tonight on three, 60 only on cnn, our clarissa ward has -- more careful about civilian lives as he goes after hamas. also, tonight will rudy giuliani have to pay $48 million, or even more for the -- has election lies did to a moment daughter who did there come. violence plus iraq since fast, approaching how republicans are weighing their choices, or in some cases changing them. cnn's john king joins us in the latest on our election series. -- we begin with a close-up and unfiltered look at life and death in southern gaza. our clarissa ward and her team or the first many western media outlets to go there without an idf escort. now reporting airs with national security adviser jake sullivan and israel holding what he describes tonight, as,

quote intense and it detailed conversation with prime netanyahu and his war cabinet. a conversation centered on, among other things, shifting to lower intensity, more surgical strikes, something that president biden underscored today. >> i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives, not stop going after hamas but being more careful. >> defense echo terri lloyd austin adds to the region on saturday for more talks with top israelis from leaders from qatar and bahrain, as well as a chance to meet some of the american troops on the point there. in a moment, we'll be joined by cnn military analyst and retired four star general, wesley clark, to talk about the biden administration's message for israel as well as new reporting, which cnn broke. nearly half of israeli munitions dropped on gaza are the non-person variety. first, clarissa ward with her reporting, to which, we warn you, the viewers, it's graphic. clarissa, what do you see? >> we have been trying for weeks and weeks and weeks to

get into gaza, like everyone, we have relied on the courageous and extraordinary reporting and journalists in gaza who have been dying in record numbers. on tuesday, we were finally able to get access into gaza into the southern part of the gaza strip. this is now where israel has intensified its military operations that is exacerbating the humanitarian catastrophe that is playing out there and leading to record number of civilian casualties, as we saw for ourselves. >> reporter: you don't have to search for tragedy in gaza. it finds you on every street, strewn with trash and stagnant water, desolate and foreboding. >> so, we just crossed the border into southern gaza.

this is the first time that we have been able to get inside gaza, since october 7th. we are now driving to a field hospital that has been set up by the uae. >> reporter: up until now, israel and egypt have made access for international journalists next to impossible. you can see why. >> since october 7th, the israeli military says it has hit gaza with more than 22,000 strikes. that, by far, surpasses anything we have seen in modern or fair in terms of intensity and ferocity. we, really, honestly are getting a glimpse of it here. >> reporter: the spy israel's heavy bombardment, there are people out on the streets. a crowd outside a bakery, where else can they go? nowhere is safe in gaza. >> it used to be a stadium -- >> reporter: arriving at the emerati field hospital, we meet dr. abdullah -- no sooner does our tour begin when -- [sound of artillery] >> this is what you hear all the time now? >> yes, at least, 20 times a day.

>> at least 20 times a day? >> maybe more, sometimes. i think we got used to it. >> reporter: one thing none of the doctors here have gotten used to is the number of children that they are treating. the u. n. estimates that some two thirds of those killed in this round of the conflict have been women and children. eight-year-old -- was lucky enough to survive a strike on her family home that crushed her femur but spared her immediate family. [speaking in a non-english language] >> she says she's not in pain, so that's good. [speaking in a non-english language] >> reporter: her mother was out when it happened. i went to the hospital to look for her, she says. i came here, and i found her here. the doctors told me what happened with her, and i made sure that she is okay, thank god. [speaking in a non-english language] >> reporter: they bombed the house in front of us and then our home, the young growth us.

i was sitting next to my grandfather, and my grandfather out me. my uncle is fine, so he was the one that took us out. >> that's it, don't cry. >> reporter: but the doctor says it is hard not to. >> i work with all the people, but the children, it's something touching you. >> reporter: touches your heart and test your faith in humanity, as we leave the girl, the doctor -- comes back with news of casualties arriving from the strikes just ten minutes earlier. >> two amputated young male from just the bombing -- >> from the cluster that we just heard? the bombing that we just heard? >> that's my understanding. >> reporter: a man and a 13 -year-old boy are wheeled in, both missing limbs, both in a perilous state. what's your name? what's your name, the doctor ask. the notes provided by the paramedics are smeared with blood, a tourniquet improvised

