hello, everyone. thanks for joining us on anyone newsroom. i'm michael homes. appreciate your company. we have continuing coverage of the israel-hamas war. the war is about to enter its second month. the israeli military says it is carrying out a significant strike right now on the territory. an id f spokesperson says the strike was, quote, very extensive and targeted infrastructure both above and below ground. the idf also says its soldiers have now reached gaza's coast in an effort to cut the northern part off of the enclave. this comes as the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has once again rejected calls for a

cease-fire, saying all hostages must first be released. meanwhile, an intense diplomatic push is under way to prevent a wider conflict in the region. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken landing in turkey a short time ago, and the director of the cia also is traveling to several countries in the middle east to meet with, quote, multiple intelligence counterparts and country leaders. all of this coming as dozens of people were killed in a blast at the al magazi refugee camp according to a lebanese official. he says it was the result of a air strike. he is looking into the circumstances around the explosion. nada bashir is following this story. a warning, her report includes graphic images. >> reporter: at this hospital in central gaza, another day of seemingly unending horror. bodies, some tiny, arriving in the dozens.

no one is spared the devastation of this war. this journalist seen here e in gaza's al aqsa hospital not to report on this latest attack, but toified his children amongst the dead. >> i saw my son kanan, and my daughter and sons. i saw my three siblings killed. i saw friends who were at my house, all killed. >> officials tell cnn this latest disaster was caused by yet another israeli air strike. among the numerous bodies, countless women and children. >> translator: 52 killed and more than 70 injured. most of those killed and injured are children, women, and elderly. and still a large number are buried under the rubble. >> reporter: in the now shattered refugee camp, once home to tens of thousands of

palestinians, residents search desperately for any sign of survivors. many digging frantically with their bare hands. this residential community is located in one of the zones deemed safe to evacuate to by the israeli military. but israel's air strikes have proven unrelenting. >> translator: all of a sudden, i saw the entire house upside down. i can't see. i don't even know where i am. >> reporter: homes which are crowded on saturday with entire families have now been reduced to blackened rubble. this crater a reminder of the force with which israel continues to bombard the besieged gaza strip. >> i saw all my sisters screaming. then i saw my father. when i found myself alive, i looked to see who is still alive. we turned on the torch, and my siblings were alive but i did not find my father. i finally found him next to me. i moved him. i moved his hands. i moved his face. he did not respond.

>> reporter: gaza's hospitals are overwhelmed. the shortages mean it is virtually impossible to adequately treat those wounded. but hospitals like al aqsa are also struggling to keep up with the mounting death toll. the beds of those killed lay outside, awaiting identification. a gut-wrenching image now an all too far reality here in gaza. nada bashir, cnn, in jerusalem. >> aid agencies say they lost contact with their workers sunday as gaza faced a third communications blackout. for more let's go over to journalist elliott gotkine in london. and those aid organizations were hugely concerned about that loss of communications. as well as this massive israeli bombardment in last few hours. bring us up to date. >> michael, by some accounts, this has been the heaviest night of bombardment by the idf since

it started striking in the wake of the terrorist attack on october th. as you mentioned a couple of moments ago in your introduction, michael, israel says it has now reached the coast of the gaza strip, effective ly bisecting the enclave and helping with the objective of surrounding gaza city where it is searching out for militants, infrastructure, and of course trying to free some of those 240 or so hostages still being held by hamas. the bombardment continues, and we've seen some of the images there in that report as to the effects of those strikes. at this same time, there has been a communications blackout. the third time there has been one since october 7th. not only is that affecting people's ability within the strip to communicate with one another, to find out if their loved ones are okay or even alive, but obviously friends and loved ones overseas. but as far as the humanitarian

organizations are concerned, they are also very worried. the head of the world health organization saying that without connectivity, people who need immediate medical attention cannot contact hospitals and ambulances. all channels of communication must be restored immediately. now i reached out to the idf to understand a little bit more about what was going on, but for now, at least, michael, they say they have no comment. >> all right, elliott, thanks. elliott gotkine there for us. now police in turkey had to intervene after pro-palestinian demonstrators tried to storm a u.s. air base. according to turkish state news, protesters carrying turkish and palestinian flags chanted anti-israel and anti-u.s. slogans. this was at the incirlik air base in southern turkey. police stepped in after some protesters broke down barricades and attempted to enter the base, as you can see there.

