strategy for to go that that will actually cause you to pick up votes in the campaign. tim scott dropped out. the polls found his support splitting in thirds among ron desantis, nikki haley and donald trump. so i think that the problem of consolidating remains serious but the problem is that desantis and haley have a very different hitch for being non-trump candidates similar to ted cruz and marco rubio in the 2016 campaign. a lot of people for desantis are not there because they want anything other than trump and if they are forced to choose between trump and haley they choose trump. so i think it remains difficult to consolidate. >> nikki haley needs donald trump's voters if she wants to have a shot. she has to peel some of those people off. and the base took pride in the kind of working class switch that donald trump brought. there is real kind of serious i think things she would have to

speak to if that community. there is not haley voters for a traditional path there. >> we got to go. >> we could talk about this and i hope we do soon. thanks, guys. and cnncnn"cnn this morning continues. >> good morning. let's get right to it. president biden's foreign policy set to face yet another major test as he departs today for a high stakes meeting request chinese president xi jinping on the sidelines of a big economic summit with other global leaders. we are learning of a potential u.s./china deal on fentanyl. >> as president biden is jug his support of israel's war against hamas with the peril around gaza's hospital. the president -- >> and the government he leads is now just three days away from a potential shutdown. a vote is set for today to avert it.

the measure includes no funding for the war in ukraine or israel's war against hamas. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. let's begin. the families of hostages being held in gaza are marching from tel aviv to jerusalem. they are demanding action. they are calling on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to secure the release of their loved ones. >> here in the u.s. tens of thousands are expected to gather on the national mall to rally in support of israel and release of hostages. this all comes as israeli airstrikes continue to pummel gaza in the relentless ground assault grinds on. president biden is urging restraint as israeli troops and tanks surround gaza's largest hospital. one of the huge foreign policy crises he is dealing with as he

prepares to fly to the west coast. where he will be meeting with chinese president xi jinping tomorrow. arlette sans is live at the white house. you put the convergence of these significant geopolitical issues at the same time. what are the expectations on this trip? >> reporter: well, president biden is certainly jug lig a host of foreign issues, including the conflict in israel and preparing for this meeting with chinese president xi jinping. if you can hear the music behind me, there is a group of pro-israeli volunteers just outside the white house right now trying to raise awareness to those 240 hostages being held by hamas. they have been out here several hours now and it comes as you noted there will be those protests, demonstrations here in washington in support of israel. but as the president is preparing to head out to san francisco for this critical meeting with chinese president xi jinping he is expected to bring up the conflicts between russia and ukraine and the

conflict between israel and hamas in this meeting. officials say that the president is hoping to lean on chinese president xi jinping and his relationship with iran to try to push iran not to try to escalate this war any further, from preventing it taking actions to potentially widen the conflict that is something the president is planning to bring up in his meeting with chinese president xi jinping. it's trying to stabilize the relationship between the two countries at a time when there have been moments of tension and strain the past year between the u.s. and china. another issue biden is expected to press xi on is trying to restore the military-to-military communications. that is something that china pulled the plug on last year after former house speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan. they wanted to try to restore that communication to prevent any surprise ds from occurring. there are also expected to be a major agreement announced when it comes to the fentanyl crisis. something that the biden administration has been working towards to -- for quite some time. this meeting will be watched

very closely as the president is trying to find a way to maintain this relationship without preventing it from deteriorating any further. >> arlette saenz, thank you. six weeks that the israel/hamas war the conflict is taking a severe toll on journalists. are 42 and media workers have been killed covering this war. 37 of them are palestinian. 14 are israeli. one is lebanese. the first month of the war was the deadliest month for reporters since it started collecting data in 1992. nine journalists have been injured, three reported missing, 13 arrested. despite all of that danger, the journalists facing the region news organizations are asking for more access to the gaza strip to cover the ongoing war. in a letter to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and to egyptian president al-sisi, 11 news organizations, including cnn, highlight the need for more journalists on the ground in gaza to document what's happening there.

