risk sweltz the crossing itself. finally that happened and still there was intense diplomacy across the region. president biden's envoy to the middle east, david satterfield was key among the players along with qatar and egypt to try to really get a deal in which all parties involved would be willing to let these civilians go. and so finally after days and days of everyone holding their breath and hoping it would work out, it did work out finally on wednesday. it's just a small fraction of the 7,000 as you said civilians who could qualify to leave egypt. we're just beginning at this point. >> let's talk about the strikes on the refugee camp. israel knows they'd widely criticized and made the calculation it was worth it to get a hamas leader or two. give us a sense as to the reaction from the region, and is there a fear, perhaps, that's really going to inflame what's happening there and could widen the conflict? >> absolutely, john. a lot of outrage across the region, and actually secretary of state antony blinken is getting on plane in just a few hours. i'm going to be with him, in fact, because they're trying to really settle the anger that is spilling across the region and the potential for a broader conflict. now, israel said it hit that refugee camp because hamas fighters were fighting amongst civilian. the u.n. and others citing war crimes with regard to that attack. there was anger even before this happened, and that's just building now. and the fear is that the average person on the street is going to now take that anger and spill into the streets, protest, and potentially violence that could come out from that. and so secretary blinken very much heading to the region with that in mind and hoping that together with some arab partners they could really work together to avoid that. >> vivian, very briefly lastly what's the latest on the northern front. what are we seeing from hezbollah right now? >> so so far it's been pretty steady. you do see sporadic attacks where a missile will cross over into israel and then israel hits back. but we haven't seen any of the full-scale attacks that everyone has been worried and bracing for. and in large part the reason the u.s. sent aircraft carriers and, you know, large ships to the eastern mediterranean essentially to act as a deterrence. so far it seems like that deterrence is working because hezbollah has not launched any type of full-scale operation. now, the fear all along has been if israel, the idf were to launchets full-scale ground invasion into gaza that hezbollah would essentially use that as an opportunity to attack. so far we haven't seen a full-scale attack, but certainly very, very tense on the northern border. very, very tense in the west bank as well. and in the region in general, things are pretty hot right now. >> we'll be warily watching that. >> reportr for "the wall street journal," vivian, safe travels. as vivian just said secretary of state antony blinken will head to tel aviv part of a larger trip overseas. following his visit to israel with vivian in tow the state department confirmed the top diplomat daels while in tel aviv a state department spokesperson says blinken will, quote, reiterate the u.s. support for israel's right to defend itself against terrorism consistent with international humanitarian law. blinken will also discuss efforts to free hostages held by hamas and increasing the pace of humanitarian aid to gaza. in jordan talks will include protecting civilian lives, ensuring palestinians are not forcibly displaced outside of gaza and trying to reduce regional tensions. blinken will be on overseas travel throughout next week and will also include stops in tokyo, seoul, and new delhi. his trip to the middle east comes as we have new reporting at politico about president biden and the white house's view of prime minister netanyahu's political situation in israel. obviously they're supporting netanyahu and his effort against hamas. they believe he'll be able to remain in power during the first phase of the operation, but they can see the poll numbers out of israel. netanyahu is increasingly deeply unpopular there in his home country and being blamed for security lapses and president biden and his team are starting to prepare what a post-israel netanyahu will look like. and speaking of president biden, he was in minneapolis yesterday. while he was there a local chapterp on the counsel on american islamic relations organized protests at the different locations he visited including the airport where air force one landed and a farm south of the city, and as you can see here in downtown minneapolis itself. while delivering remarks in a campaign event later in the day, biden was interrupted by a woman who identified herself as a rabbi and called for a cease-fire. >> mr. president, if you care about jewish people, as arabbi, i need you to call for a cease-fire right now. >> the audio is hard to here there, but the protester called for a cease-fire. president biden in response would go onto say, quote, we need a pause. when he was then asked to clarify, the president said a pause would allow more time to get hostages out of gaza. still ahead here on "way too early," we'll take a look at the other stories making headlines this morning including donald trump jr.'s testimony in his father's civil fraud trial. and republican george santos survives an effort to expel him from congress thanks to some help from democrats. those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. . ah mornings! cough? 