the resuchks of war and families rejoice over being reunited. this morning, i'll speak to a top red cross official about the hostage releases along with prime minister netanyahu's closest advisor. and we're expecting law enforcement officials in vermont to give details on the arrest of a suspect in connection to the weekend shooting of three college students of palestinian descent visiting one of their grandmothers during the break. >> no person and no community in this country should have to live in fear of hate fueled violence. fulfilling that promise motivates us every day. >> good day, everyone. 11 more hostages could be released today according to egypt. a truce in the fighting will be extending possibly for two more days creating new hope for the families of hostages still not released and for gaza residents hoping for more. new photos of the 4-year-old, abigail, the israeli american girl released sunday whose parents were killed by hamas on october 7th. she pictured here with her aunt and uncle at the israeli children's hospital. over the weekend, the emotional reunion of the 9-year-old running into his father's arms. and mother taken hostage. sharon reunited with her son. sn those pictures are just so wonderful. the desperate father finally reunited with his wife and daughter. their family members speak of the road to recovery. >> they're all together now. it's so important, but as you know, my uncle's partner, grandmother and mom, she was brutally murdered in front of their eyes. so, it's very hard to cope. >> joining me now is nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. what is the latest on the talks about the latest batch of hostages? will we see more released today? are there more hang ups as this were on saturday? >> well, it is starting to get late in the evening here, so it looks like there might be a delay but as you know watching this process, these can go right down to the wire. so it is not off as far as i know for the day. we still could see a hostages released today although with every hour that passes, it seems less and less likely, but the big news is that and taking some of the pressure off of the timing, is that according to hamas, white house, and arab diplomats, multiple arab diplomats, the two sides have agreed to at least a two-day extension according to hamas under the same terms as the previous agreement. the previous agreement, the agreement now being extended, is is that hamas releases hostages, women and children, and that the israelis release minors from an israeli jail at a ratio of three to one. they're being facilitated by the red cross. the initial number, the parameters of the deal, were to get to 50 israelis in the first four days, which are expiring right now, and 150 palestinians. we don't know how many more potentially could be released over the next two days, if in fact it is only a two-day extension. perhaps it goes beyond two days, but so far, we are about at that number with 50 and 150 palestinians and now if there are two-day extension, that obviously creates opportunity for more hostages to be released. and it creates the potential opportunity for these talks to go elsewhere. to create a different kind of momentum. and that's certainly something that the mediators are hoping for. they hope that this these talks, which are strictly on the hostages now can develop into a more lasting cease fire. a more lasting agreement that if not -- but at least gets us out of this current cycle and back to a long-term negotiating table. >> and richard, you also spoke to the family of 4-year-old abigail today. tell us more about that. >> reporter: so, abigail was four years old. had her 4th birthday in gaza in hamas captivity. an israeli american. and was released and like many of these israeli hostages, they're being released to hospitals. they're being released to hospitals for a variety of reasons. one, they have, they want medical support. the israelis clearly want to make sure the people are in good shape and not all of the hostages are in great shape. some have lost weight. all of them are traumatized from what they saw during the initial october 7th attack and then 50 days more or less depending on the hostage, of captivity. so, a 4-year-old girl, her case is even more extreme because both of her parents were killed. so she is free, but she is now an orphan. the family is now trying to pull together to try to figure out what arrangements can be made. who will support her. how do you reput this family back together. it's not just her. we spoke with another family earlier today of another young girl, a 9-year-old. excuse me, a 13-year-old. and the reason i know that she is 13 is that today is her 13th birthday so the family is organizing a small party at the hospital, bringing some of a small group of an inner circle friend, relatives. they don't want to overwhelm her. but her mother isn't there. her mother is still in gaza as a hostage. so, you're having these family reunions to call them bittersweet is a gross understatement. yes, there's happiness because they are out of gaza and they are out of immediate danger being held by angry, dangerous gunmen, but they're being brought to hospitals. they're going to need a tremendous amount of some physical care and psychological care and their relatives, sometimes close relatives like this girl's mother, are either still in gaza or with the case of this 4-year-old girl, they never made it to gaza because they were killed during the initial attack. >> richard, i know you'll be back with us later. just think of how they even told abigail about her parents. she didn't even know. richard, thank you so much. and joining us now is jason, the spokesman for international committee of the red cross which has been so critical in getting aid in and in bringing the hostages out. jason, first of all, has the red cross been able to visit the other hostages as it's required of international law and was supposed to be part of this agreement? >> that's an important issue for the families. we know this. we know that they are going through emotional anguish. they, being separated from their family, knowing they're getting help. and also there's anguish over the fact that we haven't been able to visit them. the answer to your question is no, unfortunately, we haven't been able to do these visits. we've been trying. we've been insisting with hamas that we be allowed to visit, but the agreement to allow us to safely visit, but also safely for those hostages, that's not in place yet. >> there are published reports that as many as 40 hostages may not be under hamas