israel launches several new air strikes this morning, and we will have new details of the troop movements in the middle east. you'll also hear from a woman who survived the hamas attack on october 7th, but her husband is still missing. >> and also, can donald trump be

kicked off of the presidential ballot based on his role january 6th. and the first major test that the president is speaking with israel and ukraine and another possible government shutdown. sara sidner is in israel, and i'm kate bolduan with john berman in new york. this is cnn "news central." this morning a rapid intensification of israel's assault on gaza on the air and on the ground, and israeli troops are inside of gaza now as the israeli military is hunting for hamas and what is believed to be more than 200 hostages in that underground tunnel system underneath gaza. in the sky, new strikes and new explosions as u.n. security officials prepare to meet amid urgent calls for a pause in the

bombing. so desperately needed food, water and medical supplies needed to get into gaza. we will go to jeremy diamond near sderot, and you are hearing the steady drum baeat of explosions and what are you seeing in this hour? >> just over my right shoulder, you are seeing the plume of smoke that is the result of an explosion inside of gaza, and this is coming as israeli forces have been expanding their grand operations inside of gaza over the last several day, and just today, the idf spokesperson saying that israel is going to continue to add troops as part of the offensive inside of the gaza strip. we have been seeing throughout the day and hearing the sights and sounds of war as we are hearing the outgoing artillery fire from where we are right

now, and jets circling overhead, and drone activity as well, and we have also saw earlier, just an hour ago or so, some smoke appearing to emerge from just across the northern border of gaza in southern israel, and not exactly clear what it is from, and appeared to be some kind of explosion from the israeli side of that border from gaza, and we know that fighting is ongoing between the israeli fosforces a we have been hearing the thud of machine gun fire, and it is clear that the israeli forces are getting deeper inside of the gaza strip. we saw the troops entering from the northern entrance to gaza, and tanks are rolling in, and what we are also learning is that the troops are almost two miles into the gaza strip on the coastline of gaza, but also, we have seen the new video of one tank at least in the southern part of gaza city which is,

again, not where we are right here which is the northeastern corner of gaza behind my shoulder, but in this video, you will see a tank firing on a passenger vehicle. we don't know who was in the passenger vehicle, and in response to a inquiry from cnn, a spokesman was asked if there was not a terrorist there in the car, and he said that they use the jeeps and tanks for the military purposes, and quite purposefully the jeep was targeting a military target and not a civilian target, and cnn cannot verify who was inside of that vehicle, but these are the images that we will get more of particularly as the communications are starting to be restored inside of the gaza strip. we will start to get more videos from the palestinian journalists inside of gaza with journalists

showing from their cell phones what is happening to their cities and towns. >> thank you, jeremy diamond for that. we have also more from ibrahim who is working on the ground there in gaza where there is a desperate fight for survival. and we have salma who is also there with a call for the pause of fire, and so the trucks can get into gaza with the humanitarian aid. >> and that is a global cry as the images are seeping out of absolute horror of the gaza strip and the death toll and the civilians killed is seeming to increase by the hour. you mentioned u.n. security

council and the emergency meeting called by the uae calling for a humanitarian pause, and there a serious spat between united nations and israel, and very unlikelyt is going to be followed if it is to pass, but the increasingly pause between israel and the world stage. and there was an overwhelmingly pause for the vote that was played, and i know that you are playing the images of the desperation on the ground, and these are the warehouses belonging to the u.n., and people are going inside and breaking into the warehouse, and desperately taking just the basic survival, and just soap, water, flour, anything they can to feed their families, provide for their loved ones on the ground. the united nations are saying that we are seeing the breakdown of civil order of three weeks of

nearly constant bombardment and siege, and with nowhere safe to go, the international community is saying that there are grave violations of epic proportions taking place on the ground. >> sal ma abdelaziz and thank you for the disturbing report of conditions there on the ground. kate? >> overnight, israel named the number of hostages believed to be held still by hamas in gaza. officials now say that terrorists kidnapped 239 people in the october 7th attacks. every single one of those families still trying to cling to hope that they will see their loved ones again, and one of those families is the lavie family. he was on the show and detailed what happened when henri was

