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threat, that terrorist threat, never arises again from gaza and that gaza has a different future, better for us, for the palestinians, and for the entire middle east. so bringing back the hostages is an integral part of our war goals, and we're doing everything we can to achieve it. >> but to be clear, are you considering a limited cease-fire? >> i said that we would have a temporary cease-fire only if we have our hostages back, and i haven't changed what i said. >> and would israel agree to release palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages? >> norah, i don't think it helps. you can ask me, and that's your job. you're a journalist, and you should inquire. but i think there are certain things that we're holding as confidential until we have something to tell. and when we do, if we do, you and the entire world would know about it, including the hostage families. >> this is the first chance to hear from you since the targeted raid on al shifa hospital.
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if hamas is using a hospital as a command center, that is a war crime. do you have concrete evidence? >> of course. first of all, we had concrete evidence that there were terrorist chieftains and terrorists, their terrorist minions, in the hospital. and in fact they fled. as our forces approached, they fled. that's why we had no fire fight. we entered that hospital with arab speaking -- with incubators, and we had no firefight. but hamas was using the patients in that hospital as a human shield. and on level minus two, we found a command and control center, military communications, coded equipment. we found bombs. we found weapons, and we also found terror tunnels in the hospital compound. now, we're doing this very gingerly because we're trying to do the moral thing, the right thing, to deprive hamas of having this safe zone in the
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hospital, but at the same time, to neutralize its use as a command center for terrorists. and so far we've achieved it. we talked to the hospital administration. we told them we're coming in. make sure that no one is there, no one is hurt. and so far we've achieved that. and i hope we'll continue to achieve that as we finish the job. >> where are the hostages being held? do you know? >> we had strong indications that they were held in the she fa hospital, which is one of the reasons we entered the hospital. if they were, they were taken out. we have intelligence about the hostages. but, again, as to your first question, i think the less i say about it, the better. >> mr. prime minister, you've noted that one goal of the war is to deradicalize gaza, but does the violence and the killing of thousands of innocent civilians fuel a future generation of hatred? >> first of all, any civilian death is a tragedy, and we
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shouldn't have any because we're doing everything we can to get the civilians out of harm's way while hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way. so we send leaflets. we call them. we call them on their cell phone, and we say, leave. and many have left, but hamas tried to stop them at gunpoint and fired at the safe corridors we provided for the palestinians. so they don't give a hoot about the palestinians. they think their safe in the underground, this messia nick, thee row logical, mad cult that is fighting below, and they're saying, you know, damn the palestinians above. we don't say that. we do everything we can to have them leave. that's what we're doing. the other thing that i can say is that we'll try to finish that job with minimal civilian casualties. that's what we're trying to do, minutial civilian casualties, but unfortunately, we're not successful. i'll give you a parallel because -- >> mr. prime minister, i know we don't have much time, so i do want to ask you about the future of gaza. president biden has made it
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clear to you that it would be a big mistake to occupy gaza. do you disagree with president biden? >> we want overall military responsibility to prevent the re-emergence of terror. we're not seeking to occupy. that's not our goal. but our goal is to make sure that what happens there is different. to do that, we have to demilitarize gaza, and we have to deradicalize gaza just as you had to have a different future, you know, after the conquest of germany, you deradicalized, denazifies germany. after the conquest of japan, you made sure that the aggressive policies of imperial japan are different. there was a cultural change. we need a cultural change here. we can't have a civilian administration enter gaza that will not fight terrorists, that is committed to funding terrorists as opposed to fighting terrorists, that uses pay for slay, that teaches its children the way hamas teaches its children that israel has to
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be dissolved. that can't work. we can't go back to failed strategies. there has to be a different regime and a different future for israelis and palestinians alike. that's what will give hope to palestinians. we liberate them from hamas, liberate them from this tierney, give them a real future, and that requires the destruction of hamas. >> and move forward on a two-state solution? >> and move forward to make sure you don't have a terrorist state. make sure that you don't have a state that teaches its children that you have to destroy israel. and i say let the palestinians have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten israel. that means not only making sure that gaza is demilitarized but also that gaza is deraad cal sized. and if you ask me, we need a different, different civilian leadership than the one that has been offered to the palestinians to date. >> mr. prime minister, president biden also says that extremist settlers attacking palestinians in the west bank is pouring gasoline on fire. will you hold those settlers in
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the west bank accountable for violence? >> we hold anyone taking the law into their own hands or committing vigilante violence -- that is out. we cannot accept that. i mean that is -- i've said that in hebrew. i've said that in english. i've said that in broadcasts, and i'm saying it to you again. and i've said it to the community leaders. by the way, they agree with me because 99.9% of the settler community are law-abiding, solid citizens. they pay their taxes. they serve in the army. these are families that are law-abiding families. you have a tiny fraction, and most of them are teenagers that actually come outside -- outside of the judeo samara, and they should be held accountable. but i wouldn't make a false symmetry between the hundreds and hundreds of terrorist attacks, including today, of hamas sympathizers and terrorists who come and shoot people, you know, innocent people. and we take care to fight
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against them so the degree of this extremist violence is tiny, but even a tiny amount is unacceptable to us. and you know how it's tested? norah, this is the big one. i condemn these actions, but the palestinian leadership, the palestinian authority leadership today, president abbas, 40 days into this horror, the worst horrors perpetrated on jews since the holocaust, the rape and murder of women, the slaughter of children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children, the burning of babies, the beheading of women. he has yet to condemn it. i condemn any kind of violence that is perpetrated, any kind of extremist violence. he not only does not condemn it, but his officials laud it. that's the difference. there is no symmetry between israel and its foes. >> mr. prime minister, i understand our time is up. understand our time is up. i hope you will join us again on sometimes, the lows of bipolar depression feel darkest before dawn. with caplyta, there's a chance to let in the lyte™.
