45,000, according to the palestinian ministry of health. we should note that those figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but the united states and other nonprofit organizations have previously said their numbers have stood up in previous conflicts. the israeli military disputes those numbers, of course, and has said that they have killed more than 17,000 militants in gaza. but we do know that there are negotiations now underway to see if that carnage can be ended, to see if the hostages can also be brought home. the israeli prime minister saying that he spoke over the weekend with president elect trump. we know that the incoming trump administration and the current biden administration have been coordinating closely over the potential for negotiations. the u.s. national security adviser, jake sullivan, was just in israel last week, and all of this is leading to quite a lot of momentum. and the israeli defense minister today saying that he believes that that we are closer than ever to a potential deal. but again, we have been close before, so we will see in the days ahead if progress can truly be made.

kate. >> yeah, that's very, very true. jeremy, thank you very much. john. >> all right. new this morning. survivors are calling it catastrophic, apocalyptic. and like an atomic bomb went off. the worst cyclone in 100 years to hit the french island of mayotte off southeastern africa, near madagascar. at least 11 people are confirmed dead. but there is fear that that number could jump substantially, maybe even into the thousands. a man was rescued after spending two days in a dark tennessee cave. county officials say he got lost after his flashlight died on thursday. his family reported him missing saturday. what's the rush when rescuers arrived at the cave, they heard the man calling for help. officials said he was disoriented and possibly hypothermic, but otherwise okay. glad that ended well. and stunning video after a car crashed through a gym wall and landed in a pool. this happened in redlands, california. no one was in the pool at the time, and police say the driver escaped with only minor injuries. police shared the

images online with a post reminding drivers to stay focused and avoid distractions. a new hour of cnn news central starts now. >> one of the nation's most critical air force bases forced to close airspace for hours, all because of drone activity. a new york international airport shut down for an hour over drone sightings this weekend. now, federal officials are sending in detection equipment, but residents and local officials demanding more answers and action. a police department in new york accused of disturbing civil rights violations. the doj finding that for years officers made illegal arrests and strip searched nearly every person they took into custody. and tiktok. if you want your christmas and hanukkah presents to get there on time, time is not on your side to get them under the tree in time for christmas. what you need to know. you have to send those

gifts to get them there in time. i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate baldwin. this is cnn news central. >> so this morning, the mystery, the frustration, the alarm, more drone sightings over the weekend causing disruption and ending with arrests in at least one case. we are now learning also about a u.s. air force base being forced to close airspace over the weekend for almost four hours. this happened in ohio, when drones were spotted near wright-patterson air force base. new audio obtained by military news website the war zone offers something of a window into the moment air traffic control was alerted mid-flight at peterson tower. >> use extreme caution for heavy uas movement on the base. security forces is handling the situation, and i got to keep the lights down so that security forces can see what happened in ohio has been plaguing the northeast for

weeks. >> multiple states now seeing these sightings. and just last hour, i spoke with democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. as the government responds to all of this, faces criticism, even from top democrats like blumenthal. >> my feeling is, and it's a hunch more than knowledge, because we have yet to receive the briefing that i've demanded the federal government knows a lot less than it should, and it isn't a matter of classified information. if there is classified data here, it ought to be released to reassure the public. but my fear is that the federal government knows little or nothing about most of these sightings. >> cnn's polo sandoval has the very latest for us. let's start with this incident in ohio. polo. >> you're talking about the wright-patterson air force base in southwest ohio. kate, this is a reminder of the real disruptive potential of this drone saga. for the sake of our

conversation here. that's continued now for almost a month, base officials there assess the situation and leadership there were able to conclude that it did not have the unauthorized flights, did not actually have any impacts on the base. but again, we've seen something similar before. now, the dhs, the fbi, really at the head of this investigation, maintain that everything they've seen, all the evidence they've gathered in ohio and beyond, seems to indicate that these drone sightings are not actually a threat to the public. but over the weekend, i want you to listen in to the head of the department of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, as he, again, reminder that we have heard from federal officials, including the fbi, that have concluded that many of these sightings likely have to do with just a regular airplane. but when you hear from the secretary from over the weekend, he recognizes that some of them are actually drones. >> some of those drone sightings are, in fact, drones, some are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones. it is our job to be vigilant in the federal

government with our state and local partners, on behalf of the american public, and we can assure their safety by reason of that vigilance. >> and what you heard from the head of dhs just a few moments ago is important here, because when you hear from lawmakers, when you hear from residents in the affected area, we have heard some of those concerns, kate, that their concerns are going largely overlooked, potentially even being dismissed as simply just being an airplane. so when you hear from the head of dhs recognizing some of those concerns, i think that's important. and then finally, we do know that the federal government is deploying various assets. as the governor of new york described it as state of the art equipment to try to track down these drones and try to identify them. wouldn't really elaborate on exactly what that kind of equipment is, but we've heard from experts last week that said they used cameras, they use radar, they use radio frequency equipment as well to try to track those down. and this is the kind of equipment that we have heard from lawmakers they want there on the ground. really. just to punctuate your interview with

