Middle east today. As the world wakes up this morning, Israel Vows Retaliation against iran after teheran launched the largest ever Missile Attack on the Jewish State and we watched it live yesterday. Where to today . Im bill hemmer. Good morning from New York as we get rolling today. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. There was an element of surprise yesterday. So here was the Situation Yesterday in israel. Iran bombarding the country with more than 180 Ballistic Missiles. They targeted heavily populated cities like Tel Aviv and jerusalem. Tehrans second attack on israel this year. Remember the first was back in april. That was a smaller attack that came with a warning. Yesterdays did not. So it is prompting the u. N. Security council to hold an Emergency Meeting on the escalating conflict scheduled for 10 00 a. M. This morning. Bill iran is ramping up its aggression toward the u. N. Targeting both campaigns with cyberattacks and plotting to assassinate the former pres
We do continue the Breaking News this afternoon, good Afternoon Everybody i Martha Maccallum and in New York and we are willing for updates, expect them very soon. You see the two Podium Tear the pentagon and the State Department we will hear from both, we just heard from Dixilyn Van get you caught up to speed on what he said just moments ago. But the Breaking News today is that iran has bombarded israel with 200 missiles ballistic missile just heard the Secretary Of State Antony Blinken put that number on it and theyre calling It Payback for the killing of Hezbollahs Leader and a hamas official. Hassan nasrallah and also ismail haniyeh. These were two of the highest individuals in iran and both of them, excuse me, 111 and one in iran, have been taken out so in both lebanon excuse me. They have promised crushing attacks if israel strikes back. U. S. Officials have warns iran will face severe consequences. Watch this. Martha that was the skies over Tel Aviv earlier today and jerusalem.
A gang leader had warned the haitian Prime Minister not to return to haiti. He was in nairobi, discussing the possibility of a kenyan led Multinational Security force. But the bbc has established that he left returned to haiti safely on sunday. With the details, heres our caribbean correspondent, will grant. The decision to declare both a State Of Emergency and a night time curfew in the Haitian Capital comes after fierce fighting by armed gangs who are now in control of most of the city. During the fighting, gunmen entered the main prison in Port Au Prince and quickly overwhelmed the guards, allowing some 4,000 inmates to escape. Eyewitnesses report seeing several bodies inside and around the prison compound. The gangs in haiti which oppose mr henrys rule sense a possible power vacuum and an opportunity to force him from office. A notorious gang leader, a former elite Police Officer called jimmy cherizier, also known as barbecue, has claimed responsibility for the latest outbreak of v
soon land in japan for the g7 summit, where the war in ukraine is expected to be a top issue. we re live in hiroshima in just a few minutes. plus, prince harry and meghan say they were chased by paparazzi for nearly two hours to the streets of new york city. we hear from their taxi driver, just ahead. plus, a cnn exclusive new evidence may undercut donald trump s claims about classified documents found in mar-a-lago. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. u.s. president joe biden is set to arrive in japan in the next hour, ahead of a summit of the world s leading democracies. and the war in ukraine is expected to top the g7 agenda. ukraine has stepped up its campaign for f-16 fighter jets, although president biden has been reluctant to agree. there is also word that the u.s. does not want to talk about diplomatic solution until it sees how ukraine s plan spring offensive turns out. live now to hiroshima, and cnn s white
governor intensifying and apparently costing the state thousands of jobs just days af before the republican is ex expecting to announce his campaign. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a new u.s. message about the war in ukraine. a significant development as president biden is out there on the world stage right now and in a potentially very pivotal moment in the conflict. phil mattingly is with the president at the summit in japan. kn nic robertson is in eastern ukraine. phil, as the president prepares for this summit, the biden administration is signaling a major shift on ukraine. what can you tell us? yeah, wolf, it would be a significant development. the president is just a few hours away from starting the first day at the g-7 summit here meeting with leaders. leaders that have been integral to the steadfast support of ukraine since russia s invasion oaf the course f the year