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report elephants versus man airs this sunday night on the whole story, 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific right here on cnn. >> the news continues right here on cnn hello, and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. >> i'm kimberly hoover. this is cnn newsroom. hours away from us house votes on a series of crucial foreign aid bills. even bringing it this far could cost the speaker his job look at what to expect, plus opening statements let's now set for monday in former president trump's hush money trial. we'll look at what led some potential jurors to say just weren't up for the job and explosions that an iran-backed militia based in iraq, this as

the region is is on edge after retaliatory strikes between iran and israel until you what each side as well as the us are saying in a live report live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber we begin this hour with the possibility that ukraine may soon get much needed military aid from the united states three funding bills for ukraine, israel, and indo-pacific allies are expected to get a final vote in the house in the coming hours a fourth bill require us tiktok to divest from chinese owner bytedance or face a ban in the if passed, they will have head to the senate and the past there to present biden's desk. >> now on friday, house democrats helped house speaker mike johnson get the measures passed. a key procedural vote. the ukraine aid bill contains around 61 billion in funding, including $23 billion to replenish us weapons stockpiles and other 11 billion to fund

operations in the region in nearly 14 billion to help ukraine buy advanced weapons and other defense equipment. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is making it clear the help can't come soon enough. here's what he said in his address to nato defense ministers in brussels on friday ukrainians are holding the front line on their wall, receiving military but now that assistance is still very limited. and in particular, we are still waiting for news report packages from the united states american support has been in question for too long. everything that is questioned for the defense of freedom is a precise answer for putin. he's tempted to act when the west slows down but for one republican leader, even getting the bills this far could comment a high cost. cnn's melanie zanona has more from capitol hill speaker mike johnson's job isn't real

jeopardy, and that is because he has had to rely on democrats throughout every get of the process to pass a critical package of foreign aid bills, including on some key procedural votes, which historically are almost always done along party lines. >> so that is really spark a revolt. >> on the right and it has fueled new calls to oust him from the speakership on friday, a third republican that's arizona republican paul well goes are announced that he was officially signing on to sponsor the motion to vacate the speakership. >> now, other hardliners not quite ready to go that route, but they are making there finger with the speaker known take a listen. what has mike johnson made a deal to do what has he promised he will give them in the future. and this is why we have to remove mike johnson from the speakership. >> it's tough to defend him right now and that's that's that's hard to say, but it's just a reality for five months we've done nothing but advanced things with more democrat votes, then republican votes. >> i don't defend the

performance of the speaker. i don't defend the actions that have been taken, including today. i think this is it's a terrible mistake. >> now at this point, the earliest that marjorie taylor greene can force a floor vote on a motion to vacate is on saturday. that is the same de that the house is expected to vote on and pass this package of foreign aid bills before they send it over to the senate. but given the math and given the tight margins that means that if that were to come to the floor, that motion to vacate, johnson would need to rely on democrats to bail him come out and save his speakership. now, democrats have not yet said, but they are committed to saving johnson and throwing him a lifeline. but many of them are signaling a willingness to helping him out and that is because they appreciate the fact that he defied his right flank and did what they believe is the right thing by delivering aid to israel, taiwan, and ukraine. but in this congress, nothing is guaranteed. so it's certainly something we'll be watching out for in the coming days melanie zanona, cnn, capitol hill donald. trump's

historic hush money trial is moving forward quickly with opening statements set for monday morning is the first criminal trial of a former us president trump faces 34 felony counts for his alleged role in a scheme to conceal an affair with adult film star stormy daniels, which could have damaged is 20 2016 election campaign. >> a full jury panel is now in place after the last alternate were seated on friday and appeals court has denied the presidential candidates latest attempt to delay his criminal trial. the former president's lawyers had asked again to put the trial on pause until a ruling is made over as request to switch venues. meanwhile, law enforcement says the man who lit himself on fire outside the courthouse where trump's trial is being held, has died. cnn's kara subpoena was inside the courtroom for friday's proceedings. >> we have our full panel. that announcement from judge juan wir schon after jury selection concluded, 18 manhattan nights, 12 jurors and six alternates. now seated in a courthouse. so

