exercise programs. now huffman sits on the board of directors. all of this is being used to highlight the good work this organization is doing, using this bit of infamily to help change the lives of these women. also worth noting her daughter did retake the s.a.t. and is attending college all on her own merit. >> stephanie elam, thanks so much. the next hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning welcome to "cnn this morning." it's sunday, december 3rd. i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm isabel rosales. israel says they struck multiple hamas facilities overnight. hamas launched a barrage of rockets towards tel aviv intercepted by israel's iron dome. >> israel recalled its team of nego negotiators from qatar. hamas blamed israel and the u.s. for the resumption of hostilities and says there will be no hostage negotiations at least until there's a cease-fire in gaza. ben wedeman is joining us. the latest on the fighting. what do you know? >> what we're seeing today is a resumption of intense israeli air strikes and targets around gaza. we've seen two very large air strikes on the refugee camp and the neighborhood directly north of gaza city. we don't have precise numbers on casualties and fatalities. we're looking at perhaps as many as 300 people killed since the end of the truce early friday morning. now, the israelis said until now they have managed to locate 800 tunnels in gaza, destroy 500 of them yesterday. they said one of those strikes succeeded in killing a hamas commander who had planned the 7th of october attacks on israel. the israelis acknowledged that two of their shoulders had been killed in gaza in the last 4 hours. what we're seeing is, on the civilian side the situation is deteriorating. the hospitals, those that are actually functioning, are full of the wounded. the morgues are too full. we saw in one hospital they have a flatbed truck out in front full of dead bodies. victor, isabelle. >> we know israel recalled its team of negotiators from qatar. what do you know about talks of a truce and how likely does that seem? >> it seems at the moment they're not going anywhere, these talks. the israelis pulled the israeli intelligence agency out of qatar because they said the talks with hamas had reached, in their words, a dead-end. hamas, for its part, is saying there will be no negotiations at this point until there's a cease-fire in gaza. as we know, the talks broke down because hamas could not come up with the israeli hostages, women hostages that the israelis thought hamas had. hamas is saying they cannot reach them. now, we don't know if they can't reach them because of simply the situation on the ground or perhaps other groups like islamic jihad, are holding them. qatar continues to be in contact with both sides, but it appears there's not really much passing back and forth in terms of messages from israel via qatar to hamas. >> ben there in jerusalem, thank you so much. let's go to camilla at the white house. when it comes to the discussion over hostages, the israeli coordinators, the u.s. coordinators they've been meeting and discussing what can happen next. what more do you know? >> reporter: we know they met on saturday to discuss efforts to release more hostages. the israeli officials took the time to thank his american counterparts in the u.s. for their continued support of israel since the conflict began on october 7th. now, the thing of where things stand, we just know that at this moment in time that this meeting happened right after talks between israel and hamas broke down when they did not appear to agree on the terms to actually initiate another humanitarian pause. so where they know that they can't have -- the talks have stalled, that means that the reality of the situation is that without a truce in place, then the reality or the possibility of more hostages being freed remains slim at this point. the reality of the situation is that they want the u.s. and the white house wants to push for talks to resume, for there to be a humanitarian pause because they know there's a greater chance of more hostages to be freed at this time. v victor. >> the humanitarian crisis on the ground keeps getting worse and worse. camila, thank you. the palestinian red crescent says 100 aid trucks made it through. >> carrying food, water, medical supplies, including body bags. i spoke with unicef spokesperson james elder earlier who said the condition in gaza are so severe it's become nearly impossible to get meaningful aid to civilians trapped there. listen. >> because of the intensity of the attacks, there's no way people here are getting sufficient boughter, food, med medicines, being forced to move in a to b without anything. they go to places where there is no water, there is no food. as a doctor said to me, isabel, during a cease-fire when he prayed we wouldn't get this horror show from the sky again, he said we will start to see the same number of children being killed from bombardments as from disease. we now have war on two fronts for children. >> he's called it a war on children. cnn's lar ri madowo is joining us from egypt. are we expecting more trucks today? >> reporter: that's the expectation. the 100 trucks that got in on saturday is an improvement from friday when no trucks at all got in. the palestinian red crescent at the time said the israelis prohibited any aid trucks getting into the rafah crossing until further notice. the white house says it