good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart. we are following breaking developments from the middle east. nbc news has learned there will be a truce extension between israel and hamas. the pause in fighting was due to end later today. we ll talk to a spokesperson for the israeli defense forces about what s expected to happen next. the news comes as we wait another hostage release expected any minute now after three days of emotional reunions. israel s prime minister saying negotiations are continuing. the head of the red crescent said 200 aid trucks are expected to enter gaza today. we ll talk to a u.n. official about what her teams on the ground are seeing. and breaking overnight, police in vermont say they have arrested a man they believe shot and wounded three u.s. college students of palestinian descent. we begin with the breaking news in the israel-hamas war. senior arab official with direct knowledge of negotiations confirms to nb
what he says is ahead for them. plus, the images that we ve seen out of the west bank as crowds gather to welcome home palestinian prisoners who have just been freed, all while aid trucks continue to move into gaza. our nbc team is covering all angles of this story, and i want to begin with nbc s chief international correspondent, keir simmons, who s in qatar where a lot of work was done to get the truce extended. what more can you tell us about this new deal? reporter: well, chris, we re waiting right now for the last tranche, if you like, of the last deal, which is, we understand, likely to be 11 hostages released, 33 palestinian prisoners released from israeli jails. that is set to happen in the coming hours. and if it does, in just these coming hours, it s now 10:00 at night here. that would be a little bit earlier than saturday night, when there were some real challenges. didn t happen until midnight. but later than on other occasions, there have been some issues tod
home and no americans released in the latest round. the youngest, a 3-year-old, the oldest 51 as they make their way back to the israeli territory. nine americans still in captivity. we ll get an update from a israeli government spokesman and we ll get a chance to speak with one of the relatives of the hostages. your world starts now. welcome. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. first to jeff paul with the very latest on the hostage situation. jeff? yeah, charles, i want to get to breaking news. we found out this latest group of hostages released by hamas made it back to israeli territory. a huge sigh of relief for this entire country. 11 people in total. nine kids, two mothers. as you mentioned, the two youngest just 3 years old. also, the other big story, this truce between israel, hamas now being extended two more days. they both agreed to continue exchanging israeli hostages for palestinian prisoners. the israeli government said nothing is guaranteed until it happen
could collapse at any moment. what we know about the talks happening right now behind the scenes, and what happens if it all falls apart. a reminder, the current pause expires in just two hour s time. in the meantime, egypt says these 11 israeli hostages are being handed over today. this in exchange for the 33 palestinian prisoners. so we will get to that, plus the other end of the current cease fire. it still appears to be holding, much needed humanitarian aid continues to across over into gaza, a total of 200 trucks are expected to get in today. also today, a visit to israel from elon musk. he toured a kibbutz with prime minister benjamin netanyahu a little earlier, and also met with idf soldiers and family members of those killed on october 7th. what we know about the deal that he has struck with israel. we ve got a whole lot to get to, so we re going to get started with the reporting. joining us from tel aviv, we have nbc news correspondent david noriega. from doha, qatar
welcome to the beat. i m in for ari. coming up, i ve got neil and melissa murray and donald trump s packed courtroom schedule including his next testimony date. trump can expect to get grilled while on the stand again. but we re going to start tonight s show in the middle east. a series of potentially pivotal developmented today. hamas releasing 11 more hostages. all women and children. in exchange, israel releasing 33 palestinian prisoners. this is the newest video of hostages being released by hamas into red cross custody. they re inside israeli territory right now. this all happening just within the last few hours. the other big development today. hamas and israel agreed to extend the pause in fighting for two more days. the pause was originally scheduled for four days only. now, it will be six. the pentagon says hamas will release 20 more women and children over those two days. officials caution though the details are still being hammered out and the fragile deal could st