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hello everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm fredicka whitfield in atlanta alongside jim sciutto in israel. we begin in gaza where israeli troops continue to advance as officials say the second stage of their war with hamas has begun. moments ago we learned that president joe biden spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. their conversation comes as national security adviser jake sullivan warned there's an elevated risk of conflict expanding across the region. the idf said their air strikes hit more than 450 hamas targets in the last day including command centers, observation posts and missile launch sites. sources tell cnn that one strike

hit a mosque killing 13 people and leaving dozens of others injured. new video from inside gaza published by an israeli newspaper shows idf soldiers raising israel's flag on a hotel roof. cnn has asked the israel defense forces for comment on the video. an analysis by cnn shows that israeli troops have advanced at least two miles into northern gaza. desperation is sinking in for the civilians still trapped in the enclave. the main u.n. agency in gaza said thousands stole into a critical command post stealing critical supplies. more aid is trickling into gaza. today ten aid trucks were able to pass through the rafah border crossing and communications in gaza have been partially restored. sources tell cnn the u.n. security will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow about israel's

ongoing ground invasion. let's send it over to jim sciutto on the ground in northern israel. jim. >> fred, israel's attention now, the world's attention very much on southern israel. mill take action inside gaza in response to those october 7th attacks. the concern, and this speaks to national security adviser jake sullivan's point, is about expansion of this conflict, escalation. and one focus of that concern is israel's northern border with lebanon. we've been there the last several days. what's going on one could describe as a low-level conflict already. there's artillery fire in both directions, attempted incursions on the ground by hezbollah fighters. earlier today, myself and my team, we found ourselves right in the middle of that exchange of artillery fire, israeli forces firing into lebanon, hezbollah and other lebanese forces firing into israel in a number of ways with mortars,

with artillery, also with bombs attached to the bottom of small parachutes, ieds coming in from the air. it speaks to the danger here and it's one of the reasons many communities along the border have been evacuated, for the safety of residents there. of course, though, that mass of israeli military activity remains inside gaza. our jeremy dimon is in ashkelon where he's been keeping a close eye on israeli idf military operations there. we don't have a lod of vision into the exact extent of those operations, jeremy, but what did we learn about how far israeli forces are moving in? >> reporter: jim, they're clearly pushing deep into northern gaza, but yet at the same time they're constantly dealing with the danger that these underground tunnels by hamas present. that is, we saw hamas militants

popping up near the ares crossing. the idf says israeli troops killed several hamas militants in that battle. what we have also learned is the extent of israel's constant bombardment an shelling of northern gaza. in the second day of this war, israeli forces saying they struck over 450 targets in the past day. that was a statement they released earlier today. it has now been more than 48 hours since israeli forces entered the gaza strip from the north in this expansion of ground operations as the idf and israel's military and political leadership are describing it. last night we heard from the israeli prime minister as well as the defense minister and the former defense minister and former member of the operation. in a united front, they really described this war in

existential terms saying this is israel's second independence war and making clear how they view the stakes, and also making clear this will be a long and drawn-out campaign inside gaza. at the same time, as you have been reporting on today, jim, we have been watching activity in northern israel and southern lebanon really beginning to pick up. shelling in both directions and the israeli air force saying they struck hezbollah sites in southern lebanon from the air. this is a intoer box situation as you well know, and all eyes right now are on the north to see whether or not that develops into a really substantial and full second front in this war. >> to your point, jeremy, just as there was an attempt by hamas militants to cross into israel today, we visited a village on the norther border where hezbollah militants broke through the wall and got in before being confronted by idf

forces. jeremy diamond in ashkelon. part of the world's focus is on the plight of civilians inside gaza. they're running out of basic supplies including food, water, medical supplies. it's been just a trickle of aid coming into the country in the midst of many, many civilian casualties as a result of the military campaign. our you manna car rach cha is in beirut and has been covering the plight of gen z's civilians. >> reporter: it's hard to believe this was gaz nah just a few weeks ago, little nur dressed in his finest dancing with his brother at a wedding. his mother still can't believe her boy is gone. he was holding my hand as i took him to make a sandwich, she says. he didn't get to eat it. shrapnel cut through his neck. he's now in heaven.

