Breaking news. We are getting official word from the White House what youve been seeing play out live in israel. As Israelis On right now sheltering in place and sirens are blaring across the country after iran begins launching missiles into that country. Hello and welcome, everyone. Im Sandra Smith in new york. John im John Roberts in washington. Good to be with you. This is america reports. The situation unfolding before your eyes. Getting word of the shooting in the southern part of Tel Aviv, the area called jaffa. Light rail train car. Multiple casualties. Being investigated as a terror attack. Sandra lets get to Trey Yingst in the middle of everything. Jaffa, israel. What is the latest you are hearing and seeing . Theres a massive ballistic Missile Attack on 14 right now against israel. The iranians are Launching Waves of missiles toward israel. We have seen interceptions here or over the city of haifa that sits about 17 miles from the border with lebanon. As we speak, i can see t
october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic, gigantic radio stations in the united states, the michigan behemoth, wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, october 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj named sandra mcneill. she had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit. the listener told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy, right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse t
we first learned about from one of the great historic, gigantic radio stations in the united states, the michigan behemoth, wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, october 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj named sandra mcneill. she had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit. the listener told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy, right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse than your typical robocall. it seemed so bad, it seemed like it
what do you make of the communications? i will say this. these reports about the russian defense minister suddenly calling all. his counter parts. in the united states and in other countries. unnerved me because it is an uncharacteristic action for him and i feel like predictability is a blessing when you re dealing with someone making the kinds of crazy threats that putin has been making implicitly and explicitly. i m worried about those calls. and that russia may be implicitly telling the world they may do that kind of he is xlags involves a radioactive attack. do you think there s reason to worry about that? do you think they see it as an advantage? escalate to de-escalate. it always a scary thing. we think about that with tactical weapons.
and history has shown us that trying to negotiate with a dictator, much less a totalitarian inclined dictator who doesn t abide by any agreements he makes, bad idea. what do you make of the communications? i will say this. these reports about the russian defense minister suddenly calling all. his counter parts. in the united states and in other countries. unnerved me because it is an uncharacteristic action for him and i feel like predictability is a blessing when you re dealing with someone making the kinds of crazy threats that putin has been making implicitly and explicitly. i m worried about those calls. and that russia may be implicitly telling the world they may do that kind of escalation that involves a radioactive attack. do you think there s reason to worry about that? do you think they see it as an advantage? escalate to de-escalate. it always a scary thing.