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israel drops leaflets from the sky telling gazans to get out. >> more air strikes by israel against military targets they say in gaza. it appears to be paving the way for a full on ground invasion. >> the rush to leave. we are tracking the scramble to get americans out of israel and the desperate behind the scenes push to free hostages. >> plus the security concerns in america. cities and college campuses on alert. >> and the extra security at the u.s. capitol today after a former hamas leader called for a day of rage. the step being taken to make sure protests remain peaceful. good morning, every wb wn. >> israel's military says, a quote, extensive attack against military targets in the gaza strip is under way. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said earlier today, quote, our enemies have only started paying the price. however, he did not say if the

anticipated ground invasion has begun. this comes after israel ordered more than 1 million people to evacuate northern gaza earlier today. nbc news has learned 70 people were killed when air strikes hit three convoys moving to southern gaza. >> we're also monitoring worldwide protests today in support of pal stippians. several communities here in the u.s. are on high alert as well for potential violence against jewish houses of worship and jewish owned businesses. president biden spoke today with families of americans believed to be held hostage in gaza. it comes as the first charter flight organized by the state department to get americans out of israel departed from there earlier today. more than 3,100 people have been killed since the war began nearly seven days ago now. that includes at least 27 americans, more than 10,000 others have been hurt. >> our correspondent ellison barber was reporting live on "nbc news daily" earlier today from the israel-gaza border. she had to take cover as rockets coming in from gaza suddenly

flew overhead. >> so far today we have not since we've been out here in the last couple of hours seen or heard any sort of rockets. actually we have something coming over our head right here now. >> get down, ellison, we'll come back to you. >> ellison and her crew are thankfully safe from that. she joins us now. ellison, i understand it's an active scene where you are. what are you seeing there? >> hey, guys. we were just watching in the sky as some flares were sent up, and we could hear the booms coming from gaza. as you said we were waiting to see what prime minister netanyahu would have to say in his speech tonight, the fact that he was speaking on the sabbath we thought perhaps there would be some sort of big announcement within that. there wasn't necessarily. they did not announce as you reported accurately there that there is an official start to the ground offensive, but we do know that the idf, israel's defense forces, they say within

the last 24 hours they have carried out efforts inside of gaza -- forgive me for stumbling a little bit as i listen to hear if there's anything that -- some noises coming overhead as we're standing in this situation. what we have seen today is the situation in gaza appeared to escalate. we have seen heavy bombardments as we were closer to the border. we had to move a bit back because israeli defense forces told us we needed to move back to a bit of a safer location near the border here. we have seen just the constant glow of bombs, rockets landing inside of gaza. we know that in the north there were leaflets that were dropped by idf telling roughly 1.1 million palestinians that live in that part of gaza that they needed to try to evacuate to move south. so reality on the ground in gaza, the situation there, the border crossings, none of them are open. israel, they say that the crossing to the north that would

come into israeli territory that's been closed because hamas militants targeted it when they launched their attacks over the weekend, killed a number of people there and took people hostage. that's why israel says that border crossing is not open. but in order for people to be moving through that area, there's space inside of gaza where in theory they could go to, right? it's a small, densely populated area. but leaving, there's no option for that right now. they're telling them to move south. but the border crossing that goes into egypt that's not open. there's no humanitarian corridor out of gaza right now. there's no green zones, no safe places to get out of the area. they do not have access to shelters as is more common ipisrael. what we know from the u.n. when people are internally displaced and they've been saying it's about 800,000 today, a lot of them are trying to shelter in u.n. run schools and hospitals because that's the safest structure they can get to. it's an ongoing situation.

