Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow with phil mattingly. Erin burnett is live with us on the ground in tel aviv, overnight, President Biden returning to washington after a trip in the war zone in israel. Today hes getting ready to give a prime time address to the nation, as he pushes for wartime aid to israel and ukraine. The congress is paralyzed right now. Passing an aid package is possible at the moment. President biden says he clinched a deal with egypts president to start allowing trucks with desperatelyneeded humanitarian aid into gaza where millions of civilians are stuck inside that war zone and running out of food, water and medicine. We have an opportunity to alleviate the pain, you should do it, period. If you dont, youre going to lose credibility worldwide. And i dont think everyone understands that. The president says u. S. Intelligence backs up israels claim that a malfunctioning rocket fired by militants caused the deadly blast at a hospital in gaza, not an israeli airstrike. We want to show you new video thats emerged. It appears to show a rocket fired from gaza. If you mwatch it, it will make sharp turn back moments before the explosion at the hospital. If you wait, youll see the flash right there. Cnn has geolocated a video where you can hear whatever that was. Cnn cannot independently verify what caused the blast. Meanwhile, Israel Continueses to pummel gaza with airstrikes. This video shows huge explosions near a different hospital where thousands of people are sheltering. Lets go straight to erin burnett live in tel aviv. Good morning to you. That is significant. On top of what cnn has geolocated, pointing to that video as additional evidence that this was not us. They are absolutely. Because in that video, you see the rocket go up and then sharply turn around. If you put it in slow motion, you can see that. That was broadcast live. They are pointing to that. The United States, as you just said, has said it confirmed was not fired from israel. And they have pointed themselves to Missile Intelligence as well as signals intelligence. That could be indications like heat and light on the ground. They are saying they have come to their own conclusion, although it is inclear if its the same phone call the idf put out. As the president of the United States said on his way back on Air Force One from leaving israel, he said he doesnt think it was done on purpose by Islamic Jihad either, but nonetheless, they were the ones who did it. I want to bring in the idf spokesman this morning. Major, good to speak with you again on this morning in the United States. There are reports from the Palestinian News Agency that israeli airstrikes on the crossing that we have talked so much about has killed 30 people. Are you able to tell us anything about those strikes . I have no information that such a thing took place. I will get back to you. I would take this as an example that if that did happen, the idf will come forward and confirm. I have no information. However, we have to be very cautious about reporting on these types of events. As we learned, and you just reported just now about the hospital, immediately they announced to the entire world within seconds that israel did it. We went through a very professional process of showing a that it wasnt us. So we have to be very careful. I will look into that. In the hundreds of targets that israel is striking a day in gaza t would make sense, some of them have been near the southern border, because you have your own strategic reasons for doing that. Just to be clear, all understand that there would be possible targets for israel in the south of gaza and by that border. What i can tell you is that as we know, you have a game being played by two different rules. All our targets are military targets. At times, those targets are incredibly difficult to reach because hamas is putting civilians in our way. This is the issue going on here. I dont think tz its reasonable to assume. We have to check the facts on the ground. I dont trust any hamas sources whatsoever. We have to verify a lot s of sources. Were taking pain staking steps, including delaysing everything were doing by five days for civilians to reach the south. Last night, a gaza doctor spoke to our show to say what hes experiencing. It was a very, very brief sound byte because theres weak Internet Connection at the hospital and to conserve power on his phone, no water, no elect electricity, no medications, our situation is very, very bad. His voice is exhausted. You can tell. And then he had to hang up. How urgent is aid and assistance to gaza . Look, i want to say very clearly. And i will answer your question, but this is a direct outcome of hamas raid inside israel. We have to g back to where this began. The idf did not just wake up and decide to go into gaza. Hamas crossed our border and create d a horrific violation o human rights by massacring our population. Were responding like any country would respond. As much as were doing for the civilians, it must be incredibly difficult right now. Theres a difficulty of getting supplies. Were working towards that, but we have to understand that historically, that aid has gone to hamas operatives. You and i both saw a shoulderfired Grenade Launcher that was made on a humanitarian building supplies, but i showed you those a few days ago. They have take a lot of these supplies, and we dont want the terrorist to benefit from them. Its not a simple situation. Its going to take time. We have to make sure it gets to the actual civilians who need it and not to the terrorists. We did see that. What you have gathered is stunning. The number of confirmed families who may have host acts in gaza, i understand this number has increased. We have been speaking to many of those families. I spoke to one of them. They have both their son and daughter, who were at that festival. They saw their son in a video are from hamas. Their daughter