jimmy carter, as well as president joe biden and his wife, first lady dr. jill biden. the president and first lady and secretary of state, bill and hillary clinton. and every living first lady, laura bush, michelle obama, melania trump, as well as of course vice president kamala harris. waiting for the hearst to depart, i want to talk about what we've seen. i know this was -- i'm sure there was emotional for millions of americans watching today, but as somebody who has been a biographer of the carters, and i know this was particularly emotional for you. what moved you the most? >> yeah, no, it was extremely emotional. you know, i hadn't seen president carter since the 75th wedding anniversary party back in july of 2021. and i have to say i'm shocked at how thin and frail he looks. very sad. and i can't imagine what he is thinking having lost his wife of 77 years. i'm also particularly moved by the three eulogies given by family members. chip, amy, and the grandson, jays son. they were very moving, touching, and i think they bring home an essential point that must be remembered about the carters. you know, this is presidency that was defined by its decency. and rosalynn carter and jimmy were both extremely decent people. >> yeah. amy carter reading from a letter that her father wrote to her mother, i think she said 75 years ago when he was in the navy. >> right. >> just an expression of how much he missed her and how much he loved her. a love that carried on for 77 years. and i think it is fair to say he went -- entered hospice care in february. i'm no expert on this sort of thing, but i think it's fair to say based what i know of the carters, my expertise runs to my limited ability as an amateur historian and the fact that when i was 19 i was an intern at the carter center, that my guess is that he was -- he was holding out until she left before him. he wanted to see her off. it would be my guess. you tell me, kai. >> yeah, well, we can't know, but i think that's a good interpretation. he is a man of enormous stamina and strength and will. and he was so close to her, and it must have been hard for him to see her in the last few months as she declined with signs of dementia. and it's going to be hard to imagine how he's going to live without her. it's very sad. >> yeah. and then as you note, the memories of chip carter and then jason carter. the very eloquent grandson. and tim, one of the things we said good-bye to when we said good-bye to rosalynn carter today was the last first lady of the greatest generation. >> yes. and we have not had in the modern era many first ladies who -- whose husbands were in the peacetime military. mamie eisenhower and rosalynn carter. rosalynn carter's death brings to the end a line of women who were the steely supporters of husbands or boyfriends, depending on when they got married, who were fighting the greatest war and a twhar ch chchange -- and a war that changed our country. what is dramatically important about rosalynn carter is that she took this understanding of the country's place in the world, and when she could have retired from the stage in 1981, she instead used her knowledge of the world and her platform to seek to help the most vulnerable. and i can't imagine how many americans have shown that kind of humanitarian instinct -- her husband did, too. but let's just imagine the role and responsibility of someone who has been in the oval office, who leaves the oval office and then find hes herself in the mo humble of villages to help people screen for a worm that could ruin their lives, and to be a partner in the -- almost eradication -- 2.3 million cases of guinea worm in 1986. there were 13 last year and we heard seven this year. to have played that role as a humble servant in a humanitarian mission. >> we're watching the hearse depart the church on its way to the cemetery. >> you know, one thing that judy woodruff who, by the way, side note, how notable is it that a bygone era that the carters had a journalist speak there, and it's not as if they didn't have their -- their -- some animosity in their relationship at what she noted. but i think that was quite telling that she was asked to speak. but subcommittee t-- she talked about the fact that rosalynn carter decideded that she was not going to have any regrets at the end of her life, but even before that she wasn't going to have any regrets when it came to campaigning so hard and working so hard for the political causes that her husband was fighting for. and she also talked about the fact that rosalynn carter not just -- didn't just focus on mental health but also caregiving. and judy has a son who needs round-the-clock care, and so that is something that they bonded over. one thing i do want to mention, and kate you were talking about this before the service started, was how blunt rosalynn carter was. and you witnessed it when it came to the trump presidency and the fact judy recounted what rosalynn carter said about joe biden being in the white house saying that it is a relief to have him in the white house. saying that maybe not a surprise, but saying that with melania trump there was interesting. >> could have been a little awkward in that moment for sure. she was determined to be taken seriously, too. i think that's something else that judy said. she had these weekly lunches with the president. and she transformed the east wing because she insisted on being this conduit to the american people for him. then what she did with guinea worm after was incredible. when i interviewed her, she was crying talking about eradicating guinea worm. i think that humanity and that empathy came through so beautifully today. >> it was both a public funeral obviously, but also personal. i mean those children -- chip carter talked about that he's had addiction and that she saved his life. amy carter in effect explained to us that her father doesn't speak anymore. so she was speaking for him. jason carter talked about his cool grandma. >> yeah. >> it was really just lovely on a family level. just to go back to former president carter for