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
Ila i mean, he is one that tomorrow please donate. Now joining we are following Breaking News, iran launching a barrage of missiles into israel, major escalation in the conflict in the Middle East. Im Anderson Cooper alongside my colleague Wolf Blitzer. Weve witnessed missiles intercepted across israel a short time ago as Air Raid sirens went off on the ground below the israeli military now confirms some of those missiles made a direct impact in central and southern israel. Its estimated iran launched nearly 200 missiles, hundred projectiles iran says this attack was in response for the killing of Hezbollahs Leader Hassan Nasrallah and other assassinations a source says the israeli Security Cabinet is in their Emergency Bunker right down the israeli military says, irans attack and im quoting now will have consequences. The White House says both President Biden and Vice President harris are in the white House Situation Room monitoring the situation. Were standing by to get an immediate
Major Breaking News right now. Israel vowing to retaliate after iran launches a major Strike Firing about 200 ballistic missiles at israel. A Strike Iran assists was only a quote, portion of their power. Good evening. Im Wolf Blitzer along with Kasie Hunt, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. This is a Special Edition of this situation it is a sharp escalation between the two sides. One that could tip the region further into an allout War Air Raid sirens sounding across israel as flashes of light Lit Up the sky israels Air Defense System successfully knocking down most of irans missiles but there were some hits. This is one crater in central israel the massive strike coming a day after israeli forces launched a rare Ground Operation into southern lebanon, a mission aimed at taking out the uranium backed militia, hezbollah and tonight, iran is threatening what It Calls a Crushing Quote crushing response if israel carries through with its promise, promis
Around the world. This is a Special Edition of the Situation Room Wolf blitzer im Kasie Hunt in the new Yorks Spin Room for Tonights Vice President ial debate. And wolf, most of the missiles were intercepted, but there were of course, a few hits in central and Southern Israel this is new video of an iranian missile striking an israeli airbase. This is a base that iran tried to hit back in april theres only moments ago, kasie, i spoke to former israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and he told me this is the Moment Israel needs to take out or runs nuclear facilities all this is coming as israel is continuing to target hezbollah targets in lebanon just moments ago, he Israeli Military issuing new Evacuation Orders for Southern Beirut this is a very densely populated area where hezbollah holds a lot of Sway Jeremy Diamond is standing by his germany yes. From gadara in israel, jeremy, what have you learned so far about the damage on the ground caused by these iranian Ballistic Missile str