remembered most for helping others! if somebody comes up to me and says i can't stop drinking, can you help me? i can say yes and follow up and do it. when i die, i don't want "friends" to be the first thing that's mentioned. i want that to be the first thing that's mentioned. >> nbc news now has some new information about the hours before matthew perry passed away. we know from his former pickleball coach who spoke to nbc news just moments ago that matthew perry was playing pickleball that morning for about an hour, and matthew says that he spoke to perry just last week, and he said that he was doing great. from what i heard and what i knew, that's the worst part about this. when i spoke to him, he was chipper and upbeat. he was who he is pumped always about life. >> so sad. he was so beloved and so young, chloe melas, thank you. that does it for us today, see you back here tomorrow as always same time, same place.

josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm josé diaz-balart. we're following breaking developments out of israel as it expands its ground operation and pushes its military deeper into gaza. we'll talk to a physician with doctors without borders about why she thinks going to a hospital in gaza could soon mean a death sentence for patients. back at home, new questions surrounding the deadly mass shootings in maine, how authorities issued a statewide alert just last month to be on the lookout for that gunman. and new polling numbers giving us a glimpse of the state of the 2024 race, former president trump still running strong in iowa, but now there's a tie for second place. in acapulco, mexico, chaos and desperation as residents form long lines for water and search for supplies almost a week after hurricane otis slammed into the resort town killing almost 50 people. and we remember actor matthew perry who died this

weekend at the age of 54. we begin this very busy hour with the intensifying war in the middle east. new this morning, hamas just released new video of three israeli hostages. we're not going to show this video, but the idf now says the number of hostages being held in gaza is 239. also happening right now, an emergency u.n. security council meeting is underway as israeli forces drive deeper into gaza by land, air, and sea. officials in tel aviv say israel's military will continue to intensify its ground operation in gaza. you can see gaza skyline just this morning shrouded in dust and smoke. meanwhile, we're getting new images of tanks on the ground. this video shows a car being fired on by what appears to be a tank in a main road in gaza today. when asked for a response, the israeli military said it will

not comment on the positions of its forces inside gaza. joining us now, nbc news correspondent jay gray live from tel aviv, and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey who served as gulf war division commander. he is an msnbc military analyst. hamas released new video of three israeli hostages. what more do we know about that? >> look, and i think it's important to point out as you have, jose, that we don't know the circumstances surrounding this video. we don't know if it was scripted by hamas for these women, three women in the video. we don't know what type of duress they were under before or during this filming. we don't know the circumstances surrounding where they are. so there's a lot to preface this with, but there was frustration clearly from at least one of the women in the video questioning how the attacks of october 7th could happen, and frustration particularly with benjamin

netanyahu and she does at some points during the video say, you know, release us. release all of the palestinian hostages, palestinian prisoners in israel, more than 6,000 here. but again, and i do think it bears repeating. we don't know the circumstances surrounding this. we don't know if she's reading from a script. i will tell you that the prime minister's office has release releaseed a statement saying this is cruel, psychological propaganda by hamas, isis, we hugged the families, we will do everything to return all the kidnapped and missing people home. i'm reading that new release from the prime minister's office there. no warning that this was coming out just released by hamas within the last hour or. >> what's the situation on the ground in gaza right now? >> reporter: things expanding as you talked about, the advance of troops on the ground moving slowly further into gaza.

we know that they are establishing defense lines, and then working from there, and they are getting help. air strikes continue as well as some strikes from the israeli navy off the coast, and it appears that the process now is going to be identify these targets, and they say more than 600 have been hit over the last 24 hours, including ammunition depots, dozens of tank installations, control and command centers and so they're identifying these areas. air strikes move in, and then they proceed forward with this ground assault. and it speaks to the idea that they've been saying since the start of this, it's going to be a long and difficult process. they are moving very slowly in increments right now! jay gray, i thank you very much for that update. >> thanks. >> i want to speak to the general about this. general, it's good to see you. israel says they're starting a new phase in this conflict.

