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israel is mobilized right now for war as the country prepares to launch a ground invasion into hamas-controlled gaza. border clashes are intensifying. aerial bombardments of the territory devastating. you can see there hundreds of thousands of palestinians with nowhere to go. tonight secretary of state antony blinken is in jordan wrapping meetings with arab leaders and six nations. he returns to israel in just a few hours. today the nfl held a moment of silence at stadiums in solidarity with, quote, innocent civilians in the middle east. in london, where the titans and ravens played, "free palestine" chants could be heard. cbs's charlie d'agata is in tel aviv tonight and leads us off. charlie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu convened an emergency cabinet for the first time today, vowing to demolish hamas. while the israeli military said they're ready and waiting for the order to launch an invasion.

under bombardment and under siege ahead of a looming ground offensive, gaza is alread edging ever closer to a humanitarian catastrophe. authorities say more than 2,400 people have been killed, a quarter of them children. nearly 10,000 wounded. a situation so grim they're using ice cream trucks as makeshift morgues. hundreds of thousands of residents fleeing south as the israeli military orders them to evacuate from the north. the world health organization called the forced evacuation of 22 hospitals tantamount to a death sentence for babies on incubators and those in intensive care. israel announcing today it was resuming water supplies to southern gaza after shutting down water to the entire territory earlier this week.

fighting has broken out in the north too with israeli forces shelling southern lebanon after the militant group hezbollah fired rockets into israel. nearer to gaza israeli armor has been massing. while we've been here we've seen tons of heavy military equipment like this setting up in staging areas ahead of that anticipated israeli offensive. along what has now become a militarized zone lies the kfar azar kibbutz, the site of a massacre against israeli civilians. the sheer destruction and bodies of hamas gunmen tell the horrors that unfolded when the terrorist group descended on this small farming community. this, we're told, is the wreckage from a paraglider that one of the militants used to cross the border and launch their assault here. colonel golan vosh told us they found bodies everywhere. 66 residents found dead on this

street alone. if people locked themselves inside safe rooms, militants set their houses on fire. in your entire career as a professional soldier had you seen anything like this before? >> no. this was cruel. and i saw the signals of the intention to humiliate. >> reporter: humiliate. >> humiliate. >> reporter: that quiet farming community has now become a front line, jericka. this ground invasion has not even begun yet. but israeli defense forces say they've already lost nearly 280 soldiers. >> charlie d'agata tonight in tel aviv. for relatives of hostages held by hamas these are desperate hours as the militants have threatened to execute their captives. cbs's holly williams also in tel aviv has more. holly? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. tonight israel's military says that it's confirmed at least 155

hostages are being held by hamas in gaza. hamas claims that 27 of the hostages have been killed in israeli airstrikes and others wounded, though we cannot verify that. the images of hamas kidnapping hostages have horrified israel. many of them are civilians. some are children. and amongst them are americans. the militants are now playing a deadly game of blackmail, threatening to kill one hostage every time israel bombs palestinian civilians without warning. tonight israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, met with the family members of some of the hostages. >> bring them home! bring them home! >> reporter: but many here in israel blame their own government for the apparent security failures that allowed hamas to go on a killing spree and take people captive.

there was a demonstration yesterday outside israel's defense ministry. >> we don't sleep. we don't eat. all think -- all the day we are thinking what is going on with liri. >> reporter: shira al bagh's 18-year-old daughter liri is believed to be amongst the hostages. what do you want your government to do to get her home? >> i don't care what they do. but i want -- i don't know what they -- i'm not a political woman. i'm a mother. and i want my daughter home now. i want my daughter to sleep in her bed. now. >> reporter: but some here who have a history of dealing with hamas are not optimistic. >> here we deal with the terror that is actually holding my son as a bargaining chip. >> reporter: leah golden's son hadar was a soldier in 2014 when he was captured and killed by hamas. nearly ten years later the militants still refuse to return his body. given your experience with hamas, what do you think that they're doing right now with the hostages that they've taken?

