♪ ♪ right now israeli troops have control of gaza's largest hospital and they say they have concrete evidence hamas was using it as a terror headquarters. hundreds of patients are still inside al shifa hospital and a new effort being spearheaded by egypt now to get three dozen newborn babies moved to safety. an increased threat of terror attacks on americans. why the fbi director just issued

that warning to congress. it hasn't happened in a year, but it's happening today just a few hours from now, president biden will be speaking face to face with china's president xi. what might come from today's critical summit? we'll have it. i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. "cnn news central" starts now. ♪ ♪ a senior israeli official says details are coming including footage later today of what's described as concrete evidence of a hamas terror headquarters in al shifa hospital and evidence uncovered in the ongoing raid by israel of that medical complex. idf troops, soldiers, they entered the hospital early this morning and hamas has now acknowledged that israel is in control of the hospital and gaza's large of the hospital. the idf already did release this video that we're showing you right here upon soldiers

delivering incubators and other medical supplies to the hospital today they say and cnn has geolocated the video and however it is not on the ground and it cannot independently confirm what it shows. also right now, egypt getting involved and egyptian officials are trying to spearhead and transfer 24 newborn babies out of the hospital and somewhere safer and those talks, we are told, are reportedly going very slowly. cnn's ed lavandera has more on this. what is the very latest on what's happening with the raid and what's happening with this hospital and its patients? >> well, we are waiting to hear these crucial details from the israeli defense force, this what has been described as concrete evidence of hamas command and control structure and operations that exist as israeli military officials have been saying for

weeks that it believes that the hamas organization runs in large part underneath this particular hospital, the al shifa hospital which is the largest in gaza and a very significant stronghold there inside of gaza city. as you can see from the map that we have showed you, it's a large complex and a lot to it, as well and that is where almost 18 hours ago, israeli forces went into that hospital ground. we have spoken with palestinian journalists inside the hospital who describes there has been intense fighting in there, as well, but israeli defense force officials say they deny that there has been an exchange of gun fire inside the hospital. they say there was an initial exchange of gun fire as they approached outside of the hospital area and this is what they had to say about that particular issue just a little while ago. >> there was fire exchange before we went into the hospital. we engaged with enemy before we

entered and since we were in the hospital there was no engagement whatsoever inside the hospital at this moment with the patients or anyone else. >>. >> so right now the israeli defense force says it is working on getting the evidence that they say will support this accusation of concrete evidence of hamas command and control structure in the area inside that hospital and below it. they're working to get that material from the front lines where this fighting has been engaged. they've been engaged in this intense fighting for much of the day and israel military officials have said that they urged patients and hospital staff inside the hospital to clear the areas around windows to get away from that particular place as this fighting has raged on inside of the hospital grounds there for, as i mentioned, almost 18 hours and despite that, hospital staff have said it has been a horrific

scene throughout the day and you can hear the cries of terrified children and the cries of older patients inside the hospital as well. so a great deal of fighting in this very critical key point of this hospital. much of the -- beyond the military fighting that's going on that really gets to the heart of israel's credibility in this particular war given the amount of criticism the israeli military has been given based on its military operations inside of gaza which has extended for weeks now and clearly, this evidence will be scrutinized very intensely as it comes out here in the hours ahead. >> ed lavandera, thank you. john? happening now, fbi director christopher wray is on capitol hill telling law makers of a heightened threat of a terror attack on americans. >> across the country, the fbi has been encountering violence

by extremists citing the ongoing conflict as inspiration. on top of the so-called lone actor threat, we cannot and do not discount the possibility that hamas or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil. >>. >> cnn's evan perez is with us, what is the director seeing that is causing him to issue this warning? >> john, there's been a skyrocketing of the number of threats not only against jewish-americans and also against arab-americans and muslim-americans in the united states and what the fbi has been concerned about is that perhaps october 7th changed everything with what they understood about hamas which until now has been viewed as mostly a threat to israel, carrying out attacks inside israel and obviously a terrorist organization, but less of a concern here in the united states and that's one of the things that you see in his