control and they may not know where they are. they might be controlled by criminal gangs or islamic jihad, other groups. >> well, what i can say about that is that we are in direct contact with anyone who we think might be holding hostages. who might have influence to be able to improve their situation. whether it's in person visits, deliveries of medication, or releases directly. so i don't have a breakdown of who is holding whom. i do know that our very experienced leadership both in israel and in gaza are on the phone. we're visiting hamas leadership in qatar, directly. trying to learn this information, but i will also say that once we learn it, we wouldn't necessarily talk about it publicly. our only goal would be to try to advance the humanitarian situation for those people. >> has the aid delivery during this pause and now we hear there could be a few more days of the pause, have the aid deliveries increased appreciably because there was the disconnect about whether they were getting past the israeli lines to the north. >> they've increased and then we could have different gradations of subjective opinion on appreciably or not. they've increased and that's good news. the bottom line is even with a small increase, the needs are so overwhelming. we've seen thousands of people during this cease fire move from the north to the south. they felt like they had enough physical safety to be able to do that. then to go to a location in gaza where the israeli authorities have suggested that they go. but that's created more humanitarian needs because you have even more people out in the open at a hospital where we have a red cross surgical team, they saw an influx of 800 patients yesterday. that's just unimaginable. there's too much medical need there. the gazan doctors who are there can't help everyone who needs it right away. and one small detail. and it's a sad detail, but they're seeing a lot of open wounds that haven't been treated. should have been treated days ago but there's just not enough medical assistance to be able to get to everyone who needs it. >> and just finally, yes or no. do you think there will be more hostages today? have you gotten the alert to pick them up? >> i wish i could give you a yes or no. the answer is i don't know. i have no indications that it's not going to happen tonight. i can say that. >> it's so helpful. jason, thank you for you and all of your teams, what they're doing. obviously so critical. and we're getting new detail about a 48-year-old suspect being held in vermont over a possible hate crime of three college students of possible descent. the men were speaking arabic. two were wearing traditional palestinian scarves when the gunman opened fire reportedly without saying a word. we're expecting a press conference at any moment from burlington, vermont. now, stephanie gosk and ken dilanian. ken, first to you. it's being investigated as a possible hate crime. what are the police and fbi saying? >> jason eaton is being charged with three counts of attempted murder and a court document said one victim was hit and a bullet lodged in his spine and another in the chest. the just released affidavit said when the accused shooter answered the door on sunday afternoon in burlington, he allegedly told an atf special agent i've been waited for you then asked for a lawyer. the police seized three shotguns and also a pistol they believe was used in the shooting along with a backpack and hard drives. garland said the fbi and atf are investigating whether or not this was a hate crime. he said the justice department is remaining vigilant. >> we're going to get back to you and to stephanie because john kirby is briefing at the white house. >> israel time, this humanitarian pause has already brought a halt to the fighting together with the surge of humanitarian assistance. now, in order to extend the pause, hamas has committed to releasing another 20 women and children over the next two days. we would have of course hope to see the pause extended further and that will depend upon hamas continuing to release hostages. the president has been deeply engaged on this process throughout the thanksgiving weekend. he spoke with amir qatar and yesterday, we spoke with prime minister netanyahu to work an extension of the pause. he was briefed this morning by jake sullivan on the ongoing talks to extend the pause. he and his entire national security team will obviously stay engaged on this other the coming days as we work to implement this extension of the original agreement as well as efforts to extend the pause even from there. a quick update on the figures as of the morning of november 26th. 200 trucks to the rafah crossing and supplies were off loaded at the receptions point in gaza making it the biggest humanitarian convoy received since the 7th of october. this brings the total number of trucks of aid and assistance including fuel to over 2,000 since the 21st of october. our team has prioritized getting this much needed relief into gaza to alleviate the suffering of palestinian civilians there. of course, most of them have nothing to do with hamas and to date, we have assisted over 840 americans and their families who have departed and sought the support of our team on the ground in egypt. with that, questions. >> thank you. two things. did the president call conditionally for israel a worthwhile thought. is he actually considering conditioning aid or not? >> what he also said right after acknowledging that was a worthwhile thought was that the approach he has chosen to take has produced results and outcomes. many of them i just walked you through in my opening statement. so the approach we're taking with israel and quite frankly with our partners in the region is working. it's getting aid in, it's getting a pause in the fighting, getting hostages and americans out. we continue to urge and will continue to urge the israelis as they conduct military operations to do so with the utmost care for innocent civilian life. >> democrats in the party saying we need to start conditioning aid going forward. what would he say? >> i think he would say what he said yesterday when he got asked this question. thest a worthwhile thought but the approach i'm taking now the working. the approach we're taking now is working. >> increasing dangers to military personnel in the gulf. i know you outlined with a series of appearances what happened, but are we to continue seeing this sort of let me put it this way. is that strategy of dealing with it as it happens going to continue to be the strategy? some say there should perhaps be a more robust