Special live coverage. Im Kaitlan Collins, The Middle East is on the Brink Tonight as the world is watching and waiting to see what is really prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus definition of payback looks like after this rock. Oh god, okay, guys, we got to get off the roof. These are cup iran, that prc is really sky earlier today. On the ground, the sound of Air Raid sirens, 180 missiles in all launched during the assault, sending millions of people racing to bomb Shelters Israel says tonight that the iranian strike had no impact Air Defenses ended up intercepting many of those missiles that were fired by iran. Though i should note, some did land in the central and southern parts of the country, one or one and missile Hit A School and central israel in this burst out of iran is just the latest moment in a year that has been filled with many of them test you want. Israels warplanes assassinated, has Hezbollahs Leader just last week, months after erasing hamass political leader from the
it is sunday, february the 5th. i am ali velshi. we begin today with a big balloon! a major metaphor and a geopolitical turning point in the wrong direction. yesterday, at 2:39 pm eastern standard time the united states military f 32 aircraft flying at 15,000 feet used a single air to air missile to shoot down what the united states says was a chinese around balloon. roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina, while within u.s. territorial airspace. the blue crafted to the atlantic ocean creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in monthly shallow water. the recovery is ongoing. that includes navy divers, the coast guard, another manned and unmanned savage vehicles. fbi counter intelligence agency are also on board the vehicles. officials say there is plenty to learn from the debris. they add they have also been studying the balloon since it first entered u.s. airspace in the lucian islands of alaska on january the 28. the balloons, which had mane
of the damage i m not so sure that if the damage is in need substantial i m not sure iran will be able to conceal that for very long. and there s also the question of national pride, particularly from the hardliners of the iranian right, who control that country. they will feel like they have to respond on just as the hard right in israel felt after friday s attack, that they had to respond. we re now in the realm of extreme positions on both sides coming to the fore, becoming the dominant position on both sides. bobby goes, thank you so much. i want to reference it in play right now. what the iranian foreign minister told cnn s erin burnett just earlier tonight parcel hema our response tuesday, israeli regime was limited in that
to do so really important to get through inside will continue to lean on you, cedric leyton retired air force colonel. i want to bring in bloomberg senior editor. bobby goes to the conversation. bobby, we spoke earlier in the week about antigen the painting. this exact reality. what do you think iran will do next well, laura threshold now has crossed and we were in sort of unknown territory for a long time. these two countries have been at a low intensity war, but i feel like now the gloves have come off iran s response is unpredictable. we know the different weapons that it has at its disposal. we ve saw a demonstration of what it can do over the last weekend where it fired over 300 missiles and drones to israeli territory, very few of them actually managed to make it through those defenses that the kernel was talking about. but iran showed that it has a capacity to fire a very large number of