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Between israel and an arab neighbor. Katy tur picks up our breaking News Coverage right now. Good to be with you. Im Katy Tur in for chris jansing. We are watching israel and waiting for a Damage Assessment after iran sent dozens, perhaps more, of ballistic missiles at the country, including tel aviv. This is what it looked like and sounded like add it was happening. [ sirens ] in a statement, iran says the missiles were in honor of hezbollah leader nasrallah where the israelis killed with a 2,0...

Theres going to be hundreds, hundreds of casualties and some hostages in that area that you have to avoid killing. That really takes a whole lot of strength on the commanders point, first of all, to plan and conduct the operation, but also on the politicians part of telling the commanders, heres what we want you to do, and here are the kinds of risks we want you to take. This is going to be a very difficult operation, and certainly the anxieties, and the emotions are stoeked so thats going to pl...

Fiery rhetoric and stumbling into a war with north korea. what are you hearing? >> they have and quite recently, vladimir putin has told americans in a speech in china saying that the rhetoric coming out of the united states, the threats coming out of the united states, the russians dont believe those are very helpful or will persuade the north koreans to change their course and the russians view some of the military moves that the u.s. has made over the past couple weeks as quite dangerous as a...

Didnt the pentagon just shoot it down. whats the answer to that? >> captain jeff davis said they did not shoot it down because it did not threaten the u.s. homeland, adding it did threaten commercial airliners and shipping in the region. it flew for 37 minutes, as we mentioned. images of the test were provided by the north korean state news agency. what worries officials here is this two stage missile was able to re-enter the earths atmosphere and could, in the future, carry a nuclear war head. ...

Blackwell. >> i am susan hendrix in today for randi kaye. we see a change in the u.s. national security. >> new defense secretary, chuck hag hagel, made the plans to put more receptors on the west coast. >> plans to spend $1 million to beef up the defense, but the question is will the missiles actually work. if a nuclear missile is ever fired at the united states, this is the best hope to stop it. 30 intercepter missiles, which can be launched from ground silos in alaska and california, and now ...

>> my view, its a matter of time. theyre demonstrating continued increase in capability, range, altitude. we have to assume the capability exists today to attack the united states. >> the u.s. military has dozens of intercepter missiles at two bases in fort greeley in alaska and vandenberg air force base to shoot down a rogue missile, gregg. >> gregg: the u.s. military tested one of the intercepter missiles. how did that go? >> the test was successful. the missile defense agency launched a kill ...