over the coming days with all of our allies and partners is looking at steps they can take using the influence and ties they have to do just that, to make sure that this conflict doesn t spread. cnn s nic robertson has more on secretary blinken s visit. reporter: fred, the number one message that secretary blinken will be bringing to all meetings is that the united states does not want to see an escalation of tensions in the region. he wants that message to be pushed towards iran and to iran s proxies, and this is perhaps most tense along the northern border of israel at the moment. hezbollah today saying they fired 62 missiles at a monitoring station in the north of israel, a military monitoring station in the north of israel in retaliation for the killing of al aurora in beruit earlier in the week. they say they counted about 40