♪ ♪ this morning a hostage deal and a temporary truce. dozens of women and children kidnapped and held captive by hamas are set to be released. this is a major moment in this war. we'll speak to one father whose son is among the hostages and waiting to hear if his child will be coming home. and this morning a warning to law enforcement here in the united states across new york. an intel agency says that israel-hamas war is boosting terrorist threats as anti-semitic acts continue to surge. today is set to be one of the busiest travel days of the year. what does that mean for your family and millions of others hitting the road this thanksgiving? we are tracking it all for you. i'm kate bolduan with omar jimenez. john and sara are off. this is "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ we are closely following the breaking news of the hostage deal between israel and hamas. it's just about 16 hours from now. the air strikes and the fighting that we have seen is still happening this morning, and it will temporarily stop for at least four days. and then according to the agreement, a significant number of hostages who have now been held in gaza for nearly 50 days will be released, this in exchange for palestinian prisoners being held in israeli jails and also more aid trucks being able to come through and into gaza. >> right now we don't know which hostages will be freed, but president biden says the deal should bring home americans. we've got team coverage standing by in israel. cnn anchor kaitlan collins lead us off this hour. so, kaitlan, are you learning anything new about lodgist beings and how this will actually happen here? >> they're trying to figure that out, what the details of this are going to look like. we've gotten broad outlines including when they expect it to start, the six-hour period when they expect those hostages to be released from 10:00 a. mom. loc and what we are learning from officials is they're still trying to hammer out the details as to what this is going to look like. as for the process of how this release happens we have not yet heard from officialses what this is going to look like and where these officials are going to cross and how they are going to get back into israel and that is still a major, outstanding question and obviously one that is at the center of this agreement, omar and kate. the other part of this that we have not yet learned about is which palestinian prisoners are going to be released back to gaza. that is something that we have seen. we know that israel has released that list of 300 names or so, but it's only 150 that are included in this initial agreement and that remains to be seen what that looks like. you did reference that president biden mentioned that americans are expected to be a part of this deal and what we are hearing from u.s. officials is three americans including a toddler and we've been speaking to her family multiple times just because they have been on edge waiting to see if she's included on this and they don't view anything as final until she is part of the hostage release and president biden did say in a statement when this was being announced and they were talking about this, confirming it once they made it through the israeli cabinet. jill and i have been keeping all those held hostage and their loved ones close to our hearts. the deal should bring home additional american hostages and i will not stop until they are all released, and so that, of course, raises questions for when that group outside of this initial 50 hostages is going to be released. we heard from the prime minister here in israel saying that for each additional group of 10 hostages that hamas agrees to release outside of that initial 50 here, there will be an additional day of a pause in the fighting and that could extend this beyond this four to five-day window that we're working with right now. all of that remains to be seen here once this kicks off tomorrow and what we are still seeing now is flares go up in gaza tonight, as you , and orri lieberman and what's important is to remind people this has not actually started yet and the facilitation of the hostages and none of this has happened yet as we are waiting for this 24-hour period with the israeli supreme court here. >> you're absolutely right, and that means until the pause in fighting begins, until that hutna as it's known takes effect they will be fighting up until that minute and it's not a surprise that we're seeing strikes and operations in gaza. the idf said a short time ago they're working in northern gaza around what they say is hamas' focal area and one of its focal areas in northern gaza and they're still moving in on that trying to secure whatever gains they get before 10:00 tomorrow morning. hamas has continued to operate. we've seen alerts from rocket fire around the area of southern gaza. this doesn't mean that the deal is going to fall apart and it simply means it hasn't taken, fact yet and many times in the past when a ceasefire or a pause in fighting is set to take effect there is a barrage in activity right before that takes effect. effectively what we are seeing now is par for the course fighting up until