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good morning, welcome to cnn this morning, it's sunday, may everyone, i'm amara walker. thank you so much for joining us. and here's what we are watching for you to feet of rain in parts of texas have flooded homes, stranded people on rooms, and turned entire neighborhoods into rivers. and there is more radon the way the warnings from officials police, and protesters clashed during a pro-palestinian demonstration at the university of virginia. the school is now responding what we're hearing from administrators this is the time of year when students start preparing for college, but problems with this year's federal student aid application could keep some low-income students out of the classroom

this fall, what went wrong and what it means for students was by many measures, the economy is strong, but millions of people still struggle to feed their families. >> what's driving the increase? decent prices and what administrators to say can be done to fix the problem millions of people across texas or bracing for another round of punishing whether more than 7 million people are under flash flood warnings right now. uh, parts of southeast texas have seen almost two feet of rain over the past few days rivers and harris county, which includes houston, reached levels not seen since hurricane harvey in 2017. >> harris county officials issued mandatory evacuations for communities near the san jacinto river. no deaths or serious injuries have been reported, but more than 200 people were rescued from homes and vehicles the water was about this much below power lines. we had families that

thankfully had evacuated had heated our call. we've not heard of any deaths or serious injuries cnn's rosa flores, reports from one of houston's heavily damaged neighborhoods amara viktor. >> well, it's very emotional and just devastating for the individuals who are in the areas that are inundated by water, i want to show you around because this street literally goes to an area that they call river bottom. but of course right now, you really can't drive through this area because it's been swallowed by water. now, back there, there's probably eight to 15 people that have refused to evacuate. that's according to a neighbor, but take a look around. you you can see that there are some mobile homes out there and they can see also the water level here on this fence. and it really gives you a sense of the, the height of the water and the water level. and from

the trees you can see that some of the water has receded. that's the good news, but the bad news is, is that water is expected. i talked to the owner of this mobile home, stacey smith. she says that she has been trying to convince the 18 to 15 people who refuse to evacuated. she said that she's trying to find boats to go out there. now, authorities have stopped by that area to try to convince these it's individuals to evacuated, but they just don't want to evacuated. take a listen. the ones that didn't want to come right now, we're going to go back and get with a personal vote and we're going to go get everybody. >> we're not leaving nobody behind because they're like our family. they're like family down there now, what you hear in the background is an air bone. there are still rescues that are being conducted. you might see it in the background here now, to put this into perspective according to the

houston office of emergency management, only a few hundred homes are being impacted in the houston area at this time. now, that could increase those numbers could grow, but they are telling individuals who are in the evacuation zones too, please evacuate because they describe this weather event as life-threatening amara viktor rosa flores. thank you for that. let's bring in cnn meteorologist allison chinchar i mean, it's starting to see these pictures and how high these waters have reached in some of these neighborhoods. and there's more rain on the way. yeah. yes, there is. now the good news is there's light at the end of the tunnel. once we can get to tomorrow, we will go through a nice long dry stretch, but we do still have one more day that's today where they're expecting more rain so again, it's the last thing you want when this is images of what houston looks like. again, there's a box there. yes, you can see this image here. again homes. you can see it's up to the second stories in some of these areas. look at this, you've got flash flood warnings, flood watches,

all running. it's because of the ongoing this is the live radar. so this is all the rain that's moving through dallas and headed right for houston as we speak. and some of that is incredibly heavy rainfall that's going to be coming down now the flood watches are in effect for all that green area you see there it also does extend into portions of oklahoma and arkansas as well because they are also going to get some of that heavy rain. here's a look at it by new and again, that first wave starts to spread into areas of louisiana and arkansas. but then notice these two, you've got that secondary round that's going to fire up later on this afternoon and bring additional showers to the only good news is that finally, by this evening, we should finally start to see an end to the rain for this area, but it's it's the short-term that's the concern. again, take a look at this. this is the area at risk for excessive rainfall. that target point being right over houston and a lot of the northern suburbs? yes. part of that is because of the amount of rain we expect today, but also taking into consideration all of it that's already on the ground right now, so it's that twofold there. and also the

