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Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, May 16th.

A US-built floating pier has been anchored in Gaza this morning to get more humanitarian aid into the area.

Trucks will start unloading the aid in the next few days, and a U.S. official says there are

hundreds of tons of aid ready to be delivered, but there are still challenges to get it to the people who need it.

Here comes as President Joe Biden has withheld at least one weapons shipment from Israel, because of concerns

over how they might be used in the city of Raffa.

He's had some backlash against that from House Republicans, who are expected to vote on a bill today

to force the delivery of defensive weapons to Israel, but that's not likely to pass the Senate.

Michael Cohen will be back on the stand in New York today in his old boss, former President

Donald Trump's hush money trial.

The defense is expected to continue its cross-examination and

CNN's Paula Reed has a preview of what they might ask today. I've learned that

they are going to now start focusing on what he said during his direct examination and his previous

statements about this case. They're going to zero in on some new things that he

revealed while he was on the stand and also look at some statements that they believe have been

inconsistent in addition to trying to challenge his memory of conversations he

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