Hello from CNN, I'm Afomadikay with the five things you need to know for Friday March 1st.

We start with breaking news.

President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. will air drop humanitarian aid and supplies into

Gaza.

We'll have more information on this developing story in our upcoming episode at 6 PM

Eastern.

The morning session of a hearing in the classified documents case involving

former President Donald Trump and two other defendants ended without the judge

deciding a trial date. The trial is set to start in May, but special prosecutors requested that it start on July 8th, while defense attorneys are eyeing August and September start dates.

Today the judge picked apart the proposed trial schedules from both sides and has stressed that there needs to be quote some space in the schedule leading up to the trial to quote allow flexibility.

At least 45 people have been detained across Russia for paying respects to the late Alexei Navalny, according to a monitoring group.

The Russian opposition leader was laid to rest at a Moscow cemetery today two weeks after Russian prison officials

announced his death. He died in an Arctic penal colony and Western leaders

including US President Joe Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for his death though the Kremlin denies it. President other foreign diplomats. Though Nervani's widow didn't attend the funeral for

security reasons, she posted a video thanking her late husband quote for 26 years

of absolute happiness. CNN's Clarissa Ward spoke about the slogans

Warners chanted at the funeral.

A few people saying Russia without Putin, many people chanting his name,

other people were saying, we are not afraid because you were not afraid and that's a play on a slogan that

Nivani himself used you would say yanniboyus yvini be itis I'm not afraid and

you shouldn't be afraid.

The deadly wildfires burning through the Texas panhandle could intensify as

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