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>> two weeks, families have sought after the defense ministry to remind the war cabinet inside that they will not leave, and they will not let up. >> from hostages square in tel aviv, they march to jerusalem, picking up thousands of supporters along the five-day march, to the prime minister's office. a public pressure campaign forces a meeting with israel's leadership. adriana audrey's mother-in-law is a hostage in gaza. >> we don't have time, we don't have one hour more, we don't know if she is alive. >> the israeli ministry says at least two hostages were found dead in the enclave. 65-year-old grandmother and 19 year old. now, some families have their own fight. far-right israeli minister of national security is trying to push a death penalty, terrorist through the -- which family say endangers their loved ones in hamas captivity. this person's wife were taken on october 7th. >> instead of talking about the dead, let's talk about the living. stop talking about killing arabs, talk about saving jews. this is your job. >> oren liebermann joins us now. oren, did the families give you any sense of what they think the idf military campaign is helping, or hurting their chances of getting their loved ones back? >> well, the families who met with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the other members of the war cabinet several hours ago had quite a few hours with them. but, one of those whom we spoke with said they left disappointed, very disappointed, in fact. they were looking for new information, and they simply did not get it. one of the more disappointing and aggravating things they heard, according to this member, was that they wanted to press the government on whether bringing the hostages back was their number one priority, and they simply did not hear that. they wanted to hear that above all else, the government was focused on making an exchange, a deal, and arrangement, to bring back israeli hostages, and instead they heard that although it's important, it is not more important necessarily than defeating hamas, and that is what worries them, especially as the idf says israeli hostages have already been founded because of. >> oren liebermann for us tonight in tel aviv. oren, thank you so. much more on the hostage talks and how the biden administration sees them progressing. cnn's mj lee is at the white house for us tonight. mj, what is the latest you're hearing about the negotiations? >> john, we are sensing a new level of optimism that an agreement may be near, and may even be days away from being announced. of course, the big caveat here is that we have been covering these negotiations for week now, and we have heard various other points that a deal may be close to being announced. but, reporting from myself and our colleague, alex marquardt, is that according to a draft of potential agreement, what would happen is that hamas would release 50 hostages in exchange for israel pausing the fighting for 4 to 5 days. now, between the parties we are told are beginning to close. though, there have been deliberations, ongoing deliberations about how exactly such a deal might be implemented, and some questions about the humanitarian aid that hamas has been demanding from the beginning by the hundreds of truckloads. this is something that's continuing to be deliberated, we are told. now, we have seen, and the white house has said that they are really working around the clock to try and get to an agreement. we've seen, for example, brett mcgirk who is the white house middle east coordinator, really hopscotching the region in the last couple of days. cia director bill burns has also been closely engaged. i think, john, all parties would agree that there isn't a deal until a deal is announced, and really until these hostages are physically out of gaza. >> i know -- spokes person about the americans being held hostage. what did he tell you? >> the white house has been saying for a number of weeks that they do believe that americans are amongst the hostages, but officials have been clear very -- about the hostages their condition, their whereabouts have been incredibly challenging. the information i try to get from john kirby today was whether if there is such a deal that's amount in the coming days what that might mean for the americans that are missing. here is that exchange. >> on the hostages, if women and children and being released what it sounds like the situation is probably heading towards. does the u.s. have any sense of how many in that midst might be american citizens? >> i don't want to get ahead of where we are, mj. i know that everybody is interested in the numbers and to they're going to be. we are working that through literally everything in time with both sides. so, i think it's better if i just don't speculate about what that is going to look like. obviously, we are laser focused on the american citizens that we know are being held hostage. we want all of them out, everybody should be out now. here we are in the negotiations. we're getting closer to the end, we believe that negotiation. so, i'm gonna