening in civilian towns. i don't know if israel has ever seen anything like that, and that is what's different about this. rocket attacks, that's something that we've become accustomed to with conflicts in gaza. israel does have the iron dome defense system that does manage to intercept most of these rockets. these infiltrations, this is something new, and i should make it clear, that it's not like gazans never go into israel. thousands have perms to enter israel every day to work. there will be a major question whether some of those people are the ones behind this or if they're all as the israeli

military said some of these infiltrations came from the air, videos of para gliders, from the sea as well, and it's possible they came somehow in other ways on the ground but really an unprecedented situation that is clearly taken israel by surprise in some way. >> all right, hadas gold in jerusalem, we'll have you back in a little bit with the latest. thank you so much. want to move now to mary isna, retired colonel in the israel defense forces, thank you so much for being here with us, you were listening to our reporter giving us the latest. i want to start with the symbolism of the timing here, 50 years, pretty much to the day, of the yom kippur war in 1973. >> and most definitely at the exact same time that perhaps israel and saudi arabia were getting closer, and at a time period which has been so difficult in israel, you're seeing here terror organizations saying we're not going to allow a change in the situation, we're going to do something bombastic. not different in that sense from

when they tried to blow up the oslo accords in 1994 and 1995. when we are seeing something here which is unprecedented. i said before also, i mean hopefully it won't happen, but if there is an alert i'm going to have to go off the air. i too have had several alerts this morning in the tel-aviv area and we're all feeling the 50-year weight of what was there. i was a kid in the '73 war. it definitely feels the same. >> i want to ask you, what seems so strange here, how these people got in. we heard there from the sea and the sky, i mean, para troopers? i mean, how unusual is this? >> so the term that hadas was using for was para gliders. >> yeah, para gliders. >> absolutely. first of all, there's no question whatsoever, we're looking at something which is coordinated, planned, long-term planning. so i'm going to put aside for the moment the strategic surprise. i'm sure we'll talk about that

endlessly. i just want to talk at the moment about when we talk about hamas training, hamas doing different things, they fire at rockets into the sea, they do all sorts of different actions and you watch it. but they did not actively participate in any of the main exchanges that took place in the last two years and i say two years of planning, two years of executing it, let's be clear, you can always plan and execute. of course, the question is how were we so surprised? i'll add in we expected in a horrific way a very similar type of scenario up north, and one of the things that we always say about hamas and the gaza strip is that what they do, hezbala can do times ten. i'm sitting here in the tel-aviv area and i'm more worried about the implications of something similar to what we've been seeing in the last six hours expanding and including also the entire northern front. >> well, that's exactly it. hamas, we heard them exhorting

palestinians, arabs to take up weapons and attack. so, do you expect this to spread? >> i don't expect it necessarily to spread, but this is something that was very well planned, very well coordinated, and i worry. i'm the incoming director of an institute for international --y now, is something that does come out of iran, the person who has come out and spoken until now in the palestinian arena is the ever figure that we never see mohammed dif, totally an iranian run person. sala -- the hamas person sitting in lebanon used to sit also inside turkey, another very strong iranian connection and in that sense the fear here is that there is something that is broader and could yet spread and i want to say clearly, i have no doubts that israel will prevail. but just like we ask ourselves on how strong are we, we're in the middle right now of battles

taking place inside israeli towns, and they're still at it right now, and we will prevail, but the price is going to be horrible. >> before i let you go i want to ask you about israel's response here. israel's security cabinet, they'll be meeting, i think, in two hours from now. what are the options, do you think, in terms of a response? and if israelis have been captured, how does that complicate the response? >> complicates it completely. and let's be very clear. israel is already responding. when we're responding we were strategically surprised. it means that our response is to the ones that we knew from the -- that this is not necessarily something we were ready for. right now we're a ship in that sense. it's going to take a little bit of time until we move and change, and we will do so. but the responses here are going to be, first of all, how we make sure that we deter hezbala and make sure this doesn't open a

northern front, that hamas pays the price. i want to say clearly it's not the people of gaza strip, it's hamas. hamas did a cross border land, air, underground attack into israel, and they sit in the gaza strip and they are going to be hit, and it is going to be harsh, and difficult, and war never looks good, and they started a war, and it's going to continue. >> yeah, i'm afraid so. we'll have to leave it there but really appreciate your expertise on this. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> we'll be right back.

