welcome to all of you watching us in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, supplies are run ning low in gaza creatig an even more desperate situation for residents. cnn crews have seen heavy idf activity in gaza overnight. plus a colorado judge calls donald trump an insur ex-ist. an entire town in iceland as a nearby volcano appears ready to erupt. it's 5:00 a.m. here in atlanta. noon in israel, exactly six weeks after the attacks of october 7th that launched the war against hamas.

israeli media is reporting the death toll of the music festival in southern israel was far higher than anyone realized. citing ab israeli police report, the death toll now stands at 364, up from 270. we have also learned 17 of those killed were police officers, and 40 people at the have been were taken hostage. israeli authorities don't believe the terrorists knew about the festival beforehand. for civilians in gaza, the situation on the ground is extremely ten wous with severe shortages of food, water, medicine and fuel. some aid trucks were allowed into gaza at the crossing a short time ago. israeli ministers are set to meet to discuss allowing fuel trucks sba gaza. oren liebermann has the latest on the military operations and what the idf claims is evidence around gaza's largest hospital. >> reporter: the military operation at the largest

hospital ongoing at this hour after the military says it found an operational tunnel. cnn geolocated the shaft sharing the same campus as other hospital units. but cnn cannot verify israel's claims. hamas denies the accusation and the idf has not yet shown evidence the high commissioner for human rights called for an independent investigation. >> we need to look into this with having access. we can't rely on one or the other when it comes to this. >> reporter: conditions have rapid lu deteriorated with much of the population fleeing to the south. trash is piling up on the roads and crowds need the little food available. >> translator: fuel is the basis of life. sicknesses have spread. what more can i tell you than that. you can see there's no fuel, no electricity, no water. >> reporter: israel announce d t

would allow in two tankers every 48 hours to power the sewage treatment plants and to prevent the start of a pandemic, but it's 3% of the fuel that once entered on a daily basis. >>. >> in the occupied west bank, the foreign policy chief met with the palestinian prime minister. calls for a cease-fire are growing as are the demands for a political to end the conflict once and for all. they doubt it's possible. >> this is the israeli government today does not care about two states. israel is driving israel should stop. >> the idf brought back the body of another israeli host gaza. she is the second israeli hostage noun to have died in gaza. a 65-year-old grandmother was found dead near the hospital, the idf said.

the father of another hostage put her picture up in times square as a way of marking her 9th birthday spent in captivica. >> we were hoping she would be back by now. that would have been our prayers answered, but she's not. she's still down in the tunnels. so now we have to hope that she will be back for christmas. >> the key question remains, where do negotiations over a possible hostage release stand. it's clear there is no agreement yet. we haven't seen movement on that front. there have been reports and rumors that there is progress. it's clear that agreement hasn't come to fruition just yet. cnn learned two israeli officials and a source familiar with the negotiations that hamas had demanded as part of a pause in fighting, which would come for a release of hostages. israel not fly drones over gaza during that pause. that's a condition that would almost certainly be unacceptable to israel, which uses drones as

a critical part of their strategy. crucially if it didn't have drones over the battlefield during a pause, that might allow hamas to relocate itself and move hostages around. orren liebermann, tel aviv. they are rejecting that it points to a genocide in the making. on thursday the group of experts said israel had committed grave violations against palestinians in the aftermath of the hamas attacks on october 7th. they krietd the use of weaponry are indiscriminate impacts resulting in a death toll. israel's foreign ministry said on friday, they reject all allegations made by the special. they are committed to humanitarian law and will continue to take measures to prevencilian harm. the only genocidal acts are

those of hamas when they raped and tortured innocent people in israel on october 7th. the palestinian observe isser said the fighting must stop. >> we need a humanitarian cease-fire now. after 40 days, we cannot have a humanitarian cease-fire. how many more palestinian children you want to see being killed and woman and civilians and sick and wounded before you come to the conclusion of implementing what you are listening to them from all the agencies who are working in the humanitarian field. >> we are live cairo. what is the situation on the ground right now? >> i want to talk about the hospital, which was the largest hospital in gaza. we have been for the first time getting testimonials from doctors from inside the hospital. we haven't been able to

communicate. it has been a communication blackout. it's catastrophic in terms of what we see on the ground. now we have an insight into what is happening in the walls within the hospital. from what we understand, there are only a handful of doctors left. so many have left. they have left their patients behind. we also understand some of the icu patients have died. in terms of the babies, this is one story we have been covering extensively because the egyptians have been waiting for these neonatals to come in. the health minister said they were expecting 36 babies and they had prepared ambulances and incubators and have been waiting. every single day this week in hope they would come through, but it's difficult to evacuate. one doctor from inside the has been saying some of those babies have died. we don't know what the overall number is, but the picture they

