hi, everyone. thanks for joining me. i'm omar jimenez sitting in for fredicka whitfield. we begin with heavy shelling and fighting in gaza putting emergency centers in emergency situations. the red crescent society said gaza's second largest hospital is out of service due to the dep please of supplies. israel defense forces say they're enabling safe passage from gaza's hospitals, but medics say it's too dangerous to leave because of intense fighting. with civilian casualties mounting, today israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu told cnn the lives lost fall squeri on the shoulders of hamas. >> i think any civilian slos is a tragedy and the blame should be placed squarely on hamas. it prevents them from leaving the zone. the other day, to prevent palestinians from leaving harm's way, it puts rockets inside schools, hospitals. it has tunnels below children's beds. this is what we're dealing with. so obviously we can't give them i'm munlt. >> today for the first time since thursday, foreign nationals were able to evacuate at the raff far crossing. we are correspondents standing by. oren liebermann is in tell vooef. let's bring with nada bashir monitoring the urgent situation with gaza's hospitals. new report out today paints a dire picture of the health care system in gaza. >> reporter: omar, the health care system is on the brink of collapse for some time. we've been hearing those warnings from health officials, doctors on the ground. now we're seeing the vast majority of gaza's hospitals completely out of service. there was significant concern that the situation at the el shifa hospital, doctors on the ground telling us it's facing relentless bombardment. take a look. these are the sounds of the final gasps from gaza's health care system. medical staff working under near relentless israeli bombardment for over a month. now this chorus of frantic voices seen here working under torch light tells its own gut-wrenching story. the al quds hospital has now collapsed. the hospital no longer operational according to the red crescent society. these scenes are too familiar across the besieged graz sa strip. the vast majority of hospitals here are already completely out of service. palestinian health ministry in ramallah says, and those remaining now on a cliff edge. >> it was a direct injury in the head, internal bleeding and we can't do surgeries. no surgeries, no oxygen, no electricity. we worked manually. we are using a manual resuscitator. it is a clear injury. it needs an urgent surgery, a lifesaving one. he is less than a year old. >> reporter: remarkably this baby survived, but his father who was in the very same building when an israeli air strike hit did not. at gaza's largest hospital, al shifa, officials say three newborn babies had to be moved and three died after incubators were damaged in an israeli strike. cnn has reached out to the israeli military for comment. the idf regularly says it is targeting hamas, but doctors here say the hospital is now completely surrounded. >> the situation is difficult. there is no water, no electricity, they cannot communicate between each other. there is a lot of targeting around the hospital. >> reporter: under a nearly constant barrage of air strikes, it is impossible for both patients and staff to safely evacuate. doctors are overwhelmed, morgues long beyond capacity. with communications frequently cut off, contact between medical teams on the ground and with the outside world is growing increasingly difficult. hospital officials say thousands of displaced civilians are still thought to be in the compound. taking shelter in what once was thought to be a sanctuary in the midst of this seemingly unending nightmare. >> translator: we thought the hospital was a safe place, but it wasn't. if we had stayed another five minutes, we would have been killed. they started to bomb us, and we ran away from al shifa. >> reporter: the israeli military says it is now enabling passage from three hospitals in northern gaza with an additional route said to have been opened to allow civilians to evacuate south wards. >> translator: this is another form of torture. we have about six kilometers to go. she got a stroke that caused her brain damage. she can't speak and is paralyzed. >> reporter: the united nations itself has raised doubts over the so-called safe zones outlined by israel warning that nowhere inside gaza is safe for civilians anymore. for those too injured, too sick, evacuation is impossible. many doctors on the ground vowing to stay beside their patients no matter what. omar, we've heard from the chief humanitarian chief mark griffin skrieing any attacks on hospitals as unconscionable and reprehensible. as we've seen over the last four weeks, these attacks are closer and closer to medical facilities. >> i want to turn now to oren liebermann in tel aviv. more shelling and fighting across gaza today. what's the latest on the idf's military efforts there? >> reporter: they say much of their focus is al round the al shack i can refugee camp, just north of the al shifa hospital along the coast. that's where they say there's been a lot of intense fighting. from the descriptions where they're operating, they're coming in towards al shifa where they accused hamas at having a compound beneath it, coming from both the north and the south. videos put out by the idf showing street battles or forces, using machine guns, rpgs and tanks as they move through gaza city, a densely populated area as they work their way towards al shifa hospital and work their way to moving into gaza city. the idf said they're aware of the situation with the incubators and the babies and trying to find a solution to get them out. they've opened up humanitarian corridors. they say ron tis si and al massa are mostly empty. the fighting there very much continuing in densely packed gaza city. meanwhile, there's an intensified level of fighting on the northern border where the idf says a total of seven soldiers and civilians were injured because of fire from lebanon. israel has responded targeting hezbollah there. >> we've seen some of those conflicts and fighting happening on multiple fronts. oren, i want to ask you about -- it's a separate situation. we've learned some u.s. service members were killed in the region during a training exercise. what are you learning about that? >> reporter: that's right, omar. there was a training exercise in a helicopter in which five u.s. service members were killed according to a pentagon and defense secretary lloyd austin. it crashed either friday night or early saturday morning. there were recovery