back to breaking news this hour, israel has launched a military -- a surprise attack from gaza. hamas is claiming to have fired some 5,000 rockets early saturday targeting airports and military positions, israel has declared a state of war alert, and is striking a number of military targets in gaza. back here in the u.s. president biden is facing criticism for moving forward with the construction of new barriers at the southern border. critics say the president's breaking a campaign promise to never build additional border walls during his term but biden says he couldn't stop the move

because congress had already earmarked funds to construct the barriers which will go up amid a rise in migrant crossings. >> i was told that i had no choice, that, you know, congress passes legislation to build something, whether it's an aircraft carrier, a wall, or provide for a tax cut, i can't say i don't like it, i'm not going to do it. if this hadn't been vetoed. >> you said yesterday that you tried to reappropriate the funds. >> yeah, we tried to ask the congress to consider changing the law. >> we get more details from cnn's priscilla alvarez in washington. >> reporter: president biden came under fierce chris schism this week over his administration's decision to build border barriers fin south texas. the president maintained they had to do this because of funds appropriated by congress in 2019 for the purpose of physical border barriers, and sources

i've spoken with said that the administration was essentially running up against a deadline, and that they had to use these funds by the end of fiscal year 2023. now, in a notice to the federal register this week the homeland security secretary said he may have to waive more than 20 laws to get this construction done in an expedited manner, and that this is also an area of, quote, high illegal entries. this is going to be up to 20 miles of border barriers, it also includes gates, cameras, access roads and lights but the homeland security secretary maintaining as well this week that this is -- that the border wall is not the response, the administration's posture on this has not changed but, again, it was necessary because these funds were appropriated by congress. of course, all of this, though, putting a politically precarious issue at the forefront, and leaving the president to defend barriers, which he had previously spoken out against during his campaign, of course, this time he is saying that it is because of those funds that

were appropriated before he took office. priscilla alvarez, cnn, washington. now, later today new york's mayor is expected to visit the stretch of jungle between north and south america that hundreds of u.s.-bound migrants cross each day. eric adams says he'll speak directly with asylum seekers moving but panama's gap and discourage them from making the danchs trek. it comes as his city is struggling to house more than 60,000 migrants, the influx is a significant problem that requires new solutions. here he is. >> we have been treating this major shift in human movement globally, like a small cold when, in fact, it is a major flu. >> the mayor's visit will come a day after the presidents of costa rica and panama also toured the area. both leaders said they were there to get a firsthand look at

the severity of the crisis. so far this year more than 400,000 people have crossed the gap. migrants say their journey has been risky and full of suffering. >> translator: what i can tell you is that it's not a jungle, it's a killing river and it has a lot of dead people. thank god we came out alive. >> costa rica and panama urging leejal leaders to convene at a meeting later this month to address the crisis. and mexico's president has denounced u.s. plans to build new barriers as a, quote, publicity stunt ahead of next year's election. the andres -- called the new barriers propaganda to win over voters but he criticized the politics saying, quote, all u.s. presidents, with all due respect, either republican or democrats have done it during their term to look good in the eyes of americans that respectfully don't have all the information. and joining me now is the director of the migration policy

institute office at the nyu school of law. thank you so much for being here with us. so, many democrats say they're disappointed in the president's perceived u-turn on building the wall. biden says it was a legal requirement. he had to spend the money congress allocated for border barriers legally, you know, he says his hands were tied. i mean, you're a lawyer. is that true? >> i think his hands were tied for a very specific reason, is that they tried to undo what then president biden had done in terms of the allocation for building the wall. and the state of texas and the state of missouri challenged that decision to pause the building of the wall. and that went to the fifth circuit court of appeals which sent the case back to a federal judge in texas and that federal judge was about to rule, and from all indications, given the

