resumed combat operations in the gaza strip accusing hamas of violating the truce by firing rockets toward israel. >> there have been multiple rockets. they have been intercepted. which shows that hamas has moved back into an attacking position. amongst the israeli people, we intercepted the rockets thankfully. otherwise they could have fallen on communities, cities, kindergartens. again, we're just now getting back to life after the tragedies of the last 55 days. children are going back to school here. it is friday morning and once again we intercepted those and we've resumed our combat missions against hamas in the gaza strip. >> hamas controlled ministry of health says 32 people have been killed since the fighting began five hours ago. the fighting resumed just minutes after midnight eastern time when a seven day truce between israel and hamas expired. thursday hamas released eight women and children hostages in exchange for 30 palestinians freed from jail by israel. scott mclean is following developments. he is joining us live from istanbul. good morning. what is the status of negotiations to try to revive the truce, is that still happening? >> reporter: yeah, so the talks are still ongoing. yesterday the qataris, egyptians, americans were all pushing for the truce to be extended but ultimately it is israel and hamas that need to agree. the qatari foreign ministry put out a statement saying that, yes, the talks are ongoing but also that the continuation of the bombing campaign on the gaza strip is in their words complicating mediation efforts. and we are seeing very chaotic scenes coming out of gaza already as the id f-bombing campaign begins. we have seen pictures come out of of kahn yunis, rafah in the south. and people coming in from other parts of gaza as well. and people picking through rublg already trying to find if there are any survivors left underneath. now, the israeli prime minister says that the reason that the talks fell down is because hamas violated the terms of the agreement. and the idf spokesperson earlier today was much more specific than that saying that there are 17 women and two children that israel believes are still being held as hostages in gaza. and yesterday the israelis reluctantly agreed to accept only eight women and children rather than the expected ten as part of this deal. and so perhaps we have reached the point where hamas has run out of women and children hostages that it is willing to hand over. now we're getting into a situation where it is men and israeli soldiers that are being bargained for. israelis are well aware that they will command a much higher price. yesterday a member of the israeli knesset, former ambassador to the u.n., said that as long as hamas has hostages that it is willing to hand over, israel is willing to talk about the price even if that price is hire. b higher. but they believe their military campaign inside gaza isis hire. higher. but they believe their military campaign inside gaza is helping with hostage negotiation, putting more pressure on hamas to ultimately turn them over. >> all right. scott mclean for us in istanbul, thank you. there will be some deja vu today for congressman george santos as he stands before the house this morning for his third expulsion vote. the outcome at this point remains uncertain. top republicans are telling cnn that they expect the vote to be close. santos is accused of blatantly stealing from his campaign in a damning ethics report. he however is not going down without a performative fight lashing out at colleagues and reporters at a news conference yesterday. >> if i leave, they win. if i leave, the bullies take place. this is bullying. >> let's bring in lindsay mcpherson, a congressional reporter from the messenger. wonderful to have you this morning. we've both seen a lot on capitol hill. this was quite the performance from george santos yesterday. where do you feel the momentum is, is he on his way out, are there enough republicans? we should remind everyone it takes two-thirds of votes in the house to actually force him out here. >> and certainly seems like the momentum is leading towards his expulsion, however there were a lot of members still on the fence as of yesterday. i've been reporting on this all week asking members where they will come down on this. but it seems like he is likely to get to the two-thirds threshold which is 290 members of the house, a number of republicans, several dozen who have come out against -- or in favor of expelling him along with most democrats are expected to expel him. so seems likely but not certain that he will be expelled by the end of the day. >> so, you know, he is not long when he argues that this is relatively unprecedented. there have only been five prior expu expulsion, majority were people who fought for the confederacy in the civil war. the more manore than two were people convicted of crimes and he has not yet been convicted. what makes this different, why are republicans willing to throw him out for this? >> the ones who are willing to throw him out are saying that this is unprecedented, the amount of shear lies and deception that he has called, these allegations that have been raised against him, you know, started with his campaign, defrauding his donor, lying about his finances, misappropriating campaign funds. so he was elected on a lie unlike some of these other people who have been expelled in the past or under scrutiny in the past where it didn't necessarily start with the lie. so they think his whole career, 11 months that it may be and the campaign before that, is defrauding the public and the institution as well. he has lied in disclosure forms to the house. so they think that you should set a new precedent here because the evidence is overwhelming. and other people said that he has not been convicted yet and he should have full due process. >> and i had congressman dan kildee came on the show yesterday. and he is leaving congress, he is a democrat, in a very close contested swing district. and he was lamenting how the institution has changed honestly in the trump era, he said that it felt like paul ryan was speaker a hundred years ago. and i think that it speaks to one of the other elements we're seeing here, that part of the reason we've gotten this far, is that in the past shame was enough to make people who were caught doing things like what santos has been clearly caught doing, to get them to resign on their own as opposed to having to be thrown out of the body. typically leadership had more power around 24. what has changed to make it so that instead, santos is out on