rivers, a lot of them are already many swollen, some to even record high levels. now we're adding more water onto you've got eight river gauges at major flood stage 17 at moderate and 31 at minor flood stage, then there's also the severe component now for tomorrow, this is where we're looking at for tomorrow again, that target point, right there in the center of the country, but it's extends from dallas willis up to sioux falls. notice too, though, that some of the areas that could see the severe storms tomorrow includes omaha and oklahoma city, the same areas that are still recovering from tornadoes that hit there just a little over a week ago. and then tuesday, we start to see that spread a little bit farther east as well. >> alison, thanks so much graduation ceremonies and college does across the country started this weekend as pro-palestinian protests continue during the university of michigan's main commencement, several pro-palestinian protesters were removed after they interrupted the ceremony saturday. a smallest ceremony was held on friday that was also interrupted. >> 25 people were arrested at the university of virginia

after places it's tucked down ten said it cleared out protesters yesterday. officers were seen in full riot gear pulling apart tense and detaining protesters. cnn's polo sandoval has more hey amara and victory. yesterday's class came after pro-palestinian demonstrators maintain a presence on the uva campus for days. in fact, they were even actively engaged in conversations with the university however, it was until those tense came up that the university then reached out to police to take section and this is what happened in this video. you can see officers advancing steadily on a group removing umbrellas and tents at one point, you'd and see some sort of smoke or missed up in the air. now, it's still unclear if any sort of chemical agent was deployed uva and cabin for gaza claiming that it was tear gassed but campus police not responding to our requests to verify that claim. the department of safety and security at the university did announce that it was an unlawful assembly on saturday

afternoon. a couple of hours later they declared the situation to be in their words, a stable university did respond to a request for comment from cnn's saying that it had informed the participants repeatedly that the pen policies are in place and that these sort of tents were set up, violated said policy, and that's what initially prompted the university to respond, but really wider picture. this just reminds us that uva is really just the latest university where tensions between protesters and the police have resulted in some confrontation. we do not have any reports of any injuries though, during the uva incident, viktor amara all right. >> polo sandoval. thank you. so more than 2000 people have been arrested across the country over the past two weeks during these campus protests. recent arrests on campuses like ucla have left students and faculty reeling from computation with law enforcement. >> cnn's camila bernal, talk the students and faculties still coping with the aftermath

it's really heavy emotionally hearing the sun and grenades you're hearing shots fired from the rubber bullets, and you don't know what's happening. >> these are the moments ucla students, sabrina ellis is still trying to process i was just trying to go minute by minute. my heat we're hurting from standing up for so long. i do think that the message of the encampment and the protest was important enough that i felt the risk was worth it. >> well, sabrina is not facing charges. the consequences for some protesters around the nation can be serious and include detainment, misdemeanors, school suspensions, and expulsions. >> and in the case of michael allen, a lecturer at washington university in st. louis paid administrative leave. there was arrested within three minutes of the police decision to push into the cabinet. >> he says he was not part of

the encampment, but was there to protest. >> the faculty member concerned about my students getting arrested that was the moment of his arrest. >> he says he's not facing criminal charges, but the detainment and suspension mean he's not allowed to set foot on the university pending an investigation he says he was told by the university that he cannot finish the semester. have contact with students, or attend commencement, or the university and effect is doing is actually impacting a lot more people than just those of us who were on campus on april 27. >> the university said they don't comment on personnel matters, but said that of the 100 people arrested, 23 were washington university students it's reflective of what authorities have announced around the country of the more than 2,100 arrested during the clearing of encampments. not all have been students at the

