happening right now a rare face-to-face that could change the world order. president biden in china's xi jinping meeting in california. biden saying he wants to get the two world powers back on, quote, a course. >> israeli troops raid gaza's largest hospital after accusing hamas of operating in the tunnels beneath it. meantime, the conditions in the hospital are deteriorating fast. its director saying there are newborn babies that are in, quote, severe danger. and a controversial border bill would make it a state crime to cross into texas illegally. opponents are concerned latinos will be racially profiled. it's now heading to governor abbott's desk. we are following the major developing stories and more all coming in right here to "cnn news central." happening now, the leaders of the two largest economies are sitting face-to-face as the world faces some of the most turbulent issues in modern times. president biden now speaking with china's xi jinping in a historic estate south of san francisco, and their conversation is expected to last for hours. in a meeting that took months of preparation to set up, president biden offered words of welcome to xi, just moments ago. both men acknowledging how critical cooperation is between the two global powers. >> we also have a responsibility to our people and the world to work together when we see it in our interest to do so. and a critical global challenge faced from climate change to counter narcotics to artificial intelligence demand our joint efforts. i look forward to beginning this discussion, and i welcome you. >> all right. let's go now to mj lee in california traveling along with this critical trip. mj, give us more details about this highly anticipated meeting. >> reporter: what was pretty remarkable there as the two leaders sat down to head into their series of bilateral meetings was hearing the two leaders really speak in agreement, at least in concept, about this notion of the two countries needing to avoid unnecessary conflict. you heard the president's comments there. he also said he doesn't want misconceptions or miscommunication. and president xi very much echoing that sentiment. he said, conflict and confrontation between the two countries has unbearable consequences. this is more of what president xi had to say. >> translator: one country's success is an opportunity for the other. it is an objective fact that china and the united states are different in history, culture, social system, and development path. however, as long as they respect each other, co-exist in peace and pursue cooperation, they will be fully capable of rising above differences and find the right way for the two major countries to get along with each other. i firmly believe in a promising future of the bilateral relationship. >> reporter: and we heard president biden saying that he believes there's no substitute for a face-to-face meeting of this kind. and, as you said, this meeting that we are seeing takes place the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes efforts by u.s. officials really to try to convince their chinese counterparts on the need for something to change. and what we were told in the days leading up to the summit is u.s. officials got a good amount of reluctance from their chinese counterparts on some aspects of what they were trying to convince them on, including on the issue of re-establishing that military-to-military communication. but we were interestingly told that in the big picture, they did sort of start to sense a growing recognition from beijing that something did need to change in terms of the u.s./china relations. now we'll see coming out of this meeting later today whether there are specific deliverables that come out of the summit. of course u.s. officials have very much been managing the expectations. but one key question that a senior u.s. official raised this week was whether china's engagement and this summit this week represents sort of their short-term view, or whether we are seeing beijing's interests in there being a permanent and long-term change to u.s./china relations. >> very, very important. we'll be waiting to see. so important to find out. mj lee live for us from california, thank you. pamela? we are tracking a day-long raid at the biggest hospital in gaza. israel says the controversial military operation in al shifa has provided them with, quote, concrete evidence that hamas was using the hospital as a command center. as images of damage and panic inside the hospital emerge, the israel defense forces have begun friending their case in the face of harsh condemnation from the u.n., the world health organization, and medical officials in gaza. earlier today hamas said the hospital complex is now fully in israel's hands. the w.h.o. said it has lost contact with the facility. let's bring in cnn's nada bashir in jerusalem. any more details about the evidence the idf claims it has? >> reporter: the idf has long held they believe hamas command and control center was positioned in the basement of the al shifa hospital following that overnight raid, israeli defense officials have released further details around the evidence they believe they have uncovered at the al shifa hospital. they say they found evidence of weapons, of military equipment, as well as technical assets which they have attributed to hamas and, of course, it is