♪ ♪ new overnight -- new overnight the ground operation in gaza amps up, the israeli military launching several new rounds of air strikes this morning as the white house warns there is an elevated risk of the war spreading across the middle east. a brand-new poll out of iowa out just this morning shows the state of the republican race, florida governor ron desantis betting everything on iowa, so how is that bet looking this morning? the warning signs that were missed about robert card, what led a fellow guardsman to alert that he feared card would, quote, snap and commit a mass shooting, only weeks before he did. i'm kate bolduan with john

berman in new york, sara sidner is in tel aviv. this is "cnn news central." ♪ this morning we have been watching a rapid intensification of israel's assault on gaza from the air and the sea. in gaza fireball after fireball, the result of air strikes pounding the gaza strip. israeli troops also on the ground in gaza now. the israeli military says it has killed dozens of what it termed hamas terrorists overnight. the israeli military has started a new phase of war, spending more ground troops in gaza. they are targeting hamas's tunnel system where more than 200 hostages are believed to be kept. according to the palestinian health ministry in gaza the death toll in gaza has reached nearly 8,000 people since the war broke out.

we also should mention that save the children says more children have been killed in gaza in these past three weeks than globally over a four-year period. today u.n. security officials say they will hold an emergency meeting as the white house now warns of an elevated risk of war spreading in the middle east. right now 59 aid trucks are waiting to cross into gaza from the rafah border, from egypt. president biden is urging for more assistance as international red cross officials call the humanitarian crisis in gaza right now a catastrophic failing, but we begin first with the ground incursion. cnn's jeremy diamond is in sderot for us, just about a mile from the gaza border. jeremy, tell us what you're seeing and hearing today. >> reporter: well, share ration we've been here for the last several hours and during that time we have been going a lot of outgoing artillery fire, there are a couple artillery positions near where we are standing and we have been seeing the result

of the destruction wrought on gaza by those strikes and the air bombardment carried out by the israeli air force. you can see an explosion that just went off right behind us, this is the city that the northeastern most city in the gaza strip. you can see the plume of smoke raising above there. this is the imagery we have been seeing over the last several hours and the last several days as israel has been expanding its ground operations inside of gaza. what we have been -- what we have learned this morning is that the idf in recent days has carried out more than 600 strikes being after weapons depose, anti-tank launch positions as well as underground tunnels and staging positions for those hamas fighters. we also know that in recent hours they have announced that they've killed four more hamas commanders and they have really been going after those hamas commanders who would be commanding the fighting on the ground, commanding some of those smaller units, whether it is

rocket units or naval forces of hamas, which indicates kind of the focus of the idf recently. what we have also learned is that israeli tanks are operating not only right behind me in the northeastern most corner of gaza but also further south in gaza city. we just got video that just came in of a tank near gaza city on one of the main roads, one of the main arteries of gaza, appearing to fire on a passenger vehicle. now, we don't know who was inside that passenger vehicle, but that video is quite disturbing when you look at it, and it comes of course in the context of this mounting death toll that we have been watching inside of gaza. more than 8,000 people have now been killed according to the palestinian ministry of health. we should note of course that those figures come from the palestinian ministry of health which is controlled by hamas which runs the entire gaza strip, but according to those figures nearly three quarters of

those who have been killed so far are from vulnerable populations. you can look at just children alone, more than 3,000 children have been killed according to the palestinian ministry of health. of course, those figures only continuing to rise. sara? >> it is such a disturbing picture with innocent lives being killed in such terrible numbers. thank you so much, jeremy diamond. appreciate it. on the gaza strip there is still a desperate fight for survival, the humanitarian crisis is there now urgent and there are more and more people who desperately need aid in gaza. in gaza there is new information being reported from the charity organization save the children who, as we mentioned, say that more children have been killed in gaza during this short period of war than globally over just a four-year period. cnn's salma abdelaziz is in london looking at the critical situation and the emergency u.n. meeting that is happening. salma, the call for a pause in

fighting a ceasefire, if you will, will be at the forefront of the discussions in just a few hours but there has been already a vote where most nations did vote for a ceasefire but 14 did not. what can you tell us now? >> reporter: gaza is at breaking point, that's what we're hearing from the international community. there is absolutely, sara, a global outcry against that crisis that is spiraling out of control. i know some of the latest images that came out of gaza are just a sign of how desperate it is. the u.n. says one of its warehouses, people went inside trying to grab basic survival supplies. they say those 2 million people, half of them children, trapped, sealed into the gaza strip, are now facing starvation on top of facing the bombardment and the siege, of course, that has been in place now for three weeks. you mentioned that very important vote last week in the u.n. general assembly overwhelmingly u.n. nations voting for a humanitarian truce.