remarks today where he talked about a number of individuals and a number of people associated with hamas now under investigation by the fbi and of course, that raises a lot of concerns about potential for attacks here in the united states. >> all right. evan perez with that report. thank you very much. sara? sara's not here. evan, i'm going to ask you another question. i'm going to ask you another question because i'm here by myself. everyone just left me by myself so it's just you and me, kid. christopher wray was talking about this heightened risk about a terror attack. alejandro mayorkas is there also. i imagine they are getting some criticism along with this testimony that they're providing? >> oh, absolutely. look, i mean, for republicans, there's a lot of focus on the concerns about the border because as we reported in the last few weeks, john, there is

concern about the number of people who come across the border who did not -- it wasn't until after they were inside and given some kind of parole status that the united states understood or -- learned, or the fbi learned about the protections of a facilitator, someone who was human trafficking and connected to isis in turkey and so things like that are being brought up by members of congress because of the concern that the border is porous and the number of people coming across and the ability of the homeland security department and other departments to actually vet these people before they were allowed in and that's the focus of a lot of the questions from republicans. obviously, this is a hostile question, specially for secretary mayorkas who some republicans have been trying to impeach for the last few weeks, john. obviously, this will be a tough hearing for some on that panel and the bottom line is there are

a lot of threats that are ongoing as a result of the war in israel and hamas. >> evan perez, thank you so much. together we can make tv. we don't need anyone else. sara? >> it was so mesmerizing, john, that i forgot to come out here and do some work. i appreciate your work. we have kim dozier and the fallout on the israel-hamas war. the fbi has seen a significant increase in threat since october 7th is what he reported to congress and that a big chunk of that has been against the jewish community. did you take away from these remarks that it was sort of the lone actor that goes out and does this in response or is it that there are bigger organizations such as al qaeda who are the most immediate threat to people here in the u.s.? >> i don't think the fbi can discount either one because the

attacks on gaza in retaliation for the october 7th terrorist attacks from israel have galvanized a group of militants and terrorists across the globe and given them a new reason to recruit, to fund raise and to plot. so that likely means the way isis used to reach out to people was through social media and they could entice lone actors within the united states, within europe to carry out plots while they started planning larger attacks. so i think initially what the fbi will be worried about is those inspired, lone actors doing something low tech whether it be with a gun or a knife and then the larger plots that take longer to plan and put in place. >> yeah. we've already seen, he mentioned favor six different incidents where arrests had been made whether they were plotting or

had done something against both the jewish and the muslim community. i do want to ask you about something else that christopher wray said because he said that they're conducting multiple investigations into individuals affiliated with hamas in this country. what might that mean? >>. well, the issue with hamas is it is more than just a terrorist organization. it is also a political organization. that's how it is considered and seen within much of the arab world. so for law enforcement in the states you get into the sticky area as they investigate people who might be supporting the political movement, does that automatically make them supporters of terrorist violence? so you get into first amendment issues and the difficulty of trying to get inside someone's head to see if their political support for a movement is the same as wanting to pick up a weapon and attack a target on

behalf of that movement. >> that is a really good point because hamas, by the united states has declared them a terrorist organization, but they are also the government of gaza put into place back in 2005, although it has not been another election since then. i want to ask you about what is happening right now in gaza. the israeli forces are inside the al shifa hospital. they have said, look, we have found and just in the last hour, we found evidence that hamas was operating here and they're going to reveal that evidence and what does that mean for the work that israel is doing right now? the military is there and there have been thousands of people killed and many civilians killed. does this absolve them at least when it comes to international law? >> well, as john had put up there, if the hospital is being used for storing of weaponry or for military-age males to hide

