We do continue the Breaking News this afternoon, good Afternoon Everybody i Martha Maccallum and in New York and we are willing for updates, expect them very soon. You see the two Podium Tear the pentagon and the State Department we will hear from both, we just heard from Dixilyn Van get you caught up to speed on what he said just moments ago. But the Breaking News today is that iran has bombarded israel with 200 missiles ballistic missile just heard the Secretary Of State Antony Blinken put that number on it and theyre calling It Payback for the killing of Hezbollahs Leader and a hamas official. Hassan nasrallah and also ismail haniyeh. These were two of the highest individuals in iran and both of them, excuse me, 111 and one in iran, have been taken out so in both lebanon excuse me. They have promised crushing attacks if israel strikes back. U. S. Officials have warns iran will face severe consequences. Watch this. Martha that was the skies over Tel Aviv earlier today and jerusalem.
country. crowds gathering to pay their respects to the former prime minister of japan shinzo abe. what happens feel like an incident that shook the foundations of japan s safety. the funeral and services for the prime minister will be held monday and tuesday with at attendance limited to close family and friends. i m pamela brown. you re in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. hundreds of pro-choice protesters in the streets of washington today demanding more action. a day after president biden signed an executive order to try to protect abortion rights. our brian todd has been out with the crowds, brian? pamela, an intermittent driving series of rainstorms didn t stop hundreds of protesters from gathering here in franklin square park and marching over to the white h house. a very ipassionate crowd. some were threatened if they pressed against the white house fence. some did that and actually tied themself to the white house fence briefly but we didn t witness arres
ba.5 emerge. according to the latest cdc data, ba.5 is causing more than half, 53.6% of covid-19 infections here in the united states. and other omicron subvariants circulating right now are ba.2.121 causing 27% of infections and ba.4 causing 16.5% and ba.2 causing 2.8%. these subvariants, pamela, are circulating at a time when nearly a third of the u.s. population lives in a county with covid-19 community levels that the cdc considers to be high. those counties are a high level are spread across many major u.s. regions like new york city, houston s harris county, miami-dade county and las vegas clark county. so even though our lives are returning to normal, this is just a reminder that the virus is still out there. pamela? it very much is, jackelyn
i can remember being my first shuttle flight in 1999, sts-103, we held one of our or aborted one of our launch not because they thought there was anything wrong with the vehicle, but there was something wrong with the paper work. and like you said, you know, cross the ts and dot the is is important here as well. so they re saying this is they re just checking out a few things, could be normal, could be to your point, maybe it is paperwork. sometimes you get stuck at the gate on a regular plane, and you hear that they re waiting for paperwork. it is interesting as you hear that, there has been a lot made about this letter that was signed by 21 current and former employees of blue origin. they raised some safety concerns and they said in that letter, of the it 2 121 people there, they wouldn t be comfortable getting on a blue origin flight. i asked audrey powers about that, she said she didn t have