took the intervention of u.s. officials to al law that to happen. the israelis confirmed that at the request of the u.s., they allowed more trucks to go through the rafah crossing. this is a small drop in the ocean because the u.n. said they need at least 200 trucks coming in daily to meet the needs of the people there. the needs are exceptional. listen to this 80-year-old man who's lost everything. >> translator: there is nothing left to fear for. our houses are gone, our property is gone, our money is gone. sons have been martyred, some died, some handicapped in the hospital. then they tell us we will get aid. where is it? >> reporter: so the aid is just one part. during the truce at least 200 trucks were allowed to come in with food, water, cooking gas and fuel people badly need. u.s. officials say the next phase has to be the reintroduction of commercial trucks into gaza. >> larry madowo, thanks so much. let's discuss with cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier. let's start with the talks that have now ended or at least stalled for this period. what does this portend for the next phase of this war? as ben reports, there have been already two strikes on refugee camps, at least 300 killed since the end of the truce. >> both sides had been preparing during the pause for resumption of fighting. basically they came to an impasse over the women hostages which apparently hamas considered soldiers before they were women in a sense. i don't know what the argument was for the child. the other bit of reporting from israeli media is that some of the hostages were held by groups, not hamas, and hamas couldn't negotiate their release. so that's why we're at this impasse. in the meantime, israel put out this very complicated map, breaking gaza down into something like 2,000-plus sectors and released it to palestinians and also through leaflets as a way to let them go the fighting is coming to this neighborhood, move as quickly as possible. apparently some of the warnings have been as little as ten minutes' warning before an attack. u.n. officials are calling this unworkable. and one that i spoke to said all of our areas of safety are full. so even if they're told to move and they get the warning in time, where are they going to go? >> and how they get that warning, as we reported it is a qr code. well electricity, internet access are sparse if you can get it at all. if it's divided into as many sectors as you say, those people are already full of people that moved from the north down to the south as this continues. >> exactly. from israel's position, israel early on in this conflict had designated an agricultural area in southern gaza and asked all of the u.n. agencies to move their operations there. and u.n., the w.h.o. all refused saying that is an area devoid of any services, it's basically open fields. israeli officials have explained, look, the areas we have to go after have hamas tunnels underneath. they have an infrastructure that we have to dismantle, so that's why we needed them moving to this open space, and that just never materialized as an option. >> larry just reported that the u.s. advocated for those 100 trucks of humanitarian aid that crossed the rafah crossing yesterday. president biden says, as it relates to the release of hostages, that the u.s. will pursue every effort -- those are his words -- to release those hostages. the talk is off for now t. israeli negotiators recalled. what options has the u.s. had in getting these two sides back to the table in doha? >> there's always the iran option, though that's a little bit of a bank shot where the u.s. offers, for instance, to give more of its oil receipts. iran sells oil to iraq and then can't get the money back unless the u.s. ap provrs the return of those funds. those things can influence hamas. but we're now in a situation where from the israeli perspective and from the hamas perspective, they've hardened their positions, and i think you're going to see intense fighting over the next at least week or so before anyone gets convinced to go back to the negotiating table. >> we heard from french president mccron, quote, israel needs to more precisely define their goal and the final outcome they're trying to achieve. what does the total destruction of hamas mean? >> it's the same claim that israeli allies asked for a month and a half ago. at this point does israel really have to articulate any more than it has as it has not seemed to damage the alliance at all? >> i don't think you're going to see israel change its position. prime minister benjamin netanyahu gave another press conference in the last 24 hours where he stressed they're going to continue to take apart or try to take apart the hamas network. that is a demand by multiple sectors of israeli society in order to feel safe again. of course, you also heard u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin saying that taking care of civilians in a situation like this is a way to avoid future hamas fighters from being created by those under fire. and from the u.s. officials and the retired military officials that i'm speaking to, they see them making the same mistake that the u.s. made in iraq and afghanistan initially, not taking care of the people and focusing on the enemy, no matter what happens with where the bombs might fall. >> kimberly dozier, thank you. let's turn to an update on one of the three palestinian students shot while taking a walk. one of the survivor's