we have seen so many military vehicles over the last 24 hours moving on the israeli side towards the gaza border, but for now we're waiting to see what will happen. we didn't hear as big of an announcement as we were expecting from that speech from prime minister benjamin netten hooch. >> ellison barber, we say this every time please, please stay safe. we're you're colleagues and worry about you. >> here in the united states president biden met with families of hostages still trapped in gaza. >> bide is in philadelphia this afternoon speaking about the economy. he's also expected to bring up the latest u.s. response on the crisis in israel. allie, what are you learning about that meeting he had, i guess it was a zoom meeting with families of hostages. >> yeah, kate, we know the president spoke on this virtual call for more than han hour with the families of according to the white house 14 americans still unaccounted for, still believed

to be among the roughly 150 people who were taken from israel to gaza by hamas terrorists on saturday. and white house officials say on this call that the president told these families that they continue to be in his thoughts and prayers. he vowed to continue these ongoing recovery efforts. they say that several family members even shared personal stories about their loved ones with the president and that several officials were available to answer any questions about these ongoing recovery efforts from these family members, kate. >> and with that said, do we know if the white house has expressed plans to provide anymore u.s. support or aid to israel? >> yes, zinhle, that's been one of the biggest questions to emerge since this war began nearly a week ago now, how the future of u.s. aid to israel would look considering we know that the house is still paralyzed because they haven't elected a house speaker. and without a house speaker nothing can get done. but members of this administration have said

repeatedly in their words that they can chew gum and walk at the same time. that they can not only pass aid to israel but also pass aid to ukraine. and we know that a few hours ago white house officials and the members of top committees on the house side including the appropriations committee and foreign affairs committees met at the white house to discuss what that future aid would look like. we had reported a few days ago that the white house planned to include aid to taiwan, the border. in this aid package to israel and ukraine, and we're waiting to see whether and how that was fleshed out during this meeting, guys. >> allie raffa, thank you very much. >> two cabinet members also affirming support for israel. >> earlier today secretary lloyd austin traveled to israel to meet with his israeli counterpart. austin condemned the attack and said the u.s. is, quote, ready to send initial assets.

let's bring in courtney kube. what kind of additional assets could the u.s. send to israel? is it possible we could see american troops actually on the ground now? >> at this point we don't expect any u.s. troops to be used for anything what we might think in a classic sense what the u.s. military would be doing for boots on the ground. things like kicking in doors, being involve in some sort of ground incursion or invasion. that being said there are u.s. military forces in israel now. they're helping the idf in helping them with some of their planning, their intelligence and surveillance and gathering. but as far as actual sort of kinetic action by u.s. military, we're not expecting that at this point. as far as the resources, you made a great point there, zinhle, the u.s. is sending resources already. secretary of state lloyd austin you see him here he actually traveled to an israeli airfield where he saw a planeload of munitions come in earlier today. we don't know a whole lot of about exactly what they're sending. we know there's interceptors for the iron dome that's been

critical to defenses defending things like mortars, short range artillery and rockets that might be coming in from gaza and other places. we know they're also send\ing in other ammunition, but we don't know a whole lot of specifics. >> we know about a ground invasion. what did the defense secretary say about that? >> he's been asked again as we've been asking ever since this started, is there any chance the u.s. is going in for, again, a ground invasion, some sort of hostage rescue. at this point he continues to say like many on the biden administration that they're not planning for that. but, again, that being said, there are u.s. military there supporting the israeli. he was also asked about how he could help encourage, i guess, the israelis to ensure that civilians are not targeted in these ongoing air strikes we've been seeing and in this what everyone expects to be a coming ground invasion.

he really praised the idf saying they're a professional force, but he also urged restraint and urged israelis and everyone to remember the law of war, this really should be about resolve and not about revenge, kate. >> courtney kube with the latest from the pentagon for us, thank you very much. >> and our coverage continues throughout this hour. also be sure to join us this weekend. we bring you live two-hour special reports on both saturday night and sunday night. tom llamas will be in israel. jose diaz-balart will be with him on saturday. i'll be with him on sunday night starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch it on nbc news now, cnbc, and msnbc. let's take a turn now and talk about today's cnbc money minute. a new milestone for electric vehicles in america. >> and the fda cracking down on a popular type of e-cigarette. cnbc's bertha coombs joins us now. >> let's start off with tesla. its foothold of the electric vehicle market slipped during the third quarter. that's despite u.s. sales of evs

