Laura coates live starts right now. A. Laura. Hey abby, thank you so much. A great show as always. Ill read that book, for sure. Ill see you again here tomorrow night, okay . Im sure you can. All my free time. There are two more hostages now freed, but what about those who are still being held . There are more than 200 of them and they are somewhere in gaza. Tonight on laura coates live. The news tonight is bittersweet. Seeing the footage of 79 year old cooper and 85yearold thing helped out is an image none of us will soon forget. The frailty, their age, all of us trying to imagine how they were treated the day they were taken, what happened in those moments, let alone what they must have endured in the interim. Well now both women are freed, theyve been released by hamas after more than two weeks in captivity. Medics say that two unaffiliated media outlet that theyre both in stable condition. They are in a tel aviv hospital tonight. But their husbands, who were kidnapped with them, ar
Welcome to cnn this morning. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett is live in tel aviv. A hostage released by hamas yesterday is now speaking. She is tell her story this morning at the hospital. 85yearold Yocheved Lifshitz told reporters how she was abducted and held captive underground for weeks. The grandmother says they stormed her kibbutz and took her away on a motorbike and beat her with sticks. She says they took her in hamas underground Tunnel Network and held had her with four other ginls. They had guards, a doctor and paramedics who took care of them. Hamas had a stockpile of shampoo and other toiletries for hostages to use. There are huge network of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spiderweb. When she first arrived, they told them that they are muslims and they are not going to hurt them. And that they share they ate the same food that the hamas was eating. They have released four hostages as israeli troops gear up to launch an assault by gaza by gr
Mitchell reports humanitarian aid is finally rolling into gaza from egypt but the death toll is increasing. This as nbc is reporting the Biden Administration has been urging israel leaders to delay their Ground Offensive in order to gain better intelligence, to clear military objectives and more time for negotiators to secure the release of hostages. What i can speak to is our icessant efforts from day one to try to get people home, to try to get them out of gaza back with their families and loved ones. That is continuing as we speak. This is something were engaged in virtually around the clock. Plus nine new candidates for House Speaker making their pitches at a private conference, the Conference Meeting this evening after a week of Public Feuding that is frustrating party insiders. This is not a time to play games. This is this is embarrassing for the Republican Party, its embarrassing for the nation and we need to look at one another and solve the problem. Good day, everyone, im And
And theres no catch, its fre. We make money from ads, but they dont follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. Hello, everyone. Im kate bolduan with john berman in new york, and sara sidner is in jerusalem, and this morning the number of people taken hostage by hamas is being raised to 222. And sources say that the u. S. Is asking israel to delay a Ground Incursion into gaza to allow more time to get these hose tajs o hostages out. And nevertheless, there is a huge build up of Military Armor stationed around the enclave, and israeli sources say they are preparing for Ground Assaults even as it has conducted more intensified ache strikes overnight. Our Nic Robertson who is stationed here in sderot says it is some of the most intense shelling that he has seen into gaza for some time. We go right to sara sidner who is here in tel aviv, and Nic Robertson is right there in sderot. Yes. I have come over to jerus
Health ministry, 436 people were killed in the strikes overnight including nearly 200 children. Anderson. This all comes as were learning the u. S. Is pushing israel to delay its Ground Invasion of gaza in hopes of getting hostages out and letting humanitarian aid into the south. Although a israeli official has denied this. Carrying supplies into gaza, Relief Groups are warning much more is needed as the crisis deepens for many palestinians running out of food and water. Cnns chief International Correspondent Alex Marquardt is live in washington. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is in ashkelon, israel, lolgalong the border. Jeremy, what are you hearing, seeing, about possible incursion on the ground in gaza . Reporter well, anderson, it really is about the combination between what were seeing on the ground what were hearing from officials and also, frankly, hearing this evening, as we listen to the gaza strip behind us, we have been hearing the steady thud of israeli artillery and air strikes all t