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in the situation room: live from tel aviv. happening now, breaking news, 24 civilian hostages are free tonight as the truce between israel and hamas takes hold. 13 israelis and 11 foreign nationals finally leaving gaza after nearly seven weeks in captivity. israel now says it has a second list of hostages to be returned on saturday. no americans are among that group. but president biden says he hopes and expects at least some will be released in the coming days. meanwhile, israeli military officials are warning the days ahead will be complicated as forces inside gaza prepare for the next phases of the war. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and let s get straight to the breaking news here in the middle east. the truly critical moment in israel s war against hamas. 24 hostages are finally heading home tonight. the first ma ....
this is cnn breaking news. we are following significant breaking news this morning. sources tell cnn a hostage deal between israel and hamas could be announced as soon as today. here are some of the details. we are told the potential deal calls for the release of 50 women and children. in exchange, a four to five day pause in fighting and three palestinian prisoners swopd for each civilian hostage released, 150 being held. sources say israel and hamas are still working on the names of those who would be released. officials are hoping that one of the first will be 3-year-old abigail here. she is the youngest american hostage. her parents were killed by hamas. we spoke with her great aunt a short time ago after this news broke. she is cautiously optimistic here is more of what she told us. we can t get our hopes up in a way that just believes it s going to happen right if in the next couple of hours. when i think about that on friday is abigail s fourth birthday and ....
suing after a report highlighting anti-semitic content on the site sparked a devastating advertiser exodus. now, unfortunately, a severe storm system could come at the worst possible time. what you need to know. coming up, i m kate baldwin with omar jimenez. this is cnn news central. it is very close. that s the word from a u.s. official to cnn, and the word also now from two israeli sources, a hostage deal could be announced as soon as today. there seems to be a lot of moving parts and a lot of things happening at one. listen to the latest and urgent painstaking work to get the hostages released. innocent victims were kidnapped on october 7th. here s what john kirby said. obviously we are laser focused on the american citizens we know are being held hostage. everybody should be out now, but here we are in negotiation, and we re getting closer to the end, we believe, of that negotiation, so again, i m going to be careful. the israeli prime minister s office just ....
outfront next, trump lashes out, taking the witness stand in his own fraud trial. outfront legal analyst ryan goodman is here. plus, strikes on gaza lighting up the sky tonight, while thousands of miles away, vladimir putin is embracing hamas despite his own citizens killed and kidnapped by the militant group. so what role is putin playing? and james carville is outfront even though his party wants to shut him up. how come? let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, showdown in court. trump versus the judge, the former president taking the stand for nearly four hours in his new york civil fraud trial today. going after the judge, losing his tim per. at one point the judge saying to trump s attorneys, quote, can you control your witness while judge said to the judge, it s a terrible thing you ve done, you believe this political hack back there, and that s unfortunate. trump left the court tonight, though, projecting confidenc ....
hill he s facing a grilling from republican about the origins of covid-19. also today for the first time in history, the son of the sitting president of the united states is on trial. jury hey, selection now underway in hunter biden s federal gun case and history is being made. mexico elected its first female president claudia sheinbaum. we ll have a live report. hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening. now up, i m capitol hill republican lawmakers are turning up the heat on the man who led the us government s response to the covid pandemic dr. anthony fauci faces more questions on that response and the origins of the virus that killed nearly 1.2 million americans. dr. fauci will also face questions about email exchanges involving one of his top advisers a subpoena from the republican-led committee turned up emails were dr. david borons appears appears to be trying to avoid public record laws cnn s lauren foxes up on capitol hill f ....