whether to sign off on a deal to free some women and children held hostage by hamas. cnn correspondents are in the region and right here in washington covering this critical moment in the war, first i want to go to cnn's matthew chance in tel aviv, israel. what's the latest word on this deal and what it entails? >> reporter: well, that deal, pam, is still being debated by the israeli cabinet. they've been meeting for hours, and it could be several hours still, we're told, before a decision is finally reached but the terms of that deal are pretty clear, it would involve the release of at least 50 israeli hostages from gaza by the palestinian group, hamas. over a period of between four and five days, so there would be about ten people every day being released. in the meantime, israel would pause its conflict, pause its hostilities there and allow for that hostage release to take place. the israelis have said they'd be open to the possibility of a further pause as well as long as hamas was open to the possibility of releasing more hostages. also in exchange from the israeli side there would be a release of palestinian prisoners in israeli jails, women and children, and, remember, it's women and children among the hostages that are being negotiated for right now and there would also be potentially a much greater increase in humanitarian aid that's allowed to go into the gaza strip from rafah, from the egyptian side. and so this is the deal that's on the table right now, as i say, it's still being debated. the expectation is that it will be green-lighted by the israeli government. once it is, of course, there's still a grace period of 24 hours to allow people to appeal the decision in the supreme court. that's a legal period of 24 hours that has to be put in place before this deal can become operational, so the deal is being debated tonight. we're still some way off before we could see the first hostages released in this patch. >> just a reminder, all these family members that have been waiting so anxiously, you've been talking to some of these family members whose loved ones are being held hostage and talk about a number but behind every number there is a human being. what is their response to news of a deal? >> reporter: well, yes, you're right. it's an absolutely heartbreaking trauma that the people of israel are, of course, suffering as a result of these hostages being kept in gaza and what happened on october 7th. particularly here, i'm right in the middle of tel aviv. there's a sort of daily protest by the hostage families and the supporters of those families, as well, that come here. you know, to make sure it's a big priority for the israeli government, put pressure on the israeli government to take as much action as they possibly can to get them released. there are mixed feelings tonight because even though there's some excitement some could be released soon, a lot of people will be still remaining hostages at the end of this phase. earlier i spoke to -- a very tragic story -- one mother who's already lost her 16-year-old song. he was killed by hamas on october the 7th and then her 13-year-old daughter was abducted and is a hostage now and she's optimistic, amazingly, that at least her daughter could now be released. take a listen. >> it's the most -- i have no -- nothing else to believe in, just the way that she will be back soon. the hope is they're keeping me alive now and i believe that she will come back but i can say that for a month and more, nobody's spoken to us -- with us from the government. yesterday -- >> reporter: nobody's spoken with you? >> no, just yesterday we met with the cabinet, all the families. >> reporter: okay. >> it was the first time we spoke with them eye to eye and it's supposed to be much before. >> reporter: does that make you feel -- >> i'm angry. we wanted them to say that this is eye priority. the hostages is the priority. the first priority of the war, and we didn't heard it from everybody, but now today they said it, finally, so i'm optimistic now because they said it finally. >> reporter: well, and they have it, optimistic now but quite critical of the fact up until now the release of those hostages doesn't appear to have been a priority for the israeli government, back to you. >> just can't imagine what that mother and all those other family members have been going through as they cling on to hope right now. stay with us. let's bring in becky anderson. you've been at the forefront with this reporting on this potential deal, these negotiations for the release of hostages have been going on for weeks. how are these talks able to progress to this point? >> well, i think to matthew's point, to date it's been really difficult for negotiators to really bear down on what both sides were prepared to concede to, and the israelis some weeks ago said they had two objectives to dismantle and get rid of both the political and military assets of hamas and then, of course, get all the hostages released. on that first effort to really degrade the hamas assets on the ground in gaza, the israelis needed time to get in on the ground and get embedded within northern gaza and get that operation, you know, ongoing and to establish themselves, and that appears to be to a certain extent what the israelis wanted to do before they conceded to any of the parameters of this deal, to really establish themselves on the ground for what it's worth so from the israeli side, i think the perspective is we are now closer to one of our objectives which is the dismantling of hamas, probably by no means finished but certainly having a go at dismantling hamas and its assets. on the hamas side, there were two or three things that the group were looking for, one was an exchange of hostages held in israel for palestinians, women and teenagers, held in israeli prisons and the details of this deal as far as multiple