Happening especially now its so late in the season for the hurricanes. That was donald Trump Yesterday in georgia, but not only did forecasters indeed know about the Size And Strength of Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Season still has several more weeks remaining. Well bring you an update on Recovery Efforts and show you President Bidens fiery response to trumps false claims. Also ahead, well bring you the latest from the Middle East as israel launches a Ground Offensive into Southern Lebanon after weeks of deadly Air Strikes targeting hezbollah militants. And, of course, well preview what could be the final debate of the 2024 president ial race with the Running Mates set to square off Tonight Right here in new York City. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, october 1st. We are in october now. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning, but well begin with breaking news. The israeli military has started a Groun
This is brand new video just to us. Israel says it struck the central headquarters of hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. You can see in this video the blast was massive. And israeli official tells Nbc News the target was hezbollahs powerful leader. It comes as israel has been systematically targeting high level commanders of the u. S. Designated terror group, both within and abroad, which prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says israel will continue to do in order to defend itself from groups looking to eliminate the state. Nbcs Matt Bradley is live in beirut for us. Also with us, aaron david miller, former arabisraeli negotiator, and Senior Fellow at the endowment for peace. Give us the latest. Reporter we were here a couple of hours ago when our walls of our hotel shook. You cant see it now but it was just over my right shoulder here in southern beirut. This is a neighborhood that has endured repeated israeli bombardments all week long. And most of that, as you just mentioned in your intro
The heinous Terror Attack in israel that killed more than 1,400 people. The crisis that continues to threaten the innocent lives of hundreds of hostages and endanger the entire civilian population of gaza. In a spiraling humanitarian calamity. In the next hour President Joe Biden will depart for israel for what could be one of the most important trips of his presidency. His visit is of course a show of support for an ally grieving the murder of more jewish lives than at any time since the holocaust. But also bracing for a deadly and dangerous point in this conflict with hamas. It is also a high wire diplomatic endeavor with nothing less than the possibility of a major regional conflict breaking out looming over every fraught development and every development in the last few hours has been that, fraught. Its also added fuel to a volatile situation. There are reports of a Deadly Strike on a hospital in gaza. Now, the hospital was filled, of course, with the wounded and with palestinians
Commander involved in the attacks in israel last week. Hamas is continuing to fire rockets into israel, towards tel aviv and other areas in the south. The World Health Organization has has again called on israeli to rescind its evacuation order; the decision they said to forcing Hospital Patients to relocate would be a death sentence. President biden has spoken with the israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and urged him to provide a Human Corridor South a humanitarian corridor south for those civilians seeking to escape the bombardment. A diplomatic push is continuing to try to prevent the violence from spreading. The us secretary of state, Antony Blinken has arrived in cairo. Hes expected to press egyptian officials to open the Rafah Crossing to get aid into gaza. It is still tense on the northern border with lebanon, with further exchanges of fire today. The israelis have set up a four Mile Buffer Zone on the border. The us is sending a second Aircraft Carrier to the eastern m
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