efforts, maritime aircraft circling between cyprus and lebanon or between cyprus and israel, in a search effort to see if there were any survivors. today u.s. european command say all five service members on board the helicopter died during the crash. the crash still under investigation. i want to go else near to el lanny joke cuss. what is the latest that you're seeing? >> reporter: this is the largest number of foreign nationals that have been evacuated out of gaza. the border at rafah has been shut down and closed for evacuation since thursday. this is the largest number we've seen. 826 foreign nationals now currently in egypt. four injured palestinians have also been moved to egypt. we've just heard the dire and catastrophic situation and conditions in hospitals in gaza. putting the total number of injured palestinians in egypt to 129 patients. this is a tiny fraction of the over 26,000 injured palestinians currently in gaza with this crumbling health system. also five cancer patients moved because they were unable to continue treatment in gaza. we spoke to one man who was moved to egypt. he has just one wish. >> we were transferred to egypt to get treated. god willing, hopefully i'll get artificial limbs implanted so i can walk like before. god willing, i will return to gaza. whatever god has written for us will happen. i am satisfied with whatever god has in store. thank god. >> reporter: there are over 2,000 foreign nationals already evacuated. egyptians say over 7,000 foreign nationals need to be evacuated. it's a long and arduous process according to one diplomatic source i spoke to, to get someone on the list for evacuation isn't transparent from what we've been hearing. it's difficult, omar, and it is moving. it's a breakthrough deal that came into place last week, wednesday. we have seen delays. it depends on the fighting and the strikes we've been seeing in gaza. overall this is a process that is under way and hopefully gaining momentum to get people out that are trapped in gaza right now. >> aleni, thank you. thank you to all our correspondents in the region. as concerns about the safety of gaza ease hospitals grow, today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he's doing everything he can to protect gaza's most vulnerable. >> israeli forces have said they're engaged in intense fighting around al shifa hospital, the largest medical facility in gaza. i know you say that the hospital sits on top of a hamas command and control center. but, of course, there are also patients, civilians sheltering in that complex getting treatment. how do you intend to go after hamas without putting sick and injured civilians in that hospital at more risk than they. >> reporter: there? >> we've called to evacuate all the patients from that hospital. in fact, 100 or so have already been evacuated. the french hospital has sent a floating hospital ship. i've asked the emirates to send a field hospital. they have, and other countries have done the same. i expect the u.n. to follow suit. there's no reason we can't take the patients out of there instead of letting hamas use it as a command center for terrorism, the terror turnls they use to kill israeli citizens. we're treading carefully when it comes to hospitals but we're also not going to give immunity to the terrorists. even though hamas has tried to prevent the civilians from leading, sometimes having to go through hamas gunpoint and gunfire to keep them in harm's way. >> just to be clear, sir, israel will aid, help these civilians who are quite sick and inside those hospitals come out, not just in al shifa, but there are other hospitals where this is happening. >> yes, yes. we're telling them to leave. >> telling them or helping them? >> helping them by creating safe corridors. we have designated routes to a safe zone south of gaza city where there's no fighting. >> a quick programming note. c anti-semitism be stopped? "the whole story with anderson cooper" tonight at 9:00 p.m. on cnn. still to come, just days before a potential government shutdown, house speaker mike johnson's two-step plan for funding the government is facing major headwinds. is a shutdowown n avoidadable? i'll disiscuss with dedemocrati congresswowoman susan n wild. speaker mike johnson announced a two-step plan to found the government with just five days remaining for congress to avert a government shutdown. the unusual proposal is already running into opposition from democrats and some republicans. cnn's manu raju has the details. >> reporter: speaker mike johnson in his first test as speaker unveiling a plan to keep the government open with just a handful of days before the end of the week deadline. but already facing fire from his right flank, members of the house freedom caucus in particular, concerned about the lack of spending cuts in this plan. democrats didn't want any spending cuts and said they would vote against it. however, democrats are concerned it does not have aid to israel, aid to ukraine and they're criticizing the unconventional approach taken by spoker johnson. some federal agencies would be funded until mid january, others until early february. this is an unusual type of approach but one which johnson believes can help achieve their legislative objectives. nonetheless, the question is how many folks on the right will push back, try to push him out because of the lack of spending cuts. recall that not too long ago kevin mccarthy, the former speaker, lost his job because? major part, because he advanced a bill to keep the government open through democratic support that did not have spending cuts. i asked mccarthy himself whether or not he's concerned and whether he believes johnson's job could be at risk by taking a similar approach. >> no. look, you get a honeymoon, and they can't go through it again. think how long it took last time. so do you think they would do that again. >> even if he goes and relies on democratic votes the way you had to do it, you think he would be safe. >> yes. i think he's safe regardless. >> reporter: democrats are weighing how they'll proceed. they're still watching how republicans are dealing with this. i'm told from house democratic sources it's uncertain whether they will carry this across the finish line and how many votes johnson will need from democrats. there's hardly any time left. senate democratic leaders signaled they could be open to it. the white house criticized this approach. house democrats are remaining mum. a lot of o questions as we head into another week of shutdown fears on capitol hill. manu raju, cnn, washington. >> thank you, manu. the white