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. the world health organization just declared loneliness a global health threat. and for our next episode of person to person, we sat down with harvard professor arthur brooks. he just wrote a book with oprah winfrey about the art and science of getting happier. we asked him about self-care in the journey to happiness. >> the whole idea that i'm going to find happiness if i focus entirely on myself is completely misguided. that is the short road to true misery because only to love and be loved is going to give you the happiness that you seek, and only other care will actually bring that to you. >> "eye on a rica" is next wit
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the recent boom in renewable energy has come at the expense of the coal industry, which has lost half its jobs in the last ten years. in tonight's "eye on america," cbs's mark strassmann reports on a training program that restores
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both land and labor. >> reporter: in west virginia's hollers, deep in app latchia, jobless coal miners now find a seam of hope. >> i wasn't 100% sure what i was going to do. >> reporter: a mine laid off james dameron two years ago. >> i know i didn't want to go back in the deep mines. >> reporter: instead, dameron found coal field development and its incoming ceo, jacob israel hannah. >> hope is only as good as what it means to put food on the table. >> reporter: the program's a community-based nonprofit, teaching a dozen job skills and personal ones -- construction, agriculture, solar installation. >> they're going through this process here. >> reporter: someone can get paid up to three years to learn all of them. >> that's a good deal. we want to make sure that you have all the tools in your tool kit to know when you do interview with an employer, here's the things that you lay out that you've learned. >> reporter: it's working. training more than 2,500 people,
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creating 800 new jobs and 72 new businesses. a progra delivering with roughly $20 million in federal grants. >> instead of waiting around for something to happen, we're trying to generate our own hope. >> this isn't pie in the sky. this is nitty-gritty. >> meating real needs where they're at. >> reporter: app lash sha is mining something new, options. mark strassmann, mingo county, west virginia. that's the overnight news for this friday. i hope you can get some rest. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs mornings and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm jarred hill in new york. jury deadlock leads to a mistrial in the case of a former louisville police officer accused in the death of bree
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onna taylor. brett afternoonison was facing civil rights charged with the night taylor was killed in a police raid in 2020. no word on if prosecutors plan to retry. sean "diddy" combs is being accused of rape and abuse in a lawsuit filed by his former girlfriend, r and b singer cassie. cassie said in a statement that she is ready to tell her story. and baseball's mvps were announced thursday. shohei ohtani won the american league and ronald acuna jr. took the prize in the nl. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm jarred hill, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we're going to begin tonight
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with several developing stories that impact america's national security, including our exclusive interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who we spoke with earlier today. we asked him about the ongoing negotiations with hamas on the release of hostages in exchange for a temporary cease-fire while israel is facing tough questions from around the world about the conduct of the war. tonight, he answers those questions. also today, the israeli military says it found tunnels dug beneath gaza's al shifa hospital and released video of its discovery. we also speak with america's top diplomat, secretary of state antony blinken, about that historic summit between president biden and china's president xi jinping. the new deal now to crack down on the chemicals that make fentanyl, the drug that has caused so much pain and heartbreak here in america. with all of the biggest developments tonight, we're going to start with cbs's debora patta in east jerusalem.
