what more we know about the deal, which also calls for a day s long pause in fighting and when it will all begin. plus, the pope meets with families of hamas hostages. what he said to the world and those families about the war. also ahead, millions set to hit the roads and the skies in what could be the busiest travel day of the year yet. the spoiler a storm that s dumping rain and snow along east coasts. we ll have the latest forecast. and later, control alt delete rehire? sam altman reinstated as the ceo of open ai, the shake-up that sent silicon valley s collective heads spinning. and we begin this morning in gaza where a hostage deal has been reached, hamas agreeing with israel to release 50 hostages in exchange for israeli-held palestinian women and children and a four-day cease fire to get hostages out of gaza and aid trucks into gaza. let s bring in nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons from israel and white house correspondent kelly o donnell
some of the october 7 attack. you are watching fox and friends first, on tuesday, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. greg palkot is on the border of lebanon. we begin with jonathan hunt. jonathan: israeli defense sources consider this to be one of the most significant gets since war was declared on october 7. they took out a commander in hamas northern brigade. they say he was responsible for directing some of the attacks of october 7 that were launched from the northern part of the gaza strip and they say in taking him out, they believe they have significantly reduced hamas s ability to disrupt the idf ground operation in the northern end of the gaza strip. they believe he was a big player in hamas northern gaza command. ground operation continue and what the idf appear to be trying to do is encircle gaza city in the gaza strip. they have gone down the western side of gaza and coming from the north00 east and appear to be trying to encircle entirety of gaza cit
all right, you know, they say trouble sometimes comes in threes, well, we ve got the threes, the russian military ships off the coast of cuba. 30 miles from our u.s.-florida shores. we ve got china building this mega port just off of peru. that s kind of in our caribbean neighborhood, too, if you think about it. and don t get me started, north korea literally dumping garbage, this is true, dumping garbage on south korea, all are deemed provocative acts and certainly that the western powers were acknowledging and looking at. maybe some of them fretting about over the course of their summit. let s get the latest from other things they re focused on as well from jacqui heinrich in italy. jacqui: the g7 leaders statement that president biden signed before he departed italy, sharply warned china not to help putin s war on ukraine. threatening sanctions embargoes, helping to prop up russia. and support for russia s base, to maintain the illegal war in ukraine and has broad-based
demonstrations since the coup last month . u.s. president joe biden is kicking off a nationwide messaging blitz to promote his newly passed covid relief package. it starts today with a speech at the white house. and as our john harwood reports, the president wants people to know there s more to it than the checks already arriving in bank accounts. reporter: last week congress passed president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. this week president biden and his team hit the road to promote the legislation. it s already broadly popular in the polls. it won t hurt that those $1,400 per person covid relief checks have already started hitting americans bank accounts over the weekend. but president biden wants to make sure people understand other benefits in the bill including expanded child tax credits, aid to state and local governments, expanded health care subsidies, and also aid to small businesses that didn t qualify for previous rounds. the sales job will include
out of five americans has received a shot. this as those $1,400 stimulus checks are starting to hit bank accounts. but despite the progress being made, there are concerns about the thousands of people who are traveling and attending spring break events across the country. masks and social distancing don t seem to be a priority and health officials are warning of the potential consequences, saying the next few weeks will be critical in determining if we ll see another surge. even though the numbers have gone down, over the last couple of weeks they ve plateaued. when you see a plateau at a level as high as 60,000 cases a day, that is a very vulnerable time to have a surge to go back up. we can avoid that if we continue to vaccinate people, get more and more protection without all of a sudden pulling back on public health measures. and many people are spending their spring breaks in florida. the state is seeing a rush of people despite health warnings. cnn s natasha chen is