judge jeanine pirro jessica tarlov jesse watters and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. fox news alert. brand-new video showing two israeli hostages who were released by hamas receiving medical attention and egypt. that comes as the biden administration reportedly pressures israel to delay its ground invasion into gaza. let s get to mike tobin standing by with the latest in southern israel as this broke just before we came to air. hi, mike. hi, dana pittard red cross confirms and that we have visual confirmation. showing these two israeli hostages being loaded into ambulances on the egyptian side of the crossing. it should be noted that israel won t confirm the release until they are back in is really hands. yocheved lifshitz is out of captivity. there is are reporting, inferring patient to the effect that they are in bad health. reports suggesting that there were deals cooking that would involve the release of 50 of the hostages held in the ga
good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight two elderly israeli women have been released by their hamas kidnappers and senior u.s. officials confirm the u.s. is, in fact, privately urging israel to wait on its expected ground incursion to allow for more time to arrange the release of additional hostages. mike tobin starts us off tonight live from southern israel. good evening, mike. reporter: good evening, bret. two israeli women are free from hamas captivity. a slow drip of hostage releases as israeli military leaders say they re ready to begin the ground invasion. i m not gonna sit here and assume there s going to be some sort of ground invasion. reporter: yet for days israel s defense minister has told forces to be ready. today speaking to the country s navy. translator: we are preparing thoroughly for the next step multilateral operation in the air, ground and sea. reporter: the number of confirmed hostages has risen almost every day. today israel said 222.
for the first time in almost 30 years, the queen has missed the christmas day church service at sandringham. buckingham palace say she s still recovering from a heavy cold. later today, in a pre recorded christmas broadcast, she will speak of drawing strength from meeting ordinary people doing extraordinary things. our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, reports. morning service at sandringham part of the royal family s christmas day routine. but with one significant absentee this year the queen. while other members of her family, including the duke of edinburgh, gathered at the church, the queen remained at sandringham house, continuing to recover from what buckingham palace described as a heavy cold. in a short statement, the palace said she would take part in the family s celebrations. her absence from the church service, the first time in many years she hasn t attended, is understood to be a precautionary measure. there is no sense of undue concern. also absent fr
And this is the new book shot from yesterday from the fight with the girlfriend, who i guess is now the ex-girlfriend. phil keeting is outside the courthouse. they re used to seeing him out there. reporter: been a year since he was locked back up here at the jail, for violating the bond back on the trayvon martin case. he is back locked up. definitely not getting out of jail tonight. won t be boned out bonded out until tomorrow at the earliest because of the tracking conditions they had to establish a house where he is going to live and had to establish a land line so he can be tracked and all of that takes time. also, per the judge today, the zimmerman will not be able to return to his ex-girlfriend s house. he ll have to have somebody else go back to get his car, which is still parked there, as well as his clothes, and according to zimmerman s brother she is an