kidnapped. and now, the mother and two daughters survived but endured hours of terror only to have him ripped from them. here are the pictures of them, but he is still missing, and this is some of what moshe told us of what his sister endured. >> they were treated violently. the babies were woken up with guns pointed at their heads. and i am sure the 2-year-old will be remembering this for the rest of her life. vi -- i have my first memory at 2 years old falling down a staircase, and this much more traumatic to her. and there were two more families in a different house. when they entered, they went through the kibbutz and saw bodies lying around and houses burned with people inside, and when they entered, they saw a

teenaged girl lying dead, shot on the spot by hamas terrorists and saw a terrified terrorists and the siblings of that terrified young lady and hallowed faces covered with blood. this was also livestreamed on a facebook of i believe one of those who were held captive. and joining us now is leshi lavi who he was talking about. and so, what is the latest that you have heard if anything about henri. >> we know that it has been 23

days that we have been waiting. >> so it is 23 days since this has happened to you. >> yes. >> and it has taken you time to get comfortable to speak about what you all have survived. is there a moment that sticks in your mind that you think will help people understand what you and your girls and your husband have lived through on that day? >> i have two moments. the one that was in our house, in our home when my roni, 2 years old, when the terrorist, the monsters, and to me, it is not human people, and i am sorry, but it is the monsters that came into my house, my safe home, and they took roni, and

she is sleeping that moment, and they did not take with me, and when she woke up, she woke up when five people, five monsters with their gun into her face. this is the first moment i want to share. the second moment i want to share that when henri was taken, ronni until this moment, she was silence for hour, and she sit and being quiet and don't speak. 2-year-old girl speak, don't speak. and when she saw her father go, she start to scream. she just want to go with daddy. she wants to run after him.

and i need to hold her in my arms and i need to scream at her to be quiet and dad goi now and you can't go -- daddy go now, and you can't go with him. and after 20 minutes screaming and crying that she wants her daddy, she get to sleep again. and then when she woke up after ten minutes or something like this, she wasn't a 2 years girl. she saw a lot of violence, and she saw monsters took her daddy out. and this is what i want the world to understand. i want the world to understand

that it is not a regular war. it is not the situation where the palestinian and israel. there is a family that killed. there is a family that was murdered. there is a family that is broken. and he is not a soldier. he is not to fight, and this is a holocaust, and this is what the world needs to understand. >> and you said it there and ronni is never going to be a normal and never going to be herself again, and never going to be a normal 2 or 3-year-old girl again after what she saw. >> no. >> what is the change that you

see in your poor daughter? >> she is grow up. she understand that, you know, daddy is not here. in her mind, and now daddy got lost, and we need to find him, of course, but he got lost, and she understand it that i, her mother, i cry, and i'm upset and i'm angry, and she knows that she needs to guard to her sister that is 6 months old, and she is 2 years old, and she understands that she needs to hug and to kiss and give power to her mother and her little sister. she start to speak. she understands that it is very dangerous in our house.

and this is not something like i know how to 2 years old girl needs to be. it is not something that you should understand. >> no, these are things that she need not to understand, how to guard her 6-month-old little sister or you as well. and some hostages have been released, lishay, and now that you know that he ihow does that knowing that four hostages have been released? it is impossible, i am sure to -- i don't know be hopeful? how do you feel about that? >> i really am happy for their family. really happy. it is, you know, when you are in this situation, you can understand, and i cannot explain how we feel that your man, the

father of your daughter, and i cannot explain it really, that even not in my word or in hebrew, and i really am happy for the family that they are here. and i hope, i have a hope that everyone come back. but we need all of the world with us. we need the whole world to stand with us with israel and the citizens. i don't speak about the ministry. i don't speak about the ideas. i don't want to speak about it. i speak that the world need to understand that who was taken is not like it is -- it is fathers, mother, sister, kids, grandmother, grandfather.

