Humanitarian reasons. Around 200 hostages are still being held in gaza, and israels airstrikes and total siege of the territory, cutting off food, water and medicines, will not end until all of them are freed. Desperately needed humanitarian aid has still not reached the besieged people of gaza. Emergency aid trucks stocked with supplies sit on the border with Egypt Waiting to be let across the Rafah Crossing as part of a deal to allow in limited aid. Lets bring you more now on the fate of those two american hostages freed by hamas. Us President Joe Biden spoke with the two women, telling them that their government will fully support them as they recover and heal. Our correspondent Barbara Plett usher brings us more from inside the halls of the State Department. The release of the hostages disrupted the day here at the State Department. We were sitting down for the Daily Briefing and then we were told that it would be delayed for two hours because of Breaking News. Now, they didnt say
todd: we begin our final hour of fox & friends with a fox news alert. moments ago egyptian officials say they received a list of 13 israelis to be released today. jake sullivan said there is reason to believe at least one american is expected to be part of today s planned hostage release. rachel: this comes on the heels of 13 israelis including four children being freed yesterday evening bringing the total so far to 26. joey: alex hogan is live in jerusalem. she has the latest. alex. reporter: good morning. it is officially 4:00 p.m. local time, meaning we could start to see the release of more hostages from now, moving forward throughout the day and while we do expect potentially to see one american citizen among those, we will continue to wait and monitor all of these changes but we re also seeing more footage come you out of the reunions of these family members many take a look at this video, 9-year-old emily, an irish and israeli citizen, her father initially thought
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this is a macho humanitarian disaster as it is a unnecessary war. it is, and was sometimes gets overlooked here, as you see these moms, so many of the moms and kids, their husbands left behind fighting for their country. grandmas, ground pause, that s what s coming over. and for me, there was another side that is now i know you see where you are, and that is the polish people. they are taking in these refugees, over 1.7 million now. there are people standing there helping people get through. polish border guards helping them with their suitcases, consoling them as they came over. and poland, for one example, there s a country that s been invaded by the nazis. by the professions, by the russians, and this time, this country is the ones that are helping the victims. and they are proud to stand up and do the. i think it s something we ve got to remember as we go forward in terms of
water mains cracked, natural gas lines broke, leading to fires. a tsunami warning was issued and later canceled. the airport was closed for a time, it has reopened for the 800-mile trans-alaska oil pipeline has been reopened. it was down for seven hours as a precaution. the video is dramatic, this was the scene of the sixth floor of the courthouse in downtown anchorage, ducking for cover. one hospital was expect in a flood of patients, but there were few, and the were minor. there is a report of a man who suffered a serious injury and a fire at his house. the most significant damage appears to be done to roads, bridges, and homes. some of the repairs will take months until after the ground pause, as many as 40,000 people are without power, and that is serious consider the temperatures are in the 20s. earlier today, the mayor of anchorage described a minute long earthquake, and the citizens response. it was loud.