that is nonbinding. now the uae is calling for another u.n. security council meeting today at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. the hope is to pass a binding resolution that would require israel to pause. but there is no sign of that of course happening at all on the ground. prime minister netanyahu so far undeterred, in fact, only intensifying these attacks, warning this is just the beginning. and, again, speaking on those civilians trapped inside that enclave, desperate to find refuge, desperate to find help, desperate for some safety. i want to bring you some images from one of the hospitals in gaza city, one of two major hospitals in gaza city. they say they've received multiple evacuation orders, sara, to leave that hospital, but just imagine trying to evacuate patients, wounded people, elderly, pregnant, children, while bombs rain down, while artillery is fired.

somehow to the south of the gaza strip where there is no safety there as well. and these hospitals are not just medical centers anymore, sara, some 1,400 people are estimated to be sheltering in that hospital because they believe it's the only place where they might get a bit of safety and even that is not guaranteed. again, save the children calling these grave violations of epic proportions. >> yeah, save the children saying that annually over the past four years this is way more children that have been killed in these just three weeks since the october 7th hamas attack here, but in gaza there is just such a huge number of children who are dying and more than half the population is under the age of 18. salma abdelaziz, thank you for your reporting there. john, sending it back to you in new york. with us now is retired u.s. army major mike lyons. this is where gaza is in israel and we're talking about the

israeli ground operation right now. we're really just talking about the northern half of gaza right there and if we push in on that area, just so people know, this is where jeremy diamond just was, he was saying he was seeing air activity, but some of the other operations we've seen, some of the other activity includes tanks in the northern corner of gaza and we've seen aim bombardments of gaza city itself. when you look at all of this how is israel going about this? >> first, they're doing it completely on their terms. they have not massed large formations of troops on the border and used tens and 20,000 troops going in at once. they're doing surgical strikes very calculated. they're focusing on this area here and they've pushed in about 3 kilometers. if you can see there's more built up area here than there is on this side because there is a lot more water obstacles here. they feel that if they come in

from this side, with the coastline, they will have a better opportunity to eventually surround what is going to be gaza city here as other troops will push in this way. the entire campaign is slow, methodical, designed to combine ground operations with air strikes. today the idf released reports that said troops came in, saw enemy positions, brought in air strikes. they still are not necessarily edge gauging specifically on the ground. >> we're going to keep talking about this. you say that israel is doing this on their terms. this is where gaza city is right there. the "wall street journal" says they have some sense that maybe israel is trying to surround gaza city. why? what would that do? >> i think that's the way -- they've told civilians to already evacuate to the south, this he know that that's the center of gravity. they're trying to -- knowing that the enemy is fighting unconventionally, tunnels will be a challenge here, but they're not going to chase them down the tunnels, they will destroy them. they're going to fight this unconventionally in a

conventional manner. hamas thought israel would come in heavy and hard and chase them down tunnels, all these traps that have been set. from my indication so far as i'm watching this they're being slow and drib rat knowing that the center of gravity for the military is gaza city. >> this is a tunnel map based in 2021, the maps of the tunnels have certainly changed from then, gaza city right about here. and you say they are not going to chase them into the tunnels. what would they then do with the tunnels? >> they will destroy them. there is a beginning of a tunnel, comes out someplace, they will likely destroy that. they will look for places on the other side. seems they're coming in, destroying that one part of that tunnel and seeing what happens, seeing where people go. they're not going to survive underground. we know they have supplies and ammunition and the like, but that's what hamas wants them to do, they want a draw them into these tunnels. israel is not going to fall prey to that. >> one other thing that happened over the last couple days has to do with this activity at the

airport connected to russia here. this is where israel is, it was at the airport where there were people who stormed it after a flight from tel aviv landed, they were reportedly looking for jews on this plane here. when you talk about the war spreading from israel, is that the kind of thing people are most concerned about or is it rlg what's happening in lebanon, syria and the border countries. >> that's a problem, a problem for russia. when you have these kinds of things happening here the world sits up and takes a look at it. the problem is iran. syria would not be a problem if the lebanese start and hezbollah decides to do something in the north that creates a problem but the issue is iran. that will be if we see iran decide to escalate. right now, for example, u.s. forces are being attacked and we're responding just proportionately and i think you're going to see israel now start to respond disproportionately. that's their deterrents. they're going to respond with heavier things aside from a one

