hours hiding. what did you see when you finally left the shelter? >> i tried not to look around as much as possible. i don't know if many people can understand, but the smell, it smelled like war and bad news and tears. >> reporter: tell me about your walk to freedom. >> we needed to go to a bus. it was so, so scary. a friend of my family came to me and told me no, no, no, you're not crying, not now. not now. you can't do it. you can't fall apart now. you need to focus. you need to survive. keep going. keep going. walk fast, run. >> reporter: we first met renana when she was 10 years old. even then she was worried about attacks. >> it's very scary to be all the time to be prepared to run. >> this time she escaped north with her grandma, father and mother, elanit. how many of your friends and neighbors are gone? >> too many.

>> what will you do now? >> we need to build our life back from nothing. this is not mine. this is not mine. >> nothing. >> but they do have each other. >> she told me that if we going to never make it together, i will let you kiss me any time you want. since then i'm kissing her every minute. >> reporter: renana told us her mother kept her calm. >> in those hard moments where we thought hamas was going to come any second, she told me to think about the taylor swift performance we're going to in june, and how i'm going to sing and how much she is going to film me. >> it gave you hope? >> that i'm going make it to june, and i'm going make it out of of there alive. >> hope is in short supply these days. kfar aza is now one of the many sites where hundreds of israeli soldiers are readying for the

possible counterstrike ground invasion of gaza. tensions are also rising in the north with a potential second front in the war along israel's border with lebanon. cbs' imtiaz tyab is following the action where liz troops exchanged fire today with hezbollah forces. >> reporter: israel was thrown into a fresh state of terror after a military alert warning of a, quote, aerial infiltration from lebanon. an army spokesman later said it was an error. but on its northern border with lebanon, israel is taking no chances. cbs news has witnessed a mass mobilization of tanks and soldiers following four consecutive days of incoming rocket fire from southern lebanon. >> allahu akbar. >> reporter: dozens of communities have been evacuated. the few who remain, mainly women and children spend most of their time in underground bunkers because of the near constant air

raid sirens, and tensions here are running high. a fight breaks out over donated coloring supplies for the children as people, who have had no choice but to live in such close quarters find themselves at breaking point. includie ing this mother of thr. why is everyone so upset? >> the stress makes everybody crazy. >> reporter: the fear now is the kind of violence hamas inflicted on israel's south will come here to the north as armed palestinian groups and the iran-backed shia group hezbollah continue to fire rockets into israeli territory. hezbollah is lebanon's most powerful armed group and is committed to israel's destruction. with its vast arsenal of rockets and thousands of fighters who gained combat experience in syria's civil war. israel recognizes it as a formidable fighting force. now three hezbollah fighters and three israeli soldiers have been killed in the past few days

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>> reporter: the white house maintains there is no direct link between iran and saturday's attack, and the iranians deny any role. u.s. intelligence sources tell cbs news the regime was actually surprised by the scope of the assault. but texas republican congressman michael mccaul today disputed that assessment. >> i think all roads lead to iran. we certainly don't want to see this escalate, but iran is already in this. and to say somehow that iran's not i think is just a lack of common sense. >> reporter: while trying to prevent a wider war, the white house is also dealing with a growing u.s. death toll, now 22 americans and at least 17 stil >> i think we all need to steel ourselves for the very distinct possibility that these numbers will keep increasing. >> reporter: u.s. officials also don't know how many are being held hostage. rachel goldberg's son hersh was at that music festival that was attacked and was last seen in this bunker. his cell phone's final ping, at the gaza border. >> i have faith in president

biden and all the people who are working tirelessly, trying to figure out how do we get american hostages out. >> reporter: fbi hostage experts are on their way to israel. >> i have not given up hope of bringing these folks home. >> reporter: but a former fbi agent said that finding and rescues hostages in gaza will be incredibly difficult. >> the conditions that these hostages are being held in may made it ebbs treatmently difficult for the israeli forces to just go in. >> reporter: as secretary of state antony blinken heads to israel, the bide din administration is exploring an airlift to get americans out of israel. commercial options are dwindling, could be chartered to get them out. >> ed, what about american special forces? could they help with any of the rescue efforts? >> norah, they could. there is a special operations command at the american embassy in embassy that would be

