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
But first right now, the lead with Jake Tapper starts right now welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and we are following two major breaking stories. I am right now inside the Spin Room at Cbs Studio goes in new York Hours away from tonights first and only 2024, Vice President ial debate. But the Worlds Attention might be elsewhere at roughly 12 30 p. M. Eastern youre in time. Iran launched a major attack on Israel Firing nearly 200 ballistic missiles according to us officials, cnns Jim Sciutto and his crew were live on an air in israel at the time as Air Raid sirens sounded and missiles began to rain down overhead okay, guys, we got to get off the roof. These are coming down right next to us here. Hes do jim, please do theyre coming down one just about. We got to go Inside Sciutto and his team are thankfully safe. We are waiting for reports as to the damage done by the iranian souls, the Israel Defense forces reports that most of irans missiles its were intercepted by Israels Air defen
Telling Fox An Attack on israel by iran is imminent. The u. S. Embassy In Jerusalem has warned all Government Employees in israel, gaza, and the West Bank to shelter in place until further notice. That same official said quote, the u. S. Has indications that iran is preparing to imminently launch a ballistic Missile Attack against israel. We are actively supporting defensive preparations to defend israel against this attack. A direct Military Attack from iran against israel will carry severe consequences for iran. End of quote. We are monitoring the situation for updates to bring you as soon as we get them. Well give them to you. Well also be bringing in a live report from Tel Aviv just moments from now. And, of course, they are several hours ahead of us. It is darkness and things happen after dark. We know that. War happens after dark. I will also speak with republican Congressman Brian Mast who volunteered with the israeli Defense Force. Stay tuned for that. Fox News Alert now. Ameri
Welcome to The Beat im ari melber. The United States is readying for tonights big debate between Governor Walz and Jd Vance, the senator. Both Running Mates of trump and harris. This is the last debate of the president ial campaign. It is significant. Josh shapiro, the governor of the Swing State of pennsylvania will join us live in a moment. That is coming up in a few moments. The other big story is the top international news in the world and it is coming out of The Middle East where iran has attacked israel today. It is an attack coming after israels strikes on hezbollah in lebanon. That is some of the scene, the Air Raid sirens and the skies ablaze. The missiles which would have the power to destroy entire buildings. They were largely intercepted. Our sourcing comes from israel and the United States. The defense there was able to intercept the vast majority of the missiles. The reports are there are no casualties in israel from the many attempted strikes. One palestinian man was kil
All he did to try to bring peace between israeli and palestinians. Happy birthday, president carter. I will see again in a few minutes as a guest on inside with jen psaki, which starts right now. I know it seems like every single day we are talking about some incredibly wild split screen between the two candidates running for president i know it feels that way boy, we got another one today. On one side of the equation donald trump bumbled and lied his way storm damage in court nestor georgia. On the other, kamala harris the things you might hear from president about a tragedy like hurricane helene at fema headquarters in washington. Here is just a sampling of headlines from trump s trip today. Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigned in an air ravaged by hurricane helene. Trump falsely says georgia s governor was unable to talk to biden about storm damage. My personal favorite might be, trump says no one could have predicted hurricane at peak of hurricane season