university of southern california cool officials say of the 93 arrested, 51, were students officials have said they'd to have started a disciplinary process for campus members who have violated their policies and the law some california legislators calling for even harsher punishments. >> there does need to be accountability. yeah. thanks some people need to be fired. they point to harassment anti-semitism, and unsafe campuses, and say that those convicted should be punished through the state budgeting process, losing funding for the university or grants. people doing the should have been arrested. they should be suspended, but there should also be other accountability for this action. but some of the students that were in the encampment and part of the more than 200 detained at ucla say that, well, they won't reveal future plans. >> this is far from over camila bernal reporting for us there. thank you so much, president biden will deliver the keynote address at the us holocaust

memorial museum, marking the days of remembrance tuesday, there has been a rise and anti-semitic anti-semitic incidents across the us. >> cnn's camila di shallots joins us now from washington. rather she traveled with the president wilmington, delaware. what is the president expected to say during this address president biden really wants to make it clear that he stands against anti-semitism. >> and viktor white house officials tell us that part of the speech will also focus on what his administration is doing to combat anti-semitism in this country, in the rise of it. now, this is coming at a really pivotal time just earlier than this week biden made the first remarks publicly about the college campus protests. and in part of his remarks, he really wanted to convey, but there's no place in america or on college campuses for threats of violence against jewish students. >> and so you see that even in remarks are the plants speech that he's going to give it a few days. >> he really wants to enforce

that message and make it clear that his administration is doing and taking a lot of steps to try to combat the rise of antisemitism in this country. viktor amara back to you, or camila, thanks so much still to come. efforts now happening to secure a ceasefire deal in gaza. and the release of israeli hostages. but a potential ground incursion of rafah is looming over the talks in cairo, plus a backlash over her book, a fundraising event featuring south dakota governor kristi know was canceled because of safety concerns after she revealed in a new book that she had killed her dog and high grocery bills. they are eating away at budgets how it's impacting the middle-class across the country. that's a hit florida man is hospitalized, infected with tracks. tonight. >> this became the bureau's number one crying to sell.

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optimistic. >> they are saying that significant progress has been made. other parties though, are being a little bit more cautious because we have been here before that were hit. it feels as though a deal is on the cusp and then something happens to make it not happen. >> this, point. we're waiting to hear from hamas. we have for heard from officials saying that they have a positive spirit going into this round of talks. but we're waiting to hear whether or not they're going to accept this proposal that was put on the table and egyptian lead proposal well over a week ago where up to around 33 hostages would be released for a temporary ceasefire and palestinian prisoners to be released as well. just the first stage of a couple of stages. so we're waiting to hear if that was acceptable. we know that the cia director is in cairo. we know that there's a hamas delegation that arrived on saturday. so this point, it's it's a bit of a waiting game to see whether or not it is going to be acceptable the us,

for example, secretary of state, antony blinken saying that it is a very generous offer. he believes on israel's part added is effectively the best offer that hamas will get. viktor amara and polo millions have displaced palestinians. they're obviously on edge as these israeli airstrikes have been targeting raffa for weeks now, but also there's the expectation that there will be this ground invasion. then netanyahu is doubling down on deal or no deal. what's the reality there on the ground? >> well, we've been hearing about this for some time, especially from the israeli side, that if a deal is not done, if the hostages not released, then this ground offensive will go ahead. as you say, the prime minister saying it will go ahead. whether or not there is a deal, making it sound as though it's imminent that there will be strikes and there will be this major ground offensive against the southern

border town of raffa, the reality on the ground is this is an area that has been under bombardment for months a grandmother kisses her young grandchildren the small bodies shirt, just one body bag four-year-old kareem and his two year-old sister, mona, were killed on tuesday by an israeli airstrike project. their answers, they are innocent the baby's went to bed last night and never woke up. our hearts are broken forever. the doctors tried to save mona, but could not the children's parents were seriously injured in the same strike but raffa was not home for these children they grandmother says, family would displaced multiple times by the israeli military, ending up in a tent on the southern border alongside hundreds of thousands of others who have nowhere else to go. speaking of the israeli military, she says, this is all they want. this is their goal.