are painting is not a very good one right now. we know they have run out of food and water and medical supplies as well. in terms of the ability to evacuate, which is very close, have now been describing impossibly getting out and evacuating from that area. even though they say they have created corridors for people who leave from the hospital, but also in the surrounding neighborhoods, but that is really difficult. you have to think about the equipment and the ambulances that need to transport the sick in basically the middle of a war zone right now. i just really want to highlight this. this is catastrophic in terms of the scenarios. we have been talking about it since the start of this war and just how much strain it's put on the health system. it's slowly been deteriorating and just some of the messaging we have been hearing from its national bodies, and you spoke

about what they are saying, calling for a cease-fire, the u.n. said the general assembly that we are not asking for the moon, we are asking for basic measures required to meet essential needs of the civilian population. the messaging coming through from international bodies for many leaders around the world really putting pressure on israel and the idf for some kind of pause, for some kinds of cease-fire in the hope that they can get more aid into gaza and to evacuate into palestinians that are in dire need of assistance to get hopefully egypt, but also supply some of the hospitals with the essentials they need. the past two week, i have been covering how doctors are making really tough decisions. they have to amputate without anesthesia. northern gaza, israel's control right now, we're hoping there's going to be some kind of

breakthrough to release the hostages that are trapped in gaza. we adopt know how those conversations are going, but we're hearing from sources they are currently are underway. part of the deal that hamas is hoping to strike is that it's going to include fuel into gaza as well as pauses that also to get more aid across the board. this is what everyone is calling for, a stop in fighting. >> really appreciate the update there. thank you so much. the first plane carrying children from gaza who need urgent medical care has arrived in abu dhabi. the children are suffering from is severe injuries, burns and cancer. they were accompanied by their families. the uae president is planning to provide medical treatment to 1,000 children from the gaza strip. israel's latest estimate on the number of people being held hostage is 237. thousands of people are marching from tel aviv to jerusalem in support of the hostages. they are expected to rally outside prime minister benjamin

netanyahu's office in jerusalem. qatar is mediating talks aimed at getting more hostages released. president biden spoke with the qatar leader on friday to stress the urgent need to get all the hostages freed without further delay. in the past hour, i spoke to one whose mother was kid napped by hamas on october 7th. >> here is my uncle. here is my mother. and her partner. down there, my cousin. that's aunt. five people were kidnapped. >> five of your family members were cud napped by hamas. it's just unimaginable. now you're trying to raise a awareness around this. just describe the scene to me. describe where you are exactly and who is all there marching with you and behind you.

>> 25,000 people are marching. wanting the kid napped people to be free, bring them back. and we put pressure on the government. >> in talking with some of the hostages' families, we're hearing a sense of frustration. what have you been told so far by the israeli government? have they spoken to you at all? >> not that much. not specifically to us. as know from all their friends and families, they are doing something with the negotiation, but there's a lot of problem in it. first of all, not enough people

to bring back. and we need more. we need more people. we need the families to not be separated. and as i wish them all to be free today, together. >> so you're saying that they are discussing a deal for a certain number of hostages to be released, but not all of them. you're saying you want them all to be released altogether. is that right? >> yes. and for me, there's no price to my family. s it's okay. i just want them to be free. >> hundreds of protesters madged in new york chanting "free palestine."

>> the rally shut down traffic as people marched from bryant park to penn station. police blocked all ft entrances to the station to stop protesters from getting in. overall, it was a peaceful demonstration and police say nobody was arrested. pro palestinian rally was held in washington on friday. crowds gathered outside union station chanting and holding signs that read "cease-fire now." they called on the u.s. government to stop giving aid to israel. donald trump will be on the ballot in colorado's republican presidential primary after a judge rejected an effort to disqualify him based on the 14th amendment's ban on insurrectionists running for office. the judge says trump did participate in january 6th insurrection, but the ban doesn't apply to presidents. evan perez has more.