this is going on that week, and this will go on for another four or five weeks. very unfair. >> trump appeared board much of the trial day for as attorneys on both sides probe potential jurors until they fill the remaining five alternate seats moments after the full jury was picked. a bizarre and tragic moment outside court as a man set himself on fire authorities say he was previously known to the police. and while they are searching for any domestic terror connections, that is not believed to have been the motivation in court. a handful of perspective jurors became emotional. one was excused after she told the judge she had anxiety and was worried as the trial goes on, more people could know she's part of the jury saying, i might not be able to be completely fair and not emotional. so that concerns me. another was dismissed after she began crying, saying, i'm sorry, i thought i could do this. i wouldn't want someone who feels this way to judge my case either. i don't want you to feel i've wasted anyone's time. this is so much more

stressful than i thought a third it was sent home after noting she was feeling anxiety and self-doubt as she listened to a line of questioning about the credibility of witnesses at the defense table, trump set flipping through papers with charts, photos, and graphics. he whispered and passed notes with his lawyers and at some points was hunched over with his elbows on the desk prosecutors susan hoffman, juror started off questioning potential jurors, telling them this is not about mr. trump being a former president, is not about his being a candidate for the presidency. it's only about whether the evidence proves he's guilty during her presentation, trump leaned back in his chair at one point, his eyes closed trump's attorney, susan necklace focused on bias against the former president. she told those in the jury box, you all bring biases and you particularly bring biases about someone who is as publicly and outspoken as president trump. there's nobody that doesn't know him in this room in the afternoon, the court moved to a routine hearing to determine how much of trump's legal

history the prosecution will be allowed to ask him about if he testifies, which he said he plans to prosecutors argued they should be allowed to question trump about the findings in the e jean carroll defamation case among others, despite trump's attorneys strong objections the former president shook his head as the prosecution spoke about how he defamed carroll kara scannell, cnn, new york dad is a professor of government at the university of essex and she joins us now from berlin. all right, so i want to start there with the trial natasha, what stood out to you about what you've seen so far from this trial? >> i think what stood out to me was just how difficult it has been to pick a jury. >> i think that's something that maybe we haven't thought about how how difficult to process it would be just to pick one out, but just also to be a jury member to find someone who is considered to be unbiased. >> and they're taking huge

risks because they feel that they are lives could be threatened they could be influenced by family members and friends if they were to talk about the trial. >> so i think this whole process has been very, very onerous. >> it's, it's also stood out to me, of course how trump has had to face. and hear people saying terrible things about him and has really not been in control. and you've had judge merchan has been completely in control of the court. of course. so i think this is one of the first times you see trump not in control of history groundings like he would like it to be. and finally, facing the music a little bit more broadly from a political point of view. so looking at this through the election lens, a recent poll found only a third of americans think donald trump did something illegal in this case compared to about half who say he acted illegally in the the other three criminal cases against them. but if he's convicted in this case, about half of americans would

consider him unfit to serve as president. so even though this might be the weakest case against him in terms of severity simulink, a lot politically anyway is still riding on the outcome here right? >> it's really interesting to see the way these court cases have played out politically with his base. he seems to be able to use the the court cases to generate more funds for his campaign. i mean, that seems to be the only thing he talks about how he is the world's biggest victim there's? some horrible witch hunt against him and that joe biden has been weaponizing the justice system against him. >> but when we look at how this is going to play out in the election if he is convicted, this is not going to play well for him i mean, the very least he could actually even see prison time but like you mentioned, the polls reveal that they would not want to vote for a president who's convicted of a crime. >> of course, this is all

unchartered territory for us, we've never really had this kind of situation in us politics and you would think that just the criminal counts in itself would be enough to deter people from voting for him. but i think that trump, it seems to be relying on this idea that he's base is going to come out to vote for him no matter what it doesn't matter what he does and he's above the law. but i think he's about to face a lot more friction as he may get a result. and particularly in this case that doesn't go well for him. you have to remember michael cohen, who was his underlying did go to prison yeah. >> exactly. right. so listen, i want to go back to the one or the other big political stories, the foreign aid bills quickly on that, do you expect it to pass today you would expect it to pass and this was a big risk take taken by mike johnson, of course, because he is i guess, really angry republicans on the far right that have signaled that they could want to oust him.