>> no one knows. no one knows. no one knows. the worst thing can be done. no one knows. >> reporter: israel faces an excruciating conundrum because on the one hand it wants to punish hamas militarily and on the other it wants to bring the hostages home alive. and jericka, doing both those things at once will be extremely difficult. >> absolutely. holly williams for us tonight. thank you. u.s. government officials say they're trying their best to make sure that every american who wants to leave israel can. but with major u.s. airlines canceling their flights because of the conflict, most people are having to find their open way home. cbs's astrid martinez has more. >> reporter: americans are slowly returning to safety as the conflict between israel and hamas rages on. scott forester arrived in chicago. >> i got to the gate. i sat down. and i started crying. >> reporter: the madison, wisconsin resident traveled first from israel to berlin,

then washington, d.c. before finally landing at o'hare international airport. other families arriving in new york and new jersey boarded flights on the sabbath, the jewish day of rest, when travel is typically forbidden. u.s. officials say their first charter flight landed in athens, greece yesterday. in recent days other governments have evacuated their citizens including germany, argentina, france and india. many spent days in bomb shelters, some even injured in the conflict. and jericka, the u.s. state department says more than 20,000 american citizens stuck in israel and gaza have reached out to them for departure assistance since the war began. >> astrid, thank you.

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the war between israel and hamas is now threatening to spread. the israeli army is poised on the border of gaza for what's expected to be a major invasion of the densely populated strip. but israel has also traded rocket fire with hezbollah militants in lebanon, and they've sent jets to bomb two international airports in syria. now, earlier this month the region seemed on its way to a new era of peace. so what happened? here's seth doan to explain. >> at least 1,300 people in israel have been killed. in gaza at least 2,100. >> reporter: the story somehow keeps getting worse. >> israel vows to crush hamas. >> reporter: as we watch and read, sometimes reluctantly, faced with the reality of yet another war in the middle east. this time sparked by the unimaginable brutality and ba barbarity of those surprise

attacks. >> this was an act of sheer evil. >> this country was created in the aftermath of the holocaust and it was based on a promise. a promise that this state would protect jews from precise these types of atrocities. and this was the largest single incident of jewish death, of murder since the holocaust. >> reporter: michael oren was israel's ambassador to the u.s. we connected with him from the bomb shelter of his home. >> a very armored door. >> reporter: as hamas continues to fire rockets at israel from the gaza strip. >> the house next door was destroyed. it's very real for us. we've all known people, seth, every one of us, who have been massacred, dismembered, executed. this is intensely personal. >> the real question is what happens long term. >> reporter: robin wright is a contributor to the "new yorker" and has been covering wars across the middle east for the last 50 years. >> i think prime minister

netanyahu thinks he can destroy hamas. but can he destroy the idea, the politics, and the commitment by palestinians who feel that there's no prospect down the road of a two-state solution, who don't see the restoration of their freedom, their dignity, their jobs, the economy? i think this is far harder than the kind of simplistic language that netanyahu's been using. >> reporter: still, israel's defense ministry insists they will wipe hamas off the face of the earth. but hamas fighters make up just about 1% of the population in the densely packed gaza strip. it's sealed off from israel by that security barrier, and now they're encircled by israeli troops and being pounded by airstrikes. >> palestinian health officials are saying they're running out of food, they're running out of water. israel has turned off the switch to electricity there. there's a humanitarian crisis unfolding in gaza right now.

>> the danger is that it deepens the passions among the palestinians, who even among those who never liked hamas, because living under siege is really tough and the most important thing about the future is where are their hearts, where are their passions and where are their commitments, and a siege is not going to help make them fans of israel. >> the port of haifa in palestine lies shattered by bombs and strewn with death. >> reporter: today's conflict has a complicated bloody history with its roots in competing religious and ancestral claims to this land stretching back millennia. >> it is what all the participants hope is the first step toward breaking the cycle of violence in the middle east. >> reporter: but in 1993 there was some hope for peace. >> oh, there you have it. the handshake. >> reporter: israel officially recognized the palestine liberation organization, or plo, in exchange for the group renouncing terrorism and recognizing israel's right to exist. hamas responded with violence.

