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Our cnn teams are on the ground witnessing smoke rising after an explosion in the citys heavily populated Southern Suburbs this latest strike comes just hours after his baloch confirmed that israeli strike on friday killed its longtime leader and founder, Hassan Nasrallah a senior iranian commander, was also killed, according to iran state media, the news of this relishes death is being celebrated by senior us officials who call his demise, welcome President Biden, issuing a formal public statement only moments ago, calling it, and im quoting him now, a measure of justice but hes also again calling for deescalation with fears growing Big Time right now about the possibility of a fullscale war breaking out in The Middle East around Supreme Leader saying today. And im quoting him now, all regional resistance forces end quote our standing with hezbollah is realized already intercepted a missile launched from yemen, where the iran backed houthi rebels are based and this is just coming into cnn right now, the u. S. State department ordering non emergency personnel and their families to immediately leave lebanon amid growing fears amid growing fears that All Out War is imminent, cnns kevin liptack, and Cnns Jomana Karadsheh is tracking all of these latebreaking developments for us, kevin youre there in washington, what more is the biden administration is saying about all of this . Well, it certainly theyre watching all of this very closely with the eye towards a wider conflict. What opening between israel and hezbollah, between Israel And Iran and certainly Thats Something that President Biden and all of his top officials very much want to avoid. And you see that reflected in the state it meant that we received from President Biden just within the last hour, calling the death of Hassan Nasrallah a measure of justice for his victims, which he specified includes americans and saying that Hassan Nasrallah and the Terror Group Hee lee, He Led Hezbollah were responsible for Killing Hundreds Of Americans over for four Decade Reign of terror, the president saying that ultimately our aim is to deescalate the ongoing conflicts in both Gaza And Lebanon through diplomatic means. He says that its time for these deals to close for the threats to israel to be removed, and for the broader middle East Region to gain greater stability. And just as a reminder, wolf the United States had been working to secure a 21 Day Ceasefire across the Israellebanon Border ahead of this strike In Beirut, the prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had essentially rejected that, but the u. S. Says that it was still continuing to work to try and lower the temperature to try and ease the tensions and in their hopes to try and bring a ceasefire about in gaza as well. Of course, this strike certainly would seem to cause greater escalation in the region. And Thats Something that President Biden is very concerned about. And you see that reflected in the decision from the State Department that we just learned about within the last couple of minutes to order certain employees and their families at the u. S. Embassy In Beirut to evacuate lebanon. Now this does stop short of a full embassy evacuation. They arent going that far yet, but they say that due to the volatile and unpredictable Security Situation In Beirut, theyre asking these people, theyre ordering them to leave. And i think that gives you a sense of just how serious the u. S. Is taking this situation and how quickly they think that it could deteriorate. Of course, we have heard from President Biden from the Defense Secretary Lloyd austin from the Secretary Stay antony blinken, that they think diplomacy is the way to go, because they do view a potential war between Israel And Lebanon as very destructive. And you heard just yesterday from the defense portray lloyd austin, that casualties in that kind of war would exceed those in the war in gaza. And so theyre watching all of this very, very closely. And certainly they want to lower the temperatures so basically looking looking at the statement that the State Department released there. Theyre ordering nonessential us embassy personnel and their families to immediately leave lebanon. There also urging all us citizens right now. All us citizens who may be In Beirut or elsewhere in lebanon to immediately leave a statement saying due to the increased Volatility Following airstrikes withIn Beirut and the volatile and unpredictable Security Situation throughout lebanon, the u. S embassy urges us citizens to depart lebanon while commercial options still remain available. It adds this at this time, commercial flights are available but at reduced capacity if the Security Situation worsens, commercial options to depart may become unavailable and they urge all us citizens to check Flight Options right now, this is a pretty serious development thats unfolding kevin underscores the danger that exists in lebanon, right now. Yeah. And i think youve been hearing the State Department and american officials sort of ramp up these warnings over the last several weeks. And it certainly over the last several days, as it appeared that an escalation was at hand, as those crossborder tensions grew worse and worse. And i think what they want to do is to make sure that americans are able to get out while theyre still able to get out, because already youve seen today certain commercial Air Carriers canceling their flights to beirut and there is a certain fear and theres a precedent for these situations to deteriorate very quickly and for a commercial Air Travel