you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m alex marquardt in washington alongside kaitlan collins in tel aviv. jim acosta is off tonight. thank you for being with us. we are continue with our breaking news coverage of the war between israel and hamas. a nightmare that began seven weeks ago has finally ended for several israeli families. today a third group of hostages was finally released from the gaza strip. in just the past few hours, we ve watched as they arrived at hospitals in israel to be reunited finally with their loved ones. and for the first time tonight, we re also seeing some of those emotional moments. families inside hospitals finally embracing after weeks of heartbreak and uncertainty. these are 13 of the 14 israeli hostages released today, women and children. 13 of them ranging in age from 4 to 84 years old. there was a 14th israeli who was also a russian national, and then three more foreign nationals also freed today, bringing the total to 17. today we saw the
impulses deep down, but he is a trained soldier, and was defending the country that he thought drove him to raise concerns when he heard this call realtime because it is just not the right thing to do. and even republicans have said this, for a president to ask another foreign leader for political dirt on his domestic opponent. anderson, just looking ahead, the intelligence committee is going to hold public hearings. that s what today s announcements were basically about. it seems very likely to me that lieutenant concern vindman will be one of those witnesses, so that picture that maggie was talking about will be even more vivid because people will be able to hear him speak as well as see him in his uniform. maggie, to your point earlier, though, about the president perhaps needing to be concerned about going too far in attacks on him, he refers to him now in tweets today as a never
prosecutor, tanked the with protecting victims of sex crimes, training and managing a team of 23 victims prosecutors in fort bell, virginia. now the lieutenant concern is embroiled in a sex scandal of his own. according to an administration official he has been place under crim nah investigation for misconduct. a female says he groped her at a hotel room in at all things a sex assault conference. he joins the ranks other high-pro file military leaders in trouble for inappropriate sexual contact, including this man for sending a crude e-mail. there was an e-mail in march of 2011 by a brigadier general after meeting with a congresswoman in which he apologized for e-mailing it late, because he had mast per baited three times over the past two hours after meeting with the congresswoman. reporter: another brigadier general, jeffrey sin claire shs