important to underscore that cnn has been unable to independently verify these claims. hamas and doctors on the ground at al shifa have long rejected the presence at the al shifa hospital. as we know, of course, there is a huge amount of concern over the safety and security of patients inside the hospital as this raid takes place. as we know, of course, the israeli defense force has said it is focused on uncovering hamas positions. it is focused on prioritizing the safety of civilians. as we have seen the last few days, particularly today amid that ongoing raid, we have seen israeli bombardment edging closer to the premises of the al shifa hospital complex. one doctor speaking to cnn overnight describing the shelling as closer and closer to the hospital shaking the walls of the hospital complex. you could hear the gunfire in his voice recording as well, so there is a huge amount of concern. you mentioned the condemnation from the united nations. we've heard from the u.n. human rights coordinator describing the military raid as appalling, saying that hospitals should not be turned into battlegrounds and calling on both sides to prioritize the safety and security of patients and civilians as well as medical staff inside the hospital. as we know, there are some 1,500 patients and medical staff in the hospital right now believed to be, according to officials, on the ground as well as hundreds of other civilians taking shelter on the hospital complex. there have been calls for civilians to evacuate. the warning we're hearing from doctors, hospital officials, it is near impossible to evacuate patients and civilians in the current conditions, with the current bombardment around the al shifa complex it simply isn't secure enough for civilians. doctors from doctors without borders, have described sniper fire being experienced as people try to move from building to building on the large al shifa complex. many require specialist care and the humanitarian situation. in order to evacuate many of the patients they have no safe guarantees for that evacuation. pamela? >> nada bashir, thank you. where do you think they stand on that front of edging closer to a deal? >> reporter: we haven't heard any clear movement to the news of hostages being released alive even though president biden did express some optimism yesterday that a deal would be done but exactly what that deal would look like isn't entirely clear for what is, we have learned from various sources here in israel and the u.s. as well, the broad parameters could involve the exchange of a large number of hostages being held by hamas. not all of them but a large number in exchange for a days' long ceasefire. but the specific details simply haven't been revealed. all of this is unfolding as the families of these hostages continue to try to mount pressure from around the world to get the focus back on these hostages, to get them released safely. there is a long march from tel aviv to jerusalem that is currently taking place with the families of hostage members, so a great deal of concern there. we learned, to add more details, how simply distressing this is for so many of these families. in a letter that the first lady of israel, sarah netanyahu, wrote to jill biden. in that letter it included the details israel has learned of a hostage that has given birth to a baby while in custody there in gaza. so clearly the urgency of this moment is not lost on the hundreds of family members who are desperately waiting for news as to how all of this will unfold, but the negotiations are moving painstakingly slow, and it's not exactly clear given the military operation that is are unfolding inside of gaza how this will play out in the days ahead. pamela? >> ed, thank you. for more on the humanitarian crisis unfolding, we are joined by the executive director of the u.n. relief and works agency in the u.s. thanks for coming on. there has been so much talk about the state of hospitals in gaza. obviously there was this raid there at the hospital that started yesterday, so it's a day long raid. can you tell us about the conditions there, what the patients and medical staff, how they're doing? as we heard nada bashir say, there are about 1,500 patients and medical staff at that hospital. >> yes. the conditions in gaza generally and across the strip, particularly at this hospital, shifa, are deplorable conditions. and i have heard some of the folks who have interviewed talk about the conditions. what i would like to add is communication is cut off, so, truthfully, we don't know what's going on inside the hospital except through the lens of the israeli soldiers there. that communication cutoff has both been probably because communication is cut off by the soldiers entering, but also there's a lack of fuel. al shifa hospital has been running on fuel-powered generators because the electricity has been cut off in the siege and we know in the last 24 hours very little communication has gotten through. yes, there are patients, hundreds of patients, doctors, and many people who sought shelter there ahead of the raid. and we know that, as was indicated, again, by those you've interviewed, sniper shots at those who have been trying to leave or go between buildings. this is not just over the last 24 hours. this is over the last couple of days. and there are so many bodies to bury, that they can't safely