a minute, you know, he's obviously in very fragile health. but a family friend told me when he went into hospice that it was a process for him to agree to hospice because he saw she was suffering from dementia. he wanted to be able to take care of her. and i think there is something as you said earlier to the fact that now that she's gone, i mean he has seen her off. he was there to the end. >> yeah. and you were talking about jason carter, the grandson's remarks. >> what a celebration of life. i think we all have to take a moment and say what we just witnessed was something incredible. it was profound. it was beautiful. and i want to really share, repeat the quote that jason carter quoted senator warnock where he said rosalynn carter doesn't need a eulogy because her life was a sermon. and i think that really encapsulates everything we've been talking about here today which is what a life she lived. you know, the anecdotes about skiing, about summitting -- summitting everest, right. tai chi i think it was -- >> with a sword. >> with a sword. but also, too, i think he spoke a lot about her faith and how her faith and i think particularly in a time when there's been a lot of scrutiny around the question of faith, about how her faith compelled her to act of service. so all of the agendas, all of the advocacy, everything that we saw, we heard later on in life she took up elder care advocacy, took up caretakers, financial resources. things like that. all of this was built on the foundation of her faith -- she saw them as inex-t t-trick ably inextricably linked. >> as someone who know rosalynn carter and she obviously had a hand in planning this, how much was this her, how much was this of rosalynn carter? >> well, i think all of it because as we know, you know, presidents and first ladies have this opportunity to begin planning these ceremonies for when they are -- in some way they belong to the state. they belong to all of us. this is an opportunity for us to see them celebrated. and people are really educated about rosalynn carter today. so she had a lot to say about who was there, who was invited, mrs. trump, all the first ladies, the sisterhood of this group. this is now -- there are just five of them left. and when mrs. carter died, she was the last of that group that was the biggest group of first ladies, six or seven that were together at the reagan library opening. when she passed, that was the last woman in that photo. i think she understood and appreciated what that meant to be part of this serving your country as first lady. i think she showed us all the fierce work ethic that she had. she lived her faith in actions and not words. and i think she wanted that to be seen. a great capacity to love, to love her country, to love the bork she was dedicated to. she left a mark on the role of first lady. i think we all have learned so much about that, the country has learned so much about that. her mark on the white house. but also the mark on her family. incredibly close family, and she wanted the world to see that. >> so beloved by her family members. at the end of the day, all her great works, all of her experience, first lady of georgia, first lady of the united states, that's the most important legacy she leaves with all of her children and grandchildren and her great grandchildren. thanks, one and all, for being with us. appreciate your insights. thank you for joining us for cnn special coverage of the memorial service for first lady rosalynn carter. "cnn news central" is up next. first we're going to leave with some of the moments from today's deeply moving tribute to mrs. carter. i'll see you at the top of the hour at 4:00 eastern. ♪ hi there and welcome to "cnn news central." i'm briana keilar alongside boris sanchez. weaver wolf blitzer live in tel aviv. and we have 12 more handles back in israel. ten israeli citizens, two foreign nationals released by hamas today. the white house confirming that no americans were in this group. in exchange, israel handed over 30 more palestinian detainees just moments ago. >> now this is the first hand-over of this two-day extension of the israel-hamas truce, and high-level talks are under way now to broaden the agreement with cia director visiting qatar, pushing for adult males to be included in future handle releases. wolf? >> boris, thank you. as part of this temporary pause, desperately needed aid has been able to enter gaza for the past five days. today more u.n. trucks arrived in northern gaza, and you can see the scale of the destruction surrounding that aid convoy. i want to bring in our reporters right now. oren liebermann here in tel aviv, jeremy diamond at karen shalom, the border crossing between egypt and israel. you saw helicopters landing. tell us about that. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. four helicopters just came in toward the crossing. the same number of helicopters that we saw arriving yesterday when indeed those newly freed hostages crossed into israel via the crossing which is behind me, and then boarded those helicopters en route to a hospital in tel aviv. so we are witnessing a very similar scene, drone activity overhead begins first, then you see the helicopters landing. shortly i presume that we will see those helicopters taking off once again for hospitals in israel. wolf, today 12 hostages were freed by hamas. ten of those israeli citizens, part of this agreement brokered between israel and hamas. now we are starting to hear some activity, perhaps seeing helicopters coming in overhead right now, wolf. let me see if my cameraman, byron, can pan up. and you may be seeing at least one helicopter, it's very dark here. we did hear one helicopter overhead. in heading north in the direction of tel aviv. and what's interesting is today we saw, of course, as yesterday those passages crossed directly into israel from gaza via the carom shalom crossing. today they reverted to the noon we have seen previously which was for them to go through the rafah crossing in egypt first, and then to drive that less than two-mile drive to carom