>> you have marjorie taylor greene, who's made it clear that she's putting she could put a resolution to vote. and there were three republicans in total on that is enough that if they decided to put it to vote and all of the democrats agreed to vote him out. mike johnson would be ousted from speakership, but that would create huge cas and i actually don't think that would be good for the republicans six months before a national election to show how unable they are to just even manage this slim majority that they can't keep a speaker in the house. >> so there may be some republicans that will try to push against marjorie taylor greene& the far right's moved to oust him because it would play out horribly for the republicans in november yeah. i mean, it's just incredible bipartisanship reaching across the aisle used to be seen as a good thing. now it may indeed cost the speaker has job. you think democrats will. save him if republicans do vote to oust

him? >> so i think the issue is that you would have to have all of the republicans vote to oust him. and the other i'm sorry. all of the democrats opposed to oust him. so though the democrats are more united, certainly than the republicans are, there might be some that decided that they don't want to save him. hard to predict and you haven't heard any signals from hakeem jeffries. of course, the house minority leader of what they're going to do. >> i think ultimately this would fail. that they're not going to be able to oust mike johnson. i think it would be as i mentioned, just absolutely catastrophic for them in the house it's so hard to predict these days what is going to happen in the congress, particularly in the house. and that's why we have unbelievably low approval ratings for the house and senate as well. it's only at 15% of the american public approves. and that's because as you mentioned, there's just a complete lack of bipartisanship

and you get only here and after much great effort some attempt to put a bill together that will actually pass. >> yeah, certainly be an interesting de will falling along national instead. thank you so much for being here with us. appreciate it thanks for having me. of course, you can watch cnn's special coverage of the trump hush money trial about monday at 9:00 a.m. in york, 2:00 p.m. in london a series of explosions at a military base in iraq is raising new questions about tensions in the middle east what israel and the us are saying about this incident. meanwhile, despite this anti-israel demonstration in iran, there are signs that the conflict involving do countries maybe de-escalating role explain ahead on cnn newsroom plus, who's house lawmakers are set to vote along on a long-delayed military aid package for ukraine we'll talk to a ukrainian parliament member in kyiv about the mood in the country ahead of that crucial vote stay with us my

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explosions and an iran-backed militia base in iraq in israeli official tells cnn that israel didn't play a role in the blast. >> and us central command says either it nor coalition members conducted strikes in iraq you military says there were no drones or planes in the air at the time of the blasts. now the explosions happened at the kalsu military base south of baghdad. the iraqi army says one militia member was killed and eight others were injured in the blasts. >> there's no indication so far what caused them but now there are signs that israel, iran tensions could be easing satellite images obtained by cnn show that there doesn't appear to be extensive damage at the airbase targeted by the strike. >> in fact, juran's farce new age news agency says the only damage was broken windows in several buildings i mean a top white house aide says, he thinks neither side wants to take things further i mean, we are not look, nobody is looking

for an escalation with iran and nobody's looking for i know what happened the last two weeks, i think when historians look at it i'm not going to mention anything about last night i think when historians look at the last two weeks, it is a managing a crisis in a way that i think very much restore deterrence. >> i think israel has come out of this actually significantly stronger because the defense, defenses it has are extraordinary so despite this demonstration in tehran on friday, slamming israel, iran hasn't officially said much about the strike on friday runs president didn't mention it, but did praise runs attack on israel last weekend as g7 foreign ministers wrap their meetings on friday, secretary of state antony blinken said, the us quote, committed to de-escalating to bring this tension to a close cnn's nada bashir joins us live from london with the latest. >> so not it does seem as though things are progressing

down the path of de-escalation. is that right it suddenly seems that way for now, both sides seemingly not wanting wanting to be dragged into a deeper regional war. >> and again, both sides domestically at least taking this as a window on the sayyed. what we have seen as an effort to downplay israel's attack on isfahan. what we have seen is a real disregarding of the attack actually by iranian officials who have described israel as using tiny drones. the damage being limited. in fact, we heard from the iranian president ebrahim raisi speaking yesterday there was no mention of israel's attack on iran though the focus was very much still on iran retaliatory attack on israel following israel's consular strikes are clearly an effort on the on the iranian sayyed to downplay it. the incident and may well, also of course, be regional considerations at hand. there had been significant concern around a potential for this provocation, two lead to

