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next 24 hours. 150 palestinian prisoners will be handed over in exchange, we think, for 50 hostages taken by the terrorist group. jeff joins us live from tel aviv. jeff. sometimes this is the most dangerous part of a war, when you have an upcoming pause in the fighting. there is not a pause right now. it will not go into effect until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. that is part of the reason you are seeing the smoke rise above gaza. later today, we learned we ll be getting a press conference, news conference from prime minister netanyahu. the first comments he makes since they came to this agreement with hamas around 3 a.m. local time temperature took six hours to get to this decision. prior to the meeting, prime minister netanyahu called it a tough decision, but the right decision. under this brokered deal, israel will get 50 hostages, women and children, and israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners. as far as hostages being released from gaza, they will come out in groups ....
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closed doors. we ll tell you what s happening right now and what happens next. also, $640 million up for grabs. the largest lottery jackpot in history could be yours if you got the lucky ticket. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we ve got breaking news coming into the situation room right now. president obama has just stepped up his re-election campaign. we have the information that is just coming in, stepped up pressure on iran. huge new pressure. the white house has decided to go ahead with what will be the toughest sanctions yet against the iranian regime. bottom line, get this, any country getting oil from iran won t be doing business with the united states any longer. let s go straight to our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. tell our viewers what the president decided to do just now. well, if the news is that 12 countries that get oil from iran will have to make a decision by ....
i wasn t there. i wasn t present in that crime. cnn s matthew chance was in the courtroom. matthew, walk us through this morning s hearing, will you? reporter: yeah, martin. it was very emotional. amanda knox came in escorted by the guards and looked very stressed indeed, very pale. her head was hung down. she didn t even look at her family, who were gathered in one corner of the courtroom to give her support. her former boyfriend also serving a lengthy prison sentence for the murder of meredith kircher, spoke first. he said they were both innocent. then the big moment came. perhaps the biggest speech of amanda knox s life. she turned to the jury and managed to compose herself because she was in tears, and, you know, make this impassioned plea for them to set her free. she said she wanted her life back. she was tired of being punished for something she didn t do, she said. and so she said it all as well in fluent italian. over the past four years since she s been in ....