tonight 74 americans and their family members getting out. hundreds more remain. ian pannell on the ground for us. also at this hour, the news coming in from capitol hill right now. house republicans with help from some democrats passing billions in aid for israel only, not ukraine, and no humanitarian aid for palestinian civilians caught in the middle of this war, as president biden had asked for. so, what happens now with this? mary bruce standing by with late reporting. the massive gas explosion outside new york city. more than a dozen victims, some pulled from the debris, and children are among the victims tonight. the dangerous driving. the deep freeze from mississippi all the way up to the northeast. the temperatures on tap for tomorrow morning now, and then the whiplash. rob marciano is here. donald trump jr. and his brother eric trump both on the stand today. once they were given control of the trump organization, what they claimed today they did not know. aaron katersky tonight. in philadelphia tonight the new video. surveillance showing those two prisoners escaping jail. getting out of their cells, crawling on the floor, out through a hole in the fence. tonight, the major recall. nearly 2 million vehicles. the risk of fire. and decades after john lennon's death, the final beatles song featuring all four members, just released tonight. >> one, two. ♪ >> david: you'll hear the song right here tonight. >> announcer: from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight" with david muir. >> david: good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. we do begin tonight with the images coming in now. this massive assault over northern gaza. israel's nighttime attack on hamas targets while on the ground israel tonight now saying its ground forces have now surrounded gaza city, that they're now engaged in face-to-face combat with the militants. the images just before we came on tonight over the sky, over northern gaza. rockets, missiles lighting up the sky. israeli fighter jets could be heard streaking across the region. the israeli military, the idf, saying their forces are now in, quote, very significant areas of gaza city. and that they are now in close combat on the ground there. tonight, we have learned 74 more u.s. citizens and their families have gotten out of gaza. hundreds, though, remain. among the u.s. citizens trying to get out, lena besaiso and her family, we've been following their story for days now. the americans nervously waiting at the border today, and then hugging their loved ones, including a grandson, after they finally crossed over into egypt. tonight, president biden with that number, 74 americans getting out, but many more remain. and, of course, the more than 200 hostages, including americans, still being held by hamas. abc's chief foreign correspondent ian pannell leading us off tonight from israel. >> reporter: tonight, a hellish scene lighting up the night sky over gaza. the flares and streaks of smoke from incessant israeli missiles it says are aimed at hamas. the idf saying it has now surrounded gaza city, with israeli soldiers attacking hamas militants in face-to-face battles inside. the fighting described as urban, crowded, and complex. ground forces backed by fighter jets and warships launching repeated salvos against what they say are hamas outposts and command centers. you can see the flare going down there into gaza. we just heard the sound of a fighter jet dropping its payload into the city. they say that they're targeting hamas, but also, we know that there are still civilians in there who haven't listened to the order to leave, and many of them continue to die every day. israel says it's making headway, claiming it killed more hamas terrorists, but more than 9,000 civilians have been killed, according to the hamas-run health ministry. israel responding to the ma massacre of more than 1,400 people. hamas on the offensive, too, launching at least a dozen rockets from gaza and lebanon into central and northern israel. thousands of foreign nationals hoping to escape this escalating war. hundreds of u.s. citizens among them. just today, president biden saying 74 more americans have got out of gaza, out of at least 400 and their families. our team on the ground today as those americans and hundreds of other foreign passport holders were given the green light to leave. amongst them, lena besaiso and her family, whose plight we've reported on for weeks. her grandson aden, passport stamped, and a brief, brave smile. but this is a tough farewell for all of them. >> i'm happy, but sad at the same time, because i have friends here. they might die and maybe i won't see them ever again. >> reporter: so many relieved to be escaping the bombing, but guilty at leaving family and friends behind. >> i feel disappointed, ashamed, disturbed, worried, frustrated, angry, pissed. in a way, i feel numb and very sad. very sad. >> reporter: we've also reported on maha elbanna, an aid worker from new jersey. tonight, she's safe and