we are back with another hour of our special coverage of the hamas hostages being released today. i m chris jansing in new york. it was a long-awaited moment. just last hour we saw this convoy of vehicles with israeli hostages crossing into israel. just moments after they were handed over to the red cross ahead of their medical evaluations and reunions with loved ones. these are the faces of the 13 hostages, women and children who were in captivity for 49 days as young as 2 years old, as old as 85. israel is releasing palestinian prisoners in the exchange, women and teenage boys. that is part of this deal, and with aid trucks arriving today through the gaza-egypt border, the palestinian red crescent is warning of a dire situation inside gaza saying the needs of the palestinians are increasing. a u.n. spokesman in geneva weighing in as well. we hope it allows grieving families to honor their dead and bury them with dignity. and we hope that this humanitarian pause leads to a
to underscore how today could have been radically different in modern history books as we watch what is happening today. what we understand is in a benchmark of progress, 24 hostages have now been released. 13 israelis, 10 thai nationals and one filipino citizen as the israel-hamas hostage deal holds steady on the first of what will be a longnd critical four days. among the youngest israelis freed today, a 2-year-old, 4-year-old, 5-year-old and a 9-year-old. you can see a small child here getting into that bus preparing to go home and leaving their nearly seven-week long nightmare behind. they have since been reunited with their families, given toys and clean clothes as they start the long journey to healing. many of them may not have an understanding of everything that has transpired on october 7th and since and challenges still remain for the families of those who did not come home today yet. as for the civilians inside the strip, the israeli military dropping new leaflets
i m pamela brown in situation room, i ll be back here tomorrow. erin burnett outfront starts right now. up next, fed up. families of hostages asking about their loved ones. not answer. the father of two girls being held right now by hamas will tell a story and the israeli government official responds here tonight. as trump s gag order is about to reinstate? plus the biggest name in artificial intelligence fired by his company and then hired by a rival. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight. demanding answers. the families of hostages are demanding answers from prime minister netanyahu. we re told more than 100 family members met with the prime minister today with hours. they went in saying this. translator: i demand their commitment that everyone is returning home. all the hostages. we must get answers. translator: we have big concrete questions that we expect them to answer. the prime minister came out of that meeting said returning hostages was a sac
from gaza s besieged al shifa hospital transported in mobile incubators by ambulances into egypt for urgent treatment. it comes as president biden says he believes a deal to free some of hamas s hostages is close. israel releasing video saying it shows hamas dragging hostages into the al shifa hospital as well as footage inside an alleged hamas tunnel shaft at the complex. fierce fighting now breaking out near another gaza hospital. and our nbc news exclusive look inside israel s drone warfare. also tonight, reports of tornadoes as a storm sweeps across the country just as holiday air travel is expected to break records. al roker will time it out. former president donald trump fighting the gag order in his federal election interference case. what an appeals court signaled today. the tributes pouring in for rosalynn carter. how the former first lady is being remembered tonight. the shake-up in the company behind chatgpt and the ceo s next move after his surprise ouster.
good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead, the high intensity at times down right contentious hearing testing the limits of the first amendment, as a lawyer for donald trump fights a gag order in the federal election case. will trump s rhetoric win out or the risk to witnesses? we ve got clues from inside the courtroom. developing overseas, israel releases footage it says shows hostages and a hamas tunnel at the hospital that s become a symbol of the war itself. and what we re learning about heavy fighting happening at another hospital in gaza. the 44,000 hours of footage from the january 6th attack being made public as one republican senator pushes yet another conspiracy theory about that day. we ve got a fact check. and he s been dubbed the oppenheimer of our age. the truly wild shakeup involving the ai guru, who compares the scale of his work to the manhattan project. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developm