thanks for joining me. i'm jessica dean in for fredericka witfield. we begin in gaza, where israel defense forces have launched a blistering assault following a weeks-long pause in fighting. it carried out more than 400 strikes in gaza since the ceasefire expired yesterday. those strikes include targets in southern gaza, an area that had remained largely unscathed during israel's initial military campaign. talks of a new truce have reached a, quote, dead end, according to benjamin netanyahu's office. israel recalling its team of negotiating from qatar, blaming hamas for the breakdown in talks and accusing the terror group of not fulfilling its promise to return all women and children being held hostage. the idf says there are 136 hostages remaining in gaza, including 17 women and children. we have a team of correspondents. we start first with oren liebermann in tel aviv. we just laid out how israel is expanding its attacks in gaza. tell us more what about what we're seeing today. >> reporter: in the first 24 hours since fighting resumed early friday morning, we have seen israel carrying out strikes across gaza. the idf saying they arehave card out 400 strikes, including in southern gaza. it is where israel told palestinians in northern gaza to evacuate to. palestinians we've heard from there have said there's no safe place to go anymore and that is one of the major concerns. we just heard from vice president kamala harris a short time ago, who is in the region, saying israel needs to do more to protect civilians. israel and hamas both said they were ready for fighting to resume. israel said the next phase of the campaign would be stronger than the first. we have seen the effect of punishing strikes across gaza. we've also seen rocket attacks coming from gaza and launches we haven't seen in a number of weeks, including in tel aviv here. twice last night we saw barrages fired on tel-aviv. there had been sustained barrages in gaza. the watch is very much back on. health officials in gaza say israeli strikes have killed approximately 200 palestinians since fighting resumed. >> let's go to matthew chance, also in tel aviv at a vigil where some of the hostages are going to speak. matthew, i know you're also there with families who still have loved ones being held hostage. how are they reacting to israel pulling their negotiating team out of qatar and negotiations breaking down? >> reporter: obviously that's a matter of great concern to the families of the victims still being held hostage inside gaza. obviously they want the government and everyone here to do whatever they can to bring people back as soon as possible. the question of how best to do that has divided opinions somewhat. i've spoken to various people here among the thousands gathered here tonight for this vigil in tel aviv. [indiscernible ] [indiscernible ] whatever the right answer is, i don't think anybody really knows what the right answer is clearly. releasing the hostages has become a massive critical issue. you could say from the turnout here and the attitude of people around the country, it has reignited israelis behind that cause to set these hostages by whatever means free as soon as possible. >> matthew chance for us in tel aviv where that vigil is under way. let's go to cnn's ben wedeman in jerusalem. the idf have released a map of what what it's calling evacuation zones in gaza. what is the purpose of the idf sectioning off gaza at this point? >> reporter: basically it's divided gaza into what looked like hundreds of little blocks that are numbered. there's a iqr code on this publication so you can check and see where you are as opposed to where there's a threat. in theory this is a changing, constantly updated map people can look to the find out if they are safe or not. the problem is that many people don't have electricity, because israel cut that off. they don't have necessarily very good internet connectivity, because that has been spotty at best for a long period of time. the result is that more people are getting killed. this morning the arabic spokesman for the israeli military put out a tweet, if we can still call it that, telling the inhabitants to the east of gaza city and the northeast and north to leave immediately up to the 4:00 in the afternoon local time. what has happened in jabalia, there was a massive air strike on a six or seven-story building with more than 100 people in it. most of them had fled other areas because they thought perhaps jabalia refugee camp might be safer. we know dozens were killed in that strike which basically pancaked the building. everything has fallen to the ground. people were trying to look for any survivors using even a frying pan to use as a shovel to try to find any survivors. later in the day there was another strike to the east of gaza, where we understand that 50 apartment buildings were either destroyed or severely damaged yet again, dozens of people killed. we've been getting video from hospitals in the area. most of the dead and wounded are women and children. it appears all that we are seeing are civilians. vice president kamala harris is saying that more needs to be done to protect the palestinians. doesn't look like that's being done. >> ben wedeman thank you. despite negotiations breaking down, the white house says it will remain deeply engaged in freeing the remaining hostages and getting humanitarian aid into gaza. arlette saenz is at the white house. >> reporter: the white house insists they will take every step they can to try to get the hostages home, including the remaining seven being held in gaza. the conversations have been leaning on the qataris and the egyptians, who have been serving as mediators between israel and hamas. talks