>> predictably, the muslim fundamentalists of hamas took credit for the killings, calling them gifts to yassir arafat, the peace settlement and all the traitors. >> reporter: hamas, which receives funding from iran and is labeled a terrorist organization by the u.s. and the eu, came to control the gaza strip when it won parliamentary elections in 2006. >> the idea promoted by the united states was to get the palestinians on both the west bank and gaza to speak with one voice, elect yassir arafat's fatah party, the traditional plo, as the government, which was willing to deal with israel. but there was such alienation and disillusionment with the plo that populations turned to hamas. and that has prevented any kind of peace process because the palestinians are divided between the two territories and have very different ideas about how to move forward with israel. >> reporter: while progress toward peace has stalled between israelis and palestinians and a

two-state solution seems increasingly unlikely, israel has made peace with several arab countries. why are we seeing this conflict explode again now? >> hamas went to war i think for a variety of reasons. israel was engaged in possible eventual talks with saudi arabia brokered by the united states, which would have been the most important peace process between israel and the arabs because saudi arabia is the guardian of islam's holy places. >> in your view why now? >> because they could. and because we let our guard down, frankly. and we're going to have to address that failure when the smoke clears. >> reporter: michael oren thinks iran's involvement supporting hamas adds to the risk that this conflict will only widen. but born in the u.s., he made his home in israel and says in the longer term he sees progress. >> i wonder how you see the prospect for peace.

is this just an intractable issue? >> when i moved here, there was no peace with egypt, there was no peace with jordan, morocco, uae, sudan. peace with saudi arabia? we had no relations with india. we had no relations with the soviet bloc. we had no relations with china, with africa. i mean, totally isolated. if you would have told me nearly a half century ago that this is what israel's foreign relations would look like, i'd say, you know, what type of narcotic are you on? really. do not underestimate the possibilities and the hope for peace. >> so for all of the heartache of today i'm hearing that you have hope? >> certainly. of course i do. >> that again was seth doane and this is the "cbs overnight news."

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>> just get out of lahaina. >> the entire city? >> the entire city, yes. just get out of lahaina. >> okay. we're very low on gas. any suggestions on which direction i should go? >> i don't know, sir. i just know that our entire island is burning from the east to the west. >> reporter: among those august 8th calls were residents calling from their cars as front street burned. the roads blocked by standstill traffic, debris and fallen trees. >> ma'am, lahaina is totally busy right now. you have to be patient. if you are safe, number one is if you are safe please stay there. if you are not safe you've got to find some way to get to the ocean. >> reporter: and there are two things that are striking about these calls. first, it appears there was only one dispatcher on duty. and two hours into this crisis from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. when these calls were received there were still no signs of firefighters or other first

responders. the county, meanwhile, has yet to release an official timeline of their emergency response. >> that was jonathan vigliotti reporting. well, the owner of the indianapolis colts, jim irsay, just added two historic items to his multimillion-dollar personal museum. a pair of tickets to ford theater in washington, d.c. from april 14th, 1865. does that ring a bell? well, it was the night president abraham lincoln was assassinated. scott macfarlane has that story. >> reporter: inside the intimate ford's theater near the white house, days after the end of the civil war, the presentation of "our american cousin" was to be a moment of celebration and joy, with abraham lincoln in the president's box. >> he came here that night to unwind. >> he did. absolutely. it was one of his favorite things to do. >> reporter: april 14th, 1865, a date students of history know quite well. confederate sympathizer john wilkes booth broke into the unguarded box, shot lincoln, and

