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The United States and Around The World. Im kasie hunt. It is tuesday, october 17, 5 00 a. M. Here in washington and noon in israel where President Biden will be tomorrow on a high stakes trip to a warzone with several competing objectives. First the president will reaffirm the United States solidarity with israel. And our ironclad commitment to its security. The president Will Depart Washington today as he tries to prevent the crisis in israel from spreading into a wider conflict at the same time that he works to ease the humanitarian suffering in gaza. Secretary of state Antony Blinken announcing monday that the u. S. And israel will develop a pl ....
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that s about seven hours from now. about midnight your time, eastern time over there. so there s still some time. still a few hours left for a last-minute deal to be hammered out. and i expect that behind the scenes diplomatic efforts are in overdrive to try and make sure that this hostage deal that has gone on for seven consecutive days will go on for an eighth because it s in the interests of all parties. israel is getting significant numbers of its hostages out. and on the palestinian side in gaza they re getting prisoners released. and of course they re getting an important influx of humanitarian aid. every day this pause in the violence, this pause in the israeli military operation continues. and so look, the hope is that this can go on for longer. but at the moment there s no deal. and there s just a few hours to go. seven hours at most, we think, before time literally runs out on bringing the parties together for an extension of this deal, jake. matthew, within ....
both admired and hated. kissinger provided playing multilevel diplomatic chess. the house is set to vote this saturday, expelling republican congressman george santos. a growing number of republicans say they re going to support this effort. i personally have reservation. if they re confident this is constitutional, god bless their hearts. good morning, and welcome. new this morning, a pause between israel and hamas, it s going to last at least one more day. the question, though, this morning, how long will this pause last. an israeli official says the pause could be extended only if hamas releases ten living hostages each day. hamas said it had initially offered a different deal last night, seven women and children hostages and the bodies of three more who were dead. israel rejected that offer. israel says it has a new list of hostages expected to be released today. and new this morning, israel says there are 145 hostages who remain in gaza. that includ ....
the terrorist group hamas is still holding as many as nine americans hostage. when will they be released? the lead starts right now. more hostages just set free, including two russian women but with the u.s. continuing to play such a pivotal role in negotiations, why are so many americans still in the hands of hamas? some of their families sat down for a cnn exclusive with me this afternoon. there s so many other hostages who have not yet been released and time is of the essence. and they more needs to be done and the work needs to continue swiftly. plus what we re learning about talks under way to extend the pause in fighting so more hostages can be released. and the urgency to verify this horrible claim hamas just made that the youngest hostage that they kidnapped, a 10 month old baby, and his family, are now dead. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start today with our world lead as we are watching and waiting for this sixth group of hostages to retu ....