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 a carefully choreographed way so that both sides can verify that the other side is upholding their end of the deal. we don't have exact proof of life on everyone, and that's why they are doing this in this staged way, to ensure that hamas is actually following through on the people it says it has. >> kaitlan collins joins us from tel aviv. what happens now? >> major questions still about logistically what this will look like. we are learning some of what -- how tomorrow is going to shape out, that is, what is expected now. none of this seems to be concrete. what we are hearing from israeli officials 10:00 a.m. local time, in israel is when that pause in fight something set it begin, when the hostages are going to start to be released, we are told. what i hear from an israeli officials is there is a window from 10:00 a.m. local to 4:00 p.m. local and that is that window of when the facilitation of the release of those hostages is expected to happen. now, i think there are still major questions about wihere thy will be coming through in gaza, which crossing to get into israel. we know that is where they are expected to end up. we still don't know a lot of what the logistics are going to look like here. right now about ten hostages per day, we believe, over the next four to five days in the pause in fighting that is slate today happen. one thing that i have learned is there is an option for this to go on as long as ten days potentially. we have heard from prime minister netanyahu saying that for every additional ten hostages this are released outside. 50 dragreed to between israel a hamas would warrant another day and a pause in fighting. there is a lot of skepticism here among the israeli officials and government that it could go on for ten days. i think there is questions about the condition of the hostages that hamas is holding. some are held by outside groups. remains to be seen how long this goes on. that is an option on the table. so i think tomorrow we will get a sense of what this looks like and how the hostages are being facilitated as they ir release happening. it is slated to start and that is welcome news for family members on edge for several weeks now as we are now seeing what is the biggest diplomatic breakthrough since october 7th. >> getting to this point of this diplomatic breakthrough, kaitlan, has been delicate and detailed. walk us through the weeks really of meetings here and how we got to this point. >> it's come up to the brink several times where they thought they had a deal. even before israel's ground operation in gaza began. we saw how that has changed so many times. and so what has happened here essentially behind the scenes is a lot of back and forth, intensive negotiations, moments where they weren't sure if there would be a deal at all. i think there was a lot of skepticism among israeli officials in the beginning there would be any hostage agreement because they didn't believe that either hamas, there was any proof of life, that they actually had hostages together, what that really looked like. as you saw over the course of several weeks, as they began to believe that hamas did have that, you start to see a deal come together. and that came to points where we saw brett mcgurk, you know, president biden's top official for the middle east, here on the ground multiple times, in qatar multiple times, which has been where officials have been mediating between israel and hamas. at one point a little over a week ago he was on the ground in israel and as they were leaving a meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu grabbed his arm and said he really needed to get a deal done. he was facing an immense amount of pressure from the family members, the loved ones of the hostages here in tel aviv and jerusalem, all over israel, to bring their loved ones home. they didn't care how. they just wanted them to get home. now we will start to see some of that. of course, a lot of these families are waiting to learn more about whether or not their loved ones will be included in this initial group of 50. clarissa ward is here in tel aviv where the families of the hostages have been gathering in what has informally and tragically been known as hostage square. a meeting group for a lot of these families. i know earlier you said that some heard nothing from the government, that they found out about this agreement for the release of these hostages for this truce from the media. what else are you hearing from the families that you have been speaking with? >> so, we spoke to a number of families now, kaitlan, and i think the sort of overriding sense is, of course, there is a glimmer of hope and excitement about the possibility that they might see their loved one soon. but there is also a lot of confusion and a lot of concern. the confusion comes with the piece of they have not, anyone who we've spoken to, had direct communication from the israeli government as to what sort of state their family members are in, what conditions they are being held in, if the red cross has had access to them, and, of course, most crucially at the moment, whether they are on the so-called list of 50 individuals who are believed or hoped will be released in the coming days as part of that agreement. we spoke to thomas hand, you may remember, the irishman who lived for 30 years in kibbutz be'eri. his daughter, emily, turned 9 last week. he was initially told emily had been killed during the hamas rampage on october 7th. then weeks later was told they believe she might be held in gaza. we have spoken to him. he says he has no information as to whether emily is still even alive or whether she will be released in the coming days. he said -- and i want to quote him here -- i want to jump through the roof with hope, but i also have to keep a level heady emotionally. i can't get too far ahead of myself. and i think that sentiment is one shared by a lot of these families. they are so desperate to cling on to that sense of hope and the possibility that they might be reunited with their loved ones, but they are very concerned not only that they don't know about what state their loved ones are in physically, what conditions they have been held in, but what state emotionally they will be returning