barreled down to the stage. >> and all of a sudden you have chaos unfolding here in the crowd. people on the first floor are clambering up onto the stage to get after booth and to also get up into that box. >> reporter: and attack an attack the national park service ranger and hifrptian garrett cause says left an indelible mark on the nation. this summer when a boston auction house put up for sale what it said were a pair of front row tickets on the upper level to the show they expected the tickets could yield more than $60,000. and were they right. >> here they are right here. >> reporter: these tickets you ended up paying nearly a quarter of a million dollars and you would have went higher? >> i would have went higher. >> reporter: jim irsay won the auction. and if his name rings a bell, you might be a football fan. jim irsay owns the indianapolis colts, and the football team is just one of the interesting thing he owns. >> it's a service of the arts to the community. >> reporter: when our vladimir duthier met with irsay this year, he found irsay is a one-man museum with a $100

million collection that includes a muhammad ali championship belt, a bob dylan guitar, and an abraham lincoln pocket knife. and now, tickets to "our american cousin," which became our american tragedy. >> but to really have two mint condition tickets that were there that night -- >> reporter: you just realized you're holding history. >> there's no question. i mean, history right here. >> reporter: inside ford's theater they welcome tourists from across the world each year as they teach about april 14th, 1865. but they also have new shows year round. as they try to build more than just a history

many schools across this cuntry and around the world have banned the a ibot known as chatgpt claiming it helps kids cheat. well, get this. five high schools in denmark are actually encouraging their students to use it.

ian lee tells us why. >> reporter: there's annual unconventional way of learning at this school in denmark. >> okay. what do you think? this is where you think for yourself. >> reporter: teachers are actually encouraging students to use the artificial intelligence program chatgpt. the ai bot known for writing essays and helping kids ace exams. >> whether or not you like this and whether or not you think it's problematic, you have to realize that it is here. >> reporter: they see ai-generated text not only as a tool to solve problems but a helping hand. >> you know the answer. you're better than the machine. >> reporter: to better learn information along the way. >> it is a misunderstanding to think that the primary goal of the school system is to detect students who cheat. the primary goal of the school system is to teach the students. >> it's a nice way of using it. it's giving you a couple of answers. if you're in doubt of what the text is about. >> reporter: these danish educators believe rather than

banning the bot it's best to talk about it. >> it's so important to have open conversations with the students and the pupils and to allow them to do things. >> reporter: students see it as a potential personal tutor. >> it's almost like a search engine, but you can be more specific with it. and you know, it can give you more straight answers than typing something into google. >> reporter: while also helping to answer how to best use new technology. ian lee, cbs news. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. be sure to check back later for "cbs mornings." report free throw broadcast center in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. the justice department says it's opening a federal hate crimes investigation in illinois against the 71-year-old landlord. it's after police say he stabbed

a 6-year-old palestinian american boy 26 times. his mother was also stabbed but survived. police believe t they were targeted due this their muslim faith and the ongoing mideast conflict. a statement from president biden said in part, "this horrific act of hate has no place in america." israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has invited mr. biden to visit israel. this comes ahead of what appears to be an imminent ground invasion of gaza. and taylor swift "the eras tour" took in about $96 million at the box office. that is the most ever for a concert film. for more download the cbs news p on your connected tv. i'm tt pieper, cbs news, new york. ready for battle. israel says an invasion of gaza is imminent. its airstrikes killing a hamas commander. humanitarian crisis in gaza

already grim. more than a million people under siege. some seeking refuge at this hospital to avoid israeli airstrikes already pummeling the territory. new efforts to evacuate americans as time runs out. >> i'm charlie d'agata in tel aviv. the prime minister vows to demolish hamas. the israeli military says they're ready. hamas hostage blackmail. desperate families still in the dark. >> i'm holly williams in tel aviv. videos of those taken captive have horrified israel. diplomatic dash. secretary of state antony blinken heads back to israel after a six-nation sweep trying to contain the conflict. also, norah o'donnell speaks to a member of israel's war council. >> is an attack against iran under consideration? >> iran is a country that works every single day for israel's destruction. plus -- ♪ you made me love you ♪ remembering actress and tv pitch woman suzanne somers.