involved in any hostage rescue. additional american planners and intelligence specialists have been sent to assist. as of now, delta and seal team 6 members are in the u.s. waiting for the israelis to request help. norah? >> ed o'keefe with that new information from the white house, thank you. house republicans nominate their pick to be the next speaker of the house, and he is making support for israel a top priority. we've got the new details, next. try killing bugs the worry-free way. not the other way. zevo traps use light to attract and trap flying insects with no odor and no mess. they work continuously, so you don't have to. zevo. people-friendly.

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win his party's nomination. it is not clear when the whole house will vote. tonight, forecasters are tracking a possible tornado threat in central florida. the threat extends through tomorrow. the region is also bracing for several inches of rain and a cross-country storm is expected to dump several feet of snow on the mountains of utah and wyoming. the storms will then bring rain across the midwest and into the northeast for the weekend. nasa shared some exciting news today about a

a frightening scene today at america's busiest airport. three people were stabbed atlanta's hartsfield jackson international airport. investigators say a woman first stabbed a man when confronted by police, they say she stabbed an officer. and then another woman video posted on social media shows passengers kneeling on the ground until the situation

ended. there is no word yet on the extent of the injuries. nasa today showed off some of the space dust that was scraped off of 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid. the charcoal-black debris was brought to earth last month. it shows evidence of water and carbon. those are the building blocks of life on earth. and these were found outside the sample container which hasn't been opened yet. we wanted to end tonight with the story about a community copping together after tragedy. 24-year-old college student bruna villaneau was killed at that music festival saturday morning. her mother and sister recently moved to israel, and they don't know many people here. so they took to social media, asking for ten people to come to the funeral. that's the number required for jewish religious ceremonies. it's called a minion. but this is what they got, 10,000 israelis responded to share in the family's grief.

strangers showing up for a family in need. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings," and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in israel, i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm geraljared hill in new york. forces have amassed outside the gaza strip ahead of the next stage of war. the idf called it the biggest and mass mobilization of forces in israel history. a significant expansion in

the auto strikers worth. 84 workers at the largest plant walked off the job wednesday. sean faine said the truck was called after ford failed to update its contract offer. ford called the move grossly responsible. and somebody just got a whole lot richer. a winning ticket for the 1.765 powerball jackpot was sold in frazier park, california. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm jared hill, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening again from here in tel aviv on day five of this war. the big headline here as israel prepares for a ground invasion and hundreds of thousands of its soldiers are on the border of

gaza. now there is a new emergency wartime government here, a unity government bringing together prime minister benjamin netanyahu and one of his main political rivals. >> tonight we're also learning more americans are among the dead, with even more missing. some believed to have been kidnapped by hamas. hostage rescue teams, delta force, and seal team 6 remain in the united states waiting for israel to request assistance. a source telling cbs news that request could come as soon as today. president biden spoke today with prime minister netanyahu for a fourth time since the attacks, telling him that despite all the anger, israel needs to operate by the rules of war. air strikes are pummelling gaza. that's a near constant bombardment. israeli security forces say it struck more than 2,000 targets in the first days of this war. and what's left is nothing but ruins. rockets continue to fall in israel, even near the main

airport here in tel aviv today, where people were forced to take cover inside the terminal. israel is also paying close attention to the north, with troops exchanging rocket fire with hezbollah forces over the border with lebanon. more than 1,200 people have been killed in israel, including nearly 200 israeli soldiers. we have team coverage tonight, and cbs' holly williams is here to start us off. good evening, holly. we understand that the prime minister has issued an ominous warning. >> good evening, norah, yes. at a press conference tonight, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed that his country would, quote, crush and destroy hamas and said that every hamas member is a dead man. united in its grief and in the horror of what it's been subjected to, israel has begun to bury its dead. rescue workers have reported seeing atrocities at the kfar