take away from the hospital, so they've been forced to bury the bodies in the hospital compound, which we all know is an incredibly -- is very unsafe for the spread of disease. this is deplorable conditions we cannot even imagine here sitting in our homes. >> you mentioned the fuel. earlier today a truck was able to deliver fuel from egypt but its use has been restricted by israeli authorities because of fears that the fuel would be used by hamas. what can you tell us about the delivery of humanitarian aid in the region? >> yes, so that fuel is very limited. we know we need 160,000 liters of fuel to power the plants that now have either stopped running or will be stopped running very soon, and to power hospitals and to power bakeries, to let bakeries bake bread. we are at a catastrophic situation in terms of fuel. the only fuel that's let in that unrwa has access to is those for humanitarian aid. the aid coming in is approximately an average of 35 trucks a day, is a drop of aid in an ocean of need. there were, previous to this conflict, 500 trucks going into gaza with needed goods and humanitarian food, medicine and other supplies. approximately 35 trucks a day is not enough to serve the need. something really spoke to me in your previous interview, somebody said with concern, which i would agree with, one of the hostages has given birth or is giving birthright now, and it is horrific to think about. i want to add it's horrific to think about 50,000 pregnant women in the gaza strip right now. 180 on average are giving birth a day under conditions which, again, are catastrophic and in which water is running out by today, tomorrow, there will be a lack of water for 270,000 internally displaced humans in gaza. >> i can't imagine. as a pregnant woman myself, i just can't imagine the conditions for these women who are giving birth there. and speaking of the babies that are being born, there is a big concern about especially transporting, some of the premature babies, incubators, respirators getting in, being delivered by israel. can you give us an update on that, whether those resources have been delivered to help these babies? >> yeah, i don't know. i don't know if any of those instruments are able to get in or not. god, i hope they can. i do know that without electricity, we can't -- incubators cannot be run. we've seen images of babies at al shifa hospital out of incubators with aluminum foil and other sort of temporary means to protect them. it is just unfathomable to think of what folks are going through right now, what civilians are facing, and i worry very much. al shifa is one of the oldest and largest hospitals in gaza and one of the few functioning hospitals after electricity has been cut and fuel has run out. people have nowhere left to go. if they tried to get out of that hospital, they're getting out in unsafe conditions. 102 of my colleagues at unrwa have been killed. 70% below the line in the south, over 50 installations have been hit, have been damaged. there is no safe place in gaza right now. and hitting any u.n. installation is a violation of international humanitarian law. unrwa's guest house in the south of gaza was hit directly the day before yesterday. international law is not being upheld right now. >> mara, thank you for coming on. >> thank you. still to come this hour, more warning signs for president biden's re-election campaign. he may be losing support among young voters. and closing arguments in the trial of a man who is charged with attackiki ing g pelosi wit hammmmer. in the race for 2024, president biden is facing an uphill battle with a block of voters critical to putting him in the white house. we're talking about young voters. in georgia, jeff zeleny asked why some of them are less inclined to support biden this time. people may not vote because they say, well, this happened under the biden/harris administration. >> reporter: as kerry singleton looks ahead to the next presidential election, he's thinking back to the promises he heard president biden and vice president harris deliver on a visit to atlanta. >> pass the freedom to vote act. pass it now! >> reporter: on that winter day, the president was closing in on his first year in office. hopes were high for singleton and other students on the grounds of clark-atlanta university and morehouse college. since then voting rights legislation stalled. the supreme court rejected a student loan forgiveness plan and high prices from food to housing are fueling economic anxieties. >> i do think that everyone is willing to hold the administration accountable for some of those promises that were made, and if they don't happen, i think it will be a scary election. >> reporter: for all the warning signs facing the president a year before the election, the skepticism and apathy of young voters ranks high. >> folks just feel poorer right now than two years ago. there's going to have to be a lot of conversations about how we feel like our issues are being heard. >> reporter: the youngest woman to win a seat in the georgia senate. in 2020 she went door-to-door in the atlanta suburbs, building a coalition to help biden turn the state blue. that coalition, she said, could fracture by the president's handling of the israel/hamas war. >> i think that young voters recognize you can't bomb your way to peace and security. and so we do feel