6 AM ET: Gaza famine warning, US abortions rise, crop frost danger & more

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

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Northern Gaza is about to enter a famine, as the US puts more pressure on Israel to get aid into the area. Abortions in the US are at their highest level in over a decade. Congress is once again facing a government shutdown deadline this Friday, but negotiations are getting somewhere. Freezing temperatures in the South could kill off crops. Plus, the most air polluted cities in the US and worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	Hello, from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, March 19th.
0:38.0	Famine is about to hit Northern Gaza.
0:41.0	That's the warning from a UN-backed report saying it could start any time
0:45.0	between now and May. It says all 2.2 million people in Gaza don't have enough food
0:51.0	with half of the population on the brink of starvation.
0:54.3	People are hungry, people will die, they are killing us for five kilograms of flour,
1:00.8	for God's sakes, look at us. President Joe Biden spoke about Gaza's dire situation
1:06.2	in a phone call yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, their first known
1:10.8	interaction in more than a month.
1:13.0	Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin,
1:15.0	will be heading to the Middle East this week for talks,
1:17.5	added that the US was underscoring Israel's need to protect civilians.
1:22.0	A hundred percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity.
1:28.3	That's the first time an entire population has been so classified.
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