Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Welcome back. Its now 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. I am Ana Cabrera in for jose diazbalart. A senior white House Official telling Nbc News, quote, the United States has Indications Iran is preparing to imminently launch a Missile Attack against israel. This comes as we are closely watching the Israelilebanon Border as israeli launched a Ground Mission in lebanon. This morning, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken said this about the situation right now in the Middle East. Were, of course, Tracking Events in the Middle East very closely and the United States is committed to israels defense. We are watching all of this, as i said, very carefully. Now joining us is Richard Lingual from lebanon. What can you tell us about this potential strike from iran . Reporter in many Ways Iran has been forced to take this move. Iran has been embarrassed over the last several weeks. Health is its strongest proxy in the region and strongest Militia Group and its losing that Militia Group as we
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 2,000 Pound Bunker busting bomb In Beirut last friday. If israel responds, iran says it will face crushing attacks. So will israel respond . Theyre already indicating, yes, they will. The u. S. And allies have been trying to convince all the parties involved to work toward a Cease Fire worried the continued escalation of attacks between Hezbollah And Israel and now iran could lead to all out war. Meanwhile, as the Iron Dome was trying to intercept these missiles, israeli News Outlets were reporting
The military is going to use military from the air, land and sea. The deputy chief of hezbollah said the group s fighters are ready to confront invasion, he acknowledged the assassination of leader must is assassination of leader must is a big blow but all following commanders would soon be replaced. Let s go right to be rude and anna foster who was standing by for us. Thank you forjoining us, we mention the reports of blasts in southern beirut, bring us uptodate on what you ve been witnessing. That s right, the last few hours, there were three more airstrikes here in the southern suburbs of beirut in die here, we knew they were coming because once again, the idf and israel defense forces said they told them to live to evacuate told them to live to evacuate to a safe distance and again, we heard the strikes in the echo around the whole of the city, they are really loud when they happen and you can see the plumes of the smoke and the flames when it s dark like it is now rising up into t
Attacks on harris taking a darker turn tonight as walz and vance are set to debate hours from now, new reporting putting from both camps on how the two candidates are preparing. And 600 people missing from hurricane helene right now, more than 100 confirmed dead. That is not in those 601 of the deadliest storms in 50 years, wiping out ten towns, leaving unbelievable destruction, destruction in america and its wake. And we re going to take you live to the ground while reporters were able to get in. Plus fareed zakaria up on iran how in revenge against the united states and israel. This hezbollah really on its last legs. Let s go outfront evening. I m erin erin burnett on this monday, outfront tonight cognitively challenged the race for the white house, hitting yet another new low tonight as for tonight, it s a new low trump lobbying these words and harris hours after calling her mentally impaired and mentally disabled mentally impaired, said but lying, kamala harris honestly i believe s