hamas as part of this deal. congresswoman alissa slotkin, we appreciate you joining us this afternoon. our coverage of today s hostage our coverage of today s hostage release continues. captions by vitac www.vitac.com announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we are following the major breaking news today. after more than 49 days in captivity, the first group of hostages held by hamas are now back in israel. and moments ago, we just saw some of those hostages met by cheers, as they arrive by helicopter at a children s hospital near tel aviv. we don t know how many people will be brought there. but sources say the mothers and their kids who were freed today, will not be separated. a total of 24 hostages were taken out of gaza earlier today in these vans right here by the red cross, where they then got their initial medical checks. now, the rest will all be taken to hospitals across israel based on their current me
joining us. joining us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com who and when? those are the two key questions at this moment, as we wait for the release of women and children taken hostage on october 7th. john berman in for anderson. first, the when, which we thought was just a few hours away, a temporary pause in fighting between israeli forces in hamas followed by the release of the first 50 hostages from gaza and 150 palestinians being held in israel. late today, however, israel s national security counscil will not start until friday. this includes the pause in fighting, also delayed until friday. as to the question of who, a source familiar with the matter tells us that the u.s. officials have a working list of ten hostages they believe are likely to be released on day one of the process. and though no one is publicly naming the ten, administration officials today did talk specifically about three americans being held. we anticipate that three amer
with a train in mexico. the accident happened in aguascalientes, some three hours north east of guadalajara in the north of the country. wendy urquhart reports. streams of black blowing smoke on the horizon was the first inkling that something horrific had happened in this city of aguascalientes. the situation underground was probably much worse than they had even imagined. an oil tanker had smashed into a train causing a massive explosion and a scorching ball of fire was snaking down the railway line, engulfing everything in its path. the emergency services were deployed quickly but the blaze was so fierce the only thing they could do was evacuate those living locally as fast as possible. more than 100 homes were completely gutted and hundreds of families left homeless. translation: the
them now? that s a great question. there were 10,000 american troops in iraq until december 2011. boom, they were all gone. the problem is that the obama administration was committed to a timeline inclined to leave before the first day of 2012, and we did. and once we did, there was a tsunami. professor walid phares is also co secretary-general of the transatlantic parliamentary group on terrorism. the author of numerous books and middle east terrorism analyst for fox news. everything in iraq collapsed because of the way we left iraq. when i was out there last year and this year looking at the situation underground, i was told by a good number of particularly kurds that it was