day of the truce? as we enter the final hours of the six-day truce agreement between israel and hamas, there is new hope that new optimism is coming just this morning from a qatari official. the spokesman for the foreign ministry which has been key in brokering these deals between israel and hamas tells cnn that they are hopeful that they could announce another extension in just the next couple of hours. if not, israel has made clear that they will resume military operations against hamas in gaza. we are expecting another group of hostages to be released today even before this -- any talk of an extension. their families have been notified and with that, we have learned that the bevis family is

not among the hostages and kfir is not among the hostages. they do not know where the bibas family. the israeli hostages have been freed since friday. with ten new releases as you just heard late last night, but still many, many more are being held in gaza. israel believes there is 161 hostages still in captivity and the majority of them are israeli. israeli's prime minister's office releaseded a breakdown this morning of the vulnerable age groups within the 161 people being held. four hostages under the age of 18, just children, four more are between 18 and 19 which makes them legally children under the united nations definition. additionally, ten more hostages are 75 years or older. cnn's kaitlan collins is with us now. you spoke with qatari officials this morning about the state of

these negotiations as they're trying to extend this truce for just a little bit longer, the ceasefire. what are you learning? >> yeah, sara. we could learn soon whether or not this deal will be extended beyond where it is right now because as a reminder, this is day six. this was initially supposed to be a four-day deal, but when we got close to day four they announced they would go on 48 hours and it would theoretically be expired, but right now officials have been working behind the scenes to try to extend it. right now the terms of the deal are women and children. we have some women and children coming out. there are still many more women and children, though, who are in hamas captivity, who are still being held in gaza, and that's the whole point of why they're trying to extend these talks and so we spoke to the spokesperson of the qatari foreign affairs and they spoke to the director in doha. he said they are hopeful that

when the six group of hostages get release good moment that they'll announce that there will be an extension to this temporary truce. >> i am hopeful that within a couple of hours we have the final and also we'll be able to announce an extension. we are working an extension that will be guaranteed by the same provision that guaranteed the previous two days which we have included at least ten hostages coming out and 30 hostages from the israeli prisons and we are optimistic that we will have good news to share today. >> okay. so you do expect that an extension with the same parameters that are in place right now will be announced once this sixth group hostages has been released. is that right? >> we are optimist take we will be able to make that announcement during the day.

>> he also confirmed our reporting that talks are under way to potentially expand this deal and not to only go on longer, but to include different group, elderly men, young men, idf soldiers potentially men and women that are being held. that will be a lot more complicated than just bringing the women and children home and we are continuing to monitor those negotiations that are happening. joining me now in tel aviv, cnn's oren liebermann and this is around the time each day that we start to see movement and this exchange be facilitated. what are you hearing behind the scenes about what today's hostage list looks like? >> you're absolutely right. now is when we start to see that movement. we haven't gotten indications that it has started yet. crucially, we haven't heard that the danger is in danger of

falling apart. we should begin the process of transferring the hostages from hamas to the red cross and then into israel either directly or through egypt. crucially, we're not seeing anything like we saw yesterday with both sides accusing each other of initiating an exchange of fire and the most serious violation of the truce agreement and even then it didn't fall apart. the real question here is how much can the deal be extended it runs into the cold, hard math that there are a certain number of women and children in gaza. the they have 161 hostages there and 35 are women and not all necessarily can fall under the agreement of women and children because some might be soldiers and yet there is a massive effort to make sure the women and children part goes as long as it can and then they find terms or a separate agreement or a new part of the agreement to extend as long as possible. secretary blinken talked about that at nato today.

