Anywhere because i want to bring in christiane amanpour, who joins us now and christiane, you know, full well that the biggest one of the biggest concerns aside from hamas and hezbollah inside israel, maybe a bigger concern has been the kind of thing were seeing right now, which is iran, which has a very, very, very deep bench of very strong artillery and missiles. And it appears that they are using them right now indeed. And its incredibly important to be absolutely precise about whats going on so far, there is no evidence that anything has landed that it is being intercepted according to our correspondents, on the ground. And also the united states and israel said that the they assessed that the targets would the three israeli Air Bases and intelligence and an intelligence base, again, as our correspondents have said, thats very important to keep in mind. The second thing is that ive been speaking to Foreign Ministers from the region just today, the lebanese Foreign Minister, current
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
Between israel and an arab neighbor. Katy tur picks up our breaking News Coverage right now. Good to be with you. Im Katy Tur in for chris jansing. We are watching israel and waiting for a Damage Assessment after iran sent dozens, perhaps more, of ballistic missiles at the country, including tel aviv. This is what it looked like and sounded like add it was happening. [ sirens ] in a statement, iran says the missiles were in honor of hezbollah leader nasrallah where the israelis killed with a 2,000 Pound Bunker busting bomb In Beirut last friday. If israel responds, iran says it will face crushing attacks. So will israel respond . Theyre already indicating, yes, they will. The u. S. And allies have been trying to convince all the parties involved to work toward a Cease Fire worried the continued escalation of attacks between Hezbollah And Israel and now iran could lead to all out war. Meanwhile, as the Iron Dome was trying to intercept these missiles, israeli News Outlets were reporting
happy good friday. i m bill hemmer. happy good friday to you. it s time to break out some colors, i decided, indeed. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. let s get you to the numbers. the united states added 236,000 jobs last month. that is the weakest growth since december of 2020. unemployment it ticked down to 3.5%. we re crunching the numbers. hello, steve. is this good? is this bad? what s it tell smart guys like you? what it tells you that things are beginning to slow. what is more important is what happened earlier this week, the report on manufacturing. report on surfaces, isns, purchase managers, a very good indicator of what s about to happen. manufacturing is in a serious decline. services, which have been a mainstay in terms of people being able to spend on services again after the lockdowns, that s beginning to show signs of weakening. people s savings are beginning to be run down. credit card debt is beginning to go up. the storm clouds are there
and even more so, about the 77 minutes of inaction that the video shows. plus, in some big cities there will no longer be a starbucks on every corner. the coffee giant is closing several locations but not because of slow sales. is this about working safety or is it about unionization? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our money lead and horrible news for your wallet. new data today released by the biden administration shows inflation surging to 9.1%. that is the highest level in more than 40 years and it means the prices we pay over all are 9.1% higher than at this time last year. so unless you have benefitted from an unlikely 10% raise since then, you now have less money in your pocket than you did a year ago. much of the increase is driven by gas prices, which we should note have fallen in recent weeks, but they remain insanely high, up nearly 60% in this report, and the increases are felt across a range of categories, prices on groceries are u