aza kibbutz, a small farming community stormed by hamas gunmen. while filming in southern israel today, the air raid a lamar sent us running for cover. in areas close to the gaza strip, where hamas militants have their base, rockets take just seconds to hit. jacob landau is a dual u.s.-israeli citizen who has come here from brooklyn, new york to help recover bodies from the communities where hamas militants went on a killing spree. i can see how painful this is for you. >> it's painful for our country, for our people. it's not a personal thing. it's all of us. it's all of us. >> reporter: the massacre of civilians has shaken israel's sense of security, and so has the sophistication of the attack. a hamas propaganda video appears to show how they used a weaponized drone to attack israeli communication towers

along the border on saturday. that's where the militants designated as a terrorist group by the u.s. breached the barrier that israel uses to contain palestinians in gaza. >> reporter: major levi told us the rockets are getting deadlier with help from iran. >> we know in the last decade, hamas has invested millions and millions of dollars in improve their weapons. they are more precise. they are more far-reaching within israeli territory. >> reporter: israel has called up 360,000 reservists and a ground invasion of the gaza strip is expected in the days ahead. gaza is already under siege, ordered by israel, with no food or medicine allowed across the border. its only power plant is no longer functioning. its biggest hospital only has enough fuel for three more days. home to about two million people, around half of them under the age of 18.

and roughly the size of philadelphia, gaza is now being pulverized by near constant israeli air strikes. "when the air strikes hit, we ran barefoot," says this woman, who has now taken shelter in the grounds of a hospital. "they are all victims," she says. "they're all women, children. what did they do?" some call gaza the world's largest open air prison, because with a blockade in place, most residents cannot leave. >> they are not our target. >> but they're still being killed. >> and we understand that. loss of life here is tragic. but again, we must make sure that hamas cannot launch massacres and slaughter civilians as they did this past weekend. it is just a reality with which we cannot live anymore. >> reporter: and holly is back with us from the southern border. what are the options for civilians to get out of gaza?

>> well, norah, there are efforts to open a humanitarian corridor, but so far they don't seem to be getting anywhere. most people don't have the option to leave, and now they're running out of time. you know, i was in gaza back in 2014 when it was hammered by israeli air strikes, and i can tell you it was absolutely terrifying. >> holly williams, thank you for your reporting. tensions are also rising in the north with a potential second front in the war along israel's border with lebanon. cbs' imtiaz tyab is following the action where israeli troops exchanged fire today with hezbollah forces. >> reporter: israel was thrown into a fresh state of terror after a military alert warning of a, quote, aerial infiltration from lebanon. an army spokesman later said it was an error. but on its northern border with lebanon, israel is taking no chances. cbs news has witnessed a mass mobilization of tanks and soldiers following four

consecutive days of incoming rocket fire from southern lebanon. >> allahu akbar! >> reporter: dozens of northern israeli communities have already been evacuated. the few who remain, mainly women and children spend most of their time in underground bunkers because of the near constant air raid sirens, and tensions here are running high. a fight breaks out over donated coloring supplies for the children as people, who have had no choice but to live in such close quarters find themselves at breaking point. including this mother of three. why is everyone so upset? >> the stress makes everybody crazy. >> reporter: the fear now is the kind of violence hamas inflicted on israel's south will come here to the north as armed palestinian groups and the iranian backed shia group hezbollah continue to fire rockets into israeli territory. hezbollah is lebanon's most powerful armed group and is committed to israel's destruction. with its vast arsenal of rockets

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new speaker, and it could be days or longer before one is in place and members can get back to business. in the meantime, the government is facing a possible shutdown next month, and there is no way to approve additional aid for either ukraine or israel. this all came about when florida's republican congressman matt gaetz triggered a vote the oust speaker kevin mccarthy. some republicans now want gaetz expelled from the party. but as tony dokoupil found, gaetz still has the support of many voters in his home district. >> we're down here talking to folks about their congressman, matt gaetz. >> reporter: back home in northwest florida -- >> hey, buddy, how are you? >> reporter: matt gaetz won nearly 70% of the vote this last election, making him a star in this area known for military installations, beaches and a sunny retirement. >> i'm an ultra conservative republican. >> reporter: 74-year-old david loves the fight in his 41-year-old congressman. >> somebody's got to stand for something and take authority and make it happen.

