we're so glad they are all coming home. and to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. "erin burnett outftfront" stara "erin burnett outftfront" stara right t now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com "outfront" next, breaking news. 11 hostages freed from gaza. we'll speak to a man reunited with his mother and another still waiting for his daughter. plus, three palestinian college students in the icu after being shot in vermont. the alleged gunman pleading not guilty. and putin's war. russia now losing nearly 1,000 soldiers a day in ukraine as a shocking new report claims to have uncovered another $50 million yacht linked to putin. let's go "outfront." and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. 11 women and children are now back in israel after being held hostage in gaza for 52 days. there are nine children and two mothers. and, as we speak, they are now being reunited with their families. we have new video from the israeli defense forces showing the moment the 11 women and children entered israel. we also have propaganda video from hamas which cnn is choosing not to show. but we do not have any independent video of this moment. today's exchange coming as israel and hamas have agreed to also extend the fragile pause in fighting for two more days. today's freed hostages join 58 others who have already been released. but there are still 187 people still held by hamas tonight. they include etai regev. we've been following his and his sister's story since the october 7th terror attack. they were abducted by hamas at the music festival, where more than 260 bodies were found. he played a recording of a conversation he had with maya, the conversation happening as she and her brother were attacked. [ speaking in a global language ] >> miraculously, maya is free tonight. she is back, and her mother spoke about her injuries. >> translator: our maya's fine. she's a real survivor. she underwent surgery. he is in rehabilitation, still on painkillers. it is very hard for us to be with us and etai to be in gaza. it is a wave of emotions that is hard to describe. >> the regevs, along with so many other families, are still waiting and hoping for their loved one to be freed. and others in that list include the family of liot benin, who is one of two american women still known to be held by hamas. she was expected to be included in the first 50 hostages that have been released, but so far still no sign of her. in a moment i'm going to speak to her father. but first we begin tonight with matthew chance "outfront" live in tel aviv. matthew, you just spoke to a family member of several released hostages. what are you learning about their time in captivity? >> reporter: yeah. it's incredible just listening to the ordeal of maya there. it's so important to try and understand that that trauma continue during the weeks upon weeks that these people have been held as hostages inside gaza. these emotional scenes at a hospital a couple of days ago with that young boy mundar running into the arms of his father. i think we've got video of that. his mother's right behind him. they just have been released. his grandmother is there, able to speak to a relative of that family who's been to seen them. to give us an idea of what they went through when they were in the gaza strip. take a listen. did she indicate to you if she was kept in a tunnel or in a cellar? >> she was kept in different places. she doesn't know exactly where it is, because they took them from place to place, but all of them, the three of them were together all the time. but i can tell you that they ate a lot of rice. sometimes they didn't have rice, so they ate only bread. it wasn't that they were eating fruit and vegetables and vitamins and whatever things that you need. she told me that if you want to go to the toilet, you have to knock on the door and only after 1 1/2 hours or two hours they opened the door and you can go to the bathroom. they got -- they were in closed room, they weren't with them. the room was locked and they were by themselves, and that's it. >> reporter: let me ask you briefly, one of the mentions i remember when he was handed over to the red cross by hamas gunmen, and he was being held very tightly by one of those masked figures. you saw that picture. what did you think? >> i saw their faces. they were so scared. they were also scared what they told me that on the way with the ambulance, the people in gaza just were on the car and they moved the car from -- why, because they don't like us. they knew that the hostages -- yeah, in an angry way. >> reporter: i see. >> the citizen or the whatever, i don't know exactly, she doesn't know exactly. but she said that it was very, very scary. >> reporter: very, very scary, very frightening. what an ordeal. and, of course, that ordeal is not over because many of these hostages who have been released, they're coming back into a world and finding out that their loved ones, their neighbors, family members are either missing or killed or held hostage. and so there's that trauma that many of them have to deal with as well. >> right, the trauma that the world has seen for 50 days that they in so many cases traumatically and tragically were not fully aware of. matthew, thank you very much. and i want to go now to foreign policy reporter for "axios." a longtime israeli reporter and expert. so, what are your israeli sources telling you about why they believe hamas is now choosing to extend this truce by at least two more days? >> good evening, erin. i spoke to several israeli officials about this, and i think that the overall assessment is that hamas is hoping for something to happen. meaning, they don't look too much into the future, they take it day by day and say, okay, today the israeli operation is on pause, tomorrow is will still be on pause, the next day it will be on pause. maybe we can get another few days if we bring in more hostages and release them. and then if we take enough time in this pause, maybe something will happen. the israelis will rethink the operation in the south, the international community might pressure israel not to resume the operation. i think -- when i ask the israeli officials, this is what they think that hamas is thinking right now. >> and of course with 187 hostages still remaining at least, they could afford to drag this out for a few more days at the current ratio of return and get more of a break and still have a lot possible if they wanted to do both. prime minister netanyahu told president biden that they will resume the war against hamas with full force when