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Lebanon and other major question have been heightened tensions. What role will the u. S. Play . Plus the Vice President ial candidates are back out on the trail after a debate that was midwest nice. Both campaigns kicking into high gear for the final 34 days hes of this race. Were going to assess what may have changed after Last Night and what comes next. Were also covering the Southeast Hundreds of thousands still without power food, and clean water, still hard to come by in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, as President Biden is on his way to see the devastation firsthand were falling only these majoR Developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News central is anxiously waiting to see how israel will respond to irans unprecedented Missile Attack as the israeli military intensifies its Ground War in lebanon across the region, violence is escalating with fierce clashes between Israel And Hezbollah forces. The idf says that it plans to send additional troops already, eight israeli soldiers, by the way, have been killed in combat israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing iran, quote, will pay for yesterdays aerial assault, which iran says was in response to the killing of Hezbollah Chief Hassan nasrallah and other leaders, a big question now is what role will the u. S. Have in all of this . Heres what President Biden said a short time ago about whether he supports an israeli attack on iranian nuclear sites we answer is no i think is rarely what were gonna do but david all seven of us agree that ever right to respond officially respond lets go live now to cnns nic robertson. He is in Tel Aviv. Nic, what is the latest there . Yeah. President biden is saying that he will speak relatively soon with prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that is the big open question. The one youre talking about there precisely what israel would choose to strike back at the Prime Minister here has been very clear. The response will come calm. It will be strong, it will look like deterrence to iran to dissuade them from attacking. Again. But the Scale And Scope is very likely to determine the potential for escalation in the region. And a very deadly day as israel has been pressing its Ground Offensive into lebanon for the second day, hezbollah saying that they targeted israeli troops in three different villages at the border the idf now saying that eight soldiers have been killed, a number of others injured a hospital near the border in the north of israel. Early this morning declared a a major major casualty event. And we understand troops from those clashes with hezbollah were taken to a number of different hospitals across the north. But this is perhaps a very tough reminder for the idf, for the Prime Minister of israel because previous experiences in 2006 and and 1982 until 2000 when it pull troops out of lebanon about the cost of having Ground Troops go inside israel. We were just talking, go inside lebanon. We were talking yesterday at the border with a Lady Living at the border she actually refused to evacuate. She makes food for all the soldiers and she told us and we were overlooking the area of one of the attacks before the attack happened, she told us yesterday issues really worried about the troops going across she wants and believes that they can they can deter hezbollah but she said she knows its going to be dangerous for them because hezbollah has been expecting the troops to come across. So this casualty toll, the Prime Minister offering his condolences to the families, but it is significant that it comes so soon in this Ground Operation Nick thank you for that report from Tel Aviv. We appreciate it now to cnn national Security Correspondent kylie atwood, who is at the State Department for us. Kylie earlier, we heard President Biden saying he doesnt support in israeli attack on iranian nuclear sites. What are you hearing . About . What role the u. S is going to take in all of this brianna, thats an incredibly noteworthy comment from the president because what we heard yesterday from the national Security Adviser from the State Departments spokesperson. Here at the department was effectively that the United States was giving israel a very low large degree of decisionmaking space in terms of how it responds to this attack from iran. They werent counting anything in, they werent counting anything out. They said that theyre going to be ongoing close discussions with the israelis. But now today its very clear that even though the United States does expect, us officials do expect that israels going to respond. Theyre not trying to prevent them from doing that with the national Security Advisor saying yesterday that therell be severe consequences for iran here, the United States doesnt feel that everything should be on the table in terms of what that response looks like, because President Biden is saying very clearly, no, he does not support ford, israel going after rons nuclear facilities in response to what we saw occur yesterday, what he said was that he spoke with his counterparts from the g7 and they agreed that israel has a right to respond. It should be a proportional response. That is noteworthy. So well watch for now, are the ongoing Discussions Tween the u. S. And israel on this topic, President Biden said that he is expecting to speak with prime Minister Netanyahu in the near term here. They have not notably spoken since the end of august. Thats more than two months now watch and see what comes out of that conversation. But the fact that the president is now saying that the United States doesnt support going after irans nuclear facilities is noteworthy particularly given the rhetoric or that were seeing out of israel right now, were hearing from some former officials, prime former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who is saying that they should go for irans nuclear program if they dont do it now, they may neveR Do it. So the United States does see a need, does support israel responding, but they are in these conversations at least publicly and excuse me, at least privately. And now we know publicly with these comments from Biden Bit and making it clear that they dont want this to get too far out of control where it turns into an all out war. Brianna. All right. Kylie atwood live for us at the State Department. Thank you for the report for us. Lets expand the conversation now with Cnn Military Analyst and retired Army General James Spider marks, general. Thank you so much for being with us. You heard president there saying that israel should respond proportionally. What would that look like fair to say that israel certainly will choose when and where they want to respond. And i would say there