>> reporter: some fellow republicans are worried that matt gaetz is causing chaos with no real plan. >> i don't see a lot of other republicans getting out there and opening up the door to make a change. >> reporter: a few miles don the road, at lou's tavern in fort walton beach, 58-year-old military veteran mark is also a matt gaetz fan. >> he is up-front and honest. i don't have to worry about what other agendas he has behind his back. >> reporter: but opinions in this corner of florida also run a little colder than before. >> see offensive on pretty much every level i can conceive of. he is a dirtbag. >> reporter: for left-leaning voters like chris smith, criticizing matt gaetz has long been easy. >> it seems that he feels that his job is just to create controversy for himself. >> reporter: more surprising, though, a shift against gaetz among republicans and right-leaning independents. voters like electrician aaron meyer, who stepped off a job in

pensacola to tell us while he often votes republican, he can't support gaetz. >> the reason that he does the things that he does is to get on tv, to be center of attention. >> we have to send a shockwave through washington, d.c. we have to change this town. we have to hang this system. >> reporter: and while gaetz has certainly become one of the loudest members of congress, one member said it's not only because he seeks attention, it's because we keep giving it to him. >> it's turned into a show, and it shouldn't be a show. >> reporter: you think we're part of the problem? >> yes. you're part of the problem, he's part of the problem, they're part of the problem. >> reporter: and he may have a point. so what's working then for him is not necessarily, quote, getting things done, but, quote, putting up a fight? >> exactly. >> reporter: adam caton who teaches politics at the university of west florida says for a growing wing of the gop, style is at least as important as substance. >> gaetz is tapping into the

same strain of feeling that makes republicans like donald trump. he is picking fights with established institutions, picking fights with the media. it's kind of a combative persona with a flare for the dramatic. we've seen nationwide that resonates among the republican electorate right now. >> reporter: that's a problem for moderate republicans like chuck todd back at the other end of the bar at lou's tavern. he thinks gaetz is all performance, no plan. >> you don't take the tires off the car if you don't have new tires to put on, because then you can't drive the car down to the shop to put them on. >> reporter: but for gaetz' supporters, the plan is actually simple. cut the budget. what government spending could you do without? wat would you like to see go? >> i can see a lot of it go. >> reporter: we found greg wood in a bit of a hurry in downtown fort walton beach. he said he is happy to see kevin mccarthy go, whoever comes next, and doesn't much care if gaetz hurts the gop in the process.

so you're pro matt gaetz as a conservative, even if he causes trouble for the wider republican party? >> i think both parties need to be shook up. >> reporter: for him and so many more who sent matthew lewis gaetz ii to washington, the philosophy is simple. no compromise, all consequences be damned. >> if the government were to shut down, soldiers on active duty would not get a paycheck. that doesn't give you pause when it comes to supporting matt gaetz? >> the shutdown would be caused by both party, not one individual. matt gaetz is a good man, but he ain't that good. >> reporter:

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boescher city, louisiana, the first stop on a two-year tour. there is no ringmaster. >> i think i'm sufficiently relaxed. >> the clowns aren't called clowns and don't look scary. and no, there is not one animal, unless you count a robot dog named bail. >> you're supposed to be charging. >> it's different, but still recognizably the american institution that pt barnum created in 1871 and named the greatest show on earth. >> you know, every one of these costumes is a person. it was worn by a person. it was made for a person, and these people are my friends. >> and what was this one? >> this was jonathan lee iverson's speck costume for dragons. he was the last ringmaster. >> reporter: donna oak, head of ringling's costume department and super circus nerd can tell you who or what and when every