the truce ends. what does full force exactly mean compared to what they were doing before? >> yeah, it's a good question. i think, you know, netanyahu said as part of his for domestic political consumption. but i think that there is an understanding, overall understanding inside the idf that what happened in northern gaza is not going to be what's going to happen in southern gaza when the operation resumes. meaning, northern gaza was mostly empty of civilians when the idf came in with ground forces. southern gaza you have 2 million palestinians. israel will not be able to go in with three armored divisions and just go on an all-out assault in gaza. what we are going to see is much more of a specific targeted raids on certain specific targets. it will still be very, very hard because we are looking at a very populated and dense area. >> so, barack, there are two american women that u.s. officials had expected would already have been released by hamas. but they have not been freed. what are your sources telling you about them? >> so, again, i cannot tell you this, you know, 100%. but i think part of this confusion when john kirby, the white house spokesman, spoke this morning and said that they hoped the two american women will be released today. he did that according to the list that hamas sent overnight. and this list was something that the israelis really did not like because what they did is that it did not have children and mothers in the same list, it separated the families. and instead it had two women that i think at least one of them was an american citizen. and after long hours of negotiations, what happened is that hamas took these two women out of the list and brought in the mothers, and i think this is maybe what happened. >> right, and the question is whether they will be coming soon. and i know wonderful, of course, news for those families. but so hard for those families whose names were removed from the list. barack, thank you so much for sharing your reporting and of course all of your incredible sources with us. and as we're just talking about here with barack, u.s. officials were expecting and, in fact, as he said, john kirby announced that two american women would likely be among hostages that would be released. but that has not happened. tonight an israeli-american citizen is still in gaza and we have followed her story closely on this show. and "outfront" now, her father yehuda, you're back with us now, you are back in israel. i know that the united states had expected your daughter would be part of the initial group of hostages. still, though, tonight, we understand she is a hostage of hamas even tonight. what is even going through your mind right now as you wait? >> well, obviously i'm disappointed. but we remain optimistic and hopeful that her release will come in the next two days. we'll see. i need to -- i want to remind you that we are also concerned about aviv, her husband, whose situation is considerably different from that of liyat's. and, still, we're very concerned. and we have no choice but to remain -- other than to remain hopeful. >> have they told you either the israeli government or the u.s. government anything specific as to how liyat's husband is being held and why his situation seems to be worse? >> we know that aviv was wounded on the day of the attack. and, other than that, we have no knowledge whatsoever of even where he's being held or who is holding him actually. so, obviously this lack of information and lack of definitive news is very concerning. >> we've heard from the u.s. government, israeli government as well, but that hamas is not holding all the hostages, that some of them are still being held by other groups in gaza that hamas may not fully control. have you been given any information as to whether liyat or her husband are being held by those groups? or do you simply have no information about that at this time? >> both my wife and i suspect that this may be the case. i don't have specific information regarding who's holding our daughter or aviv. it just seems a reasonable conclusion given the course of events up till now. >> yehuda, i saw you a few days ago in new york before the ceasefire. you are in israel now, and you returned to liyat's home in kibbutz nir oz. can you tell us more about what you found there? >> the house, their house has been thoroughly looted, and subsequently burned. the images i think speak for themselves as to the level of dep depravity here, including strategic value to what was done to their home. and it's just very sad to see people sink to this level of depravity. it's very disconcerting. >> well, yehuda, our thoughts are with you. i hope that you will have good news about both of them very soon, especially as the ceasefire has been extended. so our thoughts are with you, and thank you so much for taking the time to be with us and for sharing those images, too. thanks, yehuda. >> thank you. you're welcome. bye. and, next, the police chief investigating the shooting of three palestinian college students in vermont is my guest. was this a hate crime? plus, new intelligence pointing to near-record numbers of russian casualties every day on the battlefield in ukraine as, tonight, we have never-before-seen video from the trenches. this is a story you'll see first "outfront." and is this one of putin's most prized possessions, a $50 million yacht? i'm going to talk to the reporter who actually went there and tracked it down. tonight, quote, horrified. president biden speaking out today about the shooting of three palestinian college students in vermont. the boys' families saying this was a crime fueled by hate. police say that this man, jason eaton, walked up to the three college students and fired four shots. all three students are still in intensive care tonight. jason carroll is "outfront." >> i believe the families fear that this was motivated by hate. these young men were targeted because they were arabs. >> reporter: one of the victims' uncles sharing a family's fears about what they say could have been a motive for saturday's shooting in vermont. >> hard to imagine in this time and with everything that's happening that it was just a random act. >> reporter: the three victims are palestinian. all are 20-year-old college students in the u.s., lifelong friends visiting one man's family in burlington on holiday break. the three were out for a walk saturday night shortly before 6:30. two were wearing palestinian scarves when they say a man suddenly stepped on of a porch, walked toward them, and opened fire. >> they were walking down the street essentially