well in cairo, speaking to our maggie rulli. >> i have ptsd. i've been through a lot. if i hear like a loud noise, i jump. i had a panic attack. it's unbearable. so you can't really escape it. >> reporter: as the crisis worsens, president biden calling for a humanitarian pause in the fighting. after a protester interrupted him during a campaign fundraiser. >> i need you to call for a cease-fire right now. >> reporter: biden responding, saying, "i think we need a pause." with more than 240 hostages still being held in gaza, and the civilian death toll growing. but israel says there will be no cease-fire, and prime minister netanyahu saying today, "nothing will stop us." >> david: so, let's bring in ian pannell, back with us again tonight. and ian, that assault intensifying tonight. as you showed us. some u.s. citizens getting out today. hamas continues to hold hundreds of hostages, including americans. i know secretary of state antony blinken on his way back to israel tonight. on the issue of these hostages, on u.s. citizens trying to get out of gaza, on the palestinian civilians caught in the middle of this. and the question is, will he deliver this message from the biden administration for any kind of a humanitarian pause here? >> reporter: yeah, i think it's going to be a tough trip and a tough sell. i'm not sure the israeli government's ready to listen to all of this. the idf certainly ruling out a ceasefire. however, a senior israeli official telling me tonight that they've already twice agreed to what he calls a brief limited cessation of fire. that was when the two pairs of hostages were released. indicating that is something that they could possibly agree to again. but no sign they're ready to stop the fighting for anything other than the release of the more than 240 hostages, including americans, still being held tonight. david? >> david: ian pannell leading us off tonight from tel aviv. ian, our thanks to you. the other breaking headline involving this war tonight, just moments ago, from capitol hill. house republicans with help from some democrats approving more than $14 billion in aid for israel only, not for ukraine, as president biden had requested, nor is there any humanitarian aid for palestinian civilians caught in the middle of this war. let's get right to our chief white house correspondent mary bruce. and so, mary, what are you learning? what is the white house saying? what's the future of this money, given how they've passed this? >> reporter: well, david, the house just narrowly passing this $14.3 billion in military aid for israel. this is money to help replenish the iron dome missile defense system and to bulk up munitions. 12 democrats joining the overwhelming majority of republicans on this. but david, this bill tonight is dead on arrival. this is the first big move for the new house speaker, mike johnson, and he is defying president biden and bipartisan opposition in the senate for what this bill does not do. there is no humanitarian aid for gaza, and no funding for the war in ukraine. and to pay for all of this israel aid only, republicans in an unprecedented move are demanding equal cuts from the irs. now, johnson is adamant, he says he is not playing politics here, but the white house says this bill is bad for israel, that it sets a bad precedent. and the president has said he would veto this. the senate has said they won't even bring it up. so, david, the bottom line, this bill tonight isn't going anywhere. >> david: mary bruce live at the white house for us. mary, thank you. we turn now to the other news this thursday night, and a massive gas explosion outside new york city, to the north in wappingers falls. near poughkeepsie. more than a dozen victims, some trapped, pulled from the rubble. and we've learned tonight some of the victims are children. abc's whit johnson on the scene for us. >> reporter: tonight, at least 15 people are injured after a massive gas explosion rocked this neighborhood north of new york city. >> multiple victims injured in a house fire and explosion, occupants stuck under debris. >> reporter: first responders and good samaritans seen digging through the rubble, trying to rescue trapped survivors. the blast leveling a multifamily home in wappingers falls just after noon, when officials say a utility crew doing routine maintenance with an excavator struck a 3/4-inch gas line. marcie ward was home with her children down the street. >> well, i was home, i was making lunch for the kids and all of a sudden, the house shook. >> reporter: florent and his brother were working nearby when they heard the explosion and rushed to the scene, pulling at least two people out from under the debris. >> i still remember the kid was all bleeding. >> reporter: crews initially discovering ten victims, including two children.nts th b critical injuries taken to nearby hospitals in helicopters and ambulances. five first responders also hurt. officials say those utility workers were replacing gas lines, and some of that infrastructure dates back to the 1930s and '40s, but tonight, the investigation into what triggered this explosion is just getting started. david? >> david: all right, whit johnson tonight. thank you, whit. we turn next here to the tens of millions who will face frigid temperatures again tomorrow morning, in the teens and 20s from the deep south all the way to the northeast. then the whiplash coming. the images tonight, up to ten inches of lake effect snow rolling east from ohio all the way to new york state. an abrupt turn in fall foliage as the seasons in northhampton, massachusetts changing very quickly. let's get right to rob marciano with us again tonight, tracking it all. