a little girl named abigail, turned 4 years old. she spent her birthday, that birthday and at least 50 days before that, held hostage by hamas. today she s free, and jill and i together with so many americans are praying for the fact that a she is going to be all right. mike: president biden speaking about the 4-year-old israeli-american girl that was own colluded in the recent group of included in the recent group of hostages for transport through the rafah crossing, alabama bail den abigail edan, one of the 17 hostages released today. i m mike emmanuel. mr. biden adding he would like a longer pause in order to get more hostages released from gaza. alex hogan is live in jerusalem with the latest developments. reporter: hi, mike. we just saw three thai hostages and one israeli-russian hostage move through the rafah crossing, and all the other hostages have just arrived at the or air base, but one of them was airlifted to the hospital because of serious medical concerns.
us safe. ever since mumbai if 2008, we have been working toke to make sure we could respond to such an attack. this summer. police and other services carried out a major excercise to test our response and in light of last night s attacks, we will, of course, review our plans and make sure we learn any appropriate less softens, it is clear the threat of isil is evolving. last night s attacks suggest a new degree of planning and card nation and a greater ambition for mass casualty attacks. we must recognize however strong we are, however much we prepare. we in the u.k. face the same threat. that s why we encourage the public to remain lidge lant. we will do all we can to support our police and actions with the resources and the terrorist aim is clear. it is to divide us and to dry