minding their own business. and they were speaking in a mixture of english and arabic. >> reporter: arat of ani has th most serious injures with a bullet lodged in his spine. ali ahmad was shot in the chest. while abdal-hami was hit in his glute. shortly after the shooting, police swept the apartment building, where the victim saw the man step off the porch. but it was only after a second canvas late sunday that they found the man they were looking for. >> the atf agents were greeted by a man who stepped out of the hall, out of the door towards them with his palms up at awais height and stated something to the effect of, i've been waiting for you. >> jason eaton was arraigned monday on three counts of attempted second-degree murder. >> mr. eaton enters a not guilty plea to all three counts. >> reporter: police found a semi-automatic 380 pistol in eaton's apartment and say it was purchased legally. the same brand of ammunition recovered at the scene was also found in the apartment, according to a police affidavit. in an interview with "the daily beast" the 48-year-old's mother described him as kind and loving and a very religious person, but also says he previously struggled with depression. >> we do not yet have evidence to support a hate crime enhancement. i do want to be clear that there is no question this was a hateful act. >> reporter: and, erin, attorney general merrick garland said the investigation into whether or not as to whether this is a hate crime is ongoing. all three of the victims are in icu. and it should be noted that the family says, erin, that, for a while, these three young men were actually educated in the west bank, but the family thought they would actually be safer being educated here in the united states. erin? >> all right, jason carroll, thank you very much. i want to go now to the burlington police chief. and i appreciate your time. so, i understand, as your teams have gone into that apartment, you've been able to seize hard drives from a backpack, five iphones, an ipad, other personal records from the suspect's apartment. can you tell us more about what you found, and is there any doubt in your view that these college students were targeted because they're palestinian? >> so, thank you for having me here tonight and for asking these hard questions that are actually hard questions for us as well. we did find a lot of electronic equipment in that apartment. and we are going to be relying heavily on our partners at the federal bureau of investigation in order to do the kinds of investigations that they do very well with regard to finding are there materials on those electronic devices that indicate this person's motive that allow us to impute an idea that he was doing it for some reason. are there manifestos, for example, are there writings, are there social media or email histories that are indicative of a thought pattern that would lead us to a motive that is particularly directed at a group of people in the form of what we would call in vermont a hate crime enhancement. we don't have that yet. and we are working on that. there is no one with common sense who can think about three young men, two of whom were wearing keffiyehs who were speak a mixture of english and arabic and walking down the street and randomly attacked and not think that that seems like a crime driven by hate. but, for the law and the state's attorney in the clip that you previously showed drew a distinction between what is a hate crime and what is a hateful act. i think this absolutely was a hateful act. and it certainly is an act that we abhor as a community, as a people. but whether or not we can cross the legal threshold in order to determine that it is a hate crime is a different matter. >> when you went to his home to arrest him, i understand that he said to your officers, i've been waiting for you. has he said anything else? >> no, he has not spoken. we made efforts to begin the rapport building that would precede an official mirandized interview. and we were not able to get that. he was consistent in asking for an attorney. what i can say is that we inform -- when we informed him of the charges against him, telling him that he was going to be charged with attempted murder times three, he was affectless in his response in a way that was certainly notable to the detectives. >> and jarring, i can only imagine. i know one of the students suffered a spinal injury. they're all in the icu. do you have any update on their condition? >> i'm afraid i have nothing more than what was given today at the press conference. that is that one of those individuals, yes, has a spinal cord injury that is going to be a lasting long-term injury with potentially lifelong repercussions. another is in more serious condition owing to having been struck in the upper torso but does have a good prognosis. and the third who was struck in the lower extremities is possibly going to be released today or in the very near future. >> i hope that that's the case, and i know anyone watching, our heart goes out to those other young men whose lives have been changed forever. them very much, i appreciate your time. and, next, fire, explosions, desperate cries for drones. new and never-before-seen video from the front lines in ukraine "outfront" next. plus, elon musk in israel tonight changing his tune after major backlash for his endorsement of an anti-semitic post. the editor calling it a pr s stt by a, ququote, blalatant antiti-semite. tonight, major losses for putin, according to the uk ministry of defense. russia is now suffering more than 900 losses every single day. that is higher than when putin had that brutal assault on bakhmut in march. this is happening in a massive battle right now in the town in eastern ukraine. it comes as cnn tonight has never-before-seen video from a ukrainian soldier who recorded his terrifying experiences in the trenches. anna coren is "outfront." >> reporter: in the pre-dawn light, a cacophony of military firepower fills the air. incoming explosions, outgoing fire. as one of ukraine's assault infantry units, the 47th mekized brigade, tries to take back trenches in adivka, captured by russian forces. we need drones, we need drones, says this company commander. they are sitting in the tree line shooting at us, he explains. >> reporter: in a rare interview, the former filmmaker imprisoned by the russians in 2014 for five years, tells me about last month's mission in what has become one of the hottest spots on the eastern front. >> translator: my goal was for people to watch this and know what this war is really like, because it's ver