i spoke to rachel goldberg just before air rachel, just days ago, you and john made a plea to president trump and the new mideast envoy, steve witkoff to to speed up the process or to try and speed up the process and essentially get the rest of the hostages home as quickly as possible. um, do you think that's do you think that's actually possible? >> i think anything is possible. >> and. >> you know. >> we saw these. >> three men. >> released on. >> saturday, and that really just it. >> was very. difficult to see. >> what they looked like. and, and, anderson, i think that you realize that. >> or levy. >> who was one of the hostages released, we know about or because of the video that you shared with us or elia alone and hirsch were all kidnaped together. they are all in that video. they are all in the same pickup truck, and we know that they were held together, at least for a little bit. the four of them. and we know that the three of them were still being held together until extremely recently. and we know that the conditions are horrific. >> my understanding is after word got out that

and i should note, rachel and jon goldberg, poland, who's whose son hersh was murdered by hamas.lies of hostages called on trump to do this exact thing. bring all the hostages home at once. but their question is, is there a strategy here? is there a plan behind what he was arguing? >> and i think that's an open question. >> he mentioned. >> this first on air. >> force one on. >> on sunday night when we were on the. >> way to new. >> orleans. >> said that might be losing patience with. >> this. >> basically with the hostage deal. gave a. >> little bit. >> more meat to that today in the oval office by giving this deadline. but that's been 24 hours of kind of ruminating about it. but that doesn't mean there's a plan. and that that is the question. does what what does it mean when he says all hell will break loose? does that mean that the u.s. is going to contribute somehow to that? does that mean he's giving israel permission again, to just go into gaza and restart the combat and the war that was happening before? and if so, does that actually lead to those hostages getting out, or

rachel, thank you. >>> now to the powerful storm sweeping across the northeast at this hour. chief meteorologist lee goldbergrom wabc back with us tonight. >> david, a rainy night in new york, same system that's bringing rain to d.c. tonight. we had flood warnings over west virginia. there's more heavy rain from georgia to virginia. there's also a wintry side to this tonight in northern new england. that mix line could get to boston before it ends after midnight. by tomorrow morning, that storm is offshore. gusty winds will follow. out west it's an atmospheric river event, flooding northern california into the pacific northwest. maybe a half foot of rain. 1 to 3 feet of snow in the sierras and western rockies. >> lee goldberg back with us tonight. >>> tonight the deeply personal reveal tonight from retired nba star dwyane wade, who is just 43 years old revealing his battle with cancer tonight. >> reporter: tonight, retired nba star dwyane wade revealing that surprise cancer diagnosis. >> what i had on my kidney was a cyst, a tumor. >> reporter: the hall of famer sharing on his podcast that doctors removed ne