thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i'm fredericka witfield. we begin with new questions emerging following israel's raid on gaza's largest hospital. video evidence analyzed by cnn suggests israel's defense forces may have rearranged weapons found at the al shifa hospital before international news crews visited the scene. it comes after the idf claimed they raided the facility in an operation against hamas last week. israel has claimed hamas operated a large-scale command center and these tunnels, like the one in this video. doctors say they were ordered to evacuate the al shifa hospital by the israel military, though the idf disputes that claim. six doctors are staying at the medical complex to treat around 120 patients too vulnerable to evacuate. meantime, the first plane carrying children from gaza with urgent medical needs to the uae today and it comes as the palestinian authority's ministry of health says only nine of gaza's 35 hospitals are still operating. jeremy diamond is monitoring all the latest on the ground from tel aviv. you're at the scene of a rally that is about to begin in support of the 237 hostages still held captive by hamas. what are people saying there? >> reporter: today has been a really important day, a really significant day for the families of these estimated 237 hostages still being held in gaza. there are rallies today, both in jerusalem as well as in tel aviv, to pressure the israeli government to reach a deal to free some of those hostages. we know there has been a deal on the table to potentially free women and children, civilians held hostage in gaza in exchange for a multiday pause in the fighting. certainly we know that is something the israeli government has been considering. these hostage families over five days marched from tel aviv to jerusalem. tens of thousands of people were in jerusalem today in front of the prime minister's office to pressure him to reach a deal to bring some of these hostage families home. now we are here in tel aviv right next to what has become known as hostage plaza, where there have been demonstrations to pressure the israel government to bring these hostages home. it is right in front of the defense ministry. some of the families of these hostages are set to meet with benny gantz and the current defense minister and others. we don't know that the israeli prime minister is going to be in that meeting. following that meeting, those families are expected to come here. we're expecting thousands of people to continue to flood in here to raise their voices and demand that these hostages be released. fred. >> jeremy, today we've seen more rocket fire from gaza. what's happening on the ground in gaza, as far as you know? >> reporter: we have watched as the humanitarian situation has continued to deteriorate. we are also getting a new analysis conducted by our team about some of the weaponry found inside al shifa hospital. israel defense forces released video showing bags of weaponry and ammunition they say they found inside the hospital. the initial video showed one ak-47 in a bag of weapons found behind an mri machine. in later videos filmed later in that day or the next day, there were two ak-47s in that bag that suggest that weapons may have been moved or placed by the idf. we reached out to them for comment. so far they have no answered. we know israeli forces are continuing to operate inside al shifa hospital to uncover what they say is a massive underground complex below shifa hospital. they have found one entrance to a tunnel about 30 minute meters one of the hospital's main building. they say it could take days or weeks to uncover evidence of what they say is a massive complex below the hospital. >> jeremy diamond, thank you so much. good job maintaining your concentration right there. those are a lot of details we'll have to regurgitate a bit later because it is very difficult to hear you, understandably. let's talk more about what's happening there in gaza. let me bring in kimberly dozier. the bottom line is now there are some disputes about the weaponry that was found and being associated with hamas there at the al shifa hospital. what do you suppose will be at hand now for the international community to try to get to the bottom of what authentically and realistically happened versus what is being said? >> well, cnn's reporting shows that israel understands how important it is to show the goods. it made these claims for weeks, that one of the main reasons it was closing in on shifa hospital was that it was allegedly the site of a command center, something that the white house also said that separate u.s. intelligence backed up. some place where hamas had a nexus of its operations. but in making those public claims, israel also handed hamas an opportunity to move whatever it had in that location away. there is a huge tunnel network that hamas and israel have talked about that israel has found evidence of underneath shifa, as it is underneath many buildings throughout the entire gaza site. so in those tunnels, they can move, say, a bunch of computers, a bunch of communications equipment, was it weaponry? they had days of israel's advance aboveground to move that sort of thing below ground. and what israel has had to do to explore those tunnels to find this evidence is, because they've found many of these tunnels have been boobytrapped, they are sending down robot drones and things like that. and whatever those drones have been able to find, it's not the pictures the public was expecting to see, and it's a public relations coup of sorts for hamas. >> then how do you suppose this might help be used as leverage in the growing calls for the humanitarian