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
Very busy morning. I need to hand it off to Pamela Brown now, but pam, no shortage of news this week absolutely not, jim. And we just want to remind our viewers that were going to continue to cover the devastation from helene, jim in the media will cover stories and their complaints. We dont stay on it will work in a stay on it because there are a lot of people suffering right now as you have been reporting on in your show, in that suffering, sadly, its going to continue for weeks, for months as these small communities continue to rebuild after almost station. Absolutely. And its going to take a lot of time and a lot of resources from the federal government, State Government Theyve got to get on it. No question about it. They do. Im actually i had Governor Beshear of my Home State of kentucky on later in the show, were going to ask kim about it because as you know, in kentucky, my Home State, there has been devastating Storm Events that have caused a lot of damage and we tab it over th
News we are back with our breaking News Coverage. Iran launching a barrage of missiles into Israel And Anderson cooper alongside my colleague wolf blitzer, moments ago, White House national Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said nearly 200 Ballistic Missiles were fired from iran. He characterized the attack as a significant escalation as were his its words. Our cameras captured the moment when some of the missiles were intercepted over Tel Aviv this afternoon. It was a very scary moment indeed, and were getting our first look, anderson, right now at some of the Damage Video posted on Social Media shows an object crashing down just north of Tel Aviv another video shows the aftermath inside a restaurant in the area. You can see broken glass and scattered debris. Or ron says this attack was in response for the killing of the hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other assassinations. The israeli military is vowing that irans attack, quote well have consequences. Their words will have consequ
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
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