did break down in the past 24 hours on the varying views on the release of women. israel insisting hamas needs to stick to the original agreement and release all the women, hamas claiming that some of these women are idf soldiers and so they should not be released. the white house is very eager that these talks could potentially resume at some point. vice president kamala harris today speaking with the emir of qatar. she said she wouldn't detail what conversations were but that both sides remain focused on trying to extend this pause and trying to get more hostages out. the question is whether israel and hamas will come back to the table to reach agreement to get these hostages out. >> i want to ask you more about some other comments that vice president kamala harris made when she met with egegypt's president today. she vowed they would not support the redrawing of borders or relocation of palestinians. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris has been holding a series of meetings on the sidelines of a climate summit in dubai. one of these meetings was with egyptian president al-sisi who had concerns about the relocation of palestinians into neighboring territory like egypt. she said, quote, under no circumstances will the united states permit the forced relocation of gazans or the redrawing of the borders of gaza. one focus vice president harris was stressing today and that the administration has been stressing is that there also needs to be thinking in conversations now about what happens after this conflict ends. you've heard the administration pushing towards the need for a two-state solution to have security for israel and the palestinian people. what she was doing with her remarks and meetings and public remarks in dubai was trying to stress what the united states does and does not want to see. we've also heard the united states become a bit more forceful in insisting that israel place protections for civilians as that campaign is beginning in southern gaza. it all marks a notable moment for the administration in trying to offer the israelis some guidance about where the conflict goes from here. >> let's go to retired army general spider marks. great to have you. we have a lot of reporting about where things stand now that this truce has expired. we know that more than 400 strikes have occurred since the truce ended. what do you make of idf's moves in the last 24 hours since fighting has reseumeresumed? >> the idf is improving its strategic objective, which is the destruction of hamas. clearly, as has been laid out so wonderfully by your correspondents on the ground, there are some strategic pressures that really get in the way of the idf trying to completely eliminate hamas. the international outrage and the vilification of israel in terms of how they have prosecuted this fight simply because they are going after legitimate hamas targets. but hamas, as has been described, wrap themselves in the palestinians. the israelis have to make strategic tactical decisions to go or no go when you've got palestinians and hamas in the m midst of all that. this describes the incredible complexity of urban warfare, an enemy that wraps itself in its civilian population. those are legitimate, targetable intelligence to go after those targets before the intelligence goes away and you can no longer go after them. you have to regenerate intelligence so you have a really good sight picture on what you're trying to achieve. this is as difficult as it gets. this is a time contained tstrai fight. you have the international community saying there has to be a different way to prosecute this war. you have the israelis saying we are going to destroy hamas. it will go away and probably regenerate over the course of time, maybe generations, but we are going to eliminate it now. what does that timeline look like? that's where hamas right now wants to take the initiative. wouldn't surprise me at all if they started to push out some additional hostages, look for a ceasefire, look for a pause because that gives the international community an opportunity to sound off with a very clear voice that says we cannot allow this to occur anymore. yet, at the same time hamas issing is i going to increase its military positioning. >> i want to ask you about those hostages, the negotiations having broken down. it's unclear if they will resume going forward. is there any hope at this point? we just heard from matthew about families torn on what's the best way forward to get these hostages back. is there any role that the military could potentially play in finding or rescuing these hostages? or do you see this only playing out at the diplomatic level? >> great question. the view of this, the united view of this within the idf is that they've got technology, capabilities and incredibly talented special ops forces and they are doing as best they can to locate, positively identify and then go after those hostages as best they can. that means you've got to break through all those barriers we've been describing, which is hamas surrounding itself with palestinians, living in and operating among the civilians. that becomes the difficult task. the rescue and recovery of hostages becomes very, very surgical if you think we can get special ops forces in, remove a hostage and at the same time kill a couple bad guys. that's incredibly difficult to do in this type of terrain. that's why we see the israelis conducting air strikes going after command and control facilities as a precursor to additional ground offensive operations. the israelis want to make this as precise and surgical as possible. hamas is not allowing them to do that in a way they would like to completely prevent innocents being killed. but