>> the organization is writing in part, we understand the risks that reporting on the ground in a time of conflict entails, but we also know that factual and partial information is vital to enable the world to understand this crisis. there are a small number of journalists reporting from inside gaza, but in the midst of the fighting consistent reporting has been a significant challenge. without significant journalistic presence on the ground, news organizations are unable to verify competing claims from the hamas and idf. the idf has allowed some journalists to embody with them, but those come with conditions, including being escorted by the idf. israel's focused operations around gaza's hospitals is growing more intense as the idf alleges parts of the basement of this children's medical center was a, quote, hamas command center. cnn's nic robertson, foreign correspondent who covered conflict for more than 30 years is embedded with the idf in

gaza. he joins us from east of the gaza border. nick, tell us what you saw. >> reporter: yeah, this was a level and scale of destruction that was worse than i previously have seen in gaza following the 2014 incursion and i think some of the worst destruction on such a big scale than i ever seen cray across my career. looking over my shoulder here, this is the jabalia area, smoke rising inside of gaza. these images we are about to show you, that's where the idf took us yesterday. driving into gaza with the israeli forces. it's a war zone. the conditions of our access only show officers, no faces of soldiers, and don't show sensitive equipment. we are passing mile after mile of destruction. buildings blown, collapsed.

nothing untouched by the fury of israel's hunt for hamas. streets here crushed back to sand. shops, everything that we see, no sign of any civilians here. a few miles in we pull up at a command post. soldiers living in blown apartment buildings. hard to imagine how civilians endured the bombardment here. our next journey much deeper into gaza. we arrive 100 meters from a battle with hamas. tanks blasting targets and nearby buildings. the idf's top spokesperson waiting for us. we know you are conducting an operation. israel is facing massive international pressure over the

destruction of homes. the shockingly high civilian death toll. and in the last few days, over its apparently heavy-handed tactics at hospitals. they have brought us here to show the connection he says exists between hamas and the children's hospital. >> we are here in an area between a hospital, a school, and a terrorist house. >> reporter: a hamas commander, he says, lived there. he points out the solar panels on the roof. this is a tunnel. you can see here -- >> reporter: this is the ladder going down? >> this is the ladder going down. >> reporter: i see ladder going down. >> a 20-meter tunnel. look it here. look at the -- look at the

tunnel. be careful here. look down here. cables are going down to the tunnel. okay? >> reporter: so they are hardwired into the tunnel? >> i wanted to show you the solar panels on the terrorist house provide electricity. it's directed to the tunnel. >> reporter: we are in what is an active fire zone here. you can hear the small arms fire. the idf say they are still clearing this area out. we are getting to -- we are taking a bit of cover. we are still taking fire. but over here, we were able to smell what smelled like rotting flesh. bodies perhaps buried underneath the rubble. he later tells us he took a big risk bringing us into such a combat zone. it is clear he wants this story told. as we finally reach the hospital, it is already getting dark. a huge hole has been blasted through the walls into the basement. why is the hospital so damaged?

>> why is hospital so damaged? >> reporter: yeah. >> it's important. we came to this hospital five days ago. there was still patients inside the hospital. we didn't enter into the hospital. >> reporter: he claims since then all patients were evacuated by hospital staff. >> evacuation to make it a safe pass for all the patients in the hospital. we do not know that the hospital is entirely clear. we only entered to this area which was suspected because we are being fired. >> reporter: he leads us through a basement corridor to this room. >> this was the armory, okay? >> reporter: the hamas armory? >> yeah. >> reporter: he shows us a few rusting guns and some explosives. these guns alone have potentially huge implications for gaza's hospitals and israel's you a parent push to take control of them. >> the international committee for the red cross say that

hospitals are given special protection under international humanitarian law in a time of war. but if militants store weapons there or use them as a base of fire, then that protection falls away. in other rooms, he shows us a motorbike with a bullet hole in it that he suspects was used by hamas attackers october 7th. and nearby, possible evidence, hostages could have been held here. we are now in the basement in the same area from the motorcycle. >> we see a chair. we see a rope. we see a woman's clothes, a woman's something covering woman. >> reporter: you think a woman was tied up in this chair? >> this is an asufrms. going to be checked for dna. >> reporter: evidence he points towards hamas and possible hostage presence below the hospital. and by bringing us to this hospital and showing us the connection that you believe exists between the terrorists and the possibly hostages, what

