will: welcome back. we begin this hour with a fox news alert. egyptian officials say they ve been given a list of the 14 hostages who have set to be released by hamas later today and have given that list to israel. this after 13 were freed just yesterday. joey: some of the hostages reuniting with their loved ones include an israelly boy that turned 9 while being held hostage. that s a beautiful sight. we re going live to alex hogan. good morning. we re expecting more hostages after a largest number of hostages were released yesterday than initially expected and ten foreign nationals working in israel and one filipeno foreign national and 13 expected israeli hostages and you mention, we re seeing some of the first videos come out of really incredibly heart warming reunions and families gathering. ohad, 9 years scold hugging his father running up to him in the hospital and his mother hugging his older brother. ohad turned 9 last month and thousands of people here in israel
operating dangerously close to american waters. we will talk about the arrest of 8 foreign nationals with suspected terrorism ties with former microsoft ceo steve palmer. batter up the annual congressional baseball game takes place tonight in washington. shannon: breaking tonight, the house has approved a resolution to hold attorney atty general merrick garland in contempt of congress. he continues to refuse an order to turn over audio of president biden s interview with the special counsel over his retention of classified documents. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie has the very latest from capitol hill. good evening, aishah. aishah: shannon, good evening to you. a very historic night on capitol hill for the first time in many years the house has held in contempt and attorney general. every single republican member except for one voted for this contempt. and that was ohio congressman david joist, a moderate. and tonight, garland is also firing back e writes this,
mason: good evening, for those of you just joining us, this is a special expanded edition, i m anthony mason. scott pelley had been reporting from the new jersey shore but the hurricane has knocked out our link to him. hurricane sandy is about to make landfall near atlantic city, but the impact of this storm is being felt all along the east coast. the governors of 14 states from north carolina to maine have declared states of emergency. let s get the latest now from cbs news hurricane consultant david bernard. david? good evening, anthony. a lot of trouble up and down the east coast tonight. sandy is basically not a drop cam system anymore, but the effects are all going to be the same. let s start with where the storm is right now and, again, we are looking at very strong waves occurring all across ptions of the jersey and also long island sound. notice just offshore we re seeing some of these wave heights still indicated near 45 feet, maybe higher. and even though the storm is h
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