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two israeli hostages found dead. their bodies recovered overnight by the idf, and the idf giving a first look at some of the infrastructure they say hamas has built in, around and under al shifa hospital. donald trump says he would have been quote, very well received by the january 6th mob at the capitol. the newly released audio from just after the insurrection. and music mogul sean diddy combs sued by his ex-girlfriend where she accuses him of rape, we'll walk you through the allegations. i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is "cnn news central."
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the idf says it's an operational tunnel shaft on the grounds of al shifa hospital. we're going to show you video of the israeli military of what they say they have found. israel has long said hamas has used gaza's largest hospital to hide a command center underneath. u.s. intelligence backs up these claims. today, israeli forces are still searching the grounds and buildings of this vast medical complex. they released new images of weapons, and ammunition, also found, a corporal in the idf, both transferred back to israel. with this, the idf is revising its estimate of the number of hostages held by hamas in gaz. they can say it has to be an estimate at this point, at least
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237. cnn's oren liebermann leads us off. he joins us from tel aviv this morning. the idf says they have recovered the body of that second hostage. what more do you know? >> kate, we learned several days ago that 19-year-old noah marciano, an israeli hostage killed in gaza. now the idf says they have recovered her body from near the al shifa hospital complex, and returned it back into israel where there can be held a proper burial. we actually heard from noah marciano's mother just within the past day or so here because the march of the families of the hostages on its way to jerusalem, expected to get to the prime minister's office tomorrow stopped at the marciano household where her mother demanded answers from the government and demanded that the government come to a deal to bring the hostages home. listen to this. >> translator: bring noah and everyone else home now. we will not stop fighting until noah and all of the hostages and
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everyone will return home now, now, now. >> reporter: her father expressed a tremendous amount of frustration about the lack of information that has been given to him from the war cabinet and the prime minister's office on the state of negotiations. now, marciano is the second israeli hostage killed in gaza. 65-year-old grandmother also died in gaza, although the idf didn't provide specifics on the cause of death, the spokesperson said she had been murdered by hamas, found near the el al shi hospital, along with ak-47s and rocket propelled grenades as well. >> what are you hearing about the tunnel the idf says it found, and what is happening with the operation still ongoing at al shifa today? >> reporter: so the operation continues as it has in the
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complex itself for the past several days. the focus of that effort coming to find essentially more of the underground infrastructure. the first bit of evidence the idf released was from inside the hospital itself, and showed weapons and ammunition, not close to proving the assertion that hamas has a network of tunnels underneath. they put out images and video of a tunnel entrance within the complex itself. cnn has located it within the hospital complex. the key question is what's inside that tunnel shaft. we're not on the ground there. we're not able to verify that or confirm that or frankly see inside that. the u.n. also wants an independent commission or investigation to find out what's in that hospital as the idf keeps operating to uncover what they say is the terror infrastructure that hamas has used and placed below the hospital. the u.s., president joe biden backing them up there. doctors and officials at the hospital in the hamas-run enclave have denied those accusations.
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hamas called them baseless lies. >> that coming from hamas, of course. thank you so much. oren liebermann in tel aviv. cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel, cedric leighton, here is the satellite view of the al shifa hospital complex. this is the new footage released by the idf of what they say is a tunnel they found there. i'm going to freeze it. what do you see in this picture? >> john, good morning. it looks like there is, you know, basically a tunnel entrance. there are a lot of possibilities here, and you have to kind of look at this from a construction engineer's viewpoint a little bit to see if this, in fact, is something that was added on to the facility at al shifa hospital or was it something that was part of original construction effort. that would then give you a clue as to whether or not this actually is a tunnel that, you know, could potentially be part of hamas's network of tunnels or if it's something else. it does look like it is, you
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know, just in this initial look, it does look like it is an initial part of a tunnel entrance. and that could then lead to other areas and when you see this, you know, clearly it looks like it's been damaged to some extent, probably by bombardment, but that is, you know, something that would have to be examined and as they go through this, you know, how far does the tunnel extend, where does it go, what kinds of rooms or cavernous areas does it, you know, have within it. but it does look like it is an external part of a tunnel system, kind of an entrance area, separate from the actual hospital building on the right as the camera panned that way. >> and the idf put out more pictures this time of some of the weapons, an additional cache of weapons, that's on top of the photo of the weapons they released yesterday. colonel, the u.s. has said it will believes there is a hamas terror command node inside or