what does that new phase look like do you think? >> well, look, i think, jose, we need to back up and say what is israel's strategic objective? and it's to take hamas out of the governance of gaza, and from that then flows military objectives. and the military is going to try and neutralize, capture or kill the hamas military and political leadership and hopefully recover some or many of the hostages. so what we're watching right now is a very well coordinated, deliberate military operation where they will attempt to minimize palestinian civilian casualties. it will be a bloody mess. there should be no doubt that the idf at the end of the day in a matter of weeks will dominate gaza, then what? then what happens? is there a pan arab peace keeping force? clearly, israel cannot govern

gaza, so the diplomats need to start thinking now about the end of the war. >> and so general, i'm having a little bit of a problem hearing you well, but i just certainly am able to understand what you're saying, but you're saying, you know, in a short period of time gaza will be essentially in control of the israelis, but that process of being in control of gaza. i mean, the israeli military has accused hamas of using hospitals and civilian infrastructure as shields. what are the rules of war, general, given the geneva and other things about attacking a hospital that israel claims may be used by hamas and using those patients as human shields, what do you -- how do you deal with those kinds of things? >> well, it's going to be a bloody mess. by the way, jose, we got a terrible question.

you're warbling on my end also. look, i think at the end of the day, what will happen is both international law and political practical nature of the conflict, israel cannot directly attack hospitals, so they'll have to go in on the ground. there's tens of thousands of refugees coalesced around these hospitals and schools, and underground, hamas has deliberately co-located their command and control, so they have to go in on the ground and soldiers, tunnel rats, robots, persistent cf gaffes will be used to try and get them out of there. >> so general, i understand that the warbling is both you and me, but on the air we're able to listen to each other perfectly, so i'll continue our conversation with you because i'm thinking, general, meanwhile, national security adviser jake sullivan told jen psaki that hamas is not allowing

foreign nationals to leave gaza. hamas has sole control of the infrastructure there. from a military perspective, how do you differentiate between hamas as an organization, as a terrorist organization, and the civilian population there in gaza? >> well, fortunately some million palestinian civilians have left the primary area of ground combat in the north, and it looks to me as if already the idf has severed the north from the south, so it will be a deliberate process, but there's still several hundred thousands palestinian civilians in the built up areas that the idf now has to enter. i think the easier part will be controlling the surface of gaza. that may happen fairly quickly in a matter of a week or so. the follow-on campaign to

recover hostages, to bring in humanitarian aid for the civilians and to get the tunnel complexes closed down could well take weeks. >> general, the u.s. security council is holding an emergency meeting over this conflict today, does world pressure play a factor going forward in a military operation that is still escalating? >> well, no question. i think the -- to include the public optics of the president of the united states making multiple interactions with netanyahu and his political leadership saying you got to focus on humanitarian aid. it's hard to imagine effective humanitarian aid in the middle of a high intensity urban combat. so i think the pressure on the idf is you can't take weeks to

dominate the surface area. you've got to take care of the palestinian civilians. my guess is within a week the idf will try and say we own the surface of gaza. start bringing in humanitarian aid. >> general barry mccaffrey, i thank you so much for being with us this morning. really appreciate your time. hundreds of people swarmed an airport in southern russia as a plane from israel land the on sunday. russian state media reported that the crowd was looking for israeli passengers on an incoming flight from tel aviv. video shows a large crowd moving through the airport reaching the tarmac forcing the airport to close. russian law enforcement agencies say they have regained control of the airport and arrested 60 people this morning. russia's aviation regulator announced that flights from tel aviv will be redirected to other parts of the country. up next, breaking news on a deal between united autoworkers and general motors bringing six