broader regional war, particularly with regards to iran's regional proxies. and of course important to remember that iran has recently reestablished relations with vr, saudi arabia and the united arab sure, it's both of whom are key ally to the united states in the region. and we know that the biden administration has been very clear in trying to avert a broader escalation of tensions in the region. now on the israeli side, again this has been eliminated risk forms from the grand scheme of things, but there is a clear message a clear signal being sent here, of course, the province of isfahan known to house a key nuclear base, a key airbase wellness is an industrial hub known to have produced drones and missiles. so this is a strategic location in iran. clearly the intelligence is on the side of the israeli officials who launched this attack. on a but again, the scope of the attack in itself was limited of hobbes, the

importance, the significance there isn't the message being sent by israel, but of course there has been mounting the pressure on both sides to avert a broader regional war that was certainly the case for the european union. we have in the eu's foreign policy chief josep borrell as saying that, uh, you leaders need to stand together in trying to pressure both sides to avert a regional war. of course, as we know, the us has been very vocal in dissuading any sort of border escalation or provocations and another meanwhile in gaza, the situation is still a desperate for so many what's the latest on the delivery of much-needed food and medicine and the us plan to bring in aid via the sea route look on the situation is still deeply desperate. >> many people in need, thousands of people in dire need it in gaza, getting aid is still not proven to be coming fast enough. it is still proven to be difficult. we're still hearing for you and agencies accusing israeli authorities of placing obstacles in the way of getting aid in. of course, we know that the us government has laid plans and preparations to establish a temporary pier off the coast of gauze. and now,

according to two us official speaking to cnn, the us is planning to be coordinating with a key un agency in the world, food program in order to ensure distribution of aid. and that had been a key point of concern because it's one thing to establish that peer but of. course, the biden administration has been cleared. there will be no us boots on the ground. so the question remains, how exactly would those aid supplies be delivered and distributed within gaza? now, the un world food program is set to be on board in terms of facilitating the distribution of that aid that would be aid coming through the maritime corridor. but the continued message that we are here get agencies is that we need to see more land crossings. we've seen the opening of the erez crossing, but again, they want to see more land distributions being established, and they want more security guarantees of pasta, logistical challenges at hand and central and northern gaza proving huge for these aid agencies desperately trying to get enough food and medical supplies as well as sedentary kits to those most in need in

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as soon as they pass, both houses of congress, the house is expected to take them up in the coming hours. now the measures contain billions of dollars in security aid for ukraine, israel, and indo-pacific allies as well as a possible ban on tiktok and sanctions on iran. the bills passed a key procedural vote, 316 to 94, with more democrats than republicans voted to advance the bills to the floor. and to a final vote but friday's by partisan showing could cost the speaker dearly. several members of his own party of threatened to call for a motion to vacate that would oust the speaker from his job now, last hour i spoke with the ukrainian parliament member and i asked her how closely ukrainians are following those developments in washington issues grass, it is literally the question of life and death. now, i'm speaking to you from keep. there is an air to lord over here in kiva, as well as in how provide the regions of ukraine with the risk of ballistic missiles hit in any

city as a this moment. and we hardly have any missiles to fight back. so, so for us, it is literally the most important vote. and then of course we have following it literally very, very closely with hourly updates on the news. >> i mean, there is a good chance it will pass, but the fact it's taken so long, it's been such a political struggle. what does that say about ukraine's ability to rely on the us for help when it has been painful two nights ago, there was a hidden the ceo of dnipro under 60, boy lost his mother, his grandmother, and his sister and his brother. and i keep on thinking about out of that boy for for for for the whole day. and i think that he could have had his family if only ukraine had the micelles to fight back and the thing that people don't understand it, that it has been taken over by, by the political debates and other countries where lives could have been saved. but fortunately were lost is

something i fully understand, but i really hope that the decision will come through and then the following up on that decision, that the weapons will be delivered as soon as possible because literally there are some moment once in history where politics, truth should step aside and we should think about the bigger things in life and then protecting each other's is the most important thing here. >> that russian airstrike on dnipro that you talked about, it reportedly killed eight people, including two children. one you referenced them you tweeted this. i want to read the last part of this. can the west protect the ukrainian sky? the case of israel says, yes. do they want good question? >> so obviously that's a question that has been asked a lot in recent days, but is that realistic? >> do you think given the obvious fear of it spiraling into a wider conflict with russia? what do we have been hearing this idea of spiraling into a big conflict with russia for over two years.

