Situation room. Join me tomorrow and sunday starting at 1 00 p. M. Eastern for special live coverage of this it war. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Up front next, breaking news, americans freed. A mother and data just released by hamas after being held for 14 days. The family of the freed hostages speaks out. Plus an exclusive dispatch from gaza. I speak to a father who wont leave his home in Northern Gaza after the repeated warnings. Sounds of explosions around him, his children asking, are we going to die . The United States on high alert for more attacks in the region, as were learning new details about the missiles and drones that a u. S. Warship shot down. That happened over nine hours. The battle far more intense than we knew. Lets go outfront. Good evening, welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. Freed. Youre looking at judith and raanan and her daughter natalie raanan. The two are from chicago. The idf says they were being held in hamass network of tunnels. According
Good evening. Im lindsay reiser, you are watching msnbcs continuing coverage of the israel hamas war. And breaking just within the last hour, we have learned a tentative agreement to allow americans safe passage through the rafah Border Crossing continues to face significant obstacles. Nbc news reports that would be a key item on Secretary Blinkens agenda when he lands and cairo tomorrow. Right now, up to 600 americans are still stranded in gaza after thats promised pathway to safety felt through earlier today. U. S. Officials said they would negotiate temporary opening at the border between gaza and egypt, for american citizens seeking to flee. But evacuees made their way to the crossing say they found a closed. While theres still no guarantee that hamas, which controls the gaza side of the border, will allow safe passage, the State Department continues to publicly urged americans and gaza to move south. Cautioning, if that crossing opens that, window could be brief. The Ground Invasi
singing. in tel aviv tonight, friends and campaigners coming together. there is hope here and there is caution. the first israeli hostages should be coming home tomorrow. 13 families should be reunited. but it s bittersweet. many hostages will remain in gaza. only 50 are due to be released during the ceasefire. sisters dafna and ella are not on the list for tomorrow, according to their mother, maayan. she tweeted tonight, it s incredibly difficult. i long for their return but i am relieved for the other families . gil dikman says all the families will share the joy when hostages come home. his cousin carmel is being held. she s 39 and loves to travel. her sister in law, yarden, is also trapped in gaza. even if our hostages won t be released in the next few days, the fact that there will be hostages released, pictures of children and mothers coming back, that s very, very strong and i think people are going to feel as if it s their own children. in gaza, one more day of dea
racing track. i was going ask if anyone was making comparisons to monaco and vegas because of the tight turns. verstappen very vocal about it. we ll see what plays out later on tonight into tomorrow. i look forward to your report tomorrow. patrick snell, good to see you. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka witfield. let s begin in israel, where desperate families of the 237 hostages held by hamas are gathering at this hour. thousands marched today in jerusalem and tel aviv, calling on the israeli government to do more to bring the hostages home. six weeks after they were abducted, it comes as israel defense forces are now vowing to advance anywhere hamas is found. there are growing signs that the idf may soon expand operations into southern gaza. but the fighting continues in gaza city. doctors at al shifa hospital, gaza s largest, sayered to evac israeli military, though the idf disputes that claim. six doctors are staying at t