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news tonight in the war between israel and hamas us israel marking six months of its war in gaza with a critical development the idf saying it is withdrawing, its troops from khan yunis in southern gaza after including its mission there, troops are leaving to recuperate and get ready for future operations >> israel saying >> quote, a significant will remain in other areas of the gaza strip. but this marks a new phase in the war as israel places rising pressure from the us to dial down its operations in gaza but israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying he's not backing down and that pressure from the us will not stop his plans to invade the southern city of rafah. the prime minister also facing significant trouble at home with thousands of protesters coming out in force this weekend to demand his resignation. and abroad as israel's military says, it is preparing to move from defense to attack on its border with lebanon >> after the country said it >> hit multiple hezbollah targets overnight
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>> looking at here >> are tanks from the ninth >> on >> yunis >> overnight saturday >> into sunday. there >> are dozens and >> dozens of tanks dozens and dozens of armored fighting vehicles. and what the idf is saying that it is done here is pulled its ground forces out of khan yunis. they've been in there for the past three or more months since december and the idf says, is this is effectively marking an end of ground operations in gaza in there current form. now we've been down along the border today. the war is clearly far from over. we've seen airstrikes going into the khan younis area and the hundred and 60 division, the idf says, along with the nahal brigade, will remain in the north of gaza. this perhaps potentially changes the dynamic a little around the negotiating table in
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cairo when the cia chief or mossad chief the egyptians, the katara is as well all get that to discuss how a ceasefire and hostage release can be arranged at with hamas are bent so many sticking points potentially this changes the situation however, what the the f is very clear about that they maintain a significant force, particularly in the north of gaza, the potential for a ground operation into rafah remains and that they say these troops here from the 98th are coming out to recover and recuperate and prepare for any future operations jessica. >> nic robertson for us. thanks so much for that reporting. >> and >> today's developments follow thursday's call between president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. cnn's priscilla alvarez is following that piece of the story for us. so priscilla, what more or we learning about biden's demands? >> well, sources are sharing some of the pressure that president biden placed on israeli prime minister benjamin
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netanyahu to change his policies. in this in israel's war against hamas. now sources say that president biden in his 30 minute call with the prime minister last week ticked her some of what he wanted to see the primary focus of all of that was getting more humanitarian aid into gaza. but that included opening land crossing that you were just talking about with nick as well as ramping up supplies into gaza and opening up a port to get more aid into gaza as well. now, during that call prime minister said that he was going to get that done, but the president went even further saying that he wanted to see it done by that evening. so that is what happened is really these really security cabinet did approve those measures and now the white house is welcoming those saying that while they're happy to see that there have been changes so a lot on the horizon and still some frustration. take a listen to it. national security council spokesperson john kirby
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had to say earlier today we have been increasingly frustrated. and again, that was a core message that the president delivered. the prime minister, netanyahu, and their phone call this week, this past week, that if they've got to do more, they've got to make changes. now, the prime minister assured the president that he would do that we've seen some announcements and those early hours that's welcome. we got to see more. we've got to see it over time. >> now the us has maintained its support for israel and continues to say that israel has the right to defend itself, but it was pivotal this week when the white house went further than they've gone before by saying that they were willing to change their policy if israel didn't, what that looks like, those still very much a big question once in your administration official said could look like the us slowing down the us supply of weapons to israel. but again, big questions as to what happens down the road and also what metrics the us will use to determine whether israel is making the changes that they see as necessary. jessica and