be careful. >> any of the potential american hostages is their confidence that they are alive i know that you addressed lack of proof of life videos and such in the past. >> obviously, we have no indication. >> john, just in terms of how tenuous these negotiations have been, sources told me and alex that in recent days, hamas had actually gone dark and put the negotiations on hold, one of their many objections apparently was israel's of al-shifa hospital. obviously, the negotiations did eventually resume, but just an illustration of how incredibly challenging it has been to negotiate with hamas about these hostages. >> mj lee at the white house. thank you very much. with me here tonight, michael or, in israel's for outmuscled or to the united states. thank you so much for being with us. the deal that they are discussing, the parameters seem to be a four or five-day pause in the fighting for the release of 50 hostages. what do you see as the risk ward there? >> first of all, angie is right. you don't have an agreement with hamas. even if you have an agreement, you don't have an agreement, because they don't negotiate good faith. they say 50 hostages, and look about 40, and if it's a four-day cease-fire, they get to the fourth day and you only have 20 hostages. the, seo-yeon other cease-fire. they broken every cease-fire in the past. they've never kept a cease-fire. so, it's very difficult to negotiate somebody who is moving that football constantly. these are a bunch of violent thugs, and meanwhile, you're going to get bodies showing up, like these two women, who were executed according to our friends. they were executed, they did not die in captivity they were shot. my sources tell me that hamas won't release women who have been ripped and a great number have been re-because they want to come out and see how they were, it because who knows how these four women have get? according to mafia person, or someone sending a piece of a kid not person back. that's going to be doing an order to ramp up all the time to pressure for a prolonged an open-ended cease-fire. that is what they want. it gets a cease-fire, that means hamas winds, and gets away with mask murder even for five days what >> are they going to do in the 45 days? they're going to re-arm, reequip, booby trap everything. when the army starts again. >> from? where >> they have plenty armed, they have to bring in from different places. it's going to cost us in terms of soldiers lives. we're talking about history before middle eastern history. in history, i don't know a decision as difficult as this one that can be made by any government ever. you have to take a hostage's life versus a soldier's life. in many cases, the same age. you get questions about 50 hostages get out, the families of the hostages that did not get out are going to start increasing pressure on the israeli government for a cease-fire it is always going to be about the cease-fire, because that's what hamas needs. >> i had the opportunity to sit next to you as we are watching or lieberman's piece of those frustrated hurt, devastated, families. >> soul crushing. >> you understand their frustration? >> 240 people with their children. these are old people. >> they are frustrated people. they say the israeli government is not doing enough. >> i think there is an impossible situation here. what does enough mean? if you put pressure on hamas. they were not willing to negotiate all before is your went on the ground. now that they're getting closer, then hamas says, oh, we're willing to talk. as israel gets closer and closer and closes that news on hamas, the terms will get better. keep in mind, these people are not negotiating in good faith, they will always break to cease fire and the terms. >> i want to ask you about a cctv video that they released over the last several days, which israel says shows two hostages inside the al-shifa hospital. if this video shows what israel says it shows, two hostages there, how many people do you think must have known that they were there between hospital staff, doctors, security who had access to the cctv video before presumably israel did, perhaps international organization that operate in and around al-shifa? >> it's not that is your claim this video shows a hostage being held, it's a palestinian video. it's not israel's video, it's a palestinian video. it's a hospital video. of course, if you see in the video, everybody just watching this hostage being taken in. there is guns, and rockets throughout the hospital. there's a huge shaft under the hospital. to say, nobody in the hospital knew was going on is ludicrous. of course they knew what was going on. remember, hamas kills palestinians to. the head of hamas god his fame by killing what they call collaborators. so, they live in fear. we can understand that, but you can't reasonably assume they did not know is going on in the hospital. >> the idf over the weekend said that they will continue their operations into the fall of hamas and southern gaza. southern gaza is where israel has told people to go inside gaza. so, what's happened to the tens of thousands of people