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>> reporter: with every bomb, every strike, families of the more than 200 hostages abducted by hamas on october 7th are reminded that nearly six weeks on, their loved ones are still being held in gaza. tonight, more agony. the body of 65-year-old grandmother yehudit weiss, abducted last month, found in a building near al shifa hospital. the israeli military continues to search that hospital, where today it found more proof, it says, that hamas was using this as a command center, including a tunnel shaft and a vehicle with weapons. >> as you can see, they were very well prepared, and where they're hiding all of this equipment is in a hospital, a place that's supposed to be for humanitarian aid. >> reporter: al shifa can no longer receive new patients, and so they flee in their thousands,
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streaming southwards, setting up temporary shelter, only to be told today by israeli soldiers that they must evacuate again. but if they stay, they risk becoming part of the soaring death toll, which the hamas-run health ministry puts at around 11,500. that is 1 out of every 200 palestinians. >> it's not about the numbers. it's about eliminating evil. >> reporter: and cbs news has learned that israel is considering a deal that would see hamas release some women and children in exchange for a three to five-day cease-fire and possibly some palestinian women and children, norah, being held in israeli prisons. >> debora patta, thank you. we turn now to our exclusive interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu about those hostage negotiations
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and israel's long-term plan for the gaza strip. >> mr. prime minister, thank you for being here on "the cbs evening news." >> thank you. >> cbs news has learned that there is a deal on the table to free hostages in exchange for a three to five-day cease-fire. how close are you to bringing some of the hostages home? >> well, we're closer than we were before we began the ground action because the ground action has put pressure on hamas to achieve a cease-fire. we'll have a temporary cease-fire if we can get our hostages back. i don't think it serves that purpose for me to elaborate further on that. we're doing every effort. it's part of our -- you know, our three war goals. one, to destroy hamas. second, to bring back our hostages to israel. and third, to ensure that that threat, that terrorist threat, never arises again from gaza and that gaza has a different
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future, better for us, for the palestinians, and for the entire middle east. so bringing back the hostages is an integral part of our war goals, and we're doing everything we can to achieve it. >> but to be clear, are you considering a limited cease-fire? >> i said that we would have a temporary cease-fire only if we have our hostages back, and i haven't changed what i said. >> and would israel agree to release palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages? >> norah, i don't think it helps. you can ask me, and that's your job. you're a journalist, and you should inquire. but i think there are certain things that we're holding as confidential until we have something to tell. and when we do, if we do, you and the entire world would know about it, including the hostage families. >> this is the first chance to hear from you since the targeted raid on al shifa hospital. if hamas is using a hospital as a command center, that is a war crime.
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do you have concrete evidence? >> of course. first of all, we had concrete evidence that there were terrorist chieftains and terrorists, their terrorist minions, in the hospital. and in fact they fled. as our forces approached, they fled. that's why we had no fire fight. we entered that hospital with arabic speaking israeli doctors, with incubators, and we had no firefight. but hamas was using the patients in that hospital as a human shield. and on level minus two, we found a command and control center, military communications, coded equipment. we found bombs. we found weapons, and we also found terror tunnels in the hospital compound. now, we're doing this very gingerly because we're trying to do the moral thing, the right thing, to deprive hamas of having this safe zone in the hospital, but at the same time to neutralize its use as a
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command center for terrorists. and so far we've achieved it. i'm glad to say we've been able to do that. we talked to the hospital administration. we told them we're coming in. make sure that no one is there, no one is hurt. and so far we've achieved that. and i hope we'll continue to achieve that as we finish the job. >> where are the hostages being held? do you know? >> we had strong indications that they were held in the shifa hospital, which is one of the reasons we entered the hospital. if they were, they were taken out. we have intelligence about the hostages. but, again, as to your first question, i think the less i say about it, the better. >> mr. prime minister, you've noted that one goal of the war is to deradicalize gaza, but does the violence and the killing of thousands of innocent civilians fuel a future generation of hatred? >> first of all, any civilian death is a tragedy, and we shouldn't have any because we're doing everything we can to get the civilians out of harm's way while hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way. so we send leaflets.
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we call them. we call them on their cell phone, and we say, leave. and many have left, but hamas tried to stop them at gunpoint and fired at the safe corridors that we provided for the palestinians. so they don't give a hoot about the palestinians. they think they're safe in the underground, this messianic, theological, mad cult that is fighting below, and they're saying, you know, "damn the palestinians above." we don't say that. we do everything we can to have them leave. that's what we're doing. the other thing that i can say is that we'll try to finish that job with minimal civilian casualties. >> mr. prime minister, i >> mr. prime minister, i understand our time is after cooking a delicious chicken cheddar broccoli recipe, you will want to close your delivery apps. because nothing beats a perfect combo of sweet tomatoes and smooth, silky zucchini. knorr taste combos. it's not fast food, but it's soooo good.