god give me strength to deal with this. the air strikes that took 6-year-old nur and other relatives left her with injuries all over her body, and the unbelievable pain so many palestinian mothers are having to endure. there's a void in my heart. i can't even cry, she says. i really want to cry, but the tears are not coming out. why can't i get it out? i want to cry for my little boy. recovering in the hospital, she just wants to get back to her three other children, now homeless sheltering at a school. hell is raining down on gaza. israel says it's going after hamas and doing what it can to spare the innocent. but it is the innocent who are paying the heaviest price, and the few hospitals still barely standing, the pictures are too graphic for us to show. but faces here tell of the

horrors they survived and this living nightmare they can't escape. this 3-year-old hasn't uttered a word in 16 days. she won't eat or drink, still in shock. the piece of shrapnel lodged in her head. what did these children do? we have nothing to do with the resistance, he says. they're just targeting palestinians, they're killing children because they're palestinian. to them we're not human. they don't know if she'll be able to walk again. she's one of the lucky ones, if one can call her that. she still has her father by her side. arwa keeps asking for her mom. she's too young to understand. she's lost her mother, brother and sister, too. she shows the camera her ouch. every corner in every hospital so many heart-wrenching stories

of loss so hard to comprehend. denin wakes up to cry in the room with her 7-year-old brother. they were the only two to survive an air strike that killed their mother, brother, father and dozens of extended family. he asks me if we have internet here. he says i want to call mommy and daddy. doctors in these overwhelmed hospitals say every day brings a constant stream of children with no parents, a flood of injured they just don't have enough to treat. with the little they have, they do what they can. how do you begin to deal with so many going through so much. jomana karadsheh. >> thanks so much.

joining me now, former retired major general dan ap pi tarred to speak about the military aspects of this. thank you for joining us this sunday afternoon. i want to ask you first because there is some precedent in recent u.s. military history for large urban warfare operations in effect. we saw that in fallujah and in mosul. in each of those cases there were corridors that allowed many civilians to leave before the bulk of the military action. this is a different circumstance here because the civilians blocked even at the egyptian border from coming out. they can't come out via the israeli border. what's to be done from a military perspective to prevent further civilian casualties, or to minimize those casualties? >> good evening, jim. you're right. in mosul operations that took place there against isis, there

were some limited humanitarian corridors. isis was exactly allowing them to leave in droves, but the humanitarian corridors were, in fact, there. it is a dilemma. ideally between israel, the united states, the rest of the world, working with egypt and getting egypt to open up the rafah crossing point, that would be very, very helpful so the united nations and other entities can provide aid to civilians moving from the north to the south of gaza and into egypt. >> as you watch the progress of this campaign sought far, and it has been my might say slower and more methodical in the days right after the october 7th attack, preceded certainly, and this continues by a massive air campaign against targets in gaza

as well as artillery campaign, how would you rate that progress so far? do you get a sense of the overall objective based on what you've seen on the ground? >> the operations have been very deliberate. it's both joint and combined operations that are taking place, with air, with ground, even help from the sea. what we're seeing, though, is it's in different stages. the first stage of the campaign was trying to cut off the head of hamas, hitting their command and control centers, command and control nodes. the intelligence operations to try to find the hostages and other things that are of value to hamas, the cyberattacks, we've seen that. we've seen a number of those. and then the preparation for the ground invasion which was very deliberate.

a couple raids, clearing the routes, clearing potential ambush sites by hamas. this is going to be a long campaign. the stated objective of israel and israel's defense forces is to destroy hamas. hamas must be eliminated as a terrorist organization. that will take time. >> listen, it's an understandable goal, particularly after october 7th. forgive me. i've covered wars, ground operations in gaza in 2008-'9, in 2014 where, if not as ambitious the objective, the objective still was to weaken hamas, and i've heard of attacks that eliminate commanders, command and control centers, nodes, et cetera. yet hamas rises again. it harkens back to donald rumsfeld's comments in iraq, are we killing terrorists as far as we're creating them?