ceasefire that the idf and israel is being pressed onto show the evidence, show the justification for some of these targeted strikes? >> well, the netanyahu government and israel defense force officials have all been talking about this clock they knew was ticking down on them, that while they had a goal that could take weeks, if not months, of taking out all of hamas' military capability and its political capability, that the pressure on them would increase. it seems that the israel defense forces hoped by taking shifa, they would have a win on the public relations and the information war side of this fight that would buy them some time to keep pursuing their military operations. instead, since so far they haven't been able to produce that and what they have produced now it seems there have been some soldiers on the ground doing something with that equipment, maybe trying to please their bosses, but it looks from open source reporting of those photographs, as cnn has analyzed, that someone tampered with the evidence. that further damages their credibility and that's going to increase the calls world wide for some form of ceasefire, some form of longer pause in fighting. and the white house is inevitably going to have to pressure israel to follow through. >> netanyahu's cabinet is meeting today about the lifting of the fuel blockade in gaza. not everyone agrees over what should be done. the u.n. says at least 200,000 liters a day are needed, far less than that is actually getting through right now. how will this decision be made? >> so israel essentially has two cabinet. it's got a war cabinet that includes members of the opposition, and it's got the governing cabinet, members on that side of the more extreme government that netanyahu rules over have protested even those two fuel trucks going in and have demanded a change in policy. so there's going to be a press conference in tel aviv with netanyahu and his war cabinet. let's see what kind of compromise they come down with. but netanyahu is facing political pressure that could tear his government apart and eventually trigger more elections. >> all right. thon thanks so much. in the u.s., the division over the israel/hamas war continues to grow. the u.s. is lanunching an investigation into cornell, columbia and the university of pennsylvania, but it's not only an issue at colleges. >> reporter: this is significant, because these are the first campus hate investigations since the october 7th attack on israel. it's also quite significant to have so many campus hate investigations happening simultaneously. it speaks to the unprecedented level of hate boiling over on u.s. campuses. of the seven schools, they include cornell, columbia university, the univeryuunivers pennsylvania and one k-12 school in kansas. the investigation stems from complaints filed by students and advocacy groups. five were anti-semitic incidences. as the agency works to stem rising tensions at schools, here's the education secretary and his message to parents. >> your child should be unapologetic about expressing who they are. they shouldn't have to hide their identity to learn on campus or in a k-12 institution. that is our responsibility to protect them. if we see there are places that are not doing it, we're going to open an investigation. we're going to provide support, but open an investigation're dos educators. >> reporter: cardona says he's never seen this intensity of hate on school campuses, and he does anticipate the agency will launch even more investigations. they will make recommendations for fixes at these schools, and if schools do not comply, they do risk losing federal funding. cnn reached out to all of the schools under investigation. most of them replied saying they will cooperate with the investigation. renee marsh, cnn, washington. still ahead, new york mayor eric adams is setting up a legal defense fund in the wake of a public corruption investigation into his 2021 campaign. we're learning new details about a sweeping criminal investigation involving new york city mayor eric adams. a source says fbi agents searched the homes of oanother adams aide and the home of a turkish airline official, trying to determine whether the turkish government benefits from donations to adams' 2021 mayoral campaign. what can you tell us about these new developments? >> reporter: in the face of this mounting federal investigation, the eric adams campaign has now established a so-called legal defense fund. the campaign itself has been quite up front about the purpose of this. in fact, there was an affidavit signed by eric adams earlier this week saying it is, quote, necessitated by legal expenses in connection with the investigation by the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york related to the operations of the adams 2021 campaign committee. according to the guidance posted by the city's conflict of interest board, city employees are actually permitted to establish these kinds of funds to pay for any mounting legal bills. however, there are certainly restrictions and regulations they would adhere to. not only would that board essentially monitor that fund, but here's just a few restrictions the campaign will have to adhere to. individual donations will not be able to exceed $5,000. all of their legal expenses will have to be disclosed to the board. adams cannot solicit money from subordinates or anybody doing business with the city. finally, this fund cannot accept any donations for any companies or corporations. it is fairly restrictive in terms of who can donate and exactly how much. those are just a few of the restrictions. adams maintains he has not been accused of any wrongdoing. he