does this say about further hospitals here in gaza? >> shifa hospital is known to be a terrorist hub and also it's suspicious also in holding hostages. this is the best shelter for the terror war machine of hamas. >> reporter: the hospital authority said they have no knowledge of hamas or groups inside the hospitals. that possible? >> i thits not possible for a hospital to have this infrastructure. we knew the terrorists were here. we knew -- >> reporter: how did you know? >> expeintelligence and also we some fire from this area. >> reporter: this area are building? >> this area. we were right to fire. what we found, an armory. >> reporter: but so much damage. >> there is damage all around here because hamas made it impossible for us to fighting. they build all this infrastructure in tunnels and hospital. around areas populated. >> reporter: as we exit the hospital, it is already dark. we are just getting ready to leave now. the firefight still going on.

still intense. bullets fired. explosions up the street there. this war and the controversy surrounding it far from resolved. >> nic, that is extraordinary how close you were to the ongoing fighting, how you got into those buildings and asked the critically important questions of the idf. when we saw near the end of the piece what they point as possible evidence a hostage was held there, did they show you and talk to you about how they are navigating this ongoing fighting that you were so close to with trying to find the hostages because the real fear is from the families could our loved ones die in the middle of this fighting. >> reporter: they are. and it's not something that the idf really seems to want to speak a lot about. they don't want to get into detail about it. but it was very clear they had a huge emphasis on discovering everything they could about the

tunnels. not just, i think, to prove to us and the world that they believe that there is this connection between tunnels and hospitals and other hamas activities. not that. i think because it's a real live part of their investigation into the whereabouts of the hostages. whatever they can try to figure out from that location and learn from that location, can potentially apply to other -- to other hospitals. and there is a sense among the idf when the hospitals have been evacuated if, and i say if because that's only -- that as far as they they will go in describing this, if there were hostages there, they think that perhaps they could have been moved way from the hospitals when the hospitals were evacuated and that's not something that they could -- that they were able to check on at the time and it's something that's very difficult for them to check on going forward. but that is a concern. and i think, you know, when you see people literally digging in huge holes of dirt at the side of the road in an active combat

zone, no military commander would send his troops into danger to dig up a tunnel unless there was a hugely important reason. again, i don't believe that is only to prove to the world the connection that it is to find out more information about possible whereabouts of hostages. >> nic robertson, the proximity and depth of your reporting extremely valuable. thank you. new york city mayor eric adams will take questions from reporters today as the fbi investigates his campaign's alleged ties to turkey. and a secret service agent fired shots at people attempting to break into a government vehicle. why this matches a disturbing trenend in the n nation's cacap. ththat's next.t.

welcome back. a couple of hours, new york city mayor eric adams will take questions about the fbi's investigation into his campaign financing and possible foreign influence. these agents reportedly trying to determine whether the turkish government benefitted from donations to adams' campaign. federal agents seized adams' phones and ipad last week. he has not been accused of any wrongdoing. gloria pazmino is following this. after they took the phones, he was in front of reporters and didn't bring up and no one knew so they couldn't have asked. >> we didn't learn for several days. we lernds friday that fib has seized his phones, electronics. i think we need to start there, white. there are two things that happened in the last few days. the mayor's electronics were seized. we are learning about what federal authorities are looking into, the potential influence of foreign donors, foreign nationals who made donations had

toys campaign and whether or not the mayor used his office, his authority, his influence to help some of those donors, specifically around the issue of fire safety permits that were needed at the turkish consulate. that's what our law enforcement sources have been telling us. we know that the mayor before he took office and when he was -- for president sent text messages to fire officials asking them to take a look into something that the consulate needed help with. he argued that was just part of doing his job. was looking out for his constituents and there is nothing to see there. but i think today there is going to be a lot of questions for the mayor who, as you said, has not been accused of any wrongdoing, and has said that there is nothing to be -- he has nothing to hide. but here you have the fbi issuing a warrant, which means that they presented probable cause that there was evidence of a crime on those electronics.