>> the judge is ordering that donald trump's name will appear on the ballot in colorado. this is a ruling that she just came down. the bottom line for the judge the is that the 14th amendment, section 3, which is what these voters were seeking to have enforced, the judge is saying it's not clear that this applies to the president of the united states or that the president of the united states is covered by that section of the 14th amendment. it's not clear that the framers, that the writers of that section of the constitution intended for that to apply to the president of the united states. i'll read you just a part of what the 14th amendment says. it says that anyone who previously taken an oath as a member of congress or the officer of the united states or as an executive in a traditional officer of any state to support

the constitution of the united states shall have engaged in sin insurrection of rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof is disqualified from holding office. so that's what these voters were s seeking to have enforced, to have the former president struck from the ballot in colorado and the judge says that really she can't really enforce that because it's clear to her that if the framers of the constitution had intended for that to apply to the president of the united states, then they would have made that much clearer. so in her view, it does not apply and therefore the former president will appear on the colorado the ballot. this is in line with some other jury charges that have come forward. the voters who have brought similar challenges in minnesota, in michigan, another sort of fringe candidate brought a

federal lawsuit in new hampshire, all of these had been tossed aside for this reason. it's not clear that you can bar the form er president of the united states simply because of what happened on january 6. >> the trump campaign is applauding the judge's ruling. in a statement a campaign spokesperson said, quote, these cases represent the most cynical and blatant plit the call attempts to interfere with the election by desperate democrats. trump's legal troubles are far from over. they are pushing back for a suggested start date for the trial here in georgia. prosecutors want the case to go to court in august, just two months before election day. trump's legal team says that won't work. they are asking the fulton county judge to schedule a hearing for oral arguments about the start date. the decision on when to begin the case is up to the judge himself. a judge overseeing trump's civil fraud trial in new york

rejected the former president's motion for a trooil. on friday the judge said the motion is, quote, utterly without merit. trump had claimed the judge and his law clerk are biassed against him. that's expected to finish next month. on capitol hill, u.s. house speaker mike johnson announced he will publicly release all security footage from the insurrection, which doesn't contain sensitive information. the move is meant to create favor with far right members of his party. matt gaetz of florida has been pushing his party leadership to release the visdeos. others have jumped on the bandwagon including marjorie taylor greene of georgia and chip roy of texas. speaker johnson is looking to please the right wing group after hi he went against their wishes and used a stopgap bill the to keep the funding open. more than 40,000 hours will be posted on a public website as quickly as possible. still to come, a settlement

has been reached in the lawsuit against shawn diddy combs alleging rape and abuse. and how social need media is influeuenceing the e hamas war.. stay witith us.

a settlement has been reached in the federal lawsuit filed a day ago against music mogul shawn diddy combs. his former girlfriend accused combs of rape and years of abuse. in separate statements, the singer thanked her family, friends and lawyers for their, quote, unwavering support, writing, i have decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms that i have some lefrl of control. combs issuing a statement saying, we have decided to resolve this issue amicably. i wish cassie and her family all

the best. a new cnn poll of voters in new hampshire show democrats see president biden as their best chance to hold on to the white house in 2024. the survey also underscores the president's advantages and challenges in an official rematch with donald trump. new hampshire voters widely favor president biden's temperament, honesty and integrity. republican contenders for the white house are trying to court evangelical christian voters in the key state of iowa. on friday several candidates appeared together at an event called the thanksgiving family forum. a republican front runner donald trump decided not to attend. >> just eight weeks until the january 15th iowa caugcuses. many of the top republican presidential contenders converged in iowa on friday night to speak to a room full of evangelical christian voters at the family leaders and thanksgiving forum. now a major goal of these candidates on friday was to not only talk about their policy

platforms and brandish their religious bonn if is, but to eat away at the support that donald trump has here in the state. he has a commanding lead in the polls at 43%. they saw this as an opportunity to try to cut a away from some of that. but one big thing that was talked about a lot on friday was their faith. at one point, some of the candidates shared very personal stories. ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy talked about how their wives previously suffered miscarriages. let's take a listen. >> unfortunately, we lost that first baby. and it was a tough thing because this is something that we had so much hopes for. so much aspirations, but we just kept the faith. we kept praying. we knew that there would be a path that god would lead us on. >> about three and a half months in, she woke up and she was bleeding. she had a misclaarriage.

we lost our first child. ands that was the loss of a life it was our family's loss. our is what got us through it. faith teaches us that our child joined his creator and one day we will too. >> another topic at the forefront of the conversation on friday was on abortion. that was a particularly salient discussion given the type of voters in the room. what was very notable was hearing from nikki haley, who explained her stance on abortion, unlike many of her other primary challengers, she is so far said she does not back a national abortion ban. but at one point, she did say that if she were still south carolina governor and a bill similar to iowa's heartbeat bill, which bans most abortions after six weeks f that were brought to her desk as a governor, she would sign it. that raised many eyebrows in the room on friday. now just one more thing i think is really important to point out. the big else fnt in the room,

donald trump was not there. he was invited to the event, but he chose to skip it. instead he decided to host his own rally on saturday in nearby fort dodge. and one big thing is that really that is a continuation of him snuck his primary challengers and the primary process overall as he tries to paint himself as a general election candidate. alayna treene, cnn, des moines. still ahead, take ing a sta against anti-semitism. why media brands are ussuspendi advertising on x. stay with us.