mother, elizabeth price says her son hisham awartani is paralyzed. she says her son will meet the challenge with the same determination i've witnessed this week. he's set to be released next week and will receive rehab care. awartani and two friends were shot after visiting friends over the holiday. the suspect, jason eaton, has pleaded not gill toy to three counts of attempted murder. it's a new week on capitol hill with one less lawmaker. we'll talk about the ouster of embattled congressman george santos and what that means for the house's shrinking majority. the gag order former president trump, the look at all the latest developments from all his mounting legal troubles nextxt. speaker of the house mike johnson says republicans have a duty to launch an impeachment investigation into president biden and he believes he has the votes to do it. >> a formal impeachment vote on the floor will allow us to take it to the next step. i believe we will. i suspect no democrats will assist in this effort, but they should. the facts are so clear for everyone to see. the constitution requires the house to fol llow the truth whe it needs. we have a duty to do this. >> johnson claims the indwirry would not be used as a partisan political tool. let's see what manu raju, host of "inside politics sunday" has to to say about this. >> in september kevin mccarthy, then the speaker of the house launch add impeachment inquiry and didn't have a vote to authorize it. you actually don't need to have a vote. the second impeachment, trump impeachment didn't have an infirry. they just impeached president trump at the time after january 6th. republicans want to show forward momentum, bring this to the floor. the question is going to be whether or not there will be enough republicans in the swing districts who will ultimately side with the speaker. i talked to several of them including new york republicans. several of them on friday were non-committal about whether they'll vote to authorize the inquiry. there are other ones, like congressman don bacon who said he would authorize the inquiry. the speaker seems to think he has the votes. do they get evidence to try to tie joe biden to the actions of his son hunter. they're trying to get there. if they don't, will they go forward with articles of impeachment? those are huge questions, growing even more complicated with a narrow majority with george santos' ouster and then heading into an election year. >> that margin has slipped from four to three now with santos expelled at the end of last week. how are republicans reacting to that? >> there are deep divisions within the republican conference. i had a chance to talk to members. it was a bit of a surprise. going into that vote it felt like speaker johnson's opposition to expelling george santos might have swayed enough republicans to support santos staying in his seat. ultimately, though, 105 republicans voted to kick him out of the house. in talking to republicans, it was clear there was a lot of bad blood about that vote. >> it isn't about republicans and democrats anymore. this is about our nation being so caught up in politics and posturing, not following the rule of law. >> the ethics committee says his actions were unbecoming. >> the ethics committee is not junl, jury and executioner. >> the voters understand that in this instance, george santos was unfit to serve and it was republicans who brought the expulsion resolution to the floor. it was republicans that removed him from congress. the chairman of the ethics committee produced a damning report, and we did what was right. >> so now the question is whether or not republicans are going to hold on to that seat. there will be a special election to fill this vacant seat that will occur sometime in the new year. the question will be can they hold it also in the general election. this is a district that joe biden carried in 2020. there's a tight margin that can go even tighter which is weighing on a lot of members' minds even as they cast a vote to kick him out of the house. >> a couple of hours until the big show. what do you have today? >> more about the tension inside the republican conference. we have new reporting about how mike johnson is grappling with this. i actually heard from george santos in the aftermath of the expulsion. he tells me why he thinks he was kicked out of his seat. and we have a discussion with the four ncaa powerhouses, they were on capitol hill last week lobbying for a national law dealing with college athletes' profit over their name, image and likeness. >> manu raju, good to have you. be sure to watch more on the wild week in washington coming up on "inside politics sunday." it starts at 11:00 here on cnn. next on cnn this morning, eric trump is expected to return to the witness stand in the civil fraud trial against his family. a look at his likely testimony and when this trial may end. that's straight ahead. bold. daring. expressive. contra costa college allows me to be whoever and whatever i want to be, providing the stage, the canvas, the tools to use my voice and write my story. find your passion and create your future at contra costa college. start today at contracosta.edu welcome back. this wednesday former president donald trump's son, eric, is set to take the witness stand in new york. that's for the civil fraud trial against his father. trump himself will likely take the stand in the coming days. it's the latest in the web of legal