shalom and then cross into israel that way. but what we do know is that these hostages are firmly back on israeli soil. ten israeli citizens. most of them adult women, most of them older women. and then there is one minor, mia, who is 17 years old. what's also notable is that there are several women here, as we have seen in the past, whose husbands or whose partners or siblings, males all, are still in gaza, still held by hamas and other militant groups. >> i want you to stand by. i want to bring in orren en lieb liebermann. you have information, as hostages are freed we're learning more about the conditions they were held in while in gaza and what these first few days back in israel have been like. update our viewers on that. >> reporter: wolf, there has been a number of reports we've heard from the families of the hostages explaining the conditions they were held in. there doesn't appear to be a uniform way they were held by hamas. some were held underground according to family, some were held in houses above ground and moved from location to location. some, as we learned from one of the families, from the family of hila hotem, was held with her mother until she was released without her mother, a violation of the truce agreement to release families together. they were given minimal food, according to not only the families of the hostages but also the doctors, having to subsist largely on pita bread our rice and basic carbohydrates like that. one of the issues doctors have had to deal with repeatedly is the issue of nutrition. that's been one of the major challenges on the physical front. in fact, one of the elderly ladies who was rushed to siroka medical center was suffering greatly in critical condition, according to doctors there, because of the lack of nutrients there. that remains the greatest physical challenge. that doesn't even begin to cover the challenge of mental health and dealing with a much harder part of the recovery on that front. that will take time. doctors have said that's a long process that begins with family reunions. of course, part of the hard part there is that some of these freed hostages are just learning as they come out that their family members were murdered on october 7th by hamas in the terror attack. and that has to be processed, as well. that makes it all the much more difficult as this process plays out. ten hostages released, israeli women and children. ten more expected tomorrow. one more final point if i may, the truce survived arguably its biggest challenge, active fighting between hamas and s israel. the two side blamed each other. this could have blamed each other. a partially good sign it held together at least for now. >> that's encouraging. thank you. jeremy diamond, carom shalom. thanks to you, as well. more heartbreak for one family. over the weekend, yoni could not hug his wife tight enough along with their young daughters, ros and aviv. he asked them did you miss me? the girls had just been freed by hamas. after that joyous reunion, the family is now once again in mourning. this after the israeli military said today that the latest hostage confirmed dead is daron's brother. the idf says hamas is holding the body in gaza. joining us is their cousin in texas now. we have spoken before. i am so sorry to hear this news, what happened to your family at the hand of hamas. your aunt was found murdered in the days after the attack, and her part me to remains captive -- partner remains captive. first of all, how did you learn about ravid? >> thank you very much so much, again, it's great to see you here. it's one of those roller coaster emotional days here, here in texas and back home in israel where we're learning the sad truth of the -- ten of the -- he was found dead, his body was recovered in gaza strip, was confirmed by the idf this morning, early this morning here in texas, that his body is actually recovered and found it in gaza strip. we can only assume as we don't have any evidence of what happened on october 7th, we know it was very hard to trace every single one of the hostages. and we know exactly what happened. same thing has happened to my aunt. it's really hard to know the details at this point, but here we are again few days after big sigh of relief to our family with daron, ros, and aviv being reunited and our family finally could take a big sigh of relief and joy, happiness. and here we are today again mourning and dealing with the grave sadness and the loss of another family member that was so close and dear to us all. >> what's your reaction hearing that ravid's body remains with hamas? >> i think that we heard throughout the 50 days that the orders of the hamas received was to grab anything they can, even dead body, so they can then go back and negotiate those for receiving prisoners. we saw that years ago with the team that was captured, and they were trying to do the same with dead bodies. they're trying to negotiate any possible way. and i think, again, it just points out to who we are dealing with here and how low they can go as far as treating human beings on the very basic levels of humanity. this is outraging and really hard to know that they're holding bodies just so we can negotiate -- so they can negotiate them for live people that are to be returned back to the gaza strip. those are convicted criminals. i think that we value life in israel a whole lot more, and we want those people to be back with our family so we can give them the proper funeral and burial that it is so needed for our family to grieve and mourn those who we've lost. >> tell us a little about ravid. i know he had a baby daughter, as well. >> yeah. he left behind a mother and father, three sisters and three young kids, the youngest was 6 months old. little baby girl, that she's absolutely an adorable little beautiful girl. he's a very sweet man that always remembered for his laugh and his faces. always had a smile on his face. he loved life. he's a wonderful father, wonderful husband, and a great family member. it's always been -- i have many, many memories of him spending the