the very last second and prime minister benjamin netanyahu made it clear last night in the cabinet meeting that just because there is a pause now, that does not mean the war is off. when the pause is over, the war is still very much on and israel will absolutely pursue its goal of trying to destroy hamas even as we've seen other nations and other organizations hope that the pause in the fighting is a possibility for a wider and longer term cease fire. >> yeah. there are u.s. officials who would be fine if that pause continued for longer than what it's scheduled to. obviously, there's not a lot of trust between israel and hamas. i think that's an understatement here. the question is what is the confidence among israeli officials about this deal? the contours of it right now holing? >> at least as of right now it seem very high from the idf and israeli officials and the senior leadership of the country is that this is set to be tomorrow morning and there was a complicated and legal and political process on the israeli side and it got through that point and the announcement we've seen from israel, ham a qatar, the united states and so many other countries are an indication of just how solid this is, but you're absolutely right to point out that this is only a first phase. it is 50 hostages and that leaves another 190 hostages inside of gaza there may be more coming, and if there was a pause in the fighting and will this get us through the other 2040 released and israel can extract a higher price for the soldiers because this deal is only on women and children as of now. >> yeah. we know there are several idf members in custody there. orrin lieberman, thank you for that. omar, a lot of questions here and we have few details of what this will look like, omar and kate, and there are still major question as we await the 10:00 a.m. 10:00 our time as we approach the time line. >> obviously in the past 24 hours we've learned about so much about what it took to get to this point so still so much to learn even now under 24 hours at this point. kaitlan collins, thank you so much. we are staying on the news from israel and gaza where they agreed to a pause in the fighting and set to start at 3:00 a.m. eastern time. with us now is political and national security analyst david sanger. right off the bat, what's your immediate reaction to this deal? >> well, a couple of things, omar. first, it's coming together a little faster than we thought. if, in fact, that begins tomorrow we would have a thanksgiving day beginning of release and that's great news. i think the hardest part of this, omar is going to be not just the opening although obviously there could be hitches as these things frequently, unintended events happen. i think the hard part, omar, is going to be at the end because at the end of four days we'll have back, god willing, children, the women who are to be released, as kaitlan and orrin just pointed out, the next set of releases will be a lot harder and a lot more expensive for israel and israel is going to be under the pressure of trying to figure out whether or not it can resume the bombing and you can imagine the international pressure that will be on them if they seem to start this up when hamas may say well, we're still talking or there is a possibility for more releases. so the big difference right now is that prime minister netanyahu says we will resume the war and the americans are quietly trying to avoid that moment. >> and i think to your point, israel has said, all right, when this first phase is over we are going to continue our strikes. in no way is a ceasefire in total respects here, and to your last point when it comes to the american perspective, you look at the posturing in comments from the american government, biden and the administration aided in the negotiations and they had to walk a fine line given the political landscape in the united states and so how does biden continue to do that if we get to the end of four days and we end up in a little bit of a precarious situation you just mentioned? >> that's, i think, going to be the hardest part for him. obviously, he's been engageded in a lot of conversations with prime minister netanyahu. by our count there have been 13 phone calls back and forth and those are only what we know about and obviously, much more with his team, and i know that they're thinking ahead now to the next stages of this. the way the agreement is written, you could see additional hostage exchanges happening over the next, you know, two days, three thdays, fr days happens and could be a week's time and then the israelis have a hard choice. if they resume bombing, can end the chance of getting the remainder of the hostages. if they don't resume it they're going to end up giving up a big part of their primary objective which is to destroy hamas, and so we've got two objectives that they're working toward intentionally with each other. getting the hostages out, all of the hostages and not just the first 50 and destroying hamas, and hamas knows that the hostages are the last thing they've got. >> that's, of course, what many israelis have been dealing with, as well. sort of the dynamic between the