sources have told us is that will now be on a 3-1 ratio. for every one hostage released in this deal there will be three released from israeli prisons so if there are 50 released in the next four days there will be 150 released on the palestinian side. they also wanted to see a pause in hostilities for a significant period of time. looks as if they've got four days and that pause on hostilities is a pause in the israeli ground operations and the flying of surveillance drones over gaza, that will stop for periods of these days, and that suits hamas who want to, they say, get out and find where these other hostages are, but also some could argue would allow them to reorganize themselves. that might be the argument and certainly is the criticism from some of the right wing in israel and ensure there was aid and fuel coming in through the border and have certainly got the parameters of the deal 300 trucks a day access into gaza from israel, so i think over the weeks, the shape of these parameters and the demands on both sides have become easier to deal with with the -- for the mediators who just needed, they've said, for weeks now, a period of calm. so that is why i think we've got to where we are today, this proposal, let me just close with this, this proposal was delivered to the israelis in the wee hours of this morning. it is now after midnight, and they are just waiting to get the green light from the israelis as far as the qatari mediators are concerned. hamas has already signed off on this deal. >> even though hamas has signed off, you know, as one source told me today familiar with the negotiations, it is still delicate, it is still sensitive, and anything could still throw things sideways so i think a lot are on the edge of their seats as we await to see how it will play out. mj lee, i want to bring you in from the white house. benjamin netanyahu credited president biden with improving this deal in his remarks before the cabinet meeting. tell us about that. >> well, pam, as you know, president biden and prime minister netanyahu have had many, many conversations since october 7th, and that's not including the trip that president biden made to israel to show his support to the people of israel and in every single one of those conversation, basically, we are told the issue of securing the release of these hostages has come up, and it was very interesting, the comments that the prime minister made when he was speaking to his cabinet. he said in part, quote, in the last few days i talked with our friend, the president of the united states, joe biden, i asked for his intervention in order to prove the outline that is presented to you and it was, indeed, improved so that it would include more hostages and less prices, these talks bore fruit. president biden got involved, and i thank him for that. netanyahu basically confirming that the u.s. did play a helpful role in trying to get more hostages out as a part of this potential agreement, but we also know, pam, that the u.s. has been urging both in private and in public, urging israel to accept a multi-day pause, this is something that the israelis had shown real resistance to. you'll recall even just last weekend, prime minister netanyahu in an interview with cnn's dana bash basically saying a multiday pause, he sees as a short cease-fire and that he wasn't okay with it so the fact this is where we are with this potential deal really goes to show you the distance that israel has traveled and what concessions they're willing to make in order to get the hostages out. >> yeah, that's important context for sure. matthew, as you pointed out, the israeli government is set to vote on this proposal at any moment now. how soon could it be given the green light? >> reporter: well, i mean, it could be given the green light tonight, but you also have to -- i think i mentioned earlier -- factor in the legal requirement for a 24-hour period of grace, which will allow people in israel to appeal this decision in the supreme court of the country. that pertains particularly to the decision to, you know, to the agreement to release palestinian prisoners. the way it's been explained to me is that any israeli who has been affected by this sort of reason that those palestinians were detained in the first place has the right to appeal to the supreme court for them not to be released. now, it's understood that the chances of the supreme court intervening to prevent this deal going ahead, you know, given what's at stake are pretty low, but nevertheless, it's a sort of legal hoop that has to be jumped through before this deal, if it is passed tonight by the cabinet of israel, before it can fully go into force so we're looking at, you know, if it's in a couple of hours from now it will be 24 hours from then before we're likely to see the first hostages, the first prisoner exchanges take place. >> and, becky, i know you've been talking to your sources about how to coordinate something like this, the logistics. what can you tell us about that, those conversations that are happening behind the scenes for this hostage release. >> yeah, i think matthew is right. i mean, don't expect to see these hostages released as soon as this deal is green lit if, indeed, that is what happened, and let's remember, no deal is a done deal until the deal is done. but it looks like we'll be looking at a window during which time the red cross will get into gaza, get into where hamas is holding these hostages at present. we are told that the red cross will have an opportunity to see all of those hostages being held by hamas at present, and as we understand it, that is something around, you know, 50 to 100. they will see all of them whether or not they're getting released in this first phase and then as hamas gets out during these pauses and is able to gather more hostages, currently being held by other groups, families, what