the senator from connecticut, senator richard blumenthal, i think that's so key. the question that he raises nearly a month later, there's this information gap that is contributing, according to him, to the alarm and the question that he raised with you, which is, is it that the government is not sharing everything that they have, or is it that they don't know everything that they that they should? i think people in some of these affected areas would say they don't know which one's worse. >> yeah, that's and that's a great point. and the fact that it's not just i'm seeing things over my house that concern me, it's over an air force base that's shutting down airspace. and there's problems at boston logan airport. there's this is this is not just a distraction. it is disruptive. and a lack of information is not an acceptable answer at this point. we'll see what happens today. good to see you. thank you so much. appreciate it john. >> all right. with us now is new jersey. new jersey assemblyman erik peterson, who was a state official in franklin township, new jersey. thank you so much for being with us. i was listening to you over the weekend, and you said that government officials are

lying to you now, given that the secretary of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, just went out and said some of what people are seeing are drones, people are seeing drones. do you feel that the government is still lying to you? >> i think they're coming closer to the truth. >> um, they've been trying to discredit these sightings from the very beginning. >> our meeting last wednesday, uh, it was the same tactic where they try to brush it off that we weren't seeing what we were seeing. i've actually seen the drones. you know, it's a drone because it moves forward. it stops and hovers, moves to the side, stops and hovers, moves backwards. i've never seen a plane do that. um, and, you know, it's not a helicopter because it's close enough and you can't hear, uh, the sounds that you would hear from a helicopter. but i do want to say something we keep saying. they keep saying that there's no risk to the welfare

and safety of the public. and that's just that. that's not true. um, we had a medevac helicopter diverted from taking somebody to a trauma center because of these drones. um, there's also the real risk of an airplane drone collision. the colonel of the state police told us on wednesday that he's very concerned that at mercer county airport, where the drones have been sighted, that they're going to collide with a plane. that's a real threat to safety and to just brush it off that nothing's happened yet. um, something has happened, but they brush it off when, uh, when, uh, a gentleman by the name of tobin with the defense department or something, some kind of spokesman, um, when he was asked that question directly, he just brushed it off. um, but it is a real threat to safety for the folks that live here in new jersey.

>> i get it, and i and so in boston, there were arrests made over people flying drones illegally over airport airspace. in ohio, you had wright-patterson. some of the airspace there shut down because of drones that were illegally there in certain airspace there. but by and large, in many places, it is not illegal to fly drones, is it? even at night no, but what we're seeing here is it's a very different thing. >> right. so i live out in a rural part of new jersey, and i that probably surprised a lot of people. this is a rural part of new jersey, but it's very rural out here. you might the folks that live out here spend a lot of time outside. they watch the planes fly over the stars, the satellites, because you can see there's no light pollution out here. and then all of a sudden these very large they're not hobby drones. they're not some guys drinking beer in their backyard flying a drone. these are very

sophisticated large drones. um, come into over their backyards and they noticed them. and they're very smart people. because to make sure that it wasn't a plane, they're going on this flight radar 24, which shows all the planes in the vicinity, and they're making sure that when they talk about this, that they're talking about something that they saw, which was a very large, very sophisticated drone over their home, and then they hear reports of these drones being over trump national, which is just down the road from us. assemblyman, i get it. picatinny arsenal. >> yeah, restricted airspace. absolutely. the law is crystal clear size and sophistication of drones, which sometimes can be hard to detect from the ground. a little less clear about whether it's illegal or legal. some of them are perfectly legal to fly in the sky. i guess what i'm saying is, is the concern here. where

is it placed? there is clear illegal activity, but when the activity is legal, shouldn't the energy be focused? or could you be focusing your energy as a lawmaker on passing laws to regulate it? if you've got a problem with people flying drones at night, can you pass some laws to stop that? >> sure. actually, um, after this interview, i'm down to i'm going down to trenton for a committee hearing, and one of the committees, there's a bill to prohibit drones being flown over schools. uh, we already have laws that prohibit certain places. drones being flown. um, and those laws are being violated. uh, like i mentioned, with the hell back, it says if it violates law enforcement or first responders, if it if it interferes with their business, that's a violation of law. that's already a law here in new jersey. um, it's not a matter of illegality. it's a matter of the number of drones,

the sophistication of them that they're coming in. it's obvious it's not hobbyist. it's obvious that it's some some kind of enterprise. that's. >> who do you think is very sophisticated? >> the question is, what are they doing and why are they doing it night after night after night? >> what does your gut tell you? what do you think it is? >> i you know, i don't know what to believe. i think senator blumenthal said it correctly. either they the government, the homeland security knows exactly what it is, and they're not telling us they're lying to us. that's where they would be lying to us, or they have no idea which is a total failure of national security, or it's very possible it could be both, right? >> it could be in some cases they know what it is. in other cases they don't. and it's a mixture of many different things, which would make it even harder to address any one thing. assemblyman erik peterson, great to see you this morning. thank you very much. good luck in those meetings today in trenton. all right.

