>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. this is cnn news central. we do win with breaking news this hour, at least three suspects are at large after secret service agents opened fire on suspects that they say were breaking into an unmarked government vehicle. it happened late last night. let's get to the white house. priscilla alvarez has more details on what is actually happening here, tell us. >> this is a detail for niaomi biden, an agent involved in the incident, according to a source familiar. in this statement from the secret service they said the following, on november 12th, around 11:58 p.m. in the georgetown neighborhood of washington, d.c. secret service agents encountered possibly three individuals breaking a window on a parked and unoccupied government vehicle. the statement goes on to say during this encounter a federal agent discharged a service weapon, and it is believed no one was struck. again, according to a source familiar this was an agent involved with naomi biden, the president's granddaughter's detail. now they, in addition, note that the suspects fled in a red vehicle, and there is a regional lookout that has been issued. that is all the details that we have right now, but it is appears, again, that this happened in the late hours of sunday, and we're learning details by the minute. >> and again, priscilla, was naomi biden in the vicinity when this was happening? i mean, this is -- with them opening fire this is very serious. >> reporter: well, this is something that we're waiting to get more details on from secret service, just based on this statement it went on to say that there was no threat to any protectees, and the incident is being investigated by the d.c. metropolitan police department. it appears from the statement there was no threat to the protectees but we'll learn more in the hours to come. >> thank you, priscilla. we're going to continue to follow this breaking news. john? >> we'll watch that carefully all morning long. also this morning, a standoff at gaza's busiest hospital, this is the al shifa hospital in northern gaza, right here, the hospital official tells cnn that all operating rooms are out of service, and that with oxygen levels running low, no neonatal units are now working, they've all been shut down. the israel defense forces say it attempted to deliver fuel to the hospital overnight. you can see this video of them delivering the fuel, they say, israel also says that hamas terrorists are using the hospital to hide a terror tunnel complex underneath. the hospital director says the staff there were too afraid to leave to retrieve this fuel that you're seeing the idf put down right now. there is other video, this obtained by reuters, which shows this, it shows babies taken out of incubators, placed into beds. doctors say the only way to keep the infants warm and alive is to wrap them in foil and place them next to bowls of hot water. for its part israel says now the 239 people are still being held hostage inside gaza, including a 3-year-old american citizen, the white house says the toddler was taken on october 7th after his parents were killed by hamas. cnn's nada bashir is in jerusalem with the latest. nada? >> reporter: well, look, john, the situation at the hospital has been deteriorating for some time now. we have heard today from the hospital's director describing the situation as catastrophic, and as you mentioned there, the operating rooms are completely out of service, as we know, the neonatal unit has faced difficulties, there is no oxygen available for premature newborn babies and as we know it, we're not just talking about patients and medical staff at the al shifa hospital, which total around 1,500 according to officials there, but also thousands of civilians, you have flocked to the al shifa hospital and like other hospitals across gaza in search of sanction, we heard yesterday from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, there's no reason why civilians should not be able to evacuate. it has established evacuation routes on the eastern side of the hospital. but as we've heard from doctors from doctors without borders they have described the bombardment as being near constant and we've heard reports from medical staff on the ground that any civilians attempting to move between the different buildings on the hospital complex have faced live fire. of course the idf has denied targeting civilians on the complex, they have acknowledged there is ongoing ground fighting between the idf and hamas at the vicinity, and of course the ongoing fighting there is a huge concern, we have heard appeals from hospital staff for the international committee of the red cross, from other aid groups to be allowed access to facilitate safe evacuations, that's not the case. the committee for the red cross haven't seen these evacuations being possible so far. the situation in the hospital is also deteriorating by the hour, as you mentioned we did see reports of video from the idf showing the idf distributing some fuel, 300 liters of fuel to the entrance of the al shifa hospital according to the idf. we have again heard from hospital officials at al shifa. they say this fuel would only really power generators at the hospital for about 30 minutes, that's 300 liters. they are asking for 600 liters for each hour in order to power the hospital. so certainly wouldn't be enough for the dire situation that the hospital is facing now, and as you mentioned hospital staff have been too afraid to go outside and get that fuel, the idf claims hamas has prevented them, but as we've heard from the hospital's director who has said this hospital is now surrounded, completely besieged by tanks on the ground, many are too afraid to leave the hospital. when it comes to that evacuation route, there have been windows established for civilians to make that move from north to south. including those stranded at the hospital. we have heard the warnings from the u.n.'s own humanitarian chief there is nowhere safe for civilians in gaza. while we are seeing civilians moving southward, video emerging in fact today of a grandmother attempting to make that evacuation route with a newborn baby, six hours old, according to journalists on the ground. there are many people who cannot evacuate, either because they are