to suddenly very quickly become unavailable for americans who may want to get out. And that leaves the State Department in washington generally more responsible for trying to get americans out so they want to make sure that as they are able to, that they are able to leave. And it does underscore how tense the situation is, how quickly they think that it could deteriorate. But at the same time, they dont think that its necessarily inevitable. And thats why you see President Biden calling for deescalation now calling for renewed diplomacy. Of course, that large part will depend on what iran does next and what hezbollah does next. But it will also depend on israel and it will depend on the Prime Minister netanyahu, the United States at this point doesnt appear to have a ton of influence with the government of israel at the moment. Thats part of why i havent seen President Biden speak with his counterpart, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in over a month. But certainly all sides now calling for diplomacy, and they are watching very closely to see how this will unfold. Very tense situation. Indeed, kevin liptak, thanks for your reporting. Well get back to you. Im sure soon. Youre working your sources. I want to go to Cnns Jomana Karadsheh right now. Shes joining us live from beirut. Jomana, the idf, Israel Defense forces, now claimed it killed a senior hezbollah Intelligence Leader in strike there earlier this morning. What more can you tell us what else you learning well, you know, wolf these airstrikes have continued can you now for more than 24 hours these intense pretty much continuous strikes on beiruts Southern Burn Suburbs where you do have the presence of hezbollah. This is one of the most densely populated parts of the country, and we have been seeing airstrike after airstrike, which started of course yesterday at about 6 00 p. M. Local time. Would that huge airstrikes that we know killed the leader of a husband . Hassan nasrallah. And since then, the israeli military made it clear that they are going to continue striking several areas of the southern Summer Verbs late last night, the arabic Language Spokesman for the idf, in a post On X telling the run because it does of several neighborhoods that they need to get out of these neighborhoods because they were going to start striking what they said are hezbollah weapons, Storage Facility in for time after that, its very hard to know if most People Age to get out of these areas. We saw the israeli military begin those airstrikes that as i said, are continuing right now. Throughout the day and into the night. Right now. And what weve also seen is this Mass Exodus. If people not just from these neighborhoods, but from other parts of beiruts Southern Suburbs. And in the last hour or so we are again seeing the spokesman for the idf in a post On X. Again saying hes issued a warning to the residents of lebanon especially those in the bekaa region, the Southern Suburbs of beirut and Southern Lebanon, if you are near hezbollah property, Combat Equipment an interest or other facilities belonging to it for your safety and the safety of your families. We ask you to stay away from these areas and not returned. I mean, this is first first of all, wolf, people would not really know if they are near these hezbollah facilities. And the second thing here is this is addressed to the people of lebanon. So you can imagine if we saw so much fear, panic that led to a Mass Exodus of people from the Southern Suburbs yesterday. What is this going to cause right now in this country where people were for are already absolutely terrified of these airstrikes and of what is coming next. I mean, in the last ten days or so, lebanese officials have told us they have seen the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people. It was mostly in Southern Lebanon and in the eastern because region where these airstrikes strikes have been focused. But now you are seeing this expand beyond that here in the capital and beyond. And in addition to that and when we talk about displacement wolf, as i mentioned to you last hour, we have seen people sleeping on the streets, not in a facilities are up and running right now. In schools that have been turned into shelters to accommodate people. So you have families who dont know where to go and, you know, this has been blow after blow. I mean, a major blow would not begin to describe what has happened to hezbollah in the last 24 hours, but as we have heard from lebanese officials and as we are witnessing thank here, it is taking its toll as well on the civilian population, on the women and children of lebanon and people here really fear that this may not be the end, that this is just the Beginning Wolf yeah, thats an enormous fear thats going on right now. Jomana, well get back to you stay safe over there In Beirut. Kevin liptack, thanks very much. Once again to you. I know youre in washington content. I want to get some analysis right now on all of these Breaking News developments in The Middle East joining us now is victoria coates. Shes a former deputy national security advisor, and shes a Vice President of Foreign Policy at the heritage foundation victoria, thanks so much for joining us. How do you assess this call for all american citizens basically to leave . Lebanon right now this call from the State Department well, good afternoon, wolf, and i think this is only prudent when you when you have these very volatile situations to a request nonessential personnel evacuated from the Embassy Compound and most of your viewers probably dont know this, but the Embassy Beirut is very