politicsnation. tonight s lead, more hostages released. right now, right now, after nearly two months of hostilities, israel and hamas are in the second day of a cease-fire, and with that, a series of prisoner exchanges that has included women, children, and the elderly at this hour, after long and dramatic day that saw a few delays and a personal intervention by president jill joe biden, 13 additional israeli hostages have been released by hamas. eight children and five women, along with four foreign thailand nationals. israel, saying that the red cross has confirmed the release. they are on their way to the rafah crossing in gaza. meanwhile, 39 palestinian prisoners have been released by israel. have promised to continue tomorrow with the third round. but in the interim, the white house is trying to figure out how to push this truce forward into a lasting peace, and how to get as much humanitarian aid into gaza as possible. democratic senator, chemo smith, joins me
Tonight, the developing headline late today in the coronavirus. The major Public School systems that will not open. Online learning to start the year. Also, the governor of texas now pleading, wear a mask. Warning what could come next. And the nba player Testing Positive. Tonight, california ordering new lockdowns across the state for several businesses, including bars, restaurants, and indoor dining. Los angeles and san diego saying schools will not open for inperson classes next month. New images inside the covid unit of a hospital in houston. Some hospitals reportedly forced to turn ambulances away. Nba star Russell Westbrook revealing he has now tested positive. A patient in texas dying after he said he attended a covid party. The hospital revealing his last words. Florida reporting recordbreaking numbers this weekend. A brother and sister in their 20s and a 39yearold mother of six dying. Her last phone call with her children. One day after President Trump is seen wearing a mask in
27,000 new cases just over the past two days. the virus has now claimed more than 4,200 lives in florida, including mychaela hicks and her brother byron. both were in their early 20s. my heart, my heart. he went into cardiac arrest and he slipped away. reporter: and 39-year-old renada mcguire, a mother of six, losing her fight against covid. and then it was even harder to come back and tell the kids that she didn t make it. reporter: her brother calling her children from the hospital bed before she passed away. my main thing was to call her kids and let them tell her how much they really loved her. reporter: houston rockets star russell westbrook, one of the nba s biggest stars, testing positive for covid-19. learning before he traveled to the nba bubble in orlando. instead he stayed behind in texas.
there, 11 into another nearby car. my brother byron, he asked me several times to help him to come to the u.s. and the reason we always denied it was that, you know, we were scared of something, you know, could have happened, would have happened to him. and we didn t want him to go through that. we wanted him to stay with our parents and just avoid all of that. we are a young country. we are the country of immigrants. our relatives, our grandparents, great grandparents all dreamed of a better life coming to america. that s what these people are doing. they cannot figure out a way to get in legally. they want to work and they want the same things we do. they would have people loaded at the site nearest to the checkpoint and then arranging for the people to be removed at the next site north of the checkpoint.