then it takes away its protection under that set of rules, but from the idf's perspective, going after shifa hospital makes sense in terms of the actual war and the information war. it believes there is a command center under there and for the information war it believes it has to show actual evidence to back up what it's claimed and what the white house has backed them up on, and they probably won't reach the arab world, the global south. people will say this is just planted information, but for key western nations who are still backing them, whether it's britain or france or germany, they need to be able to show all these civilian casualties, as horrible as they are were because we were being attacked from this location, so they're hoping to defang a lot of the enters national criticism which they hope will allow them to continue to prosecute the war

against rooting out hamas itself. >> kim dozier, thank you so much for that explaining through what is going on and it's changing every hour. we appreciate your time. john? >> i'm right here. >> good to see you. can a member of congress cast a vote without being elbowed in the kidneys anymore? how congress intends to avoid a shutdown and fend off more member on member violence. plus vegas police are calling it a void of humanity. eight teenagers have been arrested after allegedly beating a 17-year-old to death over some stolen headphones. new details about the leaked videos in donald trump's election interference case. the prosecution has called for an emergency hearing.

this just in. donald trump is now officially asking for a mistrial in his civil fraud case in new york. trump's lawyers are basing this request on what they argue are biassed comments they believe that judge engoron made during the trial. the judge has already signalled that a motion like this isn't likely to go far. cnn's kara scannell for us in new york. what more are you learning about this? >> yes. trump just filed this motion. they said they would bring it and it has officially been filed asking for a mistrial in this case. they say the judge has been

biassed against them from some of the rulings he's made and they complain a lot about them cutting them off from the comments he's made during the trial itself now in its seventh week and the relationship with the principal law clerk they pass notes between each other during the trial and he often consults with her and that is something they've taken an issue with because the law clerk is biassed. she's the reason why the judge imposed the gag order against trump and his lawyers asking him not to comment about her and the judge has signaled he is not likely to grant this motion. he has an unfettered right to communicate with his law clerk who he relies on and he suggested this is not going to go anywhere, but now it is officially filed and in the filing, trump's team says the apparent bias is tangible and overwhelming. they say it has tainted the proceedings. the attorney general's office has responded to this motion

saying that trump is trying to distract from his fraud by bringing this. again, we expect the judge will not grant this motion. trump's team has asked for a directed verdict in their favor alleging that the attorney general's office has not proved their case on the remaining six claims after the judge has already ruled in favor of the attorney general and that there is persistent and repeated fraud in the financial statements and the judge has not yet ruled on that either. kate? >> as the trump team continues to make its case in court. kara, thank you so much. sara? >> all right. now to the election subversion case in georgia. prosecutors are asking a judge to seal evidence in that case and today's emergency hearing comes after video of conversations by some of donald trump's former co-defendants with prosecutors. word leaked earlier this week. former trump attorneys, jenna ellis and scott hall have taken plea deals and we're learning about the timing of the georgia

case. cnn's nick valencia is joining us right now from atlanta. is there any indication of what the judge might do as they try to seal some of this testimony and this evidence? >> we don't know the judge and which way they're leaning at this point. we expect that something will be sealed from discovery materials, but it is very interesting you on this all came about. there was a text thread going on between the district attorney's office and current and former defense attorneys attached to this and they were trying to figure out who leaked those videos from those that have taken plea deals already in this case and in an apparent admission and in a bizarre e-mail here is todd harding who said it was harrison floyd's team that leaked this e-mail and in a subsequent e-mail they called that admission a typo. all of it was bizarre enough for the district attorney's office to ask for this emergency hearing to try to seal materials. you would think this would all have been taken care of by now and in september, the d.a. did file a motion asking the judge

to seal discovery materials and it just sat there, the d.a. never followed up on it and it left the door open to leaks happening in this case. even if harrison floyd's team did leak it, they did not break a law, but it's created enough of a headache that the district attorney's office wants the judge to make a decision today. that will happen at 1:30. meanwhile, all of this is happening while we're getting predictions from fani willis who said that a trial for donald trump in georgia, she predicts will be under way during the 2024 presidential election and will take months, likely wrapping up in early 2025. sara? >> some of those revelations about the e-mail that went out and they said oh, that was an accident. this is putting witnesses in danger. i'm sure the judge will be looking at this very closely. thank you very much, nick valencia, for your reporting there. this morning police in las vegas are calling the murder of a teenager just outside his high school, quote, void of humanity.