last spangle and sparkle and jewel, all the way back to the '60s. >> it's the company's history, and it's the circus' history and it's a god history. >> reporter: stored in temperature and humidity-controlled warehouse space at the nearly 600,000-square-foot headquarters near sarasota, florida, feld entertainment since 1967. >> everything is numbered and it's about 10,000 costumes. >> reporter: the closing, she thought permanent, was for oak devastating. >> i've gotten better about not bursting into tears. >> we have forever more the greatest show on earth! >> but that gets me every time. >> it must have been devastating. >> devastating. my history is here. my 27 years of history of my life. >> we knew it was the end in the

form that it was in. >> reporter: kenneth feld is chairman and ceo of feld entertainment. his daughter, juliet feld grossman is chief operating officer and producer of the circus. >> we started with a completely blank slate when we started to think about what is possible for the new ringling. >> we were working with 146-year-old business model. we had the two longest privately owned trains, each over a mile long crisscrossing america. >> reporter: wildly expensive to run, with nowhere to park anywhere near most venues, and no longer needed once ringling bowed to decades of pressure to stop touring with animals. so how to dazzle tech savvy kids in 2023? ringling's conclusion -- >> we've got create a show that moves at the speed of tiktok.

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>> you want me to jump rope in front of martha? >> reporter: leslie williams asked for a unicycle at the age of 6. and from then on, his dream was to perform with ringling brothers. in the show, he's riding the world's tallest one. how big is the tallest unicycle? >> it's 34 feet, 6 inches. taller than three stories, taller than a bus if you flip it upside down. >> reporter: and then there is a.j. anaya, whose family moved from mexico to denver when he was 5 and couldn't afford to buy him a bike. >> when we're moving around at really high speeds, flipping and twisting and just doing the tricks that we do, side by side, one after the other, it is magical. >> reporter: speaking of magic, this is the stick-on kind. >> these are swarovski crystals,

super sparkly. >> reporter: wow. >> each rhinestone on every costume within the whole show for 75 performers is applied by hand. >> reporter: how many is that? guess. tens of thousands? >> hundreds. hundreds of thousands of rhinestones. >> so we have 18 countries. we have eight different languages. >> reporter: casting and performance director julio skotola went around the world to audition performers. >> so the hard places like las vegas or paris or ulaanbaatar in mongolia for a classic circus and south america for the more rhythm-based. >> reporter: his whole job was the turn this mixed metaphor of a cast into a family that is distinctly ringling. and so it seems he did. drum roll, please. just before their first show,

the drummer sticks got the family good and fired up. >> this is our show. this is our time, and on count of three, we're going say welcome to the show. you ready? one, two, three! >> welcome to the show! >> and with that, ringling brothers and barnum & bailey, now 152 years old and counting, catapulted into the future. >> t

this summer, minnesota became the 33rd straight to recognize the recreational use of marijuana. a new cannabis college is already drawing students. caroline cummings reports thinking is a little about what we're doing today. >> reporter: inside this working space in uptown, a cannabis boot camp. >> first off, cannabis is a super old domesticated plant.

>> reporter: here minnesotans are learning about home growing which they can now legally do as of august 1. and people came prepared with notebooks and textbooks. >> make sure you're keeping this in mind. >> reporter: it's one example of what the minnesota college wants to offer minnesotans ready to grow their own business in the next few years. tanner barris led the course monday night. >> we're starting to get a look at the framework of what businesses might look like in the state here. we want to support people who want to become part of that. >> reporter: more classes are coming online like business management, cannabis cultivation and extraction. they also have job assistance to help connect people to jobs in the industry. no, it's not an accredited university. >> cannabis is not really a gateway drug, but it is that gateway drug to agriculture. >> reporter: it's a nonprofit, but berra says it's meeting the moment now that marijuana got the green light this year, and interest is high. more than two dozen joined monday's home growing 101 class. a lot of the people who attended

said they had never grown cannabis before. >> we've been having people calling us pretty much every hour of the day asking hey, i want to become part of this industry. i want to start a business. i'm looking for a job, or i sort of want to learn more about growing at home. and it's been us trying to be able to meet that demand. >> caroline cummings in minnesota. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. be sure to check back later for "cbs mornings." reporting from the nation's capital, i'm erica brown. ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm jarred hill in new york. forces have amassed outside the gaza strip ahead of the next stage of war. the idf called it the biggest and mass mobilization of forces in israeli history. a significant expansion in