>> and i think that this narrative of we don't want to spiral it out we don't have been used. and if ukraine were given the weapons to protect itself and the right time we could have won the war as of right now. but unfortunately because everybody is so scared to help us protect ourselves. but it actually gives putin time to prepare for more attacks and done and to prepare for pro, for killing more ukrainians so as us lawmakers prepare for that vote, russia has launched a barrage of new strikes across southern ukraine. >> officials say these upper egypt region was hit almost 300 times over the past 24 hours. but there are no reports of casualties while the city of odesa took a missile hit this morning, which damaged an infrastructure facility. meanwhile, ukraine is claiming two major firsts in its aerial war with russia on friday keeps it shot down a russian strategic bomber after fired missiles on ukraine the plane was reportedly hit from more

than 180 miles or 300 kilometers away, causing it to crash into a field in southern russia. but moscow blames a technical malfunction& says three of the four crew members have been rescued. ukraine says it also struck two cage 22 hypersonic missiles, which can fly it up to 4,000 kilometers our ukraine has reportedly lined up commitments for more air defenses after presence, lewinsky appealed directly to nato. he addressed a virtual meeting of defense ministers on friday saying ukraine needs at least seven more advanced air defense systems. nato secretary general jens stoltenberg later said, several countries made specific commitments to provide them. here's house, zelenskyy made his case to nato putin must be brought down to us. >> and our sky mask becomes safe. >> again. and it is real. and it depends fully on your choice. choice, whether life is

indeed equally available everywhere. choice, whether you have equal attitude to all partners, choice, whether we indeed our allies the first way is a voting in the world's largest election has wrapped up in india, voters injured heatwave conditions and long lines in some areas to cast their ballots. >> 21 of india's 28 states and eight union territories participated in this first phase with turnout estimated around 60% nearly 1 billion people are eligible to vote this year with around 26 million new voters since the last election in 2019, voters will decide all 543 seats in the lower house of parliament over seven phases of voting. the second phase will take place this upcoming friday, april 26 the election concludes on june 1st, and results are expected june 4 is nationwide vote is considered to be the most consequential in decades. prime minister narendra modi is running for a rare third

consecutive term. and its right-wing party is hoping for an outright majority in parliament and a mandate to expand their hindu nationalist policies with voters are concerned about modi's efforts to move india away from its secular roots. cnn's will ripley reports the prime minister narendra modi seems virtually unstoppable as india heads to the polls modi is widely expected to win a commanding majority of india's nearly 1 billion are eligible voters. the biggest democratic election in the history of mankind. modi's own path from poverty to politics is part of his appeal for a lot of people here in india. his official biography says he's the middle son of a chai wallah, a tea seller, a humble upbringing that he says helps them understand and the problems plaguing everyday people modi says his programs put more food on their tables and his economic reforms have attracted billions in foreign investment raising india's global

profile. >> i've been doing this a long time, but i don't ever remember anybody getting a warmer welcome man right here from the white house to the kremlin world leaders can't seem to get enough for modi back at home. he's blurring the line between in religion and politics. >> ram barack jar rahm, hot of god, hotter that's modi presiding over the dedication of a temple dedicated to hinduism's lord ram, built on the site of a demolished muslim mosque that demolition triggered deadly religious riots more than three decades ago modi projects himself as head priest, protector, and creator of a hindu-first it's nation, a nation some say marginalizes muslims. he been fully creates a cult of his own personality. >> many worship modi himself, almost like a living god. that devotion runs deep in the ancient city of varanasi where religion is woven into the

fabric of life. like derek shaw is weaving in and out of traffic i met this local shopkeeper. i'm will who says he loves modi like family. what makes him different from others? >> what he feels he has done when you hear him speak, do you feel like he's speaking to you and your life because he is his pixel the heart of a very smart politician. modi was not born here. >> he chose to represent this hindu spiritual center but not everyone is a believer have you ever seen this city so divided, so polarized? >> this is what we call it does not the religious center. it is basically a spiritual center so this unique fabric fabric has a strained condition law and we have a fear that this fabric metric that's what happened back in 2002 when modi was chief minister of the western turn state of gujarat religious riots there killed more than 1,000 people, mostly muslims. modi was accused of not doing

enough to stop the violence the us effectively banned modi from stepping foot on us soil. a-band when he became prime minister in 2014. india's supreme court also clear modi of responsibility how many say modi is stoking the fires of religious tensions? >> the false film that came to my mind was scary scared yeah, it's getting i sat down with sana survive. >> she was celebrating the end of ramadan with their family. >> that is the freedom of somebody just reading a skullcap minding his own business buying martin whatever he wants to and then heading home and then dying on the way a fear shared by many muslims in modi's india, wondering spring if this is the end of a secular indian government. >> and will it mean the end of their religious and civil rights will ripley, cnn varanasi, india warming oceans are damaging coral reefs like australia's great barrier reef bots, underwater drones are

