know that more than a year ago about hamas's plan to attack? at where the warnings are actually ignored? tonight on laura coates live. you know, when i actually first heard about the story i had to actually read it twice because i thought there is no way that this is right. is it? are you telling me, all of us, that it's possible that israel was aware that hamas planned to attack israel? let me just change the word here because aware seems to make it feel like it was just an inkling, that they may have had a hint something maybe coming. but the new york times is reporting, tonight, that it was not an inkling. it was a 40-page battle plan. they had it more than a year ago, a year before terrorists slaughtered some 1200 men, women, and children, and took more than 200 people hostage. the times goes on strong ports that israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, thinking it was too difficult for hamas to carry out. the times reviewed the approximately 40-page document, it code named jericho wall, by the israelis and laid out in chilling detail, and it went point by point, exactly the invasion. what they didn't actually have was the date of when it would happen. now, we know now that date was october 7th. but here's what we still don't know, tonight. we don't know where the rest of the hostages are, we don't know how many there really are out there, we don't know who has them, and we don't know what happens if or when the truth will end. and then what happens next. you know, time is running out of. we don't know if, in just about 59 minutes the truce will extend or the fighting will resume. or literally sitting here waiting here minute by minute for those answers. but when hamas is unable to release any more women and children alive, the understanding is that israel will relaunch its military campaign and the military -- is calling for its forces to remain in what they are calling high combat readiness. so what happens next? and -- there is breaking news tonight right now. the idea of saying that israel has intercepted one rocket that was launched from the gaza strip. joining me now is a cnn chief national correspondent alex marquardt and foreign policy analyst barack. alex, first of all, as we're talking about this morning when the truce will end and if it will, what might happen 59 minutes for now or so, what we're learning right now? >> well, a troubling development for this extremely fragile pause that has been in place for the past seven days. we have been waiting all day to hear whether hamas would present israel with another list of hostages they plan to release tomorrow. instead, what we are seeing, what we are hearing and learning is that israel is now intercepted one rocket that was fired recently, just moments ago, from the gaza strip. it was intercepted by israel's aerial defense. we've also heard sirens, or sirens have been heard in steroid, southern israel, right near the gaza strip. so we have been waiting to see whether there was news from any of the parties involved about this hostage deal for tomorrow. i should note, not to downplay it, but this is one rocket. we have in the past seem barrages of rockets, so it's really hard to say what is going on here. but we've been pressing our sources, i know barack ravid is doing the same thing, it trying to reach out to the qataris, the egyptians who have been mediating with, moss the u.s. who of course have been central to this deal, and then israel as well to find out whether they expect this a pause to go into an eight-day. now, last night it looked like things were on the rocks, as well. there are several -- that were put forth to the israelis that were rejected because they did not have enough women and children alive on them. at the end, at the very last minute, right before the clock struck 12 eastern time, which is about two and 56 minutes from now, and 7:00 in the morning in israel, there is a list that was accepted. eight hostages were released today, there had been two released the day prior for a total of ten. so there is still a chance that hamas will come through in the next 55 minutes with a list that is acceptable to israel. there's also decent chance that they don't, at which point israel has warned that the fighting would start immediately between israel and hamas in the gaza strip. laura? >> brock, you've been looking at your sources of wall and seeing this. this is very different with the initial days releasing hostages, the numbers, the ratio to palestinian detainees and prisoners as well. here we are now, less than an hour away from this latest deadline and one rocket, it is true, but the question now, barack, is will israel does respond and does this mean the end of the truth even before this deadline? >> well, i think the idf has been taking several measures in the last few hours as a sort of precaution for the possibility that at seven a.m., or before there will be some sort of an attack from gaza if the cease-fire will not be extended. but, at least at that moment, i agree with alex. i think that we should wait. there is still 55 minutes until 7 am local time and it is one rocket. in this sort of dialogue that israel and hamas are doing from time to time, through airstrikes and rocket fire, this could be just a, sort of a signal and not a decision to go all out and stop the cease-fire. >> i'll remind people, of course, just less than 24 hours ago we were in a similar position and it really did go downright to the wire by that final deadline and here we are again today. but you know it came in earlier, barack, the new york times report. what they have reported is truly a devastating indictment of israeli intelligence. i'm wondering, we outlined it earlier about having some 40-page battle plan of sorts from hamas. not the date, not the specificity of when exactly it would happen, but the fact that there was this plan in place and details and point-by-point. how will israelis react to all of this given that there were questions about intelligence failures being pursued and investigated? >> well, i think it is pretty clear by now that the problem that the israeli intelligence had was not that it did not know what hamas was planning, the problem was that the analysis of the mountain of information that the israeli intelligence had, the analysis was just wrong. and the sort of premise that the israeli intelligence had was that hamas was not going to do anything regardless of all the information they had with what hamas was planning, what kind of exercises they're doing, and this was the problem. and the result, we've seen in the last two