liz, we are so happy that abigail has been brought home. i want to say to those of you who have been happy with the other hostage families, you have watched their families reunited, i know how hard it must be for you to watch knowing your loved ones are still in places unknown and conditions unknown. we pray for you and we will be waiting to greet you with them someday in the future. just yesterday i was proud to help lead the debate on the house floor on a bipartisan resolution we passed unanimously, demanding the release of the hostages. today is an important opportunity for all of our members to hear these stories and to redouble our efforts to do everything we possibly can to push for the remaining hostages, every single one of them to be released. and for the international committee of the red cross to be admitted to visit the hostages and countries around the world should join in demanding the immediate release of the remaining hostages. i want to mention how outrageous it is the red cross still has not been allowed in to meet with th

little abigail. she then roon to a neighbor for help where they were all taken hostage, that entire house of neighbors, taken hostage by hamas. and held for 50 days. what she endured is unthinkable. abigail was among 13 hostages released today from gaza under the brokered and sustained though intensive u.s. diplomacy. she is now safely in israel and we continue to press and expect for additional americans to be released as well. we will not stop working until every hostage is returned to their loved ones. as i said when i spoke about this deal on friday, this has been the product of a lot of hard work and weeks of personal engagement for me and my team. we have been in close contact with the leaders of qatar, egypt and israel, speaking with each one of them repeatedly over the past few weeks to help secure this deal. we spoke again yesterday with the em ear of qatar in order to keep the hostage releases on track and push for abigail to be a part of this release and i will be spoken again shortly with

and abigail's birthday is friday, the day after thanksgiving. and we just want abigail home.e want abigail to come home and celebrate her 4th birthday with her family, brother, sister. that's the message. these are real people. this is humanitarian. we need to bring them home. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. appreciate it. >> of course. we'll be right back. >>> after only 18 months on the job, the head of the pentagon office responsible for investigating ufos is stepping down from his post next month. sean kirkpatrick says, quote, i'm ready to move on. i have accomplished everything i was going to do. this summer kirkpatrick warned that various sightings of unidentified flying objects could be attributed to other countries or aliens. >> for people who questioned or just wrote this off, that changed when john brennan said something important a couple years ago. >> this has been a topic that serious people are now talking about seriously. there was a wave of reporting in 2017 about the pentagon's activities around ufo and uap citings. john brennan gave this interview

i know abigail experienced her -- while in captivity.friends with her family members in my district, and i've been in constant contact with them. this is a beautiful sight to see. in a moment, to cherish all of them getting out to safety. >> since you've had contact with her family, tell me how they've been feeling about this. literally, are they able to eat and sleep? what kind of anxiety have they've been through? what have they told you about this experience? >> this has been, i think, the most traumatic experience of their life. you don't think you will wake up one day and then hear the news of family members being killed and little children hiding, and then ultimately little ones being taken into captivity. i know there is been a vigil. i have been in contact with them, as i mentioned. but the goal was to get abigail released but also to get all of the hostages released. there are hundreds of them. including a number of them who are american. our goal was to find a way to negotiate some sort of true so that the release of hostages c

we spoke a lot about abigail edan. of course she's got family members here, siblings who are here, relatives who are here, but her relatives have said that they don't know yet whether she is aware of the fact that she's now an orphan. she's lost her father, he was killed. she's lost her mother, she was killed. they were both killed in kfar aza. apparently she was held in her father's hands as he was gunned down. two other children as well lost their dad, he was also killed in kfar aza. they've lost one of their sisters as well. again, the world that they were violently torn from is going to look very different to them now coming back and it is going to be a long process. the medical treatment, yes, they're going to get that here, but the long road is going to be the psychological recuperation. you can imagine all of these kids and their families are going to have to endure in the months and probably the years ahead, wolf. >> yeah, we were told that when those terrorists came into that kibbutz where they were all in a r

