only six minutes to seize this rare opportunity. >> yeah, that amount of pressure, unfortunately, is for every mission we fly and people put their life's work in these things, and we don't want to mess it up. >> it's the right size to block out the disk of the sun but not too much more. we have a lot of open questions. >> at nasa's johnson space center, national climate reporter, chase cane. >> i feel like i am nerding out right now. that's so cool. see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. for now i'm ana cabrera, reporting from new york. josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning. it's 11:00 a.m. eastern and 8:00

a.m. pacific. i am josé diaz-balart. we begin this hour from the percussions of an air strike that killed seven members of the kitchen aid group, and the nonprofit is pausing its aid efforts in the gaza ship, and the ship is returning to its port. antony blinken addressed the strike. >> the victims of yesterday's strike join a record number of humanitarian workers that have been killed in this particular conflict. these people are heroes. they run into the fire, not away from it. they show the best of what humanity has to offer when the going really gets tough. they have to be protected. >> israeli prime minister netanyahu issued a statement saying unfortunately in the last

day there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the gaza strip. the aid workers were traveling in a vehicle with the world central kitchen logo on it after leaving a warehouse that stored humanitarian aid. the nonprofit coordinated its effort with the military, and the group releasing an statement, saying this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used of a weapon of war. this is unforgivable. and israeli defense forces said it will investigate the strike. joining us from tel aviv is raf sanchez. what more do we know about what happened here? >> reporter: well, josé, world central kitchen says the seven aid workers were depositing food

in a warehouse where it was due to go to the north of the strip, where people are on the brink of famine, and they are brits, poles, and palestinian, and one american citizen was killed last night and that person has not yet been identified. you saw this sort of anguished statement from chef josé andres saying these people were angels, they were not faceless and all had names and lives and people that loved them, and that they were killed trying to help others. you mentioned, josé, that statement from prime minister netanyahu. he's calling this a tragic incident. he's saying israeli forces unintentionally opened fire, but i can tell you the israeli military is facing a lot of questions right now about how this strike happened and about the overall accuracy of its strikes inside of gaza.

i pointed out to an israeli government spokesman that the world central kitchen says not only when its vehicles clearly marked and not only were they in a deconfliction zone, but they already coordinated the movements of the vehicles with the israeli military, and take a listen to a little of the conversation >> how was it they took every precaution and were still killed by israeli bombs. >> if this was an unintentional israeli strike, it was an unintentional israeli strike. we work close with them to district aid, and it was unintentional if it was us. >> the israeli military says it

is investigating at the highest levels and there's no timeline how long that investigation will take, but it will be closely watched around the world. it's opening up a new communications room to try and make sure that this doesn't happen again. josé, while the israeli government is saying that this was a tragic accident, it's far from an isolated incident. the u.n. says more than 200 humanitarian workers have been killed in gaza since the start of the war on october 7th. that's a record number. you heard secretary of state, antony blinken, referring to it. we are already seeing the real world consequences of world central kitchen being forced to pause its operations in gaza. there were ships, josé, literally on their way from cypress to gaza carrying food. they have turned around and headed back to port, and that's food so desperately needed right now in northern gaza.

>> what a tragedy indeed. meanwhile, we are following another major development, and iran vowing retaliation after the consulate was destroyed in a strike they say was carried out by israel, and also killed a senior member of the revolutionary guard? >> yeah, and i asked that israeli government spokesman about the iranian allegation israel is responsible, and they did not confirm or deny and that's what israel has done consistently, and they did hint israel was planning to expand the operation, and israel has been carrying out assassinations of iranian figures, but never has there been an attack like

this in broad daylight and at a consulate, and if iran does move those threats into action, last night the israeli military says an iranian-made drone hit an israeli naval base in the south of this country. there were no casualties and minimal damage, but israel says it's a serious incident and is investigating how it was this drone got through israel's multi-layered defense systems. >> raf sanchez in tel aviv. thank you very much. last night trump post add $175 million bond in the civil fraud case that prevents his assets from being seized while the case is being appealed. before that news broke, we learned the judge overseeing the new york hush-money case expanded the partial gag order