did, however, get the services of a private attorney. this comes after new information came to light that now shows two additional people with direct ties to adams had their homes searched earlier this month, not only a second aide of his, but also that official with turkish airlines. >> pole o sandoval in new york, thank you so much. still ahead, the thanksgiving travel rush kicks off soon. what to expect this year if you'rere plannnning toto be on moveve by car oror plane. we're introducing you to the 2023 top 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thanksgiving, making its the third busiest since aaa began tracking holiday travel and the busiest since the pandemic. airport officials are warning that security checks could take longer. >> we will do our best to screen standard passengers in under 30 minutes and passengers enrolled in tsa precheck in under ten minutes. there might be occasions where wait times may be longer. so we encourage passengers to arrive early, pack your patience and reach out to us on social media or text us before arriving to the airport if you have any questions about our security procedures. >> cnn's pete muntean has more on the turkey trek to see family and friends. >> reporter: here is the good news. a government shutdown was averted which means air traffic controllers and tsa officers will be working with pay. no impact on travel there. the bad news is that this thanksgiving travel rush is going to be busy. tsa says the rush has actually already started. they're expecting to screen about 30 million people through airports nationwide through the tuesday after thanksgiving. the tuesday before thanksgiving, the 21st, 2.6 million people expected at airports. the sunday after thanksgiving, 2.9 million people at airports nationwide, making it the biggest day ever for air travel. aaa expects 55 million people will travel 50 miles or more. that's a 2% increase over last year, making it the third biggest thanksgiving travel rush since 2000. airlines say there's a trend. they say there is longer demand that is less concentrated. aaa's spokesperson said schedules have changed everything. >> people are leaving on tuesday, on monday and also maybe coming back the monday after thanksgiving because they know sunday is going to be such a mess on the roads and at the airports. >> reporter: even still, thanksgiving is more of a driving holiday. aaa expects a 6% increase compared to last year thanks to gas prices being down about 10% after last year. the worst time to travel, wednesday afternoon when traffic could be 80% higher than the norm. pete muntean, cnn, washington. from thanksgiving travel to another center piece of the holiday, the food. it looks like this year thanksgiving dinner will be less expensive than last year thanks to a drop in turkey prices. nonprofits are reporting a huge demand for families who need help putting food on the table. charities across the country are racing to help. one of the biggest meal giveaways is under way right now in atlanta where a charity is holding a drive-through turkey give away. rafael romo is there. what can you tell us about this event and how much thanksgiving might cost folks to put food on the table this year? >> reporter: yeah, fred, hi. we're in the middle of the action of these wonderful volunteers delivering food to many families here in the south side of atlanta. this is an effort, fred, that has been going on for longer than i've been alive. they started in 1971 helping homeless men. today they expect to help 800 families, many of them lining up for hours getting these boxes of food and getting water as well. let me tell you today they expect to help 800 families. if you multifply that for an average of four people per family, you can begin to get an idea how important this effort is. i had an opportunity to talk to elizabeth, the daughter of the organization founder, civil rights leader jose williams. she told me that even though this financial situation of the country is a little bit better this year, the need that they are seeing from some of these families is still great. let's take a listen. >> they will get a 14-pound turkey. they will get macaroni and cheese, green beans, rice, corn, cranberry sauce, which is very hard to find. they will get everything they need for a meal. >> it's beyond words. i'm so grateful, because i can't afford to get a turkey or a ham. you know, i was thinking about not even cooking on thanksgiving, but now i have an opportunity to do so. i'm so grateful. i'm so, so grateful to god. >> reporter: let's talk a little bit about how your thanksgiving dinner is going to cost this year. it's going to be slightly cheaper than last year. just to give you an idea, a 16-pound turkey will be $27.35, which is 5.6% less than last year. a thanksgiving meal for a family of ten, $61.17. that's 4.5% less than last year. it was 25% higher in 2019. that's the key for many of the families here. in spite of the fact that there is some good news when it comes to gas prices, many of these families are families who have lost their jobs, were affected maybe some of them by the pandemic. they're still trying to recover. it's great help they're getting here. these volunteers work so hard. it makes you want to say happy thanksgiving already. fred, back to you. >> let's say it. happy thanksgiving and thanks to them for bringing joy to so many people. thank you so much, raphfael rom. appreciate it. still ahead, new video surfaces of alec baldwin firing a prop gun on the set of "rust." could new charges be next? new mexico could decide in the coming weeks whether charges should be refiled against alec baldwin for that deadly onset shooting. involuntary