entanglements surrounding the former president. it comes days after a u.s. district court judge ruled that trump does not get immunity from criminal charges stemming from his actions in office. joining us is cnn legal analyst michael moore. thank you for your time. >> glad to be with you. >> let's talk about this gag order that was just reinstated by the new york appellate court. those are four judges. it was recently made public that judge arthur engoron and his staff received hundreds of threats, to his staff personally, to the judge himself. does that play a role in the decision making? what happens there? >> it does play a role. i think it's a little unusual to see this much of effort trying to keep a party to a lawsuit quiet, especially as it relates to the court staff. some of this comes with the job. if you're a judge or court staff, you expect some of these kinds of comments. trump is using this has a platform to campaign. >> truth social especially. >> that's right. this isn't about the courtroom. it's about the political arena he's in right now. he's pushed it to the limit. while i think the court staff and judges will expect some -- they can expect nasty comments. this has sort of pushed the bounds. i think that's what the appellate court put the gag order back in place. it was sort of beyond the pale and not really about the case, but more about the personal issues. >> can you dig into that a little more? it's pushed it beyond the pale? do you mean the extend of what he's saying on truth social, the violations and the fines he's gotten. >> the fines are inconsequential to somebody of his stature. really meaningless when it's a couple thousand dollars here or there. when you make specific comments or post information about other individuals about other folks acting unlawfully or maybe supporters who want to go and stalk or otherwise harass members of the court staff, i think you'll see the court circle and protect its people. that's what the gag order does here. i'm sure it's a difficult job for his lawyers as they try to keep him quiet. he has not taken that advice, and i think it's a little bit to his peril. again, i really don't think it's about this case. i think whatever happens in this case, he's going to appeal that issue and the appeal in that case will live longer than just what this particular judge decides. he is right now campaigning for president every day, every minute that he's on television and he gets to come out of the courtroom and talk about how he's being persecuted, that this is not a case about whether or not he lied about the values of his houses and buildings and all that kind of stuff. he wants to use this to say that, again, this is a sample of how the system has been weaponized against me. i'm going to take the arrows for you supporters so you don't have to do it. i'm standing here as your champion. that's the message resonating with the voters. >> that's got to be something to deal with for the court system. it's not every day you get a former president. >> uncharted waters. >> where does this trial stand? trump and his two adult sons and the company were already found liable. >> it's unusual in a fraud case for a judge to make a ruling that quickly before the evidence is presented in court. that's what happened on a summary judgment. we're talking about what the penalty should be, how much money should be paid back and how he should be punished financially for the fraud. so this is now about valuation. that's why you're seeing the property is worth x, but mar-a-lago is actually worth y. the judge is ferreting through that. those differences of opinion, and some, frankly, the decisions the court has made about who will and will not be allowed to testify at the trial will become important appeal issues going forward. i think you'll see those raised quite a bit. you have last week, i think one of the banks came in and said we didn't even rely on those financial statements. that had no meaning to us. while the court de need the motion to dismiss the case based on that, they're saying it wasn't fraud if they didn't even rely on that. those issues will make their way through to the appellate court. >> this week it's been busy for trump. two court rulings that highlight the tough legal road, in one a federal appeals court in washington pushed back on trump's claims that there's president immunity and that prevents him from facing civil and criminal trials. can you tell us about that decision? i think you have some concerns about that, right? >> there were two decisions. one came out of the court of appeals in d.c. that basically said the president is not the president all the time he's in office. i think that's likely to be revisited by the supreme court. you really -- if you think about it, they try to distinguish when somebody is campaigning and when they cannot. the president can't go in for a colonoscopy without having somebody else become president. the united states has a president 24 hours a day. it places questions about whether future presidents can be sued for a car wreck on the way to a campaign rally. that's the kind of thing we've got to grapple with. i don't think we need to necessarily throw out our norms and other protections for future presidents just because we had a few years of craziness during the trump term. >> michael moore, thank you for your perspective. a lot of unprecedented things happening in the legal system. thank you. coming up, a cnn exclusive