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
Code Lumen Tv good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We begin with breaking News Right now, Hurricane Helene is churning in the Gulf Mexico is currently a category two strength, but is expected to become a major hurricane before it slams into florida. Later tonight, officials are warning of lifethreatening Storm Surges of up to 20 feet plus new York City mayor Eric Adams indicted sources say the mayor is now facing at least one federal what criminal charge this morning, investigators took his phone and are searching his residence and later on defending a racist post. Reads the Gop Congressman Clay higgins stands by his ugly comments, Calling Haitian Migrants Thugs and Quote Slapstick gangsters Breaking News but we do begin with the breaking News Right now, a tropical storm conditions are lashing florida. It is going to get worse though as Hurricane Helene barrels toward the southeastern united states, we are seeing flooding already hours before the
Instead of real peace, but the only Prizes Putin will give you in return are more suffering from disasters. We must restore nuclear safety, energy must stop being used as a weapon, we must ensure food security, we need to bring home all our captured soldiers and civilians, possibly deported to russia. We must uphold the u. N. Charter and guarantee our right, ukraines right to territorial integrity and sovereignty, just as we do for any other nation. We need to withdraw the russian occupiers, which will bring an end to the hostilities in ukraine, and we must hold those responsible for War Crimes accountable. We need to stop the destruction of nature caused by the war, and we must not allow a second phase of this russian invasion, and we need to make it clear the war is over. This is the peace formula. What part of these could be unacceptable to anyone who upholds the u. N. Charter . If someone in the world seeks alternatives to any of these points or tries to ignore any of them, it like
Virginia in the state legislative races. Alaska in a cOngressiOnal race. It doesnt matter where you are in the country make their own Health Care decisiOns, even if they may have their own views On abortiOn. They dOnt think that they should be putting them On somewhere else. One out of three women are now living in states with extreme abortiOn bans. You have women bleeding out in parking lots. You have states that are looking at a texas and a Court Case tried to do limiting mifepristOne. Ivf is at risk. Birth cOntrol, all of this will be On the ballot in november. And i do want to ask you about this. Vice president harris has called for restoring roe versus wade, but that requires a cOngress that is able to do that. If democrats lose the senate this electiOn or you dOnt take back the house, doesnt that get complicated . Well, that is exactly why we have to keep the senate. And were feeling so good about all our races across the country. We are ahead with our candidates, with all the in
man, oh, man, that looks good out there, can t wait to be out there with rob to talk about that. It s labor day weekend and i told my staff, if we don t get food, hopefully free food, i m not hosting the show. And adding to the barbecue prices pretty fast, we are going to get there with chef rob get thoughts on this. And vicepresident harris and former president trump fired up on the campaign trail. See what we did there, fired up on the campaign trail. Love the puns. He was busy with two events yesterday, one in pennsylvania and the other in washington d. C. He made a little bit of news at that rally in johnstown, pennsylvania with a fox news interview with our colleague bryan llenas, where he said he would vote now on abortion after six weeks, he says that democrats allow abortion too late in the process. He, also, neil, like vp harris he would consider putting a democrat at the table. If i found somebody that had the right views and was very talented and was going to do good thing