Between israel and an arab neighbor. Katy tur picks up our breaking News Coverage right now. Good to be with you. Im Katy Tur in for chris jansing. We are watching israel and waiting for a Damage Assessment after iran sent dozens, perhaps more, of ballistic missiles at the country, including tel aviv. This is what it looked like and sounded like add it was happening. [ sirens ] in a statement, iran says the missiles were in honor of hezbollah leader nasrallah where the israelis killed with a 2,000 Pound Bunker busting bomb In Beirut last friday. If israel responds, iran says it will face crushing attacks. So will israel respond . Theyre already indicating, yes, they will. The u. S. And allies have been trying to convince all the parties involved to work toward a Cease Fire worried the continued escalation of attacks between Hezbollah And Israel and now iran could lead to all out war. Meanwhile, as the Iron Dome was trying to intercept these missiles, israeli News Outlets were reporting
This is brand new video just to us. Israel says it struck the central headquarters of hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. You can see in this video the blast was massive. And israeli official tells Nbc News the target was hezbollahs powerful leader. It comes as israel has been systematically targeting high level commanders of the u. S. Designated terror group, both within and abroad, which prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says israel will continue to do in order to defend itself from groups looking to eliminate the state. Nbcs Matt Bradley is live in beirut for us. Also with us, aaron david miller, former arabisraeli negotiator, and Senior Fellow at the endowment for peace. Give us the latest. Reporter we were here a couple of hours ago when our walls of our hotel shook. You cant see it now but it was just over my right shoulder here in southern beirut. This is a neighborhood that has endured repeated israeli bombardments all week long. And most of that, as you just mentioned in your intro
on capitol hill, senators negotiating a deal on the border as house speaker mike johnson and fellow republicans are set to visit the border this afternoon. we want to begin this hour with that breaking news out of iran. more than 100 people confirmed killed. iranian officials calling the explosions a terrorist incident. want to bring in now tehran bureau chief ali arouzi who is live for us on the ground in tehran. we spoke last hour, what updates are we getting this hour as to what may have taken place and who is behind it? reporter: hey, yasmin, so we know there were two explosions about 15 minutes apart from each other at 3:00 local. the death toll keeps rising. right now saying at least 103 people have been killed, and over 210 people have now been confirmed injured at that blast, went off near a cemetery in iran where that ceremony was being held to mark the death of soleimani in 2020 by a u.s. drone attack. state media saying there was one explosion and second one du
criminal court in downtown houston, texas where the second migrant is set to am before a judge as we learn new details about the girl s murder, criminal investigation and suspects immigration status. welcome to a now hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off. great to have you, bret. bret: i m bret baier in washington. the judge yesterday setting bail for one of the suspects at $10 million. the other suspect will face the same judge today. they are accused of tying up the 12-year-old girl, killing her by strangulation and tossing her body under a bridge. dana: the district attorney telling us that additional evidence could trigger the death penalty. it is clear that a sexual assault likely happened. since neither defendant has admitted that, circumstantial evidence will have to prove it. we re waiting on lab tests now to see if the capital murder charge can be upgraded to one where they are death penalty eligible. dana: matt finn is live in ar
their mind that a strike has happened in beirut, in lebanon. and he was providing safe harbor for this hamas leader. the notion that hezbollah isn t already involved seems somewhat far fetched. hezbollah has been engaged in combat since october 7th, firing rockets into northern israel. northern israel has been depopulated. whether hezbollah now uses this as a pretext to further intensify its attacks on israel remains to be seen. but hezbollah as an arm of iran has been involved in this from day one and will likely continue to be so long as iranian sponsors it and it is able to do so. you have been on the ground there for quite some time, you live back and forth between there and here. i want to talk about the sentiment on the ground. we know the humanitarian crisis is happening on the ground in gaza. 20,000 plus people have been killed, as has been told by us