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protesters in the united states and around the world are showing their support for israelis and the palestinian people. at the same time the former leader of hamas has called for today to be a time of demonstration against israel. he also called it a global day of, quote, anger. >> that has prompted local and federal law enforcement across the u.s. to step up security at synagogues, schools, and jewish owned businesses. and we've just learned a new york city councilwoman was arrested after police say she brought a gun to a pro-palestinian rally. >> nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter is with us in studio, but first let's begin in with george solis in new york's time square right now. i understand you're at a pro-palestinian demonstration. what are you hearing? what are you seeing? >> it is going on as we speak right now. we're on broadway.

we're behind a barricade right now not separate s us from any pro side. you can hear how loud the chants are. we've been hearing similar protests happening throughout the week, same rhetoric free palestine. some of the folks i've spoken with here responding to some of the stuff happening right now with the evacuation of people in gaza. i spoke with one man who actually has a friend wit family there right now who was very emotional during part of our conversation saying the family has nowhere to go. they've been seeing some of the atrocities happening over there. take a listen a bit of my conversation with him. >> the building next door was bombed. and when that happened, the whole block, all the houses there, they get affected. so they run out of their own building even though it wasn't bombed. right now we heard they're asking people in the north of

gaza to move away. where are they going to go? you know, there's no place to go. and -- >> again, it is very loud here so i apologize if i can't quite hear you. but this rally several hundred deep. the nypd here in full force. there has not been any threat security-wise here, but they are showing they are here and they are monitoring the situation very closely. we'll send it back to you guys. >> george, thank you. tom winters here with us in studio. i want to mention, tom, there's also a pro-israeli demonstration going on right now in san francisco we're going to show some shots of. so it's not just on one side or the other. there are many things happening, which i think for law enforcement is probably a bit of a headache, right, trying to figure out how to protect everyone and keep them safe. >> 100%. we're looking at that pro-israeli right now and that's what you have. obviously we know the rhetoric surrounding this and the incident that happened asked the terrorist attack that happened in israel obviously has people very passionate about their

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patrols around the synagogue throughout the day. the rabbi made it clear that there have been no threats made against him or his congregation. he says the police, who he has a good relationship with, reached out to him as a courtesy to see if he could like a presence at his synagogue in light of the call for a day of anger. >> we are always attentive to any news, to anything that's going on in the word around us. we pay attention to those things. we do reach out for help when we need it. >> reporter: in this instance, it was the other way around? >> that's correct. in this instance, the police understood we might be concerned. >> reporter: you aren't? >> i have no direct information about anything that would be of concern to our congregation and this location. >> reporter: the rabbi is grateful the community has shown support for his congregation, that they are not only welcome

but safe here in pleasanton. i reached out to police, still waiting to hear back. within the past few hours, this morning, san francisco police told us they are continuing to monitor the situation in the middle east and are in communication with their partners at the state and federal level. on a statewide level, the office of emergency management said -- bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> bob, thanks very much.

three our stories. a clean hydrogen hub. the san francisco fire department pulling off a water rescue. first, stanford suspended a lecturer for the way they handled teaches about the israeli-hamas war. students in the class say the instructor asked israeli and jewish students to identify themselves. the instructor sent them to a corner saying, that's how palestinians were treated. stanford issued a statement saying, academic freedom does not permit the identity-based targeting of students. we have new video of an early morning rescue in san francisco. firefighters say someone was clinging to pier 14 and needed help. you can see here, a rescue boat crew pulled that person to safety. paramedics treated the person. they are expected to recover. no word how or why they ended up in the water. the u.s. department of

energy designated california a clean hydrogen hub. the state will receive $1.2 billion to develop and deploy clean renewable hydrogen. the governor's office says the money will create jobs and help slash tons of carbon emissions. lots of blue skies this week. there's a chance of gray this evening to kick off your weekend. here is our meteorologist with a possibly soggy forecast. >> we have a great day in store for the end of the week. it's friday. those temperatures will be comfortable in the 60s for the coast, 70s for inland area. as far as your daytime highs, a closer look. expect to see the high clouds rolling through. we have a system approaching just off the coast. martinez, 74. napa, 73. cooler than thursday. into tonight, you do see that late pm shower chance. mostly, areas along the north