>> we'll be focused on doing what we can to extend the pause so that we continue to get more hostages out and more humanitarian assistance in. we'll discuss with israel how it can achieve its objective ensuring that the terrorist attacks of october 7th never happen again. while sustaining an increasing amount of assistance and minimizing further suffering and casualties among palestinian civilians. >> crucially and we saw this just a couple of days ago. they are hesitant to make an announcement of the extension of the troops until the days released moving forward. not surprising, we haven't heard anything from the israeli gove government even though the qataris extended this by a day or two and we can expect that to happen before we hear confirmation that the truce might last a little bit longer. >> yeah. a lot of movement expected here. we'll be watching it all

closely. oren liebermann, thank you for that report. also in the west bank we are seeing it heat up as israeli forceses have conducted a military raid near the janeane refugee camp. military vehicles with sounds of heavy gun fire. the head of doctors without borders says his staff was trapped in a hospital while it was under way. ben wedeman is with us now. we are learning that two young men -- two young boys were killed here. what else should we know about what happened here? >> what we understand, kaitlan, and we were in the jenin refugee camp before the raid was at 9:00 p.m. local time, israeli military vehicles backed up by drones declared the entire area a closed military area. they said it was part of

anti-terrorism activities, and we understand that they hit a variety of houses and they're looking for what they called terrorists, but in jenin they believe these are fighters against a decades-long military occupation. now what they do when they go in with these bulldozers, they plow up the road inside the camp and they go inside looking for these milit militants. they oftentimes lock up the residents in one of the rooms or keep them under guard as they use higher positions to shoot down into the streets. now we understand that two people died because the israeli forces were barring access to the hospital and another two boys, one aged 9 and one aged 14 were shot dead by israeli forces. israeli media is saying that two

senior militants were also killed in this raid that ended at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon local time, kaitlan? >> we'll continue to monitor that to see if those raids do continue. ben wedeman, thank you for that report. kaitlan and sara, a lot moving parts happening right now as we are awaiting the release of the next group of hostages that could happen at any moment now. >> we will be watching that, i know you will be and we'll come back to you if and when it happens and thank you very much, kate kaitlan for join us live from tel aviv. they're pleading for family members to be set free from hamas. shai wefrnger is pleading, and welcome to our show. i know you've been going through it for, what, a month and 22 days now, and i do want to show people the last time, the last images that you saw of your son

omer. i want to warn viewers that this video is disturbing. omer is the young man who has been stripped to his underwear and he was lying there. they beat him. he's handcuffed and surrounded by hamas gunmen who then kidnapped him and took him to gaza. have you heard anything about the status of your son since he was taken? >> good morning, sara. i didn't hear about my son since the 7th of october only from this video and the confirmation by the idf that my son was kidnapped by hamas. my son has a chronic disease and it grows severe when he is in a stress situation. it is horrible to describe it.

he is in very danger of his life if he is not getting his medicine and if he is not getting medical aid. i don't see the red cross is going inside gaza to actually be on his part of the deal, and i don't know what's going on. the list is up and down, but we need to take the sick people and old people out. we saw the old lady who suffers from illness, she didn't get the right treatment, and she got to the hospital in a worst case. so i'm very concerned, and i'm very worried about my son that he is not in good condition. so we have to take the sick people and the wounded out. we have to take everyone out,

children and women and humanitarian, we have to take the sick people out. >> i think that demand that you've made and that plea that you have made is that your son is suffering from a congenital disease. he doesn't have his medicine. he hasn't had it as you know it and you've heard nothing for almost two months which i has to be the most stressful thing you've ever experienced. women and children have been sort of the first wave of hostages released by hamas, but in society, we often forget, men also are very vulnerable, too, especially when they're sick or wounded. what medicine does your son need. is there any chance that you think he may be getting some kind of treatment there? >> my son needs rafason, it's a medicine he needs to take every day. unless he takes his medicine in such a situation in this stress

it's growing severe, as i say. it is difficult. i don't know if he has a toilet nearby. it is very painful, the stomachache and a lot of diarrhea, and a lot of -- his hemoglobin is going down and probably needs an iron iv. he needs medical aid and medical attention from a doctor it's a very, very big problem for had disease. >> can you lastly tell us about omer as he's going through this horrible time in his life, as you why are suffering with this, as he was before, before all of this happened. >> omer is 22 years old and he's a very happy and smiley guy. he's my oldest son. he's a manager for the restaurant, as you can see in