government continuing to try and eradicate hamas and use their words and also, as they said a priority to get these hostages back. we'll see how plays out and the it hasn't started at this point and see how it plays out, david sanger, thank you so much. >> we are not at the end. we are in the beginning of something. it may not be the end. >> exactly. >> coming up on that exact point, with so many families waiting to hear if their loved ones are among the 50 hostages to be released tomorrow. we will speak to one father whose 16-year-old son you see him right there he is right now among the hostages being held captive by hamas in gaza. the excruciating wait now. also ahead, new york is warning law enforcement across the entire state of the rising threat of a terrorist attack and officials say the israel-hamas war is behind this new warning. and thanksgiving travel is expected to be the busiest it's been in years. aaa estimates more than 55 million people are heading out to celebrate the holiday. we are live at two major u.s. airports for you. we'll be back. the new york police department is investigating after a swastika and other graffiti were found on a door of a synagogue in manhattan tuesday morning. this comes as new york state intelligence center is warning specifically about a surge in hate crimes targeting the jewish communities as well as muslims and arabs. there's been a rise in terrorist threats since the israel-hamas war started. >> joining us now for what perspective means is cnn intelligence john miller. we heard something similar from the fbi director and just the heightened environment. >> so what we're seeing is yesterday something that got a lot of attention, a bulletin from the new york state intelligence run by the state police and their partners warning of a higher threat environment and warning of a number of examples in terms of the rise in hate crime and the online calls for acts of violence, but coming from different directions. this follows a spate of similar, tailored intelligence products from the nypd to their partners warning of the same things with more specificity, and the fbi, dhs and national counter terrorism center document that said, quoting the greatest threat to america right now in terms of violence is going to be the lone actor inspired by things they're seeing on the internet. so it kind of is what it is. nobody has turned that down in t the, vens oversea says have the potential to turn it up. >> this comes from an intelligence report that's formally do for formally documented and you can tell there are tensions heightened in talking in general. >> the model is interesting in the post-9/11 world, what we in the intelligence world focuseded on is what's the organization? is it al qaeda? is it isis? is there a cell? are there sleepers? is there a team? who's in charge of it? where did they get it? the modern terrorist organization is exploiting modern communications and marketing techniques, dramatic films highlighting victimology, gaza is giving them a flood of terrible images and they're looking for a particular client and the client is the person who is isolated who feels alone, who is diskecked and is angry and searching and what they're saying to the person who is part of nothing is you can be a part of this and you can be that person now and if not now when? if not you, who? if not this, what? and then the instructions follow. simple instructions, ramming attacks, stabbing attacks, shooting attacks and then for the more advanced player, they're actually having an argument online in late october about where the best bomb making instructions are, but the player they're looking for is the low-end player and by crowd sourcing it, you only have to get one or two. >> which perfectly lays out how complicated and complex it is to stop it before it happens for all law enforcement? some of the remarkable things we see is the crossover which is you could figure that they could target people who, you know, would identify with the palestinians ethnically, emotionally. they can target people of -- what you are seeing is right-wing extremists who operate on anti-semitic tropes and themes now identifying with the palestinians, the same people that the day before would have said we need to keep these foreigners out of the country and cheering them on and looking to adapt their commando techniques for urban warfare. so it's a little crazy out there in the darkest corners of the internet and that's what authorities are being looking for. >> to be clear, it's always been crazy now in the darkest corners of the internet and now even more so than you would typically see. john miller, as always, thanks. >> thanks. coming up u, the tsa warnin people get to the airports early. you are likely to run into some lines this morning including reagan national airport outsidi of wasashington. we will take you there next. so just over 16 hours from now we expect a truce to begin between israel and hamas in exchange for a four-day pause in fighting, hamas will release dozens of hostages. one of the children kidnapped by hamas and being held in gaza is 16-year-old amid shani taken on october 7th when hamas terrorists broke