i'm wondering from a military perspective, is it an achievable goal short of reoccupying gaza? >> well, there's a political end state, which is a couple things. one is hamas no longer existing as a terrorist organization which will be tough. and also what does post hamas gaza look like? it will be a very, very difficult campaign. it's block by block, building by building. it's three different levels, sub terrainian, in the tunnels, above ground and at the high-rise level. it's not going to be easy, jim. >> no question. you might even say it's a city under a city given the extent of those tunnels. let me ask you this. we're in the north and we've seen what is effectively a low-grade conflict up here but

one that's consistent. every day artillery fire back and forth, attempted ground incursions frequently back and forth, from the north into the south, by hezbollah fighters and others. could israel, if hezbollah were to decide to amp up those attacks, could israel fight a two-front war? >> i believe israel could. however, what hezbollah is trying to do, and we'll see more of it is pin down as many israeli forces as possible. they're doing in what was termed as a demonstration. it's turned into limited attacking so they can draw as many forces to the north as possible which takes pressure off hamas down south. you've been in the region. hezbollah did this in 2006. hezbollah was still firing rockets until the very end. however, hezbollah does not want that to happen again.

they came out very, very bruised up. it is not in hezbollah's interest to do that, but it is in their terrorist and their iranian backers to pin down as many israeli forces as they can. >> listen, the prospect of israeli operations across the border in lebanon would be very costly as well. we witnessed that here back in 2006 as you referenced. major general dana pittard, thank you so much for joining. >> thank you, jim. we will continue to cover the events here in israel in the south where israeli military operations are under way and also in the north where they are on alert for greater attacks from hezbollah. please do stay with us.. we'l'll be back k right afteter short t break.

welcome back. today fans and friends of matthew perry is paying tribute to the actor who died yesterday at the age of 54.

his career included numerous tv shows and movies, but it's his unforgettable role as chandler bing on "friends" that made him a household name. >> chandler, there's only one banana nut muffin left. >> i ordered my first. >> yeah, but i'm so much faster. >> give it to me. >> no. >> give it to me. >> okay. you can have it. >> there you go. enjoy your coffee. >> that was there when i got here. >> "the l.a. times" says perry was found unresponsive in his hot tub. his body is at the los angeles county medical examiner's office. an autopsy is pending. let's bring in cnn's camila bernal. what are you learning? >> reporter: we know the los angeles police department is

still investigating the incident, but they did tell us via sources that there is no foul play suspected in this case. as you mentioned, "the l.a. times" saying this was an accidental or potential accidental drowning, but there is no cause of death at the moment. it's also very important to point out that a complete autopsy and toxicology report usually takes several weeks to be made public and to be complete. perry's family released a statement to "people" magazine saying they were heartbroken for the tragic loss of their beloved son and brother. they went on to say he brought joy to the world as an actor but also as a friend. matthew perry wanted to be remembered as someone who helped people. it's part of the reason why he shared a lot of his struggles with addiction, why he shared a lot of it in his memoir released in 2022. he said he wanted to help people

whether it be one-on-one or as a group. he also said he wanted to be remembered as someone who lived well, loved well and who was a seeker. a lot of us remember him by his acting career. you mentioned a number of different roles in tvs and movies. but it was really "friends" that brought him to fame as chandler. it was that funny, sarcastic character that many were able to relate to, but most of all, many were able to laugh at and laugh with. there are many people here in hollywood reacting to his death. none of the cast of "friends" have reacted so far. we have not heard from them. others have expressed shock and sadness and also their love for him, saying this is a tragic loss and they will miss him dearly here in hollywood, but, of course, all his fans as well, fred. >> yes, it's heartbreaking. camila bernal, thank you so much. we'll talk further about how this has shaken up so many people. let's bring in entertainment