and later, teen summit. a brother climbs mt. kilimanjaro, helping his sister with her own uphill fight. >> i'm really inspired by him. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thanks for joining us tonight. i'm jericka duncan. israel is mobilized right now for war as the country prepares to launch a ground invasion into hamas-controlled gaza. border clashes are intensifying. aerial bombardments of the territory devastating. you can see there hundreds of thousands of palestinians with nowhere to go. tnight secretary of state antony blinken is in jordan wrapping meetings with arab leaders with six nations. he returns to israel in just a few hours. today the nfl held a moment of silence at stadiums in solidarity with, quote, innocent civilians in the middle east.

in london, where the titans and ravens played, "free palestine" chants could be heard. cbs's charlie d'agata is in tel aviv tonight and leads us off. charlie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu convened an emergency cabinet for the first time today, vowing to demolish hamas. while the israeli military said they're ready and waiting for the order to launch an invasion. under bombardment and under siege ahead of a looming ground offensive, gaza is already edging ever closer to a humanitarian catastrophe. authorities say more than 2,400 people have been killed, a quarter of them children, nearly 10,000 wounded. a situation so grim they're using ice cream trucks as makeshift morgues.

hundreds of thousands of residents fleeing south as the israeli military orders them to evacuate from the north. the world health organization called the forced evacuation of 22 hospitals tantamount to a death sentence for babies on incubators and those in intensive care. israel announcing today it was resuming water supplies to southern gaza after shutting down water to the entire territory earlier this week. fighting has broken out in the north too, with israeli forces shelling southern lebanon after the militant group hezbollah fired rockets into israel. nearer to gaza israeli armor has been massing. while we've been here we've seen tons of heavy military equipment like this setting up in staging areas ahead of that anticipated israeli offensive. along what has now become a militarized zone lies the kfar azar kibbutz, the site of a

massacre of israeli civilians. the sheer destruction and bodies of hamas gunmen tell the horrors that unfolded when the terrorist group descended on this small farming community. this, we're told, is the wreckage from a paraglider that one of the militants used to cross the border and launch their assault here. colonel golan vosh told us they found bodies everywhere. 66 residents found dead on this street alone. if people locked themselves inside safe rooms, militants set their houses on fire. in your entire career as a professional soldier had you seen anything like this before? >> no. this was cruel. and i saw the signals of the intention to humiliate. >> reporter: humiliate? >> humiliate. >> reporter: that quiet farming community has now become a front line, jericka. this ground invasion has not

even begun yet, but israeli defense forces say they've already lost nearly 280 soldiers. >> charlie d'agata tonight in tel aviv. israel declared war against hamas eight days ago. top leaders of the jewish state have given very few interviews until now. ron dermer, israel's minister of strategic affairs and a member of its new war council, spoke to norah o'donnell in tel aviv about who he thinks was really behind the deadliest attack in israel's 75-year history. >> when israel loses 1,300, when 1,300 people are murdered, that's like 50,000 americans being murdered on a single day. today with the numbers we see it's 20 9/11s. and we're not dealing with a terrorist organization thousands of miles away like you did after 9/11. we're dealing with a terrorist organization in our back yard, literally meters away from people's homes. >> you've talked about the comparisons to 9/11.