response to these ongoing attacks. whether it's from iranian-backed militias in syria or iraq, the houthis. is there any thought of changing that? >> i don't think we're going to get in the business of telegraphing our punches, ed. we've responded forcefully against the threats in iraq and syria and now our forces in the gulf region. golf of oman and adan. we'll continue to do that. >> is striking in yemen still an option? >> again, i'm not going to telegraph punches. we will take the steps appropriate to protect our troops and forces in the middle east region. i would add that the mason is attached to the u.s.s. eisenhower strike group which the president dispatched to the region specifically to address the increase in the tensions. >> any possibility that americans will be among the 20 released? >> we hope so. we're going to watch this very, very closely. we're hoping that another batch of hostages gets released today as part of the fourth and final day of the original agreement. we're going to be watching closely to see if any americans are in that group. as it has come out over the last three days, we don't really know until you get into the end game who's going to be on that list then even then, you've got to watch closely seeing who's on the list is folks that actually came out. so we're watching and hoping. >> you spoke about the president's conversation at a critical moment to break that impasse. >> it came down to, over the weekend, it was more about the list and who was on it and i don't want to get into more detail than that. it's a similar issue than what we faced today. the reason why there's been a delay is because there was a difference of a view if you might, over the list, and the fact that mothers were not originally going to be able to come out with their children. that's been resolved. so it really had to do with the who. >> very quickly. the new leader of argentina says he's coming to the u.s. also to d.c. any meetings scheduled with officials while he's here? >> yes, president-elect will be coming to washington, d.c. largely to meet with the imf and world bank over their fiscal and economic issues. but while he's here in town, he'll have a chance to meet with some national security council folks including jake sullivan. the president will be on travel in the middle of the week. >> thank you. of the many americans being held, do you have any more clarity on whether they're being held by hamas or another terrorist group? >> no. >> you've been clear that a broader cease fire would benefit hamas. sullivan was clear saying that -- has been able to gain some benefit. how concerned are you that the longer this truce lasts, now six days, that hamas will benefit? >> it's a real risk. you have to expect a group like hamas, a terrorist group, which clearly doesn't abide by laws of war, will try to take advantage of any pause in fighting for their own benefit. so we're watching that closely as well as our israeli counterparts. you can bet they're watching that closely. but, and i don't want to speak for the israelis, but this is a calculated risk that prime minister netanyahu is willing to take in order to get those hostages out. it's a balance. as you've also heard the israelis say, once the pauses are over, they intend to go right back at military operations. >> when you say hamas is able to get benefit -- >> and back to israel right now and joining us is ambassador mark rega, the top adviser to netanyahu. former israeli ambassador to the u.k. mark, can you tell us has israel agreed to extend this pause? is this a three-way agreement we know about from the u.s. and hamas? >> already last night here in israel, the prime minister in a statement said publicly that we would be willing to extend this humanitarian pause for additional days on the condition that we see ten israeli hostages, more women and children, released for each day. now that's been the israeli position all along and if hamas has agreed to that, that's a good thing, but having said that, we are still waiting for the conclusion of the current agreement over the four days until that last group, that fourth and final group in the original agreement steps on israeli soil sometime tonight. we can put our cart before the horse. we want to see the original four-day agreement fully implemented and then we can maybe talk more publicly about an extension. >> do you know more about where some other dozens of hostages may be? there are reports that as many as 40 may not be in hamas hands. they might be with the palestinian islamic jihad. they might be with criminal gangs. what that means in gaza. >> so, the first point i make here is we're not going to let hamas subcontract out a responsibility. they said that they needed this time-out, this cessation of hostilities, the humanitarian pause, because that allows them to come out of their tunnels, bunkers, and search for and find all the hostages. now, unfortunately, they run the gaza strip. that will change in the future but for the moment, they run the gaza strip. and they are responsible for all the hostages. and they can say oh, we don't have this person or that person. we are expecting them every day of an extension, ten hostages and according to the understandings reached, as you know, president biden played a vital role. his hands on diplomacy helped facilitate the agreement and when problems arose, hwas also there pushing forward, making this deal happen. but once again, it's clearly understood hamas for every additional day, as understandings were reached, must release another ten women and children. >> you have a list from hamas of today. do we know whether the mother of some of the children who came out yesterday or the day before is going to be included? the israeli mom. what do you know about anybody coming out today and when? >> i apologize, but i'm forbidden to talk about the contents of the list. i can say the following. when you release a young infant without their mother, that is surely a sign of depravity. of inhumanity. and i think this is another example, one of many, of who we're up against. these hamas terrorists, these killers, these murderers, to deliberately separate a young child from a parent is a very terrible, terrible thing and yet they seem to do so, unfortunately, with relish sometimes. we received yesterday the american citizen, a 4-year-old. abigail. she was kidnapped when she was three. she had four 4th birthday in captivity. unfortunately, probably wasn't much of a celebration for her. her two parents were murdered by hamas on october 7th. she has two siblings, a six and a 9-year-old, who hid