potentially in. and we spoke to hadas, a mother, her case has drawn a lot of attention in israel and around the world because they are two children are being held in gaza with her ex-husband, their father. her mother and autistic national archives were murdered on october 7th. she says she has been fighting day in, day out, 47 days, non-stop to really push emphatically for their release. she doesn't know if they are on this list, if they may be coming out soon, but she is so cokeenl aware that the little boy and girl who she last saw are not going to be the same little boy and girl who are going to potentially emerge from gaza, even if they are safe, even if they are physically okay. there is a broader understanding that the trauma that this experience will have taken on them, and she talked about her little boy, she said he was a nervous little boy anyway, prone to anxiety, and it's been eating her up at night to try to imagine what kind of emotional turmoil he has been through and what the impact of that will be on him going forward. so while there is definitely a sense, kaitlan, as you alluded to, of a glimmer of hope, a moment of desperately needed good news potentially, that is absolutely being tempered by the confusion, the questions, and, of course, the critical issue as to the state that these children who will, hopefully, be coming home will be returning in. >> yeah. it's hard to think of the trauma that they face. clarissa ward, thank you for that. of course, this hostage deal followed weeks of negotiations behind the scenes. it was eventually approved by israel's cabinet in the early hours of wednesday morning. it followed aics-hour meeting that we are told by one israeli officials was tense and emotional. joining us is a man who has been in similar cabinet meetings before. maybe not to this degree, given what they are facing. former israeli prime minister bennett. what do you make of this deal? do you think this is a good deal? >> i don't want to voice my personal opinion. i have an opinion, but i don't want to go against or anything that israel is doing. i am representing the state of israel. this is the deal. the deal has arrived. as a result, very successful israeli pressure of an activity of the idf in gaza. it put the leaders of hamas under tremendous pressure and loss. so they felt they have to do the deal in order to buy a few days of respite and we're going to pay a price for that, but this would not have come about without the actions of the idf. >> it sounds like you are skeptical of this deal. what do you mean when you say pay a price for it? >> well, you know, our opponent has been hit badly. hamas has been taking massive hits over the past several weeks. and it's at a point of very tough point. that's a pint where you typically don't want to lift them up from the floor and allow them to recuperate. but the deal here is providing us, of course, with 50 lives, hopefully, assuming the deal will be performed as it's promised. and that i would not assume that automatically. we are going to get home children and moms, and it's just heartbreaking. these are families that were in their homes in the morning and they were taken out of their beds and kidnapped into hamas land in gaza. so israel has a duty to bring them home. >> of course, the prime minister has been facing immense pressure to do so. tactically speaking, sounds like you think this is a mistake? >> again, i don't criticize or attack my own government. i am citizen of the state of israel. i am not in the political scene. therefore, i support any action that my government takes. and it is what it is. we are going ahead with this deal. i am sure that the cabinet ministers were aware of both sides of the equation and they probably have information that i don't hold, which only tilted it in favor of the deal. israel set two objectives. one is toer add indicate hamas, and the other to bring all the hostages home. we are making a major strand, a major advance in terms of bringing some of the hostages home, but, obviously, there is a price to pay and i'm sure the cabinet ministers took this into consideration. >> would you have made this deal if you were the prime minister? would you have signed off on this? >> i don't want to second-guess people. i want to say that we're fighting a barbaric, savage enemy that literally pulled kids and babies out of their beds. i want to show you something. this is a teddy bear from a girl pulled out of her bed with her small younger children, out of the shelter. i found this in their home. obviously, i want this to go back to her. but just imagine a terror organization that you can see how she to let go of this doll. we want her to come back to this doll. we are fighting with the worst terror organization that no qualms on anything, on raping women, on butchering families, on burning families alive. we have to eradicate hamas. so when this temporary ceasefire ends, the idf will continue until we eliminate hamas from the face of the earth. >> yeah. i visited kibbutz. we saw several of those kinds of, you know, just everyday mow mentos, stuffed animals, bikes from children, you know, scattered across. but when you just mentioned there about this being a temporary ceasefire, we heard from the prime minister netanyahu saying that for every additional ten hostages that hamas releases there will be an additional day of pause in the fighting. do you think this could turn into a complete ceasefire? >> one way or another, we set two objectives. one is bringing the hostages home. but the other one to eradicate hamas. we cannot allow this war to end with hamas on our border. because they explicitly already said they will do more massacres if they can. we have sort of al qaeda on our border. imagine after 9/11 instead of mexico you had al qaeda on the border of the united states of america. obviously, the united states would wipe out that terror state. that's what we are going to have to do to hamas. right now there is a temporary ceasefire and the prime minister netanyahu set an equation. you know, as citizen of israel, i stand behind all of the actions of my own country. >> former israeli prime minister naphtali bennett, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you very much. >> erica, poppy, back to you. >> as we learn