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
coverage and we ll start with david spunt tracking president biden and his reaction to the border crisis from wilmington, delaware. we ve got griff jenkins tracking conditions on the ground from the southern border and we ll turn to griff first, a closer look from mission, texas. hi, griff. hey, gillian and kristin. we re down on the border in mission, texas, part of the rio grande sector. what s happening at this moment see this white bus coming through the border wall in the distance about a mile is the rio grande river where we re apprehending record number of migrants. this is the 13th bus i ve seen since i ve been here today. it s full of migrants that have been processed and we have exclusive photos, i want to show you where that bus just came from. these photos from here show that the processing center, a temporary processing center has been set up outdoors, you can see in the photo, the white buses, you can see migrants all over the place, they ve had to set up a po