we knew that osama bin laden was the mastermind. do you know who the mastermind is? >> sure. it's sinwar and deif. they're two people in gaza. they're the ones who are responsible specifically for this attack. but they are backed, again, by iran. they are backed financially. they are backed with weapons. they are backed with training, with logistics, with communication, with political support. iran is the source of so many of the problems of the middle east. >> the u.s. says it has no evidence that iran was behind this specific attack. does the israeli government know that iran was behind this attack? >> there's a question of whether iran knew about the timing of this specific attack. but iran is behind hamas. hamas, 93% of their military budget is iran. they have meetings all the time, iran and hamas. so whether they knew that the attack was going to happen on this day or three days later or

a week later or two weeks later, that's a separate question. without iran this attack cannot happen. that i can assure you. >> is an attack against iran under consideration? >> iran is a country that works every single day for israel's destruction. and in trying to develop the means, nuclear weapons, to achieve that goal. so we will do whatever we have to do to defend ourselves to prevent such a regime, who denies the first holocaust and would like to perpetrate a second one, to deny such a regime from developing nuclear weapons. >> there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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today the israeli military confirmed 155 people are being held as hostages by hamas. cbs's imtiaz tyab interviewed the political spokesman for hamas for answers. >> reporter: there are over 100 people who are being held captive inside gaza right now. why abduct people? why hold people hostage inside gaza? >> first of all, our priority is to stop now daily -- daily death. daily killing. death every moment. we have to stop this. after that we can talk about other situation. but now we are not ready -- >> reporter: the world is trying to understand hamas. they're trying to understand its motivation. and all it has seen is the devastating violence that was inflicted on people in their homes. at a music festival. children being abducted. elderly people being abducted. >> and palestinians -- >> reporter: i'm still waiting

for a justification. >> and palestinians. you do know how many people are killed just in five days? you know about 30,000 homes were destroyed. you know that about 50 entire -- 50 entire families are deleted from the civil court. the father, the mother, the sons, daughter. everything were deleted. how can you justify this? >> reporter: why don't you just release the people who were abducted? >> okay. what we want first of all, we want to stop this daily death in gaza, daily killing in gaza. it is our priority now. your priority should be how to stop killing, and this is genocide in gaza. it is really genocide in gaza. and you heard that not even international ridiculous -- all the international organization, all say the situation in gaza is catastrophe, is big disaster. we have to stop this. maybe after that we can talk

any -- about anything. >> that again was imtiaz tyab. for relatives of hostages held by hamas these are desperate hours as the militants have threatened to execute their captives. cbs's holly williams also in tel aviv has more. holly? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. tonight israel's military says that it's confirmed at least 155 hostages are being held by hamas in gaza. hamas claims that 27 of the hostages have been killed in israeli airstrikes and others wounded, though we cannot verify that. the images of hamas kidnapping hostages have horrified israel. many of them are civilians. some are children. and amongst them are americans. the militants are now playing a deadly game of blackmail, threatening to kill one hostage every time israel bombs palestinian civilians without warning.

tonight israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, met with the family members of some of the hostages. >> bring them home! bring them home! >> reporter: but many here in israel blame their own government for the apparent security failures that allowed hamas to go on a killing spree and take people captive. there was a demonstration yesterday outside israel's defense ministry. >> we don't sleep. we don't eat. all think -- all the day we are thinking, what is going on in liri? >> reporter: shira albagh's 18-year-old daughter liri is believed to be amongst the hostages. what do you want your government to do to get her home? >> i don't care what they do. but i want -- i don't know. i'm not a political woman. i'm a mother. and i want my daughter home now. i want my daughter to sleep in her bed. now. >> reporter: but some here who have a history of dealing with hamas are not optimistic. >> here we deal with a terror that is actually holding my son

as a bargaining chip. >> reporter: leah goldin's son hadar was a soldier in 2014 when he was captured and killed by hamas. nearly ten years later the militants still refuse to return his body. >> given your experience with hamas, what do you think that they're doing right now with the hostages that they've taken? >> no one knows. no one knows. no one knows. the worst thing can be done. no one knows. >> reporter: israel faces an excruciating conundrum. because on the one hand it wants to punish hamas militarily. and on the other it wants to bring the hostages home alive. and jericka, doing both those things at once will be extremely difficult. >> absolutely. holly williams for us tonight. thank you. well, the state department confirms the deaths of 30 americans following the hamas assault. 13 remain unaccounted for. and today the fbi warned about lone wolf attacks in this country, noting the best way to stop that is by tips from the public.