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that is this 4-year-old little girl abigail adan. they are hopeful two others may be released by tomorrow. does hamas benefit from holding on the americans longer? what do you think, beth? >> absolutely. i think that is one of the issues, is that hamas may believe that their best chance of getting an extension of this, which is what they very much want, is to hold so that's a possibility, but it also could be simply that hamas is having difficulty locating or moving around hostages without the israelis being able to monitor that, and i think that the ties coming out, the story of the ties coming out might give us a window into that in that only four thais were released today bringing the total out of 17 out of 25 or 26. so there's no reason for hamas to hold back on the thais. so it may give us an inkeling that there are logistical problems sore that some of those thais might be dead. >> interesting. kim, these images of the hostages reuniting with their loved ones as i can testify being in israel over the past few days galvanized th

that doctor saw abigail, and abigail's been through such incomprehensible trauma, witnessing her parents killed, being held hostage. no one can comprehend what any human being has seen in this case. she's so young. but the doctor was saying that she and other children after a day or two, they start to come back, you start to see that smile, it's not a shadow, but becomes a child again. what can you tell us about how abigail is doing tonight? >> you know, she's, as we said, 4 years old. and what we have heard and we've learned is that it will take a long time to understand exactly how she's doing and what the impact of all of this really horrible, horrible circumstances have been on her. we are hopeful that now that abigail is surrounded by her friends and her family, that she will be able to, and the great care of the doctor and that she will be able to go on and live a beautiful life in spite of everything. >> and, you know, these pictures that we're showing, of course, abigail at the hospital. and she does seem to be smiling. but she turned 4, and you want to see that bright smile of a

and, of course, abigail eden, the now four year old abigail eden.dication on about that third american of the american woman that they were hoping to be part of this agreement? >> tell me when you want me to answer, john. we don't have john. we have no indication that the third american has been released. we don't know where they are. israel, the united states obviously highly concerned about it. they are pressing for the release. there is another option. that's tomorrow, a batch of at least ten, possibly 13 or more hostages could be released. others from foreign nationalities as well. obviously, the us has been pushing very hard for the release of american ones and of course there is the option to extend this cease fire. it's been designed to last for four days, but israel has given hamas the option of extending it for 24 hours for each additional ten hostages that are released east. so that could happen and we understand that it might even happen for two consecutive days. all of this remains in the air. what we do know for certain is that israel h

lived in, you found a book, the mighty abigail, right? >> oh, wow, i think i'm going to cry. but yes, the title in hebrew reads "abigail the great," and in english, it is just "my hero," i think, it is an author from texas, i believe wrote this book and in the book abigail saves her father and wants to be his little hero and i just keep thinking of how roy saved and protected her and it is just i'm speechless. i read the book and just couldn't stop crying. i think he's -- this is when he can rest in peace, now that he knows abigail is safe and with her family and it is such a lovely book and abigail, she really is great. she's a hero, her and all the other little children and i think we shouldn't forget there are so many other hostages over there, mothers, children and we still need to fight to get them out. >> steve: absolutely, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> steve: all right. switching gears. coming up, antisemitism attitudes, mob of students in queens rioting this week, forcing a teacher who attended a pro-israel rally to hide i

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four year old abigail moore was taken by hamas after they killed her parents. president biden took to the podium a short time ago to share the good news. >> a little girl named abigail turned four years old. she spent that birthday and at least 50 days before that held hostage by hamas. today, she is free. >> it comes as we are getting new videos of the emotional reunions happening between those who have already been freed and the families who have been desperately hoping for these moments to happen. meanwhile, in gaza, more aid is arriving during this pause on the israeli offensive as humanitarian groups rushed to take advantage of this time and prepare for the resumption of more bombing. all of that, and we are also covering other news today. tough weather makes it rough, going for some of the millions hitting the roads and skies. this is part of one of the busiest travel days of the year. tomorrow, that is a big day for donald trump as a judge in washington, d.c. considers whether to muzzle the former president. we're going to have that story coming up for y

