you re watching cnn news central. i m boris sanchez in washington. wolf blitzer is in israel where they re ten hours away from an expected truce. after a one-day delay, the hostage trade will be releasing some women and children who have been held captive. the israeli government has a list of hostages and says they ve notified their families. it s unclear if americans are included. president biden is saying his fingers are crossed one of them is a 3-year-old american toddler. reporter: as part of the deal, israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners and allow humanitarian aid into gaza. the fighting now continues. the israeli defense minister said he expected it to last another two months at least, but the qatar government says it s hopeful hostilities will stop with this deal. listen. we are hopeful. i don t know if i should say confident, but we re very hopeful. the commitment we ve seen from both sides leads us to be very positive to deal with this positivity
fox and friends first starts right now. jillian: you are taking a live look at dublin, it is st. patrick s day, 8:00 in the morning and dublin, 4:00 in the morning on the east coast and we might not have that bar but we have irish potatoes here. do you like the irish potatoes, are you a fan of them? benjamin: i am a fan of irish guinness. even though those bars stay close because of covid people are celebrating because you can get yourself a guinness anywhere, you can take it home and drink it. as soon as the show is finished expect everyone to be doing that. jillian: thank you for bringing these in. that is how we are partying here. benjamin: you are celebrating. jillian: i m a little disappointed in you? benjamin: i will make up for it. jillian: you should be ashamed of your self. benjamin: let us go, 8 people killed, police say the shootings happened in three different parlors in the span of one hour. 6 of 8 victims jillian: police tracked down robert long through s
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