uncomfortable with that. >> reporter: rachel carroll's first vote went to biden. she said she doesn't regret it given the alternative but is disappointed by some priorities of the white house. >> if they can fund the war, they can find a way to pay off our student loans. >> reporter: young voters were a critical component of the president's victory particularly here in georgia where biden defeated donald trump by only 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million cast. exit polls in 2020 show voters 18 to 29 made up 20% of the georgia electorate. the only state of the top six battlegrounds where the percentage of young voters exceeded the national share of 17%. biden won young georgia voters by 13 points, according to exit polls. but now, a year before the 2024 ele election, voters under the age of 30 here in georgia split 46% for trump and 44% for biden. according to a "new york times"/sienna college poll. >> the excitement is not as high as it was last time. >> reporter: gibson and some classmates wish they had more inspirational and generational choices. >> we have to pick between two different people who have very, very old and up in age. >> we would like to see biden pass the baton. >> reporter: the vice president, whose college tour brought her back on campus this fall, resonates more. >> i think she sparks that energy. when she came to morehouse it was fun. >> reporter: with biden at the top of the tech, potentially facing a rematch of the 2020 race, voters say the burden rests on him to deliver on his promises and not take their support for granted. >> just as well as we hold trump accountable, we have to hold biden accountable. >> reporter: and some of the biggest achievements of the biden administration, the infrastructure law, the inflation reduction act, even lowering prescription drugs simply do not resonate as loudly with the younger voters we talked to, brianna. there's no doubt the biden campaign realizes it has its work cut out for them. they said it's a deeply consequential election for young americans, and they will show that contrast between what they call the maga agenda and president biden. again, if trump becomes the republican nominee, they look forward to that contrast. but some voters we spoke to look forward to seeing more and hearing more from president biden. brianna? >> jeff zeleny, thanks for that report. a hearing just ended in atlanta that sought to seal in evidence a case where donald trump would not be able to pardon himself. fulton county, georgia, d.a. fani willis has accused the former president and 19 others of racketeering and 2020 election interference. there is a reaction of the leak showing defendants who cut deals speak to go investigators, and they were part of a plea deal for attorneys jim ellis, sidney powell, ken chesebro. nick, the hearing just ended. what happened? >> reporter: prosecutors and defense attorneys have agreed in principle to a protective order where prosecutors will have to designate what they believe is sensitive materials in the pretrial discovery material and defense attorneys will have 14 days to respond. i should mention the judge here, judge mcafee, hasn't yet made a ruling from the bench and today was no different. listen to him talk about what a protective order could look like in this case. >> the state originally proposed what i would characterize as a blanket, umbrella protective order, anything and everything that is turned over that wasn't already public or part of the defense file was going to be held under seal. whereas my reading of mr. schaefer's proposed order is there is going to be this intermediary designation of some things will be sensitive and that's what's not allowed to be turned over, so it's not everything. is that a fair read of that, mr. wade? >> it is, judge. >> reporter: this case has been, in one word, bizarre with a lot of twists and turns, and today was another chapter in that. the attorney for misty hampton admitted to being the source of the leak of the videos to the media. of course one of those co-defendants is alleged to have helped trump operatives illegally access voting equipment. her attorney, jonathan miller, saying in open court that he was the source of the videos, saying that the public has a right to know. that argument, though, was not enough to sway the judge in this indicating that he is going to put a protective order in case this case really drags on and fani willis seemed to predict it will continue to drag on, saying it will go into the 2024 election cycle and perhaps well into 2025. it is worth noting, pamela, there still is not a trial date scheduled for the former president in this case. pamela? >> all right, thanks so much. a texas border bill that makes it a state crime to enter illegally is now heading to governor abbott's desk for his signature. critics say it will lead to racial profiling of latitinos. we arere live in h houston up p. nice footwork. man, you're lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. now you can stream all your games like it's nothing. yes! [ cheers ] yeah! woho! running up and down that field looks tough. it's a pitch. get way more into what you're into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. cross the border and face arrest by police, not just border patrol, what a new proposed law in texas is threatening to do to anyone trying