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using his return plus breaking news as parts of the us are already reeling from destructive storms, millions of americans are the most significant threat of turin and around the world i'm willing first thing this suspension of desperately needed food deliveries to gaza, cnn's jeremy diamond has more from jerusalem. we want to warn you some of the images in this report are graphic maybe disturbing to viewers >> there is no mistaking the target of this israeli strike. the world central kitchen's logo still visible after a missile tour through the roof of this vehicle pieces of the aid organizations, emblems scattered throughout the chart bird hole of a second vehicle. and then there are the bodies
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of the aid workers themselves patches proudly worn on chess over bullet-proof vests that offered no more protection in gaza than the emblem of a humanitarian aid. organizations they are among seven aid workers killed then israeli strikes on their convoy late monday night. six of them were foreigners, including a dual american canadian citizen, as well as british australian, and polish nationals triggering international uproar and prompting a rare acknowledgment of israeli responsibility from prime minister netanyahu. my mom and i am you could doggy, unfortunately, in the last day, there was a tragic incident where our forces unintentionally struck >> innocent people in the gaza strip. it happens in war and we are thoroughly investigating it world central kitchen says the israeli military knew about the convoy weapons expert consulted by cnn, said images of the
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damage indicate a precise drone strike carried out with total visibility of the target world central kitchen said its aid workers got into three vehicles after unloading aid at this warehouse in central gaza and began traveling down the coastal al rashid street >> cnn >> geo-located the convoys deadly journey using images filmed at the scene three-and-a-half miles south of first vehicle is struck two other strikes rained down in quick succession. one vehicle is hit a half-mile further, the third comes to a stop another mile down the road, found only the next day a little bit and figure out last night between 11 and 11:30 p.m. a missile hit a car. when we approached, we saw the car on fire we try to extinguish the fire and upon opening the cargo, we discovered boxes of candy, meet it was an international aid organisation that assists people any international or european organization that
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comes to aid gaza will be targeted. they want to send a message of don't can, you can let the people die shabby >> the israeli military has struck aid convoys in the past, including this un truck which was shelled in early february world central kitchen founded in 2010 by celebrity chef jose andres, has been one of the most prominent aid organizations in gaza, even working with the israeli military last month to build a pier off the gaza coastline, delivering the first aid shipments to gaza by sea. >> this is chapter where the date of alaska australian zomi frankcom spent years coordinating aid operations for world central kitchen, risking and ultimately sacrificing her >> life to help those in need she died alongside her polish colleague, damian sobol. >> hello everyone, who came from cairo weeks earlier he was excitedly readying a convoy to build soup kitchens in gaza
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>> tables. shell water system >> today, their bodies were among those headed for the rafah border crossing but the body of one of the seven, will not leave gaza. saif issam abu-taha, a driver and translator, was buried in central gaza, not far from where he carried out his final mission >> and will three of the seven >> aid workers who were killed were british nationals today, the israeli prime minister speaking with his british counterpart, prime minister sunak telling the israeli prime minister he was appalled by the attack and calling for a transparent independent investigation while we wait for the possibility of such an investigation, the world central kitchen suspect ending its eight operations in the gaza strip at a very dangerous time as hundreds of thousands of people face an increased risk of famine will are jeremy diamond is so heartbreaking.
