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to 3:00 p.m. eastern. our coverage continues with "katy tur reports" right now. good to be with you. i'm katy tur. as we speak, we are expecting more hostages to be released including potentially one american. two israeli women have been released today, hours before the extended cease fire is set to end. that is unless there's a deal to keep it going. it is a precarious situation. hamas is claiming three of the captives have died, a mother and her two young sons. a 4-year-old and a 10-month-old. the idf cannot confirm if that's true. trying to keep the lines of communication open a...

group of hostages being held by hamas is expected to be released. wolf? >> 13 women and children are set to be freed in that first group. the israeli government says it has the list of names and has notified the families. but in advance of all of this, israel says it has conducted hundreds of strikes in gaza. cnn's jeremy diamond is a few miles from gaza right now. he's joining us from sterot and he just heard a bombardment last hour. we also have oren leiberman here with me in tel aviv. oren, let me go to you first. walk us through what we'll see on the ground. >> wolf, a few moving...

debated over the last several hours, whether or not a deal to free the israeli hostages has been approved or not. we don't have that information for you quite yet. >> as we await the developments here, obviously very significant. thank you, matthew chance. thank you, all of you for joining us. ac 360 starts now. the waiting must be almost unbearable, but for at least some of the families whose loved ones have been held captive by terrorists for the last 46 days, the waiting could be closer to being over and their loved ones could be that much closer to coming home. john berman here...

you, andy scholes. thank you very much for being with us. i'll see you tomorrow. and thanks to all of you for joining us. don't go anywhere. "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning, everyone. glad you're starting your day with us. here are fife things to know. happening right now, the israeli military carrying out an operation at the besieged hospital in gaza. there are reports of active fire fights inside of that collects. we'll hear from the idf live later this morning. and new hope for a deal to release the hostages. president biden says he believes it's going to hap...

some 240 hostages. >> i believe it's going to happen. president biden suggesting china's economy hz real problems ahead of his meting with xi jinping today. >> relations are at their lowest point in half a century. >> we want to signal to the american people and our allies that he is engaged with china in a responsible way. a government shutdown likely averted. speaker johnson had to rely heavily on democratic votes to get this over the finish line, and a few fistfights as well. >> i got elbowed in the back ask there was kevin. >> if i hit somebody, they would know i hit them. >>...