difficult to secure physically, so it is vulnerable. So this is a smart thing to do. And then to have people take advantage of commercial options while those are still available, then there are also plans for a maritime evacuation to cyprus that are probably being dusted off and refreshed. So i think that the State Department is doing exactly what it should do in this Situation Today that israel has created an opportunity right now to break his bellows grip on the people of lebanon. And you suggested that a ceasefire would only serve because a lifeline to that group were talking about his bella. What are you suggesting should happen now well, this has been a remarkable, really three weeks, but particularly 72 hours wolf, where israel is broken, the paradigm, which is that you can go just so far, you cant go any farther that youre trying thank to reason with hezbollah. I mean, over and over again from 1990 on, the United Nations and the international community have offered hezbollah deals that they can be politically active if Theyll Justice Arm this fighting could stop tomorrow. If they stopped fight, aspiring rockets at israel, if they would do that that is where israel would stop that they they dont want to be doing this and what the other Thing Weve learned though, with the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah, is that israel has really restored its intelligence edge, which was after the catastrophic failure of october 7, in some question well, thats back with a vengeance and the region is on notice that israel can reach out and touch you wherever you are. So my hope would be that the people of lebanon would see this as an opportunity to break this stalemate, to break the grip of hezbollah on their Society Turning that beautiful, wonderful country into a really problematic, almost failed state i noticed that in the president , President Biden statement, he said that he called the israeli airstrike that, wound up killing Hassan Nasrallah, a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of americans israelis, and lebanese civilians. And a lot of people dont know the history in lebanon that there has been enormous tension, including occasionally bloodshed between the largely Shia Muslims who could Trail Hezbollah and the city muslims who are a main part of lebanon, right . Yes. And one thats important to remember that after nasrallah took over his villa in 1992, he immediately started the plot that was executed and wellness are as two years later to blow up the emea, a jewish center there killing at people thats in our Hemisphere Wolf we just mark the 30th Anniversary of that. So yes, hezbollah is a horrible problem in lebanon, but its doesnt stay in lebanon and they also have designs on americans and on on our region yeah a lot of people dont realize that a lot of lebanese sunni muslims, mostly sunni muslims, have no great love for hezbollah at all. And ive been to beirut, ive been to lebanon and ive heard that directly. Its a serious problem. Was his bullet directly involved in the bombing of the us embassy In Beirut and the bombing of the u. S. Marine barracks In Beirut this was this was justice has blow is coming together so particularly the Marine Barracks bombing in 1983 was a, was kind of a seminal event for the than nascent has hezbollah. And ive worked on that a fair amount because my old boss Don Rumsfeld was called the day after the bombing on October 23rd to be President Reagan Special Envoy for The Middle East, and to try to put some, some some kind of stabilization into the situation. And quite frankly, and he would say this if he were here, he failed. It was not a situation that could be resolved, then as has hezbollah started gaining strength. So my hope would be that you know, after now, 40 plus years of this that, that israel is seriously degrading hezbollah to the extent that it Cant Function as a proper military, that its degraded to a Guerrilla Group that lebanon, particularly the sunni, as you said, but also the Christians Wealth might see this as their opportunity to say to Xi Shiite lebanese, this is over that weve got to work together. Weve got to reestablish our country. As i said, its beautiful country. It could be very prosperous and secure, but not under these circumstances. Absolutely right. Victoria coates. Thank you very much for your analysis. We appreciate it very, very much and were going to get back to the unfolding drama thats taking place in The Middle East right now. But theres another major story thats taking place down at Cape Canaveral were Space X is hoping to launch its Crew Crew9 Mission to the international Space Station, part of the mission to bring those two landed astronauts home. Finally, after months and months and months being stranded there, Cnns Kristin Fisher is joining us right now. Well, actually before we go to kristen, kristen, lets listen in to see what theyre saying copy, One Alpha those nine Merlin Engines now providing 1. 