Viewers in the u. S. And Around The World. Im Amara Walker in atlanta, Jim Sciutto is in Tel Aviv as we continue they will follow Breaking News out of The Middle East. And fears are continuing to grow that the exchange of fire across the border between Israel And Lebanon could turn into a Ground Incursion and potentially an even wider regional war thats right. It would be quite a step. Us officials say that israeli troops have mobilized at israels northern border in preparation, at least for a possible Ground Offensive inside Lebanon Israel says, however, the crossing the border is only one option. It is considering we need to understand theres a huge amount of different tools that we have in our Toolbox Ground operations is one of them. We are preparing for that if it is required, if were we receive the instructions well, it would be quite a significant tool. The idf has not let up its Air Offensive inside lebanon. Lebanese officials say four people were killed in an israeli airstrike
Absolutely. No question about it and important for parents to watch for sure. And i know you have little ones and you just wanna do everything you can to protect those little ones as much as possible. You absolutely do for sure. I have to i dont think im going to be letting them play football but that at least high school, i dont know either you know, well see what happens. All right. Jim acosta. Thanks so much. Ill take it from here. Good morning, everyone. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown and New York and we have a new news this morning. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivering an impassioned plea at the United Nations General Assembly just moments ago here On Cnn, we heard him rally global support for ukraine more than twoandahalf years after russia invaded his country and launched a War Zelenskyy brought the chilling warning that russia is Planning Attacks on nuclear Power Plants in ukraine. Heres a bit of his message to World Leaders recently i received
Come to you 808 to 14000 and right now, Vice President Kamala Harris is in the critical Battleground State of pennsylvania, where minutes from now, she is expected right here to deliver a wide ranging economic micks speech. Her goal to chip away at former President Trumps lead on this top issue among voters have seen a national politics correspondent, Eva Mckend live for us in pittsburgh following the Harris Campaign Pain what she going to say today, eva well, brianna, the goal here is for her to expand on her economic agenda. We know in part we are still waiting thank for the details, of course. But that she is going to focus on american manufacturing perhaps no better place that argument. And right here in pittsburgh, in the Battleground State of pennsylvania, where it the economic club on the campus of carnegie mellon. Were hearing from senior advisors that this is going to be a pragmatic speech that she is going to talk about the power in heart want to sing american innovation that
Place across lebanon. Heres a crowd gathered in beirut, in the aftermath of explosions. Weve also verified these videos of ambulances apparently taking the wounded to hospital in tibnin, in the south of the country. How many were injured . Reports say more than 2,500 people were hurt, with some killed. So what happened 7 it appears that what were blowing up were these pagers used to receive messages. The militant Group Hezbollah had switched away from using phones to using pages over Fears Israel could track those phones. But that decision appears to have been exploited to target them. We cant verify this Close Up of what appears to be a blown up pager, but the markings appear to match a particular brand. Its not clear how they were detonated simply hacking into them remotely or making them overheat would not be able to make them explode. And so, one possibility is that all the pagers were physically intercepted at some point and had small amounts of explosives planted inside, ready to
Hezbollah fighters targeted by exploding pagers. There arent many parts of the world where pagers are still a thing. But a few months ago the his Brother Leader Hassan Nasrallah called on his fighters, those on the front lines, to stop using smartphones because israel he said had the technology to infiltrate the signal. But it seems israel also had access to the company manufacturing the pagers, or some part of the supply line. Each was fitted with a small amount of explosive, that was somehow triggered by a Signal Israel controlled. Unwittingly his brother have done israels bidding. Handing out pagers to loyalists who for weeks would be carrying them on their person. Until today when simultaneously they exploded. Almost 3000 people have been wounded. Including many who were standing near the target. A little girl is said to be among the dead. Leavens to be among the dead. Health minister said the leavens Health Minister said the explosion was a major Escalation in the region. Were See