innocents are going to be killed. this is not a video game. this gets real messy. >> thank you so much for your analysis there. we appreciate it. >> thank you, jessica. still to come, as the u.s. pledges $3 billion in new climate funding, we're going to hear vice president kamala harris' dire warning that more action must be taken and taken quickly. the cop 28 climate summit is under way in the uae. the u.s. made an announcement of $3 billion in new funding to the green climate fund. vice president kamala harris followed the funding announcement with this dire warning. >> the urgency of this moment is clear that the clock is no longer just ticking, it is banging and we must make up for lost time. we need transformative change and an exponential impact. >> the package also includes a new epa rule that is expected to slash methane emissions by 80% in the oil and gas industry and a pledge to phase out coal-fired power plants in the u.s. i want to bring in fred krupp. we're glad to have you. you said in a statement earlier today that methane reduction could be the most impactful climate action in decades. why is that pledge so important? >> well, methane is 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide pound for pound. it warms us up a lot and fast. the methane being released this year is going to warm the planet in the next ten years such as all carbon dioxide from all the fossil fuels on the planet. you have to keep working on getting carbon dioxide down, because it lasts for over a hundred years. but if you get the methane down, because it is so powerful in the short term, we can reduce the temperatures we'll experience over the next ten years significantly from what we would otherwise see and reduce the force of cataclysmic storms. >> i want to ask you for people watching, how do you cut the emission of methane, what does that look like practically? >> for compressors that have sealed worn out and not maintained, you replace those. you fix pipes that have sprung leaks. it means finding, going out and looking for leaks and when you find them you fix them. it's really simple plumbing. there's also valves constantly leaking that can be replacing with a modern valve that doesn't leak at all. this is not rocket science, it's plumbing. that's the way you do it on the ground. the way you do it internationally and what we've been part of is the president of the cop who is the ceo of an oil company, he has used that position to invite other oil companies to actually take a major first step. he's gotten 50 of the world's oil companies, including the two big biggest, to pledge to reduce emissions by 80 to 90%. that is a very big deal. >> i want to ask you before we let you go too about this pledge the u.s. is making to phase out coal-fired power plants. does the biden administration have the ability to push this pledge through and convert it to action? >> it does, because the economics now support that. it turns out the price of solar and wind power have come down so much that it's less expensive to go new solar and get rid of the old coal-fired power plant than it is to keep maintaining the power plant. >> what about congress? how do you get around them and make sure that happens? >> basically consumers are going to make sure it happens. in every state i know of, people care about their electricity rates. in colorado, which is going to phase out all of its coal-fired power plants by 2031, it's just cheaper for the consumers. they're going to cut their power bills and phase out coal. that's the same thing we see in other states as well. >> thank you so much for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thank you. up next, hitting the campaign trail in iowa, former president trump and governor desantis holding dueling events in the state trueing to lure voters, next. in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart, efficient, savvy. making the most of every opportunity. that's why comcast business is introducing the small business bonus. for a limited time you can get up to a $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. yep, $1000. so switch to business internet from the company with the largest fastest reliable network and that powers more businesses than anyone else. learn how you can get $1000 back for your business today. comcast business. powering possibilities. today iowa is the center of the universe in the republican race for the white house. both former president trump and florida governor ron desantis are holding campaign events with very different objectives. what are you hearing today? >> reporter: what i'm hearing, at least from the trump campaign, is an increasing amount of confidence as we are nearly six weeks out from the iowa caucuses. they are still dominating in the polls. i am told that because of that, they are pivoting today. this speech is likely to be heavily attacks on joe biden. again, looking towards a general election, this is the latest sign we've seen of trump doing so. his team relaeased a six-figure television ad buy in this state on friday criticizing the president. this is coming at the same time that the biden administration and democrats are increasing their criticism against former president trump. what we saw last week was that the former president started picking up a fixation on overturning obamacare, something that gave democrats a new amount of ammunition, the biden campaign putting out an ad hitting donald trump for that. the affordable care act is much more popular than it has been in the past, at least when the former president was in office. this is something he has been doubling down on. what exactly the former president is going to say here today is unclear. there are signs on the