with a bandage -- [crying] >> reporter: since the field hospital opened less than two weeks ago, it's been inundated with patients, 130 of their 150 beds are already full. >> so let me understand this, you are now basically the only hospital around that still has some beds? >> i guess so, yes. i am very sure of that. if they are telling me, one of the hospitals with the capacity of 200, they are accommodating 1000 are now. that extra hospital, i am not sure it is 200, maybe 400 to 500 patients. so, at one location, he called me. a patient in each bed, please take any attempts. and as many as you can. >> we have been here 15 minutes, and this is already what we are seeing. >> you heard it, you see it. >> reporter: in every bed, another cut brunch, less than two years old, a mere still does not know that his parents

siblings were killed in the strike that disfigured him. yesterday, he saw a nurse that looked like his father, his aunt tells us. he kept screaming, that, that, that. amir is still too young to comprehend the horror all around him. but 20-year-old llama understands all too well. ten weeks ago, she was studying engineering at university, helping to plan her sister's wedding. today, she is recovering from the amputation of her right leg. her family followed israeli military orders and fled from the north to the south, the house where they were seeking shelter was hit in the strike. the world is not listening to us, she says. nobody cares about us. we have been dying for over 60 days, dying from the bombing and nobody did anything.

words of condemnation delivered in a thin grasp -- [crying] but does anybody hear them? like grassley, aleppo and marial, gossip will go down as one of the great horrors of modern warfare. it's getting dark, time for us to leave. a privilege that the vast majority of gazans did not have. our brief glimpse from a window onto is ending, as a new chapter in the ugly conflict unfolds. >> clarissa, in terms of their supplies, it seems like the hospital is well stocked. is that because it is a uae hospital? >> that's right, it's definitely not the norm inside gaza, but it is run by the uae. the uae has normalized relations with israel. they have an easier time than most, in terms of trying to get the supplies in. they are also close to the border. it's tough for them to,

anderson. we talked to the doctors about the number of patients that they have who are in such a serious situation, that they really need to be evacuated to egypt. every day, they are petitioning the israelis for mission to get them out. sometimes, they're able to do that. sometimes, they have to wait days and days. sometimes, they never get that permission. we talk to them about a 19 -year-old boy, who lost both of his likes. the doctor says they are not sure that he's going to make it, and there is no guarantee as the one or if you will get that much needed permission to get out of gaza. >> clarissa, you've dedicated much of your life to going to conflict zones, and you have been in a lot of horrific situations. i am wondering, how this -- i don't want to compare one tragedy to another, but with

that out to you here? >> i mean, it's as horrifying as anything that i have seen, anderson, honestly, because of the high number of civilian casualties and, in particular, children. because of the fact that these people don't have anywhere that they can go, the idf started bombing them more. they started bombing south. now, they are bombing south. they were told to move to central gaza. people can't move around, it's too dangerous. they don't have fuels for their cars. they don't have water, don't have fuel, don't have medicine, and they are literally sealed into this tiny strip, which is incredibly densely populated, 1. 9 million people displaced,

two thirds of the casualties are civilians. that is so striking, and no matter how long you cover conflict for, you never get used to seeing things like this. you never get used to use talking to a little boy, less than two years old, who does not even know that his parents have been killed, and arson. it's something that sticks with you and stays with the. you can understand why some of people around the world feel a sense of despair and impotence and being unable to put a stop to this, anderson. >> that little boy who we are showing now, played with a little car, like every kid everywhere around the planet

does, and yet, his life is not like most little kids. clarissa, thank you. for more of what we saw as well as the growing american pressure on israel to shift tactics, we're joined now by cnn military analyst, retired general, wesley clark. general clark, i want to talk about -- first, as someone who has seen a lot of war, commanded troops and seen the impact on civilians, what do you make of what we are seeing in gaza? >> it's certainly a humanitarian tragedy. it's a terrible dilemma for the israelis. it was brought on by hamas first, by starting the engagement. these people have been out

there because egypt would not let them leave. israel would not let them into the now gap somewhere. they're pent-up there, and israel is the torment to finish the job gets hamas. hamas could surrender. this could stop some mauro. we have to remember that hamas is not just a group of terrorists, it's also a government of gaza and has been. it's used population as a weapon of war to embarrass, intimidate the israelis and put global pressure on the united states and others trying to stop this conflict. >> cnn's reporting, according to sources, who have seen a u. s. intelligence assessment, say that nearly half of air to ground used in gaza have been

unguarded or done bombed since the october 7th attacks, not precision weapons. is that surprising to it all? do they not have an arsenal of sophisticated or precision weapons? >> no, they do have a certain number of these precision weapons. they also have a certain number of them bombs. the idea was to use the appropriate weapon for the target. so if you have a precise target

that you need a very precise strike on, then you can use a laser guided or gps guided bomb on the target. if the enemy is in a building, a big building, and do you think there is no survey engine at that building, you can do a dive bomb on it with a so-called thumb bomb and get within 20 to 30 feet. if you don't have any anti aircraft to speak of, going against the israeli aircrafts, they come in, they are 3000 3000 feet, they come in right on the target, they lineup until they release the bomb. the bomb falls dynamically. it's not as accurate, but it's not like carpet bombing, anderson, with a huge loss of territory. >> who makes a decision, in any war.

