...to find out. captioned by los angeles distribution and broadcasting, inc. right now on america. this morning, israel takes responsibility for a deadly attack on a densely populated refugee camp in gaza, explaining the target as we learn more. us military personnel are being sent to the region. the growing concern for hundreds of american citizens trapped in gaza. >> new questions this morning about the police response to the mass shootings in maine that left 18 dead. the new claim about a 12 hour delay during the manhunt for robert card. and what card sister is now

revealing about his past. >> a bombshell verdict that could shake up the real estate industry affecting home buyers and sellers. what a federal jury has decided when it comes to realtor commissions. >> new figures overnight about infant mortality rates in the us. the troubling trend. >> plus, we remember a soap opera star from his roles on general hospital to days of our lives. even csi. dying at the age of 50. later the house rental nightmare. >> the bats that came out of the walls. now, the subject of a lawsuit and the school district that banned cell phones not just during class time, but during the entire school day. >> the changes the teachers are already seeing. >> from abc news in new york, this is america this morning. >> good wednesday morning, everyone. i'm andrew dymburt. >> good morning. i'm rhiannon ally. we want to begin with that israeli airstrike hitting a densely populated area of gaza. >> israel says a hamas commander

was killed during the strike which reportedly left dozens of people killed at a refugee camp. video shows a local hospital overwhelmed treating people on the floor. >> as israel expands its ground incursion, it's also targeting hamas in the west bank, destroying this home. and the israeli shot down a missile fired by iranian backed rebels in yemen. an additional 300 american military personnel are now being sent to the middle east amid concerns about a broader conflict back in gaza. >> hundreds of americans remain trapped, but egypt this morning opened the border to some foreign nationals. let's get the latest now from abc's justin finch. >> justin, good morning. >> rhiannon good morning. as several middle east nations condemn israel's refugee camp attack, the white house is working to rush humanitarian aid into gaza and help americans trapped there get out. this morning, gaza's largest refugee camp now leveled and many lives lost after an israeli air

assault at this doctor saying there are injured. every where, many working hastily to rescue survivors, including children from the rubble. abc news determining the airstrikes caused craters consistent with bombs dropped from an aircraft. the israel defense forces confirming it carried out the strikes and that it killed a top hamas leader and other militants. the idf accusing hamas of using civilians as human shields. abc's ian pannell pressing an idf official on why the jabalya camp was targeted. there were secondary explosions and that subterranean infrastructure also exploded or imploded as a result of some kind of secondary explosion at and that there are quite a lot of casualty is in the area. >> presumably civilian. >> sorry, sorry to interrupt. civilian casualties at this stage, i can't confirm that. >> i assess that is the case. >> israel also bombing southern

gaza near the rafah crossing into egypt. egyptian media reporting the rafah gates could open to injured palestinians today. the us hoping the same applies to americans. >> we have about 400 american citizens and their family members, so it's roughly a thousand people who are stuck in gaza. >> on capitol hill, defense secretary lloyd austin and secretary of state antony blinken urging lawmakers to approve defense aid for israel amidst several interruptions from anti war protesters, holding signs and hands painted red. each fire now cease fire now. secretary blinken also, though, announcing plans to travel to israel friday for continued talks with israeli leaders about the hamas war. rhiannon >> all right, justin, thank you. the biden administration is asking congress to approve funding for both the israel and ukraine wars together, but the republican controlled house wants to address israel now and ukraine later. house speaker mike johnson is also demanding

whatever new funds are spent on israel be cut from the budget of the irs, setting up a potential showdown with both parties in the senate. >> fbi director christopher wray says the war in the middle east has raised the risk of attacks here at home, with both jewish and muslim communities being targeted. >> the ongoing war in the middle east has raised the threat of an attack against americans in the united states to a whole nother level. wray said. >> jews make up about 2.5% of the us population, but are targeted by 60% of all religious based hate crimes. a man in houston was recently arrested, accused of training with assault style weapons to possibly target jewish people and an upstate new york. a student at cornell university is now in custody, charged with making threats against jewish students. he's due in court today. >> donald trump junior is expected to testify today at the civil fraud trial. that's threatening his family's business. the case centers around allegations that former president trump's net worth was

