Battleground blitz, Donald Trump and his running Mate Targeting with the seven Swing States that could hold the key to winning the White House as new polls show, the republican ticket is doing well in the Sun Belt states and a day of reckoning in lebanon as nearly 300 people are reportedly killed in israeli airstrikes the idf plays a Highrisk Game with its new strategy for confronting hezbollah and new details from the investigation into the Titan Submersible disaster, the Companys Cofounder explains why they needed to build their own subs while defending a controversial decision over how they did it. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central of Battleground States underway today is Election Day is just over six weeks away. Next hour, former President Trump will hold the first of two Campaign Events in the critical cool state of pennsylvania. He is running mate j. D. Vance, campaigning in the Swing State of North Carolina,
Lawrence its monday, 8 00 a. M. september 23rd, this is folk. Big Fox News alert. Live look at lebanon. Israel is urging evacuations as Idf Hits 300 hezbollah targets. A live report from israel coming up. Steve and here at home, Actress And Activist new Patricia Heaton turning fame into activism in the fight against antisemitism. Campuses exploded can prohamas protests and making israel the Bad Guy and making jewish people the Bad Guy. I couldnt believe it. Ainsley battleground blitz, new polls paint a bright picture for Donald Trump across the sunbelt. And i have an announce itself. Lawrence congratulations, what is it . Ainsley i dont know. Fox and friends starts right now. We start with a Fox News alert. Idf Striking Hundreds of targets in lebanon this morning as the Terror Group launched hundreds of rockets at the Them O overnight. Steve natefoy is live in tel a aviv. Israelis have been effective targeting specific places and in particular, if somebody is rolling a Cruise Missile o
Reports, escalation in the Middle East. A new bombardment of israeli strikes against hezbollah targets in lebanon and an unprecedented warning to civilians. The fears its stoking of a larger regional war. Plus disturbing new evidence tied to the suspect in that apparent second Assassination Attempt of Donald Trump, including a letter where he appears to confess to the plot. What it means for his case when he face has judge next hour. And new Nbc Polling on the 2024 race showing a historic surge in favorability for Vice President harris. We will look at whats driving that and why this contest is still neck and neck. Good morning and thanks for joining us, it is 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific, im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. We begin with the Breaking News in the Middle East. Lebanese officials say more than 180 people have been killed after intensifying israeli strikes there overnight. The idf Issuing A first of its kind Evacuation Warning to civilians in Southern Leban
Children and more than 1,000 were injured. Over the Weekend Hezbollah launched more than 100 rocket, drones and missiles into northern israel. Chie angioankle got an inside look. Reporter im now in an underground bunker, a hospital that has been set up three levels below the main hospital in the northern city. This was a parking lot. You can tell it looks like a parking lot. But it was built nearly 20 years ago, also to serve as a hospital in reserve, a Hospital Underground just for scenarios like this one so that patients could be treated, care can be given during a War Situation when parts of israel come under attack. And for the first time since this facility was built, it is actually being used. Yesterday israel started move ing all of the patients of the hospital down into these wards here. Our thanks to Richard Ankle for that report. Reporter you and i have talked about the possibility of allout war between Israel And Hezbollah. Frankly, its fair to ask at this point whether that
Killing at least 20 people. Israel hasn t said whether it was involved. As the fighting intensifies, un chief antonio guterres says he fears lebanon could become another gaza. The lebanese health ministry raised the death toll to 45 in friday s strike by israel targeting hezbollah commanders in southern beirut. Most of those killed were civilians. Authorities say women and children are among the dead. On sunday, israel launched further strikes on towns in southern lebanon killing three people. And the israeli military says it destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launcher barrels over the past few days. Israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu had this to say. No country can accept the wanton rocketing of its cities. We cannot accept it either. We will take whatever action is necessary to restore security and to bring our people safe, back to their homes. Meanwhile, in lebanon hundreds attended the funeral of ibrahim aqil, a highranking hezbollah commander killed in an israeli str