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From mega donors. Elena schneider, thank you for joining us this morning with your reporting. Thanks for getting up Way Too Early with us on this Monday Morning. Morning joe starts right now. We will restore peace through strength. Get that war settled. Thats a bad war. And putin, you know, has so little respect for obama that he is starting to throw around the nuclear word, too. You heard that, nuclear. Donald trump over the weekend once again thinking hes running against barack obama. When tru...

neighborhoods in oklahoma and kansas in ruins today after tornadoes reportedly ripped through that region. and another astonishing twist at the double murder trial of alec murdaugh, the jury is going on a field trip just days before theyre expected to start deliberations. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments for us. we want to start with catie beck outside the courthouse in waltersboro, south carolina, as she has been throughout. first of all, some grap...

himself. >> one of the drops, he literally completely hit the ceiling and dropped down and was completely horizontal. >> reporter: on board, actor matthew mcconaughey and his wife, camila, they posted about the couples chaotic experience writing everything was flying everywhere and the turbulence kept oncoming. >> we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." lets get right to it. at this hour on capitol hill, the senate back in session just one hour from no...

good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, november 25th. im victor blackwell. >> im isabel rosales. thanks for joining us. >> good to have you along this morning. we are waiting for the release of more hostages beings held by hamas. an israeli official says 14 hostages will be released today. in exchange, 42 palestinian hostages will be released. this is day two of four. it could bring 50 hostages home. 13 are israeli, ten are tai citizens and one be is filipino. the v...

for watching. im wolf blitzer in tel aviv. ill be bae back tomorrow in te aviv as well. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, the breaking news. new flares over gaza as israel launches its biggest air assault on the strip since the start of the war. israeli forces now coming face-to-face with hamas fighters. plus, fears of a second war growing at this hour. cnn witnessing more rockets entering israel from lebanon tonight. and cnn learns hezbollah is about to get ...

Of forming a government with this coalition. hes already sort of started applyings the pressure with a lot of tweets today. he called neftaly bennett his former protege and possibly next prime minister of israel, said he was selling out to the arab parties. he sort of cajoled right wing lawmakers, saying that you should be on the side of likud, you should vote against this government, so theres a lot of that going on right now. but if this vote is approved, if this -- the government is formed, n...

Again, covid-19 is a huge concern there in gaza. the healthcare system has been badly hit by the violence, even roads arent in existence at this point to allow ambulances to transport the wounded. homes have been obliterated. you have tens of thousands of palestinians crowded into u.n. schools, so thats definitely a concern. we are seeing aid start to trickle in through the israeli entrances to gaza as well as from the egyptian crossing, and that, again, will be something very much on the mind o...

Dead, the vast majority palestinians. lets bring in erin mclaughlin, joining us live from te aviv. thanks for covering this for us. lets talk about secretary tony blinken headed to israel and the west bank. what do we know about this trip, who hes going to be meeting with? >> reporter: thats right, secretary blinken is expected in the region in the coming days. hes going to be meeting with israelis as well as palestinians and other regional partners. hes going to be focusing on efforts to rebuil...

We havent heard them in tel aviv for quite a few days now. there was an impact in israel as we know. missiles did fall. the majority of them were intercepted by israels iron dome system, but missiles fell here in israel and damaged some homes and people were killed here. but what a contrast to what gaza looks like today. there was widespread destruction there. we understand that many people, many of some 58,000 people who fled their homes stayed in schools, united nations schools in home openers...

Back now. looking at some of our cameras from te aviv. the live shots today versus this same hour a week ago. >> hold on one second. if you listen right now, you can hear some air-raid sirens that are going off in tel aviv. that happened right here on this show. as you can see on the right though, storys quite different in tel aviv today where life is getting back to a sense of normalcy. people strolling there. hamas and israel entering the second tay of their cease-fire agreement. kelly cobiell...