it may not mean that the mayor committed the crime, but they are looking for something. for whatever reason, they told a judge they needed to hold on to these electronics and a warrant was necessary do that. >> there is no telling when the fbi may come forward with anything, right? this could go on for a long time without us knowing much from officials? >> correct. as that develops this is going to be something that mayor is going to continue to have to answer questions about and, of course, he has tried to -- he is trying to run the city. there are several problems and issues that he is trying to solve right now, namely the migrant crisis. arguably, one of the biggest issues affecting the city right now. this is taking his time and attention and focus. so it may take a while. we have seen similar cases before and i guess it will -- we will see how long it takes, remember, he was pulled back from that important meeting at the white house to deal with a matter, now we know what the matter is. thank you, gloria, for the reporting. the d.c. metropolitan police

department and secret service are this morning investigating an agent on president biden's granddaughter's security detail. he fired shots at people he saw trying to break into a government vehicle as a disturbing trend shows vehicle threat in washington, d.c., has nearly doubled in the past year. harry enten is here to break down the numbers. harry, start with this seems to be a national trend to some degree, right? >> absolutely does, phil. and when we look at car thefts nationally, this is the first half of 2023, lieup over 100%. within the last year nationally, look at this, still up 34%. there has been a lot of crime that has been dropping, but car theft in fact has been going up. you mentioned washington. so let's look at washington. well, apparently we are not looking at washington because this screen just went blank. >> that's right. >> there we go. >> call it out. it will come back you to. >> beautiful. car thefts in 2023 versus 2022,

look. washington nearly up 100%. up 98%. that is the largest in the major city. chicago up 56%. here in new york city it's up 18%. los angeles is down 2%. so we see differing rates across the country. overall, car thefts are up. some cities are down. but washington is very much on the upper end of the spectrum, up nearly 100% this year versus last year, year to date. >> district residents as of three months ago, i can vouch it is a major issue. when you look at crime how it compares where things stand now, what do you see? >> yeah. first, it's not just that we're seeing the change in rates going up. the rates are really high. in 2023, these are the car thefts per 100,000 cars among residents. look how high washington is. over 2,000 per 100,000 cars. compare that to new york city. it's just 670. it's not just that the rates are increasing. it's that they were already high to begin with w here is the other thing about washington.

you were mentioning it, phil, the overall crime rate in 2023 versus 2022. it is up in washington, d.c. it's up 27%. so a lot of people aren't feeling safe there. compare to a place like new york. crime is actually down by a percent. so the fact is washington, d.c., has higher vehicle theft and it's part of a larger trend of overall crime growing overall. so it's a big reason why i think a lot of people in washington, d.c., don't exactly feel safe these days. >> yeah. great point. fascinating numbers. thank you. just three days to go until the government could shut down. will democrats get behind a government led two-tiered solution. and blocking an impeachment vote for homomeland secucurity lou retttton alejandndro mayork. that's's next. my sport propels.

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ladder cr, two state cr is an important innovation, a paradigm shift. breaking it up, part of the bills in january, part by february 2, allows congress to do its job. this will be have to be a bipartisan measure to prevent the government from shutting down. of the government shuts down, you know who they blame? the house republicans. >> that was speaker mike johnson just moments ago on fox news. you could tell by the clock behind me, it's crunch time. while you may be numb to us saying that in relation to government funding, three days left to avoid a government shutdown. house republicans pursuing what you heard from the speaker, a two-step plan to fund the government. neither of those new deadlines have anything to do with additional aid for israel or

ukraine. meanwhile, eight republicans voted with democrats to block an impeachment vote for homeland security ser tear merrick garland, instead they referred it to the homeland security committee. since retaking the house majority, republicans sought to impeach mayorkas over his handling of the migrant cries at the u.s./mexico border. joining us is south dakota congressman dusty johnson. i want to start with -- i know you are not a spokesperson for the house democratic caucus nor will you be in the closed-door meeting in 30 minutes. have you gotten any signals they will help your conference get this over the finish line today? >> i think things are moving in the right direction. one of the things i hate about washington, d.c., is how quickly people get themselves whipped into a thick lather in opposition to everything. nobody really wants to get to yes in this town and that meant early democratic reaction to speaker johnson's plan was pretty negative. i am grateful that they have taken a couple of deep breaths, understood what we are trying to do makes a ton of sense.