months. >> reporter: the report does say, i want to be clear, that there is no evidence that netanyahu actually saw the report. but i do wonder about the fallout and, of course, his position within israel in particular. can he avoid the fallout? is this really going to come down to simply the analysis of the data before it would reach him or something more? >> i think it's not only the -- the intelligence failure is one thing here. but there is policy failure, and the policy failure is that if you are the prime minister for almost 15 years before the war, at the end of the day you are the one in charge. as they say, the buck stops here. so, until now netanyahu did not say that. he did not take responsibility, and if you're the prime minister you are in charge of what is happening in the country. if you're the prime minister for 15 consecutive years, then you are even more in charge. >> reporter: let's talk about the reaction here at home, alex. i wonder how the u.s. is reacting to this news. the administration, have you heard anything yet? >> no, not, yet the administration said that in the wake of october 7th there is no indication that these attacks were coming. the u.s. has said, and will continue to say, that this was an israeli intelligence failure. there's a good chance that, since october 7th, they have learned about this analysis and they've learned about this report because certainly they will be asking israel, which is one of their closest intelligence sharing partners, what on earth happened. this has, as we now know, surfaced since then. what we have reported, laura, is that there was a series of reports and assessments, both israeli and american, that had been briefed here in washington to members of congress, members of the administration, warning a bit more generally about the possibility of a hamas attack. one said that rockets could be fired across the border into israel, which frankly has been quite a common occurrence. we've seen several rounds like this, there are flare-ups, the rockets have been intercepted by the idf, and essentially everybody goes on with their lives. there certainly was not an expectation that this kind of operation was about to take place on such an extraordinary scale. the u.s. does not have a lot of visibility by themselves into gaza and into hamas, they rely a lot on the israeli, the various israeli until you since agencies. and so what the administration has said both publicly and privately is that this really was an israeli intelligence failure and they do expect there to be repercussions for the heads of those different agencies, laura. >> alex marquardt, barak ravid, we'll see what happens next. perhaps a luxury of analysis is not something that we can look at when you have the ongoing issues of today. thank you both. i want to bring in cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton, also cnn national security adviser peter bergen. colonel leighton, let me begin with you here. we know now, from the breaking news, that there has been a rocket, it has been launched from gaza. we know that it is one, it was hit by the idf, but is this what you would expect for a resumption of fighting or is this, as brock noted earlier, a signal as opposed to maybe a stopping of that pause? >> yeah, laura, good evening. i think it is more like what barak has said, it's just one rocket. it was intercepted by the idf, it's a signal that hamas is ready to fight if it needs to fight. it was a warning to israel, but of course the israelis responded by knocking that missile down. so, at the moment, we are in the warning and signaling phase of this. it could go in any direction, but at the moment, laura, we are in that phase where we're waiting for something to happen in terms of let's get this truce extended or not. but, in this particular case, i think that they are hoping for an extension on the hamas side as well. but, at this point, it is where it stands in my view. >> i want talk about this new york times reporting because we have seen it. the new york times or ports suggests that this was not a vague intelligence. i want to read, for both of you, a small part of this reporting tonight that we have obtained. it says hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. the document called for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack, drones to knock out security cameras, and automated machine guns along the border. gunmen to pour into israel en masse in paragliders, motorcycles, and on foot, all of which happened on october 7th. before i get you, peter, i want to ask you militarily and in terms of your intelligence background, colonel leighton, how could they have dismissed this threat? >> it is shocking when you read it in these stark terms, laura. when you look at all the different aspects of this it was very clear, in retrospect, at least, that the planning that hamas was undergoing was extensively thorough. and then the report continues to say that a moth conducted an exercise, a major exercise which was intercepted by israeli intelligence communications surrounding that and intercepted by a unit known as unit 8200, which is kind of equivalent to the nsa. they were able to, at least, determined that this exercise of followed the outlines of this jericho wall plan and that very fact would be an indicator, under normal circumstances, that hamas was serious. that hamas was getting ready to do something like this. you would never, ever put up an exercise with such precision if you're not actually going to do what you practice in that exercise. >> reporter: peter, the reporting claims that israel not only perhaps ignored the initial intelligence from a virgo, although we know whether it was ignoring it or deciding that it was not capable of being carried out and therefore aspirational, but there is also reporting of another warning just three months before the attack. all read it, israel signals intelligence agency warned that hamas had conducted an intense day-long training exercise that layton was referring, to that appeared similar to what was outlined in the blueprint. a colonel in the gaza division brushed of her concerns. frankly, this could have been a kind of intelligence coup for israel, right? instead, rather than, perhaps deterring, if that was possible, there is more than 1200 israeli why do you think they were potentially dismissive of this as aspirational? >> people were describing it as an intelligence failure i was very skeptical because that is what we heard after 9/11. the year after 9/11 the commission came along and we got a lot of information about what