Transcript for New US embassy opens in Jerusalem

Overseas to Jerusalem where the new U.S. Embassy is opening this morning on Israel's 70th anniversary. Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are there as protests erupt at the border. Our chief foreign correspondent Terry Moran is there in Jerusalem with the latest. Good morning, Terry. Of course, this marks an had is toric change in U.S. Policy. Reporter: It sure does, robin. Good morning, it is a momentous day here. So many powerful emotions. There's history and jubilation and violence in the air a in just a couple of hours that opening ceremony for the new American embassy here, ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner leading the U.S. Delegation. President trump will speak via a video statement and the president's decision to move the embassy here breaks with decades of American foreign policy, the idea was always that the U.S. Would remain neutral on that incredibly tense issue of Jerusalem's final status while Palestinians and Israelis negotiated through their conflict but president trump ended all that and the reason it's so tense is that both sides claim this city as their capital. Right now Israelis, most of them are just thrilled about it. They're proud. They think it's abouttime. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is triumphant. The Palestinians, however, this is another hard blow to their fading hopes. The Palestinian government of prime minister Mahmoud abbas has actually cut off all contacts with the U.S. For weeks now. Robin. We see the video, of course, Terry and the number of Palestinians that are protesting. We're already hearing reports of numerous injuries. Reporter: It's an extraordinary scene along the gazan border. Hamas call Ford a mass demonstration. Apparently tens of thousands of Palestinians moving towards that border. Hamas says tear down the fence. Many have been killed. Many injured. This represents the culmination of weeks of protest at that border. 40 have already been killed this those weeks and it looks like today is going to be a very violent day. Historic and happy in Israel. Violent and tragic on the other side of the border. Two different scenes. All right, Terry, thanks very much.

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