into his mother's home and he was forced into a car at gun point as his mother ask sisters watched helplessly. his entire family now waiting almost seven weeks to hear anything of how he is doing. his father nir shani joins me now. nir, seven week. seven weeks it's been since amir was kidnapped. where is your head and your heart right now at this moment? >> it is always with amit. i am always thinking about him and hoping for his return. >> he turned 16 while in captivity, while being held hostage. >> two weeks into it. >> two weeks into his captivity. have you received any word or do you have any expectation that he is among those who will be released in the coming days? >> i have expectation because he was 15 and he's still a child and he shouldn't be a tool in a conflict, but we haven't heard that he is among the first or whatever. we just hope he would be one of the people that would be released. >> what is this waiting, this waiting moment? what does it feel leak for you? >> to tell you the truth it doesn't make a difference between the first weeks and now, i don't feelifor you? >> to tell you the truth it doesn't make a difference between the first weeks and now, i donkefor you? >> to tell you the truth it doesn't make a difference between the first weeks and now, i don for you? >> to tell you the truth it doesn't make a difference between the first weeks and now, i don't feel any different. we still don't know anything for sure and the negotiation will reach a point at some point people will be released because they haven't seen them in bad conditions and there are children and elderly and sick people. they can't survive any longer. they must be released, but as far as i'm concerned, i am always full of hope that he's going to come as soon as possible, and until i get the phone call telling me, listen, your son is here and he's safe, i'm in the same position. i'm not going on this roller coaster of emotion. >> yeah. that's understandable. have you allowed yourself to imagine or start thinking of the moment you will see him again, what you'll do? what you'll say when you get that phone call? >> i guess i'll hug him and kiss him. i don't think there would be too much words to be said. he's really surprised to see his mother and to know his two little sisters had survived because the last time he saw them they were surrounded with six terrorists and with some kind of a miracle that those terrorists just vanished and they got to survive this terrible day, but he did lost many of his friends and we did lost 90 people of the community. almost every second neighbor that we had is dead or killed or raped or burned or whatever. so it will be devastating for him and we have a long time with him when he comes back. >> how are his sisters doing in the moment hearing this news, the maybe 16 hours until this could begin. how are his little sisters doing? >> not really into it. they're not talking too much about it. they know there are some talks and that he might be released, but as i said, until it would happen we shouldn't be too much excited and we shouldn't be too much disappointed if it doesn't happen. every hostage will be released. as i said, little babies and the people who wouldn't be able to hold on much longer, so anyone who would be released is good and it's a blessing. >> it is a blessing. the torment of having your child taken by terrorists and held by hamas is hard to imagine. i read something this week, nir, written by another parent. her two daughters and i believe they're 15 and 8 years old and they're among the hostages also being held by hamas. she put it. i have nothing left to ask of this world. take me to my girl. i cannot wait to hear, you have failed to free my girls and take me to gaza. however i reach them, i will hug them so hard that for a moment they might forget where they are. i will place myself in front of them and they will finally be able to sleep as i hold them. how do you put words to this existence that you all have been forced into? >> i don't know what to tell you. i don't know what to tell you, and we're just hoping to see him as soon as possible. i wouldn't go to gaza. my son was kidnapped with another neighbor, a great person and another boy and a girl from his school and another friend from the school and another guy who serves. there were so many kidnapped that i guess he's not feeling alone, and i believe he needs strength to hold on and to survive and we'll be waiting for him here in israel until they come. >> can you tell me, quickly, briefly about your son, about emit and what you hold on to every day and think about? >> emit is a great kid. he's quiet. he's domestic and he has a close circle of a few friends and very close to him and we love to hang out with them, playing the guitar. listening to hip-hop music. he loves soccer. he loved the sea. he used to went surfing and last year he went to sailing class and saileded a yacht back and forth and we are just missing him. we miss his presence here and want to see him back as soon as possible. >> yeah. we're showing all of our viewers pictures of your beautiful son right now. >> yeah. thank you. >> thank you so much, nir, for coming on. we