look, terrible decisions, cold calculus is made about a target, the potential value of that target, eliminating that target and the potential loss of civilian life in an attempt on that target. are those decisions made individually by commanders in the moment? there is not some central office that is making these decisions? i am wondering, is anyone looking at the big picture, or is each individual act is assessed for, okay, we think that this target is worth this, therefore, we are willing to strike it and, we assess the casualties will be, comments to

devalue at the top? it? >> usually, it's a combination, anderson. you get into feeds, you look at where the enemy is. he then look at what the collateral damage might be, the surveillance of the buildings. you have no strikes zones on the hospitals, churches and so forth, and then, you assign the mission to an aircraft with the right order nuts. in addition to those preplanned, you are going to have the on-call missions, so there are contact forgetting fire from a certain building, can you identify, do you have a laser designator? put it on the building, give its quarter nuts and the pilots overhead. maybe he has the right weapon, maybe does not have quite the right weapon, but there is a certain urgency to it. he rose on the target anyway. it's a combination of these things, but i cannot imagine, anderson, that the israelis are not doing everything that they can do, to commence with their interpretation of their mission, to reduce these casualties. they are getting so much pressure from all over the world, plus from the united states, i am sure that they are doing what they can. but they have said that they are going to eliminate hamas. >> a senior u.s. official told cnn that the hamas leadeder in gaza, yasisin war, quouote, days are nunumbered. and sisince the amamerican weree kikilled in ththe attacks,s, ths hahat does level l of cooperarat ha>> i sosome

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as jurors resume deliberations tomorrow morning about how much of rudy giuliani should pay for ruining the lives of two women, could run into the tens of millions of dollars. a judge has already ruled that he made false and defamatory public statements about ruby freeman and her daughter shaye moss, who served as a volunteer election worker in georgia and the 2020 vote recount.

as the penalty phase began earlier this week, he repeated those falsehoods on camera. >> of course i don't regret it. i told the truth. and they were engaged in a changing votes. >> and they weren't. there weren't evidence of that. he also promised the back of the claims, which again, a judge has already ruled are false and defamatory. the surprise, america's former mayor never did. nor did he take the stand as expected today. for more on what the day and what the jury is considering, let's go to kaitlan polantz outside the federal courthouse in washington. what more happened in court today to this guy? >> rudy giuliani, he did not take the stand, but rudy giuliani's words are exactly what this jury asked to weigh now one day decide how much he should be paying ruby freeman

and shaye moss, these two election workers for their emotional stress, for the reputational damage that he has done to their good names, and for the amount to pay to be punished for what he said. and court today, we essentially heard closing arguments. that was the fault of the day, before the jury deliberated for about three and a half hours and was clearly getting to the needy gritty of the numbers. they looked at how an expert had the time in $48 million have determined he should pay. one of the lawyers for ruby freeman and shaye moss, michael got lee, what he argued to the jury is that rudy giuliani is a powerful person. he was an attorney for so long, he was so successful. he should have known better than what he had been doing after the election. he should know what definition is, and he should have known that this was a sustained campaign of lies that would deeply earth them, that he was using his platform and orchestrating this in a way

that was totally unfair and inappropriate for the women. this is one thing that got the set to the jury in his closing argument. he thought they were ordinary and expendable. he did not see them as human beings. it's dangerous for them to be ruby freeman or sheamus because of giuliani and his coconspirators. anderson, i should add that the coconspirators in this case are the trump campaign, trump lawyers and donald trump himself. >> so, giuliani told he would not testify today, which is probably the only smart move he's made in areas. but ruby freeman and shaye moss did testify at the trial. can you remind us what they said, because again, these are volunteers? >> they were. ruby freeman was a volunteer, and samos was a paid, georgia election worker who took quite a lot of pride in doing that job. that is what she told the jury.