shot to a one shot. >> mike lyons, grade to have you here. thank you very much. kate? >> thank you so much. coming up for us, hearing voices and a fellow guardsman concerned he would snap, the warning signs from robert card and why local law enforcement closed the case, if you will, just weeks before card committed those horrible mass shootings. we have new reporting coming in. plus forming vladimir putin mike pence is no longer running for president and there are new poll numbers out this morning from iowa showing just how tough the race still is for anyone not named donald trump. and following actor matthew perry's death, the medical examiner is asking for a deeper investigation into the cause. we will be back.

days after the mass shooting in lewiston, maine, we are looking at another weekend of violence that left at least eight people dead and over 40

people wounded n tampa, florida, a 22-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder for killing two and leaving 16 other people injured. in indianapolis one person was killed, nine other people were injured after shots were fired at a halloween party. police tand several people for questioning in that. then we move to texas where three people are dead after a fistfight at a party turned deadly, police have identified a 20-year-old man as a suspect. at another halloween party in chicago at least 15 people were shot early sunday, the shooter fled on foot but was placed in police custody. two people remain in critical condition. this morning new information obtained by cnn shows that police were made aware of the maine mass shooter's mental condition prior to the shooting. the maine national guard alerted local police to check on him after a soldier became concerned he would, quote, snap and commit

a mass shooting. local authorities went to his home and tried to contact him about six weeks before the deadly mass shooting last week that took 18 lives. cnn's senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz in maine with the latest on this. a lot of warning signs here, shimon. >> reporter: yeah, certainly raising all kinds of questions, right, john? whether or not perhaps authorities could have ultimately stopped this from happening. it's certainly something that has law enforcement officials all across this state and really across the country concerned about this. you know, whether these signs were missed, whether more aggressive action should have been taken by the local sheriff's office where the shooter lived. so what we've learned is that when the national guard became concerned about information that they had received about the shooter, they notified the local sheriff's office in saga dau

county. joe merry is the sheriff there, they called his office and he dispatched one of his sergeants to investigate. over the course of several days they did investigate, they want to his home, initially he wasn't there, but there's new information indicating that he may have been at the home and, in fact, the sergeant from the sheriff's office was at the home, thought he heard him inside, but was concerned about him being inside and his own safety, the sheriff sergeant's own safety, that he called another unit in, but then he didn't really do anything. you know, he got information that the shooter may have been armed at that time, so he was raising all sorts of questions about his own safety, and then it's not very clear what happens after that and how much more investigating authorities did. what the sheriff has said to the associated press and "the new york times" is that he issued an alert on the man, but we don't know what that alert entailed. we know that there was a missing

persons report filed by the sheriff's office, but beyond that we don't know. so obviously this is raising all sorts of questions because there were signs, law enforcement had information that he was potentially threatening a mass shooting, there were warning signs everywhere from the national guard to family members. why this wasn't further investigated is now a big question and obviously for the families, you know, hearing this information will be very, very troubling. it is for this community and it is for law enforcement officials all across this state. >> i mean, these were not vague warning signs, these were explicitly stated signs, people warning that they were concerned that this man could ultimately commit the kind of thing, the exact kind of thing, he did. shimon prokupecz asking all the right questions in maine, keep us posted on what you are hearing. thank you. >> let's talk more about this important reporting. joining me is cnn law enforcement contributor steve moore, a retired fbi supervisory

agent. shimon laid out the details he has been able to pull together. if you look at the facts that are flknown, the details of warning signs so far from the national guardsman saying he was afraid he was going to snap, taking it to the extent that the national guard alerted local law enforcement, a welfare check that seemed to go nowhere, the family getting involved. let's start with the big and talk about the details. first and foremost, did something go wrong here? >> yes. yes. i mean, at the most base level, let's just start from something we will all understand, when you get somebody who has been referred to your department because they are hearing voices, they might snap and commit a mass shooting and they are armed and potentially dangerous and you get this report, there are only two possible outcomes to your investigation, number one,

