could be cut off from electricity, get this, for another month. also tonight, ukrainian forces are making stunning gains on the battlefield, reclaiming territory illegally annexed by vladimir putin just days ago. we will get an update on the war from white house national security official john kirby. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. an emergency appeal from former president trump to the u.s. supreme court. trump s attorneys are pleading with the justices to intervene in a dispute over more than 100 documents marked as classified. our senior crime and justice reporter has more on this filing. kaitlyn, what exactly does the former president want from the high court here? reporter: well, pamela, what he is asking for is essentially he wants to turn back time. he wants to go
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. thank you so much for joining us. i m boris sanchez alongside jim sciutto in washington. we have wolf blitzer live for us in tel aviv, israel, where we are monitoring remarkable moments in the middle east. it s freedom after 48 hellish days in the hands of hamas and other groups in gaza. today the first 24 hostages were taken into egypt, and you can see them in this footage just moments after their release at the rafa border crossing. this is just the start of their journey back after they were ripped from their homes on october 7th. the israeli defense forces shared this video of the moment a bus carrying the hostages entered israel. most of the people released today are women and children. we are told they include 13 israelis. you see their pictures here. as well as ten thai citizens and a filipino citizen who were also taken on october 7th. over next three days we do expect to see at least 37 more hostages released. that was a fi
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