the video, he likes music, and he likes the good life. unfortunately, on the 7th of october hamas did a massive attack on israel and it's a big terror organization that made awful things and omer is quite stabilized on his disease on regular days, and unfortunately, we saw he was under stress and he went down in weight by 20 pounds, less than two or three weeks. so you have to understand that this is a very big problem. when he's in stress that it's getting worse. >> there couldn't be a more stressful situation.

shai wenkert, thank you so much and please keep us updated with you and your family as you go through this. >> thank you, sara. >> kate? >> coming up for us, secretary of state tony blinken back and on a mission saying this morning that his focus during his latest trip to the region will be to extend the pause in gaza. the new reporting on what's going on behind the scenes ahead. plus the pope forced to cancel his travel plans on the advice of doctors as he conditions to recover. we've got more. an update on his health. we'll be right back.

this morning, cnn exclusively got former gop representative liz cheney's memoir ahead of its release and we're sharing some of the exclusive isn't even the word because she's got receipts also in there, details and some of the claims being made. >> the book is called "oath of honor" a mem oir and a warning and cheney isn't sparing, and calls donald trump the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the oval office. here with us now, john avalon. there's a lot of color if you want to call it that from the other things we do for orange jesus to the way she's describing the conversations with some of her former colleagues and some of the things that stick out to you get more to this warning or who could have been. the lost opportunities for republicans to stop donald

trump, like her conversation with mitch mcconnell and -- let me read a bit of what mitch mcconnell said. when she said she doesn't -- she says that she thought mitch mcconnell was going to support pushing donald trump out, but then she said she doesn't know why, almost, but that he seems to lose this resolve and what's left for me, and i have not yet seen the pages is the why -- it doesn't seem that she gets to the why mitch mcconnell lost the resolve. >> it indicates that mcconnell thought trump would go away on his own and it wasn't necessary to take that extra step of pushing through the impeachment vote, and there's a lot of rationalizations we've seen from republicans over the course of donald trump's rise. one of the things these excerpts show is the profound degree of cowardice, the hypocrisy knowing that donald trump is lying to supporters, but being

effectively afraid of them and one member of congress saying he is afraid for his family's safety if he does the right thing constitutionally and votes for impeachment. trump would be barred from office at this point and mcconnell was leaning towards it and then felt he didn't need to go that far because trump was on his way out on his own which was a huge miscalculation. >> now he is leading for the republican candidacy. >> there are so many things in this book and we haven't even seen it. we just have the excerpts that have been looked at. cheney also, she writes about that moment that mccarthy goes to mar-a-lago to see donald trump after he has been told, and he says has accepted that he has lost in it and if we can pull that up, he says -- mccarthy says mar-a-lago, what the hell, kevin, cheney is asking mccarthy. they're really worried, mccarthy

says, trump's not eating so they asked me to come see him. what? you went to mar-a-lago because trump's not eating? mccarthy, yeah, he's really depressed. you can understand a president who has lost being really depressed and that denotes something important. he knew he lost. >> she says earlier and mccarthy saying he knew he lost. the reason why i think that's ridiculous and cheney did as well is this idea of trump playing the victim and his aides saying, look, kevin you have to come console donald trump you have to console him like he's some lovesick teenager. >> i don't think he needs kevin mccarthy to do it. >> typically people would seek solace in family and mccarthy went down there to kiss the ring, let's be real and ended up reviving trump and this being the victim after the classic trump move needed solace from friends and colleagues. >> sorry, kate, do you think he was trying to get extra -- i

know you said kiss the ring and remember when i helped you donald trump so that he's in his good graces. >> right. how did that work out for him? >> not so great. >> just checking. >> the warning part of this book which obviously is pervasive throughout and was the entire point and the warning and now liz cheney's kind of become the embodiment of is the warning to donald trump and the warning to democracy and it is an excerpt. every one of us, republican, democrat and independent must work and vote together to ensure that donald trump and those who appeased, enabled and collaborated with him are defeated and this is the cause of our time. she is staying true to form here. no question about that and i'm wondering with this book and with what she has stood for since honestly, january 6th, is it picking up steam, though. are people following liz cheney to take on this cause.