hold your family in our hearts today. >> thank you, guys. bye. >> we'll be right back. always. welcome to one of the busiest travel days of the year which means you and millions of your closest friends that you have ever met had the chance to say hello to each other on the roads and at airports across the country. >> the best friends you never want to make. >> you just haven't met them yet. >> i guess that's true. i'm just going in, glass half empty here. the thanksgiving travel week shaping up to be the busiest in years. this is what traffic looked like earlier at lax though i will say hard to distinguish. >> i was going to say, is that a good day? >> cnn's pete muntean is at reagan national airport outside washington, d.c. we checked in with you last hour and how is it now, better? worse? >> take a look at this video from earlier at the peak of things and this is not a pleasing view for the passengers here at 7:00 a.m. >> is that the baggage line? what is that? >> that's the line for tsa the north checkpoint at terminal 2 and the good news is it was only 25 minutes to get through the standard line here that is under the tsa's guarantee of 30 minutes. so they are keeping things moving. the issue is really not getting to your gate though it is really what happens after and weather continues to be a huge factor. here are the latest numbers from flight aware. we've seen 1300 delays so far today. after 5200 yesterday, airlines still in recovery mode and the faa says low cloud ceilings, this storm could still have a pretty big impact. we saw a growthund stop going t new york's laguardia and departure delays and flights held on the ramp at fort lauderdale and orlando and also george bush intercontinental airport just popped up on the list. so we know that airlines according to the airlines' top lobby have really tried to coordinate with the faa to try to blunt the blow, and i want to listen to nick calio out of airlines to america. >> two things, basically, the weather is the key and there's air traffic control shortages, but the weather will be the key. we've been working with the faa to adjust routes and move thing around and we feel ready, and i think they feel ready, as well. >> the faa has closed off these offshore shortcut routes that would have helped airlines speed things up because of reports of severe turbulence. the bottom line is a lot of people may end up driving and they'll have a lot of company. aaa says 49 million people will drive 50 miles or more over the next five days and we are about at the worst point for that, the worst time to drive today according to aaa between 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. so hit now or wait until later and the best traffic you can find is tomorrow, but in some places today we could see traffic spike 80% above the norm. it's going to be tough. >> i have to say, and pete, i want your take on this one. one, is omar going to make his flight tonight? two, i am always so appreciative when people are kind enough to stop say hello to airports because if you've ever seen me at an airport traveling with two kids with strong opinions and i'm not in the shape that one would want to put a camera in front of my face, so i'm always so appreciative -- >> people are very kind to me. i have a lot of visitors here at the airport, and i always appreciate that. i think omar will probably make his flight tonight. >> you are the mayor of reagan national so they have to be nice to you. >> pete muntean -- >> thanks. i'm waiting for my sash in the mail. >> please come back to us when you get that sash. pete muntean, thank you. obviously, look, we are following things with potential delays and we've obviously been following what is happening overseas in israel including a planned four-day pause in hostilities. so we will ask how much of a difference is this going to make to thousands of palestinians suffering in gaza? we will talk with a representative from the world health organization coming up next. ( ♪♪ ) welcome to big tobacco's fantasyland. the industry's idea of a healthier tomorrow. where vapes are deemed safer. nevermind that they'll increase your risk of lung cancer. and they're anti-aging. because you're more likely to die younger from a stroke. in big tobacco's fantasyland, the deadliest industry can rebrand itself as your friend. israel and hamas have agreed to a four-day pause in fighting set to begin tomorrow along with a swap of hamas hostages and palestinian prisoners, but for now the fighting continues in gaza where thousands of civilians have been killed and a humanitarian crisis is expanding. so joining us with more from cairo, rick brennan, regional emergency director for the world health organization. thank you for being with us. i know things have been incredibly busy there. for starters, part of this deal will include aid trucks from egypt carrying medical supplies and fuel. how much of a difference do you think this is actually going to make? >> first of all, it is great news, and we are delighted for the release of the hostages. they've been calling for an unconditional release of the hostages and that's a tremendous step forward and it is good news that we have the opportunity now to scale up the aid effort. we have a huge job ahead of us, and particularly in the health sector now we have seen a massive degradation of the health system. 