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>> what do you think? >> turning now to lewiston, maine, where after days of lockdown, the community there is finay coming together to mourn the 18 victims killed in last we's massacre. hundreds gathered last night for a candlelight vigil service as authorities continue to investigate what led the gunman to go on thi shooting rampage. the suspect was found dead on friday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. joining us now marissa parra in lewiston. how is the community doing this morning? >> reporter: jose, good morning. you can see the memorial behind me growing. it continues to grow. we're outside of one of the two sites where that attack happened. this is in front of the bowling alley here, and it's interesting that we did not see any flowers, any tributes being paid here in

person until the suspect had been caught late friday night. it wasn't until saturday and sunday that we really started to see this grow. so you can see there's flowers with notes and on the notes you'll see people signing that they came from across the state. we saw people coming from different parts of maine pouring their tributes and outpouring of support, and even on the pumpkins behind me, what you can't see from this distance is a lot of times there's different messages of support for the state of maine, and showing, you know t of people who died. remember, there's 18 victims here. you're getting a glimpse of some of those shots of what you can see, lewiston strong. remember, took into consideration -- remember we're in a new phase. for two days people were locked inside their homes in fear unable to process what had happened. i want to take you to the words of someone who experienced this for herself. this is a friend of one of the victims. his name is arthur.

listen to the experience of what those two days were like and now what this new phase is like for everyone here. >> when you're locked into your fight or flight, panic mode or planning mode, whichever you do, you don't feel grief. it's not a part of that, for me anyway. i couldn't begin to start to heal until i knew that everybody was out of danger. the sense of community that androscoggin county has was not built overnight, but it was destroyed overnight for those 48 hours we were all so scared. so to be able to start to rebuild that is a powerful gift that we've been given. >> reporter: so this new phase, jose, is one of healing. the community can finally come together in person in a way they were unable to do for two days, and of course the investigation still going on, a lot of

questions need answering on everything that led up to what happened last week here. jose. >> marissa parra, thank you so very much. appreciate it. you know, just this weekend alone, mass shootings erupted in ten states across the country leaving 14 dead. m talking about just over the weekend, and 78 injur according to the gun violence archive. in tampa, police say a fight betwee t groups killed two people and injured 16 others during a halloween celebration. yesterday police arrested a suspect charging him with second degree murder with a firearm. nbc's guad venegas is with us this morning. good morning. what are we learning about the victims? >> well, we know that the youngest, jose, was 14 years old. the oldest 27. our affiliate in tampa bay spoke to the father of that 14-year-old. he said that's the second son he loses to gun violence and asked for a stop to this type of violence. when police spoke about this,

they said it happened right around 3:00 a.m. when people were leaving the bar. you know downtown tampa, there's an area with clubs and bars. this is where it happened. hundreds of people outside, when they were leaving this fight broke out, and eventually led to the gunfire. there's videos where you can see people in halloween costumes running away. others on the ground covered in blood, and this, jose, despite heavy police presence, the police chief said they had about 50 officers in the area. when it happened they were right there, and they were able to respond right away. they made that detention, they arrested a suspect who's now being charged with second degree murder. he appeared in court today. they also say they'll recovered two hand guns and that investigation is still ongoing. like you mentioned, this is just one of the shootings at a halloween celebration over the weekend, jose. >> it's just -- i just can't stop thinking about over the weekend, we're talking two days, and then this -- one of the

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23 past the hour. with just 77 days until the iowa caucus, we ve a brand new look at where the race for the white house stands as of this morning. donald trump continues to lead by nearly 30 points. according to a brand new poll by nbc news, the des moines register and media com. meanwhile, the republican field is shrinking with former vice president mike pence suspending his campaign over the weekend. joinings now steve kornacki and victoria defrancesco soto, dean of the clinton school of public service, and an nbc news analyst. steve, what are we learning from this latest poll? >> yeah, a couple of highlights here, i think first of all, you mentioned it, donald trump continuing not just to lead, but to dominate in this iowa republican field here, 43%. one of the key numbers behind that 43%, when you ask trump supporters in this poll is your mind made up? are you definitely going to vote for donald trump? 63% of his backers say they are definitely supporting him, not