a little abigail.hen ran to a neighbor for help, where they were all taken hostage, the entire house of neighbors taken hostage by hamas. and they were held for 50 days, what she endured is unthinkable, abigail was one third -- released today from gaza. under the brokered and sustained though intense of u.s. diplomacy. she's now safely in israel and we continue to press, expect for additional americans to be released as well. we won't stop working until every hostage is returned to their loved ones. as i said when i spoke about this on friday, this has been the product of a lot of hard work, weeks of personal engagement, for me and my team. we've been in close contact to the leaders of qatar, egypt, in israel, speaking with each one of them repeatedly over the past few weeks to help secure this deal. we spoke again yesterday with the mayor of qatar, who i owe special thanks to to keep the hostages released on track and push for abigail to be part of the release. i'll be speaking again shortly with prim

the youngest is 3-year-old abigail edan. both of her parents were murdered by hamas october 7th. >> we are seeing this morning large explosions rocking northern gaza of the israeli military says its offensive is on going ahead. truce. the white house weighing in this morning. take a listen. >> this will be done in a carefully choreographed way so that both sides can verify that the other side is upholding their end of the deal. we don't have exact proof of life on everyone, and that's why they are doing this in this staged way, to ensure that hamas is actually following through on the people it says it has. >> kaitlan collins joins us from tel aviv. what happens now? >> major questions still about logistically what this will look like. we are learning some of what -- how tomorrow is going to shape out, that is, what is expected now. none of this seems to be concrete. what we are hearing from israeli officials 10:00 a.m. local time, in israel is when that pause in fight something set it begin, when the hostages are going to s

and of course, holding out hope that abigail will be released. what are the discussions like among the family right now about welcoming her back in after going through such a traumatizing experience for a three-year-old. i have a three-year-old. i can't imagine. >> exactly. you have a three-year-old, can you imagine that your three- year-old would be with another mother and her three kids for 45 days? i mean, it's excruciating. and for our family, we have spent the last seven weeks, seven weeks, worrying, wondering, praying, hoping, abigail has a sister who is six, a brother who is 10, these two children saw their parents both be murdered. they spent 14 hours in a closet on the 7th of october, hiding . the one thing that we all hold onto is that hope that abigail comes home, she comes home by friday, friday is her fourth birthday and there's nobody that is giving up hope, it's just that we actually need to see abigail come out then we will be able to believe it. we spent all day today, and we watched the news and we are still at this place where

and so those who are now wrapping abigail and love and care abigail in love and care and the supportivethrough a terrible trauma. you know, her mum was killed in front of her when a kibbutz was attacked by hamas terrorists on october 7th. abigail ran to her dad then who then was gunned down. gunned down as well, while using his body to shield little abigail. she then ran to a neighbour for help where they were all taken hostage. that entire house and neighbors were taken hostage by hamas and held for 50 days. what she endured is unthinkable. abigail was among 13 hostages released today from gaza under the brokered and sustained though intensive us diplomacy. she's now safely in israel and we continue to press and expect four additional americans will be released as well. —— for additional americans will be released as well. and we will not stop working until every hostage is returned to their loved ones. we've been getting more pictures of reunions that have been taking place between relatives and hostages who have been released over the past three days. this is the moment last night th

the american girl, abigail.said that heard for us, and foremost, from her, at because she's been in touch with the families. we also heard from senator of north carolina, who said that the wife of the north carolinians was released, a hostage was released today. so this is certainly something that is personal, touching every single lawmaker. it's also something that continues to point to the growing fractures and divide in how the u.s. is helping israel handled this war. i want you to take a listen to some democrats, and some republicans we heard from this morning who can show just a factors that are continuing to grow right now. >> it's a testament to the presidents strength and tenacity and ignoring calls for the cease-fire that would've denied the leverages really needed to secure the steel. israel is right that this is the middle, not the end. >> i think we need a lasting cease-fire now. first, we need more of the hostages to be released. we've seen now that its work came. second, there are some americans an

