Hello, im alex marquardt. Welcome to the cnn newsroom. We are following Breaking News. Iran has launched an attack act against israel. If youre just joining us dozens of iranian drones are now bound for israel as well as Cruise Missiles, according to the israeli news media yeah, this of course, leaving the entire middle east and beyond very much on edge is forces are planning to intercept as many of those aircraft and missiles as possible. The United States has said they will help with those interceptions at best they can at this hour. However, we do not yet know what the results of these attacks may be just moments ago, the white house said that this attack is expected to unfold over the next few hours. It is just past midnight in israel, we have got reporters and analysts all over the map as we try practice news including mj lee at the white house, Jeremy Diamond in jerusalem, clarissa ward, and tel aviv and ben wedeman in beirut. I want to get straight to our ben wedeman who is in l
citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation s capital, and the most outages five days after the storms hit, west virginia. 5,000 homes are without air conditioning in the middle of a brutal heat wave. cnn s brian todd is there. fredricka, temperatures are spiking here in west virginia where it is to get up to 95, and well on the way to that right now. power is out for roughly one quarter to a third of the customers in west virginia, but some people in the more rural areas won t get it until the weekend and a key reason for that is right behind me, and this scene played out all throughout west virginia and downed trees are a huge problem f