ready to meet with a chinese counterpart. it's the first time in six years xi jinping will set foot on american soil. what they hope to accomplish on the city by the bay. a deadly crash in ohio a bus rear ended by a semi protests outside a school board meeting, all over a high school play. the decision that had lbgtq advocates giving a standing ovation. opening night for "harmony." set nearbly a century ago why audience members say it was meant for this moment in time. >> good morning, i'm phillip

mena >> i'm frances rivera. we again in gaza where israeli troops say they're conducting a targeted response to a hospital. they say hamas is using tunnels underneath hospitals to hide in and keep hostages. palestinian health officials deny that allegation meanwhile, the situation inside the al shifa hospital is reaching catastrophic levels chapman bell joins us now with more good morning, chapman. what's the latest on the conditions there >> reporter: good morning, frances. as you say, catastrophic conditio i mean, things have been dire for days, and no sign of improvement, really, with gaza's mane h main hospital no longer functioning, according to the w.h.o. they've had no food, no water, no power for days, and this as dozens of babies who are struggling for incubators in a neonatal unit where we've seen

deaths already, there are estimates that 180 women inside the gaza strip give birth every day. israeli defense forces say they're trying to bring in mobile incubators to transfer these babies to other hospitals, but the hospital officials say they've receive nod firm offer this comes as biden has said hospitals must be protected in the gaza strip hough, the u.s. says there's evidence that there is a command-and-control center node and as well as weapons storages inside al shifa hospital now this, of course, has been denied by hospital officials and hamas. however, israel, as you said, has undertake and precise and targeted raid in al shifa hospital that they say is still ongoing to explore these, this evidence hamas saying that it is israel and biden are fully responsible for israel's storming of the hospital however, we've yet to see what the outcome of this will be.

as we, you know, learn that the hospital has had to bury 80 people in a mass grave so, as we've said before, things just continue to be dire for civilians in gaza, as israel targets hamas inside the gaza strip. >> yeah, the number of babies on the floor, and those body bags continue to grow chapman, thank you here in the u.s., tens of,000 thousand /* of thousands of people showed up in d.c. to show their support for israel and call for the release of the hostages some of the families visited the white house and spoke exclusively to lester holt >> can you tell me how important this is to be one voice? to speak loudly on this? >> i mean, i think it's very important, as american citizens to say, it's not okay for american citizens to be stolen, kidnapped, abducted, whatever word we use. >> i first met john and rachel

in their home in israel. their 23-year-old son hersh, seen here hiding from hamas. witnesses say he was loaded into a pickup truck, his left arm missing. >> i feel like kidnapped is not the right word it's so much worse thanthat. when our son is dancing at a music festival, has his arm ploen blown off and is taken all of us together, our children, our loved ones, our american citizens who were wrongfully taken from where they, were and for 39 days have been somewhere in gaza >> reporter: their kidnapped loved ones are neighbors, mothers and fathers, even a 3-year-old girl. >> my name is liz hersh naf talley, and i am the grandaunt of abigail and she's 3 years old, and she was abducted from the kibbutz after her parents were killed. >> reporter: abigail saw her

mother killed, then her father too. >> as they ran, a terrorist shot him and killed him and he fell onto abigail >> reporter: abigail's 6 and 10-year-old siblings somehow got away they saw her hiding under their dad, and then. >> abigail had crawled out from under her father's body. and full of his blood went to a neighbor, and they took her in >> reporter: later abigail and the neighbors were kidnapped >> the last thing we learned was that somebody saw the terrorists taking this mother, her three kids and abigail out of the kibbutz, and that's all we know. >> reporter: when you look around at this group, what do you feel >> i think that what's driving all of us is a sense of hope >> all of us have our own families, but now stwree a new family this is my new family. >> reporter: this new family now on a mission in washington, including a meeting at the white house. >> can you give us an idea of what was shared with you >> well, i can say this.