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the 2019 death of elijah mcclain. mcclain was a 23-year-old black man put in a choke hold and injected with a powerful sedative. a second former officer was acquitted in the case. both have faced several charges including reckless manslaughter. in total three police officers and two paramedics have been charged in mcclain's death. they're being tried in three separate trials. a 17-year-old is under arrest in connection with the morgan state university shooting that left five people hurt earlier this month. that's according to the baltimore police department. the teen was taken into custody in washington, d.c. he has been charged with multiple counts of attempted murder. detectives have also issued a warrant for another suspect, 18-year-old jevo williams who's considered armed and dangerous. and a rare ring of fire solar eclipse will be visible across nine states this weekend, so star gazers in oregon, nevada, utah, new mexico, and texas as well as parts of california, idaho, and arizona will be able to see the moon almost completely cover the sun. this will create an effect of a

fiery orange hew around the moon's shadow. and all other continental united states will be treated to a partial eclipse. but remember, folks, never stare directly at the sun. let's return now to our team coverage of the israel-hamas war. >> israel's military says, quote, an extensive attack against the military in the gaza strip is under way. but this is not the start yet of a ground defense of gaza. it all comes as israel ordered more than a million people to enorthern gaza earlier today. 70 people were killed, civilians, when air stricks hit three convoys moving into southern gaza. >> benjamin netanyahu gave an unplanned statement a little bit earlier. what did he say about what's next? >> yeah, and there was some speculation perhaps this is going to be the big announcement the government was going

towards, the country was going towards, the ground offensive was beginning, but he did not make that kind of announcement. instead he talked about unity. he talked about fighting. he talked about speaking to the families. he said that he had spoken to some of the families who lost their loved ones today. he said we'll never forget the atrocities that have been done to us and never forgive. he also said we're hitting our enemy with unprecedented force. our enemies have only started paying the price. this is only the beginning. he said it will take time, but we will beat our enemy. of course we know the clock is ticking on that evacuation order for people in gaza as they try to make their way to the southern part of the gaza strip and away they hope from israeli bombs. >> and kelly, it's not lost on me these remarks came on the sabbath. it has begun where you are in israel.

it's night behind you. that's the traditional jewish day of rest. it's observed from friday to saturday evening for those who may not be familiar. what are you hearing from people who are gathering to pray tonight? >> yeah, very quiet at the western wall and the moments leading up to the sabbath, that's very unusual. it's been quiet in jerusalem all day today. we met with the family of a 19-year-old woman who they say was kidnapped, and they struggle to eat basically. they say they haven't eaten in the past six days. all they can do is think about their daughter. they say there's a big black hole at the table tonight as they sit down for their sabbath meal and think about their love one, their 19-year-old girl who is somewhere in gaza tonight and pleaded with the international community to do something, anything to bring her and others home. zinhle, kate?