manslaughter charges against baldwin were dismissed in april, but prosecutors are preparing to make their case to the grand jury. just this week, video exclusively obtained by nbc news show alec baldwin handling a prop gun while filming scenes for the movie "rust." this was just days before baldwin's prop gun went off killing halyna hutchins and injuring the director. >> one one thousands, two one thousand. i'm getting up. >> okay. >> with me here to talk about this is ted spalding, a personal injury lawyer at spalding injury law. first off, how unusual to have dismissed charges only to now be reopened before a new grand jury that this case against alec baldwin? >> it makes you wonder what new evidence do they have. is it the video? is it something we don't know about? that's what's going ob into be interesting. it is abnormal. >> what does this video tell you? i'm not a lawyer, but he's going through the steps. he's treating this, even though it's a prop gun, with the seriousness as if it were a live gun. how would that be used against him? how is that incriminating potentially? >> i think it might be a part of the evidence that a prosecutor could use to show criminal intent, those sorts of elements. i don't think in and of itself it helps them a lot. what i mean by that is, in my realm, it would be massively helpful. it shows duty. it shows he knows what the standard are. >> if you were defending him? >> correct. my thought would be it might be part of the elements to build something, but i don't think it's the smoking gun, no pun intended. i don't think it's the end all be all. they seem to be more focused on him saying he didn't pull the trigger versus what does the physical evidence show. they seem to be leaning more that way than this video. >> isn't a center piece of the case still what you knew prior to pulling the trigger, whether you pulled it or not? here you are, the actor, you've got a scene you want to look as real as possible. you're going to pull the trigger of a prop gun. but isn't the issue what you knew about that gun and whether it was loaded with live ammunition before pulling the trigger? if that is still the predicate of the entire case, what difference does it make about your familiarity with the scene, you know, role-playing when you're going to use the gun, where you're going to point it? >> yeah. that's the whole point. it does and doesn't matter, in my opinion. it matters to the extent it establishes negligence. so he knew the standards, he knew the rules in holding this gun and how to use it. but they've got to show in the criminal context, in essence, gross negligence, recklessness. >> meaning you knew there could potentially be a live round in there and you're waving around willy-nilly? >> exactly. >> have a listen to the new mexico district attorney about why she wants to bring these charges in this manner. >> there was such a lack of safety and safety standards on that set, that there were live rounds onset. they were mixed in with regular dummy rounds. he didn't check it. he didn't do any of the things he was supposed to do to make sure he was safe or anyone around him was safe. then he pointed the gun at halyna hutchins and pulled the trigger. >> is that for the actor or the producer to do or the prop master to do? >> that's part of the defense. alec is going to say, look, that's why we have all these people on set, including the armorer who's supposed to be doing that. now, of course the prosecutor is going to say it does not matter who else you have. when you're holding the gun, the law says you have to know and you have to be following all of these policies and procedures. he pointed the gun at her. we see in that video he was talking about, hey, stay on the other side of the camera so i'm not pointing the gun at you. >> it shows his awareness. >> it might be an element that can be used, but they've got all these things they need to prove to get to gross negligence, that extreme recklessness to have criminal culpability. >> alec baldwin has already settled a lawsuit with the family of halyna hutchins, who was killed. could the video that we see have any new potential impact on a civil case? >> i don't think so. it depends on the agreement that was reached, but in ordinary civil cases you're going to settle any and all claims forever. that's going to be a huge document, multiple pages, going to cover every single scenario, new evidence that could come in. we are settling and resolving all of it. i don't think this has anything to do with civil. >> somewhere along the line it would seem in terms of the investigative end of this, we see this video that is prior to the incident, obviously. somewhere in the investigative phase there has to be a tracing of that weapon that he's firing there where nothing terrible happens and in between the moment where something terrible happens, a death, an injury happened. now how vital is that in what is going to be presented to the grand jury? it seems like that's a difference of case dismissed and now we have enough for a new case. >> yeah. i think you're absolutely right. from what i understand, the defense had already been talking about that out in the public. they were wanting dna testing of the bullets. >> right. fingerprints. >> who, what, when. how did we know we have live ones in with dummy ones? who was the person that was negligent in that scenario. so all this testing very, very important, because the defense is going to poke at every little thing. hey, you didn't do this testing. we don't know what happened with the gun for x amount of hours or days in between. the defense is going to poke holes any which way they can. prosecutors need to shore all that