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thank you very much for that report. i want to go to the white house right now, seen as kayla tausche standing by kayla, how much us pressure on israel are we? seeing today in the aftermath of this horrific strike? >> well, if quite a bit of pressure, president biden, according to the white house, conveyed to jose andres, the founder of world central kitchen, that he is going to tell israel that humanitarian aid workers must be protected and on multiple occasions earlier today, the white house in the form of nsc spokesman john kirby at the white house briefing declined on multiple occasions to back the assessment of israel that this was an unintentional incident instead, choosing to say that they will reserve their judgment until the comprehensive investigation is concluded, but noting that misfires have been all too frequent. here's john kirby earlier today okay >> this isn't the first one. >> there are issues of deconfliction that clearly need to be fleshed out. an improved. >> our expectation is, and we've made this >> clear to them that they'll come clean about what they've learned. there'll be fully
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transparent and if people need to be held accountable, that there'll be held accountable kirby also said that the us would not pause or stop military aid going to israel. this as cnn is reporting that the white house has quietly greenlit and additional 18 billion of f fifth teen fighter jets to go to israel over the next five years. and also wolf, the white house and the biden administration confirming its assessment that israel was behind the attack of an iranian building in damascus, syria, where senior leaders of the irgc were present, but saying the us had no role in that strike and said the us should be spared any retaliation. wolf >> kayla tausche at the white house. thank you very much for joining me now. sandra rashid, a director with the aid group, an era that's now suspending its operations in gaza, sandra, thank you so much for all the important work you're doing. thank you so much for joining us. i know your group works with world central kitchen on
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the ground in gaza. and you knew zomi frankcom. well, the australian aid worker who was killed. how are you grappling with this horrible, horrible attack? >> you know, every day, we think that it's can't get any worse and every day it's proven that it does get worse. this has been a particularly hard blow for us an era has recently lost one of our own colleagues, mousa shawwa, on march 8, and that was close as we had in terms of loosing some of our staff members. but zomi was a friend and we work together for two years. we've been working since 2021 wck has supported our work in defenses and actually, i just i had a bowl of nachos with her three weeks ago and we talked about the challenges we are facing on the ground and how we can move forward. >> it's really hard. today's a very hard day. >> will you say you spoke with
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her recently what should we know about zomi? and your other colleagues who bravely? themlves at risk to deliver this criticallimportant ai >> i think everybody on the ground that's rking for gaza, whether they' in gaza, are working in the west ba, are working even globall everybody'hard. is in doing atever we can to support the palestinians in gaza during this horrible time. and zomi and the wck team, damian we interacted with damien quite a bit as well they were committed humanitarians. they were they had their heart in it. they were doing it for all the right reasons and their main objective was to feed as many people as they possibly can and we, as a narrower supporting them to do that and they worked very closely with our team. they had daily interactions with our team on the ground. >> now that a narrow and world central kitchen unfortunate, let me have had to pause their operations in gaza. how much do
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you fear more gazans? will starve and possibly die? >> words. world central kitchen, and a narrow together, we're providing over 1 million meals a week we were alone providing about 150,000 meals through our different kitchens. and the key is this is going to have a deep impact and the humanitarian conditions on the ground are going to be even more difficult unfortunately, we were forced to pause. we were forced to stop our work because we had to ensure that the safety of our of our team was guaranteed and we don't have that guarantee right now. are our team on the ground is for the first time since this whole started, is really quite worried and quite scared about them being targeted as you know we'll real central kitchen says they were coordinating closely with the israel defense forces and driving on a
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>> pre-approved root. their logo was clearly displayed on the roof of the vehicles and on the sides of the vehicles. israel says its attack was unintentional. >> do >> you think that's true? true >> if you look at the images and you look at what happened on the ground, the vehicles were hit three different times very direct targeted hits >> it's it's it's >> clear that this was a targeted attack. if it wasn't going to be targeted, i don't think it would've been hit three times and with the news on the ground is saying, is that the first hit happened in the survivors of the first car got out and move to the second car. and then that second car was hit. and those after that car got hits, survivors got out and went to the third car and that car was hit that does not sound unintentional to me. i mean, that is that sounds like it was a very direct targeted target for the israelis >> sandra received. thank you so much for joining us once again. thank you. thank you for