>> one of many families are echoing right now. >> kelly cobiella, thank you so much. >> let's back up and give you some context of the gaza region. it's about the size of the city of philadelphia. >> and right now israel is ordering more than million people within that gaza strip to move to a different space. joining us now is national security analyst clint watts. clint, where could these folks go? where could civilians go? >> yeah, if you notice from the orders that were given from the israeli government, they told them to leave the north. that is principally the gaza city area that's the main metropolitan area there, holds more than probably 1 to 2 million people. and told them to move towards the south. the south is principally where we used to see humaneitarian aid delivered through egypt, and there's the gate and usually a cross of goods and supplies there, usually not people.

you'll see goods there and that is one transit point. there's people at rapa. and in between those two gates is where you're seeing a lots of the population move as really a place or safe harbor trying to get away from what they think the main conflict area will be, which is up towards further north towards gaza city. >> clint, maybe i didn't hear you, but when we show that map those places right now, people can't get through right now, though, right? >> that's correct. the egyptian government at least of right now from what i've been observing is not letting people come through the gate, and they have shut that down at this point. those are two historical gates that are there that have been used. so people kerem shallom is goods only, simply a transit point for bringing in supply. >> we also know there were hostages in the gaza strip. what's being done? how does this evacuation impact

efforts to rescue them? >> it could be two-fold. one, if people are on the move, possibly hostages are being moved, it might give some indication to israeli intelligence if they have sources of where hostages are at, that could service them in some ways. the second part is there have been new stories of cross border raids just today. the idf has gone into gaza. and i do wonder although i haven't seen any evidence yet, i do wonder if those are maybe hostage rescue missions or probing operations to try to determine where hostages are at. so we don't have any strong details yet, but i would not be surprised if that's one of the areas they're focused on. and moving people out of the area might be a way for them to focus on where those hostages are if they can get some good intelligence. >> how significant would that be if indeed they are conducting raids trying to get at hostages? is that something you would think would happen before a full-scale invasion? >> absolutely. they would try and, you know, save as much life as possible

with these hostages. so if they have good intelligence, if they have good information, they might do these cross border raids now and possibly for some time. there's also the question i know people are waiting to see if this invasion is imminent. trying to get people to move south, that's really a clearing operation. they've already cordoned off that section. they want as many civilians to move out for humaneitarian reasons, but it also helps to isolate the actual militants that might be holding hostages. they're trying to do several things at once. i think it's too early to tell what the time line the idf may have, if they're going to go in for a full-scale invasion. >> how do you think israel is preparing for also the underground routes believed to be in the gaza strip? >> yeah, i think that's one of the things that is really an unknown. the idf and israeli intelligence they know there's all sorts of underground complexes, but they definitely won't have them fully

mapped out. it's not like buildings where you can dee some 3-d imaging and understand the shapes and sizes of different complec. that's not going to be the case in these underground areas. there's no way of knowing that. i think the training and preparation is what we'd do in subterranean clearing operations. >> clint watts, appreciate it. thanks so much. >> thank you. secretary of state antony blinken remains on his trip to the middle east. he's visiting several countries surrounding israel including qatar, saudi arabia, and egypt. his trip is intended today demonstrate the white house's commitment to supporting israel during its war with hamas. >> joining us now nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. andrea, great to see you. we know secretary blinken met with palestinian authority in jordan earlier today. for folks who don't track all of this so closely, luts the significance of that? what are they hoping to get by that map we just showed where

he's essentially making a huge circle? >> exactly. this is shuttle diplomacy. first of all, they're trying to contain the war from expanding, so the meeting in jordan very important with king abdula who has a very large palestinian population, a third of the population there are refugee camps that have existed for years. jordan welcoming them, educating their children, taking care of all these million people. and the pal stippian president is to stop the west bank -- stop it from expanding to the west bank opening that front. then onto qatar today, and in qatar an important meeting with the one country that has the most influence over hamas. they provide about $10 million a month to hamas. they funded -- they also housed some of the hamas leaders there in doha, in their capital, and

they have communications with hamas. so if anybody is going to be able to influence, you know, hamas to release the hostages in the immediate hours before the possibility of an imminent ground invasion, it would be qatar as well as egypt, second only to qatar. so then he's gone onto bahrain, where we have the fifth fleet and he'll be having talks with leaders in bahrain and also going to saudi arabia, to the uae, and egypt. it's a big trip to try to contain the war and try to get some intelligence on where the hostages are. >> and andrea, we only have moments here, but what do we know about the future involvement in this region, and there are a plan to rescue these american hostages? >> there are certainly plans, but they'll not discuss them for obvious reasons. there were targeted incursions by the israeli arm wrae, the idf in the last 24 hours to take out some terror pockets. these are special operations,

