Israeli hostages were released by hamas receiving medical attention in egypt. The comes as abided Administration Reportedly pressures israel to delay x Ground Invasion into gaza. Lets get to mike tobin he standing by with the latest in southern israel as this broke before he came to error. Hi mike. The red cross confirmed to have visual confirmation with a video be released by The Elk Opera News Agency showing these 2 israeli hostages being loaded into ambulances on the egyptian side of the rough up crossing. Israel war confirmed the release until her back in israelk hands. And you have a are out of the gaza strip out of hamas captivity. No one said there released on humanitarian grounds. As a reporting or information to the effect that they are in bad health. There was reports from the day suggesting there were deals cooking that would involve the release of 50 of the hostages held in the Gazathe Hoaz Strip Talking with Art Aisha Hosni said smiling 7294 nationals prpe the prospect of
-my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then here s this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew. -oh! -you got to remember the hat you re wearing is your flight-surgeon hat, not your family hat. it would have broken protocol for me to bring up an issue to a crew member, even though it s my wife. -i remember a certain sense of relief like, it s almost over. she s almost back. -i didn t talk to laurel about the foam issue. that conference was for iain and laurel, and i was a bystander. -i knew she was going to come back. you know, i never had a question in my mind. -given the fact that you may have lost a little bit of tile during lift-off, i m wondering
-for the second time in nasa s history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we d heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today s problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn t have the answers. in every public forum i m gonna have to be in, how am i gonna explain this to anybody? at this time, we have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground. -nasa never wants to look stupid. nasa wants to be the agency with the answers. -my thoughts are on what we missed, what i missed to allow this to happen. -but if you overlook something, it will come to bite you one day or anot
look what happened a minute after launch. got this very, very slow look at that piece of foam right there that struck the shuttle as it came off. the question was, what did it do? i didn t know for sure. i still was the armchair analyst. but challenger was deep in our memory. .and this was kind of a similar scenario. in the wake of challenger, nasa management just tried to shut everything down, and it created a huge amount of bad blood between the media. it made nasa look guilty as hell. how will they respond to this?
I felt like it was my responsibility to talk about the foam strike, to get it out there in the public. If you take a closeup here, that bipod is the place where they think a little piece of foam fell off and hit the leading edge of that wing. I talked to the folks in the control room, and i said, you know, can you cue up the Launch Replays . Alright. Lets take a look at this launch. Look what happened a minute after launch. Got this very, very slow look at that piece of foam right there that struck the shuttle as it came off. The question was, what did it do . I didnt know for sure. I still was the armchair analyst. But challenger was deep in our memory. And this was kind of a similar scenario. In the wake of challenger,