right now on "ana cabrera reports," hundreds of desperate civilians waiting at gaza's border. crowds gathering as that crossing is open again today, we've learned 370 trapped americans are on the list to evacuate. how soon could they get out? and an update on the aid getting in. meanwhile, here at home, tensions boiling over, thousands protest outside the president's speech in minnesota while inside one protester interrupts his remarks. >> mr. president, do you care about jewish people? as a rabbi, i need you to call for a cease fire right now. plus, any moment now, we will have the first news conference from the new speaker of the house, as his stand-alone bill for aid to israel is expected to hit the floor for a vote today. also ahead, two of donald trump's sons could testify today in the family's civil fraud trial. ahead, what don jr. already told that court under oath about the family's wealth and assets. we have breaking news as we come on the air at 10:00 eastern, i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. thanks for joining us, and right now in gaza, americans and other foreign nationals, plus injured palestinians are all gathering once again at that border with egypt. the rafah crossing is back open today, and we have some new nbc news video showing people who appear to be checking a list to see whether they are cleared to cross. this morning we know some 370 americans are on the list to evacuate, this as israel continues its push deeper into gaza with the idf now claiming to have killed dozens of hamas fighters overnight. and as israel faces renewed condemnation after confirming a second strike on a crowded refugee camp in gaza. kelly cobiella is standing by in israel, but first to nbc's meagan fitzgerald in egypt monitoring that rafah border crossing. meagan, it's back open right now. are americans able to leave gaza? >> reporter: we're seeing the rafah border crossing open for the second day in a row where we know people are moving through it. we have obtained that list where there's some 600 names on it, the majority, as you mentioned, americans. some 370 americans that are making their way right now through the rafah border. now, the process here we're told is an orderly process. of course they will have their passports checked, their identity checked. they will then move through. according to the egyptian minister of health, they will then undergo a quick medical examination. children will be vaccinated the minister tells us before they board buses and then make their way to cairo where we are here and off to their final destination. but look, this is not an easy decision for people to make. we have been in contact with people in gaza who say they're actually not leaving. one man says his name is on the list, but he doesn't want to leave because his wife is not on the list. we're talking about some very tough decisions that people are making. there's another woman who didn't want to reveal her name, but she's on the list. she made the agonizing decision to leave, and i want you to listen to a little bit of this decision for her. take a listen. >> unfortunately, i'm not even excited to leave gaza because we have so many people that we love and care about, so right now i'm between -- i don't know if i'm ever going to be able to see the family that i left behind or the friends that i left behind. people are dying. everybody's dying, nobody's safe. we don't have bomb shelters. >> reporter: yeah, ana, you know, you can't even imagine the grueling decision that people have to make to either leave or to stay, but leaving is leaving family members behind, not knowing when you're going to be back. according to the egyptian government, we understand that some 7,000 dual nationals will be allowed to pass through the rafah border crossing into egypt over the next several days, potentially even weeks, ana. >> and so how does this process work exactly? do people know in advance if they're on that list, meagan? are there officials there calling out the names of who can leave when? what do you know? >> reporter: it's a good question. you know, we have been in contact with people who have quite frankly told us that they are very frustrated with the state department. and obviously we know that diplomacy has been working. the majority of the people leaving gaza are americans, but the little details have been very frustrating to people who got last-minute notification they should head to the border,k at the last three and a half weeks, people were told to go to the border twice. they went, it wasn't open. so a lot of frustration, but americans who were contacted today telling them to go to the rafah border crossing because their names would be on the list are finding that that, in fact, is the case. according to egyptian officials, they tell us that this is an organized process. it is orderly. there's a list of names in order. we talked to a woman who says that she's 100 and -- i can't recall the exact number, but 120 something on the list is the order that she will be processed. we just heard from her father who tells us that she's halfway through with her husband who managed to make it across with them. he is a uk citizen. he unfortunately is not on a list to go, but they're trying their luck. there's so many different, you know, situations that are at play here as people are desperate to try and get their family across, ana. >> and kelly, israel's coming under intense scrutiny for its tactics in gaza, but by all accounts it appears the ground operation continues to escalate. what are you hearing there in israel? >> yeah, well, the israeli military says this is progressing as planned. they said that they're engaged in face-to-face fights now with hamas. they say that one battle overnight lasted several hours, and that air defenses played a supporting role. so very much a ground offensive at this stage. the idf also saying that gazan defensive lines in the north are collapsing. they claim that the -- they are taking control of some areas in the central part of the gaza strip, and they also did admit that they struck the jabaliya refugee camp a second time. they said that the target was a hamas command and control center and once again accused hamas of building their infrastructure in and around and under civilian areas essentially saying that hamas is using civilians as human shields. hamas claiming that they are striking israeli positions as well, but that jabaliya strike once again is causing a lot of heat for israel. they are being condemned by countries yet again, the united nations human rights office really offering some of the strongest condemnation saying that it has serious concerns that those strikes are disproportionate and could amount to war crimes, citing the high number of civilian casualties and just the scale of destruction. you know, we don't have official numbers on how many people have been killed or injured. gazan health officials say the numbers are in the hundreds, but we've all seen those images, ana. >> those images are tough to watch, kelly, we are also learning that a hamas official is vowing to repeat the october 7th attacks, and time again until israel is annihilated. what can you tell us about that and the response? >> reporter: that's right. so these comments came from a senior hamas official to the lebanese television corporation. he made those comments, according to a media watchdog group on october 24th in an interview on that broadcast. this immediate group translated the interview, and post it on its website just in the past 24 hours or so and said that the senior officia said palestinians rts victim of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of