u.s. secretary of state antony blinken, meanwhile, has arrived in turkey. the last stop on his tour of the region before heading to east asia and india this week. blinken is expected to meet with turkish officials this morning to discuss the war. president erdogan is busy highly critical of israel's offensive in gaza, calling its actions crimes against humanity. while in iraq, blinken met with the prime minister, mohammed shia al sudani who called for a cease-fire and the reopening of border crossings to keep the humanitarian crisis from getting even worse. blinken on saturday found himself at odds with arab leaders who are calling for an immediate cease-fire. instead, voicing support for humanitarian pauses which he reiterated on sunday. >> i think everyone would welcome humanitarian pauses. there is no doubt about that. there are obviously different view, including the question of the cease-fire. but there is no doubt from my

conversations with all of our colleagues who were in aman yesterday that everyone would welcome the pause because it could advance things that we're all trying to accomplish. >> earlier on cnn, former u.n. ambassador and former u.s. national security adviser john bolton criticized the biden administration for its handling of the crisis. >> i think the biden administration is sliding away from its support of israel. i think nobody has taken into account how hamas and its puppet masters in iran really are manipulating public opinion in the united states and elsewhere. this is a very serious matter that's going on here, and there is no connection between what israel is doing in the northern part of the gaza strip and opening the border for proper shipments of humanitarian aid. this is a problem hamas has caused on both sides, letting the aid in and letting people out who want to get out. so i think israel is entirely justified here in saying hamas is so utterly untrustworthy,

that they don't get the benefit of a humanitarian pause, and certainly not a cease-fire. >> the u.s. military says a ballistic missile submarine has arrived in the middle east, sharing that photograph there, which appears to show the sub in the suez canal, passing under the al salaam bridge. it is seeming to send a clear message the u.s. does not want the israel-hamas war to expand, a message to others not to get involved. usually these nuclear-powered submarines operate in secret. this one joins two carrier strike groups that are already in the mediterranean. and the director of the cia, as we said, also heading to the middle east where he is well-known and respected. a u.s. official says he will visit several countries to meet with leaders and intelligence counterparts. cnn's jim sciutto with more from northern israel.

>> another senior u.s. official is coming to the region. a u.s. official tells me that the cia director william burns is traveling to the mid east. the focus of his visit i'm told is a number of things. one, the ongoing israeli military operation inside gaza, hostage negotiations, but also a continuing effort by this administration to help prevent this war from expanding further. that is similar to the message we heard from secretary of state antony blinken when he made a surprise visit to baghdad today. there, in addition to expressing his desire for increased protection for u.s. forces in the region, he said again the u.s. wants to prevent any state or nonstate actors from entering the war, expanding the war. that message directed principally at iran. we've been in northern israel watching crossfire across the border from southern lebanon into israel and israel into southern libertarian, an uptick

in that fire today that is part of the focus of u.s. officials in region, to prevent a northern front in this war from expanding. jim sciutto, cnn, in northern israel. you're watching "cnn newsroomom." we'll l be back wiwith more nen righght after ththe break.