reporter elizabeth wag meister. glad you could be with us. what do you believe his friends and co-stars are going through right now? >> you know, this was an incredibly tight-knit cast, which is not always the case in hollywood. we hear stories behind the scenes of people who aren't friends and they're caddie. on screen they act well and put on a great show. that couldn't have been further from the truth in the case of "friends." all six of these stars were close and remained close over the years. as camila said, none of them have released a statement yet. i wouldn't be surprised if we see them release a joint statement because we do know they are all incredibly close. i have seen a statement from the co-creators of "friends," marta coffman and david crane. they said they're shocked and saddened.

they said from the day we first heard him embody the role of chandler bing, there was no one else for us. he was always the funniest person in the room. of course, taking a little note off their episodes, we all remember the episodes were each called "the one where." they said "this is the one where our hearts are broken." >> perry talked openly about his struggles with addiction in his recent memoir. billy bush, host and managing editor of "extra" spoke to us last night after news of perry's death. i'd like to get your thoughts on the other side about his thoughts. listen now. >> instantly i thought, oh, no, how horrible. and then i started thinking about what a difficult life he led. he struggled so much off camera. for a guy who was so effortless on camera, his timing and his good nature always just upbeat and quick, and then you realize

just the exact opposite when he's not. he just struggled, struggled, struggled so hard with pain killers and addiction. we're hearing there's no foul play. immediately you think what wear and tear that poor heart of his took. >> those are some really profound words there and statements. how long was this an incredible struggle for matthew perry? he wrote about it in his memoir, but this is something that kind of haunted him for many, many years. >> absolutely. it haunted him before the time that america even met him as chandler bing. matthew perry wrote in his memoir that he started drinking as a young teenager, that the only season of "friends" that he was sober was season nine. that means from the beginning in season one which debuted in 1994, that he was struggling with addiction. we know the opioid epidemic

south korea a huge problem in america, and matthew perry was part of that. he really wrote about it candidly and beautifully and wanted to help others, but this was a serious, serious issue for him to say the least. he wrote at one point he was having 55 pills per day. he had been to rehab more than ten times, spent more than $9 million on his road to recovery. he has had a brush with death not just once, but twice. he said that when he was in rehab once his heart stopped. he also had his colon rupture and five years ago and was in a comb mo and hospitalized for months. this is a man who has been through it all. i was watching when billy bush gave that interview to you last night. i know billy and i do agree with a lot of what he said. however, i think what is so shocking about this is that it

seemed that matthew perry just turned a new leaf. this was a year ago that he came out with the new memoir, seemed he was on the road to having a new chapter. i hope he is at peace. i know everybody in hollywood feels that way. i think it's so sad because you just saw a man who seemed to really be on the road to recovery. >> elizabeth wagmeister, thanks so much for your input on all this. again, so perplexed, yet at the same time their hearts are pleading for all he has been through. thank you so much. still ahead, concerns for the hostages being held in gaza as israel expands its ground operations in the palestiniaian enclavave.

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as israeli military action expands in gaza, one of the deepest concerns is for the hostages still held there by hamas, numbering some 230. many israelis, but many other nationalities as well, thais, americans. today u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan was asked by my colleague jake tapper what the status was of u.s. efforts not just to release the americans but also americans who were trapped in gaza, american citizens and civilians trapped in gaza by the ongoing war there. have a listen to how he answered. >> so just as there is ongoing discussions and negotiations over the hostages, we are facing a similar situation with the american citizens and other foreign nationals who are trapped in gaza. it is true the egyptians are prepared to allow american citizens and foreign nationals to come through the gate into egypt. the israelis have no issue with