now all they have is a hope that abigail comes home and abigail is with them.bigail, i see this beautiful little child that was around playing soccer with her family, running around, playing soccer with her cousins, eating ice cream, playing blocks like any kid would be and not knowing where she is. not know what happened the last seven weeks. >> it's devastating. there's aunts, uncles, sons, daughters. all people that we have no knowledge where they are or whats going on. we keep doing the work and hoping and praying and hope we see hostages in the next day and abigail will have her fourth birthday with her brother and sister and aunts and uncles who are all waiting for her >> edward: do you feel like president biden has tone enough to advocate for the americans that have been taken hostage? >> what i can saw -- again, the state department and the government, they're there for us but we haven't gotten information. we don't know. because i'm not sure what they know or what they can tell us. what i can say is that i believe that president biden, his administrati

little abigail.he then ran to a neighbor for help where they were all taken hostage. >> abigail is a dual american citizen. she was released sunday. that makes her the first american hostage freed since the start of this truce. she was taken to schneider children's medical center. you see her there happily reunited with her aunt, uncle, and her grandparents. joining us now again abigail's great aunt liz hirsch naftali and her cousin, noa. this day, the fact that it is here, you can see those images, everything you were praying for, how does it feel, liz? >> well, it's a miracle. it's remarkable. we thank you for having us again, and i am so glad that we are on this side where abigail, who turned 4 on friday, is free and she is with her family and she is with her sister and her brother. so it feels amazing in that respect because she is now safe at home, but there is two things. one is there are still many hostages that haven't been released and are not home with their loved ones, and for abigail, thi

joining us now, abigail's great aunt, liz neftali, and abigail's cousin, noa.igail was elated to see her siblings. there was some joy in that reunion. but how to move forward coping and helping these children cope with the trauma that they have endured? can you even get your arms around it? >> it's hard. i mean, as a mother of four children, the thought of a child being hostage for 50 days and coming out to a new life without her parents. i will say that abigail, when she was taken with a neighbor mother who she knew and her three children, all we hoped was that she was with him. she was. she was able to be hugged by this woman and be part of her family, and that is a blessing under all of this. how does abigail move forward? well, she has an amazing family. when her siblings showed up at the hospital and her cousins, it was beautiful. because it was what these children had waited for for 50 days, and they had abigail back. and the love and all of that brought abigail back. she just became abigail again for them. how do they go forward? i just say that they nee

saying abigail edan, 4 years old. she had a birthday on friday inside gaza as a hostage, is one of the people expected to be brought here by helicopter in the next few minutes, perhaps 20 or 30 minutes away. we don't exactly know. the world that she comes back to, wolf, is going to be dramatically transformed from the one that she was snatched from back on october 7th. her family members say that abigail may not be aware that she is now an orphan. both her mother and her father were killed on october 7th in the kibbutz of kif far as sa where hmgs broke in and undertook that rampage. other children also returning potentially to this schneider medical facility into a transformed world. we're talking about the children of the almog children. shen almog is the mother of the children. they've lost their father and they've lost a sister as well. we're also expecting to see later on hagar brotouch and her children. i spoke with the husband. he lost his wife and three children, held hostage in gaza. hei spoke to him earlier a

little abigail.r for help. where there were all taken hostage, that entire house of neighbors were taken hostage by hamas. and held for 50 days. what she underworld is unthinkable. abigail was among 13 hostages released today from gaza, under the brokered and sustained, though intensive u.s. diplomacy. she is now safely in israel. and we continue to press, and expect for additional americans to be released as well. but we will not stop working until every hostages returned to their loved ones. as i said when i spoke about this on friday, this has been the product of a lot of hard work, and weeks of personal engagement for me and my team. we've been in close contact with the leaders of qatar, egypt, and israel. speaking with each one of them repeatedly over the past few weeks, to help secure this deal, we spoke again yesterday with the mayor of qatar, who i owe special thanks to, in order to keep the hostage release on track, and push for abigail to be part of this release. and i will be speaking in s