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i'm nicole sganga in washington. thanks for staying with us. thanksgiving is less than a week away, and millions of families will be sitting down to a holiday feast. many kitchens will be preparing more food than the guests can eat, and some of it will end up in the trash. the environmental protection agency says uneaten food is the most common material filling u.s. landfills and incinerators. the epa says those uneaten meals are enough to feed four times the number of americans who are food-insecure. well, there's a movement now to change that. meg oliver found one group bringing food straight from the farm to those in need. >> reporter: under the baking sun, dozens of people work their way through fields in new york's hudson valley. >> did you already search all the way over here? >> reporter: they aren't trained farmers. >> free of the really small weeds. >> reporter: instead, volunteers bringing an ancient practice back to life. >> so what are you gleaning
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today? >> we are gleaning several kinds of greens, kale, collards, chard. >> reporter: gleaning in the process of collecting leftover food and donating it to people in need. it dates back centuries but has seen a resurgence in recent years with nearly 300 organizations spearheading the effort across the u.s. >> there's just so much need for nourishing food in the hunger relief statement. >> reporter: martha elder leads the way every monday during harvest season, overseeing volunteers from the nonprofit second chance foods. they pick, sort -- >> are you going that way? >> i'm going that way. >> reporter: -- and wash hundreds of pounds of produce to serve more than 300 families in the area. >> on an emotional level, knowing that you're helping feed so many people, what's that like? >> yeah. i sit down to dinner at night with my family, and i appreciate knowing that other people are eating because of the efforts of our organization. >> reporter: nationwide, almost
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a quarter of americans struggle with food insecurity, yet one-third. food supply is wasted each year. that's more than 130 billion pounds thrown away in grocery stores, restaurants, homes, and even farms. >> everything we send out of our kitchen, we would want to feel proud serving in our own homes to our own guests. >> reporter: that happens here. >> you were at the farm yesterday. now we're in the kitchen. >> yep. >> you're making these meals. how quickly will they go out? >> tomorrow. >> tomorrow? >> yes. >> so it went from the farm to somebody's table within two days. i say we're the real farm to table experience here. >> reporter: kitchen volunteers combine collected props with grocery donations and spend hours chopping and cooking. to create more than 1,300 healthy dishes. >> so these are people struggling to put enough food on their tables. you know, people with children, veterans, senior citizens, just so many of our neighbors really
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struggle with especially nourishing food. >> reporter: one of those neighbors is 96-year-old bob. >> there's all kinds of different foods. >> reporter: the world war ii veteran lives on a fixed income and relies on second chance food's meals distributed from his church. >> so what would you do if you didn't have this meal coming once a week? >> oh, what would i do? you know, i don't really know. you know, i don't know what i did before i got the food. >> what does that weekly meal mean to you? >> oh, it means everything. this way i don't have to go out every day to buy my food. >> reporter: i'm meg oliver in new york's hudson valley. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid for twice as long as pepcid. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention.
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healing. >> reporter: you know, the suicide rates for service members and veterans are nothing short of catastrophic. recent estimates claim almost 17 vets in the u.s. take their own lives every day. many suffer from post-traumatic stress and debilitating brain injuries, which traditional medications have largely failed to cure. a growing number of veterans are now using substances the government they fought for says are illegal. every week an unmarked vehicle carrying former u.s. special forces arrives back in san dieg. they're returning from fighting the battle of their lives, the one in their own mind. >> good to meet you, man. >> reporter: the big guy who looks like jason momoa is moose, a former navy s.e.a.l. who works for the organization funding these cross-border trips for veterans to heal from years of war. he's going back down to support for these two men who have agreed to share their journey
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with me. herb daniels spent 14 years as a green beret and nearly 4 years in active combat. >> how dark did it get for new. >> the darkness was pretty profound. >> what kinds of medications were you prescribed? >> a lot of medications, taking them in the morning through the day, in the evenings, pills to help me sleep at night. >> did any of the medications work? >> i have to say no. >> reporter: but it wouldn't be until after herb retired from military service that the darkness started to consume him. >> herb, did you ever become suicidal? >> i did. and as i watched more of my teammates, more veterans, start to take their own lives, i realized that that's an option. one night when my wife was coming home from a flight and i was waiting for her to come through the door, and as soon as i heard it chime, i was going to shoot myself. but the flight was late, thank god, and i kept drinking. so when she came home, she found
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me passed out in the bed with a gun on my lap that i hadn't used. >> reporter: it was after another suicide attempt that herb found out about an organization funding grants for former special forces to leave the country for treatment not legal in the u.s. marcus and amber capone founded vets, veterans exploring treatment solutions, after marcus retired from multiple combat deployments as a navy s.e.a.l. with ptsd and a traumatic brain injury. the treatments they began exploring, psychedelics. >> why psychedelics? >> it gets the job done. i mean, you know, flat out, traditional approaches are very difficult to solve those problems. >> it really, for me, came down to a point of complee desperation to save marcus. it felt like we could lose him to suicide. >> reporter: it was amber who found out about a retreat in mexico that uses psychedelics to treat ptsd. >> psychedelics wasn't part of
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my language, but, you know, you'll try anything. >> reporter: so in 2017, marcus set off to mexico, where he was given ibugain, a hallucinogenic from africa, and smoked a substance derived from the glands of the sonoran desert toad. and then everything changed. >> it was like it just reset everything in a few hours. all the stress, anxiety, it just went away. it flew away, fell right off my shoulders. >> 5 modmt is reputedly the most powerful psychedelic. i mean it's not the kind of thing you would just do on a whim. >> no. you get to a place where it's bliss, and it's godlike, but it's not fun. you should always be in the care of someone who's a professional. >> reporter: after marcus's experience, the couple dedicated themselves to helping former special forces get the help they desperately need. >> the veterans that end up getting funding from v.e.t.s.