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here are tonight's headlines. air attacks rain down on both sides of the border. the anguish for rescuers as they recover bodies after hamas' brutal attack. >> we've been speaking with rescue workers, some of whom broke down in tears when they described what they witnessed in the aftermath of this attack. >> where is the world now? how come the world is not saying never again? >> reservists return home as israel prepares for an expected invasion of gaza. and in northern israel tonight, tensions are high as israel and hezbollah exchange rocket attacks across the border with lebanon. i don't see why they're doing this. >> inside gaza tonight as bombs rain down. the city now plunged into darkness as electricity is cut off. >> they keep saying leave the gaza strip. where to? they want everything. how many of your friends and

neighbors are gone? >> too many. >> and a story of survival tonight from the kibbutz kfar aza, one of the most brutal massacres of the war. >> i'm thankful to god every day, every hour, every minute, every second that he kept me and my family alive. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening again from here in tel aviv on day five of this war. the big headline here as israel prepares for a ground invasion and hundreds of thousands of its soldiers are on the border of gaza. now there is a new emergency wartime government here, a unity government bringing together prime minister benjamin netanyahu and one of his main political rivals. >> tonight we're also learning more americans are among the dead, with even more missing.

some believed to have been kidnapped by hamas. hostage rescue teams, delta force, and seal team 6 remain in the united states waiting for israel to request assistance. a source telling cbs news that request could come as soon as today. president biden spoke today with prime minister netanyahu for a fourth time since the attacks, telling him that despite all the anger, israel needs to operate by the rules of war. secretary of state antony blinken is on his way here as a sign of solidarity. air strikes are pummelling gaza. that's a near constant bombardment. israeli defense forces say it struck more than 2,000 targets in the first days of this war. and what's left is nothing but rins. look. you can see entire neighborhoods turned to rubble. rockets continue to fall in israel, even near the main airport here in tel aviv today, where people were forced to take cover inside the terminal. israel is also paying close attention to the north, with

troops exchanging rocket fire with hezbollah forces over the border with lebanon. more than 1,200 people have been killed in israel, including nearly 200 israeli soldiers. we have team coverage tonight, and cbs' holly williams is here to start us off. good evening, holly. we understand that the prime minister has issued an ominous warning. >> good evening, norah, yes. at a press conference tonight, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed that his country would, quote, crush and destroy hamas and said that every hamas member is a dead man. united in its grief and in the horror of what it's been subjected to, israel has begun to bury its dead. rescue workers have reported seeing atrocities at the kfar aza kibbutz, a small farming community stormed by hamas gunmen. you saw multiple children and babies who had been beheaded?

>> not only children, not only multiple. i saw a lot more that cannot be described. >> reporter: while filming in southern israel today, the air raid alarm sent us running for cover. in areas close to the gaza strip, where hamas militants have their base, rockets take just seconds to hit. jacob landau is a dual u.s.-israeli citizen who has come here from brooklyn, new york to help recover bodies from the communities where hamas militants went on a killing spree. i can see how painful this is for you. >> it's -- it's not me. it's painful for our country, for our people. it's not a personal thing. it's all of us. it's all of us. >> reporter: the massacre of civilians has shaken israel's sense of security, and so has the sophistication of the attack.

a hamas propaganda video appears to show how they used a weaponized drone to attack israeli communication towers along the border on saturday. that's where the militants designated as a terrorist group by the u.s. breached the barrier that israel uses to contain palestinians in gaza. >> and we absolutely know that the rockets -- >> reporter: major levi told us the militants' rockets are also getting deadlier with help from iran. >> we know in the last decade, hamas has invested millions and millions of dollars in improve their weapons. they are more precise. they are more far-reaching within israeli territory. >> reporter: israel has called up 360,000 reservists and a ground invasion of the gaza strip is expected in the days ahead. gaza is already under siege, ordered by israel, with no food or medicine allowed across the border. its only power plant is no longer functioning. its biggest hospital only has