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in the air here across the south force saturday. and again, for sunday, some of the areas could pick up two to three inches of rain, i think could be a slight risk of some flooding there across parts of texas and that's indicated here by the excessive rainfall risk. it's only a slight risk, a2 of the four categories, but we do have a freeze warning up to the north because things have already started growing up here, but temperatures as low as 29 degrees or minneapolis all the way down to just about lake ocha bogey into i0 up here goes the cold air all the way down toward the gulf coast, cooling down all of the areas they're in a warm back up in the west. so some of the inner mountain temperatures will be warm. even vegas gets all the way to no 90 degrees today and we go 48 for cleveland, only 53 and chicago and 51 as you work your way into minneapolis after that very cold morning kim nisia, officials say the wrong volcano is still erupting days after began spewing ash and

lava on tuesday, the column of ash was reported to reach 1,200 metres above the summit. >> some 1,900 meters above sea level. a hundreds have been evacuated as the volcano alert has been raised to the highest it's level, scientists fear of volcano could collapse into the sea and trigger a massive tsunami as it did in 18, 71 and authorities are assessing the damage in the united arab emirates after a severe storm dumped a year's worth of rain in one day on divide the water flooded homes, businesses, and roads this week causing traffic chaos that lasted for hours. at least one person was killed in the emirates and 20 others in oman where the storm first hit. climate experts say rising temperatures caused by the human lead climate crisis leading to more extreme weather events like this storm around the world the great barrier reef has suffered its highest

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of another mass coral bleaching event right now, cooler waters can return the coral to its natural color, but some are not able to recover and they eventually die. >> that's where this new technology comes into play according to its maker, advanced navigation hydroides is less expensive than most other underwater vessels, while it can't bring back what's been lost, the underwater drone can make a difference in under standing what future coral reefs might ensure that we're working on coral mapping with the australian institute of marine science. >> and what they're trying to do is map areas of coral to detect change within those areas. so they want to get very fine areas of detail of this coral, but they want to come back time and time again to track that hi hydrous dives further into the deep-blue seat and navigate and study parts of the ecosystem. human divers can't quite reach. it takes 3d photos by stacking 2d images of

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flat-out stumping bulls. and after starting the game down by five, the heat got hot, they got blistering, actually going on, uh, 26 to to run and they never looked back. tyler hero just one assist shy of his second career triple, double 24 points, ten rebounds, and nine assists, including an incredible behind the back past and caleb martin first three, as miami bruises one-twelfth to 91, and will now turn their attention to the nba's best team this season, the boston celtics, head coach erik spoelstra for miami, just happy to have a chance. >> the games you think about new reflect on later on where you're like, oh, that was a lot of fun. these games are fund the plan games or fund you know, i'd rather not but again, but the fund and even more fun to be had today was four games beginning at one eastern here in the all lies on the nightcap as the brown james and the lakers take on nikola jokic and the defending champion denver nuggets. and

lastly for you this morning, kim and incredibly emotional moment for red sox pitcher can bucer. he was forced to walk away from the game five-years ago because of a slew of injuries that even included a broken back after a bicycle accident. so he had been working as a carpenter when he started giving lessons to little leaguers and then got the itch to play again. and now at 31 years old, he made his major league debut for the red sox last night, struck out one batter in the ninth, thinning of boston's win over the pirates get shot, right? >> surreal moment. i mean, i try not to look up and just trying to kind of try to stay in the moment. and then afterwards shard to take it all in one of the it's by far the best part of my career i just loved that story so much kim, and it's one of a couple like that that we've seen particularly majorly baseball here states sayyed, where you have these players who for whatever reason or forced to step away from the major leagues and to be able to work your way back into be working as a carpenter and then end up on the mount is just so

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