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joining us. joining us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com who and when? those are the two key questions at this moment, as we wait for the release of women and children taken hostage on october 7th. john berman in for anderson. first, the when, which we thought was just a few hours away, a temporary pause in fighting between israeli forces in hamas followed by the release of the first 50 hostages from gaza and 150 palestinians being held in israel. late today, however, israel s national security counscil will not start until friday. this includes the pause in fighting, also delayed until friday. as to the question of who, a source familiar with the matter tells us that the u.s. officials have a working list of ten hostages they believe are likely to be released on day one of the process. and though no one is publicly naming the ten, administration officials today did talk specifically about three americans being held. we anticipate that thre ....
happening now, the anxious wait for the first major release of hostages from gaza after an agonizing delay. israel and hamas once again on the verge of a temporary truce, expected to begin just hours from now. if all goes according to plan, it would mark the first pause in the hostilities since the war began and could, potentially could set the stage for even more captives to come home. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel. and this is the situation room special report. let s begin our coverage right now here in the middle east where we appear to be on the cusp of a critical moment in the war. 13 hostages now just hours away from returning home if the agreement between israel and hamas holds firm. cnn s oren liebermann has the latest. reporter: after nearly seven weeks of war it is the storm before the calm. final hours of fighting in gaza ticking down until a pause in the conflict set for early fri ....
generational divide. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. when it comes to supporting israel, america is seeing a significant split. thousands protesting in d.c. today to demand both a cease-fire in the israel/gaza war and an end to usaid to israel. in many cities on many campuses, missing person-style posters created by is raraeli artists. isaac hertzog wrote this. professors and students at american colleges make speeches and sign statements justifying terrorism, even glorifying it. and then it would have been unthinkable to hear such moral confusion uttered after the september 11th attacks or after bombings in london, barcelona, and baghdad. so what s different this time. why the troubling rise in anti-semitism? data suggests it s generational. by way of example, new polling by quinnipiac notes half of the voters in the u.s. respond to is reeling s attack and 35% disapprove. among voters 18 to 34, those numbers flip. 32% approve, 52% disapprove. among 18 to 34-y ....
generational divide. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. when it comes to supporting israel, america is seeing a significant split. thousands protesting in d.c. today to demand both a cease-fire in the israel-gaza war and an end to u.s. aid to israel. in many cities and on many campuses, missing persons-style posters created by israeli artists to support the hostages being torn down. the president of israel, isaac herzog, wrote this in the new york times, professors and students at american colleges make speeches and sign statements justifying terrorism, even glorifying it, and then it would have been unthinkable to hear such moral confusion uttered after the september 11th attacks or after bombings in london, barcelona, and baghdad. so what s different this time? why the troubling rise in anti-semitism? data suggests it s generational. by way of example, according to new polling by quinnipiac, half of registered voters in the u.s. approve of israel s response t ....
in a quiet rural township in michigan, as october chilled into autumn, two young women prepared for the social event of the season. it s gonna be great. there will be so many people. so they imagined. , so they hoped, in their naivete. then so many others of a particular demographic of the farms and in the small towns around moran county. it was a buildup that whole summer that we coordinate way to go to the halloween party. halloween! becky brinson and her friend chelsea bruck just loved dressing up for halloween. chelsea and becky worked together at a restaurant called olga s kitchen in monroe and, as they served their customers, they talked endlessly about what was coming. this wasn t going to be just any halloween party. it was big mike s annual halloween bash of 2014. everyone just everyone knew, big mike has the biggest halloween party. and after all, their friends were going and there d be bands and noise and excitement and, who knew what all th ....