summertime with him when we came to visit our family down south. so we were very saddened to hear the news today. we were hoping for a better outcome obviously than to hear about the news today. >> certainly. it has been a few days since daron and the girls were freed in the first exchange back on friday. i know you've been keeping your distance, but have you been able to speak with any of these family members or learn about the conditions they actually endured during their 48 days in captiviti? >> i have tried to reach out to them, had and we learn more details as we all hear from the people coming back from captivity about their poor condition just like the reporter before me stated that it is obviously a very hard human -- basic conditions to be in underground with very minimal food, no bed to sleep on, sometimes being forced to sleep on chairs or on the floor, groups or separated with very little sleep and very little comfort. i heard the kids were having a hard time, as well. some of them telling us that they had to be forced to watch those horrible images, and they were not allowed to cry or talk loudly. they had to whisper. it is chilling to the core. it's really -- it's really hard to hear those, but we understand that, again, this is the life, and this is the conditions in prison by hamas. it just -- even kids are not spared from this kind of horrible conditions they're kept in. >> our hearts go out to you. thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much, wolf. >> and the united states says it's sending three additional plane loads of critical aid to gaza as the world health organization is warning that more people there could die from disease than from the israeli air strikes. we have all of those details and much more coming up when cnn's special live coverage continues. so... i know you and george were struggling with the possibility of having to move. how's that going? we found a way to make bathing safer with a kohler walk-in bath. a kohler walk-in bath provides a secure, spa-like bathing experience in the comfort of your own home. a kohler walk-in bath has one of the lowest step-ins of any walk-in bath for easy entry and exit. it features textured surfaces, convenient handrails for 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during this temporary truce. the u.n. says that's just a drop in the ocean, their words, drop in the ocean medicared to what is really -- compared to what is really needed. cnn's larry medoa is in cairo. how critical is this aid that's arriving today? >> reporter: wolf, it's absolutely essential, but it's nowhere near enough. to understand how much aid gaza needs, consider where things stand after seven weeks of this war. almost 15,000 people have died, 6,000 of them children, 4,000 of them women. 1.7 million people are displaced out of a population of 2.3 million. and the world health organization now says everybody everywhere has dire health needs. listen to this warning -- >> eventually we will see more people die from disease than we are even seeing from the bombardment if we are not able to put back this health system and provide the basics of life -- food, water, medicines, and of course fuel to operate the hospitals. >> reporter: the health care system is all but collapsed. they don't have electricity to run generators. they don't have power to run the water desalination plans. the food distribution system is far greater than there is availability even though aid trucks have come in in this last five days of the pause. the u.n. has said that they would need 200 trucks coming in every day for two months continuously to meet the need here. you're talking about food and fuel and water and cooking gas and baby formula. and as winter gets close by, winter weather gear because during the rainy season in gaza, it leads to displacement, some flooding. so all the aid the u.s. is bringing in, the qataris, egyptians, are barely scratching the surface. >> reporting from cairo for us, larry, thank you very much. we're going to have much more of our special coverage live in israel just ahead. hunter biden's lawyers now say he is willing to testify on capitol hill next month, but only if he can do so publicly. earlier this month, the republican-led house oversight committee subpoenaed the president's son and also his brother to determine if he committed an impeachable offense through the biden family's foreign business dealings. >> cnn's evan perez is following this story. evan, why is hunter biden's legal team insisting that he do this in public? >> reporter: one of the reasons they say is that they're used to seeing what the republicans do with testimony, that they distort and misinform based on the testimony that they get behind the scenes. so that's what republicans had asked for. they had asked for a deposition behind closed doors, and then perhaps later on if possible a public hearing. what hunter biden's lawyers are saying is no, we're going to go straight to a public hearing because we want the world to see what the answers are and not give the republicans a chance to sort of distort what hunter biden says. so it sets up a confrontation. this hearing was supposed to be -- deposition was supposed to be on december 13th, just two weeks from now. >> jim jordan who's on the committee and is the the chairman of the house judiciary committee himself ignored a congressional subpoena. can they really enforce this in the way they want to? >> so the problem for republicans is that it takes some time to do that. so yes, republicans would insist that they can enforce it, but they've had some mixed success with judges on how far they can do it especially because hunter biden's team is saying, look, we will come in, we just want to do it in public. so what it does is it shows that they're willing to provide the committee with the information that the committee wants, but not in the format that the committee's asking for. and you raise a good point, the fact that jim jordan himself just ignored a lawful subpoena from another committee. >> yeah. does he had a leg to stand on? it's