they both took the stand over the course of the week, as the jury listened to them. not only did they speak about what they did after the 2020 election and how their names have been ruined, how they fear for their lives, how they are afraid to introduce themselves to others, they also, when each were on the stand, their voice mails, a chilling voice mails, racist voicemails and text messages arrived and played for them. and then their lawyers had them react to them. they described how scared they were, how they want to the police, how they were advised by the fbi to flee their home. and how terrifying it was not just in the days after the 2020 election, as rudy giuliani and others were saying these things about them, but in the year since, that they still live in

fear, that they still live with depression, anxiety, that they still are in a state of concern over being able to use their names to introduce themselves, even to their neighbors. so, that is what the jury is going to be weighing. we do expect them to come back sharp at 9 am tomorrow morning. they will be continuing deliberations. there is a lot at stake for rudy giuliani, potentially an astronomical sum that he will have to pay these women. >> katelyn polantz, thank you so much. reaction out to a former house of the january six committee, who heard great detail from ruby freeman and shaye moss. republican congressman adam kinzinger joins us. what does it say to you that rudy giuliani, a, the night testifying before this case went to the jury, which makes sense from a legal standpoint, even though he and his attorney previously said that he would? >> this is what rudy giuliani does. this is what, frankly, donald trump does, and this is what others in the trump camp do,

which is they say they have evidence. rudy giuliani is like, what is your evidence? he's like, stay tuned. how many times have we've been told to stay tuned. what happens is, the people here that -- that here that, they believe rudy as evidence, they don't see a follow-up about him not testifying or saying anything. i think it goes to show, obviously, he's a pathological liar, or he is insane. i am not quite sure he's insane. i just think that it's important to know at this moment, because i was thinking about this in the lead up here,

how far this guy has fallen. >> it's incredible. >> it is. i think any other day, when he will die someday, they would have named every elementary school and every town rudy giuliani elementary. he threw that all away, it's sad. >> again, i want to play the clip of giuliani outside the court on monday, attacking, again, ruby freeman and shaye moss, even though his lawyer acknowledged in court that they had suffered harm. >> but everything i said about them is true. >> do you regret what you did to -- >> of course, i don't regret it, i told the truth. they were engaged in changing votes. >> there is no proof of that.

>> you are darn right it is. stay tuned. >> i would say it's embarrassing, but he has no shame. it's certainly not embarrassing for him. >> no, -- it's one for him. that was the whole state tuned in the end. how many times has the my pillow guy, has donald trump set, as rudy giuliani said, stay tuned, it's coming. we're on the edge of it. it's just a life. the other thing that is sad, it's rudy and others, it's how they consistently punch down. you pick two innocent women who probably got paid almost

nothing to count votes that they. you pick them, why? let's be honest, because they are black. that is when rudy giuliani was talking about, they pass the thumb drive like it was a vial of crack or whatever he said. that's an interesting thing to say. as she mentioned, i think it was shade that said, they are passing ginger mints to each other. what they do, this is a fascist way, frankly, of intimidating political opponents. are you going to go? who will want to go we're counting votes in the future, if you think that you get called out like this? this is what we have to be

aware of. this is an attempt to scare people, and rudy giuliani should pay a huge some. >> i remember the testimony before the january six committee, which you are on. i want to play a bit of miss moss's testimony, which describes the impact that these lies have had on her life. >> it's turned my life upside down. i no longer give up my business card. i don't transfer calls. i don't want anyone knowing my name, don't want anyone going with my mom, because she might yell my name out in the middle of the grocery aisle or something. i don't go to the grocery store at all. i have not been anywhere at all. . >> and a, people hear that, and plenty of people continue to believe the lies about the 2020 election being stolen. >> at some point, people have

to look at their heart and the chairman will kind of human beings they want to be. i can't answer that for you. but if you want to be the kind of human being that thinks it's funny or it's okay that to innocent women feel like they can't go to the grocery store, and i understand that feeling. i chose what i did on january six. i know some of the impacts that were to come. they did not do anything but decide to serve their community, and their names are probably better recognized than mine, almost as recognized as yours, anderson. they did not ask for that. they just wanted to serve their country, and they have to live with the stress of life. most americans, probably when they see them, will thank them, call them heroic, as they are. but there is a certain number of americans out there that have been convinced, that truly believe, they are part of this satanic plot to overthrow god's chosen one, donald trump. it's just such a twisted logic. it's sad, as americans, we had to think about what kind of humans and countries want to be. >> again, your point about him, you know, he will one day be found in some hotel room somewhere, dead on a f this>> y n th going how will i be remembei am ahe he can if- bhe h are >>yo s gi r p the cnext a fivhe tal eawas supported former p the quesit is ah

tonight, we have a new estimate of two 60 all over the map, with john king, of the iowa caucuses, about a month away. who impacted the state to revisit republican voters that he spoke with a month ago, support with the former president trump in the state. in the latest nbc news des moines register iowa pole, he is at 51%, governor desantis at 19, nikki haley at 16. desantis has gained three points in september. healy is unchanged. given that, do the voters that john spoke with the snow support the former president? john, what did you find out?