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all the important work in neera has done for the palestinians in gaza over these years first, appreciate it very much >> thank you for having me >> and just ahead, how donald trump is stoking fears of immigrants, send attacking president biden as he's campaigning and crucial battleground states and later, trump's newest legal move against the judge in the new york hush money case with the trial less than two weeks away >> check. >> we hear nothing the space shuttle accident, it's usually not one thing. it's a series of events is >> that part of the wing coming apart >> space shuttle columbia, final flight premieres sunday at nine on cnn at planet business. >> you can get energy without the upsell hello, can we interest you and upgrading to muscle elite are just 99, 99. >> this is better get energized with the membership that fits your budget. joint planet fitness today, the lens friday,
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and green bay, wisconsin, it would be a mix of immigration in the economy, but so far it has again, just been him doubling down on it's anti-immigration rhetoric and promising these expansion of these hardline policies. if he is reelected. now it tends to be going over well with the crowd because we've just heard the crowd stop him, chanting, build the wall over and over again. remember this messaging on immigration propelled him to the white house in 20:16, and he's hoping it does again in 2024. now, earlier today, we heard him in michigan going further, repeating his claims that immigrants and migrants were animals who take a lesson the democrat said, please don't call them animals or humans. i said, they're not yemen. the not yam is their animals. and nancy pelosi told me that she said, please don't use the word animals or when you're talking about these people, i said, i'll use the word animal because that's what they are just a reminder that one of the things we've been reporting is that immigration is at the top of the list, for
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voters. >> this cycle so far, so donald trump is really leaning into did that hard he's also linking violent crime to immigration as we have repeatedly reported, data shows that immigrants, migrants are far less likely to commit crimes than citizens however, there have been a number of high-profile cases. and donald trump has really picked up on that doubling down, repeating that, trying to stoke fear and say that he would protect american people better than president biden house it was interesting because trump also addressed his 175 billion bond and he ties that announcement on a >> key issue in this campaign, right? >> russia >> that's right. well, if no first, well, this is the first time we've heard him addressing this ban on camera. he unsurprisingly complained about it. here's what he said >> i'm. the only. one, that has to put up a bond i put up a bond. i didn't do anything wrong. i had to put up a bond this morning for $175 million. i did nothing wrong >> route the united not
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surprising again, saying he did nothing wrong. he also continued to call all of these legal cases election interference. and as you mentioned, he did ties that he would be making some kind of statement on abortion next week, your micro he has been floating this idea of a potential national abortion ban at 15 weeks. and his team had said, however, there was nothing plan to roll out. we will obviously be pressing them on what exactly he is planning to say next week. >> an interesting are kristen holmes and green bay, wisconsin for us. thank you very much. let's get some more joining us are political experts that evan asness. let me start with you. you're the buyer biographer. >> trump says he'll address abortion next week, but president biden is already hitting him on this issue of abortion rights for women in a new ad that has just been released, watch this because for 54 years they were trying to get roe v. wade terminated. and i did it and i'm proud to have done it in 2016, donald trump ran to overturn roe v. wade. >> now, in 2024, he's running
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to pass a national ban on a woman's right to choose. i'm running to make roe v. wade the law of the land again >> evan, how important is this issue of access to abortion rights for women to biden's reelection campaign it's enormously important. in fact, it's, it's really at the center of it in many respects, when i spoke to president biden, not too long ago about this subject of abortion. he said, how is it that the supreme court could roll back a basic american right that had been in place for over half a century and he believes that is fundamentally out of step would where most americans are. the polls show americans overwhelmingly believe that the termination of roe v. wade as as donald trump puts, it, was bad for the country and the events of recent days particularly the supreme court decision in florida, which cleared the way for a six-week abortion ban and also puts it on the ballot in november, drives home the fact that a lot
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of voters will have abortion on their minds in the fall. and democrats believed that probably works to their advantage. >> it's interesting, i see cup is with us as well. let's see trump called florida six-week abortion ban a terrible mistake last year. but now that the ban is going into effect the proposed constitutional amendment to protect access to abortion in florida could be, could put trump in a tough political spot, right >> yeah it's interesting, he's been all over the map on abortion. he was critical of six-week bands. he has also at the same time taking credit for six, ten, and 15 week bands. obviously as you as you just noted, he he takes credit for overturning roe v. wade now with the florida news, he's saying, well, it's a states rights it's issue. so he's really been all over the map and he's going to have to get pretty clear on his messaging because the pro-life wing of his party feels responsible for helping to get him elected. but this is an issue that for sure imperils republicans. we have
