israel ramps up its offensive in gaza. the prime minister announcing an expansion in the country's ground operations. our first look at the devastating destruction left by israeli airstrikes the second largest city in maine comes together to mourn as lewiston remembers the lives it's lost. new details emerge about the warning lines about last week's mass shooting.

the world remembers actor matthew perry this morning after news of his sudden death stunned hollywood and his fans why police are still investigating exactly how he died >> we break down the biggest stories in sports. the world series all tied up as we get ready for game 3. but could we get a game 7? a santa cruz skater is proving it's never too late to chase your dreams. meet the 64-year-old who just qualified for team usa it's monday, october 30th. "early today" starts right now good morning, i'm frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. it's been just over three weeks since hamas in gaza launched a surprise large-scale invasion of southern israel. more than 1,400 people were killed in 24 hours most of them civilians an unprecedented horror in a country that has seen its share of atrocities. but since then, the israeli response has caused five times as many deaths on the gaza strip' cording to health

ministry in gaza most of them, too, are believed to be civilians. >> reporter: israel is intensifying its offensive to destroy hamas and remove it from power in gaza. from just outside gaza, we could see the massive explosions from israeli airstrikes israel says it's using weapons powerful enough to collapse hamas tunnels. we saw deep penetrating bombs. watch how much this one throws in the air in the daylight, we could see the ruined skyline of northern gaza israel is raising parts of gaza to the ground. and more tanks and armored vehicles are moving in, along with armored bulldozers needed to clear paths in the destruction. we could also see what we can usually only hear, a constant presence of israeli drones internet services knocked off line by israel friday have been partially restored by the

palestinian telecom company, so our crew could show us life inside gaza city it's becoming a wasteland. the humming you hear are those drones, gazans call them mosquitos. israel says the operation is payback for hamas' killing 1,400 israelis and taking by the latest count 230 hostages. gazans are getting desperate the u.n. said its warehouses were broken into people taking food and basic necessities. the staff in gaza city say the israeli military is threatening to bomb it israel accuses hamas of using hospitals as military headquarters, contrary to international laws of war. the palestinian red crescent, an independent aid agency, shared with us this video, and says there are 12,000 people inside the hospital israel says hamas uses them as human shields. the red crescent says it must

stay open to continue providing services for hundreds of thousands of people in northern gaza the israeli military laid out its three military objectives, to disarm hamas, to destroy them politically, and free the hostages and say the campaign could take years or end if hamas drops its weapons and releases the hostages there's no sign of that coming our thanks to richard for starting us off this morning with that update let's turn now to lewiston, maine, where a tight-knit community is mourning the loss of 18 people after a gunman terrorized their small town. the community is holding vigils this weekend to remember the victims. one survivor who had a bullet go through her arm spoke with our kathy park about how hard it has been to cope >> what brings me back to that moment, it could be a noise or it could be just someone's talking to me and all of a sudden it just comes it just -- the picture of that guy. >> reporter: more about the shooting suspect, robert card,

who was found dead on friday law enforcement officials telling the "a.p." they sent out an alert last month to be on the lookout for card after he made threats to shoot up an army reserve base patrols were increased, but card was not found. the lewiston police chief told nbc news that he was not aware of card being under the department's radar halloween celebrations kicked off this weekend. but the holiday became scary where deadly gun violence sent crowds running for their lives viewers may find some of the video in this next report disturbing >> reporter: video capturing the moment gunfire erupted in tampa. the horrifying sound of gunshots sending people running for their lives. moments later, victims in bloody halloween costumes receiving help from first responders

two people were killed, 16 others injured authorities say despite heavy police presence in the area, the shooting started after a fight broke out. >> people aren't hesitating to pull out guns and shoot, and not only kill innocent individuals but hurt bystanders as well. >> reporter: one of the two kills was emmett wilson's 14-year-old son. >> it's not the first time 2014 i lost my child now here it is 2023, and my baby boy, he's gone now from gun violence >> reporter: police announcing 22-year-old tyrell steven phillips has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder gun violence erupting at halloween parties in other cities as well this week in texarkana, texas, three people were killed and three others injured indianapolis, one person killed and ten others injured and in chicago, 15 people shot at a halloween house party tragedies overshadowing

celebrations for one of america's favorite holidays. nbc news ohio is set to vote this november on whether abortion should be protected in the state's constitution ahead of that vote, misinformation on the ballot measure is spreading and some inflammatory language targeting reproductive rights is on a government website. it's on a blog posted by the republican controlled state senate groups backing the amendment say its improper use of taxpayer supported site a spokesperson for the state senate says the blog doesn't cost taxpayers anything because it's hosted on an existing government platform. cities and localities in florida are burning more and more trash for electricity authorities in tampa are planning to use government funds provided by the inflation reduction act to expand waste to energy incinerators. but concerns about health risks aren't going away. there are increasing reports of residents suffering health problems from living near burn facilities and it's not just in florida

in new york, state environmental authorities are investigating toxic dumps near predominantly black communities. a deal has been reached in a strike along the great lakes the major shipping artery had been shut down for a week. more than 300 workers in canada refused to work as they negotiated better wages. they will be back to work today re-opening a vital shipping route that allows grain and other products to flow in between the united states and canada this shipping system carried over $12 billion worth of cargo last year. a 64-year-old california woman is headed somewhere not a lot of 60-somethings go. the world skate games. judio llama has been skating since her teens. and next year she will be a member of the u.s. slalom team when she started out she was sometimes the only woman there competing, and other times she was shut out entirely. you can see the mother of two in action in the italian capital next year. there is a blast of cold