was described to me as gangsters by one person, then the red cross will also have an opportunity to see those hostages. this is civilian hostages, women and kids. i've been told primarily kids and the idf has told cnn that there are as many as 40 children being held, so likely in this first phase ten by ten by ten by ten over a period of four to five days. we're likely to see a lot of children coming out. the coordination of that is really complex, once again, on the ground, the pause has to hold, hamas has to hold to what they've said. the israelis must continue this pause, and then the red cross can get in and start this process. >> very, very delicate and tenuous as we await to see how this plays out from here. thank you to you all, and just keep us posted. we'll go back to you as soon as there are any more developments as we await for this vote to happen. more breaking news. just ahead as israelis await a vote on that tentative hostage deal, a key member of congress will weigh in on what we know about the terms of the agreement and what it means for the war against hamas. let's get back to the breaking news following a hostage deal between israel and hamas apparently imminent but still not finalized. for more i want to bring in democratic congresswoman slotkin. what is your reaction? >> yeah, i mean obviously a really, really important moment. an extremely positive thing. you can only imagine the families of the hostages right now, just like holding on for that last final word. it's really important for getting humanitarian assistance into gaza, but also, i think, an important moment to take a strategic pause, you know, i have been talking about the importance of understanding the goals from the israelis, understanding how they'll go forward, what their attempts had and that gives us the opportunity and can be extended beyond the original four days hopefully. >> as you know, israel's concern is that potentially hamas could kind of regroup during this pause and we know that as part of the deal there will be suspended drone operations from israel's side for several hours a day. do you believe that hamas is negotiating in good faith here and will follow through with the terms of the final deal? >> well, i mean, this is the problem. you don't get to pick your adversaries, and we're going to have to act in good faith and hope that they can deliver, and i certainly know there's been folks from the white house who have been helping on this deal, folks that are just, like, involved and in the mix with i qataris and a bunch of other parties so all you can do whenever you go into negotiation is act in good faith, and the desperate hope for those hostage families is that they follow through with what they say they're going to do. >> have you seen any intelligence that proves the american hostages are still alive? >> you know, we've been having classified briefings in the house of representatives. they thave not told us about specific hostages. and don't have a ton of evidence that they're not alive so you got to hope and act. when the united states of america has american hostages taken abroad, we stop at nothing until we get them home, and so that is the planning factor that they are now using, and i have every expectation, i hope, that they are still alive. >> two of israel's far-right parties say they will not support the deal with one saying, quote, our demand is a deal that releases everyone. do you think that's a realistic expectation given the fact that for hamas these hostages are their biggest bargaining chip? i mean the majority still remain in captivity even after the 50 could be released as part of this potential deal. >> yeah, i think, you know, the people who are rejecting this outright have never had to silt at a negotiating table with an adversary, with someone who doesn't like you and negotiate hard things and whether we like it or not, when hamas came into israel and took these innocent people, these civilians in a terrorist attack, they changed the game, and it forced us to have to have this conversation with them. no one likes negotiating with a terrorist, but to say that they're going to dismiss it out of hand, either they're not empathetic and not thinking about the hostage family, they aren't understanding the strategic play right now, so that to me sounds like politics more than actually caring about human beings. >> you sort of touched on this a little bit earlier in our conversation about white house officials playing a role. we heard prime minister netanyahu thanking president biden today for his help in these negotiations. can you just expand on how big of a role in the u.s. is the u.s. playing in all of this? >> well, certainly there are senior folks from the white house who work on the middle east shuttling between places like qatar, you know, obviously the white house, israel, certainly i've been hearing reports, you know, through colleagues that they are right in the mix and helping to broker these conversations. oftentimes when you have tough negotiations between people would can't stand to sit across the table from each other, the united states government can often be the convening power, the group that brings people together to try and have those tough conversations and that's my understanding right now and that's an important role for the united states at this moment. >> and then to follow up on that, what can you tell us about the release of any americans that are held hostage by hamas or dual citizens? >> yeah, i don't know anything about that. i know that that's potentially on the table. you've reported yourself it's women and children first. it's civilians, and i know that some of the dual american citizens are members of the israeli military so i don't expect them in that first tranche. i know that when the united states has hostages, we just do not give up on those people, and so my hope is that at least some of them will be those dual citizen americans. >> all right congresswoman elissa slotkin, thank you so much. >> thank you. a live report from israel where families of hostages are anxiously awaiting a deal to release their loved ones. i'll speak with one woman whose nephew is being held captive in gaza. