♪ ♪ hospitals caught in the cross fire. thousands of civilians and patients are trapped as israel surrounds gaza's largest hospital where it says a hamas command center is hiding underneath. the five special ops soldiers killed in a training exercise in the mediterranean. the investigation tonight into the blackhawk crash. plus more american air strikes in syria. and we're there for the emotional reunion between a mother and son after she was trapped for over a month in gaza. >> what is it like for you to look into your mother's eyes to be able to hug her and touch her? >> thank god. praise be to god she made it out. >> very, very happy. >> a u.s. secret service member opens fire while protecting one of the president's grandchildren. no one was hurt, but an investigation is underway. >> the traffic is going to be horrendous. >> norah: a massive fire shuts down a major freeway -- how long it will effect the commutes of millions. >> workers aren't taking chances. they're shoring up the overpass right now out of concern it could collapse. >> norah: breaking news, paul pelosi testifies. what the husband of the former speaker nancy pelosi is saying about the man accused of attacking him with a hammer. could a popular weight loss drug also reduce the risk of serious heart problems by 20%? and buckle up. thanksgiving is next week. and it could be the busiest in nearly two decades. when to avoid the airports and roads? we'll tell you. ♪ ♪ good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this monday night. we begin tonight with the war in gaza. and the hospitals caught in the fighting. fierce battles taking place on the doorsteps of hospitals and palestinian health officials say patients are trapped inside. the world health organization says gaza's largest hospital is surrounded by israeli soldiers and is no longer functioning. israel says hamas uses hospitals as a shield making it a legitimate military target. take a look at the video released today by the israeli military. they claim it shows a stockpile of weapons and one of the motorcycles used in the october 7th terror attack inside a children's hospital. well, tonight, president biden is saying hospitals must be protected. and today we are learning the identities of five u.s. service members killed when their helicopter crashed into the eastern mediterranean sea during a training mission. that means the first american military deaths related to the war. cbs's debora patta will start us off from east jerusalem. good evening, deborah. >> reporter: good evening, norah. and tonight we are learning that medical staff from doctors without borders won't leave al shifa hospital before their 600 or so patients have been evacuated, and they want guarantees that there is a safe cooridoor to do so. we should warn that some of the images you are about to see are hard to watch. a century turned cemetery. at al shifa hospital, there is no room left in the morgue for those who could not be saved. gaza's health system is on its knees. exhausted staff work in the dark with no medicine, no equipment, no hope. al shifa doctor mohammed obeid sent out this desperate message. >> we are out of beds, we are alone now. no one will aid us. >> reporter: the israeli military says this footage shows their soldiers delivering 80 gallons of fuel to al shifa which they claim hamas refused. hamas denies this saying that it would not last longer than 30 minutes anyway. doctors say there is already at least three newborn babies have died. dozens more seen here fighting for their lives after the incubators stopped working. both sides are using al shifa to prove the other's inhumanity. israel says hamas is running its operations from tunnels deep below using patients as human shields. >> a woman, clothes and a rope. >> reporter: and tonight released this footage from inside the children's hospital claiming hostages abducted on october 7th were likely held there. the idea of the fact that hamas operated from beneath the hospital. gaza's health ministry insists hamas is not using its hospitals saying israel has repeatedly attacked al shifa without justification. evidence it believes of israel's willingness to sacrifice the most innocent of lives. president biden makes it clear -- >> the hospital must be protected. >> reporter: the evacuation of the critically injured is almost impossible. for those left inside al shifa, it is a living hell. but even in hell, there are rules. in war, hospitals are off limits. if misused, they can become legitimate targets, but the patients, their caregivers, and above all, children who cannot leave must be protected. and cbs has learned that a 3-year-old american girl is among the hostages being held in gaza after her parents were killed during the hamas attack. and tonight, norah, hamas is floating the idea of releasing up to 70 women and children in exchange for a five day truce. >> norah: deborah patta, thank you. for the third time in just over two weeks, the u.s. has