shop and watch football on the same feed. good luck. thanks for joining me. i m max foster. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. we re glad you re with us. we begin with breaking news out of israel. right now, a temporary truce is underway between israel and hamas. hours from now, the first round of hostages will be released. at 9:00 a.m. the eastern time, hamas is expected to start freeing 13 hostages abducted during the october 7th terror attacks. it s six hours since fighting was paused in gaza. the truce appears to be holding. a column of tanks and armored vehicles was seen heading away from the gaza strip. drone video shows families walking the streets in southern gaza this morning after the truce began. you can see the destruction from the airstrikes. part of the hostage deal was allowing desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza. we have been seeing those lines of trucks crossing in from egypt. an egyptian official says 200 trucks fu
if they want those out by the end of the month, the decision will have to be made by tomorrow. at kabul international airport, the end of the month is coming too quickly. the u.s. is trying to hit its self-imposed august 31st deadline. in the days remaining, we believe we have the wherewithal to get out the american citizens who want to leave kabul. reporter: the taliban warning there could be consequences if it takes longer. tense security situation as the u.s. tries to maximize the number of people it can fly out. the military flew more than 10,000 people out of kabul in 24 hours and another 5,000 on charters and other flights. a new record and a pace that must continue. we are pushing the elements to do everything we can to get every single evacwee out of kabul. reporter: in order to speed up, activating the civil reserve