illegally inflated to get better loan and insurance deals. trump junior could face questions about the time he managed parts of the trump organization while his father was in the white house. eric and ivanka trump are also expected to testify in the coming days. donald trump jr has called the trial a sham. >> new questions are being raised about how police responded to the mass shooting in maine last week. some law enforcement officials are now raising concerns about communication, in addition to the missed warning signs. this morning, new scrutiny of the police response to the lewiston, maine, shootings that left 18 people dead. the portland press herald reports there was a 12 hour delay between when officials found suspected shooter robert cards vehicle and when investigators began using it for tracking and evidence at a local law enforcement official. speaking anonymously, says that slowed the manhunt. abc news has not confirmed that official's account. the press herald also says a veteran sheriff's deputy in a now deleted facebook post described the flow of information between

state and local law enforcement as radio silence. the deputy saying the upper echelons of the maine state police, major crimes unit and command staff are utter clowns and i wouldn't hire them to manage the morning rush at dunkin donuts. the revelations coming hours after a slew of missed warning signs surrounding robert card came to light. >> people wonder, well, why didn't you force that contact? why didn't you look at him? you know, there are certain rights. it's in september. >> the army reserves requested a welfare check on card after another soldier was worried card wanted to commit a mass shooting and documents show in january. card's family reported concerns about his mental health and access to firearms cards. son saying his father thought people were calling him a, but officials are defending their response. >> we looked at what was done as it aligns with our policy and i can say that we did follow know our policy. we need to look at it. i think we need to say, is

there other are other ways to approach these situations. >> court documents show card's sister told police after last week's shootings that he had been delusional since a february 20th, 23 bad breakup and had stopped taking his medication. officials say card's sisters said he was hospitalized for mental health treatment after breaking up with his girlfriend. she says they met at the bar where one of those shootings was carried out. >> some encouraging news from hollywood. a deal is reportedly in sight to end the hollywood actors strike. that is according to the hollywood reporter. both sides are scheduled to resume talks today. that strike began back in july. and among the big issues is artificial intelligence. >> new figures out this morning show the infant mortality rate in the us rose last year for the first time in decades. doctors say one factor is so-called maternity care deserts, where there's a lack of services for pregnant women. they say another factor is the new limits on access to abortion, resulting in the continuation of more

pregnancy. as. >> a florida man is recovering after spending nine hours overnight in a swamp after his plane went down in the everglades. rescue crews found the man sitting on the wing of his wrecked plane. the area is infested with mosquitoes and alligators, but the man only suffered minor injuries. >> lucky to be alive. all right. time now for your wednesday weather. >> it's a cold one out there. we are really struggling temperature wise. most of the nation here, 240 million of us are running significantly colder than the historical average for this time of the year. we're breaking record lows, most likely wednesday morning in oklahoma city, tulsa by three degrees, and even in a midland and odessa, texas, 28. that's a record low. wednesday morning, we've had some snow out there in toledo and chicago this wednesday, a little mix of rain and snow in the interior with rain to the southeast part of new england. i'm accuweather meteorologist jeff cornish.

