Good evening I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm on the Navaz on the news hour tonight

Israeli forces battle Hamas in a refugee camp in Gaza as hostage negotiations continue.

Congress struggles to contain the federal debt and deficit as another potential government

shutdown looms. And a program in Thailand looks to count potential government

down looms.

And a program in Thailand looks to counteract the increasing

trend of grandparents raising grandchildren

as farming becomes a less reliable source of income.

What climate change is doing is exacerbating impacts on other more traditional economic and political

drivers of migration. Welcome to the news hour. A day of waiting, watching, and worry for the families of

hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Weeks of negotiations have led to an agonizing day

as talks continue to free some of the nearly 240 hostages.

Under a proposed deal, Hamas would reportedly exchange 50 women and children they hold for 150 women

and children in Israeli detention.

Nick Schifran has the latest.

In Tel Aviv today, the families of Israeli hostages united in prayer.

They don't know if their loved ones are alive, but they hold on to new hope they might come home soon.

I think the only thing that I could call justice is bring everyone back home.

After more than a month of negotiations between Israel, Hamas, and the U.S. mediated by Qatar,

every side indicated today a deal was closer than ever. We're now very close, very

close. You could bring some of these sauces home very soon, but I don't want to get

the details of things because money is done until it's done.

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