i expect a decent number of them will support it when it hits the floor. >> this will set two deadlines for -- chunks of the 12 appropriations bills separating them. my question right now, and particularly as somebody who i know is considered kind of a worker inside the conference, your leadership said to pull two full year bills, republican full year appropriations bills in the last week. why are we not going to be here in mid-january and again in february? >> i do think it's pretty unfortunate when you have got eight or 10 or 15 hard-liners who on the republican side who make it just about impossible for us to get anything done. we put a good product on the floor. it won't be perfect. so they will walk away from it. it is frustrating. so what i think is different is an understanding as we get closer to the end of this journey, of course it's going to require some votes on both sides of the aisle. maybe i don't love that idea but the reality is that the democrats control the senate.

the republicans control the house to fund government we need a bipartisan vote. we are inching closer to that, which means that the hard-liners will be in less of a position to let fer perfect be the enemy of the good. >> the proposal today is a flat continuing resolution, doesn't include aid for israel. does not include aid for ukraine. listen to what national security advisor jake sullivan said yesterday. >> each week that passes, our ability to fully fund what we feel is necessary to give ukraine the tools and capacities it needs to both defend its territory and continue to make advances, that gets harder and harder. sol for us the window is closing. >> congressman, if the window is closing, crs, omnibuses, whether you like them or not, they are the vehicles to pass things like ukraine aid. is there any pathway to ukraine

aid anytime soon? >> it doesn't have to be these big omnibus packages that lumber into this capitol in dead of night and everybody's force odd to vote on it the next day. republicans in the house when we took control said we weren't going to do that type of i supp helping ukraine defend their country. let's have a conversation about that. i think so much of the frustration on the republican side has been that administration has not laid out what is the strategic plan. exactly what are these dollars going for. what's the accountability. how are those dollars tied to a definition of victory. if we have a strategic conversation, and i know that may take a few days, but we should not allow the failures of the administration over the last 18 months to force congress into making yet another bad spending decision. let's help israel. let's help ukraine. let's do it the right way. >> before i let you go, congressman, i want to ask you

because it isantithetical to mys of your approach of the job. that's something the president over the weekend. listen. >> in honor of our great veterans on veterans day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do anything left possible, will do anything whether legally or illegally to destroy america and to destroy the american dream. >> sir, he is the frontrunner in your party's nomination. seems almost certain at this point he is going to be the nominee. i am not asking you to endorse any of the candidates out there, but your response to that? if he is your nominee, the next president of the united states, that type of language, that type of rhetoric. >> i can't defend that rhetoric.

there are clearly people within the country who don't like american values. i don't think they are quite as multitude nous as the former president made them sound. more importantly, if we are going to beat back the internal challenges to this country, we are not going to do it through anger and fear. we are going to do it through logic, through reason, through coalition building, an understanding what makes america great and how to leverage that to win the policy battles that admittedly some folks on the left have very different views how to run things like the southern border and government spending lake i do. i want to beat them with rhetoric that i think a little bit more hopeful, positive, and helpful than what we just heard. >> congressman dusty johnson, appreciate it, sir. thank you. >> thank you. in israel, families of hostages being held by hamas marching from tel aviv to jerusalem today demanding their government do everything they

can to save their loved one. >> this is happening as the conflict between israel and hezbollah intensifies at the lebanonon border.. details s on that frfront next. .

cr. the biden administration announcing a round of sanctions on key hamas officials. also officially designated the leader of palestinian islamic jihad militant wing as a global terrorist. overnight, reports of intense shelling across the israel/lebanon border as tension escalates between iran-backed hezbollah and israel on the northern border. according to reporting from axios, lloyd austin has expressed return about israel's

role in this escalation. joining us is the journalist behind that reporting, axios political and foreign policy reporter. this is so interesting. if i could read a little bit of your reporting because you say some of the biden administration are concerned israel is trying to provoke hezbollah and create a pretext for a wider war on lebanon that could draw in the u.s. and other countries into further conflict. that's a big deal. >> yes, good morning. i think it's a very big deal because we are so focused on the war in gaza and rightly so, because that's the main event, but over in the north on the lebanese/israeli border there is a side event that very quickly and easily could turn into something ten times bigger than gaza, ten times more dangerous and could engulf the whole region. and i think that what the biden administration is telling the israeli government is we're watching you and we know that