against trump. with us to explain more about this, a former senior investigative counsel for the house committee, and a msnbc legal contributor, and a show on saturdays at noon. what do we know about the overnight news that the bond came through? >> yeah, it's like drinking from a fire hose when it comes to the news, especially concerning trump. it's the $175 million bond, and an appellant court reduced that from the 454 plus down to 175, but it had to be posted before this thursday, and check that box as trump was able to do so. while donald trump is going to pursue an appeal of that verdict against him by justice author engoron, what happens is

attorney general, james, she cannot seize his assets and all of the work done behind the scenes which we didn't know about for her to go and collect on this judgment is put on pause. there's another condition that got overlooked a little bit, and in the appellant court decision that reduced the bond to 175, and you will have to effect the appeal by september? >> you have to file the briefs and make sure this is done. in some way instead of being able to drag out the appeals process, the appellant court recognized there's an existing ruling with trump and the other defendants, and now you have to pick up the pace here. the appellant is not going to let him and others sit back and ask for more time and he has to get it done and done quickly. >> what did trump have to prove

to appeal the civil fraud judgment against him? >> i think a couple things, josé. the first question is whether he's going to undercut the entire judgment by judge ingoren, or whether he's going to be able to limit the amount of the judgment. he will try to limit and do both here. he will have to do several things, prove the judge got the law wrong, and appellant courts defer to the trial judge, and the trial judge is seeing what is happening on the ground, and is observing the witnesses' credibility, and appellant courts really defer to those that were in the courtroom, and appellate courts are going to be more focussed on whether the law was applied but the former president will have to attack the judgment on both fronts. >> meanwhile the judge over seeing the new york hush-money case expanded the gag order so he cannot attack members of the

court or alvin bragg. >> what we have now is as of yesterday, april 1st, you have an amended gag order from the gag order entered on march 26th. the reason the dates are important is that original limited gag order did not include family members of the court, of the district attorney's office and et cetera. subsequent to the date of march 26th, we saw a briefing done by the manhattan's d.a. office saying we need to revisit this and there needs to be clarity because donald trump is attacking specific family members, the daughter of the judge in this case, on his social media platform. a lot of us were waiting to see if the judge was going to do about that, and there was a flury of filings and by the end of the afternoon, the judge issues the amended gag order. if everybody wants to see the meat and potatoes of the gag

order, look at page 28, and it now includes family members of any counsel, family members of the court and staff members and district attorney's office. if the statements being made by trump -- it's a lot of verbiage, right? if you allege a violation of a gag order you have to have a hearing and provide evidence that donald trump knowingly went against the gag order, and if there's a material interference or the intent to materially interfere, and i think there's teeth to the gag order. unfortunately, what happens is you have to have a evidentiary

hearing to prove it in order to get a fine or go to jail. >> going forward, let's say trump attacks a family member of somebody, and there would have to be a process in which that attack is studied and ruled on, and is there any teeth in this? >> this morning the former president is already reposting attacks on the judge's daughter once more, and the red line will come up quite quickly, and the former president is not stopping. he's not heeding the courts' warnings, and he's testing the power of the court whether the judge will put teeth on the gag order and drag the former president into court and make him and his lawyers answer as to why there should not be a fine,

and it will go on -- we know it will go on, and should the former president be out on pretrial release, and he's going to keep testing the court. just this morning, like i said, he just did that. we will see the judge, i think, in the next week or so have to make a decision as to what he does next. >> what could the judge do next? >> under the new york judicial laws he could find donald trump to be in contempt of the order and can fine or put him in jail, and you could see him in jail if he violates the orders of the gag order. >> appreciate it. up next, we will go to the battleground state of michigan. there's a battle going on there today where former president trump is set to give remarks this afternoon on one of the polarizing issues of the election. florida supreme court allows the