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underneath al shifa. what does that mean exactly, and do we know what that would look like if it was discovered? >> well, we tend to mirror image, so when we look at, you know, make assertions about the different types of command centers that these kinds of organizations would have, you look at, you know, the way in which they have built this, and one of the things that we have to think about is that they may not have the same communications capabilities that, say, a u.s. military would have or that the israeli military would have. so this may be simply a cell phone and a bunch of cell phones together. i do know that hamas uses radio, kind of like walky talkies in their efforts. probably kind of a base station would be a clue that they would be a command center there. but it would not indicate definitively that it was used for that purpose. but it could certainly be an
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indicator that it was part of that effort. so that's one of the things to look for, you know, obviously computer screens, a computer network, a lot of electrical power going to a certain place could all be indicators. we have to remember their command center might look different than what we have. >> and just to be clear, this is a picture of the tunnel that the idf released a video of this. they would not let cameras go down. the idf says it has not engaged in operations, our reporting is, inside these tunnels. why might they be hesitant to go down there? they have sent drones down there. why not just send people down there right away? >> one of the key things to worry about is ieds and booby traps. if you're looking to go in a place like this, it's highly likely it's been booby trapped or an explosive device by a person going in there. it's better if they use robotics
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or drones or another kind of robot to assess the situation and trip off any kind of explosive device that might have been planted there by hamas or anybody else. >> colonel cedric leighton, great to have you on. thank you very much. >> that was really informative from the colonel. communication services are out in gaza after the u.n. says a fuel shortage spurred a blackout nearly 24 hours ago. the u.n. is also warning this morning that gaza's entire population is at risk of starvation. joining us now is a spokesperson for the palestine red crescent society. thank you so much for coming on. i know this is a really difficult time and a hard thing to wrap your head around. since telecommunications have gone down, how are your medics even communicating to get to people who have been injured?
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all right. i think that either we have you or accidentally on mute or you may be on mute. can you check again. we can't hear you. we can see you clearly, but we're not able to hear you. >> can you hear me now? >> we've got you. we'll start again about the telecommunications, how are medics communicates with each other so they can get to people who are injured? >> thank you so much for having me. basically we're having great difficulties reaching to our critics in gaza. we have lost connection with most of our critics in gaza. due to the first communication and blackout. however, i'm still able to connect with one of our paramedics who are still trapped at the hospital since yesterday. two ambulances and the 12 palestine or the crescent
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paramedics are still trapped at the hospital because the hospital was seized by israeli tanks. they are hearing heavy bombardment as well as gunfire. the situation there is extremely dangerous and unfortunately, our teams there are unable to go out to the hospital to respond to any of the calls for people in gaza, patients, wounded people or whatsoever to reach them, and transport them to hospitals. even telling me was extreme painful. he can see dozens of people who are killed. others who are injured. only 30 meters away from him, and our colleagues in the front of the hospital. but unfortunately, they cannot do anything. they feel helpless. he even mentioned with great pain, he watched many injured people, bleeding for a couple of hours without being able to reach those people and save their lives until they die.
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the situation is extremely dangerous. now if you live in gaza, you don't have even a hospital to treat you because all hospitals in gaza city went out of service. if you are patient or wounded people, you don't have any hospital to receive your case along with the difficulties as you mentioned, for the ambulances because of the communication blackout. so now there is no way you could call an ambulance and receive the ambulance service. so this puts the lives of hundreds of people at risk of losing their life without being able to have an ambulance. this is basically also the situation. it's challenging for our paramedics there because the past few days, we are having dozens of phone calls for people who are trapped at their homes without being able to reach them because military areas and ambulances are prevented access to those areas. we simply feel helpless.
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we can't respond to dozens of phone calls who are just seeking an ambulance to deal with injured people or others who are killed. >> and that is when you were able to get those phone calls, and just the idea of seeing someone not very many meeters a -- meters away from you, and not being able to help is horrific. we are hearing reports the u.n. and others saying that there is starvation on the brink of starvation, not just at the hospitals but all around gaza, what are you hearing about the availability of food and clean water? >> basically almost no left food or clean water, whether in gaza and the north and the south as well. the situation is disastrous. now people are struggling to have only water or some food, even in the south after hundreds of thousands of people fled to the south.