is there a drumbeat or not? you need leadership that requires a clear call, and i wish we had a full screen of that quote. liz cheney, who was very conservative who said we need to build a broader coalition to defend the country and the constitution from donald trump and that he's been enabled by cowardice in her political party that is utterly unconnected to anything resembling constitutional values and one of the excerpts saying we're not the party of reagan anymore saying kevin mccarthy and liz cheney. this is about -- we're almost 250 years old and the longest lasting democracies in the world. we've never had a leading party candidate campaign as it would be auto rat and that is what liz cheney is warning is happening within her party as a result of cowardice on the part of the people that don't have the spine to stand up to what they know is wrong. so, yes, this is a time ff choosing. we have seen republicans lose

their spine of critical moments like the impeachment and what cheney is doing, i will be that voice, but we need to build a broader coalition and it requires people to have a quarter of it, but this is a critical moment for our democracy. don't sleep walk into this election. this is about defending democracy and the constitution of which she has identified donald trump is the greatest threat to. >> you're hitting on something as we go that's important is the book's coming out, i believe it's december 5th and it's coming out very soon. the timing of the release of a book is never a coincidence and that says something of what liz cheney is trying to do in planting herself, planting her flag, creating the fork in the road, if you will for the country as we barrel into the election season. >> yes. >> it isn't just, too, about cowardice and it's about power. people that believe that if they stand up against him they'll lose their seats. >> study the bible and other

texts, fear and greed is the path to hell. courage and principle is the path to redemption, and that's what politically we need to remember in this season. i mean, in this political season, in this moment for our democracy and we need to rediscover courage and putting principles above partisan and short-term interests. >> you're hitting us with the bible this morning. he's on the pulpit. john avalon, thank you so much. >> as kate mentioned the book is coming out december 5th and i'm sure there will be a lot of us picking that up to see it and liz cheney will be here and be interviewed on cnn. there are still in israel nine americans being held hostage by hamas including two women. what we know about whether any of them may be released soon. plus, a private funeral service for former first lady rosalynn carter set to begin in just minutes. cnn has learned that former president jimmy carter will be there. details ahead.

this morning we're learning a u.s. hostage envoy is in israel as we wait to learn if any americans will be among the sixth group of hostages set to be released by hamas. we do know 10-month-old kfir bibas and his 10-month-old brother ariel are not on the list today and that is according to relatives who continue to

wait hoping for a safe return. katie, is there any indication we can see hostages freed. the list has come out, has it not? >> sara, the short answer at this point is we are still waiting to see whether or not there will be any americans included in the list of hostages expected to be released today. there are still nine hostages, seven men and two women. the two women were expected to be released as part of the original tranche of 50 hostages released during the first four days of the truce. that didn't happen. a huge disappointment for the biden administration and the national security spokesman john kirby saying that the white house doesn't believe that hamas is intentionally withholding americans from release as some kind of tactic or leverage, but that it's more likely the logistical difficulty of getting a small number of americans out of gaza that is to blame here

and so high, high hopes today inside the white house that more americans will be reloosed as part of the release today or if the united states is successful in working with the qatari mediators and with the israelis to broker some kind of extension in this pause in fighting, perhaps, over the coming days. but at this point we still wait to see. a senior qatari official who spoke to kaitlan collins this morning declined to detail whether or not americans would be included on today's list. >> okay. we do know that there are two women and women and children were the first to be released for the most part that are being held. katie bo lillis. >> joining us now is kim dozier. the qatari foreign ministry said they're hopeful that they will be able to announce a truce extension in the next couple of hours is how they put it, but moving beyond the current

