This is brand new video just to us. Israel says it struck the central headquarters of hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. You can see in this video the blast was massive. And israeli official tells Nbc News the target was hezbollahs powerful leader. It comes as israel has been systematically targeting high level commanders of the u. S. Designated terror group, both within and abroad, which prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says israel will continue to do in order to defend itself from groups looking to eliminate the state. Nbcs Matt Bradley is live in beirut for us. Also with us, aaron david miller, former arabisraeli negotiator, and Senior Fellow at the endowment for peace. Give us the latest. Reporter we were here a couple of hours ago when our walls of our hotel shook. You cant see it now but it was just over my right shoulder here in southern beirut. This is a neighborhood that has endured repeated israeli bombardments all week long. And most of that, as you just mentioned in your intro
storm, it s still barreling just barely. it s approaching areas to the east of natchez, mississippi. it will be toward jackson by the time we get to daybreak. what a night on the coast of the gulf of mexico. the winds off the waters are relentless. there s where we re very concerned with flash flooding problems and now that s starting to shift toward mobile. as far as max wind gusts, they ve come down significantly. baton rouge is at 23 miles an hour. the wind damage portion of the storm is starting to come to an end. that s good. as far as the strongest winds, down along the coast. 150-mile-per-hour wind gusts. there was a boat that was docked
bumping up against category 5 speed, 150 miles an hour sustained winds. what are you seeing now? where is this path headed? good morning. it s incredible to think yesterday we had 150 mile per hour, category 4 hurricane make landfall, it was a category 4 for eight hours, it didn t get downgraded to a 2 until it was due west of new orleans. some storm chasers were able to get some video before sunset but we haven t seen the damage yet. some of the flooding pictures that we haven t seen, the storm surge because we haven t been able to get in those areas. those pictures will come and we ll show you those during the day today. we ll deal with the flash flooding and rainfall from the storm. i went down to 60 miles per hour. the wind damage portion of the
and how about that bend at the end to the left? very unusual. doesn t happen that often. yes, it s kind of similar in that bend to what sandy did. but sandy was a different beast than this storm. it was much, much larger. sandy was a huge immense size-wise storm. maybe the same intensity but size-wise, no comparison this. storm will have its own problems though. let s go in closer. you notice the winds will quickly die off. by the time we get to monday morning, wind damage is pretty much done. the wind damage portion of the storm as we go throughout sunday, notice at 8:00 a.m., getting close to the southern coast of long island, talking 10:00 to noon landfall around eye slip. and then it could go through new hichb, that would be the second landfall after crossing the sound and the storm will curve and bend around the hartford area. as brian mentioned we have been watching these squiggly lines and it is interesting, the lack line is the new forecast from the hurricane center. for the fi