was dead. They have been waiting for information. Obviously, these families have incredible frustration because they want answers. I just wanted to play something that was said to me. Did they tell you they were with . They dont tell us nothing. We dont know. In two days. Major, obviously, their grief and its profound. They did say that on monday they got a call from the the idf saying that the idf knows that their daughter is a hostage. So my question to you is, i know youre not going to be able to tell us how you know these things, but is it safe to say iz know a lot about these hostages and where they are and their condition if families are still getting calls this week saying that israel has confirmed their Family Members are hostages . First of all, i very much appreciate you bringing their family to the screen. It is incredibly horrific for all of us. The information is unfolding as the days go on, both positive and negative. Last night in the area, a group of workers went up into an attic and found a mother and her 5yearold son burnt to a crisp. Im sorry to say that on tv. But they were burned alive in the attic trying to hide from the terrorists. So unfortunately, those are two people we understand were killed. On a different note, more and more video, we see video that hamas is putting out. More people are uploading a video. So its so difficult because even today, were finding more bodies. There are bodies being uncovered, there are body part you have to match dna. Its horrifically painful process. Indeed. I saw those body bags. And youre still getting bodies out is also a horrible thing to say, but important for people to know that missing may not mean hostage at this point. Major, i appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Thank you, erin. Major spielman here in israel. Back to you. Right now, we want to turn to Military AnalystMark Hurtling at the magic wall. This has been a 24hour period where we have seen protests and the scale of the outrage. We have seen a significant push on both the israeli side and also the u. S. Side to try to lay out why they have assessed that this was not coming from the idf, the rocket that hit the hospital, but instead came from a militant group in the area. I want to start with what we kind of saw in terms of the blast and what that tells you. This is an annotated map that shows where the blast occurred and some of the damage. This has been pointed to as this could not have been an airstrike. Why . First of all, you see a small crater. They do have pictures of where that crater is. Its just several inches into the ground. Its not the kind of thing youd see with a large bomb. So when that rocket struck, it was probably a 122 millimeter, which is a significant blast, but it doesnt cause that kind of damage. Theres more shrapnel than anything else. We saw in the photos yesterday was a large fireball. Thats the indicator that there was fuel. Lets play that, but also listen to the audio. There is the rocket going up. Thats the sound youre referring to. Now were going to show you the video that we showed at the start of the show and walk people through the sound and this. Heres a rocket along that trajectory. Something happens in flight. It loses its power and then the Engine Flames out and it drops. We were talking about that yesterday. A rocket that doesnt have forward power anymore turns into the aerodynamic capabilities of a brick. It just drops. Then it explodes in a very large fireball. Much more than youd expect from iraq. You are talking about the sound. Does that tell you anything . Not really. Youre going to get that whoosh of a rocket going across the sky. If its intercepted, youre going to hear an explosion. The rocket fizzles out. One of the things coming out of the president s Trip Yesterday is what happens now. We have seen the protests, we know that israel is preparing for a significant operation. It seems to be likely on the ground. You pointed to 2014, Lessons Learned about maybe a road map of whats next. First of all, we can talk about israel and what they might do. In to2014, operation protective edge, israel mobilized 70,000 soldiers. Today they are mobilizing 3 300,000. They went in on three directions. One main direction in the north toward gaza city, but one in the center and one in the south, they fought mostly aboveground and realized the extensiveness of the tunnels. There were 66 Israeli Soldiers killed, 7 citizens about 2,100 citizens killed in that same period, according to the u. N. So during the ten years since then, theres been several after action reports. Something that militaries and think tanks do. What i have tried to do is combine what it said about hamas, what they think hamas is going to do based on reports, based on research, what was successful in 2014. The first thing they said, they are going to try to increase the rockets and expand greatly their tunnels and look for a larger conflict. In 2014, the conflict lasted 50 days. They are looking to make it last longer this time. Secondly, they are incorporating new tactics. We saw that on october 7th. Put squads together, go by land, sea and air into the main port. New technologies, missiles, new types of explosive devices, get allies, hezbollah, syria, others, but the most important one is they will perfect the victim doctrine. Anything that they can point toward israel to continue to embarrass them and make them look like heroes, hamas will do. They sited that doctrine several times and it becomes important. We appreciate it. Thank you. President biden held his first on the record conversation on Air Force One since his presidency began. He will be joined by a cnn reporter. And the president says egypt has agreed to allow 20 trucks to travel into gaza. The United Nations says its not closes to enough thats next. President biden shared details of his wartime visit with reporters on his way home. Its the first time the president has