those are the true heroes. >> gary tuchman joins me now.t an incredible man, an incredible life. and also at this age to be so engaged and doing that. >> his presentation was magnificent. and he did it all, the entire hour, without notes. and he also operated a powerpoint presentation to show pictures. >> did he really? wow. >> and our speech, 15 minutes of shaking hands afterwards, never sat down. he stood up the whole time. it reminds me, when we did this story, today, the youngest world war ii surviving veteran, who was 18 years old in 1945 when the war ended, today is 95 or 96. so, if you're lucky enough to know a world war ii veteran or you're lucky enough to meet a world war ii veteran, don't forget to say thank you. >> i just rewatched "the pacific" and "band of brothers" on max. it's incredible. just so incredible. the -- i mean, the fighting that those -- >> i feel the same way you do. >> just incredible. gary tuchman. >>> next an update on first lady rosalylynn carter,r, as she ene hospice care alongsiside h her husbsband, formeme

cnn's gary tuchman has his story. >> reporter: hilbert, who lives in atlanta, is three months away from 100th birthday. before his 21st birthday, army private first class hilbert, a jewish soldier, was deployed to fight thenauts sees in world war ii. >> when the battle of the bulge broke out, they rushed our three infantry regiments as fast as they could. >> reporter: the bat of the bulge was ending. his twin brother on left and he arrived in okfied france. the gunners their infantry division ended up in combat and headed across the border to germany. >> we couldn't be more than three yards away from our howitzer. we could get fire missions morning, noon, night. >> reporter: april 29, 1945, the brothers investigated a horrible odor they smelled. after 15 minutes walking through the woods they saw an open train box car and the german city of dachau. >> what did you see in the box car? >> nothing but deceased bodies. we had a little brownie box camera. we liberated a couple weeks earlier. we decided to take a picture of that box car, which we did. >> reporter: the brothers knew nothing ab

and our gary tuchman has that. >> reporter: this woman is about to get her children back. her daughters, 8-year-old ela elyakim and dafna elyakim being reunited with their mother. their father was murdered on october 7th. their girls are back home, one of many emotional reunions. abigail edan turned four years old in captivity. her mother was shot and killed by the kidnappers. her father, was also killed. abigail tried to get away and was kidnapped. now she's home. on the right is charone avigdori. she was held hostage with her 12-year-old daughter, hugging her father, an incredibly emotional reunion, where you can feel the incredible joy with this husband and wife. then there are these stories, 9-year-old emily hand and 13-year-old hi la rotem, two friends together at a sleepover. emily's father said weeks ago he was informed his daughter was dead. he told cnn it was a blessing at the time. now they are back together. >> generally doing better than expected. >> her mother was kidnapped with her and is still being held, israel accusing hamas of reneging on the agreement to

cnn's gary tuchman talked with a veteran u.s. soldier who did, who's working to make sure that we will never see what he saw. >> reporter: hilbert margel, who lives in atlanta, is three months away from his 100th birthday. just before his 21st birthday, army private first class margel, a jewish soldier, was deployed to fight the nazi in the world war ii. >> and when the battle of the bulge broke out, they rushed our three infantry regiments as fast as they could get them over there. >> the battle of the bulge was ending as hilbert on the right and his late identical twin brother howard on the left arrived and occupied france. the two guner sand their 42nd rainbow infantry division ended up in combat and headed across the border to germany. >> we couldn't be more than three yards away from our h howitzer, because we could get fire missions morning, noon, and night. >> reporter: on april 29th, the brothers investigated a horrible odor they smelled. after about 15 minutes walking through the woods, they saw an open train boxcar in t

. >> reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. >>> our thanks to gary tuchman for that report. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> hi, everyone. thanks for joining me. i'm jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. and we begin with breaking news. israel defense forces just wrapping up a press conference a short time ago after releasing what they say is important new video from al-shifa hospital which has become a flash point of the war in gaza. the video shows what the idf says is a tunnel shaft on the hospital grounds. israel has long said that hamas uses the hospital to cover up what it says is an extensive terror network underground, something hamas and hospital officials have denied. oren lieberman entered gaza with the israeli defense forces last night to see the tunnel shaft for himself and what lies beneath there. and cnn reported from gaza under idf escort at all times as a condition for journalists, had to submit the footage for review. and cnn did retain editorial control over the final report. oren, we want to lay that out for everyone so they understand what they are seeing. walk

i think that he was polished and he has underperformed in previous debates, but still, gary tuchman'sus group showed that nikki haley won the debate, and desantis showed that he is in the top tier, and chris christie had a strong debate, but he is having a hard time getting traction with the base. and vivek ramaswamy and tim scott are fading away. butommunicator, and if you are listening to him, you will think that something is terribly wrong. and not calling him out, but saying that he is a secret puppet and bringing in the spector of the war that the president needs to prosecute against fellow citizens is what has been seeping into the water, and ron desantis had a good debate, but nikki haley out shown him. >> last word? >> you are beginning to see the field narrow and winnow in a way that could give way of a different set of outcomes and when you 17 candidates or 16 candidates going into iowa and if 15 defy the non-trump vote, trump could very well end up with the majority. >> and stop tiptoeing around donald trump. >> thank you, both. kate? >>> another government shutdown is loom

gary tuchman has his story. >> reporter: hilbert is three months away from his 100th birthday.ust before his 21st birthday, the army private first class, jewish soldsoldier, was deploye fight the nazis. >> when battle. bulge broke out, they rushed our infantry as fast as they could get them over there. >> reporter: battle of the bulge was ending as he and his late twin brother arrived and occupied france. the two gunners ended up in combat and headed to germany. >> we couldn't be more than 3 yards away from our howitzer because we could get fire missions morning, noon and night. >> reporter: and they investigated a horrible odor. and after about 15 minutes, they saw an open train box car. what did you see in the box car? >> nothing but deceased bodies. we had a little camera, so we decided let's go ahead and take a picture of that box car, which we did. >> reporter: and the brothers knew nothing about nazi death or concentration camps. but hill bert and howard were among the first american soldiers on the scene. they were the liberators of the a