who have gone where israel has told them to go, if the idf moves in? there >> it is white hamas is moving into the south. one thing used his population as a human shield, wherever it goes, because remember, it wants a cease-fire. how does it get a cease-fire getting? israel to kill inadvertently palestinians. that increases international pressure on israel. so, israel, to make the cease-fire, israel is going to do its utmost to limit that number in order to be able to keep fighting hamas. if you see how difficult this dynamic is, it's extremely difficult so, israel continues to do its best to warn palestinian populations of there's going to be an imminent attack and by sending text messages and other methods to try and get them to move. as they move, hamas is going to keep on using them as shields. isn't that awful >>? this is the horrible reality of this war. it's not just a story, i'm a dad and the granddad. it is just heartbreaking, the whole thing. >> ambassador michael oren, appreciate you being here. happy thanksgiving. >> you too. >> next, a gag order aimed at keeping the former president from attacking the courts and intimidating witnesses against him, versus, the first amendment rights we all enjoyed. what his lawyers and jack smith's team said about it today, and what a federal appeals court made of it and all the politics surrounding it leader would voters in the key state of michigan made of president biden in the impact could have a year from now at the polls. -- in appeal, almost certainly heading to the supreme court, lawyers argue the gag order -- > criminal speech, obviously, it's subject to introspection. but, political speech that's core, that's part of campaign speech, -- >> i think that kind of labeling its core political speech begs the question of whether it is in fact political speech, or whether it is political speech aimed at derailing or corrupting the criminal justice process. >> perspective from legal analyst karen friedman's and cnn senior political commentator and former republican congressman adam kinzinger. adam, let me start with you. appeals court signal they're going to consider nearing this gag order, some to allow trump to talk some about the special counsel jack smith and his legal team. i want to play a little bit more of what they said. >> he had to speak manners while everybody else is throwing targets at him. >> it can't be that he cannot mention mr. smith. clearly he has thick enough skin, he's on this team. >> why include jack smith and the permissible attack column? >> i think they think it's fair game because this is a political campaign where one of the fair things the opponents will say is the fact that he is being prosecuted, he's accused of all these things, and show he should be able to respond to that, so he says, and call this a political prosecution. i think death threats, which is what happens when he says things about jack smith or jack smith's family, et cetera, i think that takes a bridge too far, and that is what was going on today with the appeals court, what do we have to wait for something to happen before we limits it, or, can we limit it in advance because there's been so many threats to anyone who he targets and puts out there, and there's so much evidence of that in the. record >> do you think it'll be a mistake to allow jack smith to be one of those people and he goes after? >> having death threats and having people come and threatened new is terrifying whether you are a prosecutor or not. so, if it was just speech, i think jack smith has thick-skinned, he can take, and he's not going to do anything differently. when people show up at your house or you're getting phone calls or things happen to your kids or families, i think that's a bridge too far. >> congressman you've dealt with donald trump indifferent his for a long time. to what extent is this something of a win win for him? either he's permitted to say more things in which you know he will, or the courts imposes some kind of guy quarter here in which he will say that he is being silenced here and he will send out campaign fundraising notes which you already is. it's a win-win? >> kind of, in a way, look, he's a professional victim. he is the best at being a victim of anybody i've ever met. for me, the most powerful man in the world at one point, he was the victim of everything that ever came his way. so, on the political side of things, maybe people should think. if he truly is a victim, maybe he's not the strongest person to be president of the united states. i do think it's a win-win, but, i also agree with karen. the difference here is this. donald trump has a tendency, he's very good at saying things in a way that when people hear it they know he kind of mean something else. he can get away with not saying it. oh, i'm not saying to go attack them, so it's kind of a danger in it. i can tell you from being in congress and having my conversations with people through all the years of donald trump kind of peel back the curtain here a little bit. when he says something, so if he goes after jack smith or says something personal, whatever it is, that