history of that judge, on migration matters, it's quite reasonable to believe that he would have said that the biden administration has to build the wall. so, in that regard, i think their hands were tied. >> now, president biden says despite this, i mean, walls don't work, and that's a key question here. i mean, do they? what does the research say? >> research shows that unless they're in highly dense urban settings where there's a lot of traffic they don't work. other than the real environmental and wildlife protection issues, if you build them in remote areas, they tend to be completely ineffective for the simple reason that for every tall wall you can have a ladder which is taller, and you can already have various instruments which can cut off the material

with which the fence is built. smugglers are very artful at these things. so, they will find a way to break the wall, or break the barriers, and then effectively it hands people in the hands of smugglers more than deterring them. and finally, if the wall is only 20 miles long, which is this wall would be, migrants will go somewhere elsewhere there's no wall. >> i spent a lot of time along the border reporting there, and you see, i mean, even some of the new wall that president trump had built, you know, within days people had cut right through that. so it's a huge challenge. there's also ongoing legal battles in texas over these floating barriers that are meant to keep migrants from crossing the rio grande. i mean, will they have any meaningful impact on the number of migrants who attempt to cross? >> well, that's also litigation. we think that case may land up

in the supreme court, and, you know, it's hard to believe why that will work. most of those buoys, as they're used in texas, are actually in international waters, and to believe that state of texas, this is not the federal government, it's the state of texas which wants to build those. whether the state of texas has even authority to do that is quite contested. >> what does work in terms of sort of short-term options? are there solutions the biden administration should be exploring now, that will help, in the immediate term? >> we believe so. there's no magic bullet, obviously, but there are certain things we can do which will have more effect than a wall. the most critical thing we can do is reform the asylum system. almost all people coming to the border are invoking their right of asylum. they don't run away from border patrol. they actually arrive at the border, lift a hand, and say,

ha hi, we're seeking asylum and that asylum system today processes cases in the system that's so backlogged that it takes years. we believe it can take up to seven years for your case to be heard. during that time people get the right to stay here, and they get right to work here. that has become a magnet for people who actually are not eligible for asylum. we think we should reform the asylum system so that cases are adjudicated within months as against years and that can be done by sending cases not to a backlog immigration code system, but to asylum officers at u.s. immigration customs services who are country specialists, and who can really manage to get a control on determining cases within months as against years. >> yeah, everyone agrees the system is broken, but they can't agree on how to fix that. we'll have to leave it there.

but thank you so much for being here with us, really appreciate it. >> thanks so much for having me. we're keeping an eye on developments in ukraine, which is reporting new strikes on its grain infrastructure. this as russia mitt grain facilities in the odessa region for a second straight day on saturday. the attacks damaged apartment buildings and left four people wounded. russia says its air defenses shot down a ukrainian drone near moscow without causing damage or fatalities. kharkiv, two people were killed and 30 wounded and after a devastating attack on the village of -- 52 people were killed on thursday which prompted the u.n. to send human rights investigators there, the human rights coordinator said the strike amounted to a war crime. for more barbie nadeau joins us from rome. >> reporter: these are numbers

we haven't seen since the beginning of the war. civilian targets as well. the united nations commissioner who went there is calling this a war crime. this is a war that's been filled with war crimes, especially important after the war ends when they investigate what happened. let's listen, first, though to what she had to say. >> at this stage it's difficult to establish with absolute certainty what happened. but given the location, given the fact that the cafe was struck and the indications are that it was a russian missile. but must underscore as we've said previously this needs to be looked at further, but the absolutely clear thing is that there was horrible loss of life and of course that is to be deplored, in all circumstances. >> reporter: and, you know, kim, you know, this is all happening as the world, especially people who are supporting ukraine with military hardware and financial aid, are becoming increasingly hesitant. we see that in the united states, we see that all across