addressed the press pool on Air Force One since he was in inaugurated. He took the opportunity to tout a breakthrough with negotiations to allow Somes Decesperately needed aid thats been piling up on egypts side. He agreed that what he would do is open the gate to two things, one, let up to 20 trucks through to begin with. My ambassador is down there in cairo now. Hes going to coordinate this. He has my authority to do what it needed to get it done. Biden discussed what he framed as blunt warnings while meeting with leaders against blocking aid facing an unprecedented humanitarian capacity. K you were on the trip. You are the person talk to. This is a rarity. This doesnt happen with this president. Unlike perhaps some of his predecessors. Why do you think it came back to talk to you again . Certainly, he had a lot on his mind on this long flight back from tel aviv. It was a surprise to see him pop up in the door of the press cabin. Its not something that we have seen him do very often. He had come back to read out that phone call that he had with the egyptian president , but really in listening to him and watching him, he really did want to sort of read out the entire visit. He had a lot on his mind. He wanted to put in his own words sort of how he felt this historic trip to a war zone had had gone because this was not necessarily the trip that he had originally set out to take. It was overshadowed in some ways by that devastating Hospital Bombing in gaza. He did have to cancel a planned stop in jordan to meet with arab leaders. I did want to ask if he was disappointed in that. S i was interested to hear his answer. Listen to what he said. Are you disappointed you had to cancel the stop in jordan . No. I came to get something done. I got it done. Not many people thought i would get this done. Not people want to be associated with failure. So certainly, the president very confident in the outcomes of this trip. But i think when you talk to aids privately, they do acknowledge that the real results are still in the works. It will not be clear for several days, several weeks potentially, whether this trip was a success, whether the president s advice and warnings to the israeliss about the scope of their response were heeded, but certainly the president is very confident as he was coming home that he was able to secure some accomplishments on this visit. I found the answer was candid. It was also interesting that he said after that call with the egyptian president , really stepped up as did bb. Now the proof is does the aid come through . Reporter yeah, and that will be seen in the coming hours really, coming days as these 20 trucks that the president said he secured potentially start cross ing the border into gaza. But i think for the president , the objectives were not enormous. He did not fly over to try to brokeer a ceasefire. He fly over to secure the release of the hostages. The objective was to show the utmost support for israel in this time of national trauma. You did see that when he was on the ground, the full scale embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu, but also these emotional encounters with people who had been touched by the events, but a grandmother who had been barricaded at gunpoint by a man who recounted these Horrific Traumas the president really feeling the emotion of the visit. So for the israelis, this was a highly successful visit by the president , but Behind The Scenes, you saw the president ask the tough questions of Benjamin Netanyahu talking about what happens in the days and weeks ahead. You heard him aftermath come out and deliver a statement talking about the mistakes that the United States made after 9 11 talking about the importance of having clirty going forward. Its easy to hear to imagine the president in private as well. Take us Behind The Scenes. It was not just his 9 11 comments, but this trip itself was extraordinary. It was an active war zone. Its the first time a u. S. President has visited in the middle of a war, the decision to do this happened over a very short period of time. You werent allowed to tell us where you were most of the time. What was happening Behind The Scenes from your Vantage Point . What the white house had seen were these previous leaders, including Secretary Of State antony blinken, but also the engineer man clans lifesupport. When they arrived in tel aviv, we heard Air Raid Sirens. There was evidence of this conflict at close range. When we were flying over, we got this briefing from white house staff about what to do if an Air Raid Siren goes off standing next to Air Force One. That has never happened before. When were on the ground. Things seemed relatively calm. We saw people taking a jog. So the president didnt see the conflict at close range, but he heard about it from all of thiz encounters while he was there. A heck of a 24 hours. We appreciate you bringing it to us. Thank you. Lets go to our chief anchor christiane amanpour. The president said clearly, came to get something done. I got it done. What do you think he got done . I just want to say i spoke to one of the former Senior State Department officials and he said the president was delivered a very bad hand, which he played very skillfully. So in other words, not raising all the expectations, but yes, this idea of unblocking the crossing is paramount, really important. But remember it is only a its. Its 20 vehicles and apparently wont be able to go in until tomorrow. Thats the start. They do to fix roads because theres been israeli airstrikes. So its not even fuel, we understand, coming in. Which is what all the humanitarians tell us is necessary to purify water, to run hospitals, to do all those humanitarian needs. But if those 20 trucks do come in, then that would be important. This is what the chief humanitarian official told me yesterday. Its the safety of aid, which sass important as its dependablity. We can do it because we have the aid