on how for nearly a decade the u.s. coast guard has kept secret a report exposing widespread racism, discrimination and more. tonight we're bringing you the new cnn film "chowchilla" which tells one of the most shocking true crime stories you have never heard. it's about the 1976 kidnapping of a school bus full of children and their driver who were buried under ground for more than 12 hours before orchestrating their own dramatic escape. the incident captivated the country at the time and became a turning point in our understanding and treatment of childhood trauma. here is a look. >> 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 up 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 in unusual writing. >> never seen anything like that. >> the kidnappers khit this tow right in its heart by taking this children. >> all the way through they thought they had thought of everything. >> being 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. >> "chowchilla" tonight at 9:00 on cnn. this morning we're reporting on another coast guard kofshup. military leaders concealed a damning report. >> cnn's chief investigative correspondent pamela brown got a copy of that report. >> reporter: this culture of respect report obtained by cnn was based on interviews with hundreds of coast guard employees in 2015. among the alarming conclusions, coast guard personnel accept poor behavior as status quo. the coast guard does not provide sufficient measures to prevent sexual assault. and coast guard personnel have been discriminated against and sexually harassed. it's been kept from the public, dubbed for official use only. the front page saying it should be disseminated only on a need-to-know basis and kept in a locked container. the report describes the failures of coast guard leadership, claiming leaders are not fully aware of perpetrator/predator characteristics and have allowed coast guard members to escape accountability. in one example cited, a military member was reduced in rank and asked to leave the service after being involved in a sexual harassment complaint, only to be hired later as a supervisor and accepted as a vic tick advocate into the coast guard program. >> i've experienced racism and harassment. >> retired coast guard commander and whbl knew the report existed and pushed for its release for years. >> i, and many of us, were very, very angry, very upset that this was a document that spelled out exactly what the culture was, provided roadmap of how we can improve the culture, and the coast guard sat on it and then they buried it. >> in 2019 young mclear even testified in front of congress about the toxic culture in the coast guard. >> if they had implemented the vast majority of recommendations, it absolutely could have prevented what happened to me, and not just me, but what continues to happen across the entire u.s. coast guard. >> the coast guard and the department of homeland security have for years refused to release the report publicly. keep in mind this newly uncovered report was written four years before another internal coast guard report that was kept secret until a cnn investigation last summer. doubled operation failed anchor it substantiated dozens of rapes at the coast guard academy. >> i again apologize to each victim, survivor, loved ones. we failed to provide the safe environment that every member of the coast guard deserves. >> reporter: the problems outlined in both reports still persist according to dozens of recent and current coast guard employees who have spoken with cnn. they worry that change will not happen in the future until the coast guard confronts its past. >> in order to improve the culture, they have to acknowledge what the culture actually is. >> that was cnn's chief investigative correspondent pam brown reporting. we'll be right back. mortgage rates have continued to drop for the fifth week in a row now, potentially attracting buyers back to the market. cnn's business correspondent rah hall solomon has more. >> victor and isabel, good morning. mortgage rates continue to fall for now the fifth consecutive rate. 30-year mortgage rates are coming in at about 7.22%. that's according to data from freddie mack. slight relief for home buyers. the federal reserve began its historic rate setting campaign two years ago, laser focused on cooling the red hot housing market. investors and analyst turn their attention to the upcoming fed meeting later this month. that meeting could shape future mortgage rate movements going forward. federal reserve chief jerome powell saying it's still too early to tell whether it's time to slam the brakes and start talking about cutting rates. take a listen. >> and in many other countries around the world. high inflation imposes a significant hardship on all households and is especially painful for those least able to meet the higher cost of essentials like food, housing and transportation. it would be premature to conclude with confidence that we have achieved a sufficiently restrictive stance or to speculate on when policy might ease. >> now, we have seen a slight increase in mortgage applications in recent months, but despite this, pending home sales are at their lowest levels in two decades. and mortgage rates, even with these slight declines, remain stubbornly high. to put this in perspective, a 20% down payment on a $500,000 home would cost you more than $1,000 more per month today versus november of 2020. and as home buyers slowly come