there are some people inside the israeli government, including, by the way, the minister of defense himself, gallant, you know, who are toying with this idea of broadening the war to lebanon and the biden administration i think sent a message very clear to gallant himself that this is something they would not see as a positive development. >> barak, the idea of toying with the idea of broadening the war, why? i think i ask that because so much of the administration, at least the officials i have spoken to, you have reported an ton on this a as well, why they have naval assets in the region, sent missile defense systems, rapid reaction forces in the region are to stop exactly what. what would lead some israeli officials to believe that would be a good move? >> first, i totally agree with everything you just said. but what i think that what gallant and others in the idf think is twofold. first, they say, you know, we

are already in a war and we already in daily skirmishes with hezbollah in the north. maybe it is an opportunity to also sort of deal with that threat, too. and, second, this is something that, you know, for practical reasons, israel evacuated tens of thousands of people from villages and towns along the border with lebanon. and those people say that they will not go back home if on the other side of the border the threat from hezbollah to do exactly what hamas did on october 7th. so the israelis are telling the biden administration, if we don't take this threat away, we won't have anything to tell our own citizens. >> but as you said at outset, the capability and the force that hezbollah holds is so many times that of hamas in gaza. so it would be an even more difficult and protracted fight most likely. what about the hostages? there are threads of reporting -- i know you have

some. we mike mccaul talk this weekend about considerations that israeli government is making to at least agree to part of what hamas is saying it wants for the hostages back. what do we know this morning? >> i think it's still a moving target. meaning, we are everyday, day, we are get to go the point of almost, almost, almost, and then we're not there. and this is -- this has been the case, i think, for something like two weeks. there were several ideas on the table, several proposals that were discussed. but any time things got to the decision point, either israel or hamas backed off. so i think again there are discussions. there are serious discussions. but at least from everything i know, we are not there yet. >> what causes either side or both sides to back off? >> i think it's the sort of relation between the number of hostages that hamas will release

and the number of days that israel will agree to pause its military operation. and that's where the negotiations are. each side is trying -- israel is trying to get more hostages for less days and hamas is trying to release less hostages for more days, and the u.s. and qatar are trying to somehow come up with some sort of compromises. for now, again, we're still not there. >> barak ravid, critical reporting, as always, thank you for being with us. >> thank you very much. a landmark clinical trial in the drug wegovy showing people taking it were less likely to develop diabetes. we are going to speak with the cdc about this new development. that's next.t.

as the world marks international diabetes day today, the results of a landmark clinical trial suggest people using a popular weight loss medication wegovy were less likely to develop diabetes.

>> patients encontrolled in the trial were in the overweight or obese categories but didn't have diabetes. research found that those taking wegovy had a 73% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. and a 67% lower risk of pre-diabetes than patients on placebo. joining us is the director of the cdc's division of diabetes translation, dr. chris holiday. sir, we appreciate your time. to start, you know, i feel like so much of the conversation about these types of drugs is about celebrities taking them or people taking them -- this study seemed to show they have a very clear effect for what they were intended for. should that also in your view include those individuals with diabetes? >> yes, in fact, many of these drugs are for people with type 2 diabetes, and we encourage people to talk to your health care provider about whether or not these drugs are appropriate for you based on other conditions a person may have or contraindications, if you will.

what we're talking about today is really pre-diabetes, which is a serious health condition that many people don't know they have, about one in three u.s. adults has pre-diabetes. that's 98 million people. and it's largely asymptomatic. 81% don't know they have it. it is a serious health conditions and puts you at risk for type 2 diabetes or heart attack and stroke. so the cdc is partnered with the ad council to release the do do i have prediabetes campaign psas. they are talking about being your own hero, meaning taking control of your own health and knowing where you stand as far as pre-diabetes. >> right. these are the critical questions we have to ask with we go to our primary care provider so how would you know? is it blood work that is done, and then you ask about it? what do people need to do to find out if they're one of those? >> yeah, the key is awareness, so first we encourage people to go to a simple website,

