Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining me. Im Omar Jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We start this hour with breaking News Hurricane Milton is now a category one hurricane threatening floridas West Coast with devastating Storm Surge, flooding, and damaging winds. Its forecast to intensify into at least a category three storm before making landfall in just a few days the team covering this dangerous storm, Cnn Correspondent Rafael Romo And Cnn meteorologist Elisa Raffa are here. I want to start with you, rafael, though what are we learning as far as preparations and other things go . Hey omar, this is a very serious situation in addition to the clearing of State Of Emergency and 51 counties, florida governor Ron Desantis has ordered Management Sites to remain open 24 7, so that many areas covered by debris after Hurricane Helene can be cleared before the arrival of milton, which became a hurricane this afternoon more than 800 guardsmen are currently deployed for debris removal, but the
And south dakota. Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Lets stay with that breaking news, developments in the Middle East and lebanon. The Israeli Military says its carried out a targeted strike on the lebanese capital beirut, after hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets into israel. Lebanons Health Ministry says eight people have been killed these are the life pictures, they are coming into us all the time showing still the aftermath of the blast. You can still see areas of smoke in the Southern Suburbs, that is the area that has been targeted by the israelis in the last little while. Lebanons Health Ministry says eight people have been killed and at least 59 injured in the attack on a suburb in southern beirut. A number of rockets have also been fired into northern israel. There are a number of reports that the target of Israels Strike was senior Hezbollah Commander Ibrahim Aqil. Meanwhile within the last hour theres also been more sirens and a number of rockets fired into northern israel. T
the u.s. striking three facilities in iraq used by iranian backed militants. carley: the act of retaliation comes after three u.s. service members were hurt in an attack on a base in northern iraq. griff: right now black smoke rising over gaza. the intense fighting comes after iran s president issuing a threat against israel after one of their commanders was killed in syria. david spunt is live in washington with the latest tracking all of it for us. hey, david. hey, griff, hey everyone, one of our service members was injured critically. president biden ordered the strikes after u.s. forces came under attack by a drone. according to national security sources, the iranian-backed militia hezbollah and other affiliated groups under the umbrella of iranian backed militants claimed credit for this christmas day attack. the president was briefed by national security team yesterday at camp david. defense secretary lloyd austin saying in part let me be clear, the president and
Off in hong kong, which is in lockdown preparing for a rivalfrom the chinese president xi jinping. Lockdown preparing for a rivalfrom the chinese president xijinping. He is arriving to mark the 20th Anniversary of the handover from britain to china. It is his first visit to the city as chinese leader and protest are expected. 26 activists were arrested on wednesday after occupying a monument to the reunification. Our correspondent joins us now from hong kong. What is expected today . The chinese president expected to land around midday, but his visit has already been marred by a series of small scale guerilla type protests. The latest one overnight happened just behind me, about two dozen pro democracy protesters were arrested. They were demanding greater Voting Rights for hong kong, as well as the unconditional release ofa as well as the unconditional release of a chinese civilians. We believe they are still in police custody. We are also expecting more smaller scale protests to come.
Off in hong kong, which is in lockdown preparing for a rivalfrom the chinese president xi jinping. Lockdown preparing for a rivalfrom the chinese president xijinping. He is arriving to mark the 20th Anniversary of the handover from britain to china. It is his first visit to the city as chinese leader and protest are expected. 26 activists were arrested on wednesday after occupying a monument to the reunification. Our correspondent joins us now from hong kong. What is expected today . The chinese president expected to land around midday, but his visit has already been marred by a series of small scale guerilla type protests. The latest one overnight happened just behind me, about two dozen pro democracy protesters were arrested. They were demanding greater Voting Rights for hong kong, as well as the unconditional release ofa as well as the unconditional release of a chinese civilians. We believe they are still in police custody. We are also expecting more smaller scale protests to come.