everybody is wrong, he is absolutely fine, there is no mental issues. or number two, it's not good, he has been in a mental institution, he does have arms and he won't meet with us. then you kick it upstairs. you get moving on your solution. so you either say the reporting was wrong or you find a solution. they found the reporting was correct and stopped, and i don't know why. >> is it clear or what's your question of where the breakdown is? because you have the national guard reporting it to local law enforcement, you have a welfare check, a welfare case opened, if you will, you have local officers involved, the sheriff's department involved. is it clear where the breakdown is? what's your question in this? >> yeah, i would have a lot. i'd say they've got to probably bring in somebody to find out what exactly was the breakdown,

but the way -- i don't have enough really to answer the question authoritatively right now, but my thought is this, they sent a sergeant out to the -- out to the residence. was this sergeant a uniformed officer or deputy? if so, it would indicate to me that they sent a uniformed officer to do your standard welfare check and said, oh, by the way, he might shoot you, he's got a gun. and he was justifiably concerned. but when you send the issue to the uniformed officers, their job is response and handling exigent situations. you have a group of what are colloquially known detectives and detectives take cases and they work them until there is a resolution. it seems to me that it's possible at this point that this case was sent to uniformed officers to do a quick check, hopefully it will go away, and

it didn't and nobody followed up. so it should have actually been -- if it wasn't -- assigned to a detective, to an investigator, because this is not a one-shot, talk to the guy and it's over. >> and it's not just a looking back, it's a future problem where lessons have to be learned because as we just -- we were reporting, you know, of mass shootings again this weekend. it's not like we don't know that this happens and it is unfortunately sadly, scare i willy likely to happen again. we have new video out of russia where hundreds of anti-israel protesters stormed through an airport looking for jewish passengers on a flight from israel. this was terrifying. mike johnson starts his first full week as house speaker, a plate full of censures, expulsion and wars. new reporting on his latest plan. censures, expulsion and wa.

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that was an angry mob inside of an airport in dagestan. authorities there had to close an airport and divert flights when a crowd of anti-israeli protesters broke in to protest

an incoming flight from israel. in photos and videos verified by cnn a mob outside the airport held signs that says "we are against jewish refugees", then a crowd forced its way into locked down at the international terminal and even on to the runway, terrifying those who had just landed there. according to the dagestan health ministry clashes left at least ten people injured. the kremlin blamed what they called external interference for the anti-semitic riots. cnn has reached out to red wing airlines for a comment. the hamas attacks have caused a significant shift here in israel among many in the ultra orthodox jewish community. traditionally they refused to sign up for military service, which is mandatory for most men and women in israel after their 18th birthday, but that's changing. after the october 7th hamas attack that killed 1,400 men, women and children.

>> moti reads the torah at least an hour every day, his family is one of the 1.2 million ultra orthodox jews who live here in israel. for decades many in his community have fought against israel's mandatory military service for every jewish israeli man and woman as soon as they turn 18. this year the ultra orthodox tried to get a law passed to exempt them from having to enlist, a major source of friction in israeli society. then october 7th happened. >> have you ever fired a weapon? picked up a weapon before? >> no. i never held a gun or something like this. >> that is about to change. >> the few days i will go so the israeli army.

>> reporter: he enlisted after the attack against men, woman and children in israel. it completely hook us, broke all conceptions, he says. we thought we had the privilege to stand at the side and not be part of and now we realize it's just not sustainable. he says most of the ultra orthodox here believe their jobs are to keep the jewish religion alive and well, spending their days studying the torah. the israeli military reported between 2019 and 2021 only about 1,200 or so ultra orthodox jews were conscripted annually. that's out of 12,000 potential applicants. why did the ultra orthodox not want to serve in the army? the ultra orthodox people in israel have an ethos according to which studying torah gives the nation a metaphysical layer of defense he says.

but he says he cannot see how that is enough now and he says he knows many other feel the same. i personally sat in my living room and just cried for a day. we can't just go on with our daily lives. we said never again after the holocaust and if we want to be able to say that again to next generations and promise our children a sustainable future, we have to solve this issue. in hebrew this sign says "together we will win." it's very rare to see this kind of nationalistic language in ultra-orthodox neighborhoods like this one in israel. you're also seeing a lot of israeli flags plastered all over the place. that just doesn't really happen during normal times, it gives you some sense that opinions among the ultra-orthodox have changed. his wife's opinion has certainly changed, but she does worry about one thing. >> i worry more if you don't