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." c'mon, we're right there. c'mon baby. it's the only we need. go, go, go, go! ah! touchdown baby! -touchdown! are your neighbors watching the same game? yeah, my 5g home internet delays the game a bit. but you get used to it. try these. they're noise cancelling earmuffs. i stole them from an airport. it's always something with you, man. great! solid! -greek salad? exactly! don't delay the game with verizon or t-mobile 5g home internet. catch it on the xfinity 10g network. back to breaking news, a hostage deal between israel and hamas appears to be extremely close as benjamin netanyahu urging his cabinet to ratify the agreement. let's bring in cnn's jeremy diamond joining us from sderot, israel. what are the latest developments in this potential hostage deal, jeremy? >> reporter: well, pam, at this hour the israeli cabinet meeting appears to still be ongoing. the israeli prime minister at the start of that meeting made his case to his cabinet for why they should agree to back a deal that he says is a difficult one but that he called the right one. he said that the entire security establishment in israel is behind this deal that would see about 50 hostages freed over the course of four to five days in exchange for a pause in the fighting as well as three palestinian prisoners being released for every one civilian hostage release as part of this deal. there is also the possibility of additional hostages being released after the four to five days with the possibility of additional days of cease-fire as well. but the israeli prime minister tonight making very clear that regardless of the deal that may go forward and the pause in the fighting that may happen, that the war will continue. he said tonight that the war will continue, so long as all of the hostages -- until all of the hostages are returned to israel and until the goals of the war in terms of destroying hamas and removing it from its hold on power in gaza are achieved. >> so, on that note you've seen some activity in northern gaza tonight, right? >> reporter: yeah, no doubt about it. i mean, even as these negotiations have been entering the final stretch here and the security cabinet has begun to consider this deal, we are watching still tonight as there is ongoing shelling of the gaza strip, ongoing explosions and also watching a fire raging in the area near the jabaliya refugee camp where we know israeli forces have been in recent days operating very, very actively and we also know, pam, that if past is prologue in the hours before a pause in the fighting or truce goes foo effect, we do often see an uptick in the fighting between israel and hamas. so we are certainly monitoring this area for that. >> and you've also been talking to loved ones of the hostages. how are those families whose loved ones being held hostage responding to the developments of the potential deal? >> you know, pam, they are going through just an absolute emotional roller coaster and have been in touch with several hostage families over the course of the last several weeks and spoke to two of them today who have family members who are children who are being held hostage in gaza. these are the families that could potentially benefit from the deal that would see dozens of women and children freed and yet they are still in a state of anxiety and uncertainty because they still do not know if their family members will be included on that list of people. i spoke tonight with yufat, the cousin of shchlt rerri bibas, the two children aged 10 and 40 months old were taken hostage and she told me she is hopeful but she still doesn't have a lot of information from the israeli government and she said that until she sees her cousin and her -- her nephews come out of gaza, until she is able to hug them she won't know that they're home and safe. pam. >> jeremy diamond, thank you so much. and let's bring in yael. her nephew was kidnapped by hamas. you heard jeremy talking about how anxiety ridden all of you are waiting for their loved ones to be released feeling the psychological torture this has been for you since october 7th. we're told the hostages who are expected to be released will primarily be children. your nephew is just 17 years old. do you know if he will be among them? how hopeful are you? >> hi, pam. thank you for having me. we keep our hope for 46 days. we won't give up now, but we don't have any information, not about his condition and not about this deal because all we know is from the media, as you know, as your reporters said now. we don't know anything for sure, and as we told jeremy, we will be sure he is home when i see him and his mother hugging and i know this night, personal nightmare is over but we won't stop until everyone gets home. >> no, understandably. have you been in communication with the israeli government? what do you know how how he's doing? >> we don't know anything. the last time we got a message from him was saturday, october 7, at half past 12 noon. he said, he said to us by message that hear our talk in the house, they're very afraid. he has been to his girlfriend on shabbat visiting her and her family. we live in jerusalem, so it was so random that the people they took and they just took him from the safe room, took him with a black small car to gaza. since then we didn't hear anything. we just heard one time that he's considered hostage and not missing anymore. we don't know why. we don't know how. we didn't get any sign of life and as you can imagine or you can't imagine because