>> the idf referred to a previous statement when asked about this strike, saying they are operating to dismantle hamas, adding quote, remaining in an active combat zone has inherent risks but despite months of threatening a major ground offensive and refer the military has not told civilians to evacuate for many here, there is no other option at the start of this week and raffa 22 people were killed. >> in an israeli airstrike including at least one infant and a toddler i definitely don't a one-year-old killed is carried in that ankles, arms he says, this is who they are targeting. this is the same raffa. they talk about it is the area the israeli military has pushed civilians towards for months. an area well over 1 million palestinians are barely surviving in food water, shelter are scarce. diseases rising but amid such misery, some adults are trying to remind children of their

previous life just seven months ago, where they could play and learn safely this volunteer teacher says, the children's mental state is distressed they have no stability they're distracted and they lose focus. so we work twice as hard to try and grab their attention and help them learn how ahmed says he's happy, he can play in study here he says, we lost our schools we lost everything attend school, may not see much but even this pretense of normality for these children will be lost if they're forced to move. yet again this potential ground offensive in rafah would not only be devastating for the palestinian civilians there, according to human rights groups, activists, group world leaders saying they don't want it to happen, but it's also the hub of the

humanity iranian official operation in gaza. this is where all the aid agencies are based. this is where one of the key land crossings into gaza is base. so it would have a devastating impact as well. aid agencies say on trying to feed the rest of the gaza strip victor amara di concession conditions there. paula hancocks. thank you for that report thank you, paula, still come after this fiery crash on thursday on i95, parts of the overpass connecticut has now been reopened we're here to get your side of the store fairs library, prostitution. >> why do we keep ending up here? >> get it right. this stuff. >> united states of scandal with jake tapper. now streaming on macs life, diabetes there's no slowing down. each day is a unique blend of people to see. and things to do that's why you choose glissando to help manage

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reopened around eight last night? >> gas tanker crashed their thursday at damage the bridge and created a traffic nightmare for now, southbound lanes, they'll stay closed for cleanup let's continue now to get some updates on what's happening in texas two feet of rain have soak the state their house and chinchar is here with us again. several cities are still under flood watches and warnings this morning. >> yeah. i mean, it's gonna make it difficult if you were hoping to get back into your homes or your businesses today to see what the damage was like today? >> probably is not going to be the best day for that. i would wait at least another day. think is due start to finally dry out once we get into monday and it's couldn't come early enough. again, you can see very heavy rain moving across texas right now, you've got that big heavy line starting to make its way into the the eastern dallas suburbs, but also now starting to spread into the western suburbs of houston and keep in mind that red and orange that is incredibly intense, heavy rainfall. so you're going to talk, it's going to be a lot of rain in a very short period of time, you've got flash flood warnings out and even flood watches. those flood watches do extend farther north into oklahoma as well as

arkansas. so we do have a great bigger threat here. it's not just going to be the houston area that has the potential for flooding. all of these areas have the potential for that excessive rainfall today that could lead to local flooding the biggest concern, yes. however, is going to be houston and the northern suburbs, just simply because of the amount of rain that's already on the ground. and now we're going to be adding to it by sticking at least a couple more inches on top top of that here, look that first round goes through this morning, then spreads eastward. the second round comes in this afternoon especially into central and eastern texas. that's also where we have the potential for some severe thunderstorms including not just the heavy brain, but also damaging winds, as well as tornadoes, alison, thanks, processing problems have led to major delays with this here's federal student aid form coming up. >> how this impacts a lot of high school seniors as they tried to make these college choices now they're shooting pepper spray into the crowd.