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priscilla, senate majority leader chuck schumer is also speaking out today about the potential for iran to attack us interests within the middle east. what is he saying? >> he's saying quite simply that the us is prepared to respond swiftly amid those concerns of a potential attack in the coming days by ran on what officials hey, would be targeting us or israeli assets in the middle east. so the senate majority leader saying today that the us is prepared for all possibilities here and we know over the weekend that us officials and israeli officials state in close touch as they look toward this potential attack by iran all right. >> priscilla alvarez from washington force. thanks so much for that reporting and for more insight on this. let's turn to our next guest, former middle east negotiator for the state department, aaron david miller. it's great to have you here with us, erin. thanks so much for making time this sunday afternoon. we are marking six months since this war started. and you describe the biden administration as being stuck in a quote,
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strategic cul-de-sac tell us what you mean by that >> i don't see right now, we have jessica and thanks for having me. >> i mean, >> the only way out right now is in israeli hamas deal negotiated deal, it's been on and off since mid-november during the last hostage release exchanging 45 israeli hostages, including whether the americans will be part of this exchange. you're not is unclear, but the elderly, the infirm, and the women for 45 days, roughly six weeks of quiet and what you could describe as a temporary ceasefire that will allow more humanitarian assistance to surge into gaza, but it doesn't solve the problem because hamas will continue to hold 50 israeli soldiers as hostage. and they're going to want an insurance policy for i'm lives of the senior hamas leadership, the rarely to try and understandably trying to kill and the withdrawal of israeli forces from gaza. so this is going to be a very unsettled period even if, and i
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hope there is this exchange now being negotiated in cairo, even if that takes place you mentioned the hostages. there's over 100 israeli hostages that remain in gaza after six months >> and >> netanyahu is facing a lot of pressure at home, especially from their families and others to cut a deal, cut any deal to get them back. do you think that's a viable option at this point? do you think that that is something that it can be done >> i think the prime minster is under pressure, not just from the public although not majority of the israeli publicly or the hostage families and supporters. but benny gantz netanyahu's putative successor and gadi eisenkot, a former chief of staff who son tragically was killed several once ago in gaza. they're pushing very hard for note-taking out of focus and perhaps become more flexible on an exchange. and that what's on the table now, i suspected the number of palestinian prisoners that
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hamas demands in return for the 45 or so israelis. and how many palestinian teams will be allowed to return to northern gaza. hamas wants as many as possible. the israelis are looking for much, much smaller numbers. so maybe there's a degree of urgency in the part of both is related to loss to do this deal, but i have to say that withdrawal of israeli forces from khan yunis, if you're yahya sinwar, the military architected the october 7 terrorist surge. you're sitting 20 meters below ground in khan yunis or rafah, you see the israelis are pulling back and are pulling out is that going to give you an incentive to cut a deal or to hold up for more uncertain calculation right now. but let's, let's hope that this actually happens >> i did want to ask you because that is the news of the day at the general mark hertling in our last hour described that as an inflection point in this war with all of you your experiences seeing today, those forces coming out
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of khan yunis and the israeli government saying that they are going to press on, that they are now going to recuperate and maybe they look to rafah next. >> what do you >> think if you read between the lines? what does it, what does it really mean in your opinion? >> well, six months of war today the israelis initially deployed what hundred thousand forces for the ground campaign. he withdrawn most of those forces from northern gaza. they maintain i think one brigade in charge of an east-west road and roughly 5,000 is in his early brigade so clearly merck, currently knows what he's talking about. it's an inflection point in a transition at downshift from a comprehensive highly kinetic ground campaign. to more mobile, perhaps more surgical airstrikes will continue or surgical efforts, intelligence driven, maybe identify where the hostage the jar, again >> continue >> their search for hamas's senior leadership and deal with
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whatever residual rocket capacity there exists in khan yunis refer remains a very much an open question. >> is >> at this point, but i think where we literally weeks away, if not more, from it any major israeli ground campaign against that southern gazan city >> all right. aaron david miller, always great to have you on. thanks so much for putting that all into context for us. we appreciate it. >> thank you, jessica >> neil, tonight the faa is investigating after a frightening incident, the engine cover blew off a boeing 737800 during takeoff. you're looking at new video taken by a passenger who was onboard southwest airlines flight 36, 95 we know the plane took off from denver, was headed to houston it had to quickly turn around though and go back to the denver airport >> 46, 95. no problem. five frozen headings, you need to run checklist. >> yes. we're going to do now
