Hamas releases Israeli hostages, Speaker chaos, flight scare

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Two Israeli women are released by Hamas. CNN's Alex Marquardt reports on what we know about them, and what went into securing their freedom. Daniel O’Shea is a former hostage negotiator and Navy Seal Commander. He tells Laura Coates what goes on behind the scenes in choosing particular hostages for release, and what he thinks Hamas is trying to accomplish in this case. Plus, can the GOP elect a House Speaker before the deadline to fund Government on November 17? And, an off duty pilot allegedly tries to shut down the engines of a plane. Laura speaks with two passengers from the ordeal. For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN’s podcast ‘Tug of War: Attack on Israel’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are two more hostages that are now free. But what about those who are still
0:07.0	being held? There are more than 200 of them and they are somewhere in Gaza.
0:12.0	Tonight on Laura Coates Live.
0:14.0	Well, the news tonight on Laura Coates Live.
0:17.8	Well, the news tonight is bittersweet seeing the footage of 79 year old
0:25.8	Noree Cooper and 85 year old Y Kevin Liffshitz being helped out of an ambulance is an
0:31.8	image that none of us will soon forget.
0:34.0	They're frailty, their age, all of us trying to imagine how they were treated the day they were taken,
0:41.6	what happened in those moments, let alone what they must have
0:44.9	endured in the interim. Well now both women are free. They've been released by
0:49.6	Hamas after more than two weeks in captivity.
0:53.2	Medics song in Egyptian state affiliated media outlet
0:56.1	that both were in stable condition.
0:58.5	They are in a Tel Aviv hospital tonight.
1:02.4	But their husbands who were kidnapped with them are still
1:06.2	being held by Hamas. Daniel Lipschitz talked to Anderson Cooper just a little while
1:10.8	ago after seeing his grandmother.
1:15.3	And I'm telling you we have to be fast.
1:18.3	Seeing my grandma like that and from one side so happy but from the other side I see in her eyes what she's been through and I know that the timeline, the clock is ticking and making everything to bring all those hostages back is so evident now and it's the top mission now for everybody.
1:45.0	We now know that four hostages have been released,
1:49.0	but the authorities in Israel said that over the weekend
1:52.0	they believe 210 people are still
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