hostage, and taken to gaza now apart from abigail, another 12 israeli citizens, three hostages from thailand and one israeli russian were released on sunday in exchange of 39 palestinians who were given a very warm welcome by a large crowd in ramallah, in the occupied west bank now one of the -- according to israel, one of the israeli citizens, 84-year-old elma avraham was returned in serious and life-threatening conditions, and she had to be flown with a helicopter to a nearby hospital. now following the release of the hostages, including abigail, of course, president biden said that what abigail had to endure was unthinkable and said he will speak to benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister to discuss efforts to extend the four-day trucepause that ends tonight. an extension will mean an additional 24 hours for every ten additional releases. >> thank you >>> breaking news this morning, police have made an arrest in the shooting of three college students of palestinian descent in vermont this thanksgiving weekend. police say on saturday night, 48-year-old jason eton approached th

now following the release of the hostages, including abigail, president biden said of abigail that she -- what she endured was unthinkable. and he said he would speak to the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu, to discuss efforts to extend the four-day pause in the fighting which ends tonight at midnight eastern time an extension that will require an extension of 24 hours per every additional 10 hostages released by hamas. frances? >> so many of of those families still waiting for reunions similar to what we've been seeing claudio, thank you >>> a tanker hijacked in the middle east has been freed by the u.s. navy officials say. the merchant vessel central park in the gulf of aidan sent out a distress signal after rockets were shot at it from yemen five armed men then took over the ship the nearby uss mason responded with help from allied ships. the hijackers apparently tried to flee, but they were detained by u.s. forces the yemeni houthi group said they would target israel and while the central park belongs to an israeli company, no israelis were on board. >>> also breaking t

abigail is a dual citizen.of the 14 israeli hostages released, ranging from ages 4 to 84 years old, including four women and nine children. three citizens of thailand were released as well. president biden spoke to abigail's family by phone this afternoon. in remarks following the hostages return, president biden reflected on abigail's rescue as the best hope for the four-day truce to extend beyond its tuesday morning deadline. >> she is in israel now. so those who are now wrapping abigail in love and care, the supportive services she needs, she's been through a terrible trauma. critically needed today is going in and hostages are coming out. it is structured so it can be extended to keep building on these results. that is my goal, that's our goal. to keep this pause going beyond tomorrow. >> president biden also spoke today with israeli prime minister netanyahu about the latest hostage release, that the hostages were released in exchange for 39 palestinian prisoners, all of whom were minors, according to a qat

among them 4-year-old abigail edan. cnn has reporters working the very latest on this story, talking to their sources and physically at the area where we believe these hostages are going to come through. jeremy diamond is one of them. jeremy, what are you seeing right now? >> well, dana, we are seeing the first police car in a long convoy that we believe is likely carrying these recently freed hostages. 12 israeli civilians who were taken hostage 50 days ago recently just crossed into gaza, and i think we are seeing them now as we arrive. i will move out of the shot so you can capture this moment of these multiple vehicles we're seeing a police car followed by a van, several vans, it appears -- and let's just pause and look at these images. >> see if -- yeah. there's people waving. there are people waving from inside these busses, and you can see some of the vehicles again with them, against the israeli ambulance and the israeli red cross equivalent. you just saw multiple vehicles going by. we saw people waving from one

for instance, abigail edan, the israeli-u.s.izen have family and it is not clear to them that she is even aware that she's now an orphan. her family, her parents, her mother and her father were killed in the kibbutz from which she was snatched on october 7th. the oneg children and her three children will also be coming out. they've lost family members, as well. the father of those children, one of the sisters of those children have also been killed. -- were also killed on october 7th. we are also waiting to see the brodic family. i've spoken to the family, abby brodic, they are from that one settlement close to the border with gaza and he lost -- not lost, his wife and his three children were abducted by hamas on october 7th and so he is very relieved he told me earlier by text message that they are on the list and they will now be coming home this evening. yes, a lot of good news, a lot of positive news that we are awaiting here, but it will always be tinged with the tragedy and sadness that many of these lives and many of thes