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now it's a challenge to find a food or a piece of bread or whatsoever, or even water for your family or your children. even our hospital, which is, by the way, in hanuis, in the south, this is the fifth day for the hospital as well as no water. because we ran out of fuel. the situation is disastrous, whether you live in gaza, in the north or even the south. now over 2 million civilians are literally with almost no food, no water, no power, no medicine, nothing, and they soon will be without even medical services as well as emergency medical services because now only nine hospitals out of 35 still operating in gaza strip. operating under conditions that can't be described. even from those nine, they are still working with power outage. so you can't imagine being a doctor or a nurse using a
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flashlight or your mobile phone even to have just a light to try to conduct your life saving services for patients and wounded people who are in critical conditions, and need your help. >> and this is why so many people are asking for a cease fire to try and deal with this absolute disaster. humanitarian cries. nebal, thank you so much for explaining those difficult things, and the medics are truly heroes heroes, that too don't have the food and water and access they need as well. i appreciate you coming on and explaining everything to us. new audio donald trump recorded weeks after january 6th. why he said the secret service kept refusing to let him go to the capitol. and new developments this morning after hip hop mogul sean combs is accused of sex trafficking and rape by an ex-girlfriend. and a deadly vacation disaster, the terrifying moment a tourist ferry began bsinkininn
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new audio of donald trump in his own words saying quite clearly he wanted to join the crowds at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. he says, and suggests, to calm down what we know now became a violent mob. why trump did not do that. he blames the secret service. now, this is coming from jonathan carl of abc news. when trump spoke with carl two months after the insurrection. listen to this. >> if you look at the real size of that crowd, it was never reported correctly. there were -- it's the biggest crowd i have spoken in front of by far. that went back to the washington monument. >> you told them you were going to go up to the capitol. >> i was going to, and the secret service said you can't. and i would have, and then when i got back, i saw -- i wanted to go back.
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i was thinking about going back during the problem to stop the problem, doing it myself. secret service didn't like that idea too much. and i could have done that, and you know what, i would have been very well received. don't forget, the people that went to washington that day, in my opinion, they went because they thought the election was rigged. that's why they went. >> so this is important not just for yesterday, but for today as well, as trump is set to go on trial in march on federal charges for his actions to overturn the 2020 election. and some legal analysts and experts are already anticipating that this audio, this conversation with jonathan carl will play a part in that trial. >> you could probably bet money on that. wow. . thank you, kate. a new york appeals court judge has temporarily, by the way, lifted the gag order on donald trump and his lawyers in his civil fraud trial here in new york.
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trial judge arthur engoron barred the former president and his lawyers from talking about his judicial staff. during the an emergency hearing, trump's team argued that infringed on his free speech rights. once the gag order was lifted, it didn't take very long for donald trump to start bashing the judge and his law clerk on his truth social platform, calling the judge's clerk biassed and trump hating and calling the gag order ridiculous. car kara scannell is joining us outside the courtroom. the trial is going to resume again this morning. what do we know about this gag order that has been lifted and ultimately it just means he can say whatever he wants. >> yeah, for now, there are no restrictions on what the former president can say about this case or about the judge's staff. you know, this came because trump had gone to the appeals court and asked for an emergency motion for this temporary lifting of the gag order, and there was a brief hearing yesterday where the judge heard
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arguments from all the parties and he decided to lift the gag order saying that there are constitutional rights at issue. so that means that trump is free to say what he wants, and as you said, the judge imposed this gag order in the first place because trump made claims on social media about the judge's law clerk, and then the judge extended that to trump's attorneys because they had raised questions of bias because of note passing between the judge's clerk and the judge. she sits a few feet from him on the bench. once the gag order was lifted, trump wasted no time. as you said, he made those statements on social media about the judge's law clerk. he also continued to attack the judge and the new york attorney general. they had not been subject to the gag order. he has continued to attack them, saying that they have colluded in this case to lower the values of his properties. that's because the attorney general has sued trump saying he inflated the values of properties. and the judge before the trial agreed that the financial statements were inflated and he also has called this investigation a hoax and a pr disaster for new york state.