house is already rejecting speaker johnson's two-step plan calling it, quote, a recipe for more republican chaos and more shut downs. cnn's senior white house reporter kevin lip tap joining us. what is the biden administration saying about what we've learned so far? >> it was not an enthusiastic reaction, omar. remember, these are two men, president biden and the new house speaker mike johnson, still getting to know each other in a lot of ways. he was something of an unknown to the white house. they are still developing that working relationship. certainly the white house wasting no time panning his proposal to gep the government open saying in a statement last night, with just days left in before an ex-treek republican shutdown, house republicanses are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal panned by members of both parties. the white house went on to say house republicans need to stop wasting time on their own political divisions, do their jobs and work in a bipartisan way to prevent a shutdown. the white house not mincing any words there. what does remain clear is whether all democrats will oppose this plan. while it is unorthodox in its structure, it does not include some of the deep spending cuts, some of the conservative priorities that democrats so oppose. we did hear last night from a senior senate democratic leadership aide who said it's a good thing this bill did not include spending cuts. we heard from democratic senator chris murphy earlier today who said this was a gimmick, but said he was still open to listening to their proposal. there are shades of differences there depending how many republicans oppose this plan, mike johnson will need democrats for it to secure passage. it was notable in that white house explicitly say whether or not president biden would reject this if it made it to his desk. bottom line, the clock is ticking, the government will shut down on saturday morning if nothing is passed. this plan could come up for a vote as early as tuesday. >> kevin, i want to read back to the statement you read, house republicans are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal. i think that gives an indication of where they are. we'll see if that tone changes as the week progresses. kevin lip tack, thank you very much. up next, former president donald trump launching his defense in the new york civil fraud trial. what to expect in court tomomorw righght after ththe break. - [young alec] my favorite people in shriners are the doctors and the nurses, because they help people through life. - [adult alec] wow, i was a really cute kid, (laughs) but it's true. shriners hospitals for children is awesome. the first time i went to shriners hospitals for children, i was two months old. because of their care, now i live a full, independent life. i got my driver's license, and i'm going to college. when you call right now, and give just $19 a month, only 63 cents a day, we'll send you this adorable blanket as your reminder of the journey you helped me make, and the journey you're helping other kids make too. - it's amazing to know that there's someone looking out for me and my family. - and it isn't just the doctors and nurses who have been looking out for me. it was you. pick up your phone or go to loveshriners.org, and you'll be a part of something special too. in an effort to convince judge arthur an gorn who already ruled against trump that they didn't tend to do anything wrong. the judge will determine potential damages. six other claims brought by new york's attorney jgeneral genera. i'm joined by jeffrey gentleman koeb vits with american university. good to see you. we know that donald trump jr., the eldest son, will be the first defense witness called. he prooef yoursly testified he deferred to the company's accounting and legal department for accuracy on financial statements. how might tomorrow be different since now he's being called as a witness for the defense? >> omar, that's a very good question. it will be different because now he's been called by the defense. the defense is allowed to examine him on direct examination which means they can explore many different questions he did not receive on cross where the questions were narrow and the redirect was very narrow when he was crossed. now we can get into other subjects. eric and donald trump jr. are trying to salvage their ability to do business in new york. so they want to testify. the problem is, if the scope of the direct is very extensive, then the government, the d.a. is allowed to cross-examine based on all the subjects that were touched upon. so their cross could really goo extensively into areas we haven't seen before. >> so you're saying essentially it could open up new targets potentially for the state here. the judge in the case already ruled that the trumps were involved in persistent and repeated fraud. what is the defense hoping to gain as they present their case? >> the remaining counts which weren't part of the summary judgment involve intent and tear ality. they're trying to continue to try to testify and put on experts that they didn't have the intent to violate the law, they were relying on accountants, for example, relying on appraisals done by othersment when i'm saying they, i'm talking about the kids now. the defense will be that it wasn't material, that there was this worthless clause there and the banks and the insurance companies could have done their own due diligence and their own investigation and thus they should not be liable. >> an ethics complaint was filed against the judge on friday despite not being, of course, a party in this case. she accused the judge of judicial bias against the former president and demanded the judge be recused from this case. what kind of -- realistically, what kind of impact does a formal complaint like that have? >> it's almost as if you're the basketball coach, you're playing the ref, trying to get under the ref's skin. i think that's what she's trying to do. it's very rare for somebody outside the direct litigation process to file something against the judge. i don't think it will go anywhere. it could upset the judge a little bit. i doubt it. what seems to be getting to the judge more are the attacks on his law clerk, which would get to any judge, because any judge will protect their law clerk. so you have the gag order issues, and this filing, this ethics complaint will unlikely have any impact on the litigation. >> just the fact that it was filed i think highlights some of the politics that from the outside of the courtroom are at play here as people continue to monitor this case. jeffrey