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15 past the hour. happening now, voters are heading to the polls as five states are holding primaries today, including wisconsin. that's where former president donald trump will hold a rally later this evening in green bay. first, he will head to the key swing state of michigan. that's where he is scheduled to hold an event in grand rapids in a couple hours. the focus of today's events expected to be the border crisis. let's go to nbc's gabe gutierrez in grand rapids this morning. good to see you. what more are we expecting to

hear from donald trump today? >> reporter: good morning. as you can tell we are quite far from the southern border, and the former president trump plans to speak about that issue you mentioned, immigration. that's partly because republicans really see an opening here when it comes to blaming president biden for what is going on at the southern border. there's a local case here. rudy garcia, there's a 25-year-old woman that died last month killed by an undocumented immigrant that police say was a romantic partner. the suspect had been deported previously, and we expect the president to seize on that as he comes to grand rapids later today. he will speak with local law enforcement and party leaders at a roundtable before he will deliver prepared remarks, and then he will head to wisconsin for a rally there this afternoon.

josé? >> gabe in grand rapids, thank you. appreciate it. turning to florida where the state supreme court issued a pair of key decisions on abortion rights. this has cleared the way for a six-week abortion ban to take effect, and yasmin, what does this mean? >> the supreme court decided to hold up the abortion ban, and that means ron desantis's 6-week abortion ban will take effect in florida, and many states somewhat of a desert when it comes to abortion clinics, and florida was a safe haven for

many women around the country. it no longer will be that. however, 4-3, they decided in favor of putting abortion on the ballot come november. we have seen in seven states across this country, which are red states and conservative, abortion rights have won out. we got some reaction from on the ground. josé, let's take a listen to what florida are saying there in florida and then talk on the other side. >> i think it's sad to even think of having the option to have an abortion in our state. i think that people should have more morals. >> i have a daughter, so i want to, you know -- also, i am her advocate and she's of age to vote, too, and i hope she exercises that right. >> they are saying maybe florida

is in play as it has become a red state instead of a swing state, and they are saying now that abortion is on the ballot, more will turn out to vote come november. >> thank you so much. with us now to take a closer look at all this, david rucker, senior writer at the dispatch, and juanita tolliver, host of a podcast. when the florida six-week ban takes effect, it will join other states that instituted similar bans, and now is the fact that this is becoming a pattern in many southern states, going to have a major impact, you think, coming in november? >> just as it did in 2022 and

2023. as long as the attacks continue from the right, abortion rights will be a mobilizing issue for democrats. what i think is interesting about the florida situation, not only is the six-week abortion set to go into effect in a few weeks, but they have a ballot initiative that will need 60% threshold, and other states that had this on the ballot, we know republicans and independents cross the lines to support the abortion protections. the thing democrats are trying to needle is they are tying this to donald trump directly, so if any of the republicans or independents support the ballot initiative, they would likely support president biden. i think that's what we will likely see from democrats. let's be real. florida has not been in play since obama won it in 2012.

so these are the factors that are absolutely going to play in november. >> juanita, when you have the numbers you just mentioned, there's a real possibility, is there not, that these republicans could essentially split the ticket in november, one way on abortion and the other way in the presidential? >> that's exactly right. i think even if they do split that way -- that's why democrats are trying to lay the fact down that florida took these steps at trump and republicans' feet, and donald trump said i am proud of this and that's why they are trying to limit the splits, so if you do protect abortion in the state constitution, you will also hopefully vote for president biden, and in the advertisement it says, he trusts

women in a way donald trump does not. >> and mark murray says the big question in florida going forward is going to be which will be the greater political force, the power of the abortion issue for democrats or the republican dominance? what do you think? >> in talking to republican operatives who are focused on florida, they have had trouble convincing people outside of the state to worry about the presidential race in that state, to worry about the u.s. senate race in that state. rick scott is running for re-election, and they looked at a potential for the initiative to get on the ballot, and now it's something that will, number one, focus on florida as a potential battleground, and also give them concerns that florida may not be as safe in either of the races as it has been up until now. i still think that the

