I everyone. Good Morning And Welcome to cnn this morning, it is saturday, september 28th. Im Amara Walker alongside Danny Freeman we begin this morning with major breaking developments in the middle east. The Israeli Military claims it has killed the leader of hezbollah after carrying out targeted airstrikes In Beirut. Israel says Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Terrorist Organization in several commanders were killed in a strike on what it says was hezbollahs headquarters, though hezbollah has not yet commented the announcement comes after more than a day of airstrikes by Israel On Eastern and Southern Lebanon. The explosions flattened buildings in a densely Populated Area the idf says, those residential Buildings House has built a weapons caches. According to the Lebanons Health Ministry, at least six people were killed and dozens wounded in the strikes. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Lloyd austin says, israel did not notify the u. S. About the strikes until they were underway sour
Blitzer in washington in for fredricka whitfield. Were standing by for major Breaking News right now significant developments unfolding in the Middle East right now, another huge Explosion Rocking Beirut Just A Little while ago in the last hour or so, as israel continues its punishing airstrikes On Hezbollah forces in the lebanese capital. This as we learn, the leader of one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East was killed in one of those strikes around backed Militant Group hezbollah, confirming its secretary general Hassan Nasrallah was killed in israeli bombing in beirut On Friday, around State Media says a senior iranian commander was also among those killed in that blast. Nasrallah was one of his balahs founders playing a key role in its formation. And the targeting of israel for over four decades. If his death igniting fears of a wider conflict in the region, those fears, fear of very vague very serious right now iran Supreme Leader saying today that all reg
Breaking news, major Breaking News out of lebanon right now hundreds of people have been injured and an attack thats targeting the pagers pagers of members of the iranian back militant group. Has valla, according to sources arounds ambassador to lebanon appears to be among the injured data according to an iranian news agency, cm has been wiedemann is joining us right now. What do we know about this attack then . This happened just a couple of hours ago, wolf, where there Was a series, perhaps hundreds of explosion small explosions in the southern suburbs of beirut in other areas of lebanon where his bella is present. It appears that these explosions were pagers exploding it simultaneously. These pagers belonging to we believe members of his butler causing hundreds, perhaps more than 1,000 injuries. Weve seen live pictures from the American University Of Beirut hospital where many of the injured have gone lebanese hospitals have called on staff to return to their places of work because
Twice in the last 24 hours. And an almost uncontrollable crowd in new york city. What police say led to the surge that resulted in dozens of arrests. And Tens Of Millions of people in the u. S. Once again starting the day under heat alerts. One city is even putting sunscreen on the roads. Announcer live from cnn center this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade. The republican front runner donald trump takes his Election Campaign to South Carolina tonight, a state considered a bellwether of future electoral outcomes, and trumps appearance at a republican event in Alabama Friday came hours after he pleaded not guilty for the second time in two days. That was for additional federal charges related to the classified documents case in florida. Special counsel jack smith has asked a federal judge to set strict rules for trumps legal team when they receive evidence in the 2020 election case. Smith wants to keep trump from having copies of key evidence, particularly grand jury testimony, for fea
and north korea is battling its first reported covid outbreak. we will look at what south korea is offering. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin with a seismic shift for european security. on sunday finland s government f formally announced it would join nato. parliament is widely expected to endorse the decision, and from there nato leaders said the approval process could move quickly. sunday s announcement mark a historic policy change for two countries that remained neutral for decades and it s likely to anger russian president, vladimir putin, who long considered nato expansion a threat to russia. claire sebastian is standing by with reaction. and first, let s go to nic robertson live in helsinki. a vote will come on whether to join nato, and probably that s a forgone conclusion. how does the process move on from here? reporter: it is a forgone conclusion, and the president yesterday, when