four-times indicted ex-president. nbc news is reporting on potentially game-changing revelation base the former vice president, mike pence. we ll have more on what pence told special counsel jack smith s investigators later this hour. but first, we want to get to the fast-moving developments out of the middle east. at this hour, we are getting our first glimpse of the latest hostages to be released. here are some of the faces of the 12 prisoners released by hamas today, 10 israelis and 2 thai nationals. notably, many are older. among them, a mother and daughter who were kidnapped together. a retired kindergarten teacher. a grandmother of nine. and the 84-year-old founder of one of the kibbutz that was raided on october 7th. this is now day five of the extended truce that for now, barring another extension, is expected to last through tomorrow, for six days in total. as we know, it is a fragile truce and a fluid situation as underscored by the events of just the last 24 hours
how is it going? national guard troops control access to closed highways like this one, which normally leads to the resort town of estes park where we visited a day before this cold weather came in. here, they are racing against winter s early arrival. we have had some pretty good october storms. you know, a foot and a half of wet, heavy snow. so, we are getting geared up. this year it means fixing what record floodwaters left destroyed. like estes in the mountain village of estes park, colorado has been loyered so workers can dig out rock and earth to be used for repairing roads and infrastructure. currently, there is only one road in to the park and it is two lane highway. so it s well maintained. and we are welcoming guests from both east and west through that road. but once the snow and ice hit, that one road will become more difficult. estes is just one of many communities across northern colorado hit hard by