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metrics to show that the 2022 midterm elections being one votes in kansas and ohio red states that trump won. that rejected these kinds of effective bands. voters there don't want these polling that shows most voters think that these kinds of bands are two extremes. so republicans are playing with this at their peril and if i were biden, if i were damaged crowds, i would make this the number one issue that they were running on. >> ashley etienne is with this as well. ashley will democrats be able to successfully hit trump on this issue of abortion rights for women when he's on record speaking out against the strict ban and florida >> yeah. i mean, i think esi is completely right. democrats are going to continue to lean in and on this issue, the republicans war against women will continue to be the gift that continues to give to the democrats and i just want to add to what she said, it's not just we didn't see its gains in kansas and ohio, but even in
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places like michigan where the president just love, you, saw whitmer who made incredible inroads, and republican strongholds and suburbs outside of detroit in grand rapids on this particular issue, democrats were able to build an aggressive diverse coalition from young to old, to people of color, as well as women in the suburbs that really are objecting republicans extreme agenda on this issue. so the president is doubled downing with ads in these battleground states, florida being one of them. this is an issue that they continue see as a winner, but i will add my recommendation to the president has continued to make this the center of the campaign, but he also had it has to become even more aggressive on the issue of the border. why not start running ads, putting the blame for the open border on republicans congressional republicans on donald trump. and these key battleground states immigration and border has now become a national issue
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right up there with abortion that i think could if they start to message right. and aggressively could help build and stabilize that coalition going into the net november >> haven't why do you think trump is railing against immigration in these two midwestern states today, trump made these comments in michigan, which shares a border with canada right? >> well, as we know, donald trump has really hinged his campaign to that issue just a few months ago, given the opportunity for republicans to sign a bill to pass a bill that had been negotiated in part by republicans, in fact, by some hardliners on immigration that he had stood in the way of that and said, no, i don't want an immigration deal to pass now, in effect, because it would undermine his case, his base really that is rallied around this issue and it is also let's be honest well, if these two issues are intertwined, it is a way of distracting
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attention from the fact that abortion is a growth boeing an important issue for people not only in florida but across the south, because by undoing access to abortion in florida, it means that women in georgia and mississippi and elsewhere also lose valuable access to reproductive health. so he wants to keep focus on immigration because he doesn't want people talking about abortion. >> important point, guys. thank you. very, very much coming up. there's breaking news. >> donald trump >> asked the judge overseeing his hush money trial to recuse himself. we're going to tell you why trump's attorneys are claiming he's too conflicted to be fair sunday, new interviews with a return israeli hostages. >> what is the meaning of being hostage? reasonable, certain and the fight for the release of those still in captivity. the whole story with anderson cooper, sunday at eight on cnn. >> how long have you been tracking the value of our car? >> should we sell it? we hold our low mileage is paying off. you think we should already
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watching right now, attorneys for donald trump are once again pushing for the judge, overseeing his hush money trial to recuse himself arguing he's conflicted by his daughter's political work. so get us kara scannell is joining us. she's got details. kara tell us about this new filing so trump's lawyers have asked the judge to consider a motion for his recusal. this is because of work that hit the judge's daughter does for a political consulting firm, that firm has done work in the past for the biden and kamala harris campaigns. so trump's team has arguing to the judge that their business and his daughter stands to benefit financially actually, from this trial because it will provide fodder for trump rivals to fund off of. now prosecutors are opposing this. they say that an advisory committees and judicial ethics has already said that this was not grounds for the judge to recuse, and also they say that trump's team has put together a daisy chain of innuendos, but no actual evidence that the judge's daughter or her company has benefited or will
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benefit from this. this comes though, as the judge has already expanded this gag order in the case to include preventing trump from talking about his family members, including his daughter, as well as family members of the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, now trump this morning immediately hosting again, on his social media platform statements about the judge not making comments about the daughter, but he also made comments about the judge who oversaw the civil fraud case and trump posted that $175 million bond on that last night, which now means that the new york attorney general's office cannot move to seize assets. >> wolf, kara thank you. kara scannell reporting, let's get some insight right now from former federal prosecutor andrew weisman. he is the coauthor of a brand new book entitled the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary there you see the cover. andrew, thanks very much for joining us. trump is again asking judge merchan to recuse himself from this the upcoming trial, arguing he's conflicted by his daughter's political work. what do you