17-year-old jonathan lewis was beat tone death, and eight suspects ages 13 to 17 are now in custody. josh campbell is following this for us this morning. what are you learning? >> quite a description by police, a void of humanity. eight juveniles are in custody following this investigation by local police and the fbi. authorities say they will be charged with the murder of 17-year-old jonathan lewis jr., who was attacked in an alley over stolen headphones and a vaping device. we're not showing you the gruesome video, but a lieutenant of las vegas police described it in this way, quote, what you see in the video is approximately ten subjects, kicking, stomping and punching the victim, jonathan, as he was on the ground not defending himself to the point that he becomes unconscious. the teen's father spoke about what led up to the attack. listen. >> just trying to protect one of his smaller friends.

there are some things that were being stolen from him, as we understand it, and he went to kind of defend him and three of them attacked him and he defended himself and they couldn't beat him up so the rest of the group joined in. >> now an autopsy determined that the cause of lewis' death was blunt force trauma. police say the eight juvenile suspects range in age from 13 to 17 and they're still looking for more people who appeared on that viral video during the beating. the big question, obviously, john is will they be tried as juveniles and will they be tried adults in the murders a and we're waiting for prosecutors. a gruesome, gruesome incident captured on video and this teen dying after this brutal beating. >> it is awful, josh campbell, thank you very much. sara? >> just ahead, we are just ahead from the high-stakes sitdown on the west coast between president biden and chinese president xi. for the first time in a year the

two will meet face to face. we'l'll go live e to s san fran comiming up.

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yesterday. kevin mccarthy accused of elbowing another republican. a house hearing with turning into a shouting match and one senator asking a witness to fight him during a hearing. cnn's manu raju on capitol hill. what are you hearing from lawmakers about the nonsense that transpired yesterday? >> yeah, well, look, the senate is trying to clear that bill to keep the government open until early next year, but that doesn't mean that the drama is done. in fact, there's still a lot of tension particularly in the house gop side at this moment given the fact that this bill was passed yesterday and did not include spending cuts and it relied on mostly democratic support and democrats voted on it, and chip roy told me moments ago this is strike one and strike two against speaker johnson and warned that strike three would be moving on a ukraine aid package if there's not sufficient, in his view,

tighter immigration policies and that is one aspect and then there are these personality conflicts whether it was the former speaker of the house allegedly hitting tim burchett in the kidneys, something mccarthy denied and the oklahoma senator threatening a witness to fight him and asking him to have a physical altercation in a committee hearing, something he said he was only calling out that witness for suggesting that they should fight over social media. i just asked the number three senate republican about mark wayne mullins' threat and he defended mark wayne mullin. >> i wouldn't want to mess with mark wayne mullin. he's tough, but it seems that the witness who has this long history of taunting him with tweets and that's completely unnecessary and then bernie sanders keeps inviting him in. bernie knew this was going to happen. >> do you think there are any concerns with what mullin said at all. mark wayne, you saw the video, he read tweets from that witness

from that labor leader, union leader. he read the tweets and he said, look, you have challenged me. here you are. do you stand for it or not? so it just seemed like the witness was a bully and he was called out on it. >> but this marks about ten weeks of intense time during this congressional session. a lot of members are eager to get out of town. the house could be out of session as soon as tonight. the senate potentially tonight or tomorrow tomorrow as members are eager to get out of washington and made a very, very difficult, tense and tumultuous period in the capitol, kate? >> i'm surprised how bar arasso defended mark wayne mullin. you can defend one senator and what is barrasso talking about i wouldn't want to mess with mark

