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In Israel,
anticipation is growing ahead of tomorrow morning's expected release of hostages as part of the first phase of the ceasefire plan with Hamas.
As Palestinians stream back to devastated northern Gaza,
Israelis packed Hostage Square and Tel Aviv last night, where they gave a warm welcome to U.S.
Envoy Steve Wittkopf, Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner.
Celebration, there's hope and cautious optimism.
I'd say I was at the downtown Tel Aviv Public Plaza dubbed Hostage Square where there has been a lot of hugging and an adulation for President Trump for personally brokering this deal.
President Trump is scheduled to leave for the Middle East this afternoon.
He is to speak to Israel's parliament tomorrow and co-hosts a summit on Gaza in Egypt.
Officials say they found no survivors after a massive blast at a Tennessee Explosives plant Friday morning.
Cynthia Abrams of Member Station WPLN reports on one of several vigils that have been held in the rural community southwest of Nashville.
Around 45 people gathered at a church in McHugh in Tennessee on Saturday afternoon.
The congregation's pastor said in his remarks that it would be hard to find anybody in the community that was untouched by the tragedy.
Linda Sutton, one of the vigil's attendees, confirmed this.