release of a second round of hostages is now back on this hour. an hour and a half ago, we didn t know if it was. this, after the previously said the release would be delayed over accusations that israel broke parts of the agreement. now, what we re also watching this hour are these two pieces of video. live streams, one from the rafah border crossing, if the deal is back on, then, we do expect that there will be hostages released, coming through the rafah border crossing. that is one part of what we re watching. on the right, side we are watching the microphones, we expect a briefing from the israel defense force there in tel aviv. so, two different parts of israel. the third area that we are watching is in the west bank. the release of prisoners. that is all yet to come if they too will finish successfully. we don t know if that s gonna happen. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, david noriega, on the ground to jerusalem for us this hour. david, that s exactly where w
accidentally stuck on the accelerator, and so then that drove into this or were they intentionally aiming for it. were there any other vehicles we re trying to transit statement, that are suspicious. are those vehicles being checked out? those are some of the questions and some of the things they would be investigating, certainly if they can get a license plate or vin number off this vehicle, they may identify who owned it, whether it was stolen or not, the background of it. there s all sorts of questions in things they could start to investigate to determine of course if there s any identification they could find of the occupants that would be helpful as well. so those are the types of things they ll look at and run it against anybody s prior, you know, do they have any sort of prior interactions with law enforcement or is it somebody that may have a known medical condition, such as a heart issue or other issue that could have led to them becoming unconscious before this inc
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martha: thanks very much, strikes. austin also pushed for more john and aishah. good afternoon. funding for israel, taiwan and i m martha maccallum. breaking right now on the ukraine. he says without american story, a live look at gaza as support, putin will be successful. if putin is successful, he will tensions roil the globe and move on to nato countries and that means american troops will certainly between israel and get involved. gaza to be sure. back to you, martha. now it s spilling in to the martha: a tangled web. thanks, rich. halls of congress today. with that, we bring in four-star secretary of state blinken and secretary of defense austin general jack keane, former vice faced this kind of questioning chief of staff of the arm my and during their senate hearing just chair of the institute for the study of war. a couple hours ago. good to have you with us, general. obviously there s escalation [shouting]. happening in gaza. we re hearing in a moment from the
but he says even when the pandemic is over, he ll think twice before returning to the festival. fiona lamdin, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. thanks a lot. for many of us the weather will stay bright and right through the rest of the day today, quite a bit of cloud around but some spells of sunshine poking through. the satellite picture shows a weather system looking to the north west ultimately bringing some rain, particularly tonight and tomorrow. but we also have rain stretching across parts of eastern england from this line of showers that have developed over the last couple of hours. those showers have formed due to a convergence zone, where the winds bash together, scraping all the moisture together to make this line of downpours and they will continue to affect these areas well over the next few hours. if you live across parts of west yorkshire, nottinghamshire, leicestershire and towards greater london and into parts of east sussex and k