intense bombing and shelling continue. a mass exodus is growing. tens of thousands of terrified civilians are streaming out of eastern aleppo on foot, many too exhausted, too mall nourished. let me bring in frederick polite kin. he was in aleppo and is monitoring the situation. you saw hundreds if not thousands of syrians fleeing aleppo. tell us about the conditions for them. reporter: jake, you know, over the weekend, in fact just a couple of hours ago, we were on the southern front in aleppo and you could really see those tens of thousands of people coming across. the devastating thing about all this is there was a massive battle going on at that point in time. you had jets in the skies, artillery being fired and yet the only way for these people to try to make it to safety was to just plow right through that battlefield with their children, with a lot of elderly people as well. you re right, a lot of these
palestinians and one israeli soldier. gilad shall late is free after being held for five years. officials handed him over to the egyptian authorities a couple hours ago. egypt is expected to transfer shalit on to israeli custody. israel set free hundreds of palestinians held in its jails today, tuesday. a total of a thousand are expected to be released as part of this exchange in two groups. an initial group of 477 palestinian prisoners are going free on tuesday in exchange for sergeant major shalit. matthew chance is at the border crossing in gaza. he joins us live with the latest. presumably a sense of anticipation there, matthew. reporter: certainly is, charles. in fact, hundreds of people have gathered here at the checkpoints, all family members of the hundreds of prisoners about to be released into the gaza strip, who have come to welcome people who, frankly, they didn t expect to see again in many cases. some of the people that have been released by israel today in ex