5 things to know for May 6: Campus protests, Gaza, Severe weather, Starliner, House Speaker

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Why do brown eggs cost more than white eggs? Contrary to popular belief, there is no difference in eggs’ nutritional value based on the color of their shell. Rather, brown eggs carry a premium because it costs more to keep hens well-fed to produce the brown variety. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. Graduation ceremonies took place at colleges and universities over the weekend as administrators grappled with pro-Palestinian protests. At the University of Michigan, banners with opposing messages flew overhead and protesters were removed during the school’s main graduation ceremony on Saturday. At the University of Southern California, which had canceled its main graduation event, police on Sunday cleared out another protest encampment. Meanwhile, some students at Princeton University launched a hunger strike, saying they would refrain from all food and drink — except water — until their demands were met. So far, no schools have agreed to fully divest from companies doing business in Israel, a demand student protesters have commonly rallied for across the country. Israel’s military has told people in eastern Rafah to “evacuate immediately,” a day after the country’s defense minister told troops in Gaza to expect “intense action” in the city “in the near future.” Residents and displaced people in eastern Rafah are in a state of panic after the Israeli military issued the evacuation order, according to reporters in the region. Aid agencies have been warning Israel against launching a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah, saying “any ground operation would mean more suffering and death” for the 1.2 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in and around the strip’s southernmost city, aid groups say. This comes as northern Gaza is already experiencing a “full-blown famine” which is rapidly spreading across the strip, the World Food Programme warned over the weekend. More than 25 million people in the South and Central Plains are under severe storm threats today. Search and rescue teams in parts of Texas are patrolling streets and neighborhoods for people stuck in the water after at least 200 people were rescued from homes and vehicles in Harris County. Rainfall amounts in the region have been huge over the past week, with some areas picking up two months’ worth of rain in five days. Dozens of tornadoes have hit from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast. Some areas of the state have been pounded with softball-sized hail and rain has fallen in East Texas in intense spurts, causing rivers to rise to levels not seen since the devastating floods of Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Boeing’s spaceflight program may reach a significant milestone today with the launch of its Starliner spacecraft carrying two NASA astronauts to orbit. The mission, dubbed the Crew Flight Test, could take off as soon as 10:34 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The occasion is a decade in the making — the culmination of Boeing’s efforts to develop a spacecraft worthy of ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Development hang-ups, test flight problems and other costly setbacks have slowed Starliner’s path to the launchpad for years. Live coverage of the event will stream on NASA channels beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET.