you re watching cnn news central. hope you re having a happy and healthy thanksgiving. grateful you are sharing part of it with us. i m boris sanchez in washington, d.c. the israeli military is warning there could be changes at any moment, just hours before 13 women and children are set to be released from gaza. at midnight eastern time, a truce between israel and hamas is expected to go into effect. about nine hours later, hamas is set to free that first group of hostages. right now, the israeli government has a list of those captives and says it has notified their families. this plan coming together after a one-day delay, but the qatari government, which mediated the deal, says it is hopeful it will go as planned. we are hopeful, i don t know if i should say confident, but i m very hopeful, and as i said, the commitment we have seen from both sidese very positive to deal with this very positively. we are seeing a good level of commitment over the agreement itself, the d
work by nearly 200 law enforcement officers from across this region, the fbi s hostage rescue team i consider one of the crown jewels of our organization. their mission is to conduct deliberate hostage rescues when necessary and in this case, we had a necessity for that and they were successful. very proud of that. reporter: now the investigation continues. law enforcement sources tell cnn they are zeroing in on one possible motive, the idea that this suspect may have been inspired to seek the release of an islamic extremist who is in prison serving an 86-year sentence for attempting to kill american personnel in afghanistan. still a lot of questions about who this man was, where he came from. the fbi saying that this is now a global investigation. they have now engaged their fbi offices in london as well as tel aviv to try to get to the motive. they say there is no ongoing threat, but still a lot of investigation remains from them. obviously these hostages being