her name is abigail edan and she just turned 4 years old on friday. the youngest american citizen taken by hamas. for 50 days, she was inside gaza. tonight she's free. we're seeing many joyful homecomings this weekend. this is the moment two children were reunited with their families. in the three days of the cease-fire, a total of 58 hostages have been released, but approximately 180 still remain in gaza, including as many as nine more americans. president biden said today he's working to extend the cease-fire and get more hostages out. we have two reports to lead us off beginning with erin mclaughlin in tefl. >> reporter: tonight abigail edan is coming home. the first u.s. citizen to be released by hamas as part of the temporary cease-fire agreement joined by 16 other hostages today according to the israeli government. in exchange for 39 palestinians held in israeli jails. according to the israeli prison service. tonight broadcasting this shocking footage which they claim was shot today in gaza city. you can see children loaded into red cross vehicl

, and then. >> abigail had crawled out from under her father's body. and full of his blood went to a neighbor, and they took her in >> reporter: later abigail and the neighbors were kidnapped >> the last thing we learned was that somebody saw the terrorists taking this mother, her three kids and abigail out of the kibbutz, and that's all we know. >> reporter: when you look around at this group, what do you feel >> i think that what's driving all of us is a sense of hope >> all of us have our own families, but now stwree a new family this is my new family. >> reporter: this new family now on a mission in washington, including a meeting at the white house. >> can you give us an idea of what was shared with you >> well, i can say this. and i think speaking for all of us, we're extraordinarily grateful to be, the biden administration as a whole, for taking what is clearly such a keen interest, not just in our own loved ones but in all of the approximately 240 honlssstages >> it's been 39 days where's the action >> let's turn now to california where in just

her name is abigail abigail done, her father and mother were murdered. and she was found, been basically walking to the neighbors full of blood. and they brought her in at um, and what happened is that the family that she was the neighbors family, they will also capture it. and she was captured with them. but now they are all being released together. and mother with her 3 children who were the neighbors of abigail and abigail with what became her surrogate family in the last 50 days. now they're all being released together. but abigail is coming home, but she's not going to ever come to her parents back after 3 successful exchanges. is there a st. see that based exchanges upcoming smoother in any way, in a way yes. then there's some sort of of a mentioned yesterday we had big drama, a lot of a lot of fear that this kind of deal might be on the verge of collapsing today. everybody after a frantic night of negotiations today, everybody seemed to be very focused and making sure this is still happening, which is a good side of things. both sides are very muc

and included the first american. 4-year-old abigail edan. in a statement her family said there was, quote, no words to express their relief and gratitude at her release. both edan's mother and father were killed by hamas gunmen on october 7th, and she will now be cared for by relatives. the joy at her freedom follows dozens of reunions since friday. like irish-israeli 9-year-old emily hand, who was initially presumed dead, now safely in her father tom's arms. >> she's lost a lot of weight, but generally doing better than we expected. >> reporter: since the start of the truce between israel and hamas, which began on friday, 51 out of 240 hostages have been released while 117 of around 8,000 palestinian prisoners being held in israeli jails have been freed, mainly women and children, some who have been imprisoned for years. like 24-year-old mara bekir, seen here hugging her mother. bekir was still a child when he had v she was jailed and has already served eight years behind bars. several of the other released prisoners had been in prison with

president biden spoke with abigail's family earlier today.he's the first american released since the four-day truce began between israel and hamas. moments ago, hamas announced its intention to extend that truce which is set to expire tomorrow. a source now tells cnn that israel's war cabinet met today to discuss that very possibility of doing just that. let's go now to tel aviv and wolf blitzer. wolf? >> frederica, thank you very much. cnn has corporates on the ground, across the region, tracking all of the late-breaking developments. oren lieberman is with me here in tel aviv. i want to bring him in first. we've learned that israel's war cabinet met today. what more are you learning about this? >> that's a major development in and of itself. at the very beginning when israel announced it had approved this truce, it said there will be an extension one day for every ten israeli hostages released. we didn't really about it from that point on. we didn't know if it would be extended and certainly there were major questions if the deal itself wou

