it afternoon i m gillian turner in for martha maccallum this is the story. president biden making his first public remarks a short while ago after former president trump s 34 count felony conviction. he says his top political rival should now have the opportunity to appeal the guilty verdict same his every other american. he did not answer shadow questions from reporters. donald trump puts himself as political prisoner and planes you directly. what s your response to that? do you think the convictional have an impact on the campaign? we would love to hear thought. should you be on the ballot? gillian: just prior to the remarks trump found to appeal the verdict resulting from what he insists was a scam trial. once again blaming politics for the conviction. take a listen. this should have been on case and everybody said it was noncase including brad. brad sat until i ran for office and then they saw the polls. i was leading the republicans and the democrats back leading
family members with whom we are with contact that they will be assigned specific departure dates. we have asked them to continue to monitor their email regularly over the next 24 to 72 hours for specific instructions about how to exit. it is 3:00 here in washington, d.c., we re going to begin this hour with cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson, he is in sderot, israel. give us the latest on what the idf says happened today at the refugee camp. reporter: they said they had precise intelligence which allowed them to target a hamas terror cell that was hiding out in the jabalia refugee camp in the fallujah neighborhood and it was using that precise intelligence that they targeted them, eliminating them. they point out that hamas has has made a habit, if you will, intentionally hides behind civilians, hides in tunnels that are underneath and amongst the civilian housing and the idf also point out that they have been warning the citizens of northern gaza to move
standing by. also, the stark warning our fbi chief telling congress, that hamas attacks could inspire the biggest terror threats in the u.s. since isis. anti-war protesters, their painted red, removed by police amid threats to jewish students at cornell. the suspect now in custody. the search and arrest warrants just revealed for the suspect in the maine shooting. the record cold this halloween across the country. first the fall snow, the danger on the roads. we re tracking it. newly revealed body cam from the deadly maui wildfire. what it shows. the dramatic rescue after a plane crashes into the everglades. and our nbc news exclusive. the creators of friends speaking out. the last conversation one of them had with matthew perry before his tragic death. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. israel s push into the heart of embattled northern gaza is not coming without a deadly cost, and the images of suffering are n
today on inn sighed politics, a rapid escalation of war, israeli troops push deeper into gaza as the ground assault intensifies. they say they ve killed dozens of terrorists who were barricaded in tunnels and buildings, but what does this mean for the more than 230 people believed to be held hostage by hamas? plus, hunting for jews. a mob at a russian airport storms the tarmac searching for israelis on a flight arriving from tel aviv. this as anti-semitic incidents surge globally and right here in the united states. and then there were eight. mike pence is out of the 2024 race as a new poll shows trump more than doubling the support of his nearest rival in iowa, nikki haley is gaining ground, but can she or anyone else catch up? i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we begin with israel s war against hamas terrorists. the new round of air strikes lighting up the sky in gaza as the idf says it s stepping up operations on the ground and sending