>> anderson, the president support is strong. you see it, here it and feel it. he's above 50% in the iowa pole, the latest one, which is significant. it's the first time he's been above 50%. but, about half of the party won for someone other than trump. this is anecdotal reporting, that data or science, but the voter group that we have been following for five months now, we do not, us i would say, a shift towards daily among republican women now. could she build on it? they only have 32 days to try to pull it off as a surprise? >> reporter: low rolling hills a southwest iowa, shannon's happy place. >> i sit out here with my cows and take a breath, everything goes back to the way that it should be. >> reporter: a family cattle farmer for 25 years, two time donald trump voter. >> i love what he did for small businesses.

i love what he did for agriculture. i wish he could have done it a little bit quieter. >> reporter: the loud part is why shannon is shopping. >> because she was not as respectful as i think our president should be, because he did not bring us together. >> reporter: shopping for a conservative who does not scare her liberal friends. >> i would lean towards haley. i think that in the face of, people calling names, in the face of people yelling and screaming in front of her, she held h her composusure. i think k that she h has the demeanor and the life experience, that is more connected to actual americans. >> reporter: trump's support is deep here, especially in rural counties, like ringwald. if there is the beaten i was surprised, republican women will power it. this is priscilla making christmas crafts with friends in sioux city.

five months ago, when we first spoke, she was leading towards vivek ramaswamy. >> i really get the feeling that he is brilliant, he's got energy, he is young -- >> reporter: now, she urges friends to haley. >> you talk to me, the debates don't make a big difference, but the kind of this time. >> reporter: she caucus for trump back in 2016, now, she sees something else taking shape. >> i think that they are underestimating the people who don't want the chaos anymore. >> reporter: there is a lot of that in the des moines suburbs. >> we want to turn a chapter, go to something new. >> reporter: betsy hopes at the iowa uses its first in the nation vote to elevate one storm trump alternative. this is what she told us back in august. >> i do find, i am pulled towards desantis. >> reporter: but this is now. >> i am likely a nikki haley caucus are. >> reporter: she says her brother and parents are also leaning haley, but she is not final just yet. >> if people were going to consolidate, i would go with the scent this, that's not what i am seeing so far.

the suburbs out here, you're likely going to see a lot of, it is going to be desantis haley. >> reporter: if it is desantis nearly, trump wins, does any? >> he does. that is a question, right? how do you get people to consolidate. >> reporter: joscelyn is another mom and entrepreneur that hopes at the suburbs sunday message. >> i see nikki haley helping us identify back with what our culture is, what our vision is and what our mission is, as a united states, not a divided states. >> reporter: but as taylor tries to recruit friends, there is a lesson about trump's resilience. >> i really like nikki haley, or i really like ron desantis, but when it comes down to the voting and the primary, or probably vote for trump,

because we'll get it anyways. that really frustrated me, the influence of the louder voices is having an impact on people. >> reporter: this is chris's big change, midwest solar is growing, they need a new office, some candidate though, some confidence. >> you've got to have thick skin to before trump today. i think that those people that say -- >> when you hear desantis say, we got to -- nikki haley say, no drama, no chaos, time for a new generation of leadership, you say, there are 30 through 35 points behind trump -- >> i would say that they are the chaos, that they should stand down and support trump. >> mud does not care about polls showing elite running stronger against president biden. does not care that trump could be both the republican nominee

and a convicted felon by summer. >> i think trump has been pushed into a corner, i think. he's got lots of targets on him, and i think he is doing a great job of reflecting every one of them. >> doesn't see january success disqualified to the contrary. >> why did nancy pelosi have the national guard there? >> that's a separate question though, isn't it? >> no, it's not. >> it's a legitimate question, but just because there were not enough cops there, does not give people the right to blow through those barricades, in some cases, to beat the officers? >> no, it doesn't. the people that were there were negligent from stopping it from happening. they wanted it to happen because they wanted trump to not be eligible to run again. i think it was set up to end trump. >> reporter: there is zero evidence to support that, and is talk like that which is a big reason that shannon says, enough. >> the inflammatory accident happened by president trump, but he inflamed a lot of people to do a lot of crazy things, that i don't think americans, i don't think that is really who we are. >> reporter: the cars are still here, because the freeze is late. they will soon have to move, and she knows that time is running short -- it is time to move on. >> so, john, what should people look for in the caucuses? >> who votes, and where they've, anderson. the who part is important. i want to show you the iowa caucus electorate in 2016. remember, ted cruz won iowa in 2016. donald trump won new hampshire, and the rest is history. that trump came second in iowa.