republican party in florida now has an institutional -- an institutional advantage and an infrastructure advantage, because the state democratic party is weak. it's a big state that requires a massive investment to turn things around, and it usually takes time to turn things around, and i still think republicans are in the driver seat there, and the initiative on the ballot is the sort of thing that may bring people to the polls that might not have bothered because they didn't think the presidential race was in play. then again, there's always the possibility that they show up to vote for abortion rights, but for donald trump or for abortion rights but i will leave the top of the ticket blank because i don't like either of these guys and we will have to see how it plays out over time. >> donald trump is expected to focus on immigration and crime today at the event in michigan, and there will be a rally in wisconsin. these are states far away from the southern border.

what is trump's strategy here? >> what he's trying to do is reprise what worked for him so well in the 2016 election. there's grave concern among many americans about what is going on at the southern border. not all the americans are going to like or vote for donald trump, and if you look at the data in polling, the crisis at the border, at least that's how people look at it, as a crisis, and some of it because of illegal border crossings and some of it because people are coming across and applying for asylum, and there's a sense things are out of control. i talked to democratic operatives that believe that joe biden should use the executive authority at his disposal to tighten things up and bring things under control, and they are worried about a general backlash against immigration broadly, and trump is using this issue and it's smart for him to

do so. the president has to balance different parts of his coalition when it comes to border enforcement. donald trump, you know, on the republican side, does not, and it worked well for him once before and he's hoping he can do the same again. >> in all of these conversations on either side, it's so easy to just go into numbers and stoke the fear in so many people, but the ethos of it, the men, women and children that made this extraordinary difficult and dangerous journey to the united states with the dream of requesting asylum, it seems as though humanity of this issue is forgotten. is there any way to bring at least a little bit of that into the national discourse? >> 100%, josé. i think that goes to the personal stories that democrats will likely leverage on this issue. i think that also goes to the fact that president biden and democrats can point to trump and

republicans for explicitly sinking the bipartisan border deal that was negotiated. anytime trump mentions immigration, it should be requested about his role in the republicans blocking the border bill. >> thank you both so much for being with us this morning. appreciate it. up next, what we are learning about the recovery efforts as president biden prepares to visit the site of the bridge collapse in baltimore. plus, we are learning about an outbreak of storms overnight, and that system is now spreading to the east coast. you are watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. ♪ i feel free... ♪ ♪ to bear my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything ♪ ( ♪♪) with skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months.

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31 past the hour. a severe storm system is charging east after ripping across the nation's midsection bringing reports of tornadoes, heavy rain and wind. last night a funnel cloud was spotted in an area outside oklahoma city, marking the first tornado in oklahoma this year. today 54 million people from the great lakes to the gulf coast are at risk for severe weather, including softball-sized hail and tornadoes and strong winds over 75 miles per hour. morgan chesky joins us. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: folks are cleaning

up after a rough night, and this community is an hour northwest of tulsa and took some of the most from the storms. neighbors are helping neighbors, josé. they are already clearing a lot of the debris out of the way. if you want to know the power of the reported tornado, you are looking at it, but on the flip side this is how quickly they were able to move on. as you mention, josé, the danger is tearing to the northeast as the system moves that direction, and it's not just tornadoes people have to worry about and damaging hail. there were reports in north texas last night, josé, of hail of size of tennis balls, and that could be destructive for people or property. that tornado threat very much remains. we knew as of this morning wide

swaths of states to the northeast of us, they had tornadoes watches that expired, and some of the people here thought they were fine until they weren't, and that's why paying attention to the forecast is so incredibly critical. they did credit meteorologists hear for warning them to seek shelter and take cover, and that's why the people here are saying there are no reports of injuries or loss of life, considering the power of the storm, an incredibly blessing. >> thank you so much. on friday president biden will travel to baltimore to survey the damage following last week's collapse of the francis scott key bridge. this morning crews continue the difficult work of dismantling the bridge and remove debris as vessels start to go through a temporary channel. the bodies of four of the six victims remain missing.

