reports," the first evacuations from the gaza strip since the start of israel's siege. a major deal brokered to open that border crossing with egypt for foreign nationals, and injured palestinians as well. how soon the hundreds of americans trapped in gaza could be allowed to leave. and israel faing condemnation for a massive attack on a refugee camp in gaza. the idf claiming they killed a high ranking hamas leader. what we know about the strike that reportedly killed dozens of civilians including children. also ahead, an arrest for anti-semitic threats at cornell university, more on the suspect, a student himself and his threats as anti-semitic incidents rise across the country. and breaking news here in new york city, donald trump jr. expected to testify in a case that could threaten the future of his father's empire. what testimony from the trump children could mean for the multimillion dollar civil fraud trial. good morning, everybody. good to see you, breaking news as we come on the air at 10:00 a.m. eastern, i'm yasmin vossoughian in for my friend ana cabrera. we are seeing the first evacuations from the gaza strip since the start of israel's air strikes. the result of deal just brokered to get that critical border crossing with egypt open for about 500 foreign nationals including americans. we can confirm a few, less than ten have crossed along with a limited number of injured palestinian civilians as well. crowds of palestinians have gathered at this crossing. they're banging on the doors desperate to make it over this border. all this happening as israel faces condemnation for a massive strike on the refugee camp that the idf claims killed a senior hamas commander. a local hospital controlled by hamas says dozens of others were killed and hundreds wounded. nbc news has not verified those numbers. i want to give you some reaction to someone who was at that camp. >> i want to start us off with nbc's meagan fitzgerald for us joining us from cairo, egypt, who has been keeping a close eye on that rafah border crossing. this just happened in the last couple of hours or so, megan. what are we learning about the rafah border crossing. how many people are expected to make it across? >> reporter: yasmin, great questions. we do know that the rafah border crossing is open. this is a process. the people that are allowed now to leave gaza and enter egypt have to go through administrative procedures before they're officially allowed to leave and enter onto the other side. as you mentioned, we're talking about more than 500 people here. that's the number that we're given. the u.s. state department tells us at least under ten they tell us are americans that are going to be going through this process. we've talked with one. we had an opportunity to speak with our family today. you can imagine the relief that they are feeling as the bombing just intensifies in gaza. so we are watching already that many of these dual nationals have made their way across the border, but then the other piece of this is you've got some 80 injured, severely injured palestinians that have also been able to leave. so we've been watching all throughout the day here. ambulances rushing these people out through the rafah border crossing into egypt. right now we know many of them are undergoing these urgent medical procedures in many cases, yasmin, to try and save their lives. >> what type of resources do these injured palestinians have once they reach egypt, obviously needing likely more treatment after the injuries that they faced inside gaza, and secondly, talk me through, if you will, the diplomatic talks that took place in order to open up this border crossing temporarily. >> reporter: yasmin, it's a phenomenal question because that is the big question here, after these palestinians have been treated, will they be sent back to gaza. that is something that we are out to officials to try and confirm, to try and get a better understanding. we know that in many of these instances, this is a dire situation for a lot of these severely injured people. it's also very possible that we could report that there are some deaths, that medical officials were just not able to save them. this is something that we're also closely monitoring. as far as negotiations, look, we know that there have been high level negotiations between qatar, the israelis here in egypt, and of course the americans. around the clock is how secretary of state blinken described it. he was speaking yesterday and saying that this is their main priority and then less than 24 hours later. this is what we're seeing. but keep in mind, there are still many more americans inside that are trapped and hopeful to get out. on the same hand, we're also being told that we will see more people crossing the border tomorrow. a very fluid situation that we are monitoring, but certainly a glimmer of hope that those negotiations that have been taking place for the last several weeks are certainly starting to work, yasmin. >> do we feel as if considering the success of the opening of this border crossing, megan, that this is kind of a one-off situation and/or these talks could lead to something more. >> reporter: you know, i think we have every reason to believe this could certainly lead to something more. i mean, the united states has been very candid, very direct in saying that their number one priority here is to safely get the americans that are trapped in gaza out. they've sent in u.s. ambassador david satterfield who is the special envoy to the middle east specifically focusing on the humanitarian aid crisis, the humanitarian situation. so we are hopeful that we will continue to see more and more americans released, but at this point it's yet to be seen, yasmin. >> i want to bring in kelly cobiella to talk more about the strike at the gibalia refugee camp. i know you had to dip inside for a moment. there were some air raid sirens happening there. we're happy that