october 7th or anything else, adding everything we do is justified. he also said that the events of october 7th would happen over and over again two, three, four times until israel was annihilated essentially saying that israel has no right to exist. the national security council spokesman john kirby called these comments chilling. he said everyone needs to take them seriously. he said this is what the people of gaza are dealing with, the fact that hamas is willing to continue the fight and also willing to kill innocent israelis. ana. >> kelly cobiella and meagan fitzgerald, ladies, thank you for bringing us the latest. back here in the u.s., any moment now on capitol hill republican mike johnson will hold his first press conference as house speaker. now, one thing he's expected to address is a stand-alone israel aid bill that house republicans say will come up for a vote this afternoon, but it already is facing stiff opposition in the democratic-controlled senate and the white house. i want to bring in nbc's julie tsirkin on capitol hill and nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander. julie, we're expecting this vote as soon as this afternoon. what are we hearing from speaker johnson about this plan? >> reporter: well, this press conference will be unique in that we haven't actually heard speaker johnson take questions from the press yet. so this will be really the first opportunity for us to be able to press him on all of these issues including of course israel aid, which is expected to come up for a vote later this afternoon. this morning first they're going to get through some procedural hurdles when it comes to that. one of the biggest issues facing speaker johnson is that he decided to couple the aid to israel with offsets with spending cuts, in this case cuts to the irs, which is a central point of president biden's inflation reduction act. that according to democrats, they're calling it a poison pill, and i talked to one republican, for example, a moderate congressman, nick wa low ta of new york who told me he would vote for that bill with or without those spending cuts. republicans here trying to put democrats in a tough spot, particularly jewish democrats when they're looking at this bill. we'll see if it could pass the house chamber later today, but certainly going nowhere in the upper chamber. >> we are watching live images as this press conference with the gop leadership in the house gets underway. that of course is stefanik, the conference chairwoman. but peter, first, democrats we know want the funding for israel and ukraine aid to go together. some republicans as well, and the white house has threatened, the president is prepared to veto legislation that doesn't include both. can you explain? >> reporter: that's exactly right. we did hear that threat from the white house, the budget office specifically saying that if this was to be separated where the israeli, the aid to israel was separated from other national security priorities in the words of the white house budget office that would have, quote, global consequences. that came as part of that veto threat here at the white house. we have heard from them in the days since that initial threat, karine jean-pierre the press secretary telling us among other things politicizing our national security interests is a non-starter. to be clear, the aid to israel is roughly $14 billion that's being suggested here. there'd be roughly $60 billion going to ukraine as well as money to taiwan to help support the effort to sort of fight back china in that region amid threats there and to help reinforce security at the southern border in the united states. the white house, the president want thes all that included. aid to israel does continue at this point, the u.s. provides $3 billion in aid to israel each year and they have continued in the course of the last several weeks to give them munitions necessary to defend themselves given the onslaught of attacks from hamas, including that rocket fire that the iron dome has been fighting off. it's not just the white house and some democrats who were opposed to this separation of israel aid from others. it's also the congressional budget office that has said in spite of the republicans' claim that this would help cut the deficit, it would, they say in fact cost $26 billion in revenue over the course of the next decade because it would come at the cost of the enforcement by irs agents. they wouldn't go after in the words of the white house tax cheats in this country, and the white house says that that should not have anything to do with this effort to support israel. >> okay. and as we await the speaker himself, we're looking at tom emmer, who is the majority whip now, addressing reporters there. again, this is kind of their usual gop leadership conference, but the first time we'll get to hear directly from the new house speaker at this conference and hopefully he'll take some questions as well. and we know, julie, that this first piece of legislation is his first big action as speaker. so what is at stake for johnson in this moment and the house after weeks of chaos? >> reporter: yeah, and right now in this press conference, his leadership team is talking about the importance of getting that aid bill to israel through. but again, there are some questions according to sources i spoke to specifically among republicans in the upper chamber, whether this was the right strategy for johnson to go ahead and pair this bill with some of those spending cuts, which could be considered a poison pill among democrats. even if this israel aid manages to get through the lower chamber, we heard from majority leader schumer, who is the highest ranking elected jewish official in congress, that he is not going to even begin to take up that bill. he, of course, wants to see a fulsome package as you heard peter lay out. johnson behind closed doors this morning according to republicans i spoke to said that his plan was to potentially pair ukraine aid with border security policies, but that is very much complicating this entire process, which the white house wants to move as a package. when it comes to government funding, all of these dates could certainly converge because that deadline right around the corner, coming up two weeks from today, november 17th. we also heard johnson tell senate republicans yesterday that he wants to institute spending cuts potentially bringing a short-term government funding bill into mid-january. again, a lot on his plate. we'll see if he can make it through that first test today. >> majority leader steve scalise is now speaking. julie tsirkin, peter alexander stay close. we'll bring you back to capitol hill when speaker johnson begins to speak. embattled new york congressman george santos is still serving in the house this morning, and this is a big deal because there was a vote last night, a bipartisan push to expel him from congress, which failed last night. it needed a two-thirds vote to pass. didn't even get a simple majority, so santos, of course, was defiant last night when speaking on the hill. >> this is a victory for the process. due process won today, not george santos. >> unless you're the ultimate and end all be all arbitrator of truth, then i'm not debating this in the press with you. >> george santos still faces 23 federal charges. he has pleaded not guilty to all of them. up next, donald trump jr. returns for day two of testimony in his family's fraud trial. what he told that court under oath about the company's account tenant. plus, how soon could his brother eric follow him on the witness stand? 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