7 million pounds of Thrust Propelling Falcon Nine and crew9 and continuing to get good calls from teams here on the ground incredible views mean we are just a little bit past 30 minutes or 30 seconds into our ninth rotational permission to lavatory nominal onboard Dragon And Falcon nine with good callouts from Mission Control that everything looking good with that Stage One is prowling down to pass through Max Q, which is the period of maximum damage, Dynamic Pressure on falcon nine during Ascent Confirmation of Max Q is supersonic. And falcon nine is now traveling south mr. Than the Speed Of Sound one copy one bravo not call out for one. Bravo means were in the second and final Board Mode for the first stage and continuing to get good performance. Chill its underway the crew is polling at just over two gs at this point. Next up, we heard the Engine Show on The Second Stage and back engine has begun and then we will have nico are main Engine Cutoff where the nine engines on the first stage will cut off ahead of the first and second stages. And then well separate from one another then thats single Merlin Vacuum and Jen August 2 stage will ignite and continue to carry crew9 to orbit while the first stage begins its journey back to Earth Crew is now tried very important, very dramatic development. Indeed, the Spacecraft Heading to the international Space Station right now for fivemonth michigan, Kristin Fisher is joining us on the phone right now. Kristen clearly one of the major objectives in addition to whatever else theyre doing is to eventually bring home these two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and suni williams, right thats right. I mean, wolf, this is essentially a Rescue Mission of sorts, although dont Tell Boeing that they certainly dont like to look at this mission. Crew9, a mission like that inside the Dragon Capsule that you can screen right now. Theres only two astronauts one nasa astronaut, the commander of this mission can Nick Hague and a russian cosmonaut. There are two empty seats. There were two other crew members could have been training with those other two people inside for over a yearandahalf, but they were kicked off the mission to make room for those boeing Starliner Test pilots, which Wilmore And Suni williams, whove now been up at the international space they station for about 100 days now. So those two empty seats inside the capsule, right now, definitely a little bit different for spacex and nasa, but that is what was needed to do in order to bring butch and sunny home in February Of 2025 so far, this is looking really good. This was the first time that humans have ever launched from this new Launch Pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force station. This mission was delayed first by a hurricane but they were able to dodge some thunderstorms today, wolf and get off the ground yeah. Lets hope for the best. Lets Hope Butch and sunny come home theyve been up their way, way too long. How long have they been up there stranded will. They marched in midjune so theyve been up there for about 100 days now remember this was only supposed to be a roughly eight day long mission for butch and sunny. It now is going to turn into an eight month long mission and while theyre up there, they really just assimilated in become a part of the national Space Station crew. And so whats going to happen . Happen is this Dragon Spacecraft is going to spend the next 24 hours or so moving through space. Its been going to dock with the international Space Station. And then the russian cosmonaut and the nasa astronaut, the commander of this mission, will become part of the international Space Station crew. And so, which in sunny are going to be conducting scientific experiments working on maintaining the Space Station. Theyve really shifted now from becoming boeing Starliner Test pilots to a part of the international Space Station crew lets hope they come home and you have two empty seats aboard that spacecraft to be able to come home. And lets hope they do come home soon. Theyve been up there way, way too long. Kristin fisher always helping us on these stories. Thank you very, very much. And well be back in a moment. This was the Highest Rated oprah Winfrey Show of all time. Were still talking about it open the door to have discussions about weight in a way that we had not before tv on the edge, moments that shaped our Culture Tomorrow at nine on cnn to avoid digital threats, just turn on nord vpn your protection against strikers, malicious websites and malware and downloads get the deal now new iphone 16 pro, brazen Apple Intelligence is print drcs. 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Com if you or a loved one have Neizha Helium up, well send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to 14000 top of the Breaking News out of The Middle East very significant developments, indeed, israeli defense forces are continuing to launch attacks on various hezbollah targets in Lebanon Cnn teams seeing another huge plume of smoke after a strike earlier today in the beirut area, these strikes coming after the iranbacked militant Group Hezbollah announced that israeli strike on friday killed its leader. They confirmed it. Hassan nasrallah im joined now by Idf Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter lerner colonel, thanks so much for joining off the idf as you know, says, that strike in Southern Beirut in that area also killed a senior hezbollah Intelligence Leader. First of all, what can you tell us about that . Operation . You older as its been called is designed to change the reality on the ground that weve been facing four under the control of Hassan Nasrallah for over three decades. Now. So what realize this afternoon was we conducted a strike in line with what weve been fulfilling before. The strike against nasrallah and after which means taking out decapitating the major leadership. So this intelligence official, a senior intelligence official, which is part of Hezbollahs Intelligence Directorate was taken out but also weve conducted continued to conduct strikes against strategic assets of hezbollah such as the precisely guided, Precision Guided Missiles or rocket, rocket launchers. And finally, the third component of our activities throughout the