you're safe and able to join us once again. talk us through this strike at the refugee camp. >> reporter: yeah, so the idf said that this was a large-scale strike at that refugee camp, and i'm sure we've all seen the pictures now, this does not look like sort of the refugee camp you might think of. it is an area with a large number of apartment buildings, high multistory apartment buildings, and the iidf said thy had some intelligence on a top hamas commander at that location, and they took action. they targeted him, and they claim to have killed him. his name i was ibrahim bhari. the hamas officials say he was not there at the time, and that he was not killed, and accuse israel of killing dozens if not more civilians. you can see just the devastating images there, the massive crater in that neighborhood and also people who have been, you know, using their bare hands to look for their loved ones over the past sort of 12 hours or so, really devastating scenes there of the victims. but look, israel is not backing off from. this they blame hamas for they say hiding -- using civilians as human shields. they say that hamas had a command center underneath that building, and that is what they were trying to strike and that when that tunnel system, that subterranean command center was hit, that the buildings collapsed on top of it. just within the past hour as well, yasmin, we've heard from hamas leader of the -- their military wings. he said that seven civilian hostages were killed in that strike. three of them foreign passport holders. he made this statement on the telegram channel for hamas's military wing. they didn't show any sort of evidence that this was the case. the idf not commenting on that latest statement, and you know, we have no way to verify it. hamas has made similar claims in the past, yasmin. >> all right, kelly cobiella for us. thank you for walking us through this that, appreciate it. i want bring in robert mardini. thanks for joining us on this. appreciate it. a couple of things that we just touched on that i'd like you to talk a little bit about. first and foremost, the opening just in the last few hours or so of the rafah border crossing allowing for some americans to cross. about ten or so have crossed along with severely injured palestinians. what do you know more about this crossing? what does this include to you? >> well, i think first i need to acknowledge that is this a positive step, even if the icrc is not directly involved in this operation, it shows that there is a glimmer of hope and humanity prevails and when severely injured people are evacuated to seek medical treatment, so this is a welcome step. having said that, this should not deflect the attention from the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in the gaza strip, for scores of other severely injured people are to date lacking access to medical treatment. and this is what my colleagues are doing everything they can to support hospitals and to ensure that medical treatment is also delivered inside the gaza strip. >> do you know, robert, how they're distinguishing who, in fact, needs medical treatment and should be able to cross the border into egypt? >> we don't have very clear assessment of this because of the intensity of the fighting, our teams are not able to have a full picture of the -- of the humanitarian situation on the ground. what we know for a fact is that the remaining hospitals are at a breaking point. they are struggling to treat a mass casualty influx, unprecedented in previous escalations, and this is why the surgical equipment that we were able to get inside the gaza strip is a lifeline that now we need to be able to deliver to those hospitals in order to ensure that as much as possible medical treatment is being delivered inside the strip. of course -- >> please, go ahead, no, please go ahead. >> no, of course, those cases which require, you know, medical and surgical services that are not available inside the strip should be allowed to seek treatment outside and across the border. >> what can you tell us about the casualties at the refugee camp? i know we're getting differing reports from the hamas health ministry, the gaza health ministry versus what the idf is saying as well. do you know anything about the number of people that died there, or the strike there, and the type of access they have to hospitals nearby? >> it is too early to have an exact assessment, but what i can say is the images we see are deeply distressing. it is beyond heartbreaking to see children taken out from under the rubble. i mean, let's not forget that idp camp or refugee camp is hosting the most vulnerable of the vulnerable in the gaza strip who have been struggling from succession of previous rounds of escalations. it is extremely densely populated and this strike is a stark reminder of the human cost of this conflict and i can only as representative of the icrc remind parties to the conflict of their obligations under the geneva convention to take every precaution. >> robert, i know you've always been involved in talks of releasing the hostages, making sure they're in good health as well. can you update us on anything that you know about them? >> well, the plight of the hostages is -- remains one of our top priorities and we want the families of the hostages to know we are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that they are well treated, that we have access to them, that we can check on their health and ensure that at least they have the opportunity to exchange messages with their families. as for -- i mean, at this point in time, we haven't had -- with them, unfortunately, but we stand ready to facilitate any negotiated agreement for new releases. >> robert mardini, thank you, and thank you for the work that your organization is doing right now. we are back in just 60 seconds, donald trump jr. set to testify at his father's $250 million fraud trial today. the fiery