morning futures. i m sean duffy in for maria bartiromo. today, more hostages to be released by hamas after a nail-biting exchange yesterday.s 13 israelis and 4 foreign citizens are back in israel afte cr hamas terrorists put the deal on hold for over 6 hours. israel has received the third hs list of hostages to be released, so for now the deal seems to be back on. national security advisor jakeit sullivan said this morning he has, quote, reason to believe at least one of those released today will be an american. up to ten americans are believed to be held by hamas. here s what president biden sai friday when asked about the kidnapped and missing americans. we don t know when that will occur, but we expect it to occur. we know thpecte numbers when thr going to be released, so it s my hope and expectation it ll be soon. and of the americans [inaudible] do you know all of their - conditions? are they all alive? we don t know all their conditions. seanican: plus, days af
ill, that she had some sort of problem that could have become serious and they decided to go in. and we now know this is what president obama was talking about in the washington state of the union coverage, and you hear him say good job tonight. to panetta. to panetta, right. they were working for a danish company called danish refugee council, and they were helping people in somalia deal with land mines. in essence, they were teaching. they were telling them how to defuse mines and make harmless these mines. it s not an easy job, as you can imagine, and in that area, i ve been talking with some aid organizations that work in that area. some parts of somalia are relatively okay, but this was right on the border of areas that could be dangerous. and they have fighting on the ground, there is al shabob, which is a terrorist organization, then you have just the general mayhem of groups like this who want to kidnap people and make a lot of money in doing that. jill daug