gives license to every other member of congress, and every other political leader to tehran to the same thing. it's not just donald trump putting something on his fake twitter, it's now gives credit and courtesy permission to every other republican to say the same thing. as you saw with doctor anthony fauci, for instance, people disagree with his covid policies, fine, you can disagree with them, but he's gotten a lot of death threats. donald trump may have never called him out and said go after doctor fauci physically, but his words have that impact on millions of people. >> so, karen, if the gag order goes back in place, which it seems likely we understand something we're guy quarter will go back in place. what this judge chutkan do? she's the judge overseeing this case, if he violates it. what can she do? >> she can do a lot of different things. there can be fines, but if there is going to be some kind of putting him in jail as a consequence which can be that way in federal courts, they'd have to bring a new action that would trigger a whole new trial if you will on whether or not he actually did violate it. so, she can do a lot of things, she can find him, she can sanction him, schengen admonish him. but, ultimately, she won't do this i think that first, but if he keeps continuously violating him i think potentially there will be this new contempt action. >> karen, adam, thanks to both of. you have a great thanksgiving. >> you bet. >> next, why former president had reason to celebrate his 81st birthday and the current president had a reason to celebrate his 81st birthday, today, and the joke he just made about it. although, why new polling shows it is not so funny, and what some key swing state voters make of it. john king starter the latest installment of three 60 areas all over the map. later, iceland on edge after numerous earthquake signal possibility of a major volcano eruption. fred pleitgen is there with the latest. >> president biden turned 81 today. he made a few jokes about his age during annual thanksgiving turkey. this picture was posted on the presidents instagram account, a birthday quick ablaze with candles, comment reads, thanks for the birthday well wishes today everyone. turns out, on your 146th birthday, you run out of space for candles. white house tonight leading into what is considered one of biden's biggest political liabilities, his age. right now, he is showing poorly in the polls, particularly amongst younger voters. they backed him in 2020 by about 20 points. polls now show that's supports collapsing. a new one from nbc shows former president, the former president, donald trump, leading president biden 46 to 42% amongst 18 to 34-year-olds. what is more, 70% of young voters disapprove of biden's handling of the israel-hamas war. the white house press secretary was asked about that disapproval today by our mj lee. this is what she said. >> what i will be very clear about is we're not going to govern by polls here. or poll numbers. we're going to focus on delivering for the american people, that's going to be our focus. >> the war and young voters are the focus of john king's latest installment of series for a three 60 all over the map. the series tracks the presidential campaign for the arts and experiences of voters who live in key battleground states, tonight, michigan. john king joins me here. john, what did you find out this time? >> imagine your bike in college. you're 18, 19, 20, anybody seems pretty old. it's not just a number, they think he's as far away from there on the issues. they think he does not understand their issues, even though he's trying to do some things on college dead. it was an issue anywhere with this bedrock piece of the biden coalition. john, when you go to campus, you see protests of his royal hamas war on both sides. people raise questions about how the president is handling it. >> midterms are, done finals just ahead. there is a rhythm too rough on campus, and this fall around the. vlad >>, maya sequin is a sophomore. so to studying social work,. >> there's a police officer down the, hall that's not normal. >> it is now. >> she traveled to washington last week, now back on a campus divided. >> the division is very clear, the tension on campus is very high. >> the states bans 200 acres and downtown, detroit 24,000 students. >> i'm muslim, i'm american, i'm palestinian. >> he calls antisemitism, horrible and disgusting. >> do you feel the flip side of it? >> arthur is their islamophobia? >> i think it's disgusting standing up for children dying, and women dying and civilian infrastructure being destroyed is being compared to supporting hamas. holding a palestinian flag does not support hamas. hamas has their own flag, nobody is carrying their flag. >> this coffee shop isn't -- we're about half of the residents are of arab ancestry. his friends say a president they supported in 2020 is now green-lighting israeli response they see is it discriminate. >> i don't see our country should funding that's type of reaction. >> do you feel this way? >> to an extent, yes. i feel as though president biden does not value my life as