hello. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, november 26th. i m victor blackwell. i m isabella rose allis. we begin in israel. the families who have good news today have been told their loved ones will be freed in today s hostage exchange. we are now in day three of this fragile four-day truce between hamas and israel. 13 israelis, four thai nationals released yesterday after a hours long delay threatened. following medical checks, the former hostages were taken to israeli hospitals for care and to be reunited with their families. an incredibly emotional moment there. this is thomas hand back there in the red vest e he thought his 9-year-old daughter emily was killed in the hamas attack. look at this moment. pure joy at finally being able to hug her. the deal also called for the release of 39 palestinian prisoners and detainees. earlier hamas stalled on releasing the hostages in a dispute over which palestinians the israelis were willing to release. aid group
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the world. a lot of people that i respect rated him as their absolute number one choice. so i think we have a very good chemistry together and i think we re going to have a great relationship. he has a very talented man. o brien arrived at at the sp department master shortly after mike pompeo did. he worked to help free american pastor andrew brunson from turkey and danny birch from yemen. president trump says o brien called him, the president, the greatest hostage negotiator and claimed the u.s. in his administration is 38-0, freeing american hostages. o brien says he is to get to work. we got a number of challenges, but there s a great team in place and i look forward to working with them and working with the president to keep america safe and continue to rebuild our military and really get us back to speak of the president also dispatched him to sweden to help secure wrapper a$ap rocky.