welcome back. the chief of the idf is warning they're ready to shift into an offensive mode at any moment in the north of the strip. that comes as both lebanon and israel announced civilian casualties from sunday's strikes along the border there. israeli-lebanese border. there has been a near daily exchange of fire there since october 8th between israel and militants from hezbollah. that's something that the u.s. secretary of state raised deep concerns about as he met with lebanon's caretaker prime minister in aman, jordan. he thanked him for his leadership in preventing lebanon from being pulled into a wider conflict as well as for lebanon's efforts in working with regional partners to pursue peace. all right. let's discuss more now with james zogby, the president and founder of the arab-american

institute and author of "our voice: what they are saying to us and why it matters." he joins me from washington. it's good toe see you, jim. secretary of state blinken, he met with the palestinian authority leader mahmoud abbas on sunday. by all accounts it didn't go well. he had that almost awkward gap saturday between blinken and one example the jordanian foreign minister. how angry are arab governments with the u.s. and its unwillingness to support a cease-fire? >> well, there is a lot of anger there. and there is even more anger in arab public opinion. we've been doing some polling in the region, and frankly, the bottom has fallen out in terms of attitudes towards the u.s. and attitudes towards israel, countries that had made peace with israel, like jordan, like egypt, like others are today furious because they feel betrayed. and their voices don't matter either to israel obviously or to

the united states. and they think that's what's most concerning here. >> and to that point, blinken can't even get a so-called humanitarian pause from israel. do you get the sense that israel doesn't care what the u.s. says right now, they have a mission, they're determined to complete it no matter what anyone says or the cost? >> i have to say, it's comical that the united states is giving $3.8 billion a year. we've requested an additional $14.3 billion from congress, and we insist on giving it to israel without conditions. and yet israel places conditions on us. and we take it. i was asked by a reporter a couple of days ago, what did i think of u.s. policy? i said i'm not sure we have a policy in region right now. i think what we do is israel has a policy and we're simply following it and enabling it. and israel's policy seems to be -- i hate to use the word, but it's pathological.

they simply want to destroy gaza. and the idea that they're going to destroy hamas and do away with it makes as much since as 1982 when they tried to do away with the plo and ended up with hezbollah or tried to do away with hezbollah in 2006 and they got a stronger hezbollah, or we tried to get rid of saddam and we got iran. i mean, there are political issues here that we're not addressing, thinking that somehow military might is going to solve the underlying questions that confront israel and the palestinians. >> and toe that very point, full of unintended consequences, the u.s. knows that well. do you fear that while israel is trying to destroy hamas after what was an unspeakable terror attack in israel, that while trying to do that, it will create more radicalization, not less? >> i think we're already going to see signs of that. and you're right. hamas is a dastardly group with

a nasty ideology and tactics that for decades have been deplorable. but the solution is to pull the rug out from under them by giving hope to young palestinians who live in despair, by giving promise and a future to palestinians who see none. and that's what israel -- they want to have their cake and eat it too. they want to destroy opposition, but they want to keep feeding the opposition to their very existence by continuing to deny humanity and rights to a people that they oppress. so, yeah, they're there will be consequences. it best hamas 2.0. it may be more virulent. >> when it does come time -- when is a time to look at what comes after this latest conflict start to make plans? i mean, not just who rebuilds what's left of gaza, and they might not be much. but what political tract needs to be created, both in gaza and the west bank, and can a viable track even be created under this

netanyahu government? >> of course not. you ask the question, what should come after, that question should have been asked before it started. and hamas should have asked the question, what do you think is going to happen on day two? israel should be asked the question what are you going to do when it's over? the u.s. should ask itself the question, what are we going to do? and we should have asked that question of ourselves and the israelis before we ended up turning on the spigot and giving them the go ahead to do this. frankly, it's going to be very difficult to figure out what kind of track we can be on. look, there are today about half the population of gaza no housing at all because that much has been destroyed in the north. they have been pushed to the south where there isn't an infrastructure to absorb them. at least 10,000 dead. those families are not going to be ready to make peace, and there are going to be hundreds of thousands of people living both in despair but also at the same time in desperate conditions. and we have not thought of that.

and, look, if israel can't think straight, if hamas can't think straight, we have to be the adult in the room. the u.s. has not behaved that way. instead we've been a cold holder and a cheerleader, and we've given a crazy government, the netanyahu government is a crazy government, without a doubt, given what they're doing in the west bank, as well as what they're doing in gaza, we should have been the one to provide restraint, and we have note done it. instead we've enabled a very difficult situation that we're going to be living with for a generation. >> yep. the fallout is going to be huge. i wish we had more time. jim zogby, we'll get you back. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. still to come here on the program, qatar attempts to play mediator between israel and hamas. we'll have the latest on what the country is trying to achieve. also, running low on medicine and fuel while overrun with patients and residence seeking shelter. i'll speak with a doctor about the problems hospitals in gaza are experiencing.

