next couple hours, but, you know, when i think about on friday is abigail s fourth birthday and she should be home with her family and her sister and brother and she isn t right now, it s just it s like you get your emotion, you have to keep them in check. we have global cnn coverage to bring you, some amazing reporters with their reporting that they have been delivering for days, particularly, in the last few hours, on the latest of what they are hearing from their sources. i want to start, alex marquardt, with you here in washington. what specifics at this moment are you hearing about the parameters of this potential deal? well, dana, what we ve just learned in the past few moments sources have told our colleague kaitlan collins and myself the ball is in israel s court, it has to be approved by israel s government. there are several different groups within the israeli government, the war cabinet, security cabinet, broader cabinet, who have to vote on this deal to get
today on inside politics. a major breakthrough on hostage gerkss. israel s war cabinet is meeting right now on a deal with hamas to free about 50 of the 237 people being held captive. it s been 45 days since hostages mostly innocent civilians were taken by hamas on the jewish sabbath. taken during an attack on israel when terrorists raped women and murdered families. more than a thousand people that day. for each spared that fate and instead taken hostage, the unknown and the wait is extrushuating for their families. now we are told an announcement of the deal that will allow some of the hostages to come home could be eminent. president biden addressed that moments ago. we re now very close. you could bring some of the hostages home very soon. but i don t want to get into the details of things because nothing is done until it s done. and we have more to say. but things are looking good. cnn is covering the story if all angles. orrin len liebermann is tel avi. mj lee is