we d like to see the pause extended because what it has enabled, first and foremost, is hostages being released. it as enabled us to surge humanitarian assistance into the people of gaza who so desperately need it. that was secretary of state antony blinken earlier this morning. he is getting ready to head to israel right now. the final hours of the truce between israel and hamas are ticking away and intense negotiations are underway to extend that truce. hamas is set to release more hostages today after handing over another group of women and children yesterday. and yesterday in gaza we saw gunmen with rifles slung over their shoulders hand over an 84-year-old woman in a wheelchair as a crowd cheered and recorded with their cellphones. also release a 17-year-old girl clutchinger dog in her arms. the family of the youngest israeli hostage telling cnn they have been notified the baby, the 4-year-old brother will not be among the hostages freed today. this is the latest
greta: so the question is what would you do now because we are where we are. i think the american priority has to be in making sure that the chemical weapons don t get out of syria and become a threat worldwide. this is very dangerous stuff. the president s already lost credibility by first telling assad it would be a red line to move the stock his arsenal. now it s a red line to use them. i m just not sure that we re prepared to do what would be necessary to stop the first use, but what we can do and where our greatest risk is is making sure that the chemical weapons don t lealeavesyria in terrorist hand. greta: how do we do that? at this point since we re now losing confidence and we know where the wrep weapons are, we e to, number one, get commitments from the opposition that if they take power, they ll destroy the chemical weapons. i think we have to be prepared as we may well be to go in with special operations forces and
greta: so the question is what would you do now because we are where we are. i think the american priority has to be in making sure that the chemical weapons don t get out of syria and become a threat worldwide. this is very dangerous stuff. the president s already lost credibility by first telling assad it would be a red line to move the stock piles out of his arsenal. now it s a red line to use them. i m just not sure that we re prepared to do what would be necessary to stop the first use, but what we can do and where our greatest risk is is making sure that the chemical weapons don t lealeavesyria in terrorist hand. greta: how do we do that? at this point since we re now losing confidence and we know where the wrep weapons are, we e to, number one, get commitments from the opposition that if they take power, they ll destroy the chemical weapons. i think we have to be prepared as we may well be to go in with special operations forces and
them. my apologies. we don t have ed. we ll go to david piper who is in libya now, and who has been following these events. david, the president s line about the libyan people, calling on them to secure their dangerous weapons which is a piece of this story americans care a lot about. reporter: yes. that s a very important part of this story. when i first arrived here about six weeks ago i went to a munitions dump, mines and mortars and shells. a few days later that was empty. people are trying to secure these weapons. but in particular those surface-to-air missiles are a major concern as they get into the terrorist hand they could take down commercial jets. but the libyan people are trying to if you are democracy. the transitional council said once sirte falls, they will now