Morning. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin this hour with Breaking News. The White House is preparing for a chilling new threat that iran could be about to launch a Missile Attack on israel were covering all the angles at this hour, their correspondence around the world. Lets begin with the White House and what theyre saying in cnns are arlette saens. Arlette, were just getting this word within the last hour or so. What can you tell us yeah, jim, this is a pretty stunning warning coming from the u. S. Senior white House Official tells us that the u. S. Believes that iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic Missile Attack against israel. It comes at a time when the u. S. Has been watching with great concern to see what irans a posture might be and whether they might try to launch any type of retaliatory attack against israel amid the heightened tensions that have arisen over the course of the past two weeks. Now, in this statement from a sen
So far. Police got the call around 11 00 Last Night in the 5. 7 Health Area for reference, thats about two miles away from downtown Birmingham Police believe multiple shooters opened fire on a group of people and one of the most popular Entertainment Districts in birmingham are going to do everything we possibly can to make sure that we uncover, identify, and hunt down who was ever responsible for preying on our people this morning we want to turn now to cnn, senior Law Enforcement Analyst and former Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsey. Commissioner ramsey, thank you first all for joining us this morning. But tell us when it comes to this shooting, how unusual is it for a Mass Casualty Event to have Police Searching for potentially multiple suspects . Actually, its not all that unusual. Ive seen several cases where youve had more than one individual firing into a crowd. Its unusual in the sense that when were usually talking about Mass Shootings, its one shooter multiple pe
Slowly moved its way up north. But that is the problem for a lot of people. We are hitting the top of the hour. I should mention that the power outage in New York City has now reached well past three hours. Here at msnbc along with morgan radford, weve been watching a number of different Breaking News situations right now. The big news that were getting here as we talk to you here at 10 00 p. M. We are now told at least 90,000 customers have been affected by this massive blackout here in New York City. When we first came on air several hours ago and they said that it was only about 20,000 customers, i knew that number was wrong, just based on the sheer topography. You have more than two square miles in New York City where people are in the dark. Now were being told by con edison officials that 90,000 customers which could mean hundreds of thousands of people
are in the dark right now at 10 00 at night. Just to do a quick reset for anyone who is joining us now. What we are facing out is