>> whit: tonight, for the first time ever, the u.s. using military planes for deporting migrants. president trump touring disaster zones, signaling he's open to eliminating fema.

and the israeli hostages held by hamas just hours away from being released. first, four days after president trump signed his executive order, the trump administration now using military c-17s to airlift migrants out of the country. new images from inside the aircraft of migrants in restraints. and 1,500 u.s. troops begin their deployment to the southern border. more than 500 undocumented migrants arrested in multiple cities over the last 24 hours, including new york and boston. martha raddatz one on one with border czar tom holman, his blunt warning about what's to come. also tonight, president trump touring disaster areas in north carolina and california, meeting with hurricane and wildfire victims. governor gavin newsom, a frequent target of the president, greeting him on the tarmac. trump saying he's open to

possibly getting rid of fema while threatening to withhold aid to millions in california. rachel scott in the fire zone. the late-night confirmation vote for president trump's pick to run the defense department. former fox news host pete will he have enough support? tonight, four israeli soldiers seen on video being taken hostage by hamas during the october 7th attack now hours away from being released. in exchange, israel expected to free about 200 palestinian prisoners. news tonight about an arrest in connection with the killing of a border agent in vermont. what we're now learning about the suspects. why authorities had them under surveillance before the shooting. the freighter trapped in the ice on lake erie. the coast guard trying to help break it free. nearly two years after her death -- ♪ -- the lost song by tina turner heard for the first time in more than 40 years. and the giant pandas go public at the smithsonian national zoo. >> announcer: from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight" with david muir.

>> whit: good evening. thanks for joining us on this friday night. i'm whit johnson in for david. we begin with major developments on immigration just days after president trump declared an emergency at the southern border. a military buildup underway. the first of some 1,500 active duty troops have arrived. marines from camp pendleton arriving with heavy equipment and osprey aircraft. and for the first time, military planes are making deportation flights. this c-17 at fort bliss, texas, migrants in restraints seen boarding a flight to guatemala. a new image from inside another flight taking off from tucson, arizona. meantime, the administration saying that arrests are ramping up. more than 500 undocumented migrants arrested in multiple cities over the last 24 hours. and tonight, the president's new border czar, tom holman, saying this is only the beginning. abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz leads us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, u.s. military aircraft flying undocumented

migrants out of the country as president donald trump launches his deportation campaign. the white house releasing these pictures, dozens of migrants in chains boarding c-17 aircraft. the flights landing in guatemala carrying roughly 160 people, men and women. >> deportation's going very well. >> reporter: today, the trump administration's new border czar, tom holman, telling me it's only the beginning. is that going to be a constant commitment from the u.s. military every single day? >> yes. >> reporter: to take deportees out? >> yes. >> reporter: this as the military buildup on the border escalates. 1,500 active duty personnel, army, and marines deploying. their mission, to support enhanced detection and monitoring efforts and repair and replace physical barriers. abc's matt rivers on the ground in san diego. >> right now, these marines are offloading concertina wire.

they're going to bring it right down to the border to reinforce it. it's clearly meant to be a deterrent against future migration. these kinds of supply flights, we might see a lot more of them over the coming months. >> reporter: far from the border, i.c.e. raids and arrests in cities across the country in the days since the president was sworn in. some of them likely long-planned, but a clear sign of what's to come. boston, new york, and newark, new jersey. newark's mayor saying agents raided a small business without a warrant, detaining american citizens in the process. >> people were fingerprinted, pictures of their i.d.s and face were taken there. when i got this information, i was appalled. >> reporter: the trump administration releasing numbers showing 538 arrests over the past 24 hours. the white house saying they're initially targeting undocumented immigrants who have committed

violent crimes, but holman acknowledges not everyone swept up in the raids fits that profile. and he has a stark warning to anyone who's in the country illegally. so is this what we will see every single day, ending in what the president has promised is millions and millions being deported? >> yes. but you're going to see the number steadily increase, the number of arrests nationwide as we open up the aperture. right now it's countering public safety threats, national security threats. that's a smaller population. >> reporter: so after you do that, then you go after everybody who is there illegally? >> if you're in the country illegally, you're on the table because it's not okay to violate laws of this country. so, if you're in the country illegally, you've got a problem. that's why i'm hoping those who are in the country illegally who have not been ordered removed by a federal judge should leave. >> reporter: holman was very clear that those committing violent crimes will be deported first and acknowledges that the

