to join us today. of course we re hoping for the best for these three college students and their families. thank you. i appreciate that. we ll keep you posted and let s just, you know, hope we don t see this again and there s no room for hate as everybody has been saying throughout this process and as the victims have been saying and the families. let s hope the suspect is apprehended and our students in this country aren t subject to such attacks in the future. all right. thank you so much. all right. hello, again, everyone. thank you so much for joining us. i m frederica whitfield alongside wolf blitzer in tel aviv. and we have this breaking news, just moments ago, some of the israeli hostages released by hamas today arrived at the schneider children s medical center. this was the moment a helicopter carrying them touched down. we re also learning all 17 hostages released today have now been transferred to hospitals. it marks a dramatic end to the 50-day ordeal that
you are in the cnn newsroom. i m alex marquardt in washington. my colleague, kaitlan collins, is in tel aviv. jim acosta is off tonight. thank you very much for being with us. we do begin with breaking news in what is now the third day of a temporary pause in the fighting between israel and hamas. hamas saying tonight that it does want to extend this temporary cease-fire into a beyond the original four-day deal. sources telling us that israel s war cabinet is discussing that possibility. today was yet another emotional day for families in israel. a third group of 17 hostages who were held inside gaza since early october were finally freed. these are the 13 israeli women and children released by hamas. they range in age from 4 to 84. and for the first time in this temporary truce, an american is also among the freed hostages. 4-year-old abigail idan. you see her right there. her family celebrating, saying, coy quote, there are no words to express our relief. w i want to ha