a muslim american, as much as he values other lives. >> young voters were giant part of the biden 2020 coalition, and this urban campus tilts deep blue. >> if it's biden trump next november, you would. >> i would go biden. >> she is just, 18 a theater, major and e-sports enthusiast. an lgbtq voter who wishes president biden would yield to -- >> i think that generational gap is something that is very very hard for young people. one there are certain things that we want to be hard as young people, with not only you know, conflict with israel ian's palestine, people but we also have student loan forgiveness, in all of these different financial problems that are being handled when they are very much capable of being handled. >> she is not ruling out voting third-party,. >> but it feels like a will throw a vote. >> she used to think that, way but right now he favors a socialist party. in 2020, fisher was just 17, but he helped the aclu register voters back home in georgia. >> so you helped joe biden get elected? >> what about 2024? >> i will not vote for joe biden this time,. >> students are writing the names of palestinians killed in gaza. >> one of -- our is complete divestment from the save israel. >> the prime minister of israel, the president of the united states would take responsibility to see. >> absolutely, it's absolutely essential that we call it for what, today is a genocide. we also must say that it does not start on october, seventh it started in 1948 with the creation of a colonial state of israel. >> some jewish students talk like that, beliefs like, that are stoking an alarming rise in antisemitism. >> i wish it was not like, this but this is what we live right now. >> 50,000 students here in arbor, and interest in the colors democrats is up. >> we've had 15, 40, 30 consistently for meetings. in the past, it has been closer to maybe ten, 15, 20. >> seniors of the college democrats on this, and -- help generate big turnout here in 20, 20 and again in 2022. they have weekly meetings now to plan 2024. >> should we have somebody younger? does that come up? much >> absolutely, it comes. up i think that that is a real point to, make it's a real conversation to be had. >> the immediate challenge though is seeing students who agree on things like abortion rights, and defending democracy at odds over the israel hamas crisis, and president biden's response. >> -- mister president, i've seen you take key humanitarian steps, but i think the next step is a cease-fire. >> i think that would go a long way with voters. >> next, week or next month, if the election were tomorrow, do you think it is more likely some of your members would sit out,. . or some of them have shared with us that it is making them reconsider. >> are you glad they're elections not tomorrow? >> yes. >> we saw on the latest poll, now ahead of president biden with young voters, where does that fit with the data you're seeing? >> we did not see either at william, state which is in downtown, detroit a blue, campus a rush to trump, but you do see a lot of hesitation about the president. let me bring up those numbers as we go through -- the michigan rapper from 2020. here is that new national poll you talked. about one key distinction i want to. make nbc poll voters aged 18 to 34, in the exit polls it's 18 to 20. nine we do know is voters start to get, older they're more likely, they're not rushing to the republicans, but the more likely. still, if you look at, this and then if you go back and look naturally a 2016 versus 2020, president trump got 36% of 18 to 29, he got 36% again in 2020, both in 2016 and 20, president getting 30, six so if he's above 40, that's a big gain for president trump. what is the issue? look at president. biden he got 60% in 2020, to 55% for hillary clinton. it was a key piece of the biden coalition, and when you ask -- the age, they see the president, they don't see him enough, and so they think, wow he does not understand, as he does not get. us those college democrat, presidents they were trying to deal with that issue saying you're not just fighting for the president, you're voting for who he puts in the supreme court. you're voting for abortion, rights are voting to protect democracy. they were trying to start that conversation on campus, and then october 7th happened. you see this divide on campus for the jewish students say they feel afraid, and the progressive students say the president should call for a cease-fire, they say if it is not, they might not vote at all, or they might go third-party, if you look at how close michigan is, that would be a problem. >> again, the biden campaign certainly knows all, this it will be interesting to see how they choose to address it over the coming weeks and. once john, king great to have. you thank you so. much >> for coming, up the latest twist in the endorsement of antisemitic posts on his social network, that a new details that are recent collars grad taking on musk after fighting himself in the center of a far-right conspiracy theory that he says musk amplified. >> elon musk defended himself this weekend without addressing the cause