Good afternoon, i am Alex Whitney we will go to the B Weekend with Ari Melber first, we want to get update on the developing news in the Middle East upon the death of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah and a second senior position in hezbollah. This happened in israeli strike on an Apartment Complex in a beirut. Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu releasing a new statement just this afternoon taking credit for ordering the assassination sang, quote, nasrallah was not a terrorist. He was the terrorist. According to lebanese Health Ministry at least 11 people were killed and 108 injured in the attack protesters took to the streets of tehran as the Supreme Leader declared five days of mourning, urging his people to stand with hezbollah. Officials claim a general was also killed on friday adding they expect to soon deployed troops to lebanon. President biden calling to enhance the u. S. Military Defense Posture in the area to deter aggression and reduce the risk of a broader regional
Cnn breaking News Amar codes alongside John Berman. With cnns continuing coverage of Hurricane Helene, the Monster Category four storm set to make landfall just south of tallahassee, florida. And at any moment, nearly 1 Million people are already without power across florida and also georgia and the impacts they are far reaching this is new Video Tonight of rescues that are taking place in fort Myers Beach in southwest florida. Youve got local deputies using boats to rescue people who call for help. Streets. Theyre turning into rivers the warnings are dire. This is a patent strophic storm, packing can winds around 140 miles per hour and the Storm Surge Forecast or say, will be unsurvivable 20 feet in some parts. Helene is one of the biggest storms to ever hit the gulf coast. Its about 400 miles wide absolutely massive and making matters even worse all of this is happening in the dead of night. Florida governor Ron Desantis is set to hold a Press Conference a few moments from right now,
Warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the u. S. And Around The World. Im max foster. It is friday, september the 27th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In the florida big Bend Region where Hurricane Helene has made landfall overnight sweeping across the coast as an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, with winds of 100 140 miles per hour. Its now weakened, but continues to unleash lifethreatening Storm Surge, flooding, rains, and destructive winds across the Southeast Helene out power to more than 2 Million homes and businesses in florida, georgia, and the carolinas won florida sheriff says theyre fearing the worst when The Sun comes up and Tallahassees Mayor says his city has never seen a storm like It None of us have experienced a category four hurricane this close to tallahassee this is a historic storm for us right now, Everyone Stay safe. Shelter in place, stay home about 40 people have been rescued from rising water in pasco county, just north of tampa. And rescu
This room. And it has attacked israel viciously over the last 20 years. In the last year completely unprovoked. A day after Hamas Massacre on October 7th, hezbollah began attacks against israel which forced more than 60,000 israelis on our northern border to leave their homes. Becoming refugees in their own land. Hezbollah turned vibrant towns into north of israel into ghost towns. So i want you to think about this in equivalent american terms. Just imagine if terrorists turned El Paso and San Diego into ghost towns. Ask yourself how long would the american government tolerate that . A day, a week, a month . I doubt they would tolerate it even for a single day. Yet israel has been tolerating this intolerable situation for nearly a year. Well, ive come here today to say enough is enough. [cheers and applause] we wont rest until our citizens can return safely to their homes. We will not accept a Terror Army perched on our northern border able to perpetrate another October 7th style massa
Another week of shows. We are grateful. The Beat Withari Melber starts right now. Ill tell you one quick thing. Its Veep Night. Our first ever Veep Night because we have Julia Louisdreyfus. Amazing. Ill Run Upstairs and watch. I hope you do. I hope you have a great weekend. Ill see you, nicole. You too, have a great show. Thank you. Welcome to the show. Julia louisdreyfus makes her debut tonight. The reason she is here is that she is, as you may have heard, a big Kamala Harris supporter. She was out at the dnc with the democratic governors. Shes hosting a big, big colbert, Larry David, Jason Alexander, Veep Costar Event for costars this weekend. Thats one of the many things shes doing. Why is she doing it . How can you see it . All of that is what she will tell us in a couple minutes. We begin with a busy day on the campaign. 39 days until november 5th. Tonight we can tell you that over half the country has voting available. I have told you how we are living through different times, ev