Conflict escalating even more this morning, israeli airstrikes have targeted 140 hezbollah sites in beirut including weapons storage, and missile facilities embedded beneath civilian buildings. Thats according to the idf, the strikes are part of an ongoing campaign by israel to degrade hezbollahs military capability. The lebanese government, responding to the widespread destruction calling for intervention on an international basis, the country has recorded more than 100,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. Authorities claimed that number is actually much higher. Our chief national Security Analyst, Jim Sciutto in Tel Aviv with the very latest jim, tell us first, who was this . Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah was a defining figure in hezbollah in the region for more than three decades. Leave getting the terrorist organization, going back to 1992. And we making it over the course of that time into a formidable force, certainly plead with irans help with many Tens Of Thousan
Blitzer in washington in for fredricka whitfield. Were standing by for major Breaking News right now significant developments unfolding in the Middle East right now, another huge Explosion Rocking Beirut Just A Little while ago in the last hour or so, as israel continues its punishing airstrikes On Hezbollah forces in the lebanese capital. This as we learn, the leader of one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East was killed in one of those strikes around backed Militant Group hezbollah, confirming its secretary general Hassan Nasrallah was killed in israeli bombing in beirut On Friday, around State Media says a senior iranian commander was also among those killed in that blast. Nasrallah was one of his balahs founders playing a key role in its formation. And the targeting of israel for over four decades. If his death igniting fears of a wider conflict in the region, those fears, fear of very vague very serious right now iran Supreme Leader saying today that all reg
Pete we begIn wIth a fox news alert. Israel scorIng a major vIctIm agaInst hezbollah. The Idf confIrms the Terror Groups leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Is dead after a massIve strIke In beIrut. WIll rIght now smoke Is rIsIng after that the cIty after over 140 Idf strIkes sInce last nIght. And Irans Supreme Leader Is callIng on the people of lebanon to rIse up agaInst Israel. Rachel our own Nate Foy Is lIve on the ground In tel avIv. NatIve, good mornIng. Reporter nate, good mornIng. Reporter good mornIng, guys. Irans Supreme Leader Is out wIth a new statement accordIng to reuters reactIng to the strIke that the Idf says kIlled Hassan Nas Allah yesterday In beIrut nasrallah, sayIng that the future of The MIddle East wIll be determIned by the forces of the recess dance, and It wIll be led, he says, by hezbollah. But what hezbollah looks lIke wIthout Nas Aal La remaIns to be seen. The TerrorIst OrganIzatIon has not put out a statement sInce Yesterdays StrIke that happened In the early evenIng
Rachel well, were back wIth a Fox News alert. ThIsh s df If says hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallahs ReIgn of terror Is over. The IranIanbacked terror Groups Leader was kIlled In massIve strIkes In beIrut. WIll rIght now smokes rIsIng over thatty as over 140 Idf strIkes took place over the nIght. And the Idf Is makIng It clear that Israels War Is not wIth the lebanese people. Pete Nate Foy Is lIve on the ground In Tel AvIv. Hey, nate. Reporter hey, guys, good mornIng. So Israels Defense MInIster Is out wIth a new statement reactIng to the aIrstrIke In BeIrut Yesterday that took I out hezbollahs leader, Hassan Nasrallah, a man who has been In charge of the organIzatIon sInce 1992, and Gallant A saId that nasrallah was an ImmedIate threat to thousands of IsraelIs and cItIzens across the world whIch Is a very sImIlar message that we just heard If from Idf spokesman. LIsten to thIs. Hezbollah, under the command of nasrallah, chose to to joIn the war that hamas started. There are consequence
Costs down and whether therell be more PrIce Cuts ahead. Good mornIng. In sport, a hIstorIc nIght for scottIsh Football CeltIc celebrate becomIng the fIrst scottIsh team to qualIfy for the maIn Group Stages of the womens ChampIons League. And as you saw, raIn Is stIll fallIng across parts of england and wales In partIcular but It Is set to clear two brIghter but colder weather. One of the forecast detaIls here on breakfast. All of the detaIls later. Good mornIng, Its frIday the 27th september. Our maIn story. HurrIcane helene, a dangerous category four storm has made landfall In the Us State Of FlorIda. One person has been kIlled and theres more than 350 Thousand homes and busInesses are currently wIthout power. AuthorItIes warn the hurrIcane could brIng a catastrophIc and unsurvIvable storm surge, wIth wInds of around 140 mIles an hour beIng recorded. Our North AmerIca Correspondent DavId WIllIs reports. HurrIcane helene touched down on florIdas Gold Coast brIngIng on FlorIdas Gulf