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. abrupt, for sure. teens and 20s in alabama and georgia this morning. going to be another cold one tomorrow. maybe a few degrees warmer, maybe above freezing in atlanta and philly, but d.c., you'll be below freezing. here comes that big bounceback. by the time saturday and sunday comes around, 60s and 70s. so above average temperatures. in the east, we'll see a dry weekend for once. we'll take that. but these big temperature swings have created a monster jetstream over the atlantic ocean. 200 miles per hour at about 40,000 feet, right where those commercial jets fly, in the same path. so, commercial jet flights have been cut by a couple of hours in some cases going to europe. coming home going to take you a little longer. david? >> david: rob marciano with us here tonight. rob, our thanks to you. here in new york city, donald trump jr. and his brother eric trump both on the stand today in the state's financial fraud trial. once they were given control of the trump organization what the trump sons claimed today that they did not know. here's aaron ka terseky. >> reporter: tonight, the former president's eldest sons entering court together with a wave and a thumbs up. on the witness stand donald trump jr. and his brother eric both insisting though they did run the family real estate business they did not keep an eye on the bottom line and were unaware that documents they signed artificially inflated the value of their properties. >> i'm apparently guilty of fraud for relying on my accountants to do -- wait for it -- accounting. >> reporter: the brothers blaming accountants for preparing the financial statements that overvalued the trump organization's assets by as much as $2 billion, to get sweeter deals on insurance and bank loans. >> you pay experts millions of dollars to be experts. you sign off on what they give you, and you're liable. >> reporter: in court, the new york state attorney general's office played eric trump's videotaped deposition where he denied having any involvement with the financial documents at the heart of the civil fraud trial. >> i've done a lot to try to jog my memory, and i simply can't because i dont think i've ever had any involvement in the statement of financial condition, to the best of my knowledge. >> reporter: the attorney general's office then confronting him with evidence he did know about those statements. "we're a major organization. a massive real estate organization," eric trump said, raising his voice. "i am aware we have financial statements." still eric trump insisting keeping track of the company's finances was just not his job. "i pour concrete," he told the judge. "i'm a construction guy. i don't focus on appraisals and emails." but the judge has already determined that both trump brothers and their father are all liable for fraud, noting bottom line, eric and don jr. ran the company and signed documents that made all those phony claims. former president trump lashing out on social media, saying, "sad to see my sons being persecuted." david, he'll be here next week to testify. david? >> david: aaron katersky back with us tonight from lower manhattan. thank you, aaron. there is another late-breaking story as we're on the air tonight in the financial fraud trial of former cryptocurrency billionaire sam bankman-fried. here's abc's rebecca jarvis with the verdict tonight. >> reporter: tonight ftx founder sam bankman-fried, once celebrated as the golden boy of cryptocurrency, found guilty in his criminal fraud trial by a federal jury in manhattan. at trial prosecutors argued bankman-fried knowingly used at least $10 billion of customer funds without permission to cover losses for his other company, alameda research, and to fund his lavish lifestyle. their star witness, caroline ellison, bankman-fried's ex-girlfriend and former business partner, who took a plea deal, told the court he set up the systems and directed her to take customer money to repay loans. bankman-fried also testifying in his own defense. during his cross-examination telling the court he couldn't recall events more than 140 times. but he repeatedly denied he knew ftx funds were being used improperly. last year he spoke with our george stephanopoulos. >> are you worried about going to jail? 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