we need this whole world to understand it and all the world needs to be with us and scream with us. and help us. that is all of the people to go out to come back home. >> do you think that you will see him again? >> yes. i know i -- i know that i will see him again inside of my heart thatly see him again. i speak with him every night. every night i tell him all what i am doing and what roni is doing, and yesterday i told him that alma is 7 months old, and she is not 6 months old anymore,

and she is 7 months old, and she is sitting, and he does not see the first time she is sitting. and i am sure, i am sure and i need this hope, and i believe that he is going to come back and i want it to be, it is not going to take a lot of time, but i don't know how much time it is going to take. how long it is going to be. >> your strength after what you have lived through is remarkable. lishay lavi, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. again, i want to say all the world need to understand. i know now before five minutes, you saw what is going on in gaza, i know they really suffer the citizens over there really suffer, and i know this. you need to understand that what

happened here in israel that it is the terrorists that take our family over there, and it is not that we want this war. we want to have our family again here. we want my henri here. everyone needs to understand this and be with us. >> lishay lavi, thank you. john. >> to hear her say that she speaks to her husband every night. new reporting of where the marines are moving in the middle east and how they are preparing for the evacuation of u.s. citizens. and censures and expulsion for two wars is part of what is on the plate for the new house speaker this week in an autopsy that has been performed on matthew what we are learning about the results.

this morning, it is back to business on capitol hill after weeks of chaos. the new speaker of the house, mike johnson, he is kicking off the first full week in the new role and quickly facing major legislative hurdles. welcome to the job, mr. speaker. israel is on the agenda with the $14.5 million aid package that the republicans want to move in the house, and two competing censure resolution, and push to

expel congressman george santos, and the last but not least, the effort to try to move ahead with government funding bills to avoid another government shutdown. cnn's manu raju, and where do things go from here? >> yes, it is a complicated full week for new speaker mike johnson dealing with the aid to israel, and setting off a collision course with the senate and he plans to advance a $14 billion aid package to israel and it is not including aid to ukraine, and the white house and the aids wanted to tie the two together with ukraine, but he wants to make it clear that the aid to spending cuts, and that going to cost democratic support, as they are scoffing at the notion, because aid packages do not include spending cuts, and he has other personnel issues with george santos who

has plead not guilty to charges, but new york republicans, and freshmen republicans are pushing expulsion resolution, and only five members who have been expelled from the house, and they need 2/3 to get there, and vote to happen later in the week, and in talking to the new york republicans, they believe they are close to getting the votes they need to kick george santos out of the house. >> i think that we are getting 2/3, and there is a good sentiment out there that enough is enough. >> i think that people have seen over the last ten months what a fraud he is. i mean, you read either indictment, and there is a clear outline that lays out the fabrications, the lies, and the manipulation of donors and others that he has committed over the last year or longer. >> at this time, it is absolutely inappropriate for him

to serve. there is significant support on both sides of the aisle. i understand the hesitance, but this is a clear case of an individual who used every lie and misdeed in order to attain the very office that he holds. >> reporter: now speaker johnson has said that he is not supportive of the effort given that santos has not been convicted yet, and also two censure units one against represent tlaib and one against representative marjorie taylor. and he said he is not in for this tit-for-tat resolution fight. and now, there is polls out of iowa showing a commanding lead for donald trump, but nikki haley is creeping up with a tie for ron desantis.

joining us is margaret hoover and john avalos, and in terms of the polling which shows that donald trump is with a commanding lead. >> look, i spent a lot of time with the republicans in iowa this weekend, and donald trump certainly has the base of the party captivated, but ki do a little bit of math, and you can, too, john berman, but if you are adding up the support for the other candidates in iowa, they have more support than donald trump, and even the base of the party is divided, so if they could get behind one person instead of dividing the support of others, then donald trump does not own the republican party. >> but is that likely? you have mike pence who has left the race, but is there an appetite for as people have been calling now, since the primary began for the people who are polling in the single digits