cbs's skyler henry is at the white house tonight with more on that. skyler. >> reporter: hey, jericka. good to be with you. the biden administration has since this all began expressed to the public to be on the lookout for said attacks while also putting an emphasis on certain things that the public can be doing. meanwhile, happening abroad, top u.s. officials say israel has every right to defend itself against the hamas attacks but should also take every possible precaution to avoid harming innocent civilians. secretary of state antony blinken met with egypt's president sunday. the latest in a series of high-stakes talks with the leaders of several middle eastern countries, keeping an eye on the israel-hamas war. >> what i've heard from virtually every partner was a determination, a shared view that we have to do everything possible to make sure this doesn't spread to other places. >> reporter: the u.s. is beefing up its military presence in the

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canceling their flights because of the conflict most people are having to find their own way home. cbs's astrid martinez has more. >> reporter: americans are slowly returning to safety as the conflict between israel and scott forester arrived in chicago. >> i got to the gate. i sat down. and i started crying. >> reporter: the madison, wisconsin resident traveled first from israel to berlin, then washington, d.c. before finally landing at o'hare international airport. >> i'm very grateful to be here. but i'm also -- my heart is just heavy and sad because of the people that i left behind. >> reporter: other families arriving in new york and new jersey boarded flights on the sabbath, the jewish day of rest, when travel is typically forbidden. in this case the israeli airline el al made the exception for the first time since 1982. >> we've seen rockets going off in the air, smoke rising. but there's lots of hurting people over there. lots of refugees.

>> reporter: u.s. officials say their first charter flight landed in athens, greece yesterday. in recent days other governments have evacuated their citizens including germany, argentina, france and india. many spend days in bomb shelters. some even injured in the conflict. these peruvian citizens applauding after boarding a flight bound for rome. and jericka, the u.s. state department says more than 20,000 american citizens stuck in israel and gaza have reached out to them for departure assistance since the war began. >> astrid, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news." remembering actress and businesswoman suzanne somers.

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took on the challenge, climbing for a cure. here's cbs's kris van cleave. >> it's gorgeous but it's a little intimidating knowing that we're going to be at the top of that. >> reporter: 16-year-old hudson reynolds had quite the summer adventure, climbing mount kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in africa. it took six days in at times near freezing temperatures to reach the summit. did you have moments where you were like what am i doing? >> yeah. definitely. definitely. but whenever i thought about that i just thought about my sister, what she's had to go through. >> reporter: it was for his older sister tia that he climbed those 19,341 feet. >> we made it to the roof of africa. >> reporter: the effort raised $200,000 to battle the little-known disease he's watched her fight every day. it's called pku and affects about 16,000 americans. it makes food protein toxic to the brain. >> i'm really inspired by him, and i love that we are working on this together. >> reporter: battling the disease is a family affair. her mother skied across norway to raise money. her grandfather biked across

america. they've raised millions, helping lead to a breakthrough, a daily shot to manage pku. >> what she's had to go through her whole life just doesn't compare to climbing kilimanjaro no matter how hard it was. >> reporter: the next mountain they hope to climb is the one leading to a cure. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others make sure you check back later for "cbs mornings" and of course follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. the justice department says it's opening a federal hate crimes investigation in illinois against a 71-year-old landlord. it's after police say he stabbed

a 6-year-old palestinian-american boy 26 times. his mother was also stabbed but survived. police believe they were targeted due to their muslim faith and the ongoing mideast conflict. a statement from president biden said in part, "this horrific act of hate has no place in america." israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has invited mr. biden to visit israel. this comes ahead of what appears to be an imminent ground invasion of gaza. and taylor swift the eras tour took in about $96 million at the box office. that is the most ever for a concert film. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. it's monday, october 16ingth, 2023. this is the cbs morning news. giving aid to gaza. conflicting reports of a possible opening of a border

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