know how to hold a weapon and i also want to know how to -- i want a license for a gun also. you know, we are not in switzerland. >> reporter: there is one more difficult thing he has to do with his family before he goes to serve, tell his three children, nine, seven, and six years old. they play oblivious to the changes they are about to experience at home due to war. now, he is not the only member of his family that is going to go enlist. he has enlisted and so has his twin brother who lives in california. his twin brother is leaving there to come to israel, they hope to go into the armed forces together. kate? >> fascinating look. sara, thanks for bringing us

that story. coming up still for us, this week congress is back to work, which in this upside down state of politics right now is actually news. the first full week for the new house speaker mike johnson and, oh, so quickly he's facing his first big legislative test. also new polling numbers out of iowa for all republicans betting it all on iowa, how are their chances especially those two looking today. we will be right back.

this morning mike johnson is kicking off his first full week with the speaker's gavel in hand. the house speaker controls what gets to the floor for votes and what does not. here is how he is kicking it off. a vote on $14.5 billion in aid

for israel is one thing that they are going to focus on this week, plus a trio of censure and expulsion resolutions. the new republican leadership is also pushing ahead on three spending bills to try and move towards heading off another government shutdown. in the midst of all the chaos over the speaker's gavel you will remember time was running out and the government is set to run out of money in less than three weeks. sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill for us this week. good to see you. the first full week as house speaker and already facing a legislative test. >> reporter: he certainly is, kate. this is a hugely consequential week for the new speaker and he certainly is moving right to it. sources tell cnn they are in a conference call with the republicans last night, he indicated that he wants to move forward with an aid package to israel this week, that $14.5 billion aid package. on that call he revealed two important details here, one is that he wants to move this bill

forward and make it completely paid for and, two, that he wants to move the bill as a stand-alone bill meaning that he does not want to tie the aid to israel to aid for ukraine like the senate wants to do so that potentially sets up a showdown with the senate in how they want to approach these aid packages. also on the plate is a series -- a triple of these side issues, these censure resolutions aimed at punishing members in the house. first you have the resolution to ex pell george santos and then seen sure marjorie taylor greene and rashida tlaib. johnson is also staring down a potential government shutdown next month. he needs to figure out a way to fund the government. certainly as they approach week number one in this new job, kate, he certainly will be --

people will be watching him as he navigates these big ticket items and also these side thorny issues that his house conference are dealing with. kate? >> considering how long it took them to get house speaker, they were already sucking up some of this time and they're seeing it already starting this week. good to see you. thank you. this morning new polling data out of iowa shows donald trump holding this commanding lead, despite legal troubles. a new des moines register nbc news poll shows trump 27 points ahead -- 27 points ahead of his closest competitors. nikki haley has gone up, she is now basically in a tie with ron desantis for second place. with me now cnn's senior political commentator and author of the new book "renegade: defending democracy and liberty in our divided country." actually i want to talk to you about the tie-in between his book which is wonderful and that poll which we just showed, not seen there, mike pence because he dropped out on saturday

because his campaign never got off the ground basically due to his actions, one might presume, on january 6th. not following along to overturn the results of the election. so he's gone. you're out of congress right now, it was your choice to not run again, but people who did not tow the line, did not go the trump way, don't seem to be finding a place in the republican party. >> yeah, i think, look, the base has made it clear where they want this party to go and part of that, john, is you've got to have leaders leading. so when donald trump gets indicted, people now look to the second-tier influencers, everybody running for president that you just showed up there, and when they all say things like it's a witch-hunt against donald trump, donald trump was a great president, it's no wonder that people believe that and people want him to return. on mike pence, had mike pence, i think, after january 6th basically stood by his message, i think he would be in a much better position. instead he attacked me and liz cheney on the committee, said

that the committee was partisan, he supported jim jordan for speaker, who, by the way, jim jordan was leading the charges against mike pence on january 6th. he was trying to walk a fence and there is no constituency in this party for fence walking, you are either hot or donald trump or cold on him, you are not lukewarm. >> is there any constituency on this in the republican party, to go full renegade than you did more of than mike pence. >> it's a small one but i think it's one that will have to inevitably grow because the republican party is going to lose elections. so while they get smaller and more intense, for instance, in their support of donald trump, they're going to start not -- they're going to lose the house probably, losing the senate, potentially losing the presidency, but what i know -- what i talk about in there is what i've seen the party do. the reason i tell my story is not because i want everybody to hear my story, but because it tells the broader story of the party. it took us a while to get to this place and my hope is we can get out of it. it's going to take a while. >> what's interesting, though,