it's not possible to imagine what a nightmare. >> you've talked about just the very long nightmare this has been for you and your family. how have you and your brother have been doing since the hamas terrorists took him? how do you get through each day? how do you sleep at night? like you said, i can't imagine. >> no, and i can tell you that we keep doing anything and everything we can. he has a dutch nationality so we are in touch with the dutch government and met the prime minister. we are in touch with the ambassador in israel. my father and ofil's father went to meet some people and they also succeeded to meet there the qatar ambassador and ask him, beg for him to bring ofir home together with all the hostages and i don't know how to do it. we didn't choose it but from that day every one of us stopped his life and we are walking in it, we are interviewing everywhere to keep the world informed and we won't let anyone sit still until they come home. it's really -- it's not only the hostages we are talking about it now, but you have to speak about the humanitarian crisis in israel. we have 100,000 people evacuated from their homes. the refugees, ofir was taken from his girlfriend house with his girlfriend's father, and her father is not in the deal now, so we still won't have anyone back and his girlfriend with her two sisters and mother, they were safe and got there with pajamas, barefoot and their house was burned to ashes, so you can imagine all these people, all these tens of thousands of people have to start over their life again with all these murders in their families and i don't know what to tell you. first of all, we want to feel home first but then we have a very, very long way to go until we'll go back to life. >> i think that's really important perspective, so much heartache right now. yael engel lichihi, ththank you much. we'll bebe right bacack. >> thahank you verery much.. well, u.s. officials tell cnn american military aircraft have fired on and killed hostile forces after iranian-backed militants launched a ballistic missile attack on an air base in iraq. cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand joins us. this is the first time the militants have used ballistic missiles to target u.s. forces, right? >> that's right so in this recent spate of attacks ongoing since october 17th pretty much daily by the iran-backed groups they have largely been using rockets and drones and smaller equipment to target the bases, but in yesterday's attack, on al asad air base in iraq, they used a close-range ballistic missile according to the pentagon. that is a significant escalation because these missiles, they can travel greater distances, they have larger warhides, and all around can cause greater damage to these bases and pose a greater risk of injury to u.s. service members, and so despite the u.s.' efforts to try to deter these attacks by these groups they have launched attacks three times on iranian facilities in syria being used for weapons storage and training facilities, for example, the iran-backed groups continue to launch these attacks pretty much almost daily. the number now stands since october 17th at over 60 attacks on u.s. and coalition bases in iraq and syria. and the u.s. did retaliate yet again against this iran-backed strike on this base in iraq just yesterday targeting a vehicle that the u.s. says was carrying some of these militants and that strike did ultimately kill several of those attackers in that vehicle, but still the question remains, you know, how sustainable is this u.s. approach, because while the u.s. is trying to deter these groups, trying to communicate to iran they expect the iranians to rein in these proxy forces, clearly these iran-backed militias are not deterred. >> they clearly aren't with how many attacks there have been. thank you very much. well, last hour a georgia judge decided not to send one of donald trump's co-defendants to jail after prosecutors claimed he violated his bail conditions. cnn's evan perez joins us, evan, walk us through what happened in court today for harrison floyd. >> the judge, scott mcafee, had reluctance about enforcing or doing what the prosecutors were saying he should do which is revoke his bail conditions, because harrison floyd has made a number of inflammatory comments on social media, things, attacking potential witnesses, obviously for this case in georgia, including people who helped certify the election in 2020, so one of the things that fani willis was saying is that it was clear that these were things that harrison floyd mayweather should not be doing and that the judge needed to essentially bring it down on him because of that. listen to her arguments today in court. >> he was given an opportunity to cooperate with the rules of this case and what he really did was spit on the court and refuse to oblige by three of the seven conditions of this order. what we're here to decide is does this mean something or not? he doesn't get an, oh, i'm sorry after i'm already intimidated the witnesses in this case. it's too late. >> as you can see, very fiery, it was a very fiery hearing and that was fani willis arguing this hearing herself, it's the first time we've seen her appear and do these arguments personally. she usually has district attorney -- other prosecutors doing this, and what it really does, it gives us a little bit of a window into how we might see her arguing when this case finally does go to trial sometime in the coming months but one of the things i think you can take away from this, you can see the judge having a lot of reluctance to revoke bail, again, defendants have a right to defend themselves and have a right to criticize their prosecution. they have first amendment rights and that's what you're seeing from this judge. a lot like what you saw yesterday. >> yeah. >> when you and i were talking about this