are no rush. They can do this at a time of their choosing. So were all leaning forward trying to anticipate i think its also fair their to understand that israel wants to ensure that iran feels some increased pain. No one and i would say either in Tel Aviv or in tehran that they want to escalate this thing much further. There seems to be this proportional for Tat Type of response. Bear in mind, i think its fair to say bear in mind that israel is an incredibly resilient nation of what we saw yesterday with the attacks from iran there really is a sense of business as usual on the ground in israel. Certainly there was some tragic loss of life and some property. But this is what theyve lived with for the longest, longest time so theres going to be a row responsive to the part of iran. And i also think response, it will not be a decapitation of the iranian leadership although i must say they probably know theyre on a hit list, there on notice. And i dont think it will be an attack against the kind of nuclear R D facilities. I think thats much beyond the scope of what israel needs to do right now to ensure they dont want to achieve any symbolic response. They want to do impose some additional pain on the iranian regime and they can do that what would you say is the drawback from the calls from some including Naftali Bennett for israel to attack those nuclear sites. I mean, it couldnt that wind up backfiring. But if it is successful doesnt that immediately limit or rons capabilities as a threat to israel . Broadly yeah, really, really good point. I mean, theres always that temptation to put the iranian development of a nuclear capability off the table, remove it from the table. All youre going to do is to ease some time in that regard, iran will still, i think in some case, tried to redefine phillip that now the iranian regime has not decided that they want to go forward with a full Militarization Weaponization of nuclear capabilities. Theyre developing that, but theres been no evidence that thats or a declaration from the leadership that thats what thats an objective so in this particular case, i think you can put that to the side lets address what is the immediate challenge that israel feels from iran . And that is wanton kinda unlimited use of drones or ballistic missiles or rockets in the case of rockets, we saw most of those yesterday, which are very, very difficult to go after can penetrate the Iron Dome and Arrow System that needs to be addressed, then that kind of establishes what i think is kind of a Status Quo moving forward i dont think either side wants this thing to blow up to the point where we now have russia more violently and more openly getting involved, or china more openly involved, or North Korea acting in a, in a really spontaneous and disruptive way. United states doesnt want to be dragged into this both of those nations understand that there can be some limits to this engagement. And i think theyre both worlds looking on that, fair to say, but we also have to if i can, one more thought its going to be a decoupling of whats taking place in lebanon right now relative to the response that israels going to impose against iran is this is the discussion about deterrence. Iran wants to achieve deterrence. They havent done it with this Response Israel will try to punish iran some more. But again, i think in terms of Deterrence Israel clearly has the upper hand and the capacity to ensure that not so with tehran to the point youre making about deterrence and the incursion into lebanon. And these raids by the idf On Hezbollah targets eight idf soldiers were killed in combat already. How do you assess the effort behind this incursion into lebanon able to push hezbollah in any part of the infrastructure that supports their military efforts, whether its and lets be frank again, everything in lebanon is essentially tied to hezbollah. Thats how its just imbedded in the society. They want to get it north a little ohtani river so wonderful objective. In fact, the united nations, united Nations Security Council resolution has indicated that it must be done. Un has never been able to enforce it. I mean, it cant. Lebanon has an enforced that these chosen not to israeli. So we got were going to push these boys north. There is going to be a cost associated with that and israel has been working desperately to try to and very aggressively to try to identify those targets that they want to go after. As a result of theiR Decision to invade lebanon. They want to try to keep it limited, but bear in mind a limited incursion also involves hezbollah. Hezbollah, i think would love to get entangled into the israeli fight. Israel ends up getting to some degree bogged down much like they were in Gaza Israel doesnt want to do that. So theyve said were going to go after very specific targets. We have good intelligence where, where are those targets are . We want to attrit those some cases, not only a trip, we want to destroy those, and we want to push destroy as much hezbollah fighting infrastructure and fighters as we can destroy those defeat as best we can and push them north a little ohtani bearing in mind that the missiles that hezbollah has will still be able North And Latane will still be able to reach much of israel how realistic is that general to limit the potential for Mission Creep . When weve seen it specifically at that border become an metastasize into something larger than israel had previously planned in 2006, for example and when you have, as you noted, the incentive from hezbollah to try to bog that down and make it a much broader conflict yeah, bingo. Thats the question. Israel stated priority. Its going to be limited thats great. Thats an objective statement on their part. Hezbollah has got a vote in this. Hezbollah is going to do their best to try to make it very difficult for israel to keep it limited because it the end of this, not at the end of this, but as this thing progresses, look global condemnation of israel has been so persistent since essentially the second week after the invasion on seven october and they realize they hasbro realize if we can globally where israel down, we may not be able to eventually really threatened the sovereignty of israel, but we can get them into a box that works to their advantage. World becomes apologists for these terrorist organizations, which is difficult for us to believe, right . But thats exactly what hezbollah is trying to achieve military and military operations like this, always have in variably numerous variables that you cannot predict. And one of those clearly is going to be the time element. And then the Cost Element general spider marks always appreciate your perspective. Thanks for being with us thank you, boris. Of course. 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