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
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
Theres no question and that the Hezbollah Today is not the hezbollah was even just a week ago ramping up attacks, israel launching new strikes in lebanon overnight, had killing Hezbollahs Leader a vp showdown. Tim Walz And J. D. Vance, the final day of preparation before what could be the last debate of this election devastating thing ive ever seen her of destruction. Hurricane helenes rather leaving behind devastated communities across six states washington. Heres a live look at Capitol Hill good morning, everyone. Im Manu Raju in for kasie hunt. Its great to be with israel expanding its attacks on iran backed militant groups overnight, the israeli Air Force striking hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. And for the first time since the war broke out last october, airstrikes in the heart of beirut earlier this morning and this just days after israel strikes killed Hezbollahs Leader Hassan Nasrallah Airstrike killing a Hamas Leader in lebanon and in yemen. Israeli forces attacked hout
A21 a 21 day ceasefire along the israeli lebanese border will generate significant support from europe as well as the arab nations. I will have more to say tomorrow. There s been no indication yet from israel or hezbollah if they will agree to the terms of the proposed ceasefire. It all comes as israel continued deadly air raids in southern lebanon on wednesday, killing at least 72 people, according to lebanon s health ministry. It brings the death toll from israeli strikes in lebanon to nearly 600 just this week. Lebanon says a quarter of those killed have been women and chlidren. Israel s military chief has told troops that israel s air strikes could pave the way for a possible ground invasion into lebanon. Israel said wednesday it intercepted a ballistic missile fired by hezbollah towards tel aviv the first such rocket to target the city. The un secretary general warned wednesday that hell is breaking loose in lebanon. Antonio guterres made the remarks at an emergency security cou
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