is ordering his troops not to storm the plant but to surround it instead. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers and civilians are inside and putin is demanding a blockade so tight that, quote, a fly can t get through. for people in this decimated city, starvation and thirst may prove as deadly as guns and bullets. despite this long line of buses yesterday and even longer lines of hopeful people, evacuees only four buses with about 80 people on board were able to leave mariupol yesterday. the mayor says russia won t ensure a stable cease-fire. and an estimated 100,000 civilians remain trapped. the russian offensive in the east is gaining ground. its forces have made incremental advances in donbas and captured a city in the luhansk region. one ukrainian military official says russia controls 80% of the luhansk region now. a short time ago, president biden announced a new $800 million weapons package tailor made to better equip ukrainians for the more open landscape of this new fight.
to release a portion to the public potentially providing the documents underlying that search warrant. let s go to mark meredith now live on the scene in palm beach, florida. hey, mark. gillian, good afternoon to you. we re kind of in a holding pattern right now. as you mentioned the justice department still has a few days before they have to submit their proposed redactions to the affidavit and separately we re watching as lawyers for the former president say they re going to file a separate motion, claiming the search here at mar-a-lago a little more and a week ago would be a vie lags of the violation of the fourth amendment rates, that would be filed monday at the latest and see what it may actually say. it s pro viewed at this point. we ve been listening as the former president continues to criticize the fbi and saying the search went too far even though it was a federal judge who signed off earlier this month. and we heard from one of trump s lawyers late last night.
two hostages have been released by hamas. they are yocheved lifshitz and nurit yitzhak, two elderly women, according to a source. a release falling mediation by cutter and egypt. they were taken out of gaza by the red cross. the source telling nbc news that they are in good health. one of the hostages was in dire need of medication. you can see here, according to the times in israel, she was a founder of the of some of the most horrific violence that was inflicted upon israelis and the terrorisattack of october 7 by hamas. lifshitz is his peace activist who readily transported patients from gaza for medical treatment inside israel. her husband is believed to still be held captive i hamas. the release of two hostages comes days after two americans, judith and natalie were free from hamas on friday. this is where we start the hour with josh letterman. former cia director, senior national kersey as, john brennan is back. and then we have john hudson with us. with us at the table
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big question for the world tonight. thanks for joining us. you can watch us any time, anywhere on cnn go. have a good weekend. see you monday. ac 360 begins right now. good evening. we begin with more startling headlines from president trump. in just a last four days, he s threatened north korea with fire and fury, said maybe that wasn t enough of a threat. said american forces are locked and loaded and late today he said even more. appearing this morning outside his new jersey golf club, the president went before reporters. when he was over, he raised the possibility of u.s. military action in venezuela and renews his warnings to north korea. nobody loves a peaceful solution better than president trump, that i can tell you. hopefully it will all work out. but this has been going on for many years. it would have been a lot easier to solve this years ago before they were in the position that they re in. but we will see what happens. we think that lots of good things could happen