It is good to be back with you on this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, the fierce fighting on the ground in lebanon. Israel, rushing in additional troops as hezbollah forces vow theyre standing fast, and this is just the start of a long battle. Were live near the border. Plus, Nbc News goes One On one with a senior hamas official. What he told our Keir Simmons about Irans Missile Attack on israel. Into the storm. And from the stage to the stump, tim Walz And J. D. Vance return to the Campaign Trail this hour after a debate that was heavy on policy and maybe surprisingly light on personal attacks. Our Nbc News reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbcs Richard Engel on the ground in lebanon. We know eight israeli soldiers in clashes with hezbollah forces. What more can you tell us . So hezbollah has claimed that it has carried out numerous attacks against israeli troops, and this is just the beginning of a Ground Campaign, a Ground Cam
Until election day, the first and only meeting between the two men who hope to become vice president of the united states. Democratic governor tim walz of minnesota and republican senator jd vance of ohio. Now this is likely the final debate of this election cycle, and voting is already underway in 20 states. Cbs news polling shows this remains a race either presidential candidate could win. The cbs news vice presidential debate starts now. Fight for every single vote and we are going to take this country back. And we are ready to continue to build the future together. We re going to turn this whole country red with president donald j. Trump s leadership. You know, it s at the end of this little journey. Kamala harris says the next president of the united states. This is a cbs news special live from cbs news headquarters in new york. America decides the vice presidential debate good evening o donnell, and thank you for joining us for tonight s cbs news vice presidential debate. We want
Middle east very closely. The united states is committed to Israels Defense. We are watching developments, as i said, very carefully this morning. U. S. Officials tell Nbc News they expect this iranian response to involve more fire power. Israel is trying to push hezbollah forces north. The israeli defense Forces Spokesperson announced israel uncovered Hezbollah Tunnels in Southern Lebanon. One of the buildings that our troops raided, we found proof of this. This is a map that hezbollah planned to give its terrorists at the time of a widescale invasion of israel. It was to cover out a massacre in israels north. Joining me from jerusalem is nbcs Erin Mclaughlin. Also with is monica alba. Monica, what are you hearing from the White House . The State Department ordered all u. S. Government employees and their families to shelter in place and that this is supposed by in response to the killing of nasrallah on friday in a massive Air Strike by israel as well as previous fronts to hezbollah
Welcome to The Beat im ari melber. The United States is readying for tonights big debate between Governor Walz and Jd Vance, the senator. Both Running Mates of trump and harris. This is the last debate of the president ial campaign. It is significant. Josh shapiro, the governor of the Swing State of pennsylvania will join us live in a moment. That is coming up in a few moments. The other big story is the top international news in the world and it is coming out of The Middle East where iran has attacked israel today. It is an attack coming after israels strikes on hezbollah in lebanon. That is some of the scene, the Air Raid sirens and the skies ablaze. The missiles which would have the power to destroy entire buildings. They were largely intercepted. Our sourcing comes from israel and the United States. The defense there was able to intercept the vast majority of the missiles. The reports are there are no casualties in israel from the many attempted strikes. One palestinian man was kil
Presidential election regular things. But if these two guys in particular, what you re talking about, about j. D. Vance, i feel like that s more so more true than evero this year. Yeah. They don t typically matter. But this one may. On yeah. O and we don t know which j. Vance we may know but we really don t know which one will come tomorrow night. So, we ll see. I ve got a big rachel maddow show style spiel, a big story that i think people don t know about vancedo coming up a littl later on in the show. Oh, good. That s my homework assignment for tonight. We ll be watching. Thank you, jen. Muchnk appreciated. Thanks at home for joining us this hour. This is one of those news day where everything isho busting o all over. There s a lot going on. And a lot of the big news in the country and the world is still developing tonight. So, i have to tell you, tonight we are keeping our eyes trained on the middle east. A suggest nif can t expansion in the conflict between israel and hezbollah in