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major delays. the head of the federal student aid office announced last month that he was stepping down. let's talk about this now with ceo of the national college attainment network, kim cook. kim, good morning to you first, what is causing this problem we understand that there are glitches, but is that the simple definition? it's a computer issue good morning to you the cause of these these these glitches and changes is that we're implementing simplification to the forum. >> i know it doesn't feel so simple at the moment but we're implementing legislative change that brings in fewer questions and changes the formula by doing it back-end transfer with the irs for income information to the free application for student aid and i know that you testified before congress last month and you warned of a potentially catastrophic drop in college enrollments. >> what kind of drop? >> i have we seen at least in

terms of new fasfa applications that have been submitted. and how are you helping students navigate all these issues? >> right through april 26? >> fafsa completion for high school seniors is down 35.6%. i'm sorry, down 24.3% and 35.6% of high school seniors have completed a fafsa. as you point out, that's way down from last year and down significantly more, 32.7 for seniors from high schools with high enrollment of minority students or students from low-income backgrounds we, in the college access community with high school counselors and with our partners and financial aid are moving mountains to help students at this point, as you point out, may 1st is typically the deadline we're clearly going to have to work later into this season probably past high school graduations through the summer towards fall enrollment. >> and kim, let's go along this and pull this thread a little more. those low-income

students who are talented, who are smart if they don't get these aid that may mean that they can't get in or go to a school. and if you take that year off, it's harder to go back the next year your concerns for those students specifically who without this crucial aid, otherwise may not be going to a college you're absolutely right. the numbers are lowest for the students who need for whom aid matters the most we continue to work with those students to message that aid is available, to message that despite the glitches and delays, the system is working now. >> and that that high school counselors acts as advisers. and those in the financial aid offices where they've been accepted are eager to help them. so we encourage students to ask for help, ask for extensions to make those decisions with the biggest decision we want to make. sure is that students decide where to attend not if to attend as

you point out? >> there are these universities extending their deadlines because a lot of these students, i mean, they should know where they're going to college by now, right. >> and know exactly how they'll be paying for it. i mean, i remember those days really depending on the pell grant and the work-study program are the university's cooperating and helping out as well absolutely many have extended their deadlines some to may 15, some di june 1st, and some farther out the biggest message here is that if you are a student, whether or not there's been an official extension of the deadline? please call an ask for that. if you need more time to make the decision to get your aid package please call and asked for that extension, even if it hasn't been officially extended. >> i also read that some applications have to be reprocessed or had to be reprocessed. is there a scenario in which there were students who made decisions based on a level of financial aid they thought they'd have

an after reprocessing. they really don't have that much money coming in i can see where that would be a great concern. the good news is that most reprocessing resulted in higher eligibility for aid for students but there is still so much uncertainty that students are feeling high school graduations are starting many don't have the aid offers they need to make the decision that we encourage them to make an informed way. so that's why i think will continue to be working on this after graduation and through the summer towards fall enrollment. >> i hope this works out for next year, at least, right. i mean, that this was supposed to be a simplified process for the fast slab locations. and clearly it was nothing but that kim cook good to have you. thank you so much. thank you, kim thank you. still to come a look at how the rising prices of food are impacting middle-income americans across the country every weekday morning, cnn's five things has what you need to get going with your day. it's the five essential stories of the morning in five minutes or less

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on what you can get? yeah. right here. you get it says right here. oh, thanks. so get one of each carla has been coming to this food bank and enfield, connecticut where everything is free since 2021. >> yeah. so here that's the year she had a heart attack lost her job and could no longer afford the basics. what was happening before you started coming here? >> i was borrowing getting money from family members. >> so i thought found out about this place and i'm like, oh, let's try it and it was great. >> it's saved me. >> every customer has a different story. >> many, once considered themselves middle-class or even well-off. >> though inflation is subsiding groceries now cost 33% cent more than they did at the start of the pandemic. today, more than one in ten americans live in a household where there was not enough to eat in the past week, according to the census bureau, when i first came here, i was the higher class going down to the lower class. >> and what's it like? >> i would actually get sick i