more on the deal between israel and hamas, the role qatar played in getting this deal to come to fruition is significant. and it's coming into a greater focus. becky anderson just spoke with the lead negotiator. those details ahead. millions of americans gearing up for the busy holiday. thanksgiving, here we come. would severe weather could disrupt some of f your travel plans, w what you cocould expec that's's just aheaead. . heavy wind and rain pelting the northeast this morning that. is throwing a monkey wrench in holiday plans for folks on what is considered to be the busiest travel day of the year. jason carroll is live at new york's laguardia airport. so 6:00 a.m. hour. it was smooth sailing. what about now? >> reporter: we're still smooth sailing along at this point. we haven't jinxed it so far. this is everything. take a look behind me. very few lines. we keep checking the departures board. again, on time, on time, no matter where you look on the board. we were worried about the weather system moving through the area in addition to what tsa was saying, predicting this to be the busiest thanksgiving travel season that they have had on record, that tsa expecting to basically go through 30 million travelers, going through their checkpoints. so with all of that, we expected things here to be much, much worse. at last check, lga, 12 cancellations so far. jfk looking at 47. newark looking at just 13 cancellations. one traveler we spoke to said she walked in here, we looked on her face, she said, where is everybody? listen to what some of the travelers had to say to us. >> i am shocked. there is nobody here. it is empty and it's 7:21 in the morning. i got her early because i am slow. >> i came early because the weather is horrible and i heard that it was going to be packed. it actually doesn't look that bad. >> reporter: so you see there travelers did what they were supposed to do, what everyone has been recommending, basically get here two hours before if you are on a domestic flight, at least three hours before if you are on an international flight that. still stands because even though things look good here, you have to consider the rest of the country. whether you're in denver, los angeles, chicago, atlanta, o'hare, continues are going to be different than conditions here. but where we are right now, things looking pretty good. >> i think we will take that bit of good news, jason carroll. well done not jinxing it. >> reporter: absolutely. >> thank you, my friend. also, we have this video to show you this morning. news that the pilot of a single-engine plane died, it crashed into the parking lot of a shopping center, exploded into flames. this happened in plano, texas, north of dallas. fire officials say no one else was injured, luckily, in the incident. but it was at a busy intersection. a witness driving by describes what they saw. >> i saw just black smoke, you know, coming off -- in the sky. i was really close buyy and i s busting out flames. >> the faa and ntsb are investigating. openai's cofound ser back at the top top of the company. he is ceo again. what a week it has been. senior u.s. officials say three americans could be released from gaza, one of them is 3-year-old abigail edan and her family is here with us next. we're following breaking news this morning as a hostage deal between israel and hamas has been reached after weeks of painstaking negotiations. here's what we know about the deal so far in the outlines of it. hamas agreed to release at least 50 women and children abducted during the october 7th terror attacks. in exchange for that, israel has agreed to release 150 palestinian prisoners from jail. all of this will happen amid a four-day pause in fighting. sources are telling me that the hostage release will begin here at thursday at 10:00 a.m. local time, that's 3:00 a.m. in the eastern time in the united states. this is a deal that was approved by israel's cabinet in the early hours of wednesday morning following a six-hour meeting described by an israeli official as tense and emotional and it was something that the israeli government said came as they published the names of up to 300 palestinian prisoners. that is the potential of who could be released. that 300 is israel saying they are potentially prepared to release more. we heard from the prime minister who said that for every additional ten hostages that are released by hamas, there will be an additional day of the pause in the fighting. all of this remains to be seen. this morning we are seeing large explosions still that are rocking gaza as you can see here. becky anderson interviewed qatar's prime minister of state, the lead negotiator on this hostage deal and joins us live from doha. this is something that has been a very intense kind of negotiation happening behind the scenes. what did this chief negotiator tell you about what was happening behind the scenes? >> reporter: yeah, it was really interesting. he described the atmosphere of the last 45 days as intense, as extremely challenging, and as complex not least because of the escalation in hostilities on the ground in gaza. but they are hopeful that what they've got in the first instance here is at least a deal, which could, they hope, lead to a more sustained peace ceasefire going forward. they describe this very specifically as a humanitarian pause or lull, a truce in the gaza strip. but two main pillars. the release of these hostages and an increase in humanitarian aid to those who need it most in the gaza strip. and i think that's really important that this is a kind of 360 deal, as it were, which includes those two key pillars. what do we know about the sort of -- how they are going to operationalize the hostage releases? there is sort of the details. 50 over a four-day period hostages released out of gaza in exchange for palestinian prisoners in israeli prisons. but i asked mohammed al califi, how are they going to make that hostage release work and how are they going to ensure that both faerts in this deal stick to the parameters, the details of the deal. this is what he told me. >> within the four days pause, in each day there will be an obligation on each side, on the israelis and obligation on hamas, making sure that they are going to fulfill those obligations each day. on each day we a