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make of this >> well, this as qarrah, what it is really the exact same motion he made months ago and was denied and it wasn't an i just by the judge. this is one where the judge to be sure that he was making the call correctly, actually went to the judicial ethics panel to get a ruling with respect to whether this was a bridge too far, whether he should be recusing himself and they said absolutely not. i think the phrase that qarrah quoted is really definitely the one to site which is a daisy chain of innuendo this is not how the basis for recusal when you're looking for recusal of a judge, you're looking for something that they have said that is really partisan. you're looking for some connection to one side or the other. in the case here's just nothing about this case that would suggest that, judge mug shot is going to be anything other than his
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reputation in new york, which is a very solid judge who's fair to both sides. he's highly respected. let me also get your reaction to andrew to something former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe told me yesterday here in the situation room about gag orders of trump watch and listen to this >> these gag orders create more of a distraction than they do a productive limitation of this. donald trump's speech, the county and takes advantage of the imposition of those orders to file appeals to request clarification to make overheated statement since it all of that distracts the prosecutors and the prosecution team away from their main role, which is to stay focused on the case and put together the best-case they can andrew how do you respond to that >> so first of all, i take it as a given, it's really dangerous to ever disagree with andrew mccabe. i worked with him when i was at the fbi. he's terrific. i would say here one thing that is
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different, one reason i disagree with him in this case is this isn't simply the defendant attacking the judge or the prosecution, if that will. all that was going on as heinous is that is as inappropriate for any defendant, let alone somebody who used to be the leader of the free world. here, the prosecution and the judge have to be concerned about so many other players. the jurors, that perspective jurors, the witnesses, all of whom can feel intimidated and threatened. and that is not how you want the justice system to work. so it is true that is a distraction but i do think it's one that the parties have to undertake if you're going to have a rule of law and justice system that's fair to everyone to the government and to the defendant. and all of the participants can feel safe by doing their duty in that process. yeah, good point. we're also learning andrew about some of the expected witnesses in this new york
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criminal trial. you write about many of these witnesses in your new book who do you see playing the being the key players in the prosecution's case? we're showing some pictures, some names of some of the expected witnesses i think what you're going to hear and we sort of lay this out in our book, is that although it's going to be tempting for >> all of us who are covering the trial to say that michael cohen is the star witness. i think you're going to hear the state say that the documents are the key here because there's going to be such a paper trail of what happened. but having said that, there obviously going to be witnesses who gather a lot of attention, whether it's david the person who was running the national enquirer. that's alleged to have taken a position to help donald trump to keep information from becoming public. it's of bizarre thing
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for a news organization to be doing. to not only keep information, but doing it on behalf of one party, not doing it in a bipartisan way. stormy daniels will obviously be an important witness to set the predicate for the hush-money payments. and then of course, michael cohen because he is at the heart of this. so i think those will be important witnesses, but i think you're going to hear a lot about the documents and how they corroborate all of those witnesses in the substance of what they i'm put forth and obviously those witnesses will be subject to enormous cross-examination, particularly michael cohen. >> good point if trump were to be convicted in this case, what kind of penalty potentially could he be looking at? >> he could be. looking at jail there. this is one where the judge i think is going to be looking at the rule of law to see how other people were treated, other people with a similar criminal background. i
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think this is an area where donald trump's pretrial a behavior is going to be relevant if you have someone who's contrite, if you have someone who shares that, he's respectful of the rule of law, that this was an aberration that is something that the court can take into account. but if you think that the defendant actually is running basically as an outlaw and as basically thumbing his nose at the judicial process. and it shows no sign of remorse and essentially is a recidivism. those are factors that a judge can consider and i am sure that a judge like judge more sean, if there were to be a conviction is going to factor all of that in, but it's just way too soon to say whether it would actually constitute jail time. the one thing i would add is i think the fact that the former president has secret service production is not going to be something that prevents him from doing jail time. that that's something that can be worked get out. it is a factor,