would feel a little you feel physically sick that you had to rely on shelter? yeah. >> i really do. >> after working in maintenance at a group home for several decades, skip herring never expected to find himself teetering on the edge of hunger i stopped for working at 72. i had two and we have a little notch vague. i mean, we didn't have a lot of nasty, but we have a lower one slowly or funds and the new one going down, we can't get food stamps just a little bit higher. >> i say. so you're too well off food stamps. yeah. you can't afford enough food for your eye what would you like in sex? yeah. >> i grew up in poor. i didn't want my kids to grow up like that, so i wanted to make sure that it worked two jobs and i would work seven days. >> we worked seven days make ends meet, or you're five children? yeah. come pi worked at hours a week? >> then he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy as his health declined. so did his

work hours and his income. >> i still do i still work two jobs now, have you been surprised? >> prize by any of the fellow customers? >> i've seen some people here that have been financially well-off, like myself, but, you know struggle's real. everybody's trying to make ends meet. >> the people that we're seeing in our lines. the super majority of them that are not senior citizens are working. they have jobs, they sometimes have two jobs jason, jakob, all ski runs, connecticut food, share a massive food bank. the distributes free food to 600 food pantries across the state. >> one of the tough things that we have here in connecticut is that we are the richest state in the country but there's also a tremendous amount of poverty jackie belsky says the need for food here has never been greater. 10% of households in the state are on snap. the government program, formerly known as food stamps. >> i've been here seven years and this is definitely the most difficult time in that seven years to explain that, why is this most difficult time? yeah. i think that during the pandemic there was obviously a tremendous amount of need. you

had pandemic era, three food coming from the federal government, unemployment benefits, moratorium on student loan payments, moratorium on housing payments, all of those things have gone away. >> those pandemic benefits, which congress led expire had pushed poverty to its lowest level on record since unemployment has gone down and things have improved. why is the need the same? what really is happening is that the cost of living in general has gone up. specifically the cost of groceries have gone up no one knows this better than molly devaney her family has been in the grocery store business for 90 years. it's more challenging to do business today than ever before. is that right? it is wise. >> the struggle of pricing, the cost of products, the cost of labor, everything is going through the roof and is this a more emotional tongue? >> because of this? >> yeah, i think so because people are struggling, you see them struggling and you want to help. and when you can't lower the price, it's, it's heartbreaking danny told us the

grocery store owners have little control over costs, but she does try to educate her customers to shop more wisely. >> i'm going to look at what is you let $3.12 per court? >> yep. >> and this is a 69 of course, being cost-conscious will not solve the country's hunger problem. >> we absolutely have the ability here in the united states, south hunger, i'll tell you two things that congress could do tomorrow. they can increase the eligibility for snap and they can pass a child tax credit. >> it worked during the pandemic to help keep people out of poverty and it would work again for now, compile skip and karla plan to keep relying on the generosity of this food bank. i think in the end it's not about pride, it's about what you need mary, such an important story, these are people who are working. >> these are people who had savings, just the prices for them they've gotten out of reach. allison camera, radha, thank you so much for sharing that story is still to come to

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first stop, kangaroo island, which tens of thousands of kangaroos and koalas call home ivan victor and this was a once in a career kind of assignment, a chance to go to australia and explore and see this spectacular country. and yes along the way, i did get to cuddle a koala the small team at this wildlife center helps raise some of these orphaned animals by hand why they're ready including pearl, who seems pretty fond of humans is this a little bit like holding a child, but pretty fuzzy kid and the other part about this is the for a really soft there are few things sweeter than cuddling a koala my teammates couldn't wait for their turn. let's cute but then we learned

the real reason parolees here victor and amara, that koala, pearl was actually a survivor of the 2020 black summer fires. these were horrific forest fires that broke records across long stretches of australia on the island that i was visiting kangaroo island, half of that island burned down. >> it also decimated the koala population. >> there. and perl that little koala actually survived with human assistance what i saw during my journey is that australia is a country and a continent that's very much on the front lines of climate change the natural disasters that some areas are prone to horrific fires or floods. they're getting more and more unpredictable and more extreme. and another phenomenon we witnessed my team and i were the beginnings of what turned out to be a mass bleaching

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