close, could bring some of the hostages home very soon, but i don t want to get into details or things because nothing is done until it s done. and we have more to say, we will. but things are looking good at the moment. sandra: at this hour, awaiting updates from both the state department and the pentagon on the war in the middle east of a the president there says a hostage deal with hamas is very close and he is optimistic. and also an update is expected from the pentagon a short time from now after the u.s. military carried out an airstrike last night, killing several militants from iranian proxy group. a lot to learn in the coming minutes and hours. hello, welcome, john, great to be with you. john: good to be with you as well, sandra. john roberts in washington. america reports . an agreement could be announced at any moment but what we know at this hour about the hostages. the deal on the table would free about 50 israeli women and children in exchange for 150 pales
this is the 76th anniversary of this event. i want you to know i wasn t there because i was too young to make it up. these birds have a new appreciation of the word let freedom ring. president biden with some jokes during the turkey pardon at the white house yesterday. meanwhile his campaign is facing calls from fellow democrats to become more active and aggressive against donald trump. speaking of the former president, we ll explain what happened yesterday in the gag order hearing for his federal election interference case. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest in the hostage negotiations between hamas and israel, which appear to be centered on a pause in the fighting in gaza. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, november 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot to get isto this morning, and we ll begin with new polling that shows americans overwhelmingly supporting boosting security at the southern bord
just ahead, tonight the mayor of new york, the former police captain, confronted by fbi agents and seized his phones and ipad as what appears to be a fast growing campaign finance investigation. we begin with israel s war in hamas, most notably the efforts to secure the hostages now believed to be held by hamas and other groups. it comes at the end of the day that saw israeli forces heavily pound targets in northern gaza from the air and troops on the ground continued to engage. the senior american official familiar with the hostage talks tells cnn that negotiators are working toward an agreement involving what this official call ls a sustained days-long pause in the fighting. in exchange, hostages would be freed on a rolling basis, starting with women and children over a period of days. that same official added that many details remain unresolved and negotiations could stall or break down at any point. also comments by secretary of state antony blinken gets more attention.
family ought to exist. thank you so much for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. major developments in israel s fight with hamas as international pressure grows to curb civilian casualties. i m john king in for anderson. we ll have the latest on the ground in just a moment. first, breaking news here in the states. a federal appeals courtsiding with the former president on that limited gag order issued against him in the special counsel s election interference case. let s get straight to our chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid. exactly what did this appeals court do? reporter: they put this gag order on hold, then in a little over two weeks, a three-judge panel will hear arguments about whether this gag order is constitutional. judge tanya chut kin, the federal judge overseeing the election subversion case in washington, imposed a broader set of restrictions on former president trump at the request of prosecutors. those restrictions bar him from ta
thanks for joining us on cnn newsroom, i michael holmes with our continued coverage of the israel-hamas war. and we do begin in gaza, where a horrific scene played out outside the largest hospital in gaza city, the video obtained by cnn is extremely graphic, we do warn you israeli military admits it was behind this strike, just outside the hospital, hitting an ambulance and killing at least 15 people with scenes of carnage and chaos as you can see, that on some images. the ambulance was said to be a part of a convoy carrying patients to southern gaza the idf, though, cleans the ambulance was being used by hamas which it said, has used emergency vehicles to transport fighters and weapons in the past. following development for us from abu dhabi joins us now, good to see you, lainey. so the loss of civilian life continues, tell us more about the hospital blast and what we know. this ambulance convoy was struck by israeli fire and we have seen the images and we showed some of t