John good Evening And Welcome to washington. Im John Roberts in for bret baier. Next promised Military Operation is underway. Plus, we look at the number of migrants released into the united states who were convicted of violent crimes. And with a possible strike at sea ports on the horizon, retailers are preparing for supply shortages. John but, first, breaking tonight, officials say hundreds could be dead in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Confirming those numbers iS Proving difficult. Millions of people are without Power And Cell service. In North Carolina, the lack of Communication Services have prompted hundreds of Missing Persons reports with many others still stranded in their homes due to high floodwaters. Correspondent Steve Harrigan is in asheville, North Carolina tonight, where he has been surveying the devastation. Steve. Good evening, john. The mayor put it simply she said we need everything. Everything is just. Wiped out and washed away. Our whole house. Roads and bridg
The Israeli Military says its carrying out more strikes on his Brother Targets in lebanon. The Israeli Military says its carrying out more strikes on hezbollah targets in lebanon. These are live pictures from the region. In separate statements, the iran backed group says it fired a salvo of Katyusha Rockets at two israeli barracks. Reuters video shows rockets coming from Southern Lebanon being intercepted by the Israeli Military. News agency correspondents are reporting heavy israeli strikes in several areas of Southern Lebanon. At least 31 people were killed in an israeli Air Strike On Beirut on friday. Israel said it was targeting a top Hezbollah Military Commander who also died during the attack. It says it killed, in their words, 16 terrorists. Hezbollah, which is designated as a Terrorist Organisation says many of those killed included women and children. As morning broke, the destruction became clear. An israeli Air Strike hitting daraya, Hezbollahs Heartland in southern beirut,
at least 23 people are dead, but dozens are missing or injured. the national weather service has confirmed one large tornado caused catastrophic damage across several cities and towns . but there were a dozen reports of tornadoes across alabama and mississippi. now the storms, flattened homes and buildings and knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers across alabama, alabama, mississippi and tennessee. let s go to the ground. there were cnn s isabella isabelle rose salas is live in rolling fork. mississippi look, we spoke with the mayor a couple of hours ago, and he told us that his town is basically gone. is that what you re saying? that is certainly an accurate assessment of what we saw in rolling fork and guys if i can first tell you that i m actually a little bit beyond the city limits three miles away. i want to show something to you right over here. this car. we re told by family members that they were driving last night as the tornado. hit and the strong winds f
Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. This is cnn is continuing breaking News Coverage. If iran strike on israel im Christiane Amanpour in london alone inside my colleague, Alex Marquardt in washington. Now this morning, israel remains on high alert after iran launched and unprecedented fivehour attack on israel the idf says more than 300 missiles and drones were fired. The majority were fired from iran some were launched from iraq in yemen, they say only a few were able to pierce israels defenses hitting an airbase in southern part of the country causing minor damage. And there are no reports of injuries suffered directly from the strikes israel is now saying that the us, britain, as well as france also acted during these iranian strikes. Us forces intercepting more than 71 Attack Drones and based three Ballistic Missiles thats according to two us officials who are familiar with matter. The attack was in response to an israeli strike last week on
Also reports that Cruise Missiles as well towards israel from iran, Israeli Forces are planning to intercept as many of those ads as possible with the help of United States but at this moment, we do not yet know what the results of these attacks may be. Or what the targets are. We have reporters and analysts all over the map as we track this news. I want to get straight to Jeremy Diamond on the ground in jerusalem, who has some new reporting jeremy. What do you learning about . What iran is undertaking in this retaliation right now well, alex, over the course of the last several hours, weve been reporting that iran has launched the waves of drones in the direction of israeli territory more than 100 drones currently making their way aid israel with multiple hours of travel time before they are expected to hit their targets or to try and hit their targets within israeli territory. But now Iranian State media is reporting that in addition to those drones, iran has also fired Ballistic Mis