show of force, these strong warnings to all undocumented immigrants, are meant to send a message that they should self-deport since it would take a very long time and massive amounts of manpower and money to deport an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. whit? >> whit: martha raddatz. thank you. and martha will have much more of her one-on-one interview with border czar tom holman sunday on "this week." trump at the scenes of two american disasters as abc news has learned he's expected to sign an executive order on fema reform. the president touching down in los angeles late today, met by california governor gavin newsom, then touring the devastation of the palisades fire, threatening to place conditions on providing federal aid. abc's senior political correspondent rachel scott is traveling with the president. >> reporter: tonight, president donald trump touring the destruction from the palisades fire on a cross-country swing through the disaster zones, raising the possibility of eliminating fema altogether.

the president promising immediate aid for north carolina's recovery from hurricane helene but creating conditions for california, insisting there needs to be changes to water management in the wake of the devastating fires. and for the first time, demanding state voter i.d. laws in exchange for disaster relief. >> in california, we want them to have voter i.d. so the people have a voice because right now the people don't have a voice because you don't know who's voting and it's very corrupt. and we also want them to release the water. if they release the water, they wouldn't have had a problem. >> reporter: today, california's democratic governor, gavin newsom, greeting trump on the tarmac. >> i have all the confidence in the world we'll work that out. >> reporter: the president has blasted newsom's response to the wildfires, repeatedly pushing a false claim that all they had to do was turn on a valve to keep fire hydrants from running dry. officials have said the water supply wasn't the issue, but the volume required to battle a

once-in-a-generation fire event. newsom today pushing back, saying conditioning aid for american citizens is wrong, adding, california pumps as much water now as it could under prior trump-era policies. and that california residents already must show i.d. to register to vote. the president and first lady on their first domestic trip of trump's second term also visiting north carolina, still reeling from hurricane helene. >> they supported us in record numbers, and i'm supporting them in record numbers too. >> reporter: the president suggesting he may move to get rid of fema and have the states exclusively handle their own emergency response. though it would take an act of congress to dismantle or reform the agency. >> fema has really let us down. let the country down. and i don't know if that's biden's fault or whose fault it is. but we're going to take over, and we're going to do a good job. >> reporter: and whit, just moments ago, we saw president donald trump fly over head in a

chopper. this is just some of the damage that the president will be seeing as he surveys some of the fire damage here in california. sources tell us the president is expected to take executive action to establish a task force that will be charged with reviewing fema and making any recommended changes. but again, the bottom line here is that president trump does not have the authority to eliminate fema. that would require an act of congress, whit. >> whit: sadly, there's so much damage to see there as well. rachel scott for us, thank you. and tonight, president trump's controversial nominee for defense secretary, former fox news host pete hegseth, is facing a critical senate vote tonight. two republican senators already saying they will oppose his confirmation. tonight, he appears to be hanging on by the slimmest of margins. abc's jay o'brien is on capitol hill. >> reporter: tonight, pete hegseth, president trump's controversial pick to run the pentagon, hoping to be confirmed by the senate. but by one of the narrowest margins for any defense secretary in modern history. >> pete's a very, very good man. i hope he makes it. i hope he makes it. >> reporter: hegseth, a former

fox news host and veteran. >> we will re-establish trust in our military. >> reporter: all democrats expected to vote against him, and two republicans publicly saying no. senator lisa murkowski saying, on top of allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, which hegseth has denied, she questions his management skills and is troubled by his admission of multiple infidelities. murkowski saying, i believe that character is the defining trait required of the secretary of defense and must be prioritized without compromise. also at issue, hegseth's comments that women shouldn't be allowed to serve in combat, a position he walked back in his confirmation hearing. >> yes, women will have access to ground combat roles, combat rows, given the standards remain high. >> reporter: but senator susan collins saying she's not convinced his views have changed. >> oh, it's going to be tight. 51's tight. that's what it was yesterday.