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get the money to pay for their retreat. and they're given all sorts of educational resources and support before and after they leave the united states. >> this is really going to happen. >> reporter: herb is one of the veterans who received the lifesaving treatment back in july 2022. today i'm joining him as he's crossing the border again with another veteran, mike ortiz, to do the 5 meodt treatment for a second time. moose is along for support. >> we're in this kind of unmarked vehicle driving over the border to get healing that you can't get in the country that you fought for. >> it's disappointing. it feels like we've been abandoned once we took the uniform off. >> is it possible that you might not be here today if you hadn't taken the medicine? >> i wouldn't be for sure. >> how is it going? >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: we're now about an hour into mexico at a location that i've been asked not to
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disclose for the safety and security of the participants. but hundreds of united states veterans have come here to find the kind of healing that is not legal in the united states. inside, a local facilitator, juan aguilar, brings the men together to set their intentions. >> what led you back to working with 5 meodmt? >> that medicine journey really opened up my heart. >> mm-hmm. >> now i wanted to dig deeper, and i feel childhood memories, sadness, and anger, and i want to let that go. lisa, if you're up for it, i'd invite you to sit down with me. >> would you like me to? >> i would. >> okay. >> we use the smoke to cleanse the space, right. as it's happening, i ask them to speak with the medicine, to sit with it, to focus on their breath, and then we dive into the experience. >> i'm going to be right here
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with you. >> and how long does the period last? >> most commonly anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes at most. >> listen to my voice. hold it. >> reporter: i can't take my eyes off herb as i watch his chest rise and fall and tears roll down his face. after about 10 minutes, his eyes slowly open. >> is moose here? >> yeah, he's right there, brother. >> reporter: i am taken aback by moose's embrace of herb. some of america's elite warriors trained to fight wars and bury their emotions. here they are laying it all bare. ♪ now it's mike's turn. >> hold it. >> reporter: once under the medicine, mike is smiling from ear to ear. when he comes to, he joins herb for a quiet moment. >> magical. i can't wait to talk to you about it. >> how are you guys feeling? >> amazing.
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>> magical, like a fresh start. my heart was just opened, wide open. it was laid bare. so much pain, so much anger. as soon as i let it go, i became aware of my presence again, and i felt my body just relax. >> to be pain-free for that short a period of time was like the best feeling in the world. >> do you feel like you received transformation in a 10-minute experience? >> absolutely. i don't think it takes long to change a perspective. if you believe it can happen, then it can happen. sometimes you just need a little jump start to help you get there. >> that was cbs news
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when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
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inflation is coming down, but the cost of the thanksgiving feast is still out of reach for a lot of americans. danya bacchus has some tips on how to save. >> reporter: forklifts full of
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turkeys are showing up at grocery stores, including handy's market in burbank. christine is buying turkey for her family and also plans to donate. >> i try to get a couple extra for the food banks, so, you know, whatever i make, i try to make another one for, yo know, somebody else. >> reporter: and there is good news. prices are cheaper this year. the american farm bureau federation says a classic thanksgiving dinner for ten, including a 16 pound turkey, sides and desert, costs just over $61. that's actually down 4.5% from 2022. the biggest reason why is an improved turkey supply. but even with the relief, this year's prices are still way above pre-pandemic levels. >> we're still up 25% compared to the same meal in 2019. >> reporter: with many americans looking to cut costs, several retailers are offering discounts on a variety of foods this holiday. walmart is offering a meal with the basics for under $30, and target is selling a similar feast for as little as $25.
