canadian wildfires. meteorologists expect the effects to linger for at least another day and possibly into the weekend. millions of people are affected. doctors in some places are advising people to limit their time outdoors. many schools, cities and sports organizations have postponed or canceled events because of the air quality. new york city is clearing up a bit, but the smoke is kind of drifting elsewhere. correspondent nate foy is in jersey city, new jersey tonight. nate, good evening. trace, good evening to you. what a difference 24 hours can make. we can actually see the sky tonight in new york city which was not the case yesterday. but other parts of the country remain heavily impacted as the smoke continue informs drift. one day after the worst air quality ever recorded in new york city today cities like philadelphia and washington, d.c. are covered in dense smoke as residents breathe air defined as very unhealthy by the e.p.a. the smoke obliterated the island y
Retaliatory strike against iran overnight while you were sleeping. So far, zero comment from the israelis. Were awaiting live remarks from Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken very shortly. The strike was inside of a major Iranian Military air base that contains facilities associated with their nuclear program. But we know Irans Nuclear facilities apparently not impacted. They did not hit them. Ainsley we have not received an official statement from the Biden Administration. But a source says the u. S. Was not notified before the strike and was not involved. Lawrence jeff paul is on the ground in tel aviv, israel and retired tony tata has excellent analysis. First, brian is breaking down exactly where this happened. Brian, what can you tell us . Right now you take a look at israel right near here. And you take a look at iran over here. A Long Distance to travel. Thousands of miles where they wanted to hit. Did they want to go tehran where theres a lot of Drone Manufacturing . They decide
israeli war cabinet plans to meet again tonight. this is obviously going to be a topic of discussion as well as ongoing war in gaza and the growing tensions in the north between the iranian proxy group hezbollah. ainsley: let s bring in anthony at a time that brigade general. good morning to you, general. good morning. ainsley: two things that stuck out to all of us that iran is down playing. this trey yingst says this gives iran a face-saving way to not have to respond. gives iran basically an exit ramp. and second thing we are learning this morning. this really sends a message that israel can strike inside iran s territory. what happens now? i think trey is exactly right. i think really iran doesn t know what happened. and they are speculating that these were drones. you know, the f-35 which israel has 396 can go anywhere and be basically undetected. the s-300 surface to air missile
The Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah has announced that four of its fighters were killed in an Israeli attack.The Hezbollah announced the death of four of its men in its English telegram channel.The four were killed in Israeli raids in .