Imprint. Com. Imprint for certain cnn breaking news hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im Alex Marquardt live in washington with our continuing cnn breaking News Coverage of iran is unprecedented strike inside israel overnight. It is noon in israel, the country getting back to normal following that historic never before seen attack by iran against israel. Take a listen those are the israeli airraid sirens that Israeli Citizens to become all too accustomed to in the past six months with the war between israel and hamas but those were not hamas rockets flying it. Israel, those were iranian drones, ballistic and Cruise Missiles. The Israeli Military saying that more than 300 of those projectiles were fired at israel well over the course of five hours. But the idf says that the vast majority, almost all of 99 were shot down. The few that did get through those formidable American Allied and israeli air defenses all across the region. And in
12 hours from now, a long hope for a truce will take effect in the israel-hamas war. it is scheduled to last for only four days, but in that time, hamas has promised to release 50 hostages and israel is going to release 150 palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into gaza. the deal was negotiated by the kingdom of qatar, and the spokesman is hopeful that with this deal hostilities will stop. we are hoping that we don t see any delays, and we have reached a point now where everything is in place, and we are ready to go on the ground, so we are hopeful that as i told you by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, everything will stop. the first hostages are set to go free 4:00 p.m. local time tomorrow, and that is 9:00 a.m. eastern, and that is going to include 13 women and children. and the government has notified their families. becky anderson is in doha, and can you walk us through the outlines of the deal? yeah. here is what we do know. at midnight eastern time, which is 7:00 in the mo
waiting for a truce any minute now, we may know when the positive fighting between israel and hamas will begin and also when the hostages will start being released after being held captive for nearly seven weeks by hamas. officials are saying a fiery explosion at a ridge between the u.s. and canada that shut down border crossings has no link 20 the terror threat. start mac former obama administration official accused of stalking a food vendor, i m kate baldwin with danny freeman. this is a special edition of cnn news central. we are standing by right now for what could be the final word on when the hostage agreement entries will begin. it was suddenly delayed yesterday and there s been true confusion around it ever since. here looking live with the press conference, where the press conference will be starting any moment in qatar where qatari officials who have been key brokers in these negotiations will be giving that update, the word from the white house is final logis
Sea, plus. I am in russia where half of the population still smokes. This weekend, a smoking ban is coming coming in. Translator with respect to the details excuse me for not disclosing any. However, when qatar takes the role of intermediatiary, it plays this role on a humanitarian basis which is the whole concept of qatar foreign relations. Its not exactly clear when they will be arriving here in qatar. All of the kind of restrictions that they will be living under, but a report now on whats known from washington. Reporter afghanistan on may 3rd, 2009. This is the deal the taliban had long been pushing for. After almost five years in captivity, Sergeant Bowe bergdahl was handled to special operations officers on saturday by a 19strong contingent of the taliban. In exchange, five taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will be sent to qatar, subject to security restrictions including a ban on travel for one year. They are former 7 ario officials of the taliban government that held power be
Preparing options on iraq. Military planners have assembled a draft list of terror targets in the country. Officials say this list is constantly being revised, they havent yet made final determinations. In iraq militants celebrating after attacking the countrys biggest oil refinery. Now both isis, the islamic terror group, and the Iraqi Government are saying they are in control of this crucial location. At the white house tonight the president just met with senior congressional leaders to talk about the violence on the ground and whether the United States will do anything about it. Short of boots on the ground, an amorphous term to begin with, the Administration Says all options are on the table. Joe johns has more on what happened at the meeting tonight. Reporter president obama in the oval office with senior congressional leadership briefing them about u. S. Options in iraq. The big question possible military action already on the drawing board at the pentagon, cnn has learned. After