hostages held by hamas for 48 days are expected to be released at any moment. good morning, a special edition of america s newsroom. i m griff jenkins. hi, molly. molly: i m molly line. bill hemmer and dana perino are off. 13 women and children are being transported to southern israel at 7:00 a.m. local time in gaza fighting was paused for the first time to allow for the hostage release. and to let humanitarian aid through to civilians. the cease-fire appears to be holding. part of the deal the u.s., qatar and egypt helped broker. israel releasing three times as many palestinian terror convicts, 39 in exchange. griff: one of the hostages held from october 7th a 3-year-old israeli american girl. she is not expected to be among those released today. molly: trey yengst is live at an air base awaiting the handover. trey, to you. good morning. at any moment that first group of hostages will be released into the hands of the red cross and taken to this air base in souther
the world. it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington, noon in israel where overnight israel s full cabinet approved a deal with hamas that would release at least 50 hostages in gaza. it comes after an intense six hour long meeting in tel aviv. those set to be freed are expected to be women and children. in i exchange israel will pause fighting for four days. more humanitarian aid would also be allowed into gaza with hundreds of trucks carrying fuel and supplies. president biden issued a statement saying today s deal should bring home additional american hostages and i will not stop until they are all released. three americans could be released in this batch including a 3-year-old girl, abigail, her great aunt spoke to cnn earlier. the one thing that we all hold on to is that hope now that abigail comes home. she comes home by friday, friday is her fourth birthday. we actually need to see abigail come out and then we will be able to be to believe it. the deal was brokered by qa
marking in spectacular fashion the birthday of king charles. he is 75 today. the first of the slits is happening right now, this is what we are watching at green park next to buckingham palace in central london salutes. this is the king s troop royal horse artillery that have been given the honour. it is a working day for the monarch today. there are other things on his schedule today. he will officially launch the coronation food project with queen camilla to bridge the gap between food waste and food need. he will also visit surplus food distribution centre outside london and later on today, he will host a buckingham palace reception highlighting the work of the nurses and midwives over the decade as part of the nhs 75 celebrations as well. one thing that has been widely reported that was broken on the bbc is we are expecting the king to be wish to happy birthday by the duke of sussex at some point today. to be wished happy birthday. we think harry will call his fathe
the us state department said real progress had also been made in negotiations to open the border to foreign nationals. we are also hearing reports from gaza s largest telecommunications provider saying that all communications and internet services have again been cut off. that news comes as israel confirmed that it carried out an air strike near the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza. the hamas run health ministry and a hospital director say at least 50 people were killed israel says its strike killed a senior hamas commander and caused the collapse of hamas underground infrastructure. bbc verify have located the exact position of the blast which you can see here and you can see how built up it is. more now from our international editor jeremy bowen. and a warning, his report contains images some may find distressing. israel says the destruction came from air strikes that killed a senior hamas commander and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as huma
for his role on the sitcom, friends is dead tonight at the age of 54. the cause of death among still unclear. we will have a live report from l.a. and moments but first, the war between israel and hamas. israel is now in the middle of its second war of independence. a fight for survival, a fight he will win according to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressing the nation saturday as great operations inside gaza enter a new more intense more dangerous phase, israeli military panic hamas targets from land, air and sea and the potential for a wider regional conflict remains high. the president of turkey calling hamas quote freedom fighters and accusing israeli forces of war crimes. good evening, i am jonathan with special coverage of israel s war against hamas. this is a live look at the city of ashkelon where residents are children from potential rocket attacks. not far is israeli troops and tanks now inside the gaza strip. what lies ahead from of the possibility