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Hello and welcome, everyone. Im Michael Holmes with the latest on the israel hamas war. An American Woman and her teenage daughter with undergoing medical e value weighs in israel after they were released by hamas on friday. They were visiting family close to gaza when they were taken hostage by hamas two weeks ago. Hamas is believed to have about 200 hostages. Back home in illinois, natalies father spoke about reuniting with her. Ive been waiting for this moment for a long time, for two weeks. I havent been sleeping for two weeks. Tonight, im going to sleep good. I spoke with my daughter earlier today. She sounds very good. She looks very good. She was very happy. And shes waiting to come home. Im going to hug her and kiss her, and its going to be the best day of my life. We have more now from cnns whitney. Reporter the walk to freedom in a snapshot. 59yearold judith and her ....
hostages held by hamas for 48 days are expected to be released at any moment. good morning, a special edition of america s newsroom. i m griff jenkins. hi, molly. molly: i m molly line. bill hemmer and dana perino are off. 13 women and children are being transported to southern israel at 7:00 a.m. local time in gaza fighting was paused for the first time to allow for the hostage release. and to let humanitarian aid through to civilians. the cease-fire appears to be holding. part of the deal the u.s., qatar and egypt helped broker. israel releasing three times as many palestinian terror convicts, 39 in exchange. griff: one of the hostages held from october 7th a 3-year-old israeli american girl. she is not expected to be among those released today. molly: trey yengst is live at an air base awaiting the handover. trey, to you. good morning. at any moment that first group of hostages will be released into the hands of the red cross and taken to this air base in s ....
Helping those who want to leave while suggesting some want to remain in the country. we are proud to say that we have brought over 6,000 americans home, and we remain deeply committed to facilitating the safe transit of u.s. citizens, lprs and at-risk afghans who wish to leave afghanistan, and we will continue our efforts. we will be relentless in doing so. mike: corey, welcome. is the biden administration trying to take credit for the brave efforts of you and other veterans groups? i would say is, first off, thank you for having me on to to try and cover this. it s very important that we set the record straight here. the in-country state department efforts by certain bordering countries are certainly trying to do their best, but i think d.c. politics has continued to try and rear its ugly head and take credit for things that groups like ours basically went forward and conducted. i was one of many team members, all former special operations, who was successful in completing the ve ....