Middle east today. As the world wakes up this morning, Israel Vows Retaliation against iran after teheran launched the largest ever Missile Attack on the Jewish State and we watched it live yesterday. Where to today . Im bill hemmer. Good morning from New York as we get rolling today. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. There was an element of surprise yesterday. So here was the Situation Yesterday in israel. Iran bombarding the country with more than 180 Ballistic Missiles. They targeted heavily populated cities like Tel Aviv and jerusalem. Tehrans second attack on israel this year. Remember the first was back in april. That was a smaller attack that came with a warning. Yesterdays did not. So it is prompting the u. N. Security council to hold an Emergency Meeting on the escalating conflict scheduled for 10 00 a. M. This morning. Bill iran is ramping up its aggression toward the u. N. Targeting both campaigns with cyberattacks and plotting to assassinate the former pres
[sirens wailing] John Thats whats been happening in israel over the last couple hours. Air raid sirens, alerts blinking red all across the country. As iran throws the full might of its ballistic Missile Arsenal of israel. You see a couple impacts. They look like they might have gone down into the Mediterranean Sea just to the west of Tel Aviv. No significant casualties, no significant damage that we know of and for all intents and purposes this appears to be over. At least for the moment because Air Spaces have reopened. People have been told they can depart the Bomb Shelters that theyve been in. To wait out what iran had to throw at israel. Here we go again. Last time this happened was back on april 13th. Didnt result in any significant casualties or damage and that appears to be the case tonight. Sandra this is coming from iran. Still reporting what we are seeing. Per a senior iranian official to reuters, the u. S. Was alerted by iran through diplomatic channels shortly before these
Hezbollah back from israels border. Joining us now, nbcs Matt Bradley in beirut, former u. S. Ambassador to morocco and former president ial middle East Adviser mike ginsburg, u. S. Retired Army Colonel Jack jacobs as well. I want to bring with nbcs white House Correspondent Monica alba with us by phone. You have this breaking news reporting. What have you learned about this potential iranian attack against israel . Well, ana, this is coming from a senior white House Official and a department of Defense Official who confirmed to myself and to our Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube this indication that the united states has, which is typically a reflection of Intelligence And Information that they have gleaned from other countries, who would potentially be affected by this, that iran is indeed preparing to launch that ballistic Missile Attack against israel. Now, to put this into context, this is something that has happened before, it happened earlier this year as we may remember. And
We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
Live from atlanta. This is Cnn Newsroom with Michael Holmes. Hello and welcome, everyone. Im Michael Holmes. Appreciate your company. It is now 6 a. M. In beirut where the possibility of a Ground Invasion by israel into lebanon is fueling fears of an even wider conflict across the region. Us officials say israeli troops have mobilized and are Clearing Areas in what could be preparation for Ground Troops to move across the border. Israel saying a Ground Offensive is only one option, being considered. The idf continuing their air offensive. Meanwhile, On Saturday, with blasts hitting close to beiruts airport. Saturdays strikes in lebanon reportedly killing more than 30 people, wounding close to 200. Overall, nearly A Thousand lebanese have been killed since this latest escalation, according to health officials. Hezbollah firing back, saying it launched missiles towards jerusalem, prompting a response from israeli Air Defenses police say pieces of an intercepted missile crashed in the sub