where do recovery efforts stand this morning? >> if anything, josé, it's becoming more and more clear that this is not going to be quick. we mentioned the temporary channel is opened up, and that's only for the boats, the ships that are involved in the operation, to get the harbor, the port reopened again. this is not for cargo ship traffic. it's simply way too shallow. they had to open up the channel to allow the coast guard and army corps of engineers and tugs and barges in, and it's a narrow channel. there has been sonar imaging at the bottom of the channel and the visibility is so bad, they are only getting one to two feet of visibility, and that makes it incredibly challenging for divers. imagine, if you are driving in a snowstorm or in fog, you turn on your brights and what happens? you can't see anything, right? you are literally getting the

reflection back. that's what they are facing down in the water. they are looking at this, just nothing but a cloud of white and dark that they can barely make out what they are looking at in the water, and the navy has not been able to get good video underwater looking at the wreckage, and it's too cloudy and dangerous. that's an ongoing process. we have been looking at a live shot throughout the morning of that bridge and it continues to be a big challenge trying to reopen it. they have lifted the first 200-ton piece off the bridge. they cut that. that's what is above the water, not below the water. this is likely going to taken longer than originally thought. >> tom costello, thank you for that update. >> you bet. up next, the warning some wisconsin democrats are sending to the president through today's primary. we will go live to oklahoma

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what is the uninstructed movement? >> hi, josé. in wisconsin an uncommitted vote or vote for no candidate is called uninstructed. we have seen tens of thousands of voters cast uninstructed votes throughout the country already, 52,000 in colorado and 101,000 in michigan. the young voters i spoke with in wisconsin are organizing another wave of protest votes to voice their disagreement with biden. >> their campaign officially kicked off in walk on march 19th. >> i think the democratic party lost all legitimacy in our communities. >> they want 20,000 people to vote uninstructed, and that's the same number of votes that

won biden the state in the 2020 general election. >> if in november we don't have a cease-fire, i don't know what will be left in gaza, and that's our focus in this campaign. >> a march gallup poll found 55% of americans disapprove of israel's military action in gaza, and that number is higher, 63%, when looking at voters just between the ages of 18 and 34. another voter involved in the movement -- >> this is a campaign being run by students and young people who really care about this. >> she has family in gaza, and she says organizing protests efforts in wisconsin allows her to feel empowered. >> joe biden has already won the democratic nomination, so the uninstructed campaign is a way of sending a message. it's not about him actually becoming president or not, and it's a way for us to quantify this is how many people care about this issue. we are democrats and voting in

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48 past the hour. we have breaking news from the white house where president biden just finished a phone call from chinese president, xi jinping. peter, what do we know about this call? >> reporter: this call wrapping up in the last 15 minutes or so and it's notable because this is the first contact president biden has had with his chinese counterpart, xi jinping, when the two men met south of san francisco. it had been 16 months before that since they had last spoken on the phone, all the way back to july of '22. a series of topics the two men

addressed, and the commitment was made last year that the u.s. and china would resume the direct military to military communications and that's already taking place, just a month after they first month. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff spoke with his counterpart in china and the u.s. wants to make sure those conversations between top military officials on both sides continue. they focused, according to a senior administration official on the topic of taiwan as well, where the u.s. policy remains the same, but it also was a serious concern for the u.s. right now as the president spec witness russia's aggression toward ukraine. president biden likely in this call, that we don't have a full readout yet, would have addressed that issue. the president in his last conversation with his chinese counterpart did call on china to do more to call on iran and on russia to dial back the aggression against ukraine and throughout the middle east.