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happens, as you both know, that one member of the senate, mitch mcconnell, has suffered from polio before it was eradicated by vaccines. scott, do you expect mcconnell to strongly push back on trump on this particular pick well, i certainly expect him to have a lot of hard questions about it because, you know, he lived this, right? >> and millions of americans had their lives saved by the polio vaccine. mcconnell knows just about as much about it as anybody in the in the country right now and in the senate, for sure. so, yeah, i expect him to ask questions about it. if i were rfk, i would go up to the senate and tell the senators, look, i'm not here to do anything other than engage in science based, evidence based decision making. so whether we're talking about vaccines or any other kind of treatment or any sort of program that we're implementing, i want to have a science based, evidence based rubric for what we're doing. that would be that would be a good place to start. if he shows up and says, yeah, we're throwing out all the vaccines,

he's going to run into real problems. but i really don't expect him to do that. i'm hoping that he takes a very measured approach to this. the rubber hits the road, of course, when you go under oath and you put your hand up and you say to the senators, here's how i'm going to govern this agency, here's the way i'm going to make decisions, because not only do they hold you to it that day, they hold you to it in the future. when you come back for oversight hearings. >> but, kate, don't the senators, shouldn't they have history of what people have said in the past over and over and over again about something like vaccines? in other words, doing their homework when it comes to these picks. >> of course. and they will oh, of course, of course. >> and they will. and you know, rfk has a history not only of making these kinds of statements, but also putting into practice efforts to limit access to vaccines. >> and there have been actual deaths of children as a result of his work to try to prevent access to vaccines. so he has a lengthy record on this. i think this will be a very tough conversation for him. if you know, he takes scott's advice

and goes up and says, i want to, i want to be a science based, evidence based hhs secretary. i think there are a lot of democrats and even a lot of moderate republicans who are going to say that's at odds with the way you've conducted yourself over the last many decades on these issues. and, you know, this is the kind of issue that has is very emotional. it has real, tangible impacts in communities. i mean, it's not kind of an abstract issue that feels removed from people's lives. this is is your child going to be able to get medicine that he or she needs when she's sick? or are they going to be able to get a vaccine to prevent them from getting sick? so it's an argument that can be very easily translated. if senators are looking to create a hurdle to him getting confirmed. so i imagine that it will be a very volatile confirmation process for him, and there will be a lot of explanation that he's going to have to do around all of this. >> kate, it looks like many senators seem to be capitulating on pete hegseth for the department of defense after several allegations about

his character have come to light. do you think there really is any real chance that republicans buck trump on another pick? >> it specifically on hegseth? it feels unlikely. you know, trump has clearly put his muscle behind him, has clearly said he's going to stand by him. we saw him at the army-navy game with him over the weekend on camera, you know, putting his arm around him, making very clear this is the person he wants to be secretary of defense. and i think the fact that the trump operation was able to get senator ernst, who was one of the most vocal, um, or one of the people expressing the most vocal concern about hegseth to say that she'll allow the process to go forward, essentially, um, really tells you what you need to know about where feelings are on the hill about him. so i think, uh, candidly, i think unlikely. but of course, the the confirmation hearing is always unpredictable. and i think that's true for any of these nominees. if you're asking more broadly, our republican senators going to stand against

any of these trump nominees, i think confirmation hearings can take on a life of their own. issues arise, nominees perform badly, narratives take over. so we'll have to see what happens. >> um, this is to you, scott. a couple of senators have come out to talk about the pressure campaign that trump is putting on republicans to keep them in line to approve his cabinet picks. republican senator thom tillis of north carolina had this to say about threats of running republican challengers against incumbents in the primaries what's amazing to me is how people we're not even in the new administration, and we're we haven't even seen the background checks, which i know the administration is sending our way. >> so there's a lot of information that needs to be gathered. and these folks who are making chat primary challenges, running ads, they seem more like political opportunists than me, than thoughtful members of the republican party. >> he talked about this potentially backfiring to try and sort of get someone to to

