palestinians and one israeli soldier. gilad shall late is free after being held for five years. officials handed him over to the egyptian authorities a couple hours ago. egypt is expected to transfer shalit on to israeli custody. israel set free hundreds of palestinians held in its jails today, tuesday. a total of a thousand are expected to be released as part of this exchange in two groups. an initial group of 477 palestinian prisoners are going free on tuesday in exchange for sergeant major shalit. matthew chance is at the border crossing in gaza. he joins us live with the latest. presumably a sense of anticipation there, matthew. reporter: certainly is, charles. in fact, hundreds of people have gathered here at the checkpoints, all family members of the hundreds of prisoners about to be released into the gaza strip, who have come to welcome people who, frankly, they didn t expect to see again in many cases. some of the people that have been released by israel today in ex
we ll be going live to las vegas to catch up with jim in just a second. all right, meanwhile, let s go to senior political editor mark preston, also in vegas while we re waiting to hear from our jim acosta. mark, we have just been talking about these new polls that were released a few moments ago as we are preparing for the presidential debate tonight. okay. this is live television, folks. it s like a juggling act when you have about three live shots to get to in las vegas. jim acosta, are you in place? there we go. we got you. this is a, this is of no fault of my own, kyra. i promise you. did you have a late night in vegas, jim? listen, what happens in vegas, kyra. that s all i have to say. no. the lovely carol costello, carol had to move off and mark preston and i had to move in. this is live tv. we have to roll with the punches here. we got a little debate tonight, what do you think, kyra? yes, we do. we have been talking about, you know, just who, i guess the