a really interesting question. >> no legs. >> he set an example. evan, thank you -- >> i see no legs. >> i see no legs. fact check, no legs. a pro-iran group claims it hacked into a pittsburgh area water system that controls water pressure. the cyberattack was discovered after a communications failure at a water station. >> yeah. state water authority officials tell cnn the group allegedly took control of the station last week and then posted an anti-israel message on the station's computer screen. cnn cybersecurity reporter sean lingis here with the details. what more have you learned, and why was this station allegedly targeted? >> yeah, boris, that's right. i'm not sure if we could even say it was targeted. this seems to be very opportunistic, right. my sense is that this pro-iran hacking group and there are a number of them that have sprung up around the israel-hamas war, some of them have ties to the iranian government, we're not so sure about this particular one. but they're scanning the internet for israeli-made industrial computers that are installed at water facilities, other critical infrastructure facilities in the u.s. and elsewhere. and they're trying to send a political message. we have to point out that the water facility told cnn there was no threat to drinking water at any point, and they were able to detect the intrusion and sort of seal things off. so this is very much a psychological message to anyone using israeli-made equipment, and it startled the general manager of the facility who told me he never in his wildest dreams would he think he'd be caught up in some sort of hack to this cyberattacks accompanying this war in the middle east. here we have a county, you know, out of pittsburgh that is serving 15,000 people. so it's a very bizarre situation for them. but they're taking more precautions and realizing that they can also be targeted if they have exposures on line to this sort of thing. boris? >> appears to be an unexpected front in this conflict. sean, thank you so much for the reporting. so the busiest shopping season of the year is off to a record-breaking start. cyber monday sales absolutely crushing expectations, pouring even more fuel on a hot month for stocks. so what about that potential slowdown that people have been talking about? we'll discuss when we come back. an update on the other headlines we've been watching. this dramatic video showing airport worker s running to sto a southwest airline passenger who got on the tarmac after he opened an emergency door and climbed on the wing of the plane. the sheriff's office believed the man was suffering a mental health emergency. he was taken to a hospital, not expected to face any charges. alec murdoch is set to be charged today for money laundering, tax evasion, the disgraced attorney and convicted murderer pleaded guilty earlier in month as part of a deal, expected to receive an additional 27 years in prison. >> and tiger woods said he will walk away from golf when he believes he can no longer win but he insists that is not the case. that is what he told reporters today before competing in and hosting the world challenge tour event in the bahamas. he has not played a tournament since withdrawing from the masters in april. the bahamas event tees off on thursday. if an economic slow down is coming the start of the holiday shopping season did not get the m memo. cyber monday is up nearly 10% from last year coming on the heels of a record setting black friday. >> there are a couple of caveats here we should mention. a lot of this is fuelled by deep dis discounts and a surge in buy now pay later purchase plans. matt is here with the details. there have been warnings of a coming slow down, is there evidence of that here? >> reporter: no. americans are not slowing down when it comes to shopping. they're speeding up. $12.4 billion spent online shopping cyber monday alone. that's over $1 billion more than last year's cyber monday, which was the previous record. so that means that yesterday was the biggest online shopping day ever. so this is more evidence of the r word, not the recession that so many economists predicted we'd be in right about now, the other r word, resilience. so even though the cost of living is high and borrowing costs are elevated, you can't beat against the willingness of americans to shop, especially when there are deals to be had. retailers did feel the need to offer deep discounts. up to 31% off list price for electronics. my almost 4-year-old will be thrilled to hear toys were priced up to 27% off list price because he knows that lower prices means more toy monster trucks but with we saw deep d discounts for apparel and appliances. we need to keep an eye on how much is fuelled by debt, including the buy now pay later. buy now pay later usage spiked to almost a billion dollar this cyber monday. so we need to monitor that. big picture, this holiday shopping season appears to be off to a solid start, especially online shopping. >> perhaps one of the best gifts this holiday season has been gas prices have been down now for 60 day in a row. why? >> reporter: boris, this is a big win for consumers. it is normal for gas prices to dip once the summer driving season is over. but look at the chart, about two months ago we were concerned about the potential for $4 a gallon gas but the national average down to $3.25 a gallon, down 61 consecutive days. why is this happening? oil prices have plunged. there's concern about weak demand out of china and fears of supply disruptions in the middle east caused by the israel/hamas war, those have not panned out. we see that 15 states are averaging $3 a gallon or less for gasoline, including south carolina, wisconsin and ohio. everyone wants to know how long it's going to last. hard to say for sure, depends on oil prices what opec does. but a veteran analyst said the streak is likely going to continue, perhaps through the end of the year. >> matt eagan with the takeaways, including the fact his 4-year-old is the economist, thank you. 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