wayne mullin? are we getting back to the age that's how you define being manly is if you can get into fist fights? come on. what? >> yeah, and mark wayne mullin defended his comments as well saying that's the way he was raised and he's a guy from oklahoma. >> i'm a girl from indiana. what are we doing? thank you, manu. it's great to see you, john. >> for the record, we almost never threaten to fight with any of our guests on "cnn news central." >> almost. again, i'm a girl from indiana, do you really want to -- thanks, john. a crucial summit kicks off shortly. president china and xi jinping hold critical talks in california and this is the first face to face meeting in a year. with me is former thomas finger, former deputy director of intelligence under president obama. thank you very much for being with us. what is the most important message for president biden to deliver today?

>> well, i think you have multiple messages and multiple audiences. that he will have a long list of issues that he will raise with xi and xi will raise with him and these concerns were articula articulated and i think the most important message of all is to the broader audience and that is the united states and china are capable of managing a relationship that is widely depicted as in freefall on the verge of some type of conflict and incapable of cooperation in any areas, and to simply disprove this worst-case en interpretation of the relationship. >> it's been two years since the leaders met face to face. how do you think china's view, xi's view of the united states has changed in the last year? >> i doubt that his view of the

united states has changed, but i think his appreciation for the importance of the united states to his ability to deal with the multiblissity of challenges that he has internally, mostly relating to the economy. the perceptions that the u.s.-china relationship is of such polished straits that investment is drying up, contracts are going elsewhere, supply chains are reorienting, and i think the realization of the peril, the hazards of a go along and challenge the united states on every policy is just not meeting his objective. >> thomas fingar, we appreciate you being with us, as i said. a very important meeting in a year. kate? >> coming up for us, providing a boost to president biden.

more than a hundred former white house officials of the obama, biden administration officials penning a letter praising president biden over his support for israel. we will spspeak with o one of t next..

chris wray had a warning for congress. the agency had received, in his words, a large number of tips and leads related specifically to hamas and radicalization and recruitment since october 7th. this comes as more than 100 former biden and obama officials sent a letter to president biden applauding his support of israel since the attacks and also sending a message to those with differing views. let me read a part of the letter. to those blaming israel alone

for this violence and excusing the atrocities including rape and beheading as resistance, we want to be very clear, there is no moral equivalence between israel and ham a a designated terrorist organization. it also continues this, no aspect of the israeli-palestinian conflict recognizes hamas' unconscionable war crime and the destruction it has caused in gaza in the weeks before and since. one of the top former officials on that letter, former treasury secretary larry summers and he joins us now. thank you for being here. why is this show of support needed right now? why did you sign on? we are -- i think we're having an audio issue. >> i wanted to support it. >> secretary, let's start again because there was an audio

issue. there was an audio issue at the very top. talk to me again. i'm sorry, secretary, with these technical glitches. talk to me about the reason you supported -- >> i signed the letter because i thought it said something important. it supported president biden when he's done something very right and very -- [ indiscernible ] >> supported president biden and a very important moral issue of our time. which is standing with israel. i'm not defending every decision israel has made over the last 20 years, god knows, but what hamas did, the sponsored terror and killing of innocents, that is not justified by any error of policy or diplomacy along the way. hamas is evil.

