to 3:00 p.m. eastern. our coverage continues with katy tur reports right now. good to be with you. i m katy tur. as we speak, we are expecting more hostages to be released including potentially one american. two israeli women have been released today, hours before the extended cease fire is set to end. that is unless there s a deal to keep it going. it is a precarious situation. hamas is claiming three of the captives have died, a mother and her two young sons. a 4-year-old and a 10-month-old. the idf cannot confirm if that s true. trying to keep the lines of communication open are secretary of state antony blinken, headed to israel right now and u.s. envoy for hostage affairs. as the united states tailors its public message, that a resumption of war gives hamas what it wants, which is never ending violence. quote, hamas, unleashed a terrorist attack because they fear nothing more than israelis and palestinians living side by side in peace. there s growing political press
the terrorist group hamas is still holding as many as nine americans hostage. when will they be released? the lead starts right now. more hostages just set free, including two russian women but with the u.s. continuing to play such a pivotal role in negotiations, why are so many americans still in the hands of hamas? some of their families sat down for a cnn exclusive with me this afternoon. there s so many other hostages who have not yet been released and time is of the essence. and they more needs to be done and the work needs to continue swiftly. plus what we re learning about talks under way to extend the pause in fighting so more hostages can be released. and the urgency to verify this horrible claim hamas just made that the youngest hostage that they kidnapped, a 10 month old baby, and his family, are now dead. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start today with our world lead as we are watching and waiting for this sixth group of hostages to return to
welcome to hannity. tonight, the cease-fire in gaza will continue for at least another day. now, joe biden is reportedly asking israel to go easy in the fighting against hamas, the tryst group. go easy on terrorists. we ll bring you the latest sad chapter of joe biden s i m tent foreign policy straight ahead. the u.n. wants you, the american people, to stop eating meat. we give them billions of dollars for their insane advice. maybe it is time to say buy buy to the globalist organizations. what is the latest mysterious outbreak in china? masks are back and distancing is back. hospitals are overwhelmed with sick children. could this be another covid-like pandemic out of china. hunter biden is back in the news and not for his artwork. he is attempting to dodge a house subpoena. hunter s lawyers say their client is willing to only appear for a public hearing before the house of representatives, not a closed door deposition as the law requires. if you or i were to receive a subpo
inside, killing a number of the people who were in the bomb shelter, blew half of herch s lower arm off, so like one of the other israeli hostages, mia shem, who had serious injuries, he was taken captive and brought into gaza with very, very serious injury, and his mother rachel has no idea if he survived that ordeal. if he received appropriate medical treatment, where he is, what his status is. so it has to be awfully difficult seeing these hostages come home known her son, herch, is still in custody somewhere in gaza. sandra: ophelia brightman, 77 years old, also one of the hostages just released, she came to israel from argentina holding argentine citizenship. she s the wife of hector, mother of three children, grandmother of nine children. she had sent her last message to her family asking for help, stating that the terrorists were in her house and since that moment of her that she was taken, john, her contact had been severed and you can only imagine what is happeni
trace: good evening i m trace gallagher, it s 11:00 p.m. on the east coast 8:00 in los angeles and this is america s late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, the pause in fighting between israel and hamas is now moving into its fifth day and, remember, four days wag the original time line. meaning more hostages are likely to be released but israel has made it very clear the fighting will go on and it will be severe. jeff paul is live on the ground for us in tel aviv. jeff, what are you hearing about time lines? reporter: well, yeah, trace, we in fact just got some information that the israeli government now has a list of names of the next group of hostages they expect to be released tomorrow, signaling that this deal between israel and hamas has, in fact, been extended, at least beside a day. again this is all day to day very tense negotiations going on. but this is footage from tonight of some of the 11 hostages that were just released, back here on israeli so