send back an unconfirmed number of iranian prisoners and unfreeze about $6 billion of frozen iranian oil revenue. sandra: we are learning the details right now. the move comes amid growing tensions over iran s nuclear program and terrorist activities. mark meredith has the breaking details. what are we learning about this deal? sandra, good afternoon to you. news of this broke just in the last 30 minutes or so after a letter was published by a lawyer based here in the united states who was representing three of these five people who are apparently moved to house arrest in iran today after serving time in prison, at least for the last several years. earliest dating back to 2015. we don t know exactly where these now, i don t want to say freed at this point, but the prisoners put under house arrest have been moved to in iran but the lawyer representing the families say they got direct visual confirmation the people were moved out of a prison and moved into what you have to
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yet been released. the question is when will they come home, and what are we giving iran in return. joining me now, national security counsel coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby. admiral, thank you very much for being with us. i know that we believe, the united states believes those imprisonments and trials and charges were not true. and we re happy to have these individuals back. when will they be on a plane back and out of iran? i don t really know right now. we re still working out the details and parameters here about eventually securing their freedom, and when that will be, what that will look like. but we don t really know right now. we re just really happy that they re out of evan prison because the conditions there were just intolerable. they re in house arrest, but still in iran. they re not home yet, and we still have a lot of work to do to get them there. have we been in touch with them directly? do we know what condition they re? we have bee
the hawaii governor josh green joins us this hour with an update on the crisis, and urgent evacuation. also a proposed january 2nd trial date. the special counsel s team hoping to start the trial just ahead of the january 6th anniversary and first republican presidential contest. and americans released from a notorious prison in iran. five wrongfully held u.s. citizens now under house arrest in a potential step toward freedom. we re learning more about why they were moved and how it could wind up helping iran. welcome to our viewer here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the wildfire disasters in hawaii right now. it s now killed at least 36 people. the death toll expected to keep climbing as prime tourist havens become charred ruins. let s go to derek van dam, who just filed this report. reporter: tonight fires on the island of maui continuing to burn out of control, as new federal help is
church. ahead on cnn newsroom, a high of voters go to the polls and a crucial new litmus test on abortion rights in america more than a year after roe v. wade was overturned. bring on the bleeps, a cussing donald trump aroused against the indictments levied against him and charges and arrest warrants alabama after a massive riverfront brawl and the questions police have after reviewing the tape. live from cnn center, this is cnn s room with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin with a crucial victory for abortion rights activists in ohio. voters on tuesday rejected a republican backed measure that would have made it harder to amend the states constitution. this comes ahead of a november ballot in which voters will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the states constitution. nearly 90% of the votes counted, 56% of the people have voted no, while 44% said yes. tuesday was the first of a two-step process to determine whether the november referendum wi