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so, you know, we are now in the 31st day of this trial. this is the end of the first week of trump's defense. they started with donald trump jr. on the stand talking about how spectacular and incredible all of their assets are, and the value trump added to them. we have heard a number of expert witnesses who are testifying for the defense that these financial statements did comply with the u.s. accounting laws and there are various ways to value the properties. >> the appeals court and the gag order, you can be sure whatever happened in this court, there will be an appeal by trump and his lawyers. thank you so much, i appreciate your time. with us now, cnn legal analysts and former federal prosecutor, jennifer rogers, counselor, great to see you. i want to go back to the jonathan carl tape of donald trump talking about january 6th just a short time after. kate suggested that this could play in the march federal trial involving donald trump. how so? what was important there? >> they have charged him of
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course with this vast conspiracy to effectively steal the election. they didn't charge him with the insurrection itself per se, but this is all evidence of that conspiracy, right, because the insurrection of course was the last ditch effort to stop congress from certifying the vote, so the fact that he's recorded saying basically i knew that these were my supporters. they were there to do what i wanted them to do to stop the certification is good evidence of his participation. >> he really seemed to know what was going on up at the capitol on january 6th and even suggested that he could have gone up there and calmed them down. now, i don't know that that has any legal importance here, but maybe some political impact. >> yeah, i mean, the notion that he sat on his hands while watching tv and did absolutely nothing, knowing that they were there to do what he wanted them to do, and didn't do anything to stop the violence going on at the time is a pretty persuasive point about his bad actions. >> can you get that in front of a jury? >> absolutely. it's part of the conspiracy about what he was trying to get
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them there to do which was to stop the certification. >> on the new york civil trial, this gag order has been temporarily lifted, not on the merit, on procedural grounds, at least for now s. >> it's a stay. >> what about the fact that every time there's a stay or the gag order is not in place, you know, within minutes or hours, donald trump spouts off again. what impact might that have on the appeals court. >> the judges sit there and think about, should we gag them or not. one thing we know, if they don't, he will speak about it, the harm that the judge is trying to avoid will happen. i think it pushes them in the direction of imposing a gag order because it's so narrow in scope that it doesn't really impinge on his rights and the importantly harm to the law clerk receiving threats is great. >> there's a difference between donald trump and donald trump's lawyers in this case in your view. why? >> because his is so narrowly drawn. right? he still can make all the
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complaints about the judge, the process, the biden administration, the attorney general and so on. the lawyers, though, do have an obligation to make legal arguments on his behalf. they did so in the mistrial motion the other day, and the main argument is there's bias here, and the law clerk's actions demonstrate that bias. so it's one thing to say they're constrained first amendment-wise from spouting off about anything. you have to allow lawyers to make legal arguments on behalf of their clients. i think the court may tinker with it. >> and lastly all of this case is in front of a judge, not a jury. the judge has a rule on the civil trial. it's found donald trump and the company liable for fraud, and now he's got to pick an amount he's going to fine them here. does this have an impact, the swirlin swirling discussion about the gag order, an impact on how he will rule? >> i don't think it has an impact on how he will rule on the merits, he's waiting on
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appellate court. and that sort of thing. but he's listening carefully to the evidence, and so he'll make his decisions based on that. >> great to see you. thank you very much. coming up for us, a cnn exclusive, the department of education now investigating seven universities over complaints of anti-semitism and islamophobia, what it could mean for campuses and far beyond. and also, this just in, a motion to expel republican congressman george santos has now been filed. after that devastating ethics report, this is moving fast, so where is this going to end. we'll be right back.
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we have a bit of breaking news for you from capitol hill. the house ethics chairman has officially filed a resolution to expel republican congressman george santos from the house of representatives. cnn's lauren fox is joining us from capitol hill. this morning they promised that that was going to happen, and now here we are, what more can you tell us? >> yeah, and obviously it was really note worthy yesterday when the report came out and the committee did not make any recommendations about whether or not santos should be expelled. but this move today does show that there are many republicans who may have voted in the past against this effort to expel george santos and now find themselves in a position where they believe that that is the right course of action. you also saw a statement yesterday from raj shah who is a spokesperson for the new house
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speaker mike johnson, and in that statement, he argued that johnson is encouraging everyone to come back to capitol hill after thanksgiving and think about what the best course of action is after reading what he described as a troubling account of what george santos has done. we expect santos will hold a press conference after the thanksgiving recess. there are a dozen republicans who now are saying that they are willing to support that resolution to expel george santos. we expected it could come up as soon as right after that thanksgiving recess. >> lauren fox, thank you so much. kate, you know what george santos has been able to do that no one else has been able to do, bring democrats and republicans together. >> i was waiting for it. i can tell when you raise your eyebrows, something is coming at me. >> a rare form of bipartisanship. a devastating ethics report against you, right on top of that. let's talk about the idea of
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expulsion though because expulsions from the house chamber are rare. this move is seen as the harshest form of punishment in the house of representatives. only five members of the house have been expelled, kicked out of the body in more than its two centuries of history, and three of those happened during the civil war. john clark, john reid, henry burnett, they were kicked out for siding against the union and fighting for the confederacy. two house members have been expelled since this in modern times, both of them convicted of crimes, michael myers after fbi experts caught him taking a $50,000 bribe. and a democrat from ohio after being convicted of ten felonies, including for bribery, fraud, tax evasion. if george santos is expelled, he would be the first house member in modern times to be kicked out without being convicted of a crime. there you have it, john.
