plus donald trump unleashed, a court will now decide how much the former president can say in public about the 2020 federal election case. and attention shoppers, the white house wants to highlight falling prices at the grocery store to counter disappointing poll numbers. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, november 21. 5:00 a.m. in washington, noon in gaza where a hamas official posted overnight that the militant group is close to, quote, reaching a truce agreement, end quote, with israel. that tracks with the white house as ergs is earlier monday that deal for release of some of the hostages is nearing. john kirby was asked whether any americans might be among the hostages that will be let go. obviously we are laser focused on the american citizens that we know are being held loss tap and we want them out. all of them, everyone should be out now. but we re this a negotiation and getting closer to the end. he declined to go into any details on the negotiations
thanks to all of you for joining us. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere because cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. we re so glad you re with us. phil is off this week. erica hill by my side. good morning. good morning. we have a lot of big news to get to this morning. let s start with five things to know for this tuesday, november 21st. breaking overnight, sad news to report. a gunman opening fire inside of an ohio walmart just days before black friday. four people injured and the gunman died of self-inflicted gunshot wound. there s movement in the talks to release hostages this morning. a hamas leader now echoing what the white house is saying that they are, in fact, getting closer to a deal. new this morning, we could get a decision on donald trump s gag order in the federal election subversion case. the judge is signaling they could narrow it down. the speaker of the house meets with the former president at mar-a-lago, though it s not