launched another round of air strikes in syria against iran's revolutionary guards and other iranian backed groups. this time with possible casualties. cbs's david martin at the pentagon with those details and more on the death of five u.s. soldiers in the middle east to support the possible evacuations of americans. >> reporter: the pace of u.s. air strikes against targets in eastern syria quickened overnight. this time american planes targeted a training area and safe house belonging to iran's revolutionary guards. and the defense official said that the bombs the likely cause casualties. but the strikes have failed to stop iranian backed militias from drones and rockets at u.s. troops in syria. prompting this morning from defense secretary alston. >> these attacks must stop. and if they don't stop, then we won't hesitate to do what's necessary again to protect our troops. >> reporter: militias keep putting out videos showing some of the more than 50 attacks launched against american since the start of israel's war with hamas. no u.s. soldiers have been killed, although dozens have suffered minor injuries. but the war has led to the deaths of five american special operators whose black hawk helicopter crashed during a nighttime refueling in the eastern mediterranean. although national security advisor jake sullivan says he does not consider them casualties of israel's war. >> this accident did not occur in combat. it occurred during a training mission. and so that's why from my perspective it would not be from this war. >> reporter: the helicopter crew was operating under cyprus for a rescue of hostages or evacuation of civilians. part of a major u.s. build up throughout the middle east intended to warn iran and its proxies not to exploit the fighting in gaza. so far it has not stopped the war from spreading to iraq and syria, and not stop to the hutu rebels in the yemen from shooting down a u.s. drone over the red sea. with all of those forces the u.s. is capable of launching much more destructive strikes than it has so far, but every option is pouring more fuel on an already burning fire. norah. >> norah: david martin at the pentagon, thank you very much. now to a frightening and incident involving the security detail of president biden's granddaughter, the secret service is investigating after an agent opened fired on three suspected car thieves. cbs's nancy cordes says this comes amongst a rise in crime at the nation's capital. >> reporter: the incident happened in the upscale neighborhood of georgeown, not far from the white house where naomi biden lived with her grandparents before getting married last year. just before midnight last night, agents guarding the 29-year-old's new home encountered possibly three individuals breaking a window of a parked unmarked secret service vehicle. one of the agents discharged a service weapon, though it does not appear anyone was struck in the suspects fled the scene and a red sedan. >> have you spoken to your granddaughter today? >> reporter: naomi biden was not outside when the incident happen, and it's not clear the suspects even knew they had targeted a law enforcement vehicle. auto thefts and carjackings in d.c. are up by about 100% since last year. violent crime is up 39%. minnesota congresswoman angie craig was assaulted in her apartment building elevator in february. and texas congressman henry cuellar was carjacked at gunpoint near the capital last month. how concerned is the president about the increase of crime in this city where so many government workers live? >> we are definitely concerned about what we are seeing. and not just here, across the country obviously. >> reporter: the problem has gotten so bad here that the d.c. police have been advising residents to drive in the middle lane with their doors locked to reduce the risk of being carjacked. as for last nights incident because it involved a weapons discharge by a secret service officer, it will be investigated by the d.c. police internal affairs unit. norah. >> norah: nancy cordes at the white house, thank you. i want to turn to some breaking news, paul pelosi husband of former house speaker nancy pelosi took the stand against the trial of the man accused of attacking him with a hammer at their home last year. cbs's elise preston was inside the courtroom. >> reporter: paul pelosi came face-to-face with david depape today when pelosi took the stand. it's a first time he has been in the room with the defendant since a brutal attack. depape has been charged with attempted kidnapping and assault after breaking into former house speaker nancy pelosi's home last october. in the early morning hours. >> drop the hammer. >> nope. >> reporter: body camera show depape holding paul pelosi by the arm before lunging at them and beating him with a hammer. nancy pelosi was not home during the attack. today paul pelosi told jurors looking at him and looking at the hammer, i recognized that i was in serious danger. after his