Hey from CNN, I'm Josh and Shana, with the 5 things you need to know for Monday, August 11th. An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City last night killed 7 people, including 4 journalists from the Al Jazeera News Network. One of those include prominent correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who the Israeli military confirmed they targeted and killed, accusing him of leading a Hamas cell, an allegation he denied. Al Jazeera paid tribute to Al-Sharif in a statement, calling him, quote, one of Gaza's bravest journalists, and said the attack was a, quote, desperate attempt to silence voices.
It comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing growing international anger over his planned military takeover of Gaza City. UN officials said last night it would lead to, quote, another calamity in the enclave. Netanyahu gave a rare news conference with international media yesterday, where he defended the plan. I want to prolong the war, I want to end the war.
Given Hamas's refusal to lay down its arms, Israel has no choice but to finish the job. More than 10 million people across the Midwest are under flood alerts, as several states were pummeled by heavy rainfall over the weekend. Wisconsin is on track to break its daily rainfall record after a rain gauge in northwest Milwaukee recorded 14.5 inches of rain on Sunday. That's according to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
And here's the city mayor, Chevy Johnson. This bloody event is very significant. It's something that Milwaukee hasn't seen him in perhaps a decade or more. The National Weather Service says a flood warning remains in effect for Milwaukee until at least 10 a.m.
today. The Weather Prediction Center says parts of southern Kansas, western Missouri, and northern Oklahoma are under a level 3 or 4 risk of flooding through Monday morning, with a level 2 risk remaining in place for a large swath of the Midwest and central U.S., including areas in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Colorado. The attacks on CDC offices in Atlanta were targeted and deliberate. That's what the government agency's leaders told employees in a Zoom call over the weekend, following Friday shootings.
The gunman wore what appeared to be a surgical mask, and was armed with two handguns fired on at least four CDC buildings. One employee said he initially thought the man was carrying fishing gear. Then he sort of made a left, locked up a couple of steps from the CVS. Please back back down, that's when I realized that they were...
I think I saw two rifles, I can't be certain. Just for the light went green, he raised the rifle, sort of, had an angle and started firing into the CDC's campus. A police officer responding to the attack was killed in the shooting. While authorities have not announced a motive for the shooting, law enforcement sources told CNN that police had a theory that the gunman was either sick, or believed that he was sick, and blamed the illness on the COVID-19 vaccine.
The White House isn't ruling out Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky being in Alaska during President Donald Trump's meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week. That's according to two sources familiar with the matter, but so far Zelensky hasn't been named as a participant in the summit, which is set to take place on Friday. One White House official told CNN that anything involving Zelensky would likely happen after the Trump-booted meeting. They said the summit has come together very quickly, and the details are still in flux.
An exact location of the meeting hasn't been announced yet. Coming up, the president faces a huge legal battle today. The legal battle over President Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles goes to a California courtroom today. The case is over Trump's decision in June to deploy National Guard members to curb immigration raid protests, going against California Governor Gavin Newsom and local officials.
And if CNN's Julia Vargas-Jones explains, it's a crucial test of the president's power. The White House rarely used law that allows for a federalized regard during a rebellion, invasion, or if regular forces can't enforce the U.S. laws. California's lawsuit names not only Trump, but also Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth in the Defense Department, arguing that the president had no legal authority in asking the court to block future deployments without a governor's consent.
Now, Trump's lawyers say that the troops, along with a small number of Marines that were deployed, were limited to guarding federal property and personnel and never engaging in policing, and the president acted squarely within his powers. And that's all for now. Our next episode drops at 9 a.m. Eastern.