that. hamas has been preventing their departure and making a series of demands. i can't go through those demands in public. that's the subject of the discussions and negotiations that are ongoing. we're trying to work through those to get to a point where we have secured the safe passage of any american in gaza who wants to leave. we are in contact with them on a near daily basis. we will continue to stay focused on this. this is an equal priority to getting the hostages out, where hamas will permit their safe passage. we're working hard at that every day. >> of course, many of their loved ones, their relatives outside the country deeply, deeply worried about their fate, particularly as military action continues there. tomorrow the u.n. is going to meet again to discuss the ongoing crisis in gaza and concerns about a broader crisis in the midst of the ongoing international efforts to get the hostages and other civilians

trapped in gaza out safely. our becky anderson has been following those negotiations led in part by officials in cat that that maintains many deep contacts with officials from hamas. becky, i wonder where that stands, where those negotiations stand. are they ongoing? is there any hope among the officials you speak with? >> reporter: yes, there is. i was perhaps slightly surprised this time yesterday when we had a really sort of fulsome conversation with the adviser to the prime minister here who still felt very optimistic that not only were those talks ongoing, but they would get to the point where we would see the release of some, perhaps not all, but some of the civilian hostages being held by hamas in gaza. look, i think there's a kind of step back and have a look at the wider story here. israel's ground invasion which

started -- the second phase of which started on friday in gaza, has been roundly condemned, here, turkey, uae, saudi arabia, egypt, around this region. there are real concerns about all civilians caught up in this humanitarian catastrophe in gaza. that, of course, includes those who have been held hostage in gaza, not just by hamas, but by other groups as well. there was real concern that this conflict could spill outside of what is going on in gaza which is a catastrophe and out to the wider region. there's two issues here. firstly, as far as these mediated talks are concerned, yes, they are ongoing. yes, there is still optimism here in cat that that they will get the talks across the line.

we know some of the parameters, looking at possibly an exchange of women and children being held by hamas for women and teenagers being held in israeli prisons. this also has parameters around a pause in the fighting and additional aid to be allowed through that rafah border crossing. i think the pause, which was one of the parameters has been one of the real concerns since friday because the israelis said it out loud. benjamin netanyahu said it in his press conference yesterday, they have upped the stakes as far as this military action is concerned because israel believes only by upping the stakes will they get the hostages from hamas. that is not necessarily the perception from those i'm speaking to who are involved in these negotiations. they say it's just making them so much harder. then, of course, uae calling for

an emergency meeting at the u.n. security council tomorrow. they really want to see the security council come together and reflect in a resolution what was agreed at the general assembly on friday which is for a sustained, durable cease-fire in gaza to address the humanitarian situation and the issue of spillage going forward. jim. >> of course, that resolution sponsored by jordan. i spoke with the jordanian foreign minister yesterday who described what he said is a humanitarian catastrophe in gaza. it's notable what you said there, becky, the outline of an exchange, women and children held as hostages in gaza for women and children held by israel. the question is are all parties happy with that, and how does a pause in the fighting fit? in we know you'll continue to stay on top of that. becky anderson, thank you so much. we'll continue to follow

developments here in israel. clashes on the border near yes with are betweenen i israel ana hezbzbollah. wewe'll be rigight back. please statay with us.s.

the crowded republican field for u.s. president has just gotten a bit former. former vice president mike pence has suspended his campaign. pence made the announcement at republican jewish coalition's annual conference in las vegas saturday. >> traveling across the country over the past six months, i came here to say it's become clear to me this is not my time. i'm leaving this campaign, but let me promise you, i will never leave the fight for conservative values, and i will never stop fighting to elect principled republican leaders to every office in the land, so help me

god. >> cnn's jeff zeleny joins us now from iowa where donald trump is set to hold a rally later on today. jeff, what more are you learning about why pence is dropping out and where he might throw his support next. >> reporter: fredicka, it's clear. the former vice president simply said it's not his time. that has been increasingly clear over the last several weeks and months as he's tried to make the argument to republicans here in iowa which opens the presidential race early next year and other states across the country, there simply has not been the appetite for the type of truth telling he was saying to republican crowds. he did sort of bow to reality of he was not likely to make the stage of the third debate which is going to be held in early november in miami. he's not likely to make the donor requirements or polling requirements he needed.