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welcome back. you're watching "cnn newsroom" with me, michael holmes. i appreciate your company. now as the fight between israel and hamas intensifies, some regional players are trying to de-escalate the conflict. qatar working on two fronts, trying to secure the release of hostages and also reopen the rafah border crossing. cnn's becky anderson with more on that. >> we have been reporting from qatar for some two weeks on and off now as the country tries to mediate on two critical aspects of this conflict.

the reopening of the rafah crossing to allow more humanitarian aid in and civilians out, and on the release of some 240 hostages still being held by hamas, qatar foreign ministry spokesman told me the news conference that both of those objectives are becoming more difficult, but that qatar is still fully pursuing them with regard to rafah. qatar says it is hopeful the crossing will reopen for evacuations, calling it first reopening in the war, some seven eight days ago, quote, a very optimistic moment in a very gloomy month. but he says the events over the past few days are making the situation challenging. >> the bombing of a residential building, the bombing of hospitals, and the bombing of ambulances, which are part of this agreement for the

ambulances convoy to move patients out of harm's way certainly does not help as a proof of concept for this agreement being successful. >> well, israel has accused hamas of using ambulances to transport militants. a warning that the following images are graphic. in the case of an ambulance targeted by an israeli strike on friday, the hamas-controlled health ministry in gaza has rejected that allegation. witnesses said dozens were killed and wounded in that strike. the israeli prime minister says there will be no cease-fire until the hostages taken by hamas are released. four have been released so far. again, ansari says negotiations around that issue which are qatar-led are difficult given the most recent escalations.

>> while we do acknowledge the difficulties that we have in this negotiation, they are still ongoing, and we are -- we our commitment to handle this negotiation the best way possible. we are continuing to reach out to all points of contact, to all parties in order to see how we can have this materialize. but obviously, any hostage release has to be linked to a period of calm that allows for the hostage release to work, which allows for something we have not been seeing for a while. now. >> becky anderson, cnn, doha. jordan has provided medical aid to palestinians by air dropping supplies to a field hospital in gaza. that's according to the king abdullah ii. he has been critical of israel's assault on gaza and has repeatedly called for a cease-fire. u.n. officials have warned the truckloads of humanitarian aid now getting through are not nearly enough to meet even the basic needs. joining me now is dr. tanya, a

pediatric intensive care and humanitarian doctor with medecins sans frontieres, or doctors without borders. doctor, good to see you. i know these are tough days for you and your people. there have been more disruptions to communications sunday. are you in touch with your people? what are they telling you about this situation? >> yeah, i was last in touch with a couple of my colleagues yesterday. but since then, the contact has been completely cut off again. they're desperate. they're screaming for international protection. at least 182 health care workers have been killed to date, and they say that they have screamed, they have tried to expose the atrocities that are happening both to the civilian population where they live, but also to them and the facilities where they work to care for this population, and that has been met with silence. i mean, i can quote a pediatric

intensive care doctor two days ago who sent this text message saying unfortunately we are on our way to collapsing from the horror of the scenes that we see. despite our strength, it's beginning to fade around the world is watching as if we were in a horror movie, and the viewers are all silent. and i think that's exactly -- that's the impression that i have as well as a humanitarian worker who has been screaming on tv and every avenue i can possibly consider, as has every humanitarian worker and organization i know. >> yeah, i can imagine that you're feeling helpless, thaw i don't are saying these things and so little is happening. i mean, i've been seeing reports that medical staff, they're running out of things like gauze to even bandage wounds, pins and rods for orthopedic surgery.

