hamas. john: first time the president has spoken publicly since israel and hamas reached a deal to extend their truce by another two days. will he have anything to say about the roughly 8 to 9 americans still being held captive? sandra: monitoring his remarks for headlines as we begin a second hour of america reports . here we go, i m sandra smith in new york. john: good to be with you again after the holiday. john roberts in washington. here is where things stand at this hour. humanitarian pause in gaza has entered its fourth day now. the white house says hamas has committed to releasing another 20 women and children over two days. sandra: it is unclear if any 20 would be americans and the administration admitted this afternoon that all it can do is hope for the best. we certainly hope we will see them and hopefully today and if not today, over the next couple of days. we want to see them back with their families where they belong as well. we are not involved in t
the faulkner focus is up next. harris: fox news as confirmed israel and hamas has reached and agreement of who will be released today. a new list of hostages. 11 freed today. this is the final day of that temporary cease-fire under the original agreement. as you know, any cease-fire gives more time for hamas to regroup and rearm. i m harris faulkner, you are in the faulkner focus. so far terror groups have released 40 israeli hostages, 13 on both friday and saturday, 14 additionally yesterday. foreign nationals also freed as part of separate negligent achess. it is now in the final 24 hours of that original agreement. both israeli and hamas officials are suggesting they are open to extending the deal with conditions. president biden is pushing for a longer truce. president biden: this deal is delivering lifesaving results. critically needed aid is going in and hostages are coming out. this deal is structured so it can be extended to keep building on these results. tha
second round of houses releases including 13 israelis. but still, no americans. reunited at last with loved ones after several weeks in captivity in gaza. today is been a product of a lot of hard work and weeks of personal engagement records a brief cease-fire in place but tension on the ground remain and many more hostages are still under hamas control. i want to be clear the war is continuing to coax her in the ground in israel with the latest. less inflation and nation the high cost of the thanksgiving holiday driving home voters a grim outlook on the economy is biden s approval numbers remain stubbornly low. we get white house reaction firm advisors chair jon h. and the tug-of-war over the foreign aid package drags on. we will ask republican senator tom cotton about his parties and calls for more security funding at the southern border. democratic congressman jake auchincloss over the stalemate of the president s call for emergency wartime aid for both israel and uk
kayleigh: this is a fox news alert. after nearly 50 days of captivity, hamas has freed 24 hostages, and they say they will release more in the coming days. correspondent jeff paul is on the ground in israel with the latest. yeah, and we are learning tonight that, on top of the 13 hostages released today, the israeli government believes there could be another 13 released tomorrow. but the mood right now a bit bittersweet on the ground in israel, because people know there are still more than 200 people being held captive inside gaza. nonetheless, today was a very significant first step, and we could see more scenes like that if this cease-fire that went into effect at 7:00 a.m. this morning holds. here s what we know about people released today. 24 hostages released by hamas, 13 are israelis, 11 are foreign nationals. among the israelis freed, we know four of them were kids ages two to just nine years old. one of the kids, the 9-year-old, actually had a birthday inside gaza
the israel-hamas cease-fire is in day two. are we about to see the second wave of hostage releases? 13 israeli hostages taken by hamas were set free along with 11 others. this group, but included no americans was a swap for 39 palestinian prisoners. alex hogan is in jerusalem with the latest. hi, david, we re hearing the initial reports that egypt is claiming that the israeli hostages are starting to be moved into the red cross trucks. that s what we saw yesterday when the israeli hostages were released and what we know about today, we re expecting to see 13 or potentially 14 israeli hostages released and these are some of the images of the hostages released about 24 hours ago. this photo here of those first hugs, initial embraces, as well as families getting onto the helicopters before they were taken to those bases to finally be able to join their family again. this, a mother and her two daughters finally released. this next photo is of little 9-year-old, he loves rubik