as well. bret: thank you, sir. have a good night. gogood evening. i m bret baier eaking tonight, president biden says a possible deal for the release of some hostages held by hamas is very close. israeli officials are said to be discussing the agreement. it calls for a swap of around 50 hostages for 150 palestinians. israel says no terrorists will be released. correspondent jeff paul is in southern israel tonight with the latest. good evening, jeff. good evening, bret. despite this deal being close, we are still seeing a lot of fighting here along the israel-gaza border. however, if there is some sort of agreement between israel and hamas recommendation we might not only see a pause in the war but a lot of hostages going home. surrounded by the ruins of war. [explosion] israeli forces fire from window positions. [explosion] while tanks blast third way deeper into the gaza strip. as soldiers encircle jabalia one of the last strongholds in northern gaza, there are devel
Im katy tur in for hallie jackson. Today, top names in the tech sector headed to trump tower. President elect trump also dealing with two new headaches this afternoon. The first democrats say trump may have to sell his new d. C. Hotel. The other involves his frequently Controversial National security adviser and ill advised tweets again by his son. We are also following the dylann roof trial. Today, survivor testimony and new video showing roof practicing shooting. 33 million under a winter chill advisory as a new storm expected to create dangerous travel conditions across the central part of the country. Lets start with the trump transition. With the Huffington Post and an msnbc contributor is also here. First off to you there will be a trump tech summit. Tell me who is going to be there and why it is important that they are there. Reporter this is definitely a whos who in the tech industry. We can go up and throw up the names we have for you. Jeff bezos from amazon, oracle, tim cook
crawled out. ben was in really bad condition, we started working about which plan would work the best. you couldn t fly him out. the airspace was contested any helicopter would have been shot down, road mark were pock marked. i didn t want to drive, i was worried that shrapnel in his neck would sever something. at that point i received a call from dave a phenomenal military officer. lieutenant col colonel dave is a decorated grgreen beret with more than a dozen appointment, he was in poland. he is an incredible special operations. he has a ton of experience
that is where jacques came in, being jacques, no frills was like, yes, okay. okay. my new hand is being delivered, loo look at that. if we have any doubts about what these guys do when you are asleep, don t be. the rest of me feels a little bit strange, but jacques has been saving my day, i feel out of it. jacques was right there at the beginning. when benji was located. he was the right thera his side when transported out of the war zone. jacques then spent months by benji s side. in the hospital. as he went through every surgery. jacques never left ben s side, he was a sweetheart. not very manly, but he was john spot. he is like a father
him. find pierre. pi pierre was always with ben benji. the fact he was missing did not make sense. i called rick there my phone ridges, it is alicia. i am like, christ. this is pretty heavy. i answered it, alicia was inconsolable, i said this is when we know, he is in hospital and alive, let s concentrate on that, your mind always goes to worse case. he was so calm. he said i just decidedded that all those emotions, there were other people that were going through worse than i was. it is time for me to get information about him. and that i could relay to alicia. after they found out where benjamin is, they went