>> coming up, the big firing in the nfl overnight. >> but first, the jury verdict that could shake up the real estate industry. how it could affect what home buyers and sellers pay. >> and later, why actor robert de niro's martini order came up at his gender discrimination trial

most watched newscast. >> we're back now with a stolen suv on the wrong side of several roads in northern virginia. the man driving was an accused kidnaper after hitting several other vehicles, he bailed out, fleeing on foot, trying to carjack other vehicles before police finally took him down. he now faces several felony charges. >> former major league baseball player danny seraphine has pleaded not guilty to charges of killing his father in law and trying to murder his mother in law. seraphine made his first

court appearance yesterday. he and another suspect allegedly attacked the couple during an attempted robbery in their lake tahoe home. investigators say surveillance video places him near the scene of the crime wearing a mask and a hoodie before the attack. a bombshell court ruling in the real estate industry could affect anyone buying or selling a home. >> a jury has decided that realtors have been conspiring to keep their commissions as high. here's abc's derrick dennis. >> this morning, a federal jury's verdict threatens to shake up the real estate industry. the jury found the national association of realtors is liable for $1.8 billion in damages for controlling the multiple listing service or mls, and for requiring home sellers to pay both the buyer and seller brokerage fees in a single transaction. >> as a seller of a home. as a homeowner, you have to agree to make an offer of compensation to the buyer's agent. that's the only way you can list it. they have a stranglehold on the data. >> attorney michael ketchmark, one of the lead attorneys in the missouri class action case,

spoke to cnbc. >> there's no reason that home sellers should be forced to pay a buyer's agent. it doesn't happen around the world. the only reason it's happening here is because the national association of realtors and these corporate real estate companies are following and enforcing this rule. and it's not right. it's against the law. >> the federal jury agreed, but real estate agent josh flagg says home sellers routinely become buyers again and then benefit on the other end. >> when you're going to buy a house, you're also not. it's reverse. you get you get a free ride one time and then the other time you get to pay. >> it's big money commissions paid for by the seller and then split between buyers and sellers. agents can be as much as 5 or 6% of a property's value. the missouri ruling could do away with that split, potentially upending how real estate agents have done business for decades. >> so what happens after this is kind of confusing. we don't know yet. in other words, what the effect of this decision will be. >> the national association of realtors plans to appeal the decision in the justice

department is also looking into the issue, which could take years to resolve. andrew rhiannon derick, thank you. >> coming up, we remember a beloved soap opera star passing away at just 50 years old. >> also ahead, meet the 14 year old who just developed a old who just developed a treatment for skin cancer ♪ (i know i can) ♪ ♪ (count on you) ♪ ♪ (you've got the love) ♪ ♪ (you've got the love) ♪ ♪ (you've got the love) ♪ ♪ (you've got the love) ♪ ♪ (you've got the love) ♪ ♪ (you've got the love) ♪ ♪ (you've got the love) ♪ ♪ (sometimes i feel like saying) ♪ ♪ (lord i just don't care) ♪ pandora. loves, unboxed. ♪ with wet amd, sometimes i worry my world is getting smaller because of my sight. but now, i can open up my world with vabysmo.

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>> emmy winning soap opera star tyler christopher has died. his best known role was playing nicholas cassadine on general hospital. he also starred on days of our lives and csi and was previously married to actress eva longoria, former costar says christopher died after a cardiac event at his home. in the past, he openly spoke about substance abuse issues. he was just 50 years old. >> we turn now to a 14 year old winning global praise. he has developed a new kind of cancer treatment in the form of a soap. meet hayman beckley. he's just won a prestigious award for his invention. >> it's called seats, and that stands for skin cancer treating soap. its main purpose is to treat minor forms of skin cancer, but perhaps most impressive, his age, hayman, is just 14, when as part of three m's young scientist challenge, he came up with a low cost soap that delivers cancer fighting drugs via nanoparticles, which

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now at five, the man accused of throwing explosive devices at police during a chase was once convicted of detonating a bomb under the car of a woman. >> we're going to hear from her this morning. >> the fbi now saying that the israel-hamas war is raising the threat of an attack against americans in the us to another level. >> plus, a new mask mandate today. health workers across the bay area masking up again as we head into colder weather and more bugs out there. what you should know before going to the doctor. good morning to you on this wednesday, november 1st. oh, your rent is due. >> i kid you not. i paid it in my car at a stoplight because i totally forgot. i totally forgot it.