the steps of the capitol, you know, fighting in a press s conference instead of doing what he's been urged do behind closed doors? >> that is totally true a lot of people have resigned in the past. the institution has changed a lot that some members like george santos have become household names. like they are on social media, they are out on tv a lot, they like to be performative. and so they are not necessarily there to serve the institution so much as they are there to serve themselves and to get that media attention. and i think a lot of people feel that way about george santos and his defiance of not resigning could be playing in to that. and other people who have not committed the same allegations of wrongdoing who similarly are very defiant against their leadership. and it is just not the same chamber that it used to be. >> sure isn't. lindsey mcpherson, thank you. appreciate you being here. and still ahead, a damning report about what israel knew before the hamas attacks on october 7. plus trump lawyers in a georgia courtroom today. we'll tell you what they are arguing in his defense. and -- >> there is one thing in closing that we have in common is neither of us will be the nominee for our party in 2024. >> two governors sparring in a highly unusual debate. how ron desantis, who is actually running for president, faired. that is just ahead. welcome back. new concern in israel this morning over reports that the government knew details of the hamas attack plan more than a year ago and did nothing. stories in the "times" describe the 40 page plan which israel code named jericho wall as a blueprint for the hamas attack. the "times" says the document laid out point by point exactly this kind of defivastating invasion. and max foster is live for us in london. good morning, always good to see you. happy friday. this is really tough reporting. what was the response within the israeli government according to these accounts to this jericho wall plan? >> this is an ongoing piece of reporting, there has been some israeli media reporting on this recently. and people have had various sources going right back really since shortly after the attack itself. what the "new york times" has done is actually seen do documents it says which does push it forward. so one of the document necessary looked at was a military assessment reviewed by the times that said that officials in the israeli military's gaza division, which is responsible for defending the border of gaza, said hamas' attentions were unclear. it is not yet possible to determine whether the plan has been fully accepted and how it will be manifested. so it was just a wrong reading on this intelligence. and we can see that because it happened exactly it is it was laid out. >> reporting basically says that the israelis looked at this and said it was aspirational, basically dismissing that they could ever actually do something like this. and as you and i have discussed many times, the israeli government had really been focusing on what was going on in the west bank. how do you think this is going to contribute to the already considerable anger at benjamin netanyahu, at the quogovernment israel on the part of its people for honestly -- some are saying that for the hours that this attack was occurring, they felt like israel wasn't even a state, that they weren't protected by the people that were supposed to protect them. >> ultimately he was running the country at the time, so he does carry some responsibility. i think he had suggested before he didn't see any intelligence. we're now hearing from a spokesperson for the israeli prime minister, that the spokesperson refused to comment on whether the israeli prime minister has seen the report. so slight change in the language there. but either way, it will be very bad news for him after, you know, this phase of military action whenever it comes to the point where the government starts questioning the prime minister and what he knew. ultimately he does have responsibility, but he may have some sort of get out to some extent if he hadn't actually seen the report. but then there is a problem with the system which he oversees. so bad news for benjamin netanyahu who is currently running a war cabinet and i think that they will probably say it is not for now. >> but he was under pressure from dana bash a couple weeks a ago and said the time for these questions is not now. but i have a feeling that it is coming faster. max foster, thank you very much. >> have a good weekend. still ahead here, a u.s. senator saves a fellow lawmaker quite literally during lunch. we'll tell you what happened. and rain and snow on the way for parts of the u.s. derek van dam will be with us live next. first time i connected with kim, she told me that her husband had passed. and that he took care of all of the internet connected devices in the home. i told her, “i'm here to take care of you.” connecting with kim... made me reconnect with my mom. it's very important to keep loved ones close. we know that creating memories with loved ones brings so much joy to your life. a family trip to the team usa training facility. i don't know how to thank you. i'm here to thank you. lawyers for donald trump in the georgia election fraud case will be arguing first amendment rights in a multicounty hearing today. they plan to argue that trump's conspiracy theories and voter fraud claims are protected speech. so he never should have been indicted. senator rand paul using the heimlich maneuver to save joni ernst when he saw that she was choking on some food during a party lunch on thursday. ernst thanked paul, a physician, on social media. she said can't help but choke on the woke policies democrats are forcing down our throats. we're glad senator ernst is okay. and the bidens taking part in the 101st national christmas tree lighting ceremony last night. 