palestinian territories with isra israel. 1,027 israeli palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails will be swapped for just one israeli soldier, gilad shalit, arrested in gaza five years ago. a lot of anticipation, excitement here in gaza for that to take place, in israel a lot of concern that too much of was given away for the release of just one man, brooke. when do we know yet we can expect the exchange to take place? reporter: they re keeping those details very much under wraps, at least here on the sort of palestinian side of things. we re expecting in about nine hours now, about midnight your time, that the prisoner exchange will get under way with an initial release of several hundred palestinian prisoners by israel here into the gaza strip, only then will the hamas militant group who have been holding gilad shalit for five years transfer him to the red cross and he ll be moved across into egypt and handed to the custody of israeli officials and taken home. ma
good morning, christine. it s mont, october 17th. ali is off, carol is on assignment, and i m alina cho. this car crash, our hearts go out to the family of dan wheldon. we ll speak to say the a lot of about this. heart broken fans and drivers this morning. the tragedy on the track. indycar champion dan wheldon died in one of the worst crashes the sport has ever seen yesterday in las vegas. indycar going into the off-season how fragile life can be and how dangerous their sport is. some of the images of the crash you ll see may be disturbing. reporter: the last race of the year, dan wheldon s car sailing through the air, slamming into the catch fence and disintegrated. oh, multiple cars involved. reporter: a horrific 15-car wreck. video showing cars spinning out of control, bursting into flames and shooting smoke and debris into the air. cars in flames, wreckage, carnage. terrible. they just crumpled and caught on fire and everybody gasped. reporter: racers got th