of this latest controversy, agreeing with an antisemitic post with -- last week, mosques endorsed the claim that jewish communities pushed quote, hatred against whites, writing and response quote, you have said the actual truth, his statement prompted several large companies to pull ads from the platform, that includes disney, comcast, and cnn's parent warner bros. discovery. on, sunday musk did not directly address what he posted, rather he posted that there are hundreds of bogus media stories, claiming he is antisemitic, and that quote, nothing could be further from the truth. tonight we also learned that he is suing a progressive watchdog group, media matters of her analysis hiking what they say is antisemitic content on acts, once known as twitter, as that continues to play, out musk is facing a different battle, and he's facing a lawsuit that you may not have heard about. it centers on a 22 year old boy named -- ben brody, who says his life was turned upside down by a conspiracy theory, amplified by musk on twitter. that's what it was called at the time. brody, he has never told his story on camera until he agreed to talk with our -- this is the exclusive report. >> i was oh my god, is this for real? >> 22-year-old that brownn brouought it wasas at home i in riverside e californiaia, one. >> i started getting these text messages from our friends. you are accused of being a neo-fed, look at all the stuff that's being said about. you i was like okay, this is just some prank. >> it was not a prank, 1000 miles away near portland oregon, to far-right extremist groups had gotten into a fight, while protesting against the pride events. brody was not, they're put online trolls tried to guess who was involved using a video of the crowd. >> they found random photos of banned online. >> they said oh, this person looks like, him he has to be this person. there is no way it's not him. >> it was an assumption that went wrong. >> a person in the video resembled bed, but even though it definitely was not, him the trolls thought they had found their man. they pulled information from vince return at a page, which said after graduation he plans to work for the government, and turned that into a lie that he was a federal agent who was infiltrating the group to make them look bad. a so-called false flag operation. >> hey what's up, guys my name is been brodie and i want to address the false accusations against me. >> desperate to clear his, name then made this video, he even posted a time stamp surveillance footage showing him at a store in california, at the same time the bra was happening near portland. but the false claims about pence involvements continued to spread. eveven the ownwner of twititterw actsts, elon musk weighed in posting to his millions of followers, looks like one is a college student who wants to join the government, and another is maybe an antifa member. nonetheless, a probable false flag situation. >> i knew this was snowballing, but once it one musk commented, i was sleeping, that's the final nail in the coffin. >> how much did it intensify after? >> it massively intensifies it. this guy dimly an instagram saying, even mollusk thinks you are fed. >> what was really scary to, is that these people were threatening to tell my school. i was scared that i was not going to graduate. >> ben's friends and others tweeted at mosques telling him the person in the video was not ban. >> this case at risk or is about elon musk being reckless, and making an accusation about this mom. >> mark bankston is been bernie 's attorney, and is suing musk for defamation. >> i published a video online to try to clear, name it did not work. >> there's this incredible feeling of helplessness. that there are millions out there. millions who think that ben was involved in they are not see activities. >> that is how i know you lied to me. >> he's best known as the lawyer who successfully sued alex jones for the lies he spread about the sandy hook elementary school shooting. >> now he wants to hold illinois countable, running in the lawsuit musk made these ridiculously false and damaging accusations against been brody, and it h has led to o severe personalal harassmenent, and permanenent damage t to his reputatition. >> how didid we get toto a place where e somebody s so powerfulun make that t kind of accusation, based d on somethihing so flimi. from just t anonymous s people n the e internet.. >> h his home adaddress poststed ononline, and d he worrieses hie willll forever b be associatateh nato nazism. >> someone posted saying a clansman lives here, and they gave the address with a picture of my house, and i was terrified. >> ben he was jewish says being called a neo-has been especially painful,. >> do you think your life was ruined? >> yes completely. if you just put in my name into the search, barr neo-thud, ben brody. >> ben is seeking damages in excess of 1 million, dollars but both he and his lawyers say it's about a lot more than money. >> we have to change how we deal with information, how we spread information, and how attempt to influence others. >> the fact that this is happening to