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but it is not something that has preclusive, i think for any judge, considering whether to send donald trump to jail if there is a conviction. >> pretty amazing stuff indeed, andrew weisman. thank you very much for joining us for this important note to our viewers. be sure to check out. andrew is very important new book entitled the trump there you see the cover just ahead. there's more breaking news. we're following the severe weather threat, including tornados from millions and millions of americans standby for the latest from the cnn, whether seven get your you're viewing glasses ready and experience so rare, it won't happen again for another two decades. joint cnn for live coverage around the country of the spectacle in the skies he across america, live monday at one on cnn for streaming on do you want to close out? >> should i normally i'd hold but taking the games of smart here right? >> feel more competent. what's duck ratings from jp morgan analysts in the chase app, when you've got a decision to make,
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langer, that area just to the northern kentucky, but south of cincinnati, that storm moved out of louisville and then moved across the river into northern kentucky. and it was a big spinning storm. we'd likely have damage on the ground. i just don't have any reports from that yet, but now we're kind of losing a little bit of daylight here. and that's the most concerning these storms that happened in the overnight hours. notice how the scandal is satellite gets a little darker at the end because the sun is setting that's the area in a time of day that we start to lose people because they're not one not paying attention or they'd gone to sleep, these storms will continue all the way through the night. so let's zoom in onto some of them right now. there's cincinnati, there are the storms here that just move through florence, y'all, and has moved off toward the east of i75 down to the south. we had a storm that likely made a tornado over i75 south of jilan. >> that >> big hill you go up toward jilan. and then here's the storm's to the south, and it's going to continue for the evening hours here even if you
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don't get a tornado and we hope you don't, there's still could be 60 to 70 mile per hour winds that could bring down branches. there could be he some hailed not as much halos yesterday though. so still have your plan in place and believe it or not, wolf up here in the up of michigan, there is a blizzard warning. >> it's >> because the warm air of spring wants to come up from the south the cold air of winter says, hey, not so fast, and all of a sudden you get that clash between the warm and cold it happens mainly in the spring, but it also we do get a fall season of severe weather when the cold air wants to crash and push the warm air away. winter storm warnings in effect for more than a foot of snow, and tornadoes were on the ground at least five on the ground already today, five on the ground yesterday. and likely more to come in the overnight hours. so this is still a storm to contend with or could be a little bit of flooding with it as well. flood watches and warnings are in effect, especially if you get very heavy rain in the pocan owes the allegheny is in the catskills that water wants to run downhill quite quickly.
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perfect storm of two superstar players who drove while a lot of interest on their own, coupled with the fact that they've had an intense on-court rivalry with each other they're on a roll like never before superstar caitlin clark and her iowa hawkeyes team, just advancing to the final four and shining a brighter spotlight on the game of women's basketball overall. clark, who's broken most of college basketball scoring and three-point shooting records, scored 41 points last night, as iowa defeated rival lsu in the elite eight round of the ncw a tournament. >> we don't want this to end and we want to keep coming back and working hard with each other and fighting for one more week >> fans of women's basketball don't want this to end either. >> women's college let's basketball has never been this popular. it is a national sensation. every corner bar was watching iowa vs lsu, every college dorm room was watching iowa vs lsu. >> it's all placed enormous pressure on the 20 senior from des moines pressure that her
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coach says clark doesn't shrink from when the stage is the brightest, when the spotlight is the brightest, she's at her very best >> she loves this >> some people, whether in the moment she just gets stronger, in the moment when it's her time. i mean, she's going to just shine according to axios, the cheapest ticket to the women's college basketball championship game this year is 61% more expensive than the cheapest ticket to the men's championship game analysts say the spike in popularity is almost entirely due to clark and her on-court rivalry with lsu star angel reese, one of the most debated moments of last year's championship game was when greece made the, you can't see me gesture to clark as lsu was closing out its victory over iowa for the title in an emotional news conference last night, reese spoke about what she's gone through since then. >> i've been through so much. i've seen so much i've been attacked so many times death threats. i've been sexualized. i've been threatened, not been
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so many things and have such strong let's be honest, there's a racial element as well. and so she's had to shoulder all of this ever since they won the national championship. anytime you summon her name, it is just even anytime i even tweet something about her, the level of reaction people call her ghetto all of this comes on the heels of the most talked about event at the nba all-star game in february when golden state warriors star steph curry >> barely beat sabrina ionescu of the wnba's new york liberty in a three-point shooting contest, expect more of that in the future if it's stef versus caitlin clark, they might need to hold it in a football stadium >> and we have this justin last night's game between caitlin clark's iowa hawkeyes, an angel, reese's lsu tigers, has set the all-time tv ratings record for a women's college basketball game according to espn, wilf 12 million. we have more than 12 million juniors. amazing. i w one othem. brian. thank u very, very much. brendan. todd portin and to our vwers. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer

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