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everything's okay and we don't even know the nature of it, but apparently, several passengers that provided planetary something loud at the wing or we're going to take our time getting set up and be ready to go. thank you. >> i was 36 95. no problem. you can expect vectors. this keeps me if eyes. so the situation and let me know if you wanted to start emergency, but i assume we'll probably do that anyways. >> yep. yep. i'll get back to you. standby >> your now to discuss this as safety analyst and former faa safety inspector, david soucie. david, thanks for being with us this afternoon a lot of people, this is kind of on people's minds because these types of incidents varying degrees of how extremely our keep popping up. if you were investigating this incident, where would you begin >> firstly, i'd look at it apparently there's two different things that could have happened here. one is there are three kaling latches that hold that kaling in place. so it appears that either one of those was not left latched properly or the mechanical
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piece itself failed. southwest airlines has said it's a mechanical issue, but we haven't determined which one it was, but that's where i would start is i have those latches failed >> and who does it fall on in terms of the checklist to look at these sorts of things before takeoff, is that something that would be looked? yet before take-off >> absolutely. there's two different things. if there's maintenance performed at those callings are opened than when they're reassembled and they're put back in place, there's a latch mechanism that clicks as you put it in there and it gives you an indication of visual indication that it's latch properly. so whoever did maintenance on it last would have checked that to make sure. and then the second set of eyes would look at it to make sure that it was done. but the last line of defense is the preflight inspection. the pilot is supposed to do the walk around before each flight and check those latches. they check a lot of things on the airplane, but that's one of the things that pilots need to look at. and it's not easy to do. you've got to get down and look underneath and feel underneath to see if those latches are done and those are the two
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things that i would look for right now. we're those two things accomplished during that pre-flight. and if there was maintenance, was it come up accomplished, properly, signed off properly is being re secured >> scary, but glad nobody was injured in all of that. david soucie, thanks so much for walking us through it. appreciate it. >> thank you >> still ahead. russian propaganda infiltrating the republican party. >> what a top >> gop representative says about how his colleagues are infected. >> plus, will it >> be cloudy for tomorrow solar eclipse, mother nature may have a few unwelcome surprises to track that forecast. >> and the battle of >> the number one seeds in tomorrow's ncw. a championship. we are previewing the matchup between the uconn huskies and the purdue boilermakers boilermakers, cnn newsroom houston check we hear nothing. >> the space shuttle accidents usually not one thing. it's a series of events is that part
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difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it is he's talking about members of his own party, the house gop there it comes after house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul said russian propaganda has >> also taken root inside his party saying, quote, i think russian propaganda has made its way into the united states unfortunately, it's infected a good chunk of my party's base both congressman turner and mccaul had been outspoken advocates of passing additional aid to ukraine, which at the moment has been met with fierce resistance from some republican house members joining me now to discuss this and other issues of the day. cnn political analyst carl bernstein, carl great to have you here with us. >> let's >> start first with the but by just played two very prominent republican lawmakers in the house saying that russian propaganda has infiltrated parts of the gop. why do you think the gop has been susceptible to this? >> it's no surprise following
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the lead of donald trump that there are a number of republicans. so a great number actually who are willing to sacrifice ukraine. and this struggle for democracy versus not just autocracy and authoritarian it isn't, but this really is about playing into putin's hands. and it's no surprise that there's a great amount of russian propaganda that seeping into all kinds of channels in this country. but what is amazing is to see one of our two political parties particular the political party that has been the stronger yes it being not susceptible to russian propaganda through the whole cold war. and now we find for a very narrow partisan interest in following the lead of donald trump, that the interest in democracy has taken a backseat to the interest in domestic politics and we're seeing that in what, and what but the member of the committee said there >> but the
