labor experts told CBS MoneyWatch.

one of the officials told CBS News.The children are being prioritized as part of the first group for a potential hostage release aimed at ultimately bringing home the roughly 240 hostages that were taken during the Oct.

is mediating negotiations with the group.and it remains unsure exactly how many people are still being held captive.has been flying unarmed drones over Gaza to help locate hostages an indication of attempts to improve an imperfect intelligence picture from the Palestinian enclave.

Qatar served as mediator and the International Committee of the Red Cross was the neutral entity that escorted the hostages from Hamas custody in Gaza to Israeli custody.The politically-charged negotiationshave gone through various permutations in recent weeks.

He was a prisoner himself for decades in Israel before being freed as part of a controversial 2011 prisoner swap for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Hostage diplomacy is always complicated.They love to snuggle with him on the couch when hes hanging out.

But she knew she was the best person to take care of him.the judge asked her a specific question.

Kris Armstrong was driving between her two jobs when she got a call and the caller asked her to pull over.They were unable to tell me if he was alive or not.