tonight, abigail's family hopeful, but skeptical. >> until we actually see abigail and other children come out of gaza, i really don't think i can go to that place where i will let myself really believe that she's free. we all pray that this release will happen and that abigail will actually be home to celebrate her 4th birthday. >> reporter: and tonight, as demonstrators clamored for the israeli cab net to approve the deal, we caught up with hadas kalderon, overcome with worry. so you're fighting for this deal, but you don't know that your children are actually in it. >> i don't know. >> reporter: five of her family members were taken hostage, including her 16-year-old daughter sahar and, here, the very moment her 12-year-old son erez was kidnapped by hamas. >> why does he have to suffer? why does he have to suffer so much? >> david: close to 50 days into this now. let's get to matt gutman again in tel aviv tonight. where are we at with this deal tonight? >> reporter: david, we understand the hostages could be released in batches of 10 to 12 over four to five days. it could last long

abigail idan is four years old. she's an orphan now.ero. a real heroine. because we know that this war, this is the proof, she is the proof that this is a justified war for that we're fighting against a cruel enemy. each of those who have returned as a member of family or relative that is either been murdered or still a hostage. it is a pain that is unbearable. abigail idan who was brought home was immediately taken to hospital. she was taken from the gaza strip immediately by the idf. in order to safeguard all the hostages some of them were taken from the gaza strip, from the area with total coordination with the egyptian forces. three thai foreign nationals and otherforeign national and other israeli were returned directly to the hospitals. they have been taken to the air force camp and their empty hospitals, after they've been moved from the air force base they will meet their families. it is a wonderful moment and yet we do not forget for one moment all the others who are left and being held as hostages for 51 days. there is so much

hamas releases its first american hostage, 4-year-old abigail edan, held for 51 days after her parents were murdered by militants. >> she's free and she's in israel now. >> the child among the third gaza. this welcome by palestinians for prisoners freed in exchange. >> i'm imtiaz tayib in jerusalem where there's growing hope more americans will be released from gaza soon. >>> also tonight, delicate diplomacy. what the biden administration says it is doing to free all americans held by hamas. >>> plus, a gunman opens fire on three college students in burlington, vermont. all of the victims of palestinian descent. >>> heading home. for millions after thanksgiving weather makes it a messy ride. flyers feeling the crush at airports. >> i'm elise preston at l.a.x. with a look at how busy airports are giving holiday travelers an aftertaste. >>> buying boom. holiday shoppers spending big this weekend. in stores and online. >>> and later, ryan's recycling. he's a teenage ceo helping to clean california beaches, turning trash into cash. >> it's fun. it's good for the planet. why not? and, free

. >> reporter: 4-year-old american abigail edan is coming home. the first u.s. citizen to be released by hamas is part of the temporary ceasefire agreement, joined by 16 other hostages according to the israeli government, in exchange for 39 palestinians held in israeli jails according to the israeli prison service al jazeera broadcasting this shocking footage which they claim were shot in gaza city you can see children loaded into red cross vehicles and an older woman requiring immediate medical treatment, the vehicle surrounded by hamas militants. all this in the same city the u.s. military has declared to be under idf control. president biden expressing his relief that abigail was finally released. >> today she's free and jill and i, together with so many americans, are praying for the fact that she is going to be all right. >> reporter: abigail's aunt releasing this video statement. >> she just landed in hospital and she's being checked and taken care of. i want to thank everybody for all your love and support. >> reporter: the youngest american taken hostage

with abigail edan being returned, she is the first u.s. citizen that has been returned as a part of this hostage release since the temporary truce was struck. we looked at the numbers, and if you look at what the hostages and missing persons forum says, there are about 18 children still being held in -- or, excuse me -- a dozen children under the age of 18. so how does israel balance knowing that, knowing that there are potentially a dozen more who could still qualify as this women and children group that they've been getting out so far, with balancing prime minister netanyahu being in gaza today, talking about this military goal of eradicating hamas? >> kaitlan, israel has declared its intention to free all the hostages. that includes those who are within that category of women and children but also those who are not. there are also elderly men who are sickly and are still held in hamas custody. there are people who are wounded, including an american who had his arm blown off by a hamas grenade and was seen piling onto a hamas pickup truc

abigail's family joins us ahead.

