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
May 8, right now on san this morning, id tail to the campaign trail, a stark contrast six months out from election day plus y, the judge the tribes classified documents k is just postpone that trial indefinitely a State Of Emergency declared in michigan after a devastating round of tornadoes all right. 6 00 a. M. Here in washington, the sun coming up over the white house, washington monument, Beautiful View down the national mall. Good morning, everyone. The kasie hunt, its wonderful to have you with us on this wednesday morning. It was a splitscreen that told the story of two starkly different candidates and campaigns as President Biden was delivering a speech against antisemitism at a Holocaust Remembrance event in washington on tuesday, donald trump was seething in a New York City courtroom as Stormy Daniels described in lurid detail, her alleged sexual encounter with the former President Testimony that made trump visibly uncomfortable. The judge told trumps attorney, quote, i under
palestinian civilians in order to pursue military purposes. sari bashi, thank you very much forjoining us. the leader of hezbollah has once again threatened to retaliate against israel for its suspected role in the assassination of a hamas leader in lebanon. hezbollah is a poweful political and military group backed by iran. and, in his second speech this week, its leader, hassan nasrallah, said that a response to the killing of saleh al arouri was quote inevitable . his comments came as lebanon issued a formal complaint to the un security council over the attack in beirut on tuesday. it said israel used six missiles in the strike on a hezbollah stronghold. israel has not confirmed whether it was behind the killing. us presidentjoe biden kicked off his re election effort on friday with a speech marking three years since the january 6 insurrection. speaking in pennsylvania, mr biden singled out former president donald trump as a danger to us democracy
ron desantis and nikki haley racing to close the huge polling gap they face. they sharpen their attacks during dueling cnn town halls last night. haley and desantis making the case to iowa voters that republicans could lose in november if trump is the nominee. americans don t want another nail-biter of an election and that s what we ll get. look at any of the polls. head-to-head against joe biden. trump head-to-head with biden. on a good day, may be up by two. i defeat biden by 17 points. 17 points. the democrats want trump to be the candidate. they are going to talk about all the legal stuff. january 6th. that will be what the election will be about. today we are also about to get our first split-screen 2024 preview of a potential biden/trump rematch. biden is set to give a speech marking three years since the january 6th attack and warn americans that trump an existential threat to our democracy.
buried and they are chanting death to the usa and death to israel. so, clearly people have already made up their mind who was behind this attack before any official investigation has reported its findings. my gosh. a lot to dig through there. ali arouzi for us, thank you, appreciate it. from iran to israel. at any moment the head of the iranian-backed militant group hezbollah is set to give a televised speech marking qassem soleimani s death and it is closely being watched to see if he addresses the strike in beirut who killed the second in command and leader of the military wing on tuesday. he s the most senior leader of hamas to be killed since the october 7th attacks in israel. israel has not claimed responsibility for the strike, but nbc news learned that israel did not notify the u.s. in advance of the attack, but did inform washington as it was under way, according to two u.s. officials, u.s. defense official, and a person briefed