Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Monday, September 18th.

Five wrongfully detained Americans are being released by Iran today as part of a deal with the US.

An official says they're now on a flight on their way to Qatar,

and CNN's Nick Robertson has more.

Hours away from getting their feet on a country where they will have freedom,

which is what's been denied them,

one of them for eight years,

the other four for about five years.

So hugely significant, hugely big deal for them,

hugely big deal for their families. Hours, weeks, months, more than a year,

painstaking negotiations behind the scenes and of course their release is only part of the picture

because there will be the debate about how it was achieved and what the

Iranians get and what the United States get.

The agreement between the US and Iran

includes six billion dollars of restricted Iranian funds

being partly freed up.

They'll be transferred from South Korean accounts to banks in Qatar,

where Iran will have access to them, but the money will be monitored by the US and can only be spent

on humanitarian needs. And the US will release five Iranian nationals.

These are individuals that they have a right to do what they want, but I'm not going to be

deterred from that. That was how Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaking to Fox News about challenges to his leadership.

McCarthy is facing an uphill battle to get a spending bill passed in Congress to avoid a government

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