private people, that is just terrifying. >> it's going to happen again, unless someone stands up to the sky. >> he is here with me now, so has it one mosque commented on this? >> elon musk's lawyer this evening tells us that they expect this case to be dismissed, they have until the 5th of january to make that case essentially to the court where this is filed in texas. look, what is in this lawsuit is page after page after page of been brody's lawyer, mark vance and making the case essentially that elon musk has this tendency to engage, and praise and amplify racist and oftentimes antisemitic conspiracy theories, or engage with accounts that push those troops as well. obviously, that is something we expect that musk's lawyers will contest in court, but as you can see, they're cranberries life just as he's about to graduate was really turned upside down. it's one thing to have trolls anonymous trolls pushing this about, you but to have it kind of be, exxon or engaged in some why by wood -- and the person who runs acts, it's a whole different story. >> all right, thank you very much. >> next, a live report from near a volcano in iceland that could be on the brink of a major eruption. >> iceland ivana hilar, officials warning there is a proud probability of an volcanic eruption, more than 700 earthquakes were detected in the southwestern part of the country this morning, stoking fears that interruption may be imminent. cnn's fred pleitgen is near an evacuated town, close to the mountain in question. scientists are obviously watching the situation very closely, what's the latest they are saying about one interruption might happen? >> well they think that it certainly could be imminent, and you mentioned that number of 700 earthquakes in the past 24. hours the interesting thing about that john, is bettes is actually fewer earthquakes than we have seen over the past couple of days. we are -- 2000 earthquakes, they happened in the single. day however, the scientists say that actually could be a sign of an imminent eruption. they believe that magma is rising to the top towards the earth's crust quickly, and that's why there's two earthquakes, but that magma horse could burst through at anytime. here's what we're learning. >> >> it's a race against time, residents only had a few minutes to gather some items. then they have to get off of the -- the town in southwestern iceland's rise in the path of a possible volcanic eruption. >> you had to leave quickly? >> yes, friday night. >> what was that like? >> it was horrible. >> the brute force of steam from a massive underground magma stream already burst in through the streets in homes here, causing massive damage. >> those rushing out understand their homes, their town, their community might soon be gone for good. >> are you hopeful about the situation that maybe the town will be spared if the big irruption happens? >> no, not really. because the lava is laying very close to our house. we are expecting to lose everything. >> i'm not sure about the town, it looks awful. it's very -- you go there and see everything. >> iceland is in what's called a hot spot, where magma often breaks through the earth's crust, and can result in massive eruptions. what happens here, in -- large parts of the globe. in 20, ten acts putin to the atmosphere all of a condo in iceland, brought transatlantic -- to a standstill for weeks. >> iceland's government says this time, around the effect could also be devastating, with a geothermal power plant that supplies energy to the main airport in harm's way. >> the authorities here are highly concerned about the time of -- that has been evacuated a few days ago, but also about the geothermal power plants here in this area, and they are working 24/7 to try to dig a trench to redirect the lava, if it comes to the surface. >> government experts acknowledge that they are not certain that barrier would prevent lava from damaging the power plants. >> geophysics team from the university of iceland's flying research missions with drones inside the dangerous zone. this eruption won't necessarily be the biggest, but one of the most dangerous professor magnus, to -- tells me. >> the real danger is the eruption might break out, to the north and the lava -- might reach the town in three or four days, and this is a scenario that we have to take seriously. >> so they are taking this very seriously, and of course the ice lenders who deal with situations a volcanic eruptions quite frequently, they have a lot of contingency plans that are, going on but they are all predicated on one, thing and that is that humans are no match for nature. they understand that if this thing blows, up it might very well lose that town, that's why this whole area has been evacuated on a grand scale. they also understand the probably would not be able to hold up the lava as far as the gop perk their rule -- that's why they're trying to divert it again, they say an eruption could take place in a matter of days. >> all right, stay safe. >> just, ahead a look at the ceremonies during the life of former first lady, who died over the weekend at the age of 96.