europe. and this is a time when ukraine needs the support more than ever, kim. >> yeah, all right, barbie nadeau, thanks so much. in syria seven people were reportedly killed friday in a wave of strikes in rebel held areas, according to the white helmets, blaming the syrian government and russian forces. the strikes happened a day after a krone attack killed at least 89 people at a syrian military college. so far no one has claimed responsibility but syrians say terrorist groups were behind it. funerals have been held for victims, and syria has declared three days of mourning. much more on the military operations in israel and gaza, a live report from jerusalem with the latest. that's the latest. that's coming up.

welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. back to our breaking news this hour, israel is carrying out military strikes against hamas targets in gaza after the group launched a surprise attack early saturday. hamas militants are claiming to have fired some 5,000 rockets targeting airports and military positions. israeli officials say one person has died and several people wounded. i want to bring in cnn's sam kiley standing by in london. you've covered the region extensively. what do you make of the scale of these attacks, where they're happening and the means hamas is using here? >> kim, i think this is almost

unprecedented. the previous level of frankly intelligence failure from israel would have been the yom kippur war 50 years ago ago almost today when the combined air -- launched a surprise attack against israel, and now we have a surprise attack using the cover of a claimed 5,000 missiles, the israelis say 2,000 missiles, but the missiles are still flying out of gaza. the idf has confirmed, that's the israeli defense forces, that palestinian militants then infiltrated or as part of this complex operation have infiltrated israeli -- from the sea and the air, using para gliders, motorized para gliders to get across the fence and defensive lines separating israel from gaza into israeli territory. the local media and indeed we've confirmed this, at least two -- infiltrated close to the gaza strip, israeli media is reporting gun battles ongoing in

the biggest town nearest to gaza, biggest israeli town where reportedly there have been hostages taken and even reports of hostages being taken into gaza, back into gaza, possibly including dead bodies along with them, this is an extremely complex, long in the planning, attack. almost exactly a year ago i was in janine on the west bank where militants there were saying that there were plans for a conflagration of this kind. now, mohammed el difi, leader of the military wing of hamas in the gaza strip has indeed called for arabs in the region to take up arms, any kind of arms, he said, rifles, clubs, axes, whatever is to hand to rise up against the israelis. now, that is a real problem for the israelis if there is kind of a forest fire that catches, first of all, inside the occupied west bank in palestinian territories there where there has been increasing levels of military activity over

the last two years and above all inside the palestinian population inside israel proper where the israeli parliament reported some years ago estimated there were at least 400,000 weapons already in the hands of ethnic palestinians who hold israeli citizenship. if that was all combined and clearly that is what hamas is hoping for this could put israel severely on the back foot. concurrent with that, of course, the israelis are mobilizing a war alert state, not a declared state of war, but something close to it, with the prime minister now calling imminently a security counsel -- security cabinet meeting where they will decide what their response on the wider scale will be inside gaza. now, clearly, if there are hostages inside gaza, that could complicate their operations, but there will be a great deal of pressure from -- i think across the israeli political spectrum for a very powerful military response from israel against

gaza. but as i say that will be complicated if this catches fire among militant groups elsewhere, particularly on the west bank and above the israeli politic itself. >> with fears of this conflict widening we can expect it will be a response -- a robust response from israel, i mean, what impact do you think that might have on palestinians in the gaza strip? >> well, they've seen and endured many, many israeli military incursions and, of course, aerial bombardments more frequently as a consequence or a response not just to hamas, but islamic jihad and other military groups firing rockets out of gaza into israeli territory. i think we can anticipate that whatever happens in gaza, it will be on a nearly unprecedented scale, we have in the past seen ground troops going in, tanks, heavy weapons being deployed by israel inside