considering anybody else. that number, that is a depth of support that none of these other candidates come even close to. in fact, if you go back really over the last 20 years, the last generation or so, you've seen big republican front runners a few times. you've never seen in the polling leading up to iowa and new hampshire, that kind of commitment, voters just saying they're definitely on board. so there's a depth of support for trump right there. you also note this was taken, this poll just days before mike pence got out of the race. just worth showing how he was faring in the poll there when his name was included, the kind of number that i think convinced him to leave the race. he was down to 2% in iowa, iowa a state he thought he had a real chance to connect with the voters and evangelical christians. the big gainer in this poll is nikki haley. she moves to 16%. take a look at this, we polled iowa in august. since then haley has jumped 10

points. desantis has fallen 3, and they've moved into a second place tie right now. far behind trump, but haley joins desantis as the only other non-trump candidate in double-digits in iowa polling, significantly ahead of the rest. the question that raises, she has momentum now, can she keep it going? could she actually give trump a run for his money in iowa? i think a couple of things to keep in mind here, where is her support coming from? one group, independents, they're going to make up about 1 in 5 caucus goers. only 12 points behind trump, more than doubling up desantis. there's a problem there because if you're relying on independents and haley getting a lot of her support from independents, and if you're also getting a lot of support from republicans who say they don't like donald trump, that's also true for nikki haley, it means if you really want to build your support, you got to make inroads with core republican voters, republican voters who like donald trump and republican

voters who right now say they would rather vote for donald trump than for nikki haley. she's got to gain in some areas she hasn't been trending as well. certainly notable to see her move into that second place tie. the favorable, unfavorable numbers among republicans, one highlight he, desantis the most popular republican in iowa in the field. it's not translating into support. he is well-liked. he hasn't offended trump supporters it would seem, but he hasn't won them over either. pence dropping out. he was at 32% favorable, 65% unfavorable among iowa republicans, and we mentioned pence had been counting on evangelical christians in iowa. they make up two-thirds of the iowa republican electorate. huge group, pence thought he had a natural opening there. again, how did the evangelicals break in our poll? look at this, mike pence was down to just 1% with evangelical

voters in iowa leading the far away leader there among evangelicals, donald trump 43%. he did not win evangelicals the last time he ran in iowa in 2016. in fact, he came in third place among them. now he is doubling up desantis, and again, just 1% for pence right there. so if you're mike pence, you're trying to put some context around that decision to get out of the race, poll numbers like this i think we're just telling him there was no chance. >> steve kornacki, thank you so very much. so victoria, what do you see as some of the key factors of nikki haley's rise in iowa. it's just a plus ten jump in just a matter of, you know, a short period of time. what do you think that's due to? >> what a great start to the week for nikki haley, thinking back, jose, a couple of months when nikki haley entered the race. if you'll recall, she tried to level set expectations, and she said, you know, really we've got

south carolina in our sights. it's one of our early states. that's really where we're going to flourish, but what we're seeing is that she's starting to pick up momentum even earlier on. again, she is a distant second compared to trump. i'm going to set some to the side for a moment, but she is gaining there, and i think that a couple of items here, first of all, she adds a softness. she adds a respectability when you look at the bombastic brand that you have of a trump and that you have a desantis, you also have somebody with international bona vides at a moment where you see coming to the fore. the other piece that is a great news item for nikki haley is that earlier this month, we saw her doing really well with fund-raising. so while we've been seeing ron desantis struggling, tim scott

another palmetto state candidate falling, nikki haley slowly but surely is going up in the polls and also in fund-raising. so this looks to a very serious threat for ron desantis and maybe a signal for other folk to start getting out of the race. >> yeah, i mean, if we look at the pli list, and you know, all of the candidates, you know, trump plus 30 and tn you see that tie there between desantis and haley and we're talng about the iowa causes poll, mike pence was at 2% dropping since august, you know, hutchinson is a1, burgum is at 3, and even ramaswamy is at 4 as is christie. is there any benefit to any other candidate by having pence drop out? >> i mean, i think that the writing is on the wall.