arrest, depape told investigators his goal was to kidnap the house speaker and interrogate her. he says he wanted to stop her from carrying out her official duties. >> did you tell the truth? >> reporter: prosecutors asked pelosi what did she say? he said she was the leader of the pack, he had to take her out. now prosecutors say the 43-year-old researched and planned an attack for a couple of months. norah. >> norah: elise preston with that breaking news, thank you. well, there's more breaking news out of california. governor gavin newsom saying a massive fire that shut down the busy freeway appears to be arson. that's the preliminary determination. cbs's carter evans reports on the indefinite closure in los angeles that will impact millions of commuters. >> reporter: as flames lit up the southern california skies, burning for several hours, the nightmare was just beginning. the biggest casualty, a stretch of one of the nation's busiest freeways interstate 10 in los angeles, completely closed near downtown. with no timetable for reopening. >> it was arson and it was set intentionally. >> reporter: 300,000 vehicles normally pass through here every day. all this emptiness, ten lanes of traffic means other freeways and service streets are now gridlocked. >> it's been taking us 45 minutes where it usually takes us ten. >> reporter: spectators walk on the roadway and poured debris underneath. a wooden structure keeps the section from collapsing amid charred metal and crumbling columns scorched by flames that may have exceeded 1200 degrees. do you think they will have to tear down and start over? >> i think that some of it is damaged enough to say that we will have to replace it. >> reporter: but as bad as it looks, there may be hope. when a tanker fire in pennsylvania collapsed part of i-95 of the estimated repair time was several months. but that highway reopened just 12 days later. in los angeles, a lot of riding on a quick fix come along closure could have a major economic impact. >> losing the stretch of the 10 freeway will take time and money from people's lives and businesses. it's disrupting in every way. >> reporter: well, if the traffic looks bad now, this weekend is shaping up to be carmageddon. we have the ucla, usc game, the kings are playing, and ironically, this is the first weekend at the l.a. auto show. and all of that is happening just a couple of miles away from this freeway disaster. norah. >> norah: carmageddon, good luck getting home. carter evans, thank you. in washington it was a historic day at the u.s. supreme court where the nine justices for the first time since the court was founded in 1789 have now adopted a formal code of conduct. the official ethics rules are being issued after several justices including clarence thomas came under scrutiny for undisclosed trips and gifts from billionaires. the guidelines don't provide any method of enforcement leaving compliance up to the justices. now to an update on a california woman's ten-day trip to gaza that turned into a month-long nightmare. in a cbs news exclusive, cbs's adriana diaz was there for the emotional reunion between mother and son. >> reporter: this is what american naela elshorafa heard from her family's living room in gaza. >> the bombing all around us. >> reporter: when a trip to see her sick mother turned into war. this is naela now at her california home. finally reunited with her son this weekend. >> we said thank god, praise to god that she made it out. >> reporter: how is it for you to be home? >> happy but not fully happy. i hope i can get my family out. i feel guilty, guilty to eat, guilty to sleep, guilty to take a shower. >> reporter: 25 family members shelter together while bombs fell nearby. >> oh, my god, you fell to the this. >> reporter: back home in the u.s., her son was desperate as he told us last month. >> i'm kind of just preparing myself right now where i get a phone call that tells me my mother is not alive. >> reporter: naela made four attempts to cross the border, before finally being allowed to evacuate. when you had to leave your family? >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: leave your mother, what was that like? >> it was a very hard and sad. really. i don't know if i'm going to see them again or not. >> we have 19 family members that have been killed and counting. >> reporter: he welcomed his mom home with this symbol. why did you give your mother a key? >> i wanted to give her hope that you can go back and visit your mother's home. >> reporter: adriana diaz, cbs news, california. >> norah: the weight loss drug wegovy is now credited for helping some people cut the risk of heart attack and stroke. we will have the details next. w. r cutting heart attack and stroke. we will have the details next. ♪ and struggle. ♪ and struggle with cpap. you should check out inspire. ♪ no mask. no hose. just sleep. inspire. sleep apnea innovation. learn more and view 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