25, 36 hospitals across gaza are now non-functioning. so we're seeing from 3,500 hospital beds down to 1,400 hospital beds across the entire region just as you indicated, a massive numbers of injuries and health needs are skyrocketing. so we will take the opportunity to move more supplies in, and of course, life-saving medicine and other medical commodities. what we really need to focus is on expanding the capacity of the remaining functioning hospitals so that means bringing in tent facilities and pre-fab facilities and international community, and it's a massive job and the window of opportunity is rather small, but we'll be giving it everything we've got. >> yeah. look, to this point, the united nations and the agency, at least is saying that at least 1.7 million people in gaza have been displaced and that's almost the entire population, half of the entire the u.n. has been calling for humanitarian pauses for aid, which were on the verge of seeing glimpses. what do you think is most needed for the current humanitarian situation in gaza. as you mentioned, it's a huge, immense situation that they are faced with here. >> well, it's all of the basic necessities of life. it's food, it's clean water, it's shelter. we are coming into the winter season now. >> would you like more time than just the four days we're looking at here? >> absolutely. a cease-fire, a pause is one thing. what the humanitarian community is an end to the fighting. we had tragically one last night. along with 55. a 6-month-old baby, and a 55-year-old. they were all taking refuge in the parent's home. a public health expert working with amputees, so that story is told over and over and over again. the pause is one thing, but a cease-fire is what we really need to put an end to the violent deaths, as well as to give some opportunity to address these massive humanitarian leads on the lives of our people. >> and look, over the past few days, you all help ed get a number of premature out of the hospital, which where a the lot of the fighting has centered over the past week. but obviously, one of the largest in the entire area in gaza. so some of those babies are receiving treatment in egypt. we're in a pause now. but how did that operation happen and how were you able to operate when that fighting was so intense and ongoing around that hospital? >> we have that mission here today. the guys are coming back right now with 22 dialysis patients. 29 patients with spinal injuries, and we're hoping that it's the last intensive care unit patient. so the way that those missions are organized, huge logistics planning, has to be organized in consultation and in negotiations with the fighting forces. so that we get the security guarantees. we get the safe passage. we had to line up ambulances today to move up to collect those patients. i haven't heard from the team. we have a call to debrief as soon as they get back to rafah. so again, a lot of logistics planning, but very much consultation and negotiations with the fighting forces so we can get safe passage. there has been an active combat zone around the hospital. this is the mission in the last few days. >> rick, please keep us posted on the progress there. and please do stay in touch. thank you. coming up for us, 16 hours until that truce between israel and hamas is set to begin. we are hearing more from families of hostages, who are waiting to hear if their loved ones will be released. up next, the great aunt of this little girl, the youngest american hostage, just 3 years old. we continue following the breaking news. in hours hamas is set to release dozen hostages held for weeks. at least 50 women ask children will be let go as part of a truce between israel and hamas. >> in exchange the war will come to a temporary halt. four days the fighting will stop and 150 palestinian prisoners will be released from israeli jails. now this morning, families of the hostages are really holding their breath, including the family of a 3-year-old. >> ufs just thinking about these innocent children and no child should be held hostage. no child should be in the middle of this. they should be released. they should come home right away to their families. and abigail's 4th birthday is on friday. no child should spend their birthday as a hostage somewhere in the dark. >> these are our grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents, children and we need them back with their family after everything they have gone through. >> we want everyone home. we have in just my family, two of them that would be considered in this deal. but i think the thing we all agree on is that children are not part of war. so if there is a deal where they can bring the babies and the children home, then it gives us hope. it turned our lives upside down. i baurly work. this is a full-time job, where you're not eating, you're not sleeping. this is what you think about if your eyes close at night and when you wake up in the morning. it's all consuming. it's something that we are not