what impact it will have on the race is very much an open question. up until now he's not registered much support, at least in the polls. from the standpoint of being a non-trump alternative, that certainly does lend at least some hope to the nikki haley campaign, the ron desantis campaign, the chris christie campaign about whether there is some support out there for an alternative to donald trump. it is quite clear, fredicka, this is the former president's primary to lose. he's in firm command of this race. the blunt reality is this may not have much of an immediate impact on the race at all. >> i wonder, jeff, is there an expectation that pence will throw his support behind someone else? clearly it's not going to be the former president given all that pence has said on the campaign trail. is he likely to gravitate toward one of the other candidates and say so publicly?

>> reporter: it certainly is one of the questions that we'll be finding out on answer for in the coming weeks. i was talking to his advisers last week. they said in the short term no, he doesn't have a plan to endorse a particular campaign. he said yesterday himself he wants to keep campaigning for principled republicans in the mold of abraham lincoln. he's going to continue to make the case against donald trump, but it's unclear if he'll make a case for one of his former rivals. it's also unclear if that would even help them at all. it's clear that they were coming to his praise, showering him with praise yesterday. they would certainly welcome an endorsement. at least as of now, in the early hours after he dropped out of this race, he's not planning to offer an immediate endorsement. he would like to try and stop the trump presidential campaign with winning the iowa caucuses here and going on to become the nominee. fredicka, also keep in mind he could benefit and be involved in other ways as well. he's still likely to testify

before some of the court cases, specifically the january 6th case that is in washington in federal court. so we certainly have not heard the last from mike pence. in terms of being a candidate or endorsing someone specifically, i'm told at least for the moment he doesn't plan to do that. >> you mentioned there are criminal cases the former president is facing, also upcoming, at least in colorado, there will be a trial where potentially there will be a decision about whether former president donald trump's name will even be on a ballot. anyone in his camp, are they commenting about that? >> reporter: they are not. in previous instances of this, as this has gone through the courts, they have dismissed this as something that is not real. we will see as this takes hold. this is something that of course democrats and some of trump's rivals have their eyes on as a possibility of being one of the ways to block the former president, but that is viewed

largely as wishful thinking. we'll see how the court cases progress. fred, you're right, add that to the long list of court cases standing in the way of donald trump, yet he continues to hold a very commanding lead in this republican primary campaign that, of course, is beginning in less than three months' time here in iowa. fred. >> jeff zeleny, thank you so much. still to come, candlelight vigils are held for the victims of the mass shooting in lewiston, maine. more about the victims who were lost in the massacre right after this.

the sur reen community of lewiston, maine is in mourning after a mass shooting on wednesday. tonight a vigil will be held in honor of those killed there and it follows another candlelight vigil in lisbon, they were finally able to gather after two days under lockdown as police searched for a suspect. >> our community has been under lockdown for a few days now. helicopters and it felt like every police agency in the world was here. last night, after the press conference, and then letting us know there was a start to some felt, i knew everyone in the community felt and i decided at that moment, listen, we need to do something. because i'm not the only one feeling this. i needed that sense of

community, of family. now that this shared event was over. >> friday night the suspect was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. for th for for the victims it was an ordinarily night out, some enjoying a male or a corn hole tournament. and those who were killed included a married couple, a father and a son and members of the deaf community. the idf said it has hit hundreds of targets in gaza over the last day after the military operation in the territory intensifies. our special coverage from israel continues right after this. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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hello, everyone. thank you for joining us, i'm fredricka, and along with jim sciutto. we begin with the ground in gaza where the him crisis is growing and there are new warnings about the risk of fighting spilling on to other parts of the middle east. earlier today, president biden spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and their conversation comes as u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan warns there is an elevated risk of the conflict expanding in other parts of the region. the ux