day, as hot an interception of those are actually planning, conducting or conducting Rocket Launches and so we will be conducting an interception of them, taking them out of the equation i know that israeli Military And Intelligence officials were saying that they thought they had excellent intelligence where Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, was. But how did you actually confirm . Im just curious. Colonel how did you actually confirm that hezbollah leader was killed in that strike In Beirut wolf, weve been conducting and planning for a confrontation with nasrallah precisely because he was building such a huge arsenal of weapons they had over 200,000 rockets, missiles, drones, owns all of these capabilities of being, they accumulated for one purpose to go to war with israel in order to be prepared for that action, israel, since 2006 has been conducting extensive Intelligence Surveillance in order to understand the ins and outs of hezbollah. And indeed, we had reviewed fields the nerve center, the hezbollah headquarters, where they were convening yesterday together with effectively with his Jihad Council Planning to conduct more attacks, more War Efforts to try and infiltrate into israel, perhaps. And this is when we conducted the strike in the course of this operation. And in the aftermath of that on that based on the understanding of what we knew where he was on the realtime basis the results of our strikes of we knew what we had conducted and how it would being conducted and indeed, of course, based on intelligence in the aftermath, that was coming in, we had concluded in the early hours of this this morning that indeed he had been killed in the strike a conclusion. Thats that later received the approval also of hezbollah themselves, that confirmed our understanding of the reality said these israeli Military Operations against hezbollah are meant to degrade and dismantle hezbollah and other Hassan Nasrallah, the leader is dead. Have you achieved your intended goals . Are they built over the last 20 years. Theres huge arsenal, walz. So its not going to be a quick, a hit and run. Its not going to be an over over anytime soon from our perspective, we will pursue the terrorists, kill them in their steps and take them out. As President Biden said, in his announcement about the direct strike on nasrallah . It is justice for all of his victims this person, this arch terrorists, left a trail of death, destruction, and devastation in israel in The Middle East. And well beyond in the us and europe as well. So were not concerned overhead and indeed we will continue to make sure that whoever tries to pick up the control over that whoever tries to lift an arm against israel to try and strike against israel in these actions, we wont allow that to happen, so we will continue to push forward. We continue to take out hezbollah operatives to take out. And does roy their terrorist capabilities, the rockets, the drones, the guided missiles, and indeed we indent intent in creating a new order i know there are certain restrictions on what you can say publicly, but is it possible, colonel, that we could see israeli Ground Troops move inside lebanon in the coming days and Weeks Lieutenant general herzi halevi, the Idf Chief of staff spoke with forces, with reserve forces earlier this week. And he spoke to them about that option, wolf, we need to understand theres a huge amount of different tools that we have in our toolbox. Ground operations is one of them. We are preparing for that if it is required, if were in we receive the instructions and of course, the primary goal with regard to the front Width Hezbollah is too restore Safety And Security. So that 60,000 israelis that have been evacuated from the front precisely because of the aggression actions of hezbollah can go home safely and securely. So we will achieve that goal. Were determined to achieve that goal, and we will use all of the tools necessary in order to gain that realization are you concerned at all that iran could directly get involved well, of course, weve seen in the past that around has on one occasion directly engaged israel. It didnt work out too good for them from our perspective, we intercepted together with international allies of course us, the uk, and others against iran, because iran is a bad player, i would suggest that around look closely how weve dealt with hamas, the leadership of hamas, and how in the last weekandahalf, weve effectively decapitated hezbollah from its senior leadership all the way down to the operational and tactical well staff. There is a lot to lose here. I dont think anybody is interested in a further escalation. A broader war. But israel needs to be prepared for that. We have to take the necessary steps as i said you wouldnt be happy being evacuated from your house because a terrorist organization had fired rockets that your town and forced you to evacuate. You would demand to go back home 60,000 israelis are demanding that from the israeli government the idf is instructed to restore that Safety And Security for a year. Now weve been trying through the roots of negotiations and diplomacy i see that hasnt realized the outcome that is necessary for the people that have been evacuated. And so now we are pushing forward with military Force Colonel Peter lerner, thanks so much for joining us today when we come back, the Power Vacuum inside his bella right now, whos likely to replace the founder of the largest Paramilitary Group in The Middle East our own Nic Robertson Is Standing by. Hell join us. Well discuss tomorrow. Well enough, Amelia Ana Navarro takes a very the personal journey across the nation to explore the latino vote. 