to cross illegally. greg abbott is expected to sign the bill. the aclu is calling it, quote, one of the most radical anti-immigrant laws ever and is vowing to sue the governor. rosa flores is live with more details. rosa, what more can you tell us about this legislation? >> reporter: brianna, this legislation is sending ripples of fear throughout the latino community in the state of texas which makes up about 40% of the population of the state. let me take you through this bill. what it does is it creates a new state crime for the illegal entry into this state and gives law enforcement the power to arrest and remove individuals from the state. governor greg abbott has maintained all he's doing is dealing with the border crisis when the federal government is not doing its job. critics of the bill, which include 30 former immigration judges who have said and issued a statement saying that this bill is unconstitutional because it maintains -- they maintain that immigration is a federal function. other critics say this will lead to the racial profiling of latinos across the state. this bill gives law enforcement, all law enforcement including local police, the power to enforce this bill. the bill specifically says that it prohibits the illegal entry and also the illegal presence of an individual in the state. the bill has been compared to the show me your papers bill that landed in the u.s. supreme court and the u.s. supreme court maintained it is a function of the federal government. critics are very worried how this will play out. this was debated for hours and the author of the bill maintains it is constitutional. they say it will not lead to racial profiling. here is some of the debate, listen. >> the big elephant in the room, people of color, generally, and latino, you come from the canadian border and they're white. people don't want to talk about that. it makes me sad because it's state sanctioned racism. >> we choose to demonize and vilify people's humanity and dignity. and the traj di of that conversation is those are the same people who look at our state and our country and still see hope. >> reporter: that was representative moody out of el paso. he mentioned, brianna, the el paso mass shooting from 2019 and he mentioned something that historians i've interviewed always mention and that is anti-latino rhetoric waves the way to dehumanize individuals and for the mistreatment of individuals. governor greg abbott is expected to sign this bill into law and icla says they plan to sue. >> rosa, thank you for the report. pamela? right now the jury has begun deliberations in the federal trial of a man accused of attacking nancy pelosi's husband. david depape took the stand yesterday, at times becoming emotional. he admitted to attacking paul pelosi after his plan to targets the house speaker fell apart and acknowledged conspiracy theories about 2020 fueled his motives. veronica, when do we expect a verdict on this? >> reporter: pamela, the jury got the case just before lunch and them just started deliberating. it could be hours, it could be days. once this case wraps up, then his state case will begin. in the federal case he is facing two charges that the jury will have to decide on whether he assaulted the immediate family of a federal official and attempted kidnapping. david depape's defense attorneys wanted the jury to focus on two words, federal official, because they argue david depape did not go to then house speaker pelosi's home because of her official duties, because of her job as house speaker at the time. they argue he went there because she was a top democrat and was spreading lies on behalf of the political party. they said his acting on account of politics is different on account of official duties and official title. they wanted the jury to make that distinction. the prosecution said he very much went to then house speaker pelosi's house because of her official title. he said they showed videos after the arrest and played audio from his interview with investigators where he said she was leader of the pack, that this was a suicide mission and he was sick of all of the lies coming out of washington, d.c. if he's convicted on these charges as well as the charges from the state case, he faces decades in prison. pamela? >> veronica, thank you so much for that. today on capitol hill, a warning from the fbi director about potential attacks on u.s. soil. more of that up next. as the war between israel and hamas intensifies, fbi director christopher wray is warning of growing dangers here at home. >> our most immediate concern is that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the middle east to carry out attacks here at home. that includes home grown violent extremists inspired by a foreign terrorist organization and domestic violent extremists targeting jewish americans or other faith communities like muslim americans. >> we have evan perez who is here with more on this. you have director wray saying threats are at a whole other level since this war began. what are they seeing? >> well, the number of threats, anti-semitic threats against jewish americans, muslim americans, is off the charts. this is something right after october 7th in a very unusual move we had director wray get on a call with reporters and talked about just how much this had grown just out of nowhere. one of the concerns