moving across the country. freeze and frost alerts in place for millions this morning with a possibility of snow in some spots. nbc meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking that front. good morning, michelle >> good morning, guys. definitely feeling like winter in many, many spots. some spots right now in the teens. it's feeling like the single digits a cold front stretching from the south central states all the way to the northeast 65 million americans under frost or freeze alerts this morning. freeze warnings, that is the hot pink color temperatures in the 20s, 30s, the teens in denver. feeling like 13 in dodge city. it feels like the 20s in kansas city feeling like the teens in minneapolis. it's chilly too towards the northeast, 31 in the great lakes in chicago, feeling like 30 in st. louis. that's the story this morning. we're going to keep it cool as we go throughout the day, especially behind this front we're looking at temperatures well below normal for this time of year. 10, even 25 degrees below

typical. 85 in raleigh. and then that cold front is going to move off to the south and east that's going to bring that chill to portions of the mid-atlantic, philadelphia tomorrow, 54 degrees, seven degrees below what is typical for this time of year that cold front is going to bring chilly temperatures and also a chance for rain and even the chance for some wintry precipitation in the form of freezing rain. and also we're going to see snow mixing with rain also just snow in some spots, locally 6 inches, especially where you see this pink and purple in parts of portions of e northern plains, the upper midwest. central plains, temperatures in the 40s. >> that's your monday forecast, guys >> okay, michelle, thank you "early today" is back in one minute with a shocking news from

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at a california residence. law enforcement sources telling nbc news there was no apparent foul play pending a further investigation. the 54-year-old posting this photo in the water just days ago. perry's family telling people, matthew brought so much joy to the world, both as an actor and a friend perry, born in williamstown, massachusetts, was raised in canada before moving to los angeles as a teen. it was there he discovered his love of comedy, joining an improv group at the age of 24 he would land the gig of a lifetime as chandler bing on the hit nbc sitcom "friends. he would star in the show for all ten seasons. >> i left the message, i have some pride >> do you? >> no. [ laughter ] >> and later in a string of hit films like "the whole nine yards," "fools rush in," and the romantic comedy "seventeen again. despite his ability to light up a screen, off-screen, there was darkness perry opening up about his

decades-long battle with drugs and alcohol in his 2022 memoir the actor said he went to rehab 15 times and detoxed 65 times. >> but i would sometimes say a line and they wouldn't laugh and i would sweat and just, like, go into convulsions if i didn't get the laugh i was supposed to get. >> an outpouring of support from california to new york his on-screen mother writing, the loss of such a brilliant young actor is a shock the "friends" instagram account calling perry a true gift. our heart goes out to his family, loved ones, and all of his fans >> our thanks to chloe for that report still to come, streaks and hearts were broken on a packed slate of nfl games on sunday we will break it a dllown for you, right after this. this is a hot flash. but this is a not flash.

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towards the earth. >> it was quoted saying i'm not a regular comet, i'm a cool comet. >> reporter: all that cosmic chaos over a so-called devil comet named for those horn-looking things. it's about the same size as the city of dallas it's flying at tens of thousands of miles per hour. and it's getting a lot closer to us, close enough to panic? if you believe astrophysicists, no >> you do not need to worry about this comet >> reporter: the comet is named 12p/pons-brooks after two guys who spotted it way back in the 19th century experts say it orbits the sun every seven years or so, and now, as you can see from this nasa animation, it's taking another lap through our solar system, at a safe distance >> the closest it's going to get to earth is hundreds of millions of miles away. it's actually goingto be farther away from the earth than the sun is >> reporter: so what's the deal with those devil horns see, comets are cold

they're basically mounds of dust and ice, according to nasa, leftovers from the formation of thesolar system. but when they get closer to th sun, they heat up. >> this happening on the surface of this comet is something called cryovolcanos, which is like a frozen volcano operating barely above absolute zero where instead of a rock with liquid rock squirting out of it like a normal volcano, you have ice and then liquid ice, aka water, squirting out of it and then when the comet passes far enough away, it refreezes. >> reporter: he says that activity might be what's can you seeing that devil horn effect. and although the comet will continue to race toward earth all the way through spooky season and early 2024, the devil is keeping its distance, remaining a cool couple hundred million miles away, even at its closest point next spring. nbc news >> it is so fascinating every aspect of the science of that thing coming towards us, whether

it comes how many millions of whatever miles away or years away from us, it's still so cool to be able to track. >> yes, it's cool that it won't be hitting us. april 2024, i think, there will be a total solar eclipse a couple weeks before that so it should be visible. i also like how they used to name leo and scorpio, these old latin names because that was in the zeitgeist. we get a double

right now at 5:00, fighting crime with cash. the step antioch's mayor is taking to try to help struggling businesses. also, the state agency one local leader is calling on to stop criminals in their tracks. i believe that there still is an opportunity to get those hostages out, and it is the highest priority the president has. >> the situation in the middle east is intensifying, as israel increases its ground