parameters of the current agreement between israel and hamas becomes the big question. how do they do that? how do they move past only women and children being released and into civilian men and military personnel? >> well, at this point according to israel's prime minister spokesman they have about 35 women left, at least four children under the age of 14 and then just under a dozen hostages who are over the age of 75. so all of those are possibly covered under the current agreement, but the question is once you get to what hamas considers members of the israeli defense forces, whether or not they were captured in uniform, they consider men of military age who are israelis to be potential combatants and the fear among u.s. officials and israeli officials and qataris is that hamas will raise the price

for releasing those and that is when israel, which is the current government is essentially looking for a reason to get back into its fight to defeat hamas, that's when israel would likely start fighting again and insist on negotiating under fire as it did for this first round of releases. >> israel, they believe that the pressure of the fighting and the bombardment is what got hamas to the place of going to agree to this kind of first round of a fragile truce. let me play for you, kim, what the spokesman for the qatari foreign ministry told, said this morning, told kaitlan collins about what they're looking at in terms of the negotiation that goes beyond women and children. listen to how he talks about it. listen to this. >> that moving towards civilian men being released and then having the longer discussions of the soldiers, and it is a

parallel line of discussion of thinking how we can reach a sustainable truce to release all hostages. >> it was the first time i've heard someone talk about parallel tracks and how these discussions are going. i wonder what you hear in that? >> it's -- it's something -- it's the discussion that has to be had. they're facing pressure from palestinian islamic jihad a much more extremist terrorist group inside gaza that has said it won't release the soldiers that it has among the 40 or so hostages it's thought to have unless all palestinian prisoners are also released from israeli jails and that's something like 8,000 people, 9,000 people. so hamas knows this is coming. there's another issue that might encourage hamas at least to release some of the male hostages. it takes a lot of resources, manpower, supplies to keep hostages healthy alive,

undetected by the israelis so they may want to reduce their numbers. that might help get us to a few dozen hostages being held before fighting restarts, but there's pressure on the israeli government because far right members of netanyahu's cabinet have threatened to pull out if the fighting doesn't restart soon. >> real quick, i wanted to hear what your reporting is leadinging to in terms of the u.s. has been pushing israel to take a more targeted approach if and when it restarts its military operations. what does a different approach really look like when you're talking about southern gaza? so one approach would be to go with more targeted raids and go after specific high-value members of hamas, but that puts a lot of israeli forces in

harm's way and the casualties have already been -- i think it's reached at least a hundred or nearing that. it's much more likely we're going to see perhaps smaller movements, but you're still going to see israelis moving around in tanks. i think you will still see air strikes, but perhaps smaller bombs and not the 2,000 pound ones to prosecute, to go after hamas without causing as much displacement and damage to southern gaza. >> so much and, spe especially they were telling them to move to southern gaza. uncertain days for them. sara? >> coming up, the pope canceling more plans after doctors urging him not to travel abroad. we'll bring you the very latest on his health from rome. plus, cnn has learned that former president jimmy carter will attend his wife's private funeral service today at their family church in plains, georgia.

remember, he has been in hospice for more than nine months now. we will take you there live.