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This Trellas Killing is stoking deep concerns over the possibility thats a very real possibility of a fullscale war igniting throughout The Middle East. Cnns chief international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson, is joining us right now. Hes live in Tel Aviv. Nic first of all, talk to our viewers a little bit about what it means for his ballot to be no longer led by us run this rela and do we actually know who is likely to replace him . It means a massive upheaval in a massive change which is obviously going to happen because not just the Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has been removed from the leadership of hezbollah, but a very significant number of commanders, commanders that the southern front commanders have air forces, drones missiles. These are the commanders that the idf has been targeting. We dont know yet yet who is going to take over fulltime if you will, from Hassan Nasrallah his number two im a name. Cassie is expected to sort of fill in as caretaker Secretary General, and we have an insight into his character, his a few years older im nasrallah, his sort of in his early 70s. And when he was speaking at a funeral for some of those hezbollah commanders who were killed last week. Speaking at a funeral last weekend, he was sounded very sort of aggressive, if you will, that theres a new chapter now that this is a battle without limits. So hes looks like because he was the number two to nasrallah. He looks like being the caretaker Secretary General, but the person that some people are pointing to that may take over more permanently is the cousin of nasrallah much closer to his age, believed to be about 60. Nasrallah was in his Mid 60s and that is hashem to have a diene. He not only as a cousin of nasrallahs, but he is also married into the family of very important iranian military structure, if you will. Heres the soninlaw of Qasem Soleimani remembering that the united it is states in a Drone Strike killed Qasem Soleimani early in 2020. He was soleimani was the iranians know Number One, top overseas forces operative. He was the commander of the Quds Force of the elites irgc, a raines irans revolutionary guard counsel. So not only is safieddine connected by birth to nasrallah is also killed next into their, so theyre very powerful backers in iran, to a very important figure in the iranian structure and iranian mindset as well. He could be the person that picks up the reins and we dont know what his life is he going to be hard line than nasrallah . Is he going to take softer Views Nasrallah was very practiced and this is the big question. You what is the future leadership of hezbollah going to be like and how are they going to act . And of course thats, thats the milliondollar question at the moment we shall see our Nic Robertson in Tel Aviv for us. Thank you very much. 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Isabel tell our viewers what youre seeing, what youre hearing, how bad is it there . Hey wolf. Here in the last 30 minutes or so, ive seen a dramatic increase of activity from first responders. Clearly their zoning in on this area. Now by the Swannanoa Swannanoa River attempting to clear buildings. And in fact, if we push in that away, youre going to see a truck right here. And first its responders with hard hats. Im told that that is the Fema Search and rescue team. I saw them just moments ago with these polls searching through the bushes on this area that was completely under floodwaters just yesterday. It appears to me searching for bodies, making sure that there arent victims, making sure that there arent People In Need of help, and then clearing each building and moving on to different zone. So they will be doing that. Ive seen helicopters two from different first responders and a Search And Rescue drone as well. This area, of course, very hard hit downtown asheville, not a lot of damage. Youre going to see different spectrums of Danger And Risk of what happened here, depending on what where you go up higher in the mountains, higher elevation, 4,000 feet or so. Were Hearing Stories of people that are trapped, including a mother of two whos pregnant that we spoke with, who says she has no food. She cant get out the roads and error roads around the mountain have collapsed. There are bridges that are damage. She is stranded. We were able to chat with her for via text beyond that here in asheville and the Biltmore Village Area Business Owners, they have a long road ahead of them to recovery. Listen to one Business Owner i spoke with sense of just the monetary loss that is here i dont even want to think about that right now. No. Understood you know, we we i mean, the bright side is weve salvaged start over our fleet, which his lies nobodys hurt so its just how quickly you can rebound from this one of the biggest challenges, wolf for people here is a lack of communication. Theres no Internet Cell Service is completely out, so people trying to get a hold of Loved Ones to tell them that theyre okay. Theyre unable to do so. Now, going on over 24 hours, also, water, theres been significant Waterline Break here in asheville, so theres no more running water. All of these very, very challenging conditions to try to dig out from helene Wolf Isabel rosales in thank you very much. And well continue our breaking News Coverage, special coverage on the death of Hassan Nasrallah right after a quick break the wait is over. Tim Walz And J. D. 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