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many canned items including pumpkin filling and cranberry saugs have gone up in price. but according to a wells fargo report, there are deals in the produce aisle, including fresh cranberries. >> fresh fruits and vegetables are actually at or below last year's prices right now in general. >> reporter: and good news for dessert lovers, the cream used to make whipped cream is down about 23% from last year, a sweet way to top off the holiday. danya bacchus, cbs news, burbank, california. and that's the overnight news for this friday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm nicole sganga. this is "cbs news flash." i'm jarred hill in new york. jury deadlock leads to a mistrial in the case of a former louisville police officer accused in the death of breonna taylor.
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brett hankison was facing federal civil rights charges from the night taylor was killed in a police raid in 2020. no word on if prosecutors plan to retry. sean "diddy" combs is being accused of rape and abuse in a lawsuit filed by his former girlfriend, r&b singer cassie. combs, quote, vehemently denies the allegation. cassie, who's full name is cassandra venturi, said in a statement that she is ready to tell her story. and baseball's mvps were announced thursday. shohei ohtani won the american league and ronald acuna jr. took the prize in the nl. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we're going to begin tonight with several developing stories
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that impact america's national security, including our exclusive interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who we spoke with earlier today. we asked him about the ongoing negotiations with hamas on the release of hostages in exchange for a temporary cease-fire while israel is facing tough questions from around the world about the conduct of the war. tonight, he answers those questions. also today, the israeli military says it found tunnels dug beneath gaza's al shifa hospital and released video of its discovery. we also speak with america's top diplomat, secretary of state antony blinken, about that historic summit between president biden and china's president xi jinping. the new deal now to crack down on the chemicals that make fentanyl, the drug that has caused so much pain and heartbreak here in america. with all of the biggest developments tonight, we're going to start with cbs's debora
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patta in east jerusalem. >> reporter: with every bomb, every strike, families of the more than 200 hostages abducted by hamas on october 7th are reminded that nearly six weeks on, their loved ones are still being held in gaza. tonight, more agony. the body of 65-year-old grandmother yehudit weiss, abducted last month, found in a building near al shifa hospital. the israeli military continues to search that hospital, where today it found more proof, it says, that hamas was using this as a command center, including a tunnel shaft and a vehicle with weapons. >> as you can see, they were very well prepared, and where they're hiding all of this equipment is in a hospital, a place that's supposed to be for humanitarian aid. >> reporter: al shifa can no longer receive new patients, and so they flee in their thousands, streaming southwards, setting up
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temporary shelter, only to be told today by israeli soldiers that they must evacuate again. but if they stay, they risk becoming part of the soaring death toll, which the hamas-run health ministry puts at around 11,500. that is 1 out of every 200 palestinians. >> it's not about the numbers. it's about eliminating evil. >> reporter: and cbs news has learned that israel is considering a deal that would see hamas release some women and children in exchange for a three to five-day cease-fire and possibly some palestinian women and children, norah, being held in israeli prisons. >> debora patta, thank you. president biden spoke to ceos and posed for a class photo with world leaders today at the asia-pacific economic summit in
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san francisco. this follows his high-stakes meeting on wednesday with chinese leader xi jinping. xi pledged to crack down on the production of fentanyl ingredients and to restore military communications with the u.s. for more on the historic summit, secretary of state antony blinken joins us from san francisco. >> secretary blinken, thank you for joining us on this busy day. we appreciate it. >> good to be with you, norah. thanks. >> you attended the meeting with chinese president xi jinping. and after the summit, president xi said china is ready to be a partner and friend of the united states. do you see china as a partner and friend of the u.s.? >> norah, this is one of the most consequential relationships we have, one of the most consequential relationships between any two countries in the world. and we have an obligation to try to responsibly manage that relationship. yesterday we agreed that our militaries would start talking again at the most senior levels and at the operational level. and this is a very important way
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of trying to avoid a miscalculation, a mistake that could lead to a conflict. second, in terms of actually making a difference in the lives of american people, the number one killer of americans aged 18 to 49 is fentanyl, not car accidents, not guns, not cancer. it's fentanyl. and what's happened is the chemical precursors, the ingredients used to make fentanyl, have been coming from china, going to the western hemisphere, turned into fentanyl, then coming into the united states. we now have an agreement with china to take concrete action against the companies that are engaged in this practice. >> well, how can we trust that china is going to carry through with that crackdown on those chemicals that are sent to mexico, that then are turned into fentanyl? >> as the president said yesterday, trust but verify, and that's what we're doing. >> secretary blinken, when president biden called president xi a dictator last night, there were cameras on you, and you looked visibly uncomfortable. china today called that wrong
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and irresponsible. what was going through your mind, and is that the position of the u.s. government? >> well, it's not exactly a secret that we have two very different systems, and the president always speaks candidly, and he speaks for all of us. look, norah, it's clear that we will continue to say things and continue to do things that china doesn't like just as, i assume, they will continue to do and say things that we don't like. but what's so important about the meeting yesterday, about all the work we've been doing over the last six months to make sure that we're engaged diplomatically with them is precisely to make sure that for the things that really matter, pursuing this competition in a way that doesn't become conflict, managing our differences, and also looking for areas of cooperation. >> mr. secretary, thank you. >> thanks. tonight, a blistering report from the house ethics committee
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on new york congressman george santos is reviving efforts to remove him from congress. the committee led by a fellow republican says there is clear evidence that santos blatantly stole from his campaign and deceived donors and referred its findings to federal prosecutors. santos is still refusing to step down but now says he won't run for re-election next year. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." we turn now to our exclusive
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interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu about those hostage negotiations and israel's long-term plan for the gaza strip. >> mr. prime minister, thank you for being here on "the cbs evening news." >> thank you. >> cbs news has learned that there is a deal on the table to free hostages in exchange for a three to five-day cease-fire. how close are you to bringing some of the hostages home? >> well, we're closer than we were before we began the ground action because the ground action has put pressure on hamas to achieve a cease-fire. we'll have a temporary cease-fire if we can get our hostages back. i don't think it serves that purpose for me to elaborate further on that. we're doing every effort. it's part of our -- you know, our three war goals. one, to destroy hamas. second, to bring back our hostages to israel.