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>> without being convicted of a crime. maybe yet, maybe before being convicted of a crime. we'll have to wait and see on that. this morning, a cnn exclusive, new investigation into claims of hate in schools. an education department official says the agency is looking into seven schools after complaints of alleged anti-semitic and islam phobic incidents, the first investigations of its kind since the hamas terror attack. if the schools do not comply with the recommendations made at the end of the probes. our cnn's rene marsh broke this story and is with us now. what have you learned here? >> so, you know, as you said, john, this is significant because these are the first investigations since the october 7th attack. it's also significant to have this many hate investigations happening simultaneously after the education department. but it really speaks to the unprecedented level of hate and anti-semitism essentially boiling over on school campuses. now, the seven schools being investigated include six
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universities and one k through 12 school in kansas. they received word of these investigations in the last 48 hours. this morning, the education secretary miguel cardona was on cnn and he had this message for parents with students at colleges and schools across the country. >> your child should be unapologetic about who they are, expressing who they are. they shouldn't have to hide their identity to learn on campus or in a k-12 institution. that's our responsibility to protect them. we're doing everything in our power to enforce that. if we see there are places that are not doing it, we're going to provide support and open an investigation to make sure that we're doing our job as educators. >> and cardona says that he has actually never seen this level of intensity of hate on campuses across the country. he does expect to see even more investigations launched by the department of education.
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of the seven investigations that are happening at all of those schools on the screen, five of them are cases of anti-semitism. two of them cases of islamophobia. the way this will work is that the department of ed will investigate. they will make recommendations to these schools. if the schools do not comply. then they risk losing federal funding. it is their legal obligation under the law according to the department of education to protect students from this sort of discrimination and harassment. so aggressive moves happening from the department of education, john. >> it will be interesting to see how this all unfolds and whether the schools comply, and whether these new actions have teeth. rene marsh, you broke the story. thank you so much for bringing it to us. accusations of rape and years of abuse, the lawsuit filed against sean diddy combs by mhis former girlfriend, and his response, his denial. let the drag show go on, why
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the supreme court blocked florida's law aimed at limiting those performances. we'll have all of that coming up.
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sean diddy combs is being s sued by his ex-girlfriend, accusing him of rape, years of abuse, and sex trafficking. claiming combs used his power and influence to control her life. his attorney calls the lawsuit baseless. cnn correspondent omar jimenez is joining us with more. there's a lot in this complaint. what else is said in this complaint? and this is in civil court, correct? >> civil court as of now. and look, there are a lot of allegations here.
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one, that she alleges he was physically violent toward her, that he controlled all aspects of her life, that at one point when she tried to break up with him in 2018, she says he forced his way into her home and raped her. also, she alleges he made her perform sex trafficking acts. there's a lot here, and they first met back in '05 when she was 19, he was 37, and she says back then, it began a lifestyle of heavy drinking and drug use that she says she was brought in by diddy, the effects of which she feels today. i want to read part of the statement she has put out so far. she said after years of silence and darkness, i'm finally ready to tell my story and speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face violence and abuse in their relationships. now, timing-wise, her statement also mentioned the new york adult survivors act, which went into effect last year, and allowed adult survivors of sexual abuse to come forward with their stories, even if it was past the statute of
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limitat limitations. in that regard, the timing was crucial. >> do we know if she's gone to police to put that forward before it expires or we're not sure. >> that's what we're trying to figure out at this point. >> i want to ask you what the response has been from sean diddy combs or his lawyers or both. >> at this point, as you can imagine, he is completely denying all of these claims and what his attorneys have called outrageous, and i want to read you part of their statement. they say for the past six months, mr. combs has been subjected to ms. ventura's consistent demand of $30 million under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail. despite withdrawing her initial threat, ms. ventura has resorted to file ago lawsuit riddled with baseless lies, aiming to tarnish mr. combs reputation. she is speaking specified
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damages as part of this. this is a wide scope of allegations that span a decade, and based on what she says happened, she feels diddy should be held accountable for what happened during that time period. >> they will have responses and will be able to read all of that as well, but very disturbing allegations for sure. omar jimenez, thank you so much for bringing that to us. >> of course. vacation horror, terrifying video of a deadly ferry disaster. we have some n new reportiting ththe investigigation.