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>> real danger is from donald trump, who trumpeting this line. he's putins puppy. he continues to be putins puppy. and we see it in this issue, which is one of the three great issues facing the united states and the democracies of the west. >> yeah, i mean, it is ironic that but that party, for so long came out so strongly against russian propaganda and now see it develop into what has happened today is ironic. i also want to ask you about the war in gaza. we are marking six months of israel's war on hamas in gaza. what do you think at this juncture that this war means both for israel and also the united states >> first of all, it's a terrible tragedy for israel, its very existence is threatened i just war israel is becoming a pariah amongst many countries in the world. as a result of the way it is conducted >> the war,
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>> there can be a great debate about that, but there's no question about the effect, but the real difficulty are among difficulties is that around and it's turning out to be the great beneficiary of this war that are ran does not want to see the moderate era, so-called moderate arab states succeed in having relations with israel. and right now those moderate arab states, whether you're talking about saudi whether you're talking about the emirates, whether you talking about brain all of those countries have had to put their hand into the sand because the arab street is, is enraged by the way israel is conducting this war as well as the arab street hates it israel. and so, but of all things, we find ourselves, it looked a long rage goals of iran or to be the dominant player in this part of
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the world >> they >> don't want to see saudi succeed. they don't want to see, they want to see israel obliterated we see no signs for the intelligence that haram wants to send its own troops to fight this war to be a participant in this war, it's got proxies on five sides of israel doing that has bulla look at the hoodies in yemen, et cetera, et cetera arange is really going to town on this terrible, terrible tragedy tragic for for the palestinians, tragic for the israelis and we don't know where it's going to go. >> karl, before i let you go, just to follow up on that. now, around has said that it is going to retaliate after the israeli strike that happened in the last several days that killed some erroneous what do you think that position? what
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position does it put the us and if they do the us has said we didn't do anything, we didn't have anything to do with this. this was israel >> but ronna saying, we still think we could retaliate against us interests in the middle east. what does this do? what kind of position does this put america and if that does happen? >> we don't know what it is and i don't think we necessarily have to predict that he was going to be something that strikes at the heart of the united states again, i think ran wants to show that it can retaliate and it the same time restraint in such a way as to not provoke a counter attack from the united states. so i wouldn't get too far in front of our skis on this question this early in the game we'll see what develops. carl bernstein, it's always great to have you on. thanks so much >> be with you >> still ahead counting down to a coast-to-coast total eclipse,
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plains. a lot of people headed to doubtless to see this and that's where we've got a severe threat that's growing on the southern end of the path of totality. we now have a level three out of five and enhanced risk for strong and severe storms with large hail damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes. now when we put the storms it's in play, it looks like they do fire up after the eclipse. so this is 1:00. you can see you've got that path of totality. they're pretty dry and then they do fire up about one or two hours after we're looking at after three or 4:00 for those storms to fire up in texas, but it will though, of course, come with clouds as those storms are getting ready. so we're looking at some mostly cloudy skies in doubt alice as you hit that path, that peak of totality at 1:40 for places like indianapolis, you've got much more clearing, fewer clouds in the sky as you hit your peak time at 3:00, it's all because we've got this front, that kind of stalls out or i have along that path of totality just a little bit south of there where we'll have some showers going into monday they so that's where it's going to clutter up some of these clouds, especially from the
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southern plains, from texas over into arkansas. it looks like we'll have a clearer view there in the ohio valley and then maybe even also up in new england so for a place like burlington, vermont, looking at some mostly sunny sky, some pretty good visibility there were just a few clouds as you hit that peak at around three, 30 and then the eclipse ends around 4:00. now, something that's really cool is that the temperatures will actually dip once you get to that totality because you lose the energy from the sun, they're very briefly jessica. >> all right, so keep in mind meteorologists elisa raffa, thanks so much for that update. the total solar eclipse is going to pass over large areas of the country, including right over indianapolis, which is seeing a big influx of tourists as you would imagine. >> that is where >> we find cnn's kristin fisher. first, let's check in with derrick van dam. he's live in burlington, vermont. another place that will be right in the path of totality. and derrick, we just heard from an elisa that things are looking pretty good for that location.