gaza territory, but in some respects that's kind of what hamas is looking for because that brings the war face to face for -- between their militants, highly trained militants, and israeli soldiers, putting israeli soldiers at greater risk. there will be an option here for the israelis to rely almost exclusively on air power, where they have total dominance, effectively, over the gaza strip, to try to break the military back off hamas and the other militant groups inside gaza, that means for the population of gaza, things are going to get an awful lot worse over the next few days. to be sure. kim. >> yeah, certainly the fear. all right, sam kiley in london, thank you so much. i want to go now to cnn's hadas gold in jerusalem, so hadas, while you're back in the stairwell there, i know you've had to sort of go in and out of taking shelter. a fast-moving story, certainly, what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, since 6:30 a.m. essentially there's

been a barrage of rockets from gaza towards israel. what's unprecedented is not only the number of rockets, i mean, and the fact that jerusalem has been targeted now, i think we've had at least five or six air raid sirens, why we had to come in here before we went on air, another siren which means go seek shelter, interceptions or impacts all day long from these rockets coming into israel. according to the israeli military we just had a briefing with, more than 2,000 rockets have been fired just in the last five hours or so, and they continue. as we speak. to put that into context in that 2021 11-day war between hamas militants and israel, something like 400 rockets were fired. that was 11 days, this is just five or so hours, since this started at 6:30 a.m. the other unprecedented thing, and i think this is probably the most alarming aspect of all this, is these infiltrations of palestinian militants into israeli communities in the south.

according to the israeli military when we spoke to them within the last half hour or so they say they are actively fighting in fire fights with militants on the ground in several israeli communities, including two army bases as well as the border crossing between gaza and israel. so active fire fights on the streets, we're hearing harrowing reports of israeli civilians essentially being trapped in their -- being trapped in their homes, and my producer just now handed me, it seems as though prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying this is war, israel is in a state of war, that's coming from the prime minister himself earlier today, we heard from the israeli military saying they were in a state of war alert but it appears now they're declaring this essentially a state of war. what's also amazing of all of this is the fact that these militants infiltrated. some of them may will be in israel because thousands of palestinians have permits to come work in israel every day.

some of these infiltrations came through the air, through para gliding as well as from the sea and the ground. this was clearly a very well coordinated and planned attack, hamas is calling this theal aqsa storm, and connecting this to what's been happening at the compound. there hasn't been a specific trigger moment, a major raid or incushion into the al-aqsa moss compound, a place so holy for both of them or any sort of significant event that we could say once that happened, this is what triggered this, this is essentially a surprise attack, and there's a lot of questions for the israeli military and security establishment about how they were caught so off guard when you look at the parallels, almost 50 years ago exactly the yom kippur war started in almost the exact same way. >> yeah, and hadas, israel's security cabinet meeting in a couple of hours, so what do you think the options are in terms of a response here? >> reporter: well, we already

know that thousands of israeli military reservists have been called up, and that the response has already begun with air strikes in the gaza strip. i think we will see a very, very heavy response from the air, from the ground, and elsewhere, i don't think that -- i think that the israeli government and military is preparing itself for an extended war, they're calling this a war, an extended conflict. another major question is not just what's going to be coming out of gaza, but is whether other fronts will be -- whether something will happen on the north or with the other palestinian militant groups there. in my time here i've spoken to israeli military officials or former officials and they always say that what worries them the most is what would happen in the north. a conflict like this, in between hamas and the military a conflict like that with hezbola on a completely different level. that's a major concern as well will be whether the north will get involved.

whether the palestinian military groups will get involved and we should expect a very heavy military response, thousands being called up to serve. >> really appreciate the skrup update there. hadas gold in jerusalem.