seats here that say biden is bad for democracy or biden attacks democracy. giving you some kind of indication of the path donald trump is trying to go down here. interesting as we know this is what biden has said over and over again about the former president. >> we will check back in with you a little later. the florida governor is marking his trip to his 99th county. we know the desantis campaign is going all in on that state. they really believe a strong second-place finish or win there could really catapult him in this race. what are you hearing and what are they doing to try to overtake the former president and also nikki haley, who's on the rise? >> reporter: governor desantis has been trying to play catchup with donald trump by blanketing the state with appearances. yes, he will hit that 99th county today. he has an event in jasper county east of des moines where he will celebrate he has completed the, quote, full grassley, named after the state's longtime senator who regularly travels every county in the state. it's another feat that desantis has that suggests the campaign that is doing everything it's supposed to do to win the iowa caucuses. he has the support of the iowa governor kim reynolds, who's very popular here. they have spent more money on advertising than any other entity. yet, he finishes this 99-county tour almost exactly where he started, still far behind former president trump. in some cases, he's slightly worse off because nikki haley is turning her attention to iowa. the question now for desantis is, how do these iowa republicans who value retail politics respond to the fact that desantis has spent so much time here and put so much effort and energy here, and does it deliver him a surprise victory in these iowa caucuses? his campaign believes six weeks is enough time to turn this around. people are just now coming to their final decisions or weighing their options. they believe they still have time to manufacture some momentum and maybe come out with a surprise in january. >> it's so interesting to see desantis there so much and trump spending far less time, but still leading in so much of the polling. we'll see how it plays out until january 15th. still to come, in an historic vote, the house expelling congressman george santos over ethics violations. what's next and how constituents are reacting. republican congressman george santos made a dramatic exit from congress after being expelled over ethics violations. >> i had no skin in the game. >> did you know this was how it was going to go? >> you know what, i'm unofficially already no longer a member of congress. i no longer have to answer questions. >> he didn't do it all the time when he was a member of congress either. the sign in front of his office now down, the locks on his door changed. d despite the 105 republicans voting for his ouster, speaker mike johnson and other republicans in the house voted to save him. >> don't block the way. >> reporter: ex-congressman george santos leaving congress. intense until the very end. moments before his chaotic exit, reporters spoke to santos as he watched the vote turn against him and his congressional career come to an abrupt end. >> it's over. the house voted. that's their vote. they just set a dangerous precedent for themselves. why would i want to stay here? to hell with this place. >> reporter: the entire republican leadership and speaker johnson voted to keep him in power. but in his long island, new york, district, relief. george santos has been expelled what is your reaction? [ applause ] >> that was my reaction. >> reporter: the allegations snowballing since he was elected in 2022. santos' resume and life story came under glaring scrutiny. claiming that he was jewish, that his mother was in the twin terrors on 9/11, what sports he played, where he went to school, that he worked in finance and that his grandparents fled the holocaust, all of it lies. in addition to his largely fictitious resume, the house ethics committee found santos spent thousands of donor dollars on personal expenses, including shopping at designer stores, paying for rent, for botox treatments and subscribing to the largest pornographic website only fans. santos pled not guilty to 23 do counts of fraud and money laundering. today we departed the capital in a jaguar suv. >> it's sad it's come to this, but i think congress made the right decision. >> reporter: robert zimmer man lost to george santos in 2022. >> this is not a time of celebration for me. it's a time of reflection about how we move forward. >> reporter: for those who voted for santos and even some who didn't, they fear congress has gone too far. >> shocked, because the republicans caved. they even hurt themselves. we're expelling him before he has a chance to have a jury of his peers decide whether his conduct was criminal. >> reporter: miguel marquez, cnn, great neck, new york. still to come, victims of october's mass shooting in lewist lewiston, maine, are being offered free college tuition. the university of maine system has announced the state's public institutions will offer free tuition to the lewiston mass shooting victims that left 18 people dead, 13 injured after the gunman opened fire at a bowling alley and a restaurant in late october. the lewiston strong waiver will cover family members of the 18 killed and those injured, about 80 people in all. joining me is the chancellor of the university of maine system daniel malloy. governor, great to have you here. thanks for making time. first, tell us why you decided to grant these victims free tuition. >> let me say that the governor of the state has done an outstanding job in supporting all of our endeavors and asking our community as a whole to do