off the sidelines as mortgage rates come down, still too early to know what direction prices will go as we inch closer to the new year. victor? isabel? >> all right. thanks so much, rahel. more of the cold and the heavy rain and the snow is coming to the pacific northwest. some areas could see up to 4 feet of snow. >> that sounds like a nightmare to me. to top it off, strong winds for much of the region, as well, all of it was caused by the atmospheric river that's now in place. here to break down all the science is meteorologist allison chinchar. okay, what are we looking at? >> we're looking at several atmospheric rivers. they're going to come together to form an atmospheric river family. it's a series of them basically back to back over the next several days. that first one really starting to push a lot of that moisture into areas of oregon, washington, and northern california. the one we had yesterday and friday, that's starting to spread farther east. you're starting to see a lot of these other areas in the intermountain west starting to pick up on rain and snow, even some of the denver suburbs right now starting to see a few flurries flying around. you have these winter weather alerts for eight states. that includes this newer avalanche warning for portions of washington and oregon. they're telling folks that the roads and passes that go through these areas, do not travel on them at this time. wait about 24 hours until the conditions might improve. here's why. the first in that next series we've got coming through today and into the afternoon. by tonight, we start to see the set-up for the next system beginning to come in. then a cold front right behind that is going to push even more moisture into the area tuesday and as we go into wednesday. it's essentially back-to-back. and it's concern of these atmospheric rivers, that's why. it's expected to be a level 4, which is mostly hazardous rather than beneficial for many of these areas. you're talking widespread rainfall on the coast of 4 to 7 inches. >> all right, allison. thank you. still ahead, the college football world on pins and needles ahead of today's playoff selection, and several teams have made strong cases for a spot, but could the two-time defending champion, georgia bulldogs be left out. we'll explain. welcome back. well, it took until the last day of the college football season, but then all of a sudden, the playoff picture just got a whole lot more complicated. >> yeah, fans have alabama to thank for that. yes, alabama! the way i said it. let's bring in carolyn manno from new york now. carolyn, georgia, the two-time defending national champs lost yesterday for the first time in two years. >> when the playoff field expands to 12 teams next year, this isn't going to be something that we're talking about, but this is why we're talking about it. four teams can legitimately argue they should be in this thing. there only seems to be room for two right now. georgia entering yesterday's s.e.c. championship against alabama, riding a 29-game winning streak. the bulldogs last lost the 2021 s.e.c. title game against who else but the crimson tide. and jayden millroe was magnificent. they took a ten-point lead into the fourth quarter when georgia starts clawing back. kendall milton scoring to cut it to three with under three minutes to go, but they would never get the ball back. milrow, all over, diving for the first down to steal the 27 to 24 win. he was benched earlier in the season, played phenomenal. he was in tears afterwards as eighth-ranked alabama lays claim to the best win of any team in cup this season. number two michigan did not have any problems on the way to their third straight big ten championship. star running back blake corum scoring a pair of touchdowns. the defense, meanwhile, pitching a shout-out as the wolverines roll to a 26-0 win, now 13-0 for the second straight season. texas handling business against oklahoma state. maybe the best game of his career, throwing for almost 350 yards, four touchdowns in the first half alone. the long horns blow out by 28, winning their first big 12 title since 2009. and how about fourth-ranked florida state. they're a perfect 13-0, but they were down to their third-strange quarterback yesterday. brock lin, who only managed to throw for 55 yards as the seminoles eked out a 16-6 win over louisville for the acc crown. so therein lies the conundrum for the playoff committee. michigan and washington seem to be locks. what about the other two. fsu's backup quarterback should be back for the playoff. he was out yesterday, with that concussion, but even then, they have not really been the same team since their star, jordan travis, suffered a season-ending injury a couple of weeks ago. do you put them in ahead of alabama, or what about texas, which beat the tide in tuscaloosa earlier this year? and as much as it hurts me as a florida gator, even though i am inexplicably wearing georgia red for some reason, it's hard to count out georgia, back-to-back national titles. 29 straight wins before yesterday. we'll find out around noon who makes it in. >> you had one opportunity this morning to support your team, and here you are, if georgia red. you had an option. >> you know what, he did nail louisville. as a kentucky girl, i appreciate how you said that. >> there you go. i'm embarrassed. >> carolyn manno, thanks so much. and thank you for watching this morning. "state of the union" is next. have a great day.