with asa hutchinson we saw that his campaign manager resigned. so i mean, i think that we're going to start to see people dropping out. there might be some folks who try to hold on and maybe try to make it to iowa, but i mean, the logic just isn't there because you want to see if you are an anti-trumper, if you want an alternative to trump, you want your party to -- around a strong candidate that can be there in case something happens and trump can't run. or the alternative that somebody can have a strong voice in a trump administration, if trump were to win the nomination and were to win the 2024. i know that these are a lot of ifs. in terms of the logic of people staying in or coalescing, i think it boils down to iowa and further down the line to november. >> victoria defrancesco soto, always great seeing you. i thank you for your time. up next, tens of thousands

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. 35 past the hour, as the israel-hamas war intensifies, there are growing security concerns here at home including a concern about anti-semitic incidents happening on college campuses across the country. in new york, corll university, police are investigating online threats targeting jewish student s on a website unaffiliated with a school. for more on this i want to bring in stephanie gosk live at columbia university where a news conference will be held next hour. stephanie, good morning, how are colleges responding to this?

>> well, you know, jose, college campuses have always been flash points for debate. students who disagree with each other on issues of the day. this is something different. this is a debate that crosses that line and goes into hateful rhetoric, at times anti-semitism or islamophobia. here at columbia university, students are about to hold this press conference. there had been a number of incidents on campus here including within the first week of the war in israel. there was a student here, an israeli student who was posting pictures of the kidnapped people in israel, and was assaulted and the person who assaulted him has been charged with hate crimes. second and third degree assault. you mentioned that incident at cornell that has people on edge on that campus. the president of that university in a letter to students described what was posted online as a series of horrendous messages threatening violence.

she went on to say the virulence and destructiveness of anti-semitism on campus is real and deeply impacting our jewish students, faculty, and staff. he also had the dean of the law school at uc berkeley coming out in his 70s saying this is the worst moment of anti-semitism he's felt in his entire life. all of this has contributed to the white house saying that it is going to respond by offering up federal assistance, dhs as well as the fbi to be in communication with local and state law enforcement specifically in regards to incidents on college campuses, jose. >> stephanie gosk in new york city, thank you so very much. meanwhile, on the ground in gaza, we're getting a look at new leaflets being dropped by the israeli military. the leaflet warns civilians that northern gaza is unsafe and claims that hamas is exploiting shelters, hospitals, and

schools. the leaflet tells residents to go to south gaza. meanwhile, here's what one emergency room doctor told our partners at sky news about his experience delivering care during this crisis. >> whatever equipment i use now, save this young man's life is not coming for days. we're working with very old machines, very old documents, very limited amount of medication, and this is a catastrophic and disastrous situation. >> catastrophic, disastrous situation indeed. joining us now dr. tanya hassan, a pediatric care humanitarian doctor from doctors without borders. thank you for being with us today. what are you hearing from doctors on the ground in gaza? >> thank you for having me on your show, jose. i mean the situation on the ground in gaza is catastrophic. it's an avalanche of human

suffering. there isn't a humanitarian i know in the world that is not currently desperately calling for international intervention. you know, this is a population that's already been strangulated for 16 years under siege and is now completely blocked off in terms of all the things indispensable for life, water, food, medicines, electricity, and is being indiscriminaindisc boom bombarded. the vast majority of victims are children. 70% of them approximately are women and children of the deaths thus far, and the health care system is not coping. you know, i speak with physicians and nurses there daily, and they describe a situation that's so tragic, you know. these individuals are working under unbelievable