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>> oh, jessica, picture perfect. really, i'm on the beautiful shoreline of lake champlain in burlington and hey, you know, not many things in this life are worth the hype. but let's say coffee, maybe chocolate, and a total solar eclipse this one is going to be massive. mother nature's about to put on its finest couple of hours and we are going to get quite a show and people have flocked to this beautiful, beautiful shoreline to witness just that particular moment. if you add up the cumulative populations in the path of this total solar eclipse more people will see or bear witness to this eclipse, then all i have seen and witnessed this during civilizations. so it is a significant moment and we're talking millions and millions of people feeling the impacts and i just want to set the scene for you because 3206 tomorrow is during totality here in in vermont, and just imagine this, a 360 degrees
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sunset all around you constellations, stars, planets become visible that aren't normally visible this time of year. think of it like this. they're normally obscured by the sun this time of year. and so we're seeing this offset of these constellations by roughly six months, seeing them almost autumn like stars. there's even a comment that will be visible tomorrow as well. and the hype is real. people here have changed plans so we talked to somebody earlier today that like literally blocked their flight from dallas and came to vermont instead because they saw the weather forecast. they knew that it was going to be clear and the ideal weather conditions here have bestowed us here across the northeast. the big celestial dance. jessica, it is happening tomorrow. we are prepared for it people here are excited. >> it is absolutely beautiful where you are, derrick, thanks so much. let's go now to indianapolis. we're kristin fisher is kristen and ton of people going there as well. how are things shaping up for tomorrow?
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>> well jessica i have to say i'm jealous of derrick who has this leg guaranteed beautiful, clear sky tomorrow. but, i was one of those people that was actually supposed to be in carville in texas. and we made the jump to come here because we thought we'd get a better chance of seeing the eclipse, and we're not alone. we have seen so many people today say that they were planning to watch it in taxes, and now they're chasing the eclipse here to indianapolis. indianapolis has a ton going on. we're here at the white river state park where they have set up nashville indianapolis, napoli nashville. that's how you get the name. and so here they expecting about 20,000 people here tomorrow and they've set up hammock so you can actually watch the eclipse from a hammock are from some of their chairs. >> i was in when earlier, it's a pretty nice way to check out the sun and watch the spectacle of mother nature and this is the largest free event that they're going to have in the state. but if you go to the
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indy motor speedway, of course, its 20 bucks a ticket and that's where they're expecting about 40,000 people to be all sitting around in a circle watching this moment of totality. and that is set to start at 3:06 p.m. here in indianapolis, but now jessica, it really just all comes down to the weather right now. it's been beautiful, clear skies. we've just started to get our first drops of rain, hoping that the clouds clear in time for totality tomorrow, chess. >> well, knowing you the way i do, kristin fisher, you are going to be ear, it's killing you if it's not going to be nice and clear and a perfect view of totality. so i want that for you yeah. >> of >> course. >> all right so many others, all the people that have come here to see it. >> i know. i know so many people so quiet about this, so we wish them to clear skies across the country as much as possible. kristin fisher and derrick van dam, thanks to both of you and be sure to catch ten and special coverage of the eclipse across america. it's monday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. you can also stream it on still
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>> and rosa flores and bandera, texas for the eclipse. and this is cnn it has been six months now since the october 7 hamas attack on israel that day, more than 1,200 israelis were >> murdered and more than 250 were taken hostage into gaza. less than half of the hostages have made it home. among them, yarden, roman gods. she and her husband and her three-year-old daughter were abducted on october 7, but in a split moment, her husband and daughter were able to flee yarden was released in november during the only ceasefire we've seen in this war cnn's bianna
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golodryga spoke with her for a one-hour special that's airing tonight. >> eventually, i got to house like civil house most of the time i was there. >> no other hostages were held with her. and with someone with you, a terrorist with you every day? ever second all the time recounting her experience is not easy. >> it's a very difficult feeling to explain >> okay. let's stop for a while. i'm sorry. >> what. is the meaning of being hostage >> you cannot >> pick out. there is no certainty you have to be alert all of the time. it's very deep
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>> aspects of >> humanity that are taking away and bianna joins us now, bianna you spoke with two families, including yarden that lived >> in a kibbutz and you think about the people who've been able to come home. and i'm watching your interview and they're dealing with so much trauma and you think about the families that still have loved ones being held hostage. now city six months later, it's hard to imagine how anyone has returned to any sense of safety or normalcy. >> it's shaken the entire country, as you know, jessica. but specifically for those people who were impacted the most, whether it was at the nova music festival in the south, or those that live in kibbutzim alongside the border? but with gaza, like what you saw there with er dan roman god and her family. they lived on kibbutz be'eri. she said that they actually decided to leave the kibbutz before october 7. they'd been living there and she was very concerned about how frequently missiles and