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also on our radar this hour, the fd, and the cdc are releasing more than 77,000 additional doses of the rsv vaccine for children amid a frustrating shortage of the shot. the dosages going to hospitals and doctors' offices most in need for what is considered the peak virus season. this is key for protecting the infants especially. rsv is the leading cause of hospitalizations among infants. the supreme court has announced that the show can go on in florida. this is because of a law trying to restrict drag shows in florida which is a law signed in
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may by governor ron desantis. florida asked a lower court's injunction that had stopped the law altogether, but the lower court denied it, and thus allowing shows to continue, and the legal battle to continue as well. and now, new gun charge which is unrelated, and one that started weeks before the cinematographer was shot on the film. hannah gutierrez was arrested for carrying a firearm in a established liquor establishment in 2021. the attorney calls this charge baseless and she has as you will remember charged innocent to the charges that killed helena hutchins. and now, as part of the ongoing investigation of the mayor of new york's campaign
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finances. mayor eric adams has not been accused of wrongdoing, but the aide worked as the mayor's director of protocol for international affairs and has been accused by the mayor's legal team of acting improperly. john? >> all right. this morning, an investigation is under way when an american tourist died when a ferry she was on sank in the bahamas. it left paradise island for blue lagoon island with nearly 141 passengers. 20 minutes into the trip, it started to capsize and there is video taken by the passenger. >> our boat is sinking. >> the ferry service is now suspended. two people were hospitalized. carlos suarez is covering this for us, and what have you learned? >> john, a dramatic and fightening experience.
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the scene played out earlier in the week near nassau, and according to the bahamian officials, it was in new providence and making its way to a private island when this double-decker catamaran began taking on water. as you noted cell phone video from one of the passengers captured the scene on board this boat, and the ferry is listing to one side. passengers have gathered on the other side, and almost everyone is wearing a life vest or in the process of putting on a life vest. we also see a moment when a lot of the passengers made the decision to jump ship. eventually nearly all 140 passengers had to jump into the ocean. they had to be rescued. here now are some of the passengers describing what it was like in this entire ordeal and what it was like waiting for other boaters in the area to come out ttout there to rescue
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>> we jump in and it was rough waves, so a lot of people were trying to stay above water even with the life vests on. >> the captain of the boat was not trained properly or he didn't know what to do once he took on water. to me they had enough life vests, but they were small. when i had mine on, it was barely enough to keep me floating above water. >> all right. so i spoke to kelly ya yesterday, and she told me she is doing okay, and john, a 74-year-old woman from colorado we are told was found unresponsive and she was pulled out of the ocean, and the bahamian officials said she die and two other passengers were taken to the hospital in the bahamas, and expected to be okay. it is still unclear at this hour exactly why this ferry began to taking on water, and again, this journey began on one of the islands making its way to a private island when all of this happened, but as you noted, the
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bahamian officials have suspended the commercial licensing, license for the ferry system considering the investigation that has to play out now. >> what a tragedy. how terrifying that video is as you can see just the boat is listing into the water there. all right. carlos suarez, thank you for that. sara? >> thank you, john. we are following the breaking news this hour with a motion to expel republican congressman george santos has now been filed. where will it enend? we wilill be r right back.k.
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you're probably not easily persuaded to switch mobile providers for your business. but what if we told you it's possible that comcast business mobile can save you up to 75% a year on your wireless bill versus the big three carriers? it's true. plus when you buy your first line of mobile, you get a second line free. there are no term contracts or line activation fees. and you can bring your own device. oh, and all on the most reliable 5g mobile network nationwide. wireless that works for you. it's not just possible, it's happening. the question that george santos is asking himself, can the republican congressman survive the expulsion vote this time. the ethics

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