Escalation of tensions in the region that presents new challenges for leaders in the white house and around the world welcome to this special edition of erin burnett outfront. Erin is on his side i m in i m anderson cooper and i m jake tapper. We re covering the breaking news in the middle east are counting down to tonight s vice presidential debate that candidates will take the stage age and less than two hours and iran s attack is certainly to be a key line of questioning that s only adding to the pressure on ohio senator j. D. Vance and minnesota gov tim walz as they take part in what could be the most important vice presidential debate in modern american political history. Vance and walz are tasked with delivering closing arguments for their running mates, donald trump and kamala harris, since there are currently no plans for another presidential debate. What the vp nominee say tonight could potentially make a real difference in this razor close race for the white house with electi
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
Country agree to establish diplomatic relations. Iran is a big loser. We will talk with Jared Kushner. Playing tag with sharks. We ride along with scientists tracking the youngest great whites and helping them grow up to be apex predators. Can you say baby shark . First, here is todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Joe biden is calling for a nationwide mask mandate. Be a patriot. Protect your fellow citizens. Unlike the biden approach, our approach is guided by science. The American Academy of pediatrics suggesting all kids over 2 should wear cloth covering. If the children are old enough to keep a mas on, then you put masks on children. President trump is vowing to block funding for the u. S. Postal service that would aid mailin voting. He does not want people in the middle of a pandemic to vote. Israel and the United Arab Emirates have reached an historic Peace Agreement brokered by the u. S. I wanted it to be called the donald j. Trump act. Major fires in Southern California
The eventsmore on that led to the bombings when we talk president Harry Trumans grandson, Clifton Truman daniel. 75 years ago today, the uso and the Nuclear Weapons bureau. Gay,ed from the b29 enola the bomb called little boy would explode with an impact of 15 kilotons and be responsible for the death of 237,000 people. That and the bombing of nagasaki on august 9 would propel japan to surrender and the end of world war ii. Good morning. It is washington journal for this thursday, august 6, 20 20. We are going to spend the entire program on the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki and the end of world war ii. Would like to hear from you. Your thoughts on the decision to use the abomb, the end of the war and hiroshimas legacy. Zones, and central time 2027488000. Mountain and pacific 2027488001. World war ii veterans and their families 2027488002. Japaneseamericans, 2027488003. That line also available for your texts. Make sure you tell us where you are texting from
Hoping to bring you live coverage of acting Homeland Security secretary wolf right now. There is a technical issue with our signal that we are trying to resolve. This is live coverage on cspan. Lets hear from daniel on the line for world war ii family members. Caller yes. Forather did volunteer world war ii and fought in europe. I just want to share that the Nuclear Bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki were horrible war crimes. Wars are to be fought with military. Any attack of civilians is a war crime. The development of Nuclear Weapons has given us a massive thatsof Nuclear Waste leaking all over the place. We have accidents like crazy if you want to listen to john olivers show, the comedian. He will have you scared to walk out the door from all the accidents we had. Paying for Nuclear Weapons is against the law. We should not be paying our taxes to the federal government as long as it has Nuclear Weapons. We are financing terrorism. Nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity. Host ma