essentially, he had an appeal among the republican voters. this is the electorate then. more than half of the voters back in 2016. if more than half of the electorate on general 15 is met, donald is looking to win and win big. you have to see what is the composition of the electorate. haley's only chance is women, is if women finally decide that, you should hear it on the ground, they don't like the toxic tone, they want to move on. they voted for trump twice and set up a people for him in november. they just want to move on. that is the who and where. if you look at 2016, trump won i will easily, but since 2016, there's been massive growth here, especially in des moines and the suburbs around it.

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disturbing details emerged about 13-year-old ohio boy who authorities say had to have, quote, detailed plan, unquote, for a mass shooting at a synagogue in canton, ohio, and when authorities learned of it fbi interviewed him in his home and he has since been charged with inducing panic. straight only one in a series of antisemitic incidents stretching across the country. >> >> legal hanukkah is supposed to be a time of joy, but for many jewish americans, some of that joy has been replaced with fear. in greensboro north carolina a man was arrested for vandalizing a holocaust monument. it was defaced with jeffrey graffiti that included a swastika and star inside of the star of david inside the monument. in oakland, california, the city's largest menorah was destroyed, and pieces of it were thrown into a nearby lake.

according to images video from the jewish community relations council that the bay area. the words free palestine were also sprayed in arabic around the edges of the amphitheater near where the menorah had been standing. >> i don't know why anyone would do this. i know that it's toxic, the air is toxic these days, and it just shouldn't be that way. >> in ohio, a 13-year-old is facing criminal charges after allegedly crafting a detailed plan for a mass shooting at a synagogue, even weeks before hamas's october attack on israel. india los angeles area too men were charged with hate crimes. one in connection with an alleged december 9th attack on a man wearing a yarmulke, and another in a support, late november incident for allegedly sprayed swastikas on a number of buildings including a temple and a church. earlier this week at yale university in new haven, connecticut, someone placed a palestinian flag on a campus menorah. >> enough is enough.

>> reporter: in the little more than two months since the october 7th attacks and instrument more, there have been more than 2000 antisemitic incidents documented in united states the. that's a 357% increase compared to the same period last year, according to the anti-defamation league. the adl has called it part of a pattern, that they said start with october 7th and apparently haven't seen any signs of diminishing at this point. i also want to point out, this isn't happening in a vacuum. the council on american islamic relations has reported what they say is an unprecedented rise in the amount of anti-arab and islamophobic incidents they've been following as well. it's something attorney general merrick garland has said is on law enforcement's radar but clearly something to monitor. >> omar jimenez thank you. up next, what officials say

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>> so i had eight alleged members of hamas or in custody after plotting attempts in europe, just this week here in the u.s. the fbi department of homeland security released a statement warning that the war likely heightened threat of violence during holiday season. fred pleitgen joins us now. where were these people arrested, and what were they planning? >> reporter: there were two

sets of arrests. one of them happened in denmark, where four people were arrested in total and terror raids related to that. three people were arrested in denmark, one in the netherlands. the interesting thing about the arrests, the danish authorities are saying the more anti terror arrests. they say they were raids around the entire country. but the danish arrests didn't mention hamas. with the israeli intelligence service, both -- and mossad came out and said that these were thwarted attacks and they happened on the order of hamas. what the danes has done, anderson, is they have strengthened security around jewish institutions around denmark. clearly taking this extremely seriously. at the same time, you have these terror raids in germany as well, we are also for people in total were arrested. three people in germany, one person again in the

netherlands. and the germans are being a lot more clear. saying at least three of the suspects were along members of hamas. and also seeing all of them had very close ties to hamas's senior leadership and to that military wing of hamas. >> fred pleitgen, thank so much. up next, the jaw drop moment of the day. a bull where you would never expect anything but trains, one of the busiest areas for new york commuters.