Freed. Listen here. I woke up today with chills because I Cant imagine that we are still in the crisis. One year under torture and under duress, deprived of food, water, sanitation, daylight for a year now and hamas tunnels paired my message is that we will not stop. We will not stop until he is home. You spoke about evil. We are dealing with Pure Evil. Bringing out the hostages is urgent and we have been pleading with them for a year. These monsters are holding our boy. And another 100 hostages. There can be a good deal. It is a deal with the devil but it is a deal that needs to be cut. John we will bring you an allstar lineup including Morgan Ortagus who met with israeli officials including the Prime Minister earlier today. Sandra meanwhile, another top story at this hour appeared folks in the southeast still reeling from helenes destruction. And now another major hurricane is on the way to some of those same hardhit areas and in just the last few moments the national Hurricane Cente
alliance. we re not going to get bullied over natural gas sales, and i think you ll also hear from president biden about his decision to deploy u.s. troops from the united states into europe. they re going into poland. they re going into romania. several thousand from the 11th and 18th airborne. you re going to see two leaders from the white house trying to close that gap, and i think they ll do it pretty effectively today. and, in fact, what secretary blinken is talking about during this meeting is going to other countries, obviously the persian gulf and elsewhere about backfilling or trying to backfill natural gas supplies to europe and surging their supplies to europe in case russia turns off the spigot, if you will. john brennan, from the obama administration said they were
these soldiers, they are not there to fight. this is a message that they re sending, a show of force in support of nato allies and also to deter russian aggression. i want you to listen now to what the spokesman of the 18th airborne had to say about how quickly they deployed. the soldiers of 18th airborne and the 82nd airborne division are always ready. they re ready to mobilize on a moment s notice, deploy in support of whatever operation it is. so the pentagon says this is a temporary mission. those soldiers do not know how long they will serve there in eastern europe. but the pentagon is also not ruling out that more troops could be sent there to nato allies and these 2,000 soldiers are actually separate from 8,500 troops that are on heightened
the separatists shot down mh-17, that airliner. what looked wobbly in terms of transatlantic unity firmed up. i expect the same thing to happen if russia actually goes ahead and invades ukraine. okay, charms kupchan, thank you for joining us and your time. to isabel rosales in fort bragg. reporter: pamela, right behind me is a c-17 military aircraft that can carry up to 100 soulediers at a time and just in the last couple of moments we saw them exiting from the reception area. and they are walking onboard that c-17 headed to poland. overhead 2,000 soldiers will deploy from fort bragg over to eastern europe. we know that 300 of them from the 18th airborne are already there in germany but are still working on deploying these from the 82nd airborne that is