enough fuel for three more days. home to about two million people, around half of them under the age of 18. and roughly the size of philadelphia, gaza is now being pulverized by near constant israeli air strikes. "when the air strikes hit, we ran barefoot," says this woman, who has now taken shelter in the grounds of a hospital. "they are all victims," she says. "they're all women, children. what did they do?" some call gaza the world's largest open air prison, because with a blockade in place, most residents cannot leave. >> they are not our target. >> but they're still being killed. >> and we understand that. loss of life here is tragic. but again, we must make sure that hamas cannot launch massacres and slaughter civilians as they did this past weekend. it is just a reality with which we cannot live anymore.

>> reporter: and holly is back with us from the southern border. what are the options for civilians to get out of gaza? >> well, norah, there are efforts to open a humanitarian corridor, but so far they don't seem to be getting anywhere. most people don't have the option to leave, and now they're running out of time. you know, i was in gaza back in 2014 when it was hammered by israeli air strikes, and i can tell you it was absolutely terrifying. >> holly williams, thank you for your reporting. there is a lot more news ahead tonight "cbs overnight news." alaska airlines $99 companion fare means that you can bring your best friend... you know, one of us is gonna have to change? but we're twinning? oh yay. ♪♪ ♪ we care a lot. ♪

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they huddled in shelters. kfar aza is now known as one of the conflict's deadliest massacres, where hamas militants used motorized paragliders like this one to invade. >> i remember the hour on the clock was 6:22 a.m. we started hearing the alarm. i just froze. i had a panic attack and i couldn't move. >> reporter: 13-year-old renana was born and raised on the kibbutz just miles from the border with gaza. she says the fact that she is alive is a miracle. take us inside the shelter. what were you thinking? >> i was thinking many moments this is going to be my last moment. and was so afraid if someone is coming. are they going to rape me? are they going to take me? are they going to shoot me? i didn't know what could happen to me. >> reporter: hamas terrorists went door to door, slaughtering anyone they could find, including babies and children. renana and her family spent 16 hours hiding. what did you see when you finally left the shelter?

>> i tried not to look around as much as possible. i don't know if many people can understand, but the smell, it smelled like war and bad news and tears. >> reporter: tell me about your walk to freedom. >> we needed to go to a bus. it was so, so scary. a friend of my family came to me and told me no, no, no, you're not crying, not now. not now. not now. you can't do it. you can't fall apart now. you need to focus. you need to survive. keep going. keep going. walk fast, run. >> reporter: we first met renana when she was 10 years old. even then she was worried about attacks. >> it's very scary to be all the time to be prepared to run. >> this time she escapes north with her grandma, father and mother, elanit. how many of your friends and neighbors are gone? >> too many. >> what will you do now? >> we need to build our life

back from nothing. >> this is not mine. this is not mine. nothing. >> but they do have each other. >> she told me that if we going to never make it together, i will let you kiss me any time you want. since then i'm kissing her every minute. >> reporter: renana told us her mother kept her calm. >> in those hard moments where we thought hamas was going to come any second, she told me to think about the taylor swift performance we're going to in june, and how i'm going to sing and how much she is going to film me. >> it gave you hope? >> that i'm going make it to june, and i'm going make it out of there alive. >> hope is in short supply these days. kfar aza is now one of the many sites where hundreds of israeli soldiers are readying for the possible counterstrike ground invasion of gaza.

tensions are also rising in the north with a potential second front in the war along israel's border with lebanon. cbs' imtiaz tyab is following the action where israeli troops exchanged fire today with hezbollah forces. >> reporter: israel was thrown into a fresh state of terror after a military alert warning of a, quote, aerial infiltration from lebanon. an army spokesman later said it was an error. but on its northern border with lebanon, israel is taking no chances. cbs news has witnessed a mass mobilization of tanks and soldiers following four consecutive days of incoming rocket fire from southern lebanon. >> allahu akbar! >> reporter: dozens of northern israeli communities have already been evacuated. the few who remain, mainly women and children spend most of their time in underground bunkers because of the near constant air raid sirens, and tensions here are running high.

