We are following two major stories tonight. The world is marking one year since Hamas Terrorists launched a Mask Attack on israel and has been called that countrys 9 11 one year later we look back. We have live Team Conch and an interview with israel wants ambassador to the u. S. But we begin with Hurricane Season in full and possibly devastating swing. We are tracking Hurricane Milton at this hour. Now a massive Category 5 Storm Heading for florida. Meanwhile the effects of Hurricane Helene still crippling parts of North Carolina. We exclusive ride along black Hawk Helicopter in Search Efforts and Recovery Efforts. We will talk with the fema about criticism of her Organizations Response and what lies ahead. First, residents along the Florida Gulf Coast preparing for what could be the strongest atlantic Basin Hurricane in five years. Hurricane melton is already packing 170 mileS Per hour winds. That makes it the first strongest hurricane already on record in the atlantic in terms of wi
Anywhere because i want to bring in christiane amanpour, who joins us now and christiane, you know, full well that the biggest one of the biggest concerns aside from hamas and hezbollah inside israel, maybe a bigger concern has been the kind of thing were seeing right now, which is iran, which has a very, very, very deep bench of very strong artillery and missiles. And it appears that they are using them right now indeed. And its incredibly important to be absolutely precise about whats going on so far, there is no evidence that anything has landed that it is being intercepted according to our correspondents, on the ground. And also the united states and israel said that the they assessed that the targets would the three israeli Air Bases and intelligence and an intelligence base, again, as our correspondents have said, thats very important to keep in mind. The second thing is that ive been speaking to Foreign Ministers from the region just today, the lebanese Foreign Minister, current
Ila i mean, he is one that tomorrow please donate. Now joining we are following Breaking News, iran launching a barrage of missiles into israel, major escalation in the conflict in the Middle East. Im Anderson Cooper alongside my colleague Wolf Blitzer. Weve witnessed missiles intercepted across israel a short time ago as Air Raid sirens went off on the ground below the israeli military now confirms some of those missiles made a direct impact in central and southern israel. Its estimated iran launched nearly 200 missiles, hundred projectiles iran says this attack was in response for the killing of Hezbollahs Leader Hassan Nasrallah and other assassinations a source says the israeli Security Cabinet is in their Emergency Bunker right down the israeli military says, irans attack and im quoting now will have consequences. The White House says both President Biden and Vice President harris are in the white House Situation Room monitoring the situation. Were standing by to get an immediate
States now has Indications Iran is imminent with a ballistic Missile Attack against israel. It could come as early as today. Staff at the u. S. Embassy In Jerusalem have been warned to shelter in place. An attack on iran would be a major escalation in a region on heightened alert as israel forces cases out raid in southern lebanon. They went in the limited Ground Movement against those terrorists. Theyre trying to go after the iranianbacked terror group, hezbollah. This is outnumbered. This is Harris Faulkner with emily Compagno And Kayleigh mcenany and also here, sheryl casone. The port strike, Cant Wait to get her expertise on that. And Fox News contributor, Ari Fleischer is here. Lets start with our own Trey Yingst reporting from northern israel. Trey . Overnight was with Israelly Forces as they entered southern leb lebanon. It was the first time since 2006 that israel has been on the ground publicly. They warned civilians in more that 20 different ill have villages and towns to eva
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to