Now or never, just five weeks until election day. Ohio senator j. D. Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz about to come facetoface for the first and only time. Stakes could not be higher. Major crises have broken out here at home and abroad. Good evening everybody, im margaret brennan. And im Bret Baier coming to you live from Fox News Headquarters in new York Martha Maccallum the debate moments away. You can see it all right here live on fox. Tonight the two candidates to get out on the national stage in the middle of a turbulent and consequential new cycle. Here in the United States americans reeling from the impacts of hurricane helene. Dockworkers kicking off a largescale strike along the eastern seaboard. And overseas, The Middle East on the verge of an allout war. We are tracking any and all Developments Tonight after iran unleashed a barrage of missiles in all parts of israel and all of that hanging over the Debate Stage tonight. We have an allstar lineup of guests here with us
My angle in moments. But, first, in just two hours, you 8 see what will likely be the final debate of this long Election Season. J. D. Vance versus Tim Walz. It comes on a day of chaos around the globe. And more suffering here at home. With two major crises unfolding. A Port Strike that could end up costing the u. S. About 5 Billion a day. And the human Tragedy And Infrastructure collapse from one of the deadliest hurricanes in american history. Now, the Death Toll has stood now, i think its at about 159 people, tragic, entire communities flattened. Americans are still struggling to get the basic necessities, like water. And overseas, a significant escalation. Iran retaliated against israels successful decapitation of hezbollahs leadership. And launched at least 180 missiles into israel, lighting up the sky. Virile prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Warning Iran a painful lesson we attack back. Now, americans are watching all. This and they are wondering who is really running the Countr
Past, iraq, afghanistan, we can go down that road, but the other route is available, the Arab States are here to help and protect you and secure your interests, take that routes, and it is now up to the western states, the us and germany and the uk to help make that happen to help bring israel from the brink, to tell Prime Minister netanyahu, more war is not the answer, let us try to go, you have the offer from the arabs, at this find a way to make it happen. It is imperative for the citizens in the region, whether it israelis are arabs, that we dont go down The Roots of more war. 50 that we dont go down The Roots of more war of more war. So good to talk to, thank of more war. So good to talk to. Thank you of more war. So good to talk to, thank you for of more war. So good to talk to, thank you for taking of more war. So good to talk to, thank you for taking the l to, thank you for taking the time to speak to me on the work today. Let us take your notes or pictures, and these pictures
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
Very busy morning. I need to hand it off to Pamela Brown now, but pam, no shortage of news this week absolutely not, jim. And we just want to remind our viewers that were going to continue to cover the devastation from helene, jim in the media will cover stories and their complaints. We dont stay on it will work in a stay on it because there are a lot of people suffering right now as you have been reporting on in your show, in that suffering, sadly, its going to continue for weeks, for months as these small communities continue to rebuild after almost station. Absolutely. And its going to take a lot of time and a lot of resources from the federal government, State Government Theyve got to get on it. No question about it. They do. Im actually i had Governor Beshear of my Home State of kentucky on later in the show, were going to ask kim about it because as you know, in kentucky, my Home State, there has been devastating Storm Events that have caused a lot of damage and we tab it over th