. >> gary tuchman, great story. thank you so much. >> leave it to gary to warm our hearts on a monday morning. >>> the film and tv actors strike may be close to being over. more than three months after it began. right now, the sag-aftra negotiating committee says it is reviewing the best and final offer from the major studios. in a statement, the union says we are reviewing it and considering our response within the context of the critical issues addressed in our proposals. so the union's demand for an 11% wage increase in the first year of the proposed contract term has been a big roadblock. the studios had agreed to 5%. we'll keep you posted on where this goes. >>> donald trump spent his weekend on the campaign trail in florida but in a matter of hours, he will be testifying in a new york courtroom. coming up, we're going to ask his former white house communications director, anthony scaramucci, what we can and should expect today. stay with us. >>> former president trump has watched others testify in a civil fraud

. >> gary tuchman is on hand in front of the tribeca manhattan apartment that was john f.. >> after he died there were vigils outside his apartment. people holding candles. people crying. people just wanting to be there. >> ultimimately, the idea ofof buburial at sesea was agreed up because john had spoken of it himself not long before. within 24 hours of the bodies being pulled up, they went out to the crash site and scattered the ashes from urns there from the end of the boat. >> that was kind of an amazing indedependent t end to the story when you think about, we'd only been out there two days before searching for three people, now they're were being buried at sea. >> the funeral was held at the saint thomas moore church in manhattan on the upper east side. >> it was a really hard day. >> president and mrs. clinton and chelsea were there, and john's whole family, obviously, and muhammad ali was there. it was a beautiful service. >>>> wyclife jean sang at the funeral, and i remember falling apart at that. it was really emotionanal. >> s senator teded kennedy wasa hugege

. >> let's go to cnn's gary tuchman who watch this debate with voters and nevada, iowa. gary?> anderson, we're just 68 days away from the first of the nation i walk all cases. because of, that we have come to ottawa for all three debates to talk to loyal republicans about the debates and theories are some of those loyal republicans. this is nevada, iowa. the county seat of story, in the middle of the state of iowa. this is the middle -- what's changed after these debates. i'll ask you, who you think the best and this debate. but first, i want to ask you just a one sentence headline, if you are going home and telling someone about this debate, what would you say in one sentence? what would your headline be in a newspaper? >> i like this debate much more than the first two. i'd love to see the differences uninitiated between the candidates this time. >> calm, controlled, informative. >> character counts over name-calling and four out of five off the people on the stage i could see being in the white house. >> foreign policy takes center stage. >> unlike the democrats, the topics

be counting from the first in the nation iowa caucuses, and after last night's primary debate, gary tuchmanke with voters to get their reactions to the five contenders that duked it out. minus leading candidate, donald trump. >> there would be no hamas without iran. >> for this third republican debate, we paid a visit to iowa, the county seat of story county to watch the debate with republicans. most of them saying they are undecided about which republican they will support in the iowa caucuses. when it was all over, we asked what they thought the headline of the debate should be. >> foreign policy takes center stage. >> gop stands in solidarity in support of israel. >> a much more civil debate tonight. >> trump won another one. >> because he wasn't there. >> that's right. >> more substance, less spectacle. >> third time's a charm. >> we're going to talk about the third time. the first time we were here, most of us said that ramaswamy won. the second debate, desantis did. haley came in second both times. my question is, who do you think, quote unquote, again, won the debate. it's not scient

gary tuchman is in iowa for us tonight. >> reporter: iowa governor kim reynolds endorsing ron desantis over gop front runner donald trump is the talk of the hawk eye state. >> are you a fan of the governor? >> yes, i am. >> did you vote for her? >> yes. >> who did you vote for in the presidential election in 2020? >> trump. >> reporter: this man is the owner of a store called old station craft meats in iowa. >> the fact she endorsed desantis, will that make you consider voting for desantis instead of trump in the caucuses. >> i haven't made up my mind yet, but i wouldn't say her endorsement factors into my decision. >> reporter: it's a long standing iowa tradition, a governor doesn't endorse a candidate before the caucuses. the governor is fine with the decision. >> what do you think of the governor of your state? >> i love kim reynolds. >> reporter: gina also voted for reynolds in 2022 and trump in 2020. >> if he is the republican nominee, i will vote for trump. he wouldn't be my first choice as a republican nominee at this point though. >> so, does this decision by the governor to en

just five candidates this time, in a few moments, we'll hear what voters in iowa watch from cnn's gary tuchmanof what they saw. two candidates, florida governor ron desantis and former u. n. ambassador nikki haley with the two closest in the polls for the president. so many eyes were on them, including this exchange they got into with over china. >> then we will go in and all formal trade relations with china, base they start murdering americans for fentanyl. something -- they's have yet to say they will do. then we modernize our military. when we strengthen our military, when we modernize it, with the focus of cyber artificial intelligence in space when we make sure that we keep the bags of our friends, whether it's in israel, whether it's in ukraine and we should be arming taiwan. >> ambassador haley said somehow i wasn't doing, she welcomed that into south carolina, gave them that land near a military base. wrote the chinese ambassador a love letter, saying what a great friend they were. that was like their number one way to do economic development. in florida, i banned china from buying la