and you note this in your book, is that there was a time right around january 6, 7, 8 and 9th when you thought you might have had a small group, but a growing group of house republicans who would stand by you and maybe defy kevin mccarthy, and then a few weeks later you were looking over your shoulder saying where did everyone go? talk to me about that. >> those of us that voted for impeachment, okay, we had started to realize we are kind of in the cat bird's seat at the moment on january 7th and on to determine the tone of the party because basically once we voted for impeachment, we were saying this party needs to go in a different direction and by the way in the entire republican conference the feeling was we don't know what direction we're going in. i tried to encourage the other impeachers to join me, peter meyer from michigan had this idea how do we show people whose democracy supporting and who isn't and eventually that just kind of fell apart i think because they started to be interested in their own reelection. i get it, but this was such a serious moment that we could

have, i think, had a chance at actually taking the narrative of this. i had considered doing a vote of no confidence against kevin mccarthy and it wasn't that crazy of an idea. >> in early 2021. >> in early 2021. when he shows up to mar-a-lago, that's when on a dime the tone in the party changed. >> let's end where we began with that poll with donald trump, you know, 26 points ahead of ron desantis and nikki haley. do you see anyone getting traction there? tim scott said today it's iowa or bust. ron desantis hasn't exactly said it but he's shown that it's iowa or bust for him, he's moved a huge chunk of his campaign there. is there anything but bust at this point? >> i think there are three lanes right now, there's chris christie, there's nikki haley and there's donald trump. because christie is openly anti-trump, haley is playing the middle but she is the new generation. let's see when candidates start dropping out and there need to be more that drop out we will see where that support concentrates. when it gets down to two or three candidates maybe, but

right now it's certainly donald trump's party. >> and what happened to ron desantis? >> he's just -- i mean, he is boring and he tried to be donald trump and he's not donald trump. you can't be donald trump when donald trump is in the race and ron desantis just doesn't have frankly what donald trump has, which is his ability to convince people he's authentic even though he's not. >> i've asked you versions of this before, but before you go, was it worth it? >> oh, yeah. >> it was worth it? >> i do. i don't have an ounce of regret for what i did. it took an impact on me, took an impact on my family, but i couldn't look at my kid in the eye ever if i didn't do it. >> adam kinzinger, great to see you here. obviously we get to see a lot of you but this is the first time we got you with your new book. congratulations on that. >> appreciate it. we have some breaking news coming in, breaking news in the weeks'-long auto strike. we're learning there is a deal on the table between general motors now and the uaw. we have new details just coming in and we will bring that to you next.

some break news coming in. general motors has reached a tentative deal with the united auto workers, and this is with a source familiar with the

negotiations. gm is the remaining of the big three to not reach a deal with the union, and just this weekend that the uaw escalated and expanded the strike further against general motors. and we go to vanessa ywith more >> yes,ed and they have extended an expanded strike, but then this morning they are announcing this is a deal in place, and this is going to bring an end to the longest strike for all three major auto workers. so according to the sources, this deal is in place, and we

don't know much about the deal, but we expect that it is going to be following same pattern as ford and stellantis deal, and this is called pattern bargaining. ford set the tone for the deal last week, and stellantis followed it this weekend with the same kind of contract details, and we are expecting general motors to do the same. we know that this week ford and stellantis employees have come off of the picket line and back in the plants. we expect the announcement of this deal in the coming hours, we imagine, but general motors workers are going to be coming can off of the picket lines as well heading back into the plants. one detail about at the contract that we had heard about weeks ago from the company is that they were going to include all electric battery plants in the new contract, and this is something that both ford and stellantis did not have on the table at the time that uaw president shawn fain called a

game-changer, and so in addition to the jobs currently in place at general motors, we can expect added jobs at electric battery vehicles, because as we know the future of the industry is just that, and this is something that is key that the union was looking for, and we will have to wait to see if it is in the fine print, kate. >> yes, and wait to see the details and hear from both gm and the union, but it is huge after how long and how wide this strike has gone on and how big it has gotten that they seem to have a deal on the table and a tentative deal and agreement reached behind the final of the three. it is great, and thank you so much for jumping on to bring us the reporting, vanessa, and we will have more as the show goes on. john? the emergency council is having an emergency meeting as they are warning of an elevated risk of war in the middle east.

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