welcome back to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and all under a the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. israeli media is reporting that the death toll at the music festival in southern israel is far higher than anyone realized. that was where hamas launched its brutal attack on israel citing an israeli police report, the death toll now stands at 364, up from 270. also learned 17 of those killed reportedly were police officers and about 40 people at the event were taken hostage. more civilians in gaza, the situation on the ground is extremely tenuous with shortages of food, water and fuel. the rafah crossing was open to allow a number of aid trucks into gaza from egypt. in the midst of the war, a two decades old letter set to be written by obama binns laden is grabbing millions of views. some have posted video clips

saying they sympathize with the terrorist, who orchestrated the september 11th attacks. the links to a letter published in 2002 by "the guardian", he criticizes the u.s. government and its support for israel and tries to the targeting and killing of american civilians. the united states called itten apt assault to victims. the guardian removed the link and linked to an article giving context to the letter, especially for younger readers, who weren't alive during 9/11. joining us now is the executive director of the institute for strategic dialogue for africa, the middle east and asia. thank you so much for being here with us. so what's your theory about why so many people have suddenly latched on to bin laden's speech. what's behind this resurgence in his heinous views? >> well, first of all, you have to look at the context.

when we're looking at the conflict between israel and hamas, we have seen a deluge of disinformation, fake news, a number of things around this conflict online. what happened was that there was a, quote, unquote, a noticing online, which was the resurgence and the resurrection of this letter. and from a single video posted on november 14th, we began seeing sort of a domino affect across social media platforms, and it was not just tiktok, and it was not just, et quote, unquote, a generation that did not understand the significance of 9/11. so instances and references to letter to america jumped over

4,300% in just two days. over 230,000 references. it was significant. 719 million impressions across platforms. it was not just one platform. >> you talk about the demographics here i'm interested in this. one-third of adults under 30 regularly get their news from tiktok. it's one of the main search engines for young people. from watch ing some of these tiktoks of people discovering this and reading sort of what they have been saying, it seems like for kids who were born before 9/11, many of them seem to be realizing for the first time that there was a historical context to the attack, which maybe says something about the framing of these types of events in school and what happens if we don't give students the full picture, they will find other co sources and come to their possibly misguided conclusions. >> definitely requires education

and understanding the full context of any conflict. that's why there's been so much disinformation. there's a lack of cob text, whether it's popular media's framing of the conflict or whether it's within these online communities. so we really do need to adjust the way we understand conflicts and context outside of our own. >> it has to be said. views expressed there were hoeshl anti-semitic and don't go any substantiative discussion of the context really, but young people still may feel that on social, they are not getting both sides of the conflict. is that because in certain is circumstances, israel has released so much information online hoping to frame the conflict on their terms.

they have run 100 ads on youtube and x, that have been seen millions of times, to build support for the war. so take us through what you have been seeing and what's behind this. >> we have bye-bye been seeing coordinated operations, whether it's be the state of israel or whether it's by other states such as russia, iran and china focused on the region, looking to exploit sort of the divides that exist globally between pro palestinian supporters and pro israel supporters. and expand that divide in order to create more friction and animosity online. it's not that there isn't a lack of animosity online. it's a very charged environment. similarly seeing neo-nazis adopt ing hamas talking points and sharing those online and

generating hateful responses in regards to it. all of this is creating a charged atmosphere offline as well. where you have conspiracy circles claiming that hezbollah and hamas have infiltrated southern borders in the u.s. creating more fear, likely more violence. remember, we have had murders off the back of a lot of the rhetoric that's been spread by whether it's media or whether it's online immemedia. and it is now coming to a logger head. >> let me ask you, it's my last question, but this is really important. what can we do as teachers, as parents to cut through all the propaganda and make sure our children and young people are well informed with what's happening here? >> we really need to have honest conversations with young people about the context and what we're

seeing online. conflicts are incredibly hard topics to broach, especially when there's so much anger and disgust this people are feeling right now. the sort of charged nature of this conflict is incredibly difficult to sort of cut through, but one to one, honest conversations that provide people with information about this conflict and what we are seeing online is what's needed. >> really appreciate your insights there. thank you so much for speaking with us. >> thank you. some major media companies are suspending tigz on x, the platform formerly known as twitter n a backlash over an anti-semitic post by elon musk. brands including disney are all halting ads. it follows a similar move this week by ib whose ads were appearing alongside nazi

content. it falsely claimed they are stoking hatred. x's ceo insists there's no place for anti-semitism ors discrimination on the platform. the artificial intelligence company behind the viral chat bot announced its ceo is out of a job. the parent company says he's leaving the organization effective immediately. in a statement the company says an internal investigation found he wasn't always truthful with the board and add thad no longer had confidence in leading open ai. the chat gpt platform launched late last year. it catapulted him into a celebrity and making him the new face of a batch of ai tool. ex-perts warn a volcano could erupt. stay with us.

