hello, everyone. welcome. i m fredericka whitfield in atlanta alongside my colleagues wolf blitzer and fareed zakaria. we begin with this breaking news. the third group of the hostages released by help as is now safe in israel ending an excruciating 50 days of imprisonment for them and here we are, there were 17 handed over to the red cross a short month ago including 13 israeli citizens and for the first time in this limited four-day truce, an american was also among the freed hostages, 4-year-old abigail edan is now safe. she was the youngest of the americans captured by hamas on october 7th. let s send it over to wolf blitzer in tel aviv. thanks very much, fred. this is an important day, indeed. we have a team of our correspondents covering all of the latest developments. i first want to go to cnn s jeremy diamond. he is joining me from urim in israel. i understand you saw this convoy of the hostages pass through your area very, very quickly, but only a little whil
atlanta. we re right outside truist park in the battery where fans got here early this morning to set up their chairs just to be a part of tonight, just to be able to watch the game on the big screen and hopefully see their atlanta braves make some history and win their first world series title since 1995, and i ll tell you what. these fans, fredericka, were wall to wall here last night for game four and they went absolutely bonkers with swanson and soler hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh inning to give the team the lead. the braves would go on to win game four 3-2 to take a commanding 3-1 lead in this series and the braves undefeated here in atlanta this postseason, a perfect 7-0. one more win, and they will be world series champs. just want to win tomorrow. i mean, i don t know how confident i am. i mean, i like i m glad we are quite honestly. i d rather be up three than down
that cause it had to start cancelling some flights and then that left crews out of position so american c.o.o. david seymour wrote the entire company to say he wanted to build certainty into the operation so the airline began proactively cancelling flights, but just tell that to all these folks who were stranded right now also at america s second biggest hub in charlotte where we ve seen long lines and a lot of frustration now. i want you to listen to one of the folks who are stuck there right now. i don t understand why it s cancelled. i ve heard that they don t have enough staff. well, you sold me a product. i paid for it and now it s your job to get me there. reporter: now, remember, this is not just about staffing issues. american says there is a bit of a silver lining here because starting tomorrow, november 1st, about 1,800 flight attendants who are on pandemic time off return from leave so they say things are going to get better, but it s still a big problem for a lot of fol
three i guess, but i i ve been around too lange to get ahead of myself. 27 more outs. i think that that s kind of the mentality we need to keep. they obviously have a great ball club over there. a lot of great players and a lot of respect for just the ability those guys have over there. we need to come out, continue to compete and do what we ve done to get ourselves into this position. yeah, fredericka, even though it s halloween, lots of people want to be here tonight. just for an upper deck seat in the stadium going for more than $1,000. that s a spooky number. quite frightening. andy scholles, thank you so much. go braves. lots of excitement there. all right. stay with us. we ll take you back to rome where at any moment now president biden is expected to speak to reporters. we re back in a moment.
gentleman, and the gentleman has been ejected but it was an ugly, ugly sight. i don t know why it was necessary. i don t have my telestrator. here comes the pizza, see it. oh, cheese. highly unnecessary. guy with the patriots jacket and he s been asked to leave the ball game for ruining a good piece of pizza. jerry remy stepped away from commentating earlier this year to seek treatment for lung cancer. it had troubled him for years making recommend a vocal anti-smoking advocate. he made his last appearance at fenway park earlier this month throwing out the first pitch for the wild card game and, yes, the red sox beat the yankees that night. ishing jo the atlanta braves are one win away from their first world series title in 26 years. andy scholles joining us now from the ballpark. yeah, fredericka, you can just feet excitement here in