i heard somebody, it may have been you i read that said people are being treated without anesthesia or painkillers, which is unimaginable. what are the most desperate challenges for the medical staff? >> i mean, i can paint a picture for you because we have reached a new low in an endless stream of unconscionable violence. i can sit here and tell you that they need gauze, but the reality is the israeli forces targeted at least four hospitals just this past weekend with direct strikes. a convoy of ambulances that was evacuating patients, i saw my colleague, my previous medical student on tv over a body covered with blood. this is the reality, outside of his workplace. my other colleague i spoke to last night said he was on his way out to buy something from the vendor just outside the hospital door when he was called back in to the operating room for a child with severe burns.

he turned around, walked back in, and in the operating room, heard this massive explosion. that would have been him standing outside. this is a colleague of mine, a graduate of oxford university who i have known for over 15 years. >> wow. >> they targeted four densely populated unrwa schools, u.n. schools where internally displaced people were sheltering. they massacred people that were trying to flee on the only access road in and out of gaza, flee as they were told to evacuate. over half the population in the gaza strip is displaced. and you know, they're not only killing people by directly targeting them. they're also killing them by targeting the hospitals where they seek medical care, by targeting the doctors and the journalists who expose these atrocities. and i want to get back to that in a second by targeting the water wells, the food supply,

the medicine, the sewage system, every single thing that is indispensable to human life. so people are dying, and i want to quote my colleague who sent me this message last night from gaza. people are dying in 1,001 ways. and the reason i want to make this very important point as someone coming from doctors without borders because our organization, medecins sans frontieres, was founded exactly for this purpose. we were founded on a -- one of our very core values and principles is a french word that means bearing witness. we were founded by journalists and doctors who wanted to bear witness on these atrocities that are sanctioned by the world. and to be able to provide that testimony and to treat the patients and relieve the suffering that that happens. and that's why journalists and doctors came together. and we're left in a situation where these atrocities are being

committed in the dark, cut off from communication, having killed a large proportion of the journalists, having left them in a situation where there is very little international journalism present, having left the doctors a situation where they have very little access to all the tools of modern medicine like you asked in your question that are needed to care for the suffering. and yet the world -- and when i say the world, i want to be very clear. the collective international humanitarian community is -- has reached very clear consensus about this three weeks ago. we were very vocal to say this has to stop there has to be a cease-fire. the push, the plea to end this unconscionable massacre, and the demand for a cease-fire has also been echoed by the overwhelming majority of countries on this planet in the united nations general assembly just this past week. and also, by the billions of people that have taken to the

streets worldwide. calling for a cease-fire. and yet the american tax dollars are still being used to fund this unconscionable massacre. >> i mean, the shortages are horrible, and it's also the people perhaps you got to think of those with dialysis, babies in incubators, and all of those things. i've got to leave it there, unfortunately, tanya, we're right out of time. thank you so much. >> can i just add one last thing. >> real quick. >> a colleague of mine yesterday sent me a message from canada. she said when your mind races, come back to the child and you will always be right. you will be heartbroken, but you will be right. so please, for all of your viewers and for biden and for blinken and ever single person throughout who has power in this, and for every single person who thinks they don't have power because they're at home sitting on their couch you have power. please make this stop. you do not want to be living in a world where you allow this to

happen. thank you so much for your time. appreciate it there with medecins sans frontieres. and we will be right back.