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and third, to ensure that that threat, that terrorist threat, never arises again from gaza and that gaza has a different future, better for us, for the palestinians, and for the entire middle east. so bringing back the hostages is an integral part of our war goals, and we're doing everything we can to achieve it. >> but to be clear, are you considering a limited cease-fire? >> i said that we would have a temporary cease-fire only if we have our hostages back, and i haven't changed what i said. >> and would israel agree to release palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages? >> norah, i don't think it helps. you can ask me, and that's your job. you're a journalist, and you should inquire. but i think there are certain things that we're holding as confidential until we have something to tell. and when we do, if we do, you and the entire world would know about it, including the hostage families. >> this is the first chance to hear from you since the targeted raid on al shifa hospital.
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if hamas is using a hospital as a command center, that is a war crime. do you have concrete evidence? >> of course. first of all, we had concrete evidence that there were terrorist chieftains and terrorists, their terrorist minions, in the hospital. and in fact they fled. as our forces approached, they fled. that's why we had no firefight. we entered that hospital with arabic speaking israeli doctors, with incubators, and we had no firefight. but hamas was using the patients in that hospital as a human shield. and on level minus two, we found a command and control center, military communications, coded equipment. we found bombs. we found weapons, and we also found terror tunnels in the hospital compound. now, we're doing this very gingerly because we're trying to do the moral thing, the right thing, to deprive hamas of having this safe zone in the
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hospital, but at the same time to neutralize its use as a command center for terrorism. and so far we've achieved it. i'm glad to say we've been able to do that. we talked to the hospital administration. we told them we're coming in. make sure that no one is there, no one is hurt. and so far we've achieved that. and i hope we'll continue to achieve that as we finish the job. >> where are the hostages being held? do you know? >> we had strong indications that they were held in the shifa hospital, which is one of the reasons we entered the hospital. if they were, they were taken out. we have intelligence about the hostages. but, again, as to your first question, i think the less i say about it, the better. >> mr. prime minister, you've noted that one goal of the war is to deradicalize gaza, but does the violence and the killing of thousands of innocent civilians fuel a future generation of hatred? >> first of all, any civilian death is a tragedy, and we shouldn't have any because we're
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doing everything we can to get the civilians out of harm's way while hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way. so we send leaflets. we call them. we call them on their cell phone, and we say, leave. and many have left, but hamas tried to stop them at gunpoint and fired at the safe corridors that we provided for the palestinians. so they don't give a hoot about the palestinians. they think they're safe in the underground, this messianic, theological, mad cult that is fighting below, and they're saying, you know, "damn the palestinians above." we don't say that. we do everything we can to have them leave. that's what we're doing. the other thing that i can say is that we'll try to finish that job with minimal civilian casualties. that's what we're trying to do, minimal civilian casualties, but unfortunately we're not successful. i'll give you a parallel because -- >> mr. prime minister, i know we don't have much time, so i do want to ask you about the future of gaza.
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president biden has made it clear to you that it would be a big mistake to occupy gaza. do you disagree with president biden? >> we want overall military responsibility to prevent the re-emergence of terror. we're not seeking to occupy. that's not our goal. but our goal is to make sure that what happens there is different. to do that, we have to demilitarize gaza, and we have to deradicalize gaza just as you had to have a different future, you know. after the conquest of germany, you deradicalized, denazified germany. after the conquest of japan, you made sure that the aggressive policies of imperial japan are different. there was a cultural change. we need a cultural change here. we can't have a civilian administration enter gaza that will not fight terrorists, that is committed to funding terrorists as opposed to fighting terrorists, that uses pay for slay, that teaches its children the way hamas teaches its children that israel has to be dissolved.