and i think speaking for all of us, we're extraordinarily grateful to be, the biden administration as a whole, for taking what is clearly such a keen interest, not just in our own loved ones but in all of the approximately 240 honlssstages >> it's been 39 days where's the action >> let's turn now to california where in just a few hours, president biden will hold a high-stakes, diplomatic meeting. for the first time in six years, sho xi jinping is visiting the united states. he is here for the apec summit in san francisco president biden says his goal for today is to get the u.s. and china back to normal correspondence with each other and talk if there is a crisis. it appears that lawmakers will punt the budget battle past

the holidays the senate is expected to take up a stopgap funding bill after the house signed off on the plan last night in a bipartisan vote. the measure passed with nearly every democrat on board and over half of republicans. house speaker mike johnson's novel approach to averting a shutdown will fund part of the government through january 19th and other remaining parts through february 2nd it did not include aid for israel and ukraine or for border security, leaving those issues for later. we want to turn now to the latest on a horrific crash in ohio at least six people have died after a semi truck rear ended a charter bus carrying high school students the crash involved five vehicles and more than a dozen people were hurt. nbc's maggie vespa has more. >> reporter: chaos and carnage on an ohio interstate. >> we have heavy fire. >> reporter: authorities say a charter bus filled with students and chaperones was apparently hit by a semi truck. >> we are being advised that

there is children trapped on the bus. >> we didn't know it was children we found out later, i mean, that's even harder >> reporter: it happened on a busy i-70 east of columbus wcmh reporting that they were on their way to a conference. >> this is our worst nightmare when we have a bus full of children involved in a crash >> reporter: the ohio state highway patrol says the crash involving five vehicles total sent 18 people to the hospital, 15 of them children. authorities declining to release names, adding they're working to reach families investigators closed the interstate, diverting traction for traffic for hours >> we have to break down what exactly caused the crash >> reporter: the superintendent of the school calling the news

sdef devastating and heartbreaking. los angeles officials say a section of the freeway damaged by a monster fire oift wver the weekend will not need to be demolished the inferno damaged more than 100 columns along a busy stretch of i-10. investigators believe it was intentionally set, but no arrests have been made angelenos aren't the only ones facing problems on the roads. a massive water main break occurred in topeka, kansas thankfully, no one was hurt. the sunshine state is not living up to its name about now. rain son the way for florida as well as much of the southeast. angie lassman is tracking flood alerts already in place. >> we've got lots of rain on the way over the next day or so, 7

million people included in the flood alerts from daytona beach to south florida this is something that we'll see be problematic as we get through the next couple days we've got heavy rain on the way with really impressive rainfall amounts that we're expecting here's why we have a system impacting folks around the gulf coast. as we get through the later part of today, the heavy rain is over south florida. then we see some of the rain let up for extreme southern portions of south florida, but we'll end up dealing with that rain anywhere from one to three inches for more widespread amounts, but localized amounts up to ten inches are possible. this is something we'll have to watch into the rest of the day today and into tomorrow. we have a new low that will develop and move up the coasr p6

degrees as we get into the afternoon hours in indianapolis today. and that's a look at your forecast, guys, back to you. >> angie, thank you. coming up a new top dog when >>bufit o t mes. > t rsthe show must go on why a texas district reversed a ban on a trans john der studen plop plop fizz fizz with alka-seltzer plus cold & flu relief. alsogender student cough relief. oh, hello! hi! do you know that every load of laundry could be worth as much as $300? really? and your clothes just keep getting more damaged the more times you wash them. downy protects fibers, doing more than detergent alone. see? this one looks brand new. saves me money? i'm starting to like downy. downy saves loads.

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>> the real version of oklahoma and let the students see him >> reporter: 65 people signed up to speak at sherman independent school district's board meeting monday night about the high school's recently delayed production of the musical "oklahoma. every seat in the boardroom was full, and the walls were lined with people standing, waiting to voice their opinions >> by prioritizing inclusivity in our artistic decision we can foster an environment free from bias, ensuring that every student feels seen and valued. >> reporter: protesters gathered outside the building with flags and posters. many parents and taxpayers in the district presented concerns about how they believe sherman is focussed on the wrong issues. >> how they treat people that they like and how they treat people that they don't like is

way more important than the things that they can't control about themselves >> reporter: students from local universities, such as austin college, came to show their support for the theater program. >> i ask that you evaluate what has happened, instead of sweeping things under the rug. >> reporter: on friday, sherman isd released a statement saying they will recast the musical, and anyone regardless of gender or how they identify can try out for any role >> this is not okay. public schools are supposed to be for everybody everybody. all right new production will be rescheduled after january 15th >> our thanks to abbey hayman for that report. still to come, breaking down the generation gap and a rough fall from grace for pups named max the new most popular dog name of 2023 right after this.

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