they have is the thing we saw during the rise of isis where people sitting around consuming some of this stuff decide to do something. there's a lot of access to guns. it's very easy to do. that's a huge concern for them, but also just the fact they've known for years and for a long time there are people who were associated with hamas here mostly doing fund-raising. and so the concern is after october 7 you have to worry hamas might do an attack here in the united states, not something they've seen so far but it is a concern and one of the reasons he mentioned there's a number of people associated with hamas who are under investigation. >> it's chilling to think of people going from sympathy to action, but, like you said, we've seen it before. in this hearing republicans were zeroing in on the homeland security secretary. >> one of the things i found interesting in this hearing that stretched over a number of hours, way more hours than i thought was going to happen, was the fact every time we heard from the director, from someone trying to describe how the threat had changed from october 7th, they got interrupted. republicans on that panel didn't want to hear that. they wanted to yell at alejandro mayorkas who they've been trying to impeach. yesterday during a vote decided to refer it to a committee. a lot of their focus today was on mayorkas and trying to hold him to account for what they say is the porous border and problems associated with the border. that's what you saw a lot of what this hearing became about today. >> he becomes this punching back for this issue they really want to talk about. evan, thank you so much for monitoring that for us. we appreciate it. and the union deal with the big three automakers is at risk of falling apart. why and whether the strike could restart next.. now to other hea we're watching this hour, the national transportation safety board is now investigating a deadly crash in ohio. officials say that three students, two parent chaperones and a teacher were killed while traveling to a high school band performance on tuesday morning on interstate 70. the ohio highway patrol said tractor-trailer struck the coach bus carrying students and that led to a chain reaction crash. also new jersey first lady tammy murphy is throwing her hat in the ring and vying for bob menendez' seat as he's facing federal corruption charges and he pled not guilty last month. they will face off against also andy kim. and pink is teaming up with pan america to give away 2,000 banned books at her concerts in florida this weekend. titles include the family book by todd par and amenda gorman's the hill we climb. florida school districts had the highest number of book restrictions in the country last year. pam. brianna, workers at several large auto workers rejected the agreement, it is a sign that the contract is not so popular along the assembly lines. van vanessa yurkevich is here with us. what is latest on voting. >> reporter: this is a situation where every single vote is going to matter. you have 11 locals at general motors that have voted down this deal. you have two at stellantis and two at ford. that may not sound like a lot when you talk about hundreds of locals voting, but at these particular plants, a lot of them are assembly plants where you have the majority share of workers that are voting. and when you have thousands of workers voting no, that drags down the yes votes in favor of this deal. so as it stands now, at stellantis, 73% voted in favor. at ford, 66%. but at general motors, we're watching closely, just 54% of membership has voted in favor of the deal. with 20% of the membership outstanding yet to get those vote totals in. this is going to be very close. and i think the question is why, when uaw president sean faehn said this is a historic deal. here is what we're hearing. according to some of the workers, legacy works are folks who have been there longer say they believe they're not getting the same wage increases, the same percentage wage increases as some of the younger workers or newer workers. you also have to remember, just how much the union promised their members in these negotiations. they promised 40% in wage increases, they promised retiree health care. and a return to traditional pensions. they didn't get that. and you have some folks who maybe are still upset about that. not getting everything that was promised to them. the question is what happens if one of these unions, one of these unions at gm potentially goes on strike, votes down this deal? well you could have a situation where in a couple of weeks we see general motors union members back on strike. that's going to be a tough situation as you head into the holidays as you have a lot of auto companies trying to get back up and running after a six-week strike. the union is not commenting on this. the automakers are not commenting on this. they want to see this play out. but from the beginning, if you remember, sean faehn, uaw president said they're try to get the best deal but it is up to the membership. and you're seeing that play out right now. it is tight at general motors, we'll have to wait until see until next week what the totals look like. but every single vote will matter in this case. >> is certainly will. thank you so much. and thank you for joining us. 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