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rockets were launched at the kibbutz. they just returned to celebrate a holiday with family and obviously, they picked october 7 to come home and we know what happened, the horrors that unfolded after that. so they are not going back to kibbutz be'eri. i spoke with another family that called her own family. hadassah called around her two children, were able to come home as well during that one week where you saw peace negotiations and a ceasefire with the hostages that were released. and she also said she lived on kibbutz nir oz. she blamed herself in many ways. she said that she doesn't feel safe going back there, and then that's not even addressing what's competing in the north part of the country. jessica obviously a lot of concern about things escalating with hezbollah. the country on edge for reprisal from iran following the strike that killed three are three irgc generals on monday collective 250,000 israelis have been displaced since october 7. and for a country of
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9 million people, that is just something that they cannot handle. and it's not sustainable for the long term. and here we are six months in yeah >> just geographically you start to see it shrink because they can't they don't feel safe at those borders beyond yard in and the other return hostages have been through so much unspeakable trauma. how are they processing that and returning to their lives? >> i mean, you could still see how emotional yard dan was during our interview. but it was important for her to speak because her sister-in-law carmel, remains in gaza and that is one of the reasons why they are coming forward and talking to us. these families have been traumatized in such unimaginable ways. many of them are receiving council selling it therapy. but this is something that's never happened in israel's history. a country that's very familiar with war and nothing of this scale where you have so many hostages that remained in gaza for 50 days until that one week ceasefire and the return. and now here we
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are six months later and there are 130 hostages, sadly, about 30 are believed to have been killed. but these families are suffering and have suffered unimaginable grief and trauma, and they are receiving therapy, but it is going to take a long, long time for them to recover. >> yeah. there's no doubt about that. bianna golodryga with such important report thank you so much. we'll be watching tonight and be as full report airs on the whole story with anderson cooper. it is tonight at eight eastern. and one more programming note for you in 2003, the 28th mission of the columbia space shuttle launch, a team of seven astronauts into space for 16 days in orbit. but sadly, they would never return home. the new cnn original series space shuttle columbia, the final flight looks at footage shot by the astronauts while in orbit. and here's a preview as a, kid, your imagination, just like runs
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while and i'm like do they just float and sleep or does he get to go out an >> actual space? please see aliens >> mostly >> just thought that key was an explorer kind of like, i don't know, like a space indiana jones >> we make it a point to get out hockey. good all the time. and when i do that, i really tried to let them know what it was like for me when i was growing up and how i had been rava one david coming in after that that. really if you work hard and you're always pacific in really make those dreams come true >> you wanted to always be involved in something that was kind of bigger than him that contributed to society that had a purpose it was funny to watch him. he looked like he was enjoying himself the crew look like they were doing what they needed to be doing and everything was gone off really well and i didn't know at the time that anything concerning and happened there were people
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that did though, but i wasn't one of them the cnn original series space shuttle columbia, the final flight areas tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. thank you so much for joining me tonight. i'm jessica dean and up next as cnn special eclipse across america with bill, we're have a great night >> get your 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 guy's eclipse, it america, live tomorrow with one on cnn or streaming on macs with cargo ruse, filter millions of listings to land the perfect deal only you could do things your way all the time imagine >> get it with gurus >> before you consider drastic weight-loss measures with
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premieres tonight at nine on cnn hello i'm bill weird. >> welcome to a special eclipse across america. >> here in one i'm tim dc >> we are >> less than 24 hours away from witnessing one of the most spectacular shows to take over our skies a total solar eclipse, every day, the shadow of the moon bounces on countless corners of the milky way. and when it hits earth, odds are generally that it'll pass over uninhabited patches of ice and sea where no one can appreciate it. but tomorrow, tomorrow that shadow will launch a us tour centuries in the making with 32 million people living in the path of totality and other 3 million expected to join them from around the nation and the world. the celestial show, of course, opens on the mexican border with texas before crossing over dallas, indianapolis, cleveland, and
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