elderly, disabled, they cannot leave the medicare care they are receiving in these hospitals in northern gaza and the roads are heavily damaged. thats a huge point of concern, john. >> nada bashir in jerusalem, thank you for that report. kate? the world health organization has issued a statement about al shifa hospital on sunday saying it has quote grave concerns for the safety of the health workers, hundreds of sick and injured patients, including wbabies on life support and displaced people who remain inside the hospital. joining us for more is dr. margaret harris, a spokesperson for the world health organization. the director general of the world health organization said in a statement on sunday regrettably the hospital is not functioning as a hospital anymore, which is a scary statement, what is it functioning as, then? >> it's just trying to keep things together. it still has up to 6 hur00 heal care workers in there and they are looking after hundreds of patients who, as your correspondent so graphically described, cannot be moved. and the babies aren't on life support anymore, their life support stopped because the electricity stopped. and -- the reason the things the babies need to survive is, indeed warmth because they're premature, they can't regulate their own body temperatures, but they also need oxygen because their lungs are imma tture. they don't breathe normally like a normal baby does. so there is so little time, and so much need. and it -- we want to make it clear to the world, hospitals should be safe havens, but they're being transformed in gaza into scenes of death, devastation, and despair. >> and, you know, another -- an additional complicating factor in all of this is that israel as well as u.s. intelligence as israel maintains that hamas has positioned its headquarters underneath al shifa, underneath other hospitals which is complicating all of it, on the need of -- for fuel at al shifa and beyond, which gets to this issue of trying to protect and keep these especially newborns and other severely ill patients alive, israeli officials from benjamin netanyahu to his senior advisor, they say that israel had offered fuel, and that the idf left fuel near the hospital, i want to play for you what cnn was told last night. >> we've already brought fuel to the hospital to make sure they've got enough fuel to run their generators so the hospital can continue to function. i have to tell you, hamas has refused the hospital staff to take the fuel that the idf left for them. so, we are, we're making maximum effort to protect the hospitals, and that's why we allowed fuel to go to the shifa hospital. >> but the hospital director as our correspondent was talking about told cnn the staff was too scared to go get it, cnn doesn't have clarity on some of the aspects of this, what are you hearing about this? does the world health organization have visibility into this? >> we are hearing the same thing as your correspondent reported, that the staff, they can hardly move in the corridors for fear of being shot. they aren't able to bury the bodies in the courtyard, they describe things like dogs arriving and eating the bodies because they cannot go out into the car park to bury the bodies for fear of being shot. the fuel, and of course welcome, was unfortunately only enough to keep the generators going for half an hour. there had been talk of much bigger amounts being provided, what we need is the end of the blockade all together, but really the only way we'll even get the supplies that the hospitals need, the full supplies, is a cessation of hostilitities, is for both sides to stop fighting, release the hostages, and let's all be humans again. >> unless and until that happens this war continues. benjamin netanyahu said yesterday that he's pushing for more field hospitals to be built to help alleviate the strain on the hospitals in northern gaza specifically. last week we saw an announcement from italy that it was sending a navy hospital ship to the coast to help. does the world health organization see these aspects as a solution or a way to help alleviate the suffering of civilians during this war? >> so, there are hospitals, as i said, they function, they provide health care, except they're not being permitted to right now because they're not being permitted to have fuel, they're not being permitted to have food, their staff are not safe because they're being shot at. so, any of these other things, ultimately once the hostilities stop it will be useful of a surge in of aid and assistance, but the only thing that's going to save the people in the hospitals right now is to end of this hostilities, a cease-fire. this is a man-made crisis, not an earthquake, not a fire, this is not a flood, this is made by humans. for humans. so we can solve it as humans by stopping the hostility. this should be easy, not difficult. >> seems nothing easy about what we're seeing coming out since october 7th, that's for sure. dr. margaret harris, thank you for coming in. fred? >> all right, there are extensive concerns throughout the entire region. new developments this morning out of eastern syria where u.s. forces have carried out another set of strikes, the targets are grouped -- are affiliated with iran's revolutionary guard forces, it is the third time in three weeks the u.s. launched strikes in the region. cnn's natasha bertrand is at the pentagon for us. defense secretary lloyd austin confirmed the strikes. what is he saying? >> reporter: yeah, fred, so he called these precision strikes and he said that it was intended to send a message to these iranian groups that the u.s. is going to take all necessary measures to protect u.s. forces. now, as you said it's the third strike the u.s. military has carried out in just three weeks against iran, and these iran-backed groups and their facilities in eastern syria, the strike last night targeted a training facility as well as a safe house, according to the pentagon, that u.s. officials believe was being used by iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps and its iranian proxies, it's important to note this all comes in response to more than 46 attacks, that these iranian proxy groups have launched on u.s. and coalition military bases in iraq and syria, since october 17th. just a really dramatic spike in the