still to drop out so others can coalesce around donald trump? >> i am not a fan of donald trump particularly before anyone has actually voted? does he have a grip on the base of the party? yes, absolutely. the headwinds of legal challenges significant, absolutely. and now, with mike johnson in the speakership, there is an election lie litmus test, but this poll is interesting, because while poll is in the top, desantis is holding and nikki haley is rising. and that is where -- >> in iowa? >> yes, anywhere. >> you don't have to win iowa. >> yes, it used to be a swing state, but not so much. looking at where nikki haley is

growing, and that is showing that she is more general election candidate than donald trump or joe biden. >> to you want to talk about joe pence? >> yes. >> the contrast of mike pence and joe johnson of the new speaker of the house, there is a contrast of the two of them both evangelicals, and the protestant wing of the party which is the fundamental part of the base, and we should not gloss over one of them took a principled honest stance with integrity that defended the constitution on january 6th, and the other promulgated the lie which has brought him to the speakership, and john avalon calling it a litmus test, but i don't know if that is totally fair, because half of the base in iowa is supporting someone other than trump, but what it does suggest is that there is no respect amongst a huge portion of the base for the fact that mike pence and in a religious

evangelical tradition of truth and honesty stood up for the constitution, and he didn't, and he has not gotten the respect that he deserves. >> so more going out than he had going in? >> well, what is important is that inside of the republican conference, and tom emmer was knocked out because instead of voting for the election, he voted against gay rights and a bridge too far, and they rallied for johnson instead. so often in the chaos of politics we forget the perspective, and mike pence is going to be viewed by history of someone who heroically stood up for the constitution at the time when he was under direct pressure and threats, and the fact that he was repudiated by the republican party is a stain on them, and not mike pence's legacy. >> absolutely. >> that is the larger perspective in politics and we can have interesting difference, and we should, but when people stand up when it counts for the

constitution in the case, that is being on the right side of history and the folks opposing it or shouting down a reporter who asked johnson the night that he won the nominee designate and if he is a election designee, and shouted him down is sinister, and that is the know nothing, election denier is to me that mike pence is on the right side of ledger of history and this is important and it matters. >> and that is john avalon is going to be live out. so, could the 14th amendment keep donald trump from running for office again, or more specifically, get him kicked off of the presidential ballot?

happening now. in denver, court proceedings under way and you arare lookingt live picture right now to see if section 3 of the 14th amendment should keep donald trump off of the presidential ballot. let me read it. no person shall be a senator or representative in congress or elector of president and vice president or hold any office civil or military under the united states or any state having previously taken an oath as a member of congress or officer of the united states or

member of any state legislature or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the constitution of the united states shall have engaged an insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. joining us from colorado state is jena griswold, and you are saying that you are following these court proceedings as a kind of guidance, and what do you mean? >> yes, that is right. and good morning, john. with this court case, we are hoping that it is giving guidance to ballots across the nation. we have never had this type of situation occur where a sitting president incites the insurrection and then had the audacity to run again. so there are real questions of section 3 of the 14th amendment

disqualifies him. i am looking forward to the judge giving guidance on the topic. >> one of the key questions that we have noted is if donald trump engaged in insurrection, and your view to that question is yes? >> my view is that i will follow whatever court determination is in place by the time i certify the ballot. i do believe that donald trump incited the insurrection in term of what incite means to you and me and the majority of americans right now. however that reaches tone gauge in insurrection, and there arm so folks that -- go ahead. >> so shall have engaged -- sorry, i didn't mean to put the highlighter on, but shall have engage in insurrection is the language inside of the constitution, and you are saying that he incited an insurrection,

and is that the same thing? >> that why we are going to court. so did his actions rise to the level of disqualification, and who gets to determine that? is it me? the court? would it bar him from ballot access or just being seated in office if he was disqualified? there is disagreement, and this is why it is appropriate for the court to weigh in right now. and like i said, my job is to follow the law and uphold the constitution, and when there are these big questions and also an apparatus of the state law for a court the weigh n then it is appropriate to weigh in, and see what court determines. >> where do you see this going? do you see it going to the supreme court? >> i think it is premature. it is a big case for the nation, especially because we are barreling very quickly to next year with the presidential primary and the general election. but ultimately, we just have to