scientists in southwestern iceland say the high likelihood of a volcanic eruption cons and magma could explode at any time. roads are closed as moegs residents have already left their homes. joining me now is the head of the nordic center at the university of iceland. thank you for being here with us. so fist of all, impossible to know for sure, but what are the latest data telling you about when an eruption could happen? >> yeah, so as of this morning, the status is relatively comparable to the previous days. we still have a low level, but it's still at the level of 80 to 90 earthquakes per hour of magnitude less than 3. we still see considerable

surface defamation. so they are still moving apart showing that we have continued in flow of magma from depth. >> so what is your biggest concern at this point? >> so of course, we have two different setcenarios. this could be a sign that defamation is declining, that the magma in flow is lessening and that this would sort of die out and cease. but of course, there's also the possibility still that we will have an eruption on land, as we see the signs of continued in flow at the moment. so it's a bit of a waiting position we're in at the moment. >> so really it could go either way right now. we were just showing some pictures of what the town looks like. give us a sense of what the town

looks and feels like now. we see steam pouring from cracks in the roads. it seems quite other worldly and frankly unnerving. >> yeah, so the steam is actually from the hot water supply. so the pipes are broken beneath the ground because we have a considerable defamation in the area. the whole town has subsided in some areas by more than a meter. and it has ripped the pipes apart. but it is a ghost town at the moment. all the inhabitants have been evacuated and they are only allowed back during daylight to retrieve some of their belongings and so forth. so it's a very uncertain situation at the moment. we have no idea when the people can return to their homes.

this is probably a rather long-term scenario. >> there are lots of active volcanos in iceland. what's happening now, is it the sign of something larger, a new eruptive phase? >> yeah, so this is the typical behavior of this peninsula. so the tech tonic plates in iceland are move ing apart continuously and strain builds up in the crust. and that may happen over a period of up to 800 years of time. then we will enter a volcanic active period. so every eruption we have at the active period, we have strain relieved and for every eruption, we will progress towards dormant period again. so the problem is that this period lasts typically on the

order of few hundreds of years as well. so by 2021, we have just entered an active period. that's the status that we're in now. >> so we could see a lot more eruptions coming. i would love to ask you more, but we have to go. we're out of time. thank you so much for speaking with us. appreciate it. >> you're welcome. still ahead among the decades in the making, racing fans revved up. f-1 returns to sin city after 40 years. it's just hours away. andy scholes has the details, next.

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the desert so far. what are you expecting for the rest of the weekend? >> it's spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting ready for this month in las vegas. and the track is pretty awesome when you watch it. seeing the cars zoom around the strip in vegas is as good as it gets. it had some problems on friday frnight in practice after one c was damaged after it hit a drainage. fans were not happy about that. it was smooth sailing for qualifying overnight, which wrapped up just a few hours ago. the big race is going to start tonight at 10:00 p.m. to take advantage of the lights in vegas. it's going to be the latest start time ever for an f-1 race. exercise excited to try to get his first win of the season in vegas. >> came here once in vegas in

the past. it was very different to this weekend. but hopefully, wee work hard enough to win tomorrow and then have a good party to celebrate that win. >> the race starts at 1:00 a.m. eastern time. max verstappen is going to start alongside leclerc. brutal news for the beng beng. the quarterback joe burrow is going to miss the rest of the season due to a wrist injury. so there's some questions about when he hurt that wrist. he had to leave the game after throwing a touchdown. but there was visdeo of him wearing a sleeve. they are going to investigate whether the bengals were in compliance with the league's injury report policy because burrow was not on the injury report heading into the game. nba in-season tournament was back in action. lakers putting themselves in position to win. 35 points against the blazers.

l.a. would win, improving 3-0 in the tournament. they can clinch their group with a win at home against the jazz on tuesday. so it's been exciting so far. it will be interesting to see what happens with that tournament. lebron, maybe he will be in the first ever in-season tournament. >> thanks so much. and thank you for watching. i'm kim brunhuber. for viewers in north america, "cnn this morning" is next. for the rest of the world, "african voices."

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