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that can't work. we can't go back to failed strategies. there has to be a different regime and a different future for israelis and palestinians alike. that's what will give hope to palestinians. we liberate them from hamas, liberate them from this tyranny, give them a real future, and that requires the destruction of hamas. >> and move forward on a two-state solution? >> and move forward to make sure you don't have a terrorist state. make sure that you don't have a state that teaches its children that you have to destroy israel. and i say let the palestinians have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten israel. that means not only making sure that gaza is demilitarized but also that gaza is deradicalized. and if you ask me, we need a different, different civilian leadership than the one that has been offered to the palestinians to date. >> mr. prime minister, president biden also says that extremist settlers attacking palestinians in the west bank is pouring gasoline on fire. will you hold those settlers in the west bank accountable for
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violence? >> we hold anyone taking the law into their own hands or committing vigilante violence -- that is out. we cannot accept that. i mean that is -- i've said that in hebrew. i've said that in english. i've said that in broadcasts, and i'm saying it to you again. and i've said that to the community leaders in judea and samaria. by the way, they agree with me because 99.9% of the settler community are law-abiding, solid citizens. they pay their taxes. they serve in the army. these are families that are law-abiding families. you have a tiny fraction, and most of them are teenagers that actually come outside -- outside of yjudea and samaria, and they should be held accountable. but i wouldn't make a false symmetry between the hundreds and hundreds of terrorist attacks, including today, of hamas sympathizers and terrorists who come and shoot
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people, you know, innocent people. and we take care to fight against them. so the degree of this extremist violence is tiny, but even a tiny amount is unacceptable to us. and you know how it's tested? norah, this is the big one. i condemn these actions, but the palestinian leadership, the palestinian authority leadership today, president abbas, 40 days into this horror, the worst horrors perpetrated on jews since the holocaust, the rape and murder of women, the slaughter of children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children, the burning of babies, the beheading of women. he has yet to condemn it. i condemn any kind of violence that is perpetrated, any kind of extremist violence. he not only does not condemn it, but his officials laud it. that's the difference. there is no symmetry between israel and its foes. >> mr. prime minister, i understand our time is up. i hope you will join us again on cbs. thank you. thank you. >> ma, ma, ma— ( clears throat ) for fast sore throat relief, try vicks vapocool drops.
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the recent boom in renewable energy has come at the expense of the coal industry, which has lost half its jobs in the last ten years. in tonight's "eye on america," cbs's mark strassmann reports on a training program that restores both land and labor.
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>> reporter: in west virginia's hollers, deep in appalachia, jobless coal miners now find a seam of hope. >> i wasn't 100% sure what i was going to do. >> reporter: a mine laid off james dameron two years ago. >> i did know i didn't want to go back in the deep mines. >> reporter: instead, dameron found coalfield development and its incoming ceo, jacob israel hannah. >> hope is only as good as what it means to put food on the table. >> reporter: the program's a community-based nonprofit, teaching a dozen job skills and personal ones -- construction, agriculture, solar installation. >> they're going through this process here. >> reporter: some of them get paid up to three years to learn all of them. >> that's a good deal. we want to make sure that you have all the tools in your tool kit to know when you do interview with an employer, here's the things that you lay out that you've learned.
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>> reporter: it's working. training more than 2,500 people, creating 800 new jobs and 72 new businesses. a program delivering with roughly $20 million in federal grants. >> instead of waiting around for something to happen, we're trying to generate our own hope. >> this isn't pie in the sky. this is nitty-gritty. >> meeting real needs where they're at. >> reporter: appalachia is mining something new, options. mark strassmann, mingo county, west virginia. that's the overnight news for this friday. i hope you can get some rest. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm jarred hill in new york. jury deadlock leads to a mistrial in the case of a former louisville police officer accused in the death of breonna taylor.
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brett hankison was facing federal civil rights charges from the night taylor was killed in a police raid in 2020. no word on if prosecutors plan to retry. sean "diddy" combs is being accused of rape and abuse in a lawsuit filed by his former girlfriend, r&b singer cassie. combs, quote, vehemently denies the allegation. cassie, whose full name is cassandra ventura, said in a statement that she is ready to tell her story. and baseball's mvps were announced thursday. shohei ohtani won the american league and ronald acuna jr. took the prize in the nl. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm jarred hill, cbs news, new york. it's friday, november 17th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." the hunt for the hostages. two grim discoveries as israel

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