up. >> ted spalding, thank you so much, good to see you. >> you as well. still ahead, bracing for it to blow. what officials in iceland are saying about a possible massive volcanic eruption. let's take a closer look at the other headlines today. sean "diddy" combs and his former girlfriend cassie ventura have reached a settlement. she claims she was lured into a fast-paced and drug-fuelled lifestyle after she was signed to his record label bad boy. in a statement, combs now says, quote, we have sided decided to resolve this matter amicably. i wish kcassie and her family al the best. former first lady roslyn carter is now in hospice care at her home in plains, georgia. the 96-year-old was diagnosed with dementia back in may. the carter foundation issued a statement saying they are spending time with each other and their family. the former president also began home hospice care in february after a series of short hospital stays. he is 99 years old. a town in southwestern iceland is evacuating over fears of a deadly volcanic eruption after hundreds of earthquake tremors were detected below the ground this week. scientists say a river of underground magma could explode at any time. here's cnn's michael holmes. >> reporter: a town on edge. steam seeps through large cracks in what used to be a main street in iceland. residents say it's a hellish sight, the ground hot and unstable, and there is a deserted and eerie feel since the town was evacuated a week ago. >> there is some volcanic activity going on, very high activity. so we had to take measures and evacuate the whole town of 3800 people. now there's no one living here, from 3800 to zero. >> reporter: police have closed off the roads to the town. geologists say a 15-kilometer river of underground magma is snaking its way toward the sea and could erupt at any time. residents are lining up outside the barricades. no eruption yet means there's still time to retrieve a few belongings. authorities are allowing a handful of people back in at a time for just five minutes in their homes, precious moments as the wait for what comes next stretches on. >> it's like sitting in a very boring movie, but you're stuck there. you can't get out. it's unreal. it's hard to digest. >> reporter: experts say the area is still experiencing hundreds of earthquakes a day. that's a slight decrease from the thousands of daily tremors in recent days. but seismologists say the threat is still imminent. >> there is still flow of new magma into this crack and it is widening. this is causing widening of a few scentimeters per day and alo some vertical movements in the town, causing the possibility of more fractures. >> reporter: and it's somewhere along that fissure, geologgeologists say a volcanic eruption could do extreme damage with the risk of the town being completely destroyed. some residents waiting for whatever the lava will do next, the damage is already done. >> obviously i'm not excited to go back there, because i don't think we'll ever feel safe after knowing what has happened there. >> reporter: michael holmes, cnn. back in this country, las vegas is hosting formula 1 for the first time in decades. it's not been a smooth ride so far after a rough start involving a manhole cover. welcome back. a loose drain cover halted a practice session of formula 1's highly anticipated las vegas grand prix this week. a red flag was issued after one of the drivers apparently ran over the cover, damaging his car. organizers checked all of the other manhole covers, but that practice session was suspended. patrick snell is with me now. tell us more about what happened. they did get a practice in after all that. >> that was not a good look for formula 1, no question. formula 1 returning to nevada for the first time since 1982, really hyped event. the buildup is that controversy thursday night vegas time. that practice session had to be called off within the first ten minutes. i think only nine minutes were up on the clock when the spanish driver hits a loose manhole cover. the ferrari was badly damaged as well. they did do the second session. you can see the frustrations there for him. the second session did happen, but it was delayed by something like 2 1/2 hours. given that it was by 2:30 a.m. in the morning this time, there were no fans. it took place in front of no fans as well. today, saturday, has gone a lot smoother for race organizers, because we have qualifying. but where else but in las vegas would qualifying begin friday night midnight local time? it is impressive. this is what they wanted all along, the famous strip, all the hot spots the dazzling backdrop to it all. so much focus on max verstappen, the reigning world champ. he said that this vegas race was 99% show and 1% a sporting event. he was also less than complimentary by comparing it to the storied history of the monaco grand prix. i will say he was third fastest here on saturday. he was given a grid penalty for using too many engine parts. that's part of the fallout from hitting that drain. he's been badly impacted by the fallout to it all. leclerc has pole position going into the big race, his fourth pole this year, third in the past four races. he is still seeking his first win of the season. verstappen will start after leclerc after the penalty. >> to be starting pole tomorrow is great. however, a bit disappointed and now we'll focus to try to put everything together in the race. >> i think the whole weekend we've been lacking a little bit of one lap performance. that was clear in qualifying. i hope we are good on the tires again and then we come and work our way forward. >> first race in las vegas since 1982. f1 also invested $500 million to transform th