number of these attacks many of which have caused several injuries among u.s. personnel, including more than two dozen cases of traumatic brain injury, in total, about 56 u.s. troops have been injured as a result of these attacks, these air strikes that the u.s. is carrying out in syria, they're meant as a deterrent, and they're also meant to try to degrade the infrastructure and the weapons capability that these groups have to carry out these attacks, but it is worth noting that so far these iranian proxy groups have not been deterred. the u.s. has carried out a number of these strikes in recent weeks and the attacks have kept coming. the question now for the administration is whether this approach is sustainable, and whether it is actually going to deter these groups from attacking again in the future, fredricka. >> all right, natasha bertrand, thank you so much, kate. donald trump jr. back on the stand today, why the defense team is calling him as their first witness. plus, house republicans staring down another government shutdown. the new house speaker is trying what seems to be an entirely new approach that involves two steps. when one step has been hard enough in the past to avoid a government shutdown, how is this one going to work out? and the fbi seized his phones and his ipad. why federal investigators are looking into new york city's mayor. we'll be back. any moment now donald trump jr. will be back on the stand. the defense team calling trump's oldest son and co-defendant as their first witness, this in the $250 million civil fraud trial being brought by the state of new york against his family's business. cnn's kara skenell is outside the courthouse. she joins us now. what is expected to happen today? >> reporter: yeah, kate, so don jr. arrived just a few moments ago, he will be the first witness for the trump's defense, and they're defending against allegations that they made fraudulent financial statements by inflating the value of assets, these are the properties that they own, and giving those financial statements to banks and insurers to get better rates and terms. he'll be the first one up. he already testified for the state, and the difference here is that as the defense witness they will be able to shape the narrative. they will be able to ask him the questions that they want and he will have a lot more leeway in the answers that he gives. he previously testified he had nothing to do with the financial statements, he was not involved in their preparation and then he said he signed off on them only after he was consulting with accountants and lawyers, so distancing himself from them. today he will have more of an opportunity to lay out the defense which is that they didn't intend to defraud anyone and that the banks were not victims, that they were not harmed in this and that many of them continued to do business with him. he'll be the first of the witnesses, his testimony is expected to go all day, it could carry over into tomorrow because the state will have a chance to cross-examine him as well and then the trump team is expected to call a number of ex-witnesses, how the industry works, valuing properties and they will call some banks, we expect their defense to continue for several weeks. kate? >> all right, thanks so much, kara, see how it plays out today. fredricka? with us now is cnn senior legal analyst elie honig, good to see you, don jr., the second time on the witness stand, two weeks ago he said i signed off on a document that our accountants prepared with intimate knowledge and as a trustee i have an obligation to listen to those who are experts, who have an expertise of these things. so, that was the statement then. >> right. >> is this likely to be an opportunity to add to that, or at the same time run the risk of potentially undermining his preface testimony? >> both of those things are happening, fred, and no, viewers, you're not seeing double, he's back, the same donald trump jr. who testified a couple weeks ago. the difference is now he's being called by his own defense team. they will have broader latitude to question him, and i think that quote sort of isolates what one of the key defenses will be, and has been, which is look, i'm running this organization at a very high level, as executive vice president, and i'm relying on our accountants to do what accountants do. wu h here's the problem with that defense, the weakness, is the defendants in the civil case are the trumps and also the whole organization. if you're pointing blame to somewhere else in the organization or some contractor that's not going to help you as a defense. >> the first go round we saw him as a very combative eyewitness. now he's being called by the defense. are we going to see the same kind of demeanor? or is there a greater willingness to cooperate? >> well, i think the demeanor will be quite different because the tables are turned, last time he was being questioned by the ag's office, now he'll start off being questioned by his own lawyers. they're only supposed to ask open-ended questions, not leading questions. but it will get more interesting when that part is done. the a.g.'s office will come back later today or tomorrow morning and cross-examine donald trump jr. it will be a rematch of sorts. but typically on direct witnesses are much more friendly, much -- and on cross things get contentious. >> cross-examination, things will get contentious. he gets to control the narrative but not on cross-examination. what are likely the a.g. will press on? >> they'll express doubt. that he didn't know what was going on, you're the vp, you have a background in business, you graduated from wharton and all that. and the other thing, there's no real victim, h ewill claim, these are sophisticated lenders, they did their due diligence, made the loans, we paid them back with interest. the response here is largely legal, which is it doesn't matter to some of the claims in this case including the one claim that judges already ruled in favor of the a.g., materiality, whether anyone relied on it or not, doesn't matter, but it does matter for some of the other claims. >> we are watching for the fireworks. el elie honig, appreciate it. can mike johnson rally republicans to avoid a shutdown in five days? 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