thank you for being back with us for our second hour of chris jansing reports. we start with breaking news. a moment of much needed hope right now for the families of the hundreds of hostages being held captive by hamas. israel says it has freed a female soldier during a ground operation. the idf says it s doing everything it can to release the others. but for those living in gaza, the military is doubling down on its calls for the civilians in the north to move south saying that warning is now, quote, urgent. where is safe to go? one 14-year-old pulled from the rubble told nbc news she had fled south to they are aunt s house and that the home was bombed while they were baking bread. she heartbreakingly told our nbc news crew, quote, i wish we can live safely like all children of the world. israel continues to pound gaza as tensions are mounting on the ground. with the united nations agency there saying thousands of palestinians, quote, broke into several u.n. rwa warehouse
the options are endless. thanks for joining us i m sandra smith. i think gillian is taken over for martha. i am. thank you guys. afternoon. i m gillian turner in for martha maccallum. this is the story. another young life brutally cut short in america once again investigators say the suspects are men who crossed the border into the us illegally. 12-year-old jocelyn found dead in a creek in houston friday pick the feds tell fox to make venezuela man charged in her murder were arrested then released by border patrol in the last few months. feds confirming the suspect in the rape and murder of rachel morin 37-year-old mother of 5 in maryland made it into the country as a so-called got away. after border patrol and tried to send him back to mexico 3 separate times. here s also this. the suspect in the rape of a 13-year-old girl in new york city arrested and released after crossing the border illegally. a judge ordered him deported more than 2 years ago. obviously he never w
that s so important. so donald trump has constitutional rights like everyone else. but somehow this judge is moving past things that he should be slowing down, taking his time and giving intense weight to. that s justice. we re not seeing that the here. nicole: rebecca, one thing, when you look at kind of what s to been going on so far, they ve denied the change of venue, they re not disclosing the witnesses beforehand, and the gag order on former president trump, i heard former attorney general bill barr also say say the timing of this trial, seven years after the supposed fact, it s hard to deny the fact that this seems politically motivated. what s your take? well, it s obviously politically motivated. it s obviously set at a time and being rushed so that the former president not campaign. what we re seeing is change of venue motion denied, the