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israel is retaliating swiftly and with force against hamas at this hour, targeting sites in gaza, engaging the militants on multiple fronts, this comes after an hours long barrage of rockets took the country by surprise and set off sirens as far away as tel-aviv and jerusalem. numerous casualties reported, worth noting this is also the 50th anniversary of the yom kippur war in 1973, most alarming for israelis near gaza are confirmed reports of militants infiltrating israeli territory. human rights activist narges mohammadi won the nobel peace

prize, sentenced to 31 years in prison. the nobel committee says they're honoring her fight of oppression against women in iran. the committee said she's been arrested 15 times, and sentenced to 150 more than lashes. amazon has joined the space race to blanket the globe with internet access to satellites, the company sent up its first two satellites that launched from the kennedy space center in florida friday, all part of the project kuiper. long range plans call for more than 3,200 amazon satellites to bring internet connectivity to the ground. elon musk's spacex and star link have more than 4,500 satellites providing internet to the americas, europe and australia. earlier i spoke with technology consultant and president of tmf associates, tim farrar who gave his perspective on what amazon

has to do to be a player in the satellite space race. >> well, amazon's got a long way to go. it's planning to launch over 3,000 satellites and that's going to take an awful long time. dozens of launches, and the rockets need to be ready to launch the satellites and the satellites being manufactured which is also going to take at least two or three years to complete all of that. >> yeah, and of course elon musk's star link has thousands of statellites already in space. how significant is this competition going to be from amazon? >> well, amazon's got a long way to go. star link's been in full commercial service for about two years, star link's going to have something like a five-year lead by the time amazon comes to market, and it's got billions of dollars of revenue and millions of subscribers already. so that's a lot to catch up on. amazon has got a lot of rourz to throw at this, but still you know it's going to be a

challenge. >> yeah, five-year lead, is that too far back to catch up, do you think? >> well, it really depends on how big this market is. elon musk has said he might get tens of millions of subscribers around the world, and some analysts are even more optimistic than that. but to date he's only got a couple of million customers, and if that market doesn't increase very fast, then there will be many customers left for amazon to catch. >> and we'll have a full interview in the next hour with what to expect as the new space technology race continues and what it could take for internet connections from above to truly take off. so be sure to stay tuned for that. and amazon's launch wasn't the only recent liftoff. a spanish company successfully launched the first reusable rocket on saturday after two scrubbed attempts, it ascended more than 25 miles after five minutes of flight the rocket landed in the atlantic ocean to

be retrieved by the company. now, this was the scene inside mission control, the engineers cheering as you can see, and congratulating each other as the rocket took off. now, she is tumbling her way into the history books, u.s. gymnast simone biles sets another record, her unprecedented new medal count next. stay with us.

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again, american gymnast simone biles has won another all around title at the world championships and that makes biles the most decorated gymnast, male or female, of all time. cnn's patrick snell has the details. >> reporter: on friday the 26-year-old simone biles making her own special piece of history by winning the women's individual all around gold medal at the world artistic gymnastics championships for the sixth time in her already storied career, simone to get things started, not doing the biles ii, but a nearly perfect vault, 15.100 the score, and that would put biles top of the leaderboard after one rotation and from there she never looked back. utterly majestic and uncharacteristic stumble on the floor but not a consequence, as it was in part of a major move, the american nailing, though, still finishing a half point better in the floor exercise than her closest competitor. biles performance all the the

more remarkable having taken breaks from the sport after both rio and tokyo olympics. now she's the most decorated gymnast in competition history. >> i don't know, i think i'm always shocked, you guys are so good with the stats and stuff. i'm just here along for the ride to contribute to the u.s., and just have fun. okay, i was emotional because it was like my first -- it was my first worlds here ten years ago, and then now my sixth one so it is crazy. but i swear i do have something in my eye that's been bothering me four hours. while i was looking up there it was a combination of both. >> by winning gold biles also becoming the most decorated female or male gymnast ever surpassing the record of 33 overall medals across both the olympics and the worlds, biles extending her own record with her 27th world championship medal, 21 of them gold. well, simone will have a chance to add to her medal hold this weekend as she competes in

women's vault and uneven bars finals on saturday and the balance beam, and floor exercise finals on sunday, for now, though, it's right back to you. >> all right, that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom," i'm kim brunhuber, i'll be back with more breaking news out of israel where the prime minister declared the country is at war. live report coming up.

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