make trump's pick and then say, well, if you don't do it, then we're going to run somebody against you. could that backfire? scott yeah. >> these senators don't like to be threatened. you know, they they're different than the house. and they they view themselves differently. so yeah, it could i think there's also just another group of senators, frankly, that are not threatening. you mentioned mcconnell earlier. i mean, he's got two years to go on this current term. he's stepping down as leader. uh, you know, what are you going to do to mitch mcconnell, for instance? and so the way to get their vote would be to have this nominee, whoever it is, for whichever job, to go and convince those senators, hey, i'm qualified. here's what i plan to do. here's an answer to all the questions you have about me that have come up in the press. so there's a way to win here with some of these senators that are skeptical without threatening them, because some of them, frankly, just are beyond being threatened or in some cases, some of them actually want to be threatened because it benefits them back home in their particular jurisdiction to be in a feud or at least

show some sort of independent streak when it comes to trump. so i think every nominee is different, but these senators are also different. and the way you deal with one might be vastly different than the way you could deal with the other, given that they're insulated often from the same kinds of political pressures that, say, members of the house are. >> scott jennings, kate bedingfield, thank you both so much. appreciate you, kate. >> is it a drone or is it a plane? if you're trying to figure out what is flying in the sky above you, there is an app for that. and a lifelong dream fulfilled. a supreme court justice makes her broadway debut. what had justice ketanji brown jackson entering stage left this weekend? >> can't fool myself. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life has extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> you only come across an artist like luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> luther. never too much new year's day on cnn. >> okay, everyone, our mission

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as he fights it or doesn't fight extradition. what's kind of the biggest question you have as to where this case against him is headed next? >> well, i agree with his attorney. >> you know, the case evidence against him is going to be overwhelming. >> so my curiosity is is what strategy they're going to use to solve this? >> i mean, clearly, you know, the earlier attorney in pennsylvania was there kind of doing first aid, doing nothing that couldn't be undone by the ultimate attorney. >> and that's why they were fighting the extradition. and this new attorney, i think, is thinking, why even bother? why waste our energy on that? um, but i think the thought that you're going to use, um, insanity defense against this person is is is flawed as, uh, trying to say he didn't do it,

uh, because the insanity defense relies on the person not knowing that what they were doing is wrong. and so covering their face, running from the scene, hiding themselves using fake id is all evidence of what a sane person would do, knowing that what they did was wrong. >> and in the face of all this, there's this new report out. steve, i wanted to ask you about it. warning about the, you know, warning that the level of support online for the alleged killer of for the alleged murderer here that the online support that this security firm describes as really seeing it as kind of overwhelming risks encouraging copycat attacks. this is coming from the center for internet security. and it was a new threat assessment that they put out. and the way they put it is that the health care industry highly likely to face ongoing increased threat landscape, including targeted acts of violence, but also saying that the risk extends to non-health care sector executives as well,

with the way they see it as so much support for the shooter's actions that they're seeing online. they see it as a start of a movement against corporate america as a whole is kind of the threat that they see. how great do you see the risk is of copycats after this? >> well, i think there's a significant risk of this. i mean, we have seen this historically, this type of thing. there are issue based terrorists, the anti-nuclear terrorists, the green terrorists, the the animal rights groups. they do terrorist acts that usually are not that usually do not rise to this level. but in the 70s, we had the students for the democratic society in the united states. we had baader-meinhof in germany and red brigade in italy, and they were assassinating corporate leadership. and, um, it was part of a communist movement back then, but it could turn

out to be part of a populist movement here. um, where companies beyond health services like, say, you had, uh, a large chemical release of, uh, that killed people, say you had a large oil spill, things like this. people like that might be emboldened to take action like that. like we saw mangione take. and so i think what the what should be done right now is the fbi should actually be looking at this as a potential specific brand of domestic terrorism, because terrorism is something directed. uh, violence directed to make, uh, changes in politics or, or society. and i think this follows that. >> very interesting. steve, it's good to see you. thanks for coming in sara. >> right ahead. $100 billion. which company is set to announce a massive investment in u.s. projects alongside

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shipping this year is severe weather. if there's any storms, last minute storms that come through. out of stock items you think you're waiting to the last minute to snag that item? boom. it's gone. you're not getting it. incorrect shipping information. i've done this before. you ship to the wrong address. supply chain disruptions? not so much. this year. a lot of retailers brought in a lot of products earlier, so that's good news. but if you're feeling the crunch this season, that's for good reason. the shopping season between thanksgiving and christmas is a week shorter, and so people who maybe waited till the last minute, you're waiting to the real, real last minute at this point. >> so what is the real last minute? what is the absolute latest? i'm asking for a friend, depending which i trust. >> this, by the way. i'm just saying yes, i let's test the theory. >> all right. so we're not going to trust ups up the postal service or fedex. but here's what they say. essentially usps has basically the least flexible options. so obviously as you look at those dates on the screen there wednesday, thursday, saturday

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