Live from atlanta. This is Cnn Newsroom with Michael Holmes. Hello and welcome, everyone. Im Michael Holmes. Appreciate your company. It is now 6 a. M. In beirut where the possibility of a Ground Invasion by israel into lebanon is fueling fears of an even wider conflict across the region. Us officials say israeli troops have mobilized and are Clearing Areas in what could be preparation for Ground Troops to move across the border. Israel saying a Ground Offensive is only one option, being considered. The idf continuing their air offensive. Meanwhile, On Saturday, with blasts hitting close to beiruts airport. Saturdays strikes in lebanon reportedly killing more than 30 people, wounding close to 200. Overall, nearly A Thousand lebanese have been killed since this latest escalation, according to health officials. Hezbollah firing back, saying it launched missiles towards jerusalem, prompting a response from israeli Air Defenses police say pieces of an intercepted missile crashed in the sub
Airport, not use weaponry from iran in forming their part in the road its more civilian use and were not going to allow any Transfer Weapons through this airport we are in constant touch with the United States right. Were gonna break away from that. Thats the spokesman for the idf, Cnn National Security analyst, Beth Sanner joins us now. So beth, our Jim Sciutto just reported that a former senior israeli official says that the israeli military must have been shore that the leader of hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was there in those apartment buildings. But now israel appears to be warning that there might be more strikes to come. We still dont know if his nasrallah is dead. What do you make of it . All . They are trying to basically eliminate. Now all of the hezbollah leadership that might be in that neighborhood. That is that the center of power for hezbollah, they wiped out six buildings buy from what im hearing from Cnn Reporting along with the headquarters building. And now they want
Right 6 00, a. M. On the east coast. A live look at clearwater, florida on the West Coast of florida as Hurricane Helene barrels through the gulf of mexico, gaining more and more strength through the day today. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. The latest update from the national hurricane center, just a short time ago shows helene is getting stronger now with 90 mile an hour winds the storm though, expected to get much stronger than that. Helene is forecast to arrive as a major hurricane along floridas Big Bend later this evening, bringing lifethreatening Storm Surge and catastrophic winds widespread Power Outages are also expected. Recovery teams already mobilizing across the state to get the lights back on once the storm passes many people will lose power depending on where you are in the state. So just prepare, be prepared for that understand that Thats Something that could happen and have a plan in place. So youre able to whether that alrigh
Well see you again on monday provided i still have a job. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And who needs commercials . Come on. The audience is very grateful for that move. Rachel, i listened to your interview with Attorney General Keith Ellison who managed the prosecution of Derek Chauvin, so fascinating to hear his perspective on it. He of course, among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. He brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case, the lead prosecutors. Theyll join us in this hour. They wouldnt have been there, they wouldnt have been in that courtroom without Keith Ellison calling the plays and putting them in that courtroom. And to have had not only the conviction but to have had this landmark sentence today, i mean, that number is going to mean Something Different to everybody who is looking at it, but to have the judge conclude that on a
[laughs] but i do it all the time, sorry. That does it for us tonight. Well see again on monday, provided i still have a job. Now is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And who needs commercials . Come on. The audience is very grateful for that move. Rachel, i listened to your interview with Attorney General Keith Ellison, who managed the prosecution of Derek Chauvin. So fascinating to hear his perspective on it. He of course among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. He brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case. The lead prosecutors. Theyre going to join us in this hour. But they wouldnt have been there. They would have been in that courtroom without Keith Ellison calling the police and putting them in that courtroom. Yeah, and to have had not only the conviction, but to have had this landmark sentence today i mean that number is going to mean Something Di