the former leaders of britain and australia paid a visit to the liz kibbutz devastated by hamas' assault back in october 7th. ex-prime ministers boris johnson and scott morrison along with israeli soldiers and officials walked around some of the burnt houses. johnson says that he believes the attacks might suggest that the memory of the holocaust is starting to fade, but also stressed that anti-semitism simply cannot be tolerated. morrison sharing similar sentiments. >> look around. this is -- this is the end of anti-semitism. this is where it ends. those expressions of hate against jewish people, this is

what it becomes, what we're seeing around us here today. that's why it can't be tolerated in its most smallest form, because it starts as a mustard seed and it gross into this horror. >> pope francis voicing his concerns over the israel-hamas war, urging both sides to hold the fighting so that aid can get to those who need it. >> translator: i continue to think of the grave situation in palestine and israel where many people are lost their lives. i beg you, in god's name to stop, to have a cease-fire. i pray that every avenue will be explored to ensure that the conflict does not escalate further, that the wounded can be rescued, and that aid can reach the people of gaza where the humanitarian situation is at its worst.

>> i'm michael holmes. for our international viewers, "world sport" is next. for those watching us in north america, the news continues after the break.

and welcome back to our viewers here in north america. i'm michael holmes. p pro-palestinian rallies drew people in cities around the world over the weekend. in washington, protesters marched to the white house, leaving signs that said "stop the massacre, let gaza live." some pushed up against the white house gates and covered them in red hasn't prints, as you saw there. during the rally, speakers accused the biden administration of having blood on its hands for failing to call for a ceasefire in gaza. the secret service said no arrests were made. college campuses have become flash points for demonstrations and protests surrounding the israel-hamas war. and in some cases, ugly incidents of hate. but it's not just college students.

the war is a hot button issue with younger students as well. cnn's athena jones spoke to five jewish high school students about how it's impacting their lives. >> reporter: it's a situation that hits close to home. >> we're such a tight knit community. this is like our family. >> it's a shock that's consistent and you can't escape it. >> i started reaching out to people to check up, and it was hours later and i was still checking up and people i was really worried about. >> what have the last few weeks been like being here in america observing what's going on in israel and gaza? >> i think it's been a sort of balancing act of worrying about, like, when is the other shoe going to drop here in america and caring for and like making sure to be a good support system for my friends and family in israel. >> waiting for another shoe to drop? how do you mean? >> i feel like right now in america we're in this kind of

grace period with israel where israel was attacked and the general feeling towards israel is still fairly positive. that feeling is going to shift, and that pity is not going to be there anymore. and i think that's when bad things are going to start happening in america to jews. >> i disagree with the fact that the majority of american sentiment is one of pro-israel or pity or sympathy. i think now that israel has been bombing gaza and there have been attempts to get the hostages back and all that the military operations going on, i think there has been a huge uptick in anti-semitism. >> reporter: they say the political response to the war has been upsetting, especially what they're seeing on social media. >> it's a very inherent jewish value in times of grief to sit in your pain and sit in your discomfort, and fast in prayer and community. and that's our way of dealing with grief and processing. and i think to have such raw pain be turned into something political is very, very

difficult to deal with. >> it's an impossible situation when you've been attacked by this terror group that's also governing and hiding behind its own people. i can't watch innocent palestinians die, but it's like you poke a bear, and hamas poked a bear and went and hid behind a bunch of little cubs. >> it's hard for me to hear "free gaza, free palestine," because hamas is hurting gazan citizens just as much as it's hurting israeli citizens. being pro palestine or pro gaza should not mean being pro hamas. >> how you think this ends? >> when you're working on the amount of precedent that there is with israel, with gaza, with palestinians, hamas, i don't see this ending in a way that will feel very final. >> israel has lost. the innocent civilians in gaza have lost. nobody can win a war like this.

