cease-fire. 4-year-old abigail edan is safely back in israel after being held hostage for 50 days. the update late today from her aunt. new video of hostages being loaded up in buses inside gaza and the emotional reunion as other children are returned to their families. now the push to get more americans out. >> we will not stop working until every hostage is returned to their loved ones. three college students shot while visiting vermont over the weekend. two still in the icu. authorities say a man opened fire on them unprovoked. police zeroing in on the possibility of a hate crime as they hunt for the shooter. today is expected to be the biggest air travel day ever. nearly 3 million people taking to the skies. can the airports handle it? our nbc news exclusive inside the drug enforcement agency bust of a massive fentanyl ring. how instagram photos like this helped them charge 25 people. and count down to cyber monday. we are just hours away from the sales kicking off. where you can find the best deals. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with kate snow. good evening. on the third day of a carefully orchestrated cease-fire between israel and hamas, an american citizen was among the hostages released. her name is abigail edan and she just turned 4 years old on friday. the youngest american citizen taken by hamas. for 50 days, she was inside gaza. tonight she's free. we're seeing many joyful homecomings this weekend. this is the moment two children were reunited with their families. in the three days of the cease-fire, a total of 58 hostages have been released, but approximately 180 still remain in gaza, including as many as nine more americans. president biden said today he's working to extend the cease-fire and get more hostages out. we have two reports to lead us off beginning with erin mclaughlin in tefl. >> reporter: tonight abigail edan is coming home. the first u.s. citizen to be released by hamas as part of the temporary cease-fire agreement joined by 16 other hostages today according to the israeli government. in exchange for 39 palestinians held in israeli jails. according to the israeli prison service. tonight broadcasting this shocking footage which they claim was shot today in gaza city. you can see children loaded into red cross vehicles and an older woman requiring immediate medical treatment. the vehicle surrounded by hamas militants. tonight, president biden expressing his relief that abigail was finally released. >> today she's free and jill and i together with so many americans are praying for the fact that she's going to be all right. >> reporter: abigail's aunt releasing this video statement. >> she just landed in the hospital and she's being checked and taken care of. i want to thank everybody for all your love and support. >> reporter: the youngest american taken hostage now a symbol of the brutality of october 7th when terrorists stormed her family's kibbutz. her great aunt sitting down with lester holt describing the moment her father was shot and killed with the little girl in his arms. >> abigail had crawled out from under her father's body and went to a neighbor and they took her in. >> reporter: four members of the brodutch family and abigail were kidnapped. now all released. tonight's exchange in scenes like these of heartfelt reunions giving other people hope that their nightmares can be over. like this moment when this family was reunited overcome by emotional. and this moment when this 9-year-old reunited with her father. her father had been told emily was dead only to find out later that they believed she was alive and living in gaza. karen was released friday alongside her mother and son telling a relative they slept on benches aiven bread and rice, but not regularly. >> erin is with me now. there's one day left. what happens to those still being held, erin? >> reporter: well, kate, according to a u.s. official under the terms of this agreement, there will be red cross visits for any hostage left in gaza. kate? >> erin mclaughlin, thank you. just after the hostages were released today, president biden spoke to the nation pushing for the release of more americans and saying he hopes to extend the temporary cease-fire between israel and hamas. allie raffa is as the white house for us. how optimistic is the president that more americans will be released tomorrow? >> reporter: the president says he's hopeful but still aware of the challenges that lie ahead and tonight he's launching a full-court press pushing to make progress in two key areas. first, getting more hostages freed, including eight americans and one green card holder. the president also pushing for an extension of the fragile pause in fighting. just one day of the deal remains unless hamas and israel agree to extend the pause and return for frees more of those in captivity. the white house says president biden spoke with edan family as well as benjamin netanyahu this afternoon. the leaders agreeing to remain in close contact as they say their work is not done. kate? >> allie raffa, thank you. now to our other big story tonight, according to police, three college students all of palestinian decent were visiting their families in vermont when they were shot and injured last night. the gunman is still on the loose and there are growing concerns that this could have been a hate crime. here's the latest. >> reporter: tonight a manhunt under way for the suspect who police say shot and injured three palestinian u.s. college students who were visiting family in burlington, vermont, for thanksgiving. >> all units, the shooter is unaccounted for. >> reporter: police say around 6:30 p.m. saturday, the