a fight breaks out over donated coloring supplies for the children as people, who have had no choice but to live in such close quarters find themselves at breaking point. including this mother of three. why is everyone so upset? >> the stress makes everybody crazy. >> reporter: the fear now is the kind of violence hamas inflicted on israel's south will come here to the north as armed palestinian groups and the iran-backed shia group hezbollah continue to fire rockets into israeli territory. hezbollah is lebanon's most powerful armed group and is committed to israel's destruction. with its vast arsenal of rockets and thousands of fighters who gained combat experience in syria's civil war. israel recognizes it as a formidable fighting force. now three hezbollah fighters and three israeli soldiers have been killed in the past few days alone, risking a second front

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link between iran and saturday's attack, and the iranians deny any role. u.s. intelligence sources tell cbs news the regime was actually surprised by the scope of the assault. but texas republican congressman michael mccaul today disputed that assessment. >> i think all roads lead to iran. we certainly don't want to see this escalate, but iran is already in this. and to say somehow that iran's not i think is just a lack of common sense. >> reporter: while trying to prevent a wider war, the white house is also dealing with a growing u.s. death toll, now 22 americans and at least 17 still unaccounted for. >> i think we all need to steel ourselves for the very distinct possibility that these numbers will keep increasing. >> reporter: u.s. officials also don't know how many are being held hostage. rachel goldberg's son hersh was at that music festival that was attacked and was last seen in this bunker. his cell phone's final ping, at the gaza border. >> i have faith in president biden and all the people who are

working tirelessly, trying to figure out how do we get american hostages out. >> reporter: fbi hostage experts are on their way to israel. >> i have not given up hope of bringing these folks home. >> reporter: but a former fbi agent said that finding and rescues hostages in gaza will be incredibly difficult. >> the conditions that these hostages are being held in made it extremely difficult for the israeli forces to just go in. >> reporter: as secretary of state antony blinken heads to israel, the administration is exploring an airlift for americans, struggling to find flights out of israel. commercial options are dwindling, could be chartered to get them out. >> ed o'keefe joins us again from the white house. ed, what about american special forces? could they help with any of the rescue efforts? >> norah, they could. there is a special operations command at the american embassy in israel that would be

involved in any hostage rescue. additional american planners and intelligence specialists have been sent to assist. as of now, delta and seal team 6 members are in the u.s. waiting for the israelis to request help. norah? >> ed o'keefe with that new information from the white house, thank you. house republicans nominate their pick to be the next speaker of the house, and he is making support for israel a top priority. we've got the new details, next. [stomach growling] it's nothing... sounds like something. ♪when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion♪ ♪upset stomach, diarrhea♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes for fast relief when you need it most.

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a frightening scene today at america's busiest airport. three people were stabbed atlanta's hartsfield jackson international airport. investigators say a woman first stabbed a man. when confronted by police, they say she stabbed an officer. and then another woman posted on

social media shows passengers kneeling on the ground until the situation ended. there is no word yet on the extent of the injuries. nasa today showed off some of the space dust that was scraped off of 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid. the charcoal-black debris was brought to earth by a spacecraft last month. nasa says initial studies show evidence of water and carbon. those are the building blocks of life on earth. and this material was found outside the main sample container, which hasn't been opened yet. we wanted to end tonight with the story about a community coming together after tragedy. 24-year-old college student bruna valeanu was killed at that music festival saturday morning. her mother and sister recently moved to israel, and they don't know many people here. so they took to social media, asking for ten people to come to the funeral. that's the number required for jewish religious ceremonies. it's called a minion. but this is what they got, 10,000 israelis responded to share in the family's grief.

strangers showing up for a family in need. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings," and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in israel, i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ this is cbs news flash. i'm jarred hill in new york. the israel defense forces say 300,000 troops have amassed outside the gaza strip ahead of the next stage of war. the idf called it the biggest and fastest mobilization of reserve forces in israel history. a significant expansion in the autoworkers strike.

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