so what does the end look like? it look likes loss. >> where do you find the hope in a situation like this? >> i have no hope that this conflict will be resolved in the next century. not at all. i think this will be almost immutable fact of the middle east, the israeli-palestinian conflict. >> this is where i turn to religion and prayer, god, you know really the core of judaism, and that's helping me get through this. >> frances geller was planning to spend a gap year in israel before going to college that plan is now uncertain. >> i truly believe that persons veer perseverance is in our dna. we've been around all this time. they tried to get rid of us. they won't. how can brow not believe that's who we are is hopefulness, and fighting, it doesn't add up. >> athena jones, are putting pressure on u.s. president joe biden to change

his strategy with israel. cnn's fareed zacaria says whatever biden is doing right now doesn't seem stto be workin. >> this is an important test of diplomacy. the premise behind joe biden's strategy in this crisis has been one i completely understand and largely agree with. the only way you have any influence on israel, which is the dominant military power here, the overwhelmingly dominant military power, is to hug them close. to tell israel you support them, you have their back, you understand their trauma and you understand the devastation of the attack. and then, to use that political capital to counsel them on a wise source, on a restrained course, on a strategic course. biden has done the first time right. he's trying hard on the second part. it's my understanding that the biden administration counseled

the israeli government not to do a ground offensive, to do a c targeted, selective series of incursions. it doesn't seem to be working. what the biden administration has to ask itself -- it has called for pauses. this is semantics. the iz srael lis are doing nonef that perform are they going to be more vocal? are they going to make shclear is important to them. bibi netanyahu has a history of rebuffing american pressure. before the next u.s. election, donald trump holds an edge over president biden in several key swing states. new polling has trump leading in some states where biden won the vote in 2020. white house reporter priscilla alvarez with more on that.

>> reporter: a newly released poll is painting a grim outlook for the biden campaign a year before the election. a "new york times" poll, former president is beating the president in four, key swing states. nevada, georgia, and michigan. president biden won those in 2020 and former president trump faces a series of charges. president biden's campaign is hard at work reaching and mobilizing the winning source of voters, one year out, of our winning the popular agenda. the campaign goes on to say, we'll win in 2024, by putting our heads down and doing the work, not by fretting about a poll. the campaign cited the 2022 election, where democrats had a grim outlook there and did better than expected.

the president fanning out across the country, to sell his economy to voters who have doubts about the president's age. and the president, too, is facing risks within his own party, about the handling of the israel/hamas war. several headwinds on the 2k34esic and international f front, as the president goes into november of 2024. priscilla alvarez, cnn, traveling with the president. the latest polling is especially striking as donald trump faces a host of legal troubles. on monday morning, the former president is set to take the stand, in his civil fraud trial in new york. it's expected to be a high-stakes day of testimony that could determine the fate of his new york business endeavors. trump could ultimately be forced to sell off his properties, after a judge ruled that he and his company committed fraud for

years while building his real estate empire. from arizona in the west to new york in the east, it will feel a lot like summer for the next couple of days. as cnn meteorologist allison chinchar shows us dozens of high temperatures are in the works. >> the calendar may say november but it doesn't feel like it this week. 60 record highs all the way from arizona to new york. monday through wednesday. and some of the cities may break the records multiple days in a row. that heat starts in the southwest and begins to spread off to the east by the middle of this week. but notice very quickly that cold air settles right back in. this isn't going to be a very long lived warming trend for many people. take st. louis, for example, going from 83 on wednesday, dropping to 61 on thursday. denver, similar trend. you're looking at a high of 75 on tuesday, dropping back to the high of 48 on thursday, with

snowshowers mixed in the morning. it's not just snow, but rain for several locations, as we see the next setup take place. by wednesday night and thursday morning, you're starting to see the changeover for rain and snow for cities like denver. and rain showers from texas all the way to the east. new york, memphis, dallas on thursday. not just the rain but also see the temperatures drop, as well, going from 84 on wednesday, dropping back to a high of 68 the very next day. >> allison chinchar there for us. a record-setting finish on sunday at this year's new york city marathon. tamarat tolla of ethiopia setting a new course record. 2:04.58. beating the previous fastest

time in 2011. in the women's race, a sprint to the finish line. you see that there. helen kenya. it's another big win for oberi who won the boston marathon earlier this year. thanks for watching cnn newsroom. i'm michael holmes. i'll be back with more news after a short break.