circumstances. the hospitals are at 300% capacity. the injuries are indescribable, and they've run out of equipment. they've run out of medications including medications to treat pain and to put patients to sleep to have important surgeries like the amputation of limbs. they've run out of medications for burns, of dressings for burns, and all of this while they're trapped in a hospital that's being threatened with bombardment, and when they are struggling to contact loved ones that are displaced all over the gaza strip as a consequence of the evacuation. i spoke with one of my colleagues yesterday who told me that him and his entire emergency medicine staff work force have come down with a fever, a high grade fever, and he said but we're working anyway because we have to. we have to save as many lives as we can, but they're doing it under unbelievable conditions without any of the tools or

medications that we use as a profession to do our jobs, and to be able to save lives. it is really a catastrophic situation and the only solution at this point that i would advocate for immediately is a cease fire with the introduction of immediate life saving supplies. the unhindered -- the unhindered transport of life saving supplies. one of the things that has been cut off, as you're well aware, is electricity and fuel to generate -- fuel the backup generators that are used to produce electricity when the main supply is cut off, and that essentially is the lifeline for just about every single device we use to keep patients alive. the breathing machines, the ventilators, the infusion pumps. the cautery machines that we use when we do surgeries. the dialysis machines we use for patients that are dependent on

dialysis. when those last drops of fuel are out and we can't even operate those machines, it is a death sentence for every single newborn baby or premature baby on a breathing machine in an incubator. for every single child or adult that is in critical condition on a breathing machine. for every single of the over 1,000 patients in gaza who are dependent on dialysis because of kidney failure, and i think as an international medical community, as a humanitarian doctor and as a humanity in general, we should be really horrified that this is happening, and i want to emphasize that if there's one thing to advocate for immediately is it's a cease fire. >> dr. tanya haj-hassan, i thank you very much for being with us today. very much appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. up next, a big week for former president donald trump's civil fraud trial as three of

his children are set to take the stand. plus, acapulco at a standstill after last week's hurricane devastated that mexican city. still, there is desperation among many. they're just not seeing any aid. take a look at these lines. this is for water in acapulco.

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donald trump in the federal election interference trial. u.s. district judge tanya chutkan ordered trump to stop him from making statements about potential witnesses or disparaging comments about prosecutors or court staff. and this week members of trump's family are set to testify in the civil trial in new york as day 19 of that trial is already underway this morning. joining us now is glenn kirschner a former federal prosecutor. he is nbc news legal analyst and host of the "justice matters" podcast. good to see you, special counsel jack smith requested the gag order to quote, protect the integrity of the trial and the jury pool. what will this mean for the trial? >> well, it won't mean much for the trial, but it may mean a lot for donald trump pending trial, jose. that is in the run up to trial because the judge has reimposed a gag order, a gag order interestingly that he would have

violated had she kept it in place. donald trump took advantage of the stay of the pause to basically attack the witnesses, and she cited that in her decision to reimpose the gag order. the way it impacts donald trump is if he continues to violate it, judge chutkan will have the legal opportunity to what we call step him back, revoke him on pretrial release and detain him pending trial. so really in a sense, jose, the keys to the jail cell are in donald trump's hand. comply with the gag order, you won't be sanctioned, and you will not be jailed pending trial. violate the gag order and your fate will be in judge chutkan's hands. >> and do you think there's the probability or possibility even that if he does violate that order again that the judge could actually send him to jail? >> i do, and here's why. when i was in court watching the argument on the gag order a couple of weeks ago, judge

chutkan said very pointedly, if it were any other defendant other than donald trump who was on pretrial release in a federal felony case and that person attacked the prosecutor handling his case and called them, quote, a deranged thug, that person would be revoked on release and would be jailed pending trial. i don't think donald trump should test judge chutkan's resolve. >> and glenn, on wednesday donald trump jr. is set to be the first of trump's children to take the stand in that civil trial on wednesday. how significant was it going to be for the prosecution to question them? >> yeah, this is really perilous testimony for don jr., eric, ivanka, and donald trump himself because they are all slated to testify. now, mind you judge engoron has already ruled in favor of

attorney general james kace and against donald trump finding that there was massive systemic years' long business fraud. and now think about it, jose, these witnesses are going to be questioned, examined and cross examined about their business practices. that is really perilous testimony. we'll see whether some of them try to plead the fifth, invoke their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. we'll see if they're willing to answer questions substantively. i think it's going to be some very interesting testimony. >> glenn kirschner texas always great to see you. i thank you for your time. turning now to mexico where officials say at least 48 people have died after category the city of acapulco last week. new video shows long lines of residents waiting for water, food, anything. as desperation grows. and some say the government has been extremely slow to help.