doihaveprediabetes.org and take a one-minute risk test that asks about whether you have excess weight, whether you might be over the age of 40, whether you might have been a woman with gestational diabetes, whether you have a family member, a mother, father, brother or sister that has type 2 diabetes, and the simple test can let you know whether you have or are at risk for prediabetes, and so we just ask if once you get a certain score on that risk test, talk to your health care provider and have you take a confirmatory blood test to verify whether you have prediabetes or not. >> for people watching this, if you have it, what should you be doing? what are things you can do to counter that? >> the good news is that prediabetes and type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed, and the national diabetes prevention program, which is operated out of the cdc is a lifestyle change

program that encourages people with a coach to make modest lifestyle changes like losing 5% to 7% of their body weight or eating more vegetables and getting at least 20 minutes of activity per day. these modest changes really help to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. >> dr. christopher holliday, thank you for raising awareness and giving us all some tools. we appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you for having me. well, presidents biden and xi announcing a major crackdown on fentanyl anticipated in california tomorrow. >> tens of thousands gathering on the national mall in n suppo of israel.l. we'll takeke you therere next.

law enforcement agencies are ramping up security in washington as tens of thousands of people are gathering on the national mall for a march for israel rally this morning and nearly 6,000 miles away in israel, families of hostages being held by hamas are marching from tel aviv to jerusalem calling on their leaders to do more to bring their loved ones home. >> in washington, d.c. celebrities, members of the jewish community and leaders expected to speak at the pro-israel demonstration. d.c. mayor muriel bowser says the national guard will help because there are security concerns about possible lone actors and gabe cohen is covering it all and joins us this morning.

it's expected to be quite a turnout. ♪ >> reporter: yeah, poppy, the organizers are hoping this will be the largest american of american jewish communities with tens of thousands of people expected on the national mall in the hours ahead and, look, organizers were really intentional about the language, the toned down language they used as the prey prepared this rally. big tents and organizations from across the political spectrum and said this rally was about three mings, combating anti-semitism, calling for a release of the israeli hostages still in gaza and calling for solidarity with israel and the israeli people. take a listen to the heads of one of the organizations that put this event together speaking a little earlier on cnn this morning. >> we're going to stand broadly and say we will not be

intimidated in our homes, communities, places of worship and stand on the national mall in the most visible place in this country and say, america will not stand for this and our community will not stand for this. >> reporter: and, look, we expect that message of unity to be mirrored in some of the speakers we'll see. on the schedule the new house speaker republican mike johnson, democratic leader hakeem jeffries, chuck schumer, joni ernst so really leaders from across the aisle and as you mention, poppy, law enforcement is on high alert today. we know that both local and federal law enforcement are participating, are going to be monitoring this event looking around the mall this long section of the mall nearly a mile in length is completely fenced off, blocked with the roads around it closed off blocked by police vehicles, city dump trucks, even military vehicles. we know that the mayor here in d.c., as you mentioned, has

called in the national guard and d.c.'s police force is fully deployed today, so they are concerned not just about the tens of thousands here, but also about potential for counterprotests, clashes between groups and we know that there are no -- according to the intelligence so far gathered by our cnn teams, we know there are no clear threats of any imminent attacks or anything like that but we know law enforcement has a joint information center they've put together. they are going to be monitoring it closely as will we in the hours ahead, poppy. >> gabe cohen, we appreciate it. keep us posted. thank you. also, this just in, u.s. consumer priced cooled a bit in october after rising for the last two months. a consumer price index rose 3.2% down from 3.7% in september. there's also some positive news on the underlying inflation front, the core that excludes food and energy climbed 0.2% bringing the annual increase to 4%. that's the lowest since

september 2021. >> this just in the conservative house freedom caucus has come out against speaker mike johnson's spending plan that two-tiered continuing resolution that comes after he met with the group of roughly 30 to 40 hard-liners. the groups wants spending cuts in addition to the two-step approach and said in a statement, quote, while we remain committed to working with speaker johnson, we need bold change. >> did they get there? >> they need democrats meeting in 30 seconds. dusty johnson says they'll get there. >> all right. >> thanksgiving matters. >> fingered crossed but then you won't get your clock anymore. >> we will in january and in february. >> true, thank you so much for starting your day with us. we'll see you right back here tomorrow. cnn news central is now. ♪