and trying to find where the hostages might be, gather intelligence. so they're trying to develop that so that they could do some sort of rescue, but it is very, very difficult. also trying to reach out to all these other countries to try to do what they can to stop hezbollah in lebanon which is heavily influenced -- to stop that northern border from exploding as well. there has been some rocket fire back and forth, some evacuations of northern israeli towns today, but so far not a broader expansion of the war. >> a lot to follow there. andrea mitchell in washington, d.c. for us, thank you. >> be sure to join us this weekend. we bring you live two hour special reports saturday and sunday evening. tom llamas in israel on saturday. i'll be with him on sunday night starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern and zinhle as part of our coverage as well. you can watch itn nbc o

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right now republicans on capitol hill are scrambling to elect a new house speaker. >> it all comes after-cross grn steve scalise who house republicans nominated then pulled his name out of consideration before any full vote in the house. now two other republicans today

have put their name in to be speaker. congressman austin scott of georgia and congressman jim jordan of ohio. both are looking to replace ousted speaker kevin mccarthy. here to help us wade through all of this and try to figure out what's going on, nbc news senior washington correspondent hallie jackson, and capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. let's take a step back for folks not watching the sausage being made. what happened to steve scalise? we thought he might get a vote. >> we thought he might get a vote, and some might say he did get a vote at least at the phase we're at right now. which is behind these corrodes doors they did elect steve scalise as speaker designate just wednesday, and then he had trouble cobbling together the 217 votes he'd need to get on the floor. he held hours and hours of meetings with fellow hold outs for him. and last night he dropped out in fullvule of his conference, saying he's not going to be an

excuse for them to no longer elect a speaker. and now they're back to the drawing bord with jim jordan, the current judiciary chairman. he's widely expected to be the person who comes out of this rom and this balloting round with the votes necessary to at least consider taking it to the floor. and then of course there's his challenger, the little known congressman from georgia, austin scott, who's really presenting himself in many wrays right now as a proxy, just an example as an alternative to those members who might not be riding the jordan train right now. there's a lot of pressure, frustration amongst themselves and a lot of pressure to just elect somebody so they can start the business of governing again. >> hallie, let's bring you in here because ali is talking about pressure and frustration. this hasn't been a good look. >> you have to think about what the republican conference looks

like, zinhle and kate. on one end of the spectrum you have ultraconservatives and the other moderate republicans in swing districts. same party, two very sets of interests, two very different sets of constituencies. and finding somebody who's in that sort of magic middle is going to be very difficult. we can just look to the events of the last week that bears that out. >> and hallie, people may know jim jordan's name because he's been in the donald trump camp but this other republican from georgia, frankly, i don't much about him. what do you think might play out here? >> i'm struck by the way ali phrased it. he's like the not jim jordan alternative here. listen, i think it's fair to say probably not a ton of people outside washington know much about him or who he is, sort of a republican and a sort of moderate mold, moderate role being put forward here is somebody who could potentially

peel some votes away. ali would know more than i would from conversations here about how serious a candidate he is. there's questions though and we've seen members from congress does everybody get a shot at being nominated speaker essentially? that's facetious, of course, but you do have some of this humor peppering conversations around this even at a time of national crisis where there's immense pressure and you're seeing it today for congress to do something. you're seeing these conversations between white house staffers and congressional aides on how do we actually get the ball moving to make sure that israel from the white house's perspective has what it needs. >> yeah, i mean the stakes are high. ali, let's talk about the practical impact of this fight. can the house even get anything done with no one in charge? >> no, which is why this is not some esoteric or not important to life congress. there are looming question how

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