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consider the terms of a temporary truce. what could be an imminent deal to release dozens of hostages. a senior u.s. official and source familiar with the talks in the region tell nbc that would include hamas freeing around 50 women and children in change for 150 palestinian prisoners being held by israel. in addition, fighting would be paused for several days to allow for fuel and other aid to get in. president biden sounding optimist, saying it s looking good to bring the hostages home and we expect this deal to dominate at a pentagon press briefing that is scheduled to start any minute now. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with raf sanchez who reports from tel aviv. what more to we know about what this deal entails? whether israel is going to go along with it? do we know which meeting netanyahu is in right now? reporter: so, chris, he is still in this meeting with the full cabinet. it has been going on for an hour. we th ....
hi, everyone. i m alicia menendez in for nicolle wallace. it is 4:00 in new york. 11:00 p.m. in israel and gaza, where we may be on the verge of a breakthrough in the unprecedented hostage situation on the ground there. sources tell nbc news that a tentative deal has been reached for release of some of the hostages held by hamas. a spokesperson for the israeli military cautioning in the last few hours that there is no final deal yet, but that there is, quote, some progress. the israeli cabinet meeting to discuss the issue at this hour. here are the terms as it stands right now. this is according to a senior u.s. official. 50 women and children would be traded for 150 palestinian prisoners in israeli custody. there would also be a pause in the fighting for four days to allow for more rounds of hostages exchanges and for more humanitarian aid to enter gaza. up to 300 to 400 trucks per day. overall, the deal adds up to what u.s. officials are calling the most significant d ....
right now, a tentative hostage deal reach, pending israel approval. at this moment, prime minister netanyahu is meeting with his war cabinet. the potential deal inclusion a four to five-day pause in fighting to arrange for hostages being released. now, these numbers are subject to change. joining us is raf sanchez, and what officials in israel doing? what are we hearing? reporter: how so i, as we speak, benjamin netanyahu is sitting down with the war cabinet. in an hour, it will be the slightly larger security cabinet, but the critical meeting is the full cabinet, which will be at 1:00 p.m. eastern. that s where we expect the israeli government will vote to approve this tentative deal. jose, as you said, knowledge is time until -ized, but you expectation is the israeli government, having negotiated this tentative agreement will now approve at the full cabinet. there are a number of far-right members of benjamin netanyahu s government who might vote against it, but it ....
thanks to all of you for joining us. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere because cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. we re so glad you re with us. phil is off this week. erica hill by my side. good morning. good morning. we have a lot of big news to get to this morning. let s start with five things to know for this tuesday, november 21st. breaking overnight, sad news to report. a gunman opening fire inside of an ohio walmart just days before black friday. four people injured and the gunman died of self-inflicted gunshot wound. there s movement in the talks to release hostages this morning. a hamas leader now echoing what the white house is saying that they are, in fact, getting closer to a deal. new this morning, we could get a decision on donald trump s gag order in the federal election subversion case. the judge is signaling they could narrow it down. the speaker of the house meets with the former president at mar-a-lago, though it ....
it could be announced as soon as today. that is what multiple sources tell cnn. mj lee is at the white house with the breaking details. and this is not just a couple of hostages. we re talking about potentially 50 here, right, mj? reporter: that s right. we are talking about initially 50 hostages. that is women and children being released in exchange for four to five-day pause in fighting. and also in exchange for three palestinian prisoners for every one hostage that is released. the hostages we are told are of various nationalities and u.s. officials are hopeful that a 3-year-old american toddler, who is being held hostage, would be in the mix of that initial 50 hostages that is released. it is unclear at this moment, though, whether there are going to be other americans in the mix of the 50 hostages released. now importantly, during the pause of the four to five days, hamas has agreed to or will agree to if this agreement comes to fruuation, stop flying surveillanc ....