30-mile-per-hour winds toppled the 40-foot norway spruce earlier this week. we're glad that it is back standing. let's get now to the weather. heavy rain hitting parts of hawaii bringing much needed drought relief and rounds of rain and snow in the pacific northwest giving a soggy start to the weekend in the east as well. our weatherman derek van dam is tracking all of it for us. happy friday. >> thank you. yeah, a wild weather week. and today tons of weather headlines stretching from coast to coast. let's start across the pacific where we've just turned past midnight friday morning local in hawaii, and you can see the entire island chain is under a flood watch. but get this, there is actually a winter weather advisory for the big island at the highest elevations. they are getting fresh fallen snow. not untypical this time of year, but very cool to see. and you can see the rainfall totals, kind of a drought busting situation. remember we've had over 90% of the state of hawaii under drought conditions for the past several months. across the pacific northwest, several rounds of rain and snow, we call them atmospheric river, they are rivers in the sky that will produce a significant amount of snowfall and rain in the lower elevations. we're talking feet of snow and several inches of rain. you can see the onslaught of moisture impact seattle, portland, all the way to eugene with snow across the inner mountain west. but it is not just hawaii and the pacific northwest that will be wet this weekend. check this out, big east coast snowstorm -- i should not say snowstorm, rainstorm. it is warm enough for rain. st. louis, chicago, atlanta, all the way to charlotte, check out the rainfall totals the next couple of days. expect wet weather especially across the southeast and light snow across the great lakes really. and did you feel this? in southern california, hit me up on twitter, just east of san diego a very shallow 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck overnight. no injuries, no damage, but something interesting to talk about this morning. >> indeed. i'm glad everyone is all right. d t derek, see you monday. just ahead here, combat resumes in gaza. what happens to the remaining hostages. and disgraced congressman george santos doubling down ahead of a vote to expel him today. good morning. thanks for being up early with us. it is just before 5:30 here on the east coast. and right now in gaza, the truce is over. israel has resumed combat operations. israel says hamas violated the truce by firing rockets towards easy really. >> we are currently mobilizing. we're taking the fight to hamas and engaging them on the ground. i won't go in to specifics but indeed we are utilizing all of the forces in our capability from ground forces to labor forces and air forces. and hamas, they made a big mistake by not fulfilling their side of the agreement. >> in gaza the hamas controlled ministry of health says israeli strikes have killed 32 since the fighting began 5 1/2 years ago when the seven day truce expired. on thursday hamas released eight civilian hostages in exchange for 30 palestinian prisoners freed by israel. hostages released earlier in the truce now beginning to tell their stories, describing the conditions and in some cases, many cases, all cases, the horrors of their captivity. let's bring in director of the staff for children's hospital at shifa medical center in israel. doctor, thank you very much for joining us this morning. this is such a difficult situation for all of us to understand. can you help us understand what conditions many of these freed hostages have been in and also what particular challenges they face in recovery. because many of their wounds of course, you can't see on the outside. >> indeed these are very difficult times for all of us here in israel. but especially those taken by hamas and spent several weeks in captivity. the teams that are caring for them at shifa hospital and other hospitals in israel try to really embrace them when they come back, have them meet their family, but very soon after the joy of coming back, which is a very happy and optimistic event, we start hearing from them the terror and hardships that they endured in captivity, the psychological stress that they were under, the strain that the capt captives have undergone, their takers continued all the time to for lack of a better word to play with their minds. give them hope on one hand and then take it away on the other. which is really a psychological let's say combat. and then on top of that, they underwent very harsh conditions. some of them suffered abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse and so on. and so that is throughout the variety of those ages. at our hospital we treated 29 returnees out of the group that has come back. children starting at the age of 3 until elderly ladies at the age of 84. each story is different, each of them underwent very different path starting at the horror of october 7 when they were taken. and then the incredible journeys, some of them were kept alone for all this time. they don't even know -- didn't even know what happened to their families and loved ones. when they come back, we have to also on top of all the tragedy and terror, we also have too break those horrible news to them. so logical effect and injuries that they challenged d -- tha they experienced, it is all new challenges for the team. and so it will take a long time for them to recover and hopefully go back to their communities and to their lives. when i hear the stories as a physician, as a human being, the only thing that i can think of is that it reminds me the darkest ages of our time. these are stories that we heard during second world war and after it. and that is the extent of the pain and of the anguish that has been inflicted on these people. >> what is your reaction to the fighting resuming with of course there still being hostages held in gaza? >> we were expecting more hostages to come back. i think i speak for myself but also for the rest of the israeli nation, we want all the hostages free. and when we understand the pain of those that are still there, at this moment, i can only hope that the fighting would have not resumed but on the other hand, this has to be solved. so hope there will be some prospects for those who are still there and get them back as soon as possible. because every day they spend in captivity is a nightmare. >> it is indeed. all right. doctor, thank you so much for spending time with us today. thanks to a house ethics report, we know that george santos likes his hermes, his botox. and we also know that he loves the limelight speaking at both a news conference and on the house floor yesterday, santos lashed out at reporters and his own colleagues and threatened to bring up their supposed rap sheets and air their dirty laundry all ahead of the third expulsion vote over allegations that he fraudulently good x. fli exploited his campaign for personal profit and other things. let's bring in mychael schnell. always good to have you on the show. santos on the floor yesterday, who was sitting with him but matt gaetz. and he had this to say about the possible expulsion. what is the precedent here? >> i rise not to defend george santos, whoever he is, but to defend the very precedent that my colleagues are willing to shatter. >> so h