The Israeli Military has been describing it as a targeted, localised limited incursion so far. We had some details from a senior israeli Security Official, saying that these are local raids, very limited in scope, in the area, so no crashes happening so no clashes happening at the moment between israeli forces and hezbollah fighters in the south according to this senior israeli official. Obviously hezbollah has remained defiant. Yesterday, we heard from the Groups Number two who said that hezbollah fighters were ready to confront any israeli invasion. This is a part of the country that is a hezbollah stronghold. Obviously after two weeks of widespread israeli Air Strikes, high profile assassinations, hezbollah has been weakened, its leadership has been almost completely decimated, but the group remains a very powerful force. It is believed to have thousands of rockets, including missiles that can strike deep inside israel, also thousands of experienced fighters. So there is here the qu
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News we are back with our breaking News Coverage. Iran launching a barrage of missiles into Israel And Anderson cooper alongside my colleague wolf blitzer, moments ago, White House national Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said nearly 200 Ballistic Missiles were fired from iran. He characterized the attack as a significant escalation as were his its words. Our cameras captured the moment when some of the missiles were intercepted over Tel Aviv this afternoon. It was a very scary moment indeed, and were getting our first look, anderson, right now at some of the Damage Video posted on Social Media shows an object crashing down just north of Tel Aviv another video shows the aftermath inside a restaurant in the area. You can see broken glass and scattered debris. Or ron says this attack was in response for the killing of the hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other assassinations. The israeli military is vowing that irans attack, quote well have consequences. Their words will have consequ
But first right now, the lead with Jake Tapper starts right now welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and we are following two major breaking stories. I am right now inside the Spin Room at Cbs Studio goes in new York Hours away from tonights first and only 2024, Vice President ial debate. But the Worlds Attention might be elsewhere at roughly 12 30 p. M. Eastern youre in time. Iran launched a major attack on Israel Firing nearly 200 ballistic missiles according to us officials, cnns Jim Sciutto and his crew were live on an air in israel at the time as Air Raid sirens sounded and missiles began to rain down overhead okay, guys, we got to get off the roof. These are coming down right next to us here. Hes do jim, please do theyre coming down one just about. We got to go Inside Sciutto and his team are thankfully safe. We are waiting for reports as to the damage done by the iranian souls, the Israel Defense forces reports that most of irans missiles its were intercepted by Israels Air defen
County. Well await word perhaps later today on that. Thank you, jim, from california. Pete rose dead at the age of 83, wow. Next hour now. Dana dangerous development in the Middle East. The White House is now warning that iran is preparing an imminent ballistic Missile Attack on israel and the u. S. Is warning of severe consequences for tehran. All of this comes as israeli Ground Troops are moving deeper into lebanon conducting localized raids on hezbollah positions. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. From baseball to bill a lot of things happening. The statement out from the White House, here it is quote, the united states has indications that iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic Missile Attack against israel and actively supporting defensive preparations to defend israel against this attack. A direct Military Attack from iran against israel will carry severe consequences for iran, end quote. Dana incursion into lebanon follows the strike in beir