they focused on the topic of fentanyl as well. there had been an agreement made the two sides that china would basically pull back in its efforts -- crack down on its efforts to allow illicit drugs to make their way to the united states. that process can be one that evolves. the u.s. focusing on that topic. the president indicating he wants this to be a relationship focused on competition, not conflict. we are told this was mostly a check-in where they did not expect any new agreements to come out of it. >> peter, to the other story we have been following. what's the white house saying about the israeli strike that killed world central kitchen aide workers? >> reporter: they were horrified and devastated by the news that at least seven staff members were killed in that israeli

strike in gaza. i spoke to a u.s. official a moment before joining you who said the white house is quite concerned, that they are troubled about what happened there. this individual reiterated that the u.s. has had direction contact with the israelis about this situation, that contact being led by the white house, the state department, and the u.s. aid. this individual shared with me a quote i thought was particularly striking. the israeli government needs to do more, needs to do a better job going forward to help protect those humanitarian aid workers. the israeli government must do a better job of communicating among itself. either the israeli government did not communicate to the right people in its military or it was not respected. either way, they said, that is concerning. tough language from the united

states. no public can comment from the president just yet. >> peter alexander, thank you so much. i want to continue this conversation as breaking news out of gaza. these world central kitchen aide workers were killed. joining us is james elder, spokesman for unicef. i want to thank you for being with us. obviously, your organization is not part of the organization that lost these seven extraordinary people. what's your reaction to this strike? >> jose, it's devastating. when i heard the news this morning, it's so sensible. i was at world central kitchen in gaza over the weekend. just self-less people to do everything they can in a situation that's so spiraling absolutely out of control. it's yet another devastating loss. on the same day, i have to say,

i was in a hospital seeing children who had been killed in air strikes. the level of senseless loss is completely becoming beyond our ability to describe it. as i say, the work this organization is doing, the efforts the young people make, there's an expectation in places like gaza, it's dangerous, but it's because you lack access to food, you don't get to shower enough. i left a colleague with hepatitis. you don't expect when you share all your co-ordinates with the military and you are in an armored vehicle that you get a missile through the top. again, these things are defying our ability to describe them, jose, because we keep seeing new horrors befalling civilians. in this case, aide workers. >> how would you best describe what you witnessed in gaza? what are some of the things that i think -- when something like this happens, the kitchen is pausing some of the aid that they were bringing in.

how do you describe what you witnessed, what you saw there, just yesterday you left? >> in the north, tens of thousands -- the north is completely cut off from the world, jose. tens of thousands of civilians on the streets doing that universal symbol of hand to mouth. you can see in people's faces are gaunt, the level of hunger. i would go to a hospital and see paper thin children, mothers hunched over children who they don't know if they will make it. some of the malnourished children got to the hospital because an ambulance came and tried to make people from the rubble. cities have been more devastated than anything i have seen in my 20 years with the united nations. a level of suffering -- man-made suffering, of course. that's what these aide workers were trying to do, trying to alleviate. >> james, thank you very much for being with us.

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57 past the hour. in oklahoma, a city councilman with alleged ties to a white supremacist group is facing a recall election. they are deciding whether to keep him in office or opt for his opponent. good morning. remind us how we got here. >> reporter: well, we got here after a sitting city council member was elected in 2023. after his election, a group of progressive people came together and found all of this

information about him and his white nationalist ties. they were very committed. they came to city council meetings, they protested, and they informed the rest of the residents about the ties. they collected enough signatures to get a recall election. we are outside the polling place. we have seen people go in all day. they are deciding whether he stays or goes. i talked to the mayor about this last month. he told me that this election will rally the community and bring people together or it will be a stain on the community. we find out about 8:30 tonight which that is. >> thank you so very much. we will stay on this story. let us know how it turns out. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on social media and watch clips from our show. thank you for the privilege of your time. garrett haake picks up with more news right now.

right now on "andrea mitchell reports," new international criticism of the israeli military after seven aide workers with world central kitchen are killed by a strike on gaza late monday, including a dual american canadian citizen. >> these people are heroes. they run into the fire, not away from it. they show the best of what humanity has to offer when the going really gets tough. they have to be protected. also, former president trump back on the campaign trail in michigan and wisconsin today after posting that big $175 million bond stemming from the civil fraud ruling against him in new york. all as abortion becomes a top election issue in his new home state. we will bring you andrea's interview with a top british official on the partnership between the u.s. and uk to combat potential threats from