yesterday with the appeals court, they were troubled by some of the things that the former president trump says on social media and believe that obviously there's some limits, but as you can see, they're also very, very conscious about the rights of defendants to defend themselves and speak out publicly so i think you'll see a new order from this judge which will define what harrison floyd says. >> we will see, thanks. on that note let's bring in carrie cordero and elliot williams. what do you think, elliot? it's a tricky balance allowing the defendants to defend themselves and criticize the prosecution but as fani willis claims, you know, harrison floyd in this case, he violated the terms of his agreement, so are you surprised by the judge's decision? >> i mean, a little bit, because the judge could easily have revoked his bond and locked him up. the problem is that you have a few issues there, number one, this is the point evan was making, defendants, as we talked about yesterday, deja vu, defendants have a right to speak, and they have a right to criticize the process and claim their innocence and so on, so that is going to create a thorny free speech first amendment case. you have this other problem. there is another defendant in this case who keeps speaking publicly and getting away with it. now, certainly donald trump's statements often are in the context of other legal proceedings, not this one, but he has certainly made statements that were as inflammatory if not more so than what floyd did and locking floyd up for the same conduct that the former president got away with created ang odd situation and i think courts are going to continue to struggle with this as long as the former president is still a defendant. >> on that note i want to bring in carrie about this, you know, decision that judges in d.c. are looking at whether to reinstate the gag order for donald trump on the election subversion case, those arguments were made yesterday. are you surprised we don't know yet what the judge's decision is in this case? >> no, not in that case. i think it can come soon, but they might take a few days to determine it. certainly the case has to proceed so they can't take too long to decide. i'm not surprised. just to follow up a bit. you know, pick up where elliot left off as well as it relates to the georgia case and federal case, i think the overall issue that all of these different judges, whether at the state level or at the federal level are really going to have to be careful about and what they're probably struggling with, they have to make sure any rule that they come up with in the context of a particular individual, a particular defendant has to be applied equitably so whatever rule in the georgia case the judge decides to draw the line at for mr. floyd, the judge then also has to be prepared to draw that exact same line for the former president, and it's similar to the issue in the federal case, as well, any of the defendants who in the federal case, the former president or in the georgia case, the multiple defendants, any of these defendants who engage in social media who speak publicly which is many of them have to be -- the law has to be applied to them equally when it comes to what they're going to be allowed to say in the context of defending themselves in the court of public opinion. >> yeah, carrie, a lot of weight, as you point out, carrie and elliot, thank you. well, coming up an update on thanksgiving travel as bad weather snarls air traffic and makes driving miserable for millions of americans. the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. tens of millions of people will be hitting the road or taking to the skies in what is expected to be the busiest in thanksgiving travel season in years. but, travel plans could be disrupted by storm system that is expanding across the eastern united states. cnn aviation correspondent joins us now from reagan national airport outside washington. it seems like this happens all the time. the holidays come about and then a storm system rose through. so, how are flights looking right now? >> reporter: well, you know, there are delays heading to the airport right now. look at this live tower cam from over reagan national airport. you can see the long line of headlights . all of these cars simply trying to work their way through this cold rain that is hitting here and at airports up and down the east coast. the faa has imposed a ground delay meaning keeping planes on the ground in charlotte, one of the biggest hubs are american airlines, 90 minutes is the average delay. this is coming at an inopportune time for airlines, one of the biggest days preholiday in terms of the number of flights scheduled, 40,000 in total today. we are talking 2.6 million people passing through tsa checkpoints nationwide. the cancellations have remained steady and pretty low, around 59 right now. the delays, according to the latest numbers, keep going up. 3545. i want you to listen now to tsa administrator david who told me it is imperative for you to get to the airport early and be on your game as you're going through security checkpoints and not make these delays even worse. listen. >> give them more time. arrive at the airport earlier. think through the process you are going to go through through screening because you do not want to be the passenger that holds everyone else up. >> reporter: american airlines, a tidbit from them, they scheduled 23,000 flights from thursday since sunday. they only canceled two of them. we will see if airlines can continue this streak. >> hopefully the cancellations are few and far between. thank you so much. coming up more on our top story, the proposed hostage between israel and hamas. all of the latest details right after a quick break. happening now, breaking news, new hope for hostage families as these really cabinet is preparing to vote on