words we're hearing from the former 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>> reporter: well, yasmin, the attorney general's office accuses three of trump's adult children of knowing of and participating in what they call this years' long fraud scheme to over value their assets and get better terms as a result. we were expecting to hear from don jr. today. it's unclear if we'll get to him today. we're hearing from two other witnesses today, we're expected to. and they're going to testify to things like the terms that the trump organization was able to get on loans as a result of the value of their assets. and also, how a value of an asset impacts interest rates. we can expect him to be questioned by the ag's office in his capacity as executive vice president of the trump organization. and he and allen weisselberg signed off on these statements of financial condition. these documents that the trump organization would show the banks to get their loan terms. these statements are what the ag's office said contain these over valued assets. we're going to expect a lot of did you sign this document. what conversations did you have about the statement of financial conditions? we can also expect some questioning around the park avenue apartment that in manhattan was valued at $292 million. the attorney general's office says that was inflated roughly six times its appraised value. we can expect don jr., yasmin, to push back saying that he relied on the expertise of other members of the trump organization, other accountants. in some video deposition that the ag's office has release, don jr. said he learned about general account principles at his accounting 101 class. >> let's pick up on what lindsey talked about. that is the role that donald trump jr. played in the trump organization along with allen weisselberg specifically during the time when the former president was president of the united states, what are your expectations from his expected testimony and how key he is to this case? >> so we already have a ruling from this judge that these statements of financial condition are false, and so really the issue now before the court is with respect to the remaining counts, these false falsifying of business records, was there an intent to defraud, and were these false statements material? were they relied upon? and so i don't think you're going to hear don jr. on the stand saying that he intended to defraud anyone. instead what he's going to say is, well, yes, i signed these statements saying that the information in these statements was accurate. however, i relied on my accountants. i relied on my lawyers. he's going to be pointing the finger at anybody else, and he's going to say things like -- based on what he said in his deposition, he doesn't recall who he worked on with it. just a lot of things to basically not help the a.g. advance her case that there was real intent and knowledge here of the falsity of these statements. >> let's bring up the schedule of events over the next couple of days as well as i move over to lindsey for a moment, so expected to hear from donald trump jr. today, tomorrow eric trump. . the former president on monday, and then ivanka trump, his daughter, onovber 8th, wednesday, i believe. who by the way is not named as a defendant in this case. talk us through the expectations here. >> reporter: right, and ivanka was taken off over the summer as a result of an appeal because the statute of limitations but when eric goes on the stand either tomorrow or maybe even later depending on the schedule of all this testimony, we can expect him to testify again in his role as -- in his role with the trump organization, but what the a.g.'s office says is for all aspects of management and operation of the trump organization. including project acquisition development and construction. we can expect the a.g.'s office to hone in on that westchester seven springs property. we can also anticipate eric trump to testify to not remembering certain conversations about the statements of financial conditions, not recalling all transactions because there were so many things happening at the time. these are some of the defenses that we've heard from his deposition, and ivanka, again, who's not named, we can expect her to speak to introducing the trump team to the wealth management team at deutsche bank and that old post office deal to turn it into a hotel, yasmin. >> kristy, i want to go from new york down to florida. abc news reporting yesterday that the former president the was in the scif viewing classified documents as essentially the secured room inside the courthouse and the mar-a-lago documents case. we know there is a motion hearing in the case today. what are your expectations there? >> so donald trump and his team are going to continue to try to move this trial date, and the way that they are doing this is to continue to try to move any of these other pretrial deadlines that are in the case. one of them involves him just having to preview his general defense theories, which he and his lawyers have already done in various public appearances to the press. so they are going to -- now they're asking for three more month thes just to be able to file a very basic motion that they could conceivably file, even without discovery. so again, this is more trying to just move the ball. the special counsel's office is not having it. they've been very clear they have met their discovery obligations. they produced not only unclassified discovery, but classified discovery. it's set up in a place where he is able to be able to review it, and there are no reasons for these delays in the schedule. >> kristy greenberg, thank you, lindsey reiser, thank you as well. i want to turn to a different manhattan courtroom, closing arguments expected today in the trial of disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried. he testified in his own defense yesterday, a risky move that m