With me. I will see you again tomorrow. Thank you for joining us is our and this is one of those news days where everything is busting out all over. There is a lot going on. And a lot of the big news in the country in the world right now is still developing tonight. I have to tell you, tonight, we are keeping our eyes trained on the Middle East with a significant Escalation And Expansion in the conflict between Israel And Hezbollah in Lebanon And Hezbollah is the iran backed Militia Group based in lebanon who are a key ally of hamas and Hezbollah And Israel have been Trading Fire for months across the border of those two countries since the Hamas Attack in israel last october. You will also recall earlier this Month Israel Sort of opened a new area launching attacks in lebanon that killed people including civilians in israel ramped up airstrikes across lebanon which killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands. They then killed the leader of hezbollah. Earlier today th
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Seat and julie roginsky. Thank you, both. A new hour of cnn, new central starts right now. All right. Breaking overnight, getting ward, the biden administration he is preparing for a possible iranian attack. Historic devastation. We just got a brand new Death Toll from Hurricane Helene now, One Hundred And Two people killed that number does appear to be rising. We are getting our first look at some of the areas hardest hit and brand new details on how the Vice President ial candidates are preparing for Tomorrow Nights debate. Im John Berman with Sara Sidner and kate baldwin. This is cnn new central Destruction And Devastation than people really are having a hard time putting words to this morning when you just take a look at these images from florida to Virginia Power systems, crippled roadways washed out, cell service, wiped out food, water, and fuel. Now, becoming hard to come by. Hurricane helene is left so much damage in its wake. And as janja said, just moments ago, we have a new
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Theres been a big change and escalation, if that seems even possible right now in the israeli war to take out has block. Part of the planned attack was possibly taking out Hassan Nasrallah, the Mastermind And Head of has block. All of this comes at a time where Tel Aviv is on very high alert. Because if they did get this guy hes not just any other leader. Hes a very, very different type of leader from which ramifications for widening war have picked up considerably. Welcome everybody. Im Neil Cavuto and this is your world. Right now were looking at the extent of these attacks. No confirmation that Hassan Nasrallah himself has been among those killed. But we do know that theres sort of a call to bunker and safety not only in Tel Aviv but throughout israel and fears this war has just escalated beyond what anyone thought. An advisor to irans leader says with the possible assassination of this leader as in the case of other resistance leaders, others will simile take their place. We are le