friends who were speaking arabic and wearing scarves were out walking when they were confronted by a white man with a handgun who fired at least four rounds before fleeing on foot. >> we heard a man screaming in pain. it was scary. >> reporter: police say the three men, all 20 years old, were shot and transported to the hospital. families of the victims have identified them as hisham awartani, a junior at brown university and kinnan abdalhamid, a junior at havorford college and tahseen ahmaad. >> they were spending the thanksgiving holiday together. >> reporter: the victims' families releasing a joint statement saying we're devastated by the news that our children were targeted and shot. they're calling on law enforcement to treat the investigation as a hate crime. >> we're afraid that it is most likely a crime against palestinians. >> reporter: officials saying there's no known motive yet, but the burlington mayor stressing the possibility of a hate crime is being prioritized in the police investigation. tonight the families say two of the three men remain in icu. hisham shot in the spine may not be able to walk again. and the parents who live in the west bank are trying to get here to the u.s. to be by their son's side. this as the search for the suspect continues. kate? >> liz, thank you. millions of americans are making their way back home today after the thanksgiving holiday and a record number of them are flying. get this, more people were set to pass through america's airports today than ever before. did the nation's airports and airlines step up to the challenge? here's marissa parra. >> reporter: tonight, the biggest test for the nation's airports they've ever faced. the mad rush home from the holiday leading to what's predicted to be the biggest air travel day in american history. >> hopefully we can get through this line and get to our gate quickly. >> reporter: nearly 3 million people set to take to the skies today. >> i'm sure tsa has their hands full. we're like crossing our fingers that it will be calm. >> reporter: numbers are daunting. atlanta's airports saw 30,000 passengers before 9:00 a.m. >> everything went so smooth. >> reporter: and today, los angeles international airport projected up to 230,000 travelers. nasty weather swept across the midwest delaying hundreds of flights in chicago. nationwide, delays topped 4,000, but cancellations, less than 50. >> there is going to be some snow on the roadways. >> reporter: 14 million were under winter alerts today from iowa to maine. on the roads, snow, ice causing accidents across kansas. but in the air -- >> today is a big day in the travel industry and i think it's a little bit of a victory lap for the industry because everything this holiday travel season has gone smoothly, even with a couple storms thrown in the mix. >> reporter: tsa has seen seven of its ten busiest travel days this year. >> they staffed up appropriately and i think that's the biggest thing in getting a massive amount of people through the airport. >> so much good news. is the rush over after tonight? >> reporter: not quite. some airports like atlanta still seeing their peak through 9:00 p.m. and for folks in the midwest, the winter weather today still slows things down. don't expect things to be fully back to normal by tomorrow. aaa says monday still a busy day for air travel. kate? >> thank you. this could be a critical week for george santos who faces a vote that could kick him out of congress. but he's not going quietly, promising to reveal secrets about bad behavior he says by some of his own colleagues. here's more from capitol hill. >> reporter: indicted congressman george santos is accepting his fate tonight admitting he expects his colleagues will vote him out of congress. >> i know i'm going to get expelled when this goes to the floor. i have done the math over and over. and it doesn't look really good. >> reporter: santos survived past attempts to expel him, including an effort earlier this month. but after the ethics committee found santos sought to exploit every aspect of his house candidacy for his own profit, dozens of republicans and democrats who voted to spare the embattled congressman now say he's not fit to serve. the blistering report accused santos of spending campaign donations on nearly everything but his run for office. instead, he allegedly use the money to pay for his personal rent, to take out cash from an atm at a casino, to spend at designer stores, for cosmetic treatments like botox and on the website only fans which is known for its adult content. the ethics panel did not make any recommendations on santos' political future but the chairman filed a resolution to kick the first-term lawmaker out. santos railed against other elected officials he called hypocrites. >> i have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyist that they're going to screw and pretend like none of us know what's going on this [ bleep ] happens every single week. where are the ethics investigations on that? >> julie is with us from capitol hill. the house is back from the thanksgiving week this week. how soon would we see that vote on expelling george santos? >> reporter: nothing has been finalized yet. but the house could take it up as early as tuesday. that vote would require two-thirds majority to pass. santos, for his part, saying he will not resign on his own. kate? >> julie, thank you. when we come back, our exclusive look at what it takes to hunt down a fentanyl trafficking ring. the social media post that helped officials catch the criminals. the biggest cyber monday ever. 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