>> i'm not a politician, neither is abigail, neither are these hostages. i was i had a good answer but i hope that they will do everything that they can do to bring our loved ones back, our grandparents, aunts and uncles, family members, they've along at home and i hope they understand that and are doing everything they can to bring them home. >> i think the whole world thoughts are with all of them, and of course this youngest little american girl, abigail. she will be home when she turns four. let's pray for that. >> thank you. >>> as noah and i are speaking, we will see when the vote comes, but it's this human face, this little girl and so many others, their lives are what is at stake right now and right now we have two guests with us with decades of experience in hostage negotiations, bill andrew and rob d'amico, i appreciate both of you being with us and rob, you know, you hear noah right, i mean this is a three-year-old little girl, she will turn four on friday, these are the human beings who right now, their lives are on the line. what do you read i

the release of the first american hostage yesterday. 4-year-old abigail edan, president said that abigail is in israel receiving the love and care she needs after 50 days in captivity and witnessing the death of both of her parents the october 7th terror attacks. >> we awe an update, we've been following this story, 9-year-old emily hand reunited with her father, her father said he was originally told that emily had been killed on october 7th. >>> we're live in tel aviv, do we have any sense right now where that fourth group of hostages released? >> no information about who's on that list. u.s. say there are two women with american citizen ship who could be part of the first 50 to be released under the women and children agreement. there are some issues here, an open question about whether we may see the same sort of roadblocks two days ago that delayed the release of several hours. yesterday the transfer itself went smoothly and by really evening the hostages were welcomed back in israel, we saw people lining the roads, waving israeli flags, that same sort of welcome playing out at a hos

the proof is little abigail. >> little abigail. 4-year-old american israeli abigail idan, the first american citizen released so far by hamas. she was among 17 hostages released sunday by the group in exchange for 13 palestinian teenagers leased by prison by israel. cnn's clare sebastian from london. clare, what do know we about a possible exchange and possibility of extending the truce? >> good morning, kasie. every day has been challenges. today is no different, this fourth, potentssibliy the final of the agreement. they're evaluating that. we're hearing from a diplomatic source briefed on the negotiations said there might be a slight issue with the list of hostages and prisoners to be freed. we don't know what that issue is, but it could delay the hostage release. at least we're hearing from that source, it's likely we could delay the hostage release on monday. that issue is intended to be ironed out by qatar which is to be the main broker in these talks. we've heard from the palestinian authorities they have yet to receive a li

abigail adan, who turned four on friday. were murdered on october 7th during that hamas attack. the white house says she is the first american hostage to be released, that she's now safely in israel. >> and we continue to press and expect for additional americans will be released as well also on sunday. >> hagar bowditch and her threel

once we had known abigail edan was in israeli territory. what else did we hear from the white house today? >> as you mentioned, they are celebrating this move, but they're also pushing for an additional pause to they can release more hostages, because the president has mentioned that there are still americans unaccounted for, and there are two american women that they want to see released by hamas. and as you have mentioned here on the program, u.s. officials have said that israel is prepared for a pause in fighting if hamas were to provide or release 10 hostages on each day of that pause. and what the president was underscoring today in his remarks is that it's not only about a release in hostages, but also getting additional aid into gaza. and what the last few days have shown is that this is possible, an additional pause in fight cog see more of that unfold. take a listen. >> critically needed aid is going in and hostages are coming out. and this is still structured so that it can be extended to keep building on these results. that's my

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