see what the district courts do, and then if it is appealed of course in colorado's case to the colorado supreme court first and then up to the u.s. supreme court if there is an appeal to take the case. >> what are your concerns about the possibility that this could be seen as political? >> well, the first thing i'd say is, you know, i'm a democratic secretary of state and i did not bring this case. i am a party, a defendant, because i certify the ballot. i would just say, look, colorado, republican and unaffiliated voters brought this case. it is very reasonable to determine whether the u.s. constitution is in play. we should as a nation follow rule of law, and we should be following what the constitution say, and state law says, and if it is unclear, it is an appropriate mechanism to file a lawsuit, and what is inappropriate is to try to steal

an election from the american people and having an insurrection and is trying to steal an election, and seizing voter equipment, and seeing what is playing out here is just fine. >> colorado state secretary of state jenna griswold, thank you. >> thank you. and now, a marine rapid response force is moving to the mediterranean and also a report of how many times u.s. forces in iraq and syria have been attacked since the hamas terror attack. we will be right back.

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we are learning that u.s. forces have been attacked 43 times from october 7th and now as the marine rapid response force is making its way to the mediterranean. oren liebermann has more on this. what will you learning? >> they are trying to keep this separate from the gaza and israeli conflict, but they are not able to do so. ten days after the hamas attack, they are tracking a total of 23 times there have been attacks. though they have not given reasons for this, they are holding iranian-backed troops responsible for the attacks. what is important the note here is that the u.s. has carried out

strikes in syria against groups affiliated with iran in an attempt to deter the groups from continuing to attack the u.s. forces in the region, and also as a broader message to iran, and you can see here with at least six more attacks since the u.s. carried tut strikes that the message of deterrence certainly has not had the intended effect which opens up the question if the u.s. is going to carry out more attacks and better at deterrence or if that is an escalation. and as it is working on more in that situation, they are moving the marine rapid response group to the mediterranean, and this is important, because that is a unit that one of the essential tasks is noncombatant operation, and the u.s. is saying it is not executing that, but as it is worrying about the broader conflict, it is one of the contingencies to look at.

kate. >> thank you, oren, for your reporting as always. john? new information from the medical examiner who is investigating death of matthew perry.

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so the los angeles medical examiner's office is saying further investigation is needed to determine the cause of matthew perry's death. they are awaiting toxicology results to help in doing that. there's no timeline yet for when those would come back in. perry was found dead in a hot tub at his home over the weekend. cnn's camila bernal is in los angeles on this. what more are you learning? >> reporter: kate, so sources telling cnn that there is no

foul play suspected in this case. so we are waiting for the medical examiner's office right now, they listed his death as deferred and that just means that more is needed. sources telling us that they are waiting for that toxicology report and normally to get those it takes several weeks. so we may need more time before we really learn the cause of death and what happened. it is the los angeles police department that was investigating the death. in the meantime, though, his family responding and reacting and saying to "people" magazine that they are heartbroken by the tragic loss of a brother and a son. also saying that he brought joy to the world with his acting, but also as a friend. so many here in hollywood reacting and among them morgan fairchild who played his mother on "friends," here is what she said on cnn this morning. >> right from the first there was just that joy, that kind of

friendly and wonderful puppy dog kind of feel about matthew. he was such a warm and wonderful and funny and creative young man. >> reporter: and just so many others expressing how much he made them laugh and how friendly and funny he was off screen and on screen, but i do want to point out that he wanted to be remembered as someone who helped people and it's part of the reason why he shared his struggles with addiction. he was very open, candid, he spoke emotionally in a number of interviews saying that he wanted to help people feel relatable, feel in the same place, and also understand that he was able to overcome this. he also said he wanted to be remembered as someone who lived well and loved well and a seeker. so that was really the biggest thing, but of course so many of us know him from his character on "friends." chandler was extremely memorable, he was funny,

sarcastic, he delivered the jokes, the one-liners and of course thankfully that is left for all of us to keep enjoying. kate? >> thank you for that. thank you for joining us. this has been "cnn news central." a lot of news. "inside politics" up next.

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