good morning. top of the hour. so glad you are with us. team coverage on the big breaking news this morning. kaitlan collins and clarissa ward in tel aviv. a four-day truce is expected to begin tomorrow morning as hamas prepares to release dozens of hostages in this breakthrough deal with israel. israeli source tells cnn the pause is expected to start local time 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, 3:00 a.m. here in the united states. hamas agreed to release at least 50 women and children abducted during the october 7th terror attacks in exchange israel has agreed to let 150 palestinian prisoners out of jail. a u.s. official says three american hostages could be part of this deal. the youngest is 3-year-old abigail edan. both of her parents were murdered by hamas october 7th. we are seeing this morning large explosions rocking northern gaza of the israeli military says its offensive is on going ahead. truce. the white house weighing in this morning. take a listen. this will be done in
what about gun ship, air to ground missiles. they could be effective if you have appropriate targets. albeit the terrorists have sort of gone into heavily populated areas. as you know from your experience, this is one of the key tactics of groups like this. when you start talking about a group like isis, it wants to be in population centers wihere thy are surrounded by civilians and sensitive targets, mosques, hospital hospital hospitals, schools. that s where they re living. and again all that of that makes it hard to bring in big power and hit them. and there are still several thousand americans in the country. so you have to watch thout for them, as well. if isis is so powerful, don t they have certain staging points, supply headquarters, other facilities that could potentially be targeted without fear of innocent civilians