evil needs to be confronted in today's world. >> you have been connected to harvard for decades, and you have been outspoken in your disappointment as well in how the school responded after the hamas attacks, and you just actually put a piece out about kind of the antisemitism has meant and what has happened on campuses since october 7th. in your view, why did harvard get this wrong and what's the lessons here? >> kate, i think the lesson is we have to hate and oppose all prejudice. universities need to respond to antisemitism in the same way they respond to racism in the same way they respond to misogyny and that is not what we've seen from universities. that is not what we've been

seeing for years from dei offices and that's something that has to change if we're to be just and to have the right kind of responses and for all our students to feel safe. i'm glad to see that with some delay at harvard and on a number of campuses there have been increasingly strong statements made recognizing the antisemitism and i applaud the most recent statement that our president has made, but these kinds of statements really only have the impact they need to have if they come promptly and if they don't look like they're a response to pressure. >> good point. this letter that you signed on

to, it went to biden yesterday, the same day the new york times is reporting a separate letter was delivered to biden and this one from hundreds of people described by "the new york times as political appointees throughout the government signing this letter anonymously and protesting biden's support for israel. when you -- this divide that seems to be coming so exposed within -- amongst democrats, if you will, over biden's support of israel, has it surprised you? >> well, first of all, kate, i would say the merits of this issue apart, i always regard very differently the views of people who were prepared to sign their names to their views and the views of people who insist on providing their views only with anonymity. second, i would say there's a

long tradition of people who, for whatever reason have just decided to be anti-israeli, and again, i'm know one of those people who think that israel does is right. i spoke out very vigorously earlier this year against some of prime minister netanyahu's policies in my area of economics, but there are people who somehow don't -- don't see what's happening in darfur, don't see what's happening in -- with the uyghurs, don't see what's happening in saudi arabia where things happen to journalists, and only focus on israel, and i think that is deeply problematic. so i have to say, no, i was not completely surprised even though

i was very disappointed to see what happened. i think this -- i don't know whether antisemitism is exactly the right word for it, but this virulent anti-israeli sense that is disproportionate to whatever mistakes israel has made and that leads people into seeing moral equivalence with state-supported terrorists who slit the throats of babies. that is something that whether it's present on a college campus or whether it's present in a political gathering seems to me to be very, very wrong. i was disappointed that more of my fellow democrats did not join in the censure of the congresswoman who had engaged in

what i thought was either at or over the line of antisemitic speech. >> former treasury secretary larry summers, thanks for coming on. it's great to talk to you. ? thank you. >> sara? >> from the dumpster to the sky, up next, we'll break down the new study that shows how discarded plastic might be changing the weather. that's ahead.

this is crazy. this is new this morning. your trash might be changing the weather. i know it sounds slightly

insane, a bit wild, but a new study found microplastics are turning up in more and more places. they are found in drinking water, food, and now clouds. let's get more from derek van dam. the last time i saw you was a and now this. this is terrifying actually. >> microplastics are everywhere. we knew about the oceans. that's a given these days, but now to find out they potentially are in our clouds alering our weather patterns. that's saying something. that is if you believe what's actually coming out of the scientific report. there's a lot of science behind this, but let me break it down for you. what happens when we form a cloud. with need some sort of hydrofillic, which means attracting particle. and we have those in any given day we have dust, salt, ash, now we can add microplastics. so what that does is creates a

surface for water vapor to kind of react. con den sating on to this par particle, con den sate ing enou to create a larger cloud. as these coalesce and get larger and larger, according to not just the dust and the ash, but the microplastics could be be altering our rain or how about the addition of more cloud cover, cooling our temperatures as well. that's the big question mark that is to be determined. one thing is for sure. microplastics are everywhere. where do they come from, it originates with your plastic bottles that you and use. check it out. it breaks down over time. it will end up in our oceans and in our atmosphere. thousanow we're starting to fin out. these things are tiny. they are even on some occasions smaller than the width of an average human hair. so they are microskoptic. and check it out.

greater population densities have larger densities of microplastics, as one would expect, because more demand for plastic. >> it is fascinating. it's terrifying and fascinating. thank you so much. i am really trying to cut back on the water the bottle, but he called me out because he saw me drinking from one. >> he had me at hydrofillics. as soon as he started talking about that. thank you. thank you all for joining us. this has been "cnn news central." "insnside polititics" is up p n.