julio, what's the latest? >> hey, jose. this is the outskirts of acapulco. it's one of the most devastated neighborhoods in this city after hurricane otis hit six days ago. everywhere you look at it's completely destroyed. devastation has no precedent. everything is where it shouldn't be. trees are out of their place. roofs are where they shouldn't be on the ground. mud, it's all over the place. streets are completely covered by mud and look at this street. it's still covered by water. it still looks like a river. we just met a lady here. let me introduce you to her. so she's from acapulco. she's saying that she has never seen something like this before.

she's telling me her son lives here. water was, went into the house. the furniture was completely destroyed. they were almost drowning, right? her house was also destroyed. she lost all the furniture. windows were broken. roof went flying away. a lot of water. okay. so she's telling me that she just wishes the government sends help. they need support to be able to get out of this crisis.

she's really asking for a lot of help. yeah, there's no electricity. no water. no food. so of course, help is really important, jose, and the crisis is not getting bet erat. >> it's not getting better indeed and where is the massive amount of help needed for the people of acapulco as you see there. julio, i thank you so very much. a large part of that city that isn't on the water with those hotels and they need help. up next, tributes pour in from friends family fans after the death of actor matthew perry. the death of actor matthew perry.

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tributes continue to pour in for matthew perry. investigators say the 54-year-old actor was found dead in a hot tub at his home saturday night. they say he died from apparent drowning but the official cause of death has not yet been determined. while he is being remembered for his success on screen, part of his legacy is on his struggles with addiction and getting help. dana, good morning. tell us more about his impact. it was really significant. >> so significant and perry was helping other people guide them

to rehab as he worked on his own experiences with addiction. that morning, he played pickle ball and in his own words, he describes why he doesn't just want to be remembered for his iconic role on friends. >> hi, my name is matthew although you may know me by another name. may friends call me matty and i should be dead. >> honest words from matthew perry's 2022 memoir, friends, lovers and the big terrible thing. where he takes us behind the scenes of his lifelong struggle with addiction, delivering a powerful message of hope and resilience. >> i never raised my hands and said that's enough, i can't want take it anymore. you win. and because of that, i stand tall now, ready for whatever comes next. >> perry was just 24 when he nabbed the role of chandler bing. >> shut up. shut up, shut up.

>> he says addiction issues which began at 14, escalated with his sudden fame. at one point, he was up to 55 pain pills a day. his weight seesawing from 225 pounds to 128. >> i didn't watch the show and haven't because i can go drinking, opiates, drinking, cocaine. like i could tell season by season by how i looked. >> perry later reflecting on the pressures of fame in a 2021 cast reunion. >> i felt like i was going to die if they didn't laugh and it's not healthy for sure. >> he credits the show and his friends family with helping him make it through. in his own words, he hoped to be remembered most by what he did for others. >> the best thing about me bar none is if somebody comes up to me and says i can't stop drinking, can you help me? i can say, yes, and follow up and do it.

when i die, i want friends to be first thing that's mentioned and i'm going to live the rest of my life proving that. >> so perry's death has been or his case has been classified as deferred which means the medical examiner needs a little bit more time to investigate and it could take several weeks before we know an exact cause of death. jose? >> dana griffin in los angeles, thank you so much. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," israeli forces pushing deeper into gaza with tanks and armored bulldozers executing what prime minister netanyahu is calling the next phase of their war with hamas. as the death toll mounts for palestinian