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>> is that a technical stat or -- the good news is, yes, we're going to see that broken this weekend and see plenty of sunshine. we'll have to deal with the chilly weather between now and then. here's the deal right now. 20s for a lot of folks across the midatlantic and stretching down to the south. we've got 30s. jackson, mississippi, this morning sitting at 29 degrees. we'll see some potential record lows across this region and by this afternoon barely making it into the upper 40s. a lot of spots like rich mrnd, new york will hit mid-50s and a couple of 60s out there. for now running way below normal this time of year not just today but tomorrow in some spots. we will start to see it warm up back to those normal typical temperatures for early november. then by the weekend cherk this out low 60s for sunday, monday. richmond get back to the mid-70s and see cleveland so the weekend looking a lot better. one heads up, we do have a whole lot of rain expected across portion of the pacific northwest the next couple of days as far as an atmospheric river is concerned so flooding will be a concern for folks there. there's that weekend forecast, cool and crisp for friday andsnipe across the north east, a dry weekend. you see i highlighted that for you, jonathan, because i knew you'll ask saturday and sunday mild highs. >> to be clear i'm going to ask you again tomorrow. >> what do i get for this? i've been harassed for weeks about the weekend rain, now i deserve a gift. >> my fingers are still crossed. deliver and we'll talk next week. here we go on "way too early." we'll next turn back to the israel-hamas war and bring in fbi special agent clint watts. he'll join us to break down the state of the ground operation as well as the challenges of israel's warfare in an area like gaza. we'll be right back with that. ae gaza we'll be right back with that. welcome back to "way too early." it is 5:30 a.m. here on the east coast, 2:30 out west on this thursday morning. i'm jonathan lemire, and we want to turn back to the situation in the middle east where a deal brokered at the rafa border has seen the first foreign nationals and some injured civilians make it out of the gaza strip and into egypt as israel's ground offensive continues into the enclave. and let's bring in former fbi special agent clint watts. he's a national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc. he's over there at the big board with a map of the region. clint, let's start your assessment of the ground offensive to this point. where have the israelis reached? how's the fighting going? >> jonathan, it's interesting they have systematically done this entire maneuver over the last seven days. up here is where they started last thursday creating a brief point across that barrier fence and they followed that up very quickly friday setting up an assembly area in this northwest corner of gaza. then by monday morning you saw them advancing here, intense combat. you saw a lot of the videos online. they then moved to what we call a blocking position with armored formations on the main north-south road that cuts gaza by half. by tuesday, wednesday you saw them advancing. this was a lot of the combat you'll see today with armored columns with artillery strikes, air strikes going after bunker systems with intense air strikes in and around jabilya and this section. they're going through at a fast pace. >> tell us about urban warfare particularly in a region as densely populated as this. as best as we can tell and hard to get information out of the region, what has this fighting been like? >> yeah, from what we can see so far, and remember this is competing perspectives on the gaza side with the palestinians and with the israelis. what's remarkable is how densely packed this area is in here. you can see it and outline it almost exactly where there's intense fighting going to be. these urban areas here are so intense and vertical that is fight is as much up and down as it is what we would say left to right and moving forward and back. this is the site of those two air strikes, israeli air strikes on the jabilya refugee camp. look at the buildings around it. even if the idf is pursuing any kind of a strike on a hamas target, they claim they were hilting hamas targets in underground bunkers, command centers, even if that's true, minimizing civilian casualties in the area is almost impossible just due to the nature of the urban terrain. >> and we've been talking about the first refugees and injured being able to get out of gaza. show us, if you will, where they went -- how they got out of the region and where they went in egypt. >> jonathan, just towards the south what we've been seeing is movement over the last two weeks. and israeli government basically said everybody needs to move south of the zone, and you're seeing refugee camps pop up here. there are two gates down here on the southern border. i