this morning we are learning that pope francis is canceling an upcoming trip to but day. the pope's health has improved some, but not enough for doctors to allow a visit to the cop28 climate summit. cnn's barbie nado is following

the developments. what do you know about the status of his condition at this point? >> we do know that he's a little bit better. that cancellation of this very important meeting, the climate crisis such an important issue for him in the last ten years since he was elected to be pope, but he did attend his wednesday audience. this is an audience he gives every single wednesday in person and he attended it here in rome inside an auditorium, and he arrived on foot which is actually rare. he usually comes in on a wheelchair and he was very defiant. he wasn't able to deliver his prepared remarks because his voice was too weak from the flu that he's fighting. he isn't a man in good health. he's been in the hospital three times in the last two years. in june he had abdominal surgery and we're talking about multiple different types of health issues and you're thinking of a man that age, 87, next month and of course, people are worried about him and it's coming up to the busy, bessie holiday schedule

that he's got in front of him and he's going in in not such good health, sara. >> when you're 87 years old every little thing adds up and our best goes to the pope and thank you to you, barbie for the details that you always bring us from rome. kate? >> coming up for us, who will be among the hostages released today? we know israeli officials have informed the family and we are standing by to see the transfer when they get out of hamas captivity and feel their first moments of freedom in seven weeks. we'll be right back.

just hours ago cnn learned former president jimmy carter

will be attending his wife's private funeral service today. remember, he has been in hospice himself for a very long time, but he has managed to make it to her funeral. you are looking at a live look inside their family church in plains, georgia, where the service is set to begin in just mere minutes. former first lady rosalynn carter passed away on november 19th at the age of 96 just days after joining her husband in hospice care. yesterday's memorial service in atlanta drew every living first lady and hundreds of other people mourning her loss and her incredible humanitarian legacy. joining us now is kate anderson brower who has written several books about the white house including one on the role of first ladies. can you tell us, just give us some sense of who rosalynn is, how she transformed what it meant to be a first lady? >> well, she carried so deeply

about helping people and she was so passionate and empathetic and that came from her childhood where she grew up with very little money. she had to raise her siblings basically after her father died when she was 12. i think there's one store about rosalynn that really sums up her life's work because, you know, she -- yesterday, kathy cade at the funeral said she gave voice to the powerless and persuaded the powerful to listen and she did that when the carters hired a woman named mary prince who had been a black woman who had been unfairly convicted of murder in georgia in 1970, and they saw that this was unfair and they brought mary to be their daughter amy's nanny in the white house and they had the conviction overturned. jimmy carter was mary's parole officer. they were not afraid to speak up for people who they felt were voiceless because of, you know, racism, because of poverty. whatever it was, they spoke out

in support of them. >> and that was such a big and interesting case that they were heavily involved in getting her out because she was wrongfully convicted. i do want to mention we were watching the motorcade that is rolling up to the church as you see her kavenget, rosalynn's casket under guard there from the state police. their daughter also read a letter that jimmy wrote 75 years ago. this is a true and deep love story between these two people, jimmy carter and rosalynn. she had such an impact on carter's presidency, but also on his post-presidency which has been one of the most remarkable post-presidencies i think we have ever seen in american history. can you give us some sense of how their relationship helped shape his time in office and afterwards? >> she was by his side during all of the most pivotal moments of his presidency including camp david. it was her idea to actually bring the president of israel

and the president of egypt to camp david for the historic peace accords there and she campaigned tirelessly for him, but to your point in the decades after they left the white house and what they did with the carter center is unprecedented and they nearly eradicated the worm disease which used to kill many people in africa, and she teared up. i interviewed her a couple of times and when i asked her what one of her greatest accomplishments was was making sure that children didn't have to die from that horrible disease anymore. they lived and they practiced what they preached. you see the church, this was their heart and their home. people in the community would lay down their lives for the carters and the carters' home is just a regular, ranch-style home. they can see their burial site from their home kitchen which i think speaks a lot to who they are. they are at peace, i think, with death because of their deep

christian values that we saw play out especially after they left the white house and what they did was truly phenomenal. >> they were still attending that church up until they could aren't. kate anderson brower, thank you so much for bringing us the stories of rosalynn carter and we are looking at the motorcade as it makes its way to the church and that ceremony will start very, very soon. kate in. >> coming up for us, will the truce between israel and hamas be extended again. that is the question at this very hour and what qatar is saying now and what is leading them to be hopeful. we'll be right back.