intelligence was in the system, the policy makers were simply ignoring. and the cia provided plenty of strategic warning, not to the detail that we're seeing in this case, that al-qaeda was planning something in the spring and summer of 2001. the bush administration basically ignored those warnings and i think, whenever there is a surprise attack, you go back and look at the signals that were in the system. they were much clear, of course. in hindsight. but this is a classic case, i think, of policy failure. the policy failure would presume that hamas was basically kind of acquiescent, that gazans were working in israel, hamas was not up to anything, and therefore the intelligence that came into the system that didn't align with that were simply filtered out. and that is a policy failure, ultimately the prime minister netanyahu, who by the way publicly has blamed the intelligence agencies and withdrew that blame, you know, he is in charge. intelligence is providing information to policy makers. they don't make policy, and it's the policy makers responsibility to ask the right questions about what is going on and to get the right intelligence and also to act on intelligence that might be needed to be acted upon. one of the oldest dodges in the book is to blame the intelligence agencies because, a, they operate in a classified world so it's hard for them to defend themselves and b ultimately their bosses are the policy makers. so this was a classic intelligence failure. i think this is much more of a classic policy failure. >> reporter: do you think that, given what you are seeing in the times reporting, and of course there are conversations not just about the intelligence analysis, but the policy decision and what was behind that, the times confirms earlier reports that israel seemed to underestimate hamas capability compared to the strength, perhaps, of the israeli military. i, mean they thought they would never be able to pull it off. was part of that policy decision making, even if the intelligence had been received, based on an underestimation of the military might or the process that they would do, or arrogance? what was it? >> reporter: laura, that's exactly right, and it reminds me that it's very likely on cooper. the israeli cabinet just assumed that israel wouldn't do anything as dumb as attacking them 50 years ago during the younger war, because they thought that egypt and syria would lose the war, which they did. however, that didn't mean that they didn't actually launch the attacks, and so when the israeli cabinet look at the intelligence coming in just before the october war, they interpreted egyptian and syrian -- as training exercises, which is a little bit familiar here. not as preparation for an actual attack. so, we have seen this movie before, it is very common. unfortunately it happened again. >> reporter: colonel leighton, peter bergen, thank you both so much. >> thank you. >> absolutely. we do know that eight more hostages were released today and, up next, i'll talk to a doctor whose sister died on october 7th and who is working to help hostages who are coming home. breaking news, the idea of aerial defense system intercepted one rocket launched from the gaza strip just over an hour from when the truth is set to expire. at any moment, the fragile pause in fighting between israel and hamas could very well be shattered once again. and everything may depend on whether hamas can locate enough hostages to release, but as more come home life is forever changed for those who loved ones never will. 27 year old amar got movies released after the hamas terrorist attack on october 7th, until video sadly confirmed her tragic death. now her sister is working to help others who have lost so much in the israel-hamas war. she is here with me today assault her friend pediatrician doctor elam -- doctors, i'm so glad that both of you are here today. it is unbelievably heartbreaking to even hear about what has happened and the personal connection even more so. and i just wonder, if you can talk about the significance of this loss and what you're feeling at a moment like this. >> so, it is very hard. after we found out about my sister they found the body after that. and we had a funeral and said the shiva, the jewish tradition, seven days of mourning. and we decided, as a family, that we still, in the name of my sister and human rights group we will fight for the ones that are still alive and still there and can be saved so we decided to do that and that is why i'm doing it. i'm still. >> reporter: it's so important to think about, there are hostages who have come home and there are many hostages that are on account for right now. we don't know where they are, when they're coming home, and i wonder, particularly both of you being doctors, when you think about who is still a hostage and the red cross might not be able to get to them, what concerns do you feel in those moments about the care, the physical conditions that they may be in? >> we are very worried about this. throughout our fight to bring her home we have been part of the family forum medical team, we met with the red cross and other organizations several times. there are hostages that have serious medical conditions and their medicine on a daily basis. we gave the list of medication to the red cross and begged them to make sure that the hostages will get the medical aid they need, that they deserve. as far as we know it didn't happen. just several days ago one of the hostages that was released arrived in critical condition. she suffers from hypothyroidism. it is not a disease, it is a condition, my mom has it. she needs to take one pill a day. >> reporter: if she doesn't, there are really dire consequences? >> if she doesn't, she'll be in the condition that she's at now. chief in critical condition, she arrived at the hospital with thermal of 82.4 fahrenheit degrees. unconscious. things that we rarely see in the modern world, and we are fighting right now for those hostages. what -- she is here, fighting for others, because we know that time is essential. we have to get to them now. we need to get medical aid. >> we know that there are others that are injured and still under the capture of hamas. we know for a fact that a young boy with his arm hurt. we don't know if they survived already, some of them got treatment in gaza, but not the right one. and they are suffering. one of the hostages was released, he is suffering from infection and other problems because the bad treatment if you got there. >> reporter: if they got treatment at all? >> some of them didn't. as