Ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. Former President Obama to hit the Campaign Trail for Kamala Harris. Details of his 27day Battleground politics for the vp. New reporting on Donald Trumps high Profile Weekend Rally returning to the site of the first Assassination Attempt in pennsylvania. Also ahead, the Death Toll from helene climbs over 200, as hope fades that the missing will be found alive. And breaking news, israel launching massive strikes into lebanon overnight, this time, targeting the new head of hezbollah. Good morning, you made it to friday. It is 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from new york, and with just over a month to go, the president ial campaigns are seriously picking up the pace in the 2024 race. Vice president harris in michigan this morning after campaigning late with an unlikely ally, former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, and we learned just this morning that one of the biggest names in the democratic party, forme
Middle east today. As the world wakes up this morning, Israel Vows Retaliation against iran after teheran launched the largest ever Missile Attack on the Jewish State and we watched it live yesterday. Where to today . Im bill hemmer. Good morning from New York as we get rolling today. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. There was an element of surprise yesterday. So here was the Situation Yesterday in israel. Iran bombarding the country with more than 180 Ballistic Missiles. They targeted heavily populated cities like Tel Aviv and jerusalem. Tehrans second attack on israel this year. Remember the first was back in april. That was a smaller attack that came with a warning. Yesterdays did not. So it is prompting the u. N. Security council to hold an Emergency Meeting on the escalating conflict scheduled for 10 00 a. M. This morning. Bill iran is ramping up its aggression toward the u. N. Targeting both campaigns with cyberattacks and plotting to assassinate the former pres
The story. Breaking news around the situation escalating by the minute in the Middle East right now. So where is all this headed. The pentagon has now announced the deployment of a small number of american troops to the region. We already have about 40,000 troops there but they have decided given what is going on that they needed to send more troops to the Middle East. That coming from the pentagon just a Sort While ago. Iran is warning that there will be Quote Dangerous Consequences as Israel And Hezbollah continue to trade fire. Israel says it has hit 800 other targets within lebanon and has intercepted most of what has been incoming missiles, from them. [ speaking alternate language ] for those who have not understood i went to quiet clarify. We do not wait for a threat we anticipated. Everywhere and every arena at anytime. Eliminate senior officials eliminate missiles, and we are still not done. Whoever tries to hurt us we heard him even harder. Martha Mike Token live in tel aviv.
Dangerous for Everybody And America is bankrolling that. And then there is the naked political reality that anything that benefits netanyahu in this period is not necessarily going to benefit Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are democrats in this period. You are talking about Vladimir Putin who wants Donald Trump to win. Benjamin netanyahu wants Donald Trump to win. The differences the biden administration is in many ways helping Benjamin Netanyahu providing him the impunity to do things that wind up with Killing Palestinians and lebanese and endangering israelis but also increase the possibility of Donald Trump pain president. Then there is just the whole human told. There is the expectation that there is going to be retaliation on the part of hezbollah and i wonder how you are girding yourself as we are in this strange interregnum period. I guess there could be more explosions tomorrow, but as we and global Community Sit and wait for retaliation from hezbollah for taxes real began. The bi
Vladimir putin wants donald trump to win. Benjamin netanyahu wants donald trump to win, but the difference is the biden administration is in many ways helping benjamin netanyahu, providing him the impunity to do the very things that not only end up killing palestinians and lebanese and endangering israelis, but also increase the possibility of donald trump being president. How does that make any sense as policy from a democratic administration? and then there is the human toll. The expectation that there will be retaliation on the part of hezbollah and i wonder how you are guarding yourself as we are in this strange period. I guess there could be more explosions tomorrow, but as we sit and wait for retaliation from hezbollah for attacks that israel began the day before yesterday. The biden administration has to use american leverage these iv israel to get israel to recognize that it s problem with hezbollah and with gaza is a diplomatic problem and the way to get an end to the rocket f