Oing to Get Out of it together. Thats what i usually did for me. Im bill, were on the California Coast and this is cnn thanks so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean in washington alongside my colleague Jim Sciutto in tel aviv. We have Breaking News in The Middle East and also here in the u. S. That were monitoring and thats where we start in the Southeastern United States where the Death Toll from the devastating storm, Helene May is rising this afternoon. Officials now saying at least 64 people were killed across five states. And there are fears that number will likely grow scores of people remain unaccounted for, especially in parts of western North Carolina the damage there is simply catastrophic. Roads and bridges washed out destroyed entire towns remain underwater right now. And more than 2 Million people are still without power. Helene made landfall as a category four hurricane on thursday, but today, Rescue And Recovery efforts still remain a challenge many people are cut off b
Now and see how much you can save im Elizabeth Wagmeister in Los Angeles in this is cnn ever want to thank so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean dean in washington alongside my colleague, jim sciutto, who is in Tel Aviv. And we begin in The Middle East where fears of a wider war are growing. Israel and hezbollah, again trading fire across the lebanon border today. And theres this, israel also attacking targets in houthi controlled parts of yemen the idf saying it attacked our station and a seaport. We learned just moments ago, president biden will be speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Lets send it over now to jim, who is in Tel Aviv and jim, i know youve been monitoring so during all of these developments, what are your takeaways its a multifront war, right at each of those fronts is growing. Israel and hezbollah. They continue to fire at each other today. Of course, the most extensive attacks or by israeli forces on targets inside lebanon. And now you have isra
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One of the founders of the iranbacked Militant Group, which has been a major antagonist of israel for decades behind many deadly Terror Attacks as well. A short time ago, i asked a spokesman for the israeli defense forces if he believes that Nasrallahs Death has somehow weakened Irans Power in the region heres what he said i think wed be very cautious before saying that he run has been weakened. Again, rockets went off just a few minutes ago, just over my home On My Way here, there was a rocket that was intercepted and i had to do with my children who were very scared. Were not going to wage that iran, which is the largest supporter of Terror Tourism in the entire world, is weakened. What they do know is that theyve been hiding for years behind the proxies, being able to destroy an attack israel, terrorize israeli civilians without paying a price i see now as the proxy hezbollah, which has forced people out of their home and tortured their own people. And it all their Weaponry Bind the
Hezbollah facilities. The idf continuing to launch what they call it targeted strikes against the iranbacked Paramilitary Group are cnn teams are witnessing one of those strikes and they did so earlier today following what was a punishing overnight barrage in the lebanese Capital City of beirut. This latest strike happening just hours after his balah confirmed its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed by an israeli attack on friday the israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issuing a statement saying that israel will continue its policies. And he also says he gave the order to assassinate his strava to ensure he could not rebuild the Terror Group was referring to mr. Alla earlier, i spoke with an Idf Spokesperson about what nasrallah is death potentially could mean for a potential conflict with iran. Listen to his answer i would suggest that iran look very closely how weve dealt with hamas, the leadership of hamas, and how in the last weekandahalf, weve effectively decapitated hezbol