what it can to help the people of lewiston. ultimately we had a discussion and decided to move in the direction of making tuition free for those most directly impacted, the survivors of those who were killed young and a number of these folks are mid career or late career and may have to start over. it was felt that this tuition waiver was the right way to be helpful to them. whether they all use it, i would doubt. but there's no doubt in my mind that a number of people will use it and need this help at the time. this is what maine does, it reaches out to its neighbors. sometimes people say of maine we're one big small town, but we wanted to play a role. >> and it's so interesting that you mentioned people who are maybe mid career who may have to start over, and then i was also thinking about the younger people, maybe children whose parents were killed in those awful attacks. it really does sound like it's going to run the gamut in terms of ages and what their needs to be. what is the reaction from them so far, if you've gotten any? >> people seem to be very happy with the concept in maine, it's been obviously covered and people are aware of it, and overwhelming support for it. this covers tuition, we'll also be engaged in activities, trying to raise money to cover other expenses that might be associated with that education as well. >> do you think this should be something other university systems should consider? unfortunately, mass shootings happen regularly in this country, there are a lot of victims in states across the country. are you encouraging colleagues that maybe are in different states with different systems to look at something like this? >> you know, i think individual governors and systems have to make their own decision, but we wanted to work with the governor to come up with a way to help the families and the individuals injured. and i think this was the right move. and, yes, you're absolutely right, we're talking about children at this point who won't be coming to college for many years, so this is a long-term commitment on the part of the system to the individuals within the classes as they've been defined. let me say this, that this shooting in maine was unusual in one sense. in one single night we had our average death caused by violence for a year. so this was a profound incident in maine, and when those kinds of things happen, whether they're natural or not natural, people come together. we wanted to be part of that. >> what do you hope these beneficiaries of this program, the people that will be able to participate in this program, what do you hope it does for them? what do you hope they take away? what should they feel knowing that this exists? >> well, they should know that this is an opportunity that presents itself, and we're doing it because we care for them and the community in which their loved one may have been killed or the community that they live in. we just wanted to be reaching out. and people in maine in all corners of the state are reaching out, but this has caught people's fascination. i think it was a simple gesture on our part. we are a state system. and these are our folks. we're in the business of educating maine residents and this is an extension of that. >> it is a good feeling to feel claimed and seen, and you are likely doing that for those people as they continue to process through such a traumatic, awful event. dannel malloy, thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. and tomorrow we're going to bring you the all-new cnn film "chowchilla" which tells one of the most shocking crime stories you've probably never heard. it's about the 1976 kidnapping of a school bus full of children and their driver were buried underground for more than 12 hours before orchestrating their own dramatic escape. the incident captivated the nation at the time and became a turning point in our understanding and treatment of childhood trauma. here is a preview. >> chowchilla was a wonderful place to grow up. >> they were little innocent children. >> never did i think something like this could happen. >> how does a school bus show up missing? >> i did not want to go down there. >> it was like somebody just took them off the planet. >> was it a thrill crime? >> your guess is as good as mine. >> it was a mystery, you had no answers. >> they recovered a journal, encrypted. >> i had never seen anything like that. >> they hit this town right in its heart by taking those children. >> all the way through they thought they had thought of everything. >> we would have been buried alive. and i thought to myself, we're going to die, we're going to die getting the hell out of here. >> when we got home, i thought life would be okay. >> the kids were not okay. >> god forgive them, because i won't. >> it was possibly the story of the century. >> tomorrow at 9:00, on cnn. get ready to be inspired and honor some of humanity's best. >> please join me. >> join anderson cooper and d laurura cocoates live. cncnn heroroes, anan all-star r. the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. hi, there, thanks so much for joining me. i'm jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. we're going to start in the middle east where fighting is intensifying after the expiration of a week-long truce between israel and hamas. israel israeli defense forces saying it's carried out more than 400 strikes in gaza over the 24 hours since the truce expired yesterday, and those strikes include targets in southern gaza. they're coming as negotiations over the remaining 136 hostages in gaza have hit a, quote, dead-end, according to israeli officials. israel recalling its team of negotiators from qatar, hamas calling it a predetermined decision by the el