it could even be 50. who knows? >> reporter: and tonight this margin for error is so slim, republicans can only afford to lose three votes. and in that case, vice president j.d. vance would come up here to capitol hill to break that tie, whit? >> whit: jay o'brien, thank you. overseas tonight, we're just hours away from a new hostage and prisoner exchange. hamas set to release four israeli soldiers. israel expected to free about 200 palestinian prisoners. and tonight, the difficult images from both sides of the divide. abc's tom soufi burridge in jerusalem tonight. >> reporter: this is the chilling video, bloodied female israeli soldiers taken hostage by hamas during the october 7th attack. and tonight, four of them are just hours away from coming home. hamas saying it will free karina ariev, daniela gilboa, and naama levy, all 20 years old, as well as 19-year-old liri albag tomorrow.

naama's mother pleading for this moment. >> i just want to be back home and have naama back home. >> reporter: 33 hostages, including two americans, are expected to be freed in the first phase of the deal during a six-week truce. in exchange, israel is to release another 200 palestinian prisoners tomorrow. with the ceasefire holding, families inside gaza returning home to staggering destruction. mahmoud al badafla says the bodies of his wife and five of his young children are still under the rubble of his bombed-out home. "i hope i can bring them out," he says, "and bury them." whit, if all goes to plan, those four hostages could be freed as early as tomorrow morning, and then the palestinian prisoners should be released. whit? >> whit: and so much hope this plan holds. tom, thank you. back here tonight, new developments in the deadly shooting of a border patrol agent in vermont. the agent shot and killed during a traffic stop near the canadian border. one suspect was killed in the shootout.

a second suspect wounded and now facing charges. court records showing authorities had them under surveillance nearly a week before the shooting. here's abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, a washington state woman is facing charges in the first killing of a border patrol agent in more than a decade. authorities say 21-year-old teresa youngblut and felix baukholt, a german citizen on an expired visa, engaged police in a hail of gunfire along interstate 91 in coventry, vermont, about 20 miles from the canadian border. 44-year-old border patrol agent david "chris" maland died later at a local hospital. >> i want to extend my heartfelt condolences to agent maland's family, friends, and colleagues. >> reporter: according to a federal affidavit, investigators had been conducting periodic surveillance of the pair for more than a week after an employee at a nearby hotel reported them checking in dressed in all black tactical-style clothing with youngblut carrying an apparent

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>> whit: finally tonight, the giant pandas meet the public at the national zoo. tonight, the remarkable sight. the pandas from china making their long-awaited public debut at the smithsonian national zoo in washington, d.c. 3-year-old bao li now in his new home. qing bao, also 3 years old, eating an apple today, a carrot, too. and of course, both munching on lots of bamboo, 100 pounds of it every day. the bamboo grown and harvested about 70 miles away. local kindergarteners welcoming the pandas early this morning. qing bao climbing the tree. the children calling out bao li's name. thousands of visitors expected this weekend, with many more watching on the zoo's panda cam. 40 cameras giving people around the world an up-close look. it's all part of a revival in the so-called panda diplomacy

between china and america after a pause in 2023. pandas were sent home to china, but tonight, they're back. the pandas arriving from china last october, touching down at dulles international airport in a boeing aircraft they call the fedex panda express. the panda picture right on the side. the two in these custom crates. a police escort right to the zoo in washington. crowds lining the streets. in quarantine and closely monitored by their care teams, but now they are ready. the zoo calling this a celebration and a new chapter of their more than five-decade-long panda conservation program. >> they're adorable, but they're also rare. it's a success story. we are winning the conservation war with giant pandas. there are more of them in the wild because of this. so people come here, and they're part of our success. >> whit: and we're all cheering on that success. great to see the pandas back. thanks so much for watching tonight. i'm whit johnson in new york.

for david and all of us here, have a great night. great night. so political. >> plus that engine and the four crew members, along with the fire department and all the firefighters in the state, are our number one heroes right now. we're star struck just to think of them.

>> his number one heroes are the san francisco firefighters who helped save his home from the palisades fire and new at six, the trip he made to the city today to thank the department in person. i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. a cold system is coming in this weekend, and it's going to bring more than showers. i'll explain. coming up. >> always live abc seven news starts right now. >> going to work very hard with the mayor, the governor, the supervisor and everybody. and get the resources behind you. >> promises from president trump in his first visit to california just days after taking office. good evening. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. the president has spent the last several hours in california seeing the damage done by the wildfires firsthand. donald trump just wrapped up a roundtable a few minutes ago. here's a live picture. it lasted for more than an hour at the table where many southern california politic