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Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. Im Paula Newton, the head right here on cnn newsroom. Israel ramps up its strikes against suspected ahead hezbollah targets, forcing thousands to flee their homes millions of people in the southern united states are waiting for their power to be restored in the aftermath of deadly Hurricane Helene and the race for the White House focuses on the border as us Vice President Kamala Harris makes her first visit there as a nominee. With Paula Newton a. M. In lebanon and its capital is reeling from the worst round of israeli strikes in nearly 20 years. And some of its residents no longer have a place to call home. Cnn crews at the scene, say the city was pounded continuously overnight strikes are still underway northeast of their now because of that, some hospitals and parts of Southern Beirut will now be evacuated thats where the idf said it struck residential buildings, that House Hezbollah Weapons Caches On Friday. But theyre residents no longer have a place to live and they camped up on sidewalks overnight. You can see them. Theyre often with little more than the shirts on their backs some of them saying they were lucky to be alive we have no yeah, we are here for now. So we dont know maybe he is safe. We dont know so we are just here by the grace of goods that another planet we fled under fire because we didnt receive the news. We were at home and had no other place to take shelter. We escaped the shelling, but thank god we were able to get out with our children now all of this happening a day after the idf targeted Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah. According to an israeli official, now the source said its too early to say if he was killed in a speech at the un On Friday, israels Prime Minister said his country is only doing what it has to do hezbollah, which has hijacked your country and threatens to destroy ours as long as hezbollah chooses the path of War Israel has no choice. And israel has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their homes safely. And thats exactly what were doing our reporters are standing by to give us the very latest details. Ivan watson is in Hong Kong under bashir is in london. First to you. Now we were just seeing some of the pictures there. An absolute night of terror. And im sure many are asking themselves what now preparing for what could be a sustained Military Campaign from israel . Absolutely. There is a huge amount of fear of Confusion And Panic amongst civilians across lebanon, particularly in boodles after the severe round of strikes that we saw over the course of yesterday and overnight, weve been hearing from lebanese officials. Of course, the lebanese prime Minister Najib Mikati calling on the international community to do for to take action to fund what he described as israels tyranny in the region. A similar message from lebanons Foreign Minister Speaking in new york at the un general Assembly Warning that the situation could spiral out of control, not just in lebanon, but more broadly across the Middle East. Again, reiterating that call for international intervention but of course what weve seen so far is really a rejection from the israeli government of any hopes of a ceasefire that is of course, a huge concern for the civilians in beirut and across lebanon. We have seen hundreds of thousands now displaced, as you mentioned, paula, weve seen many overnight taking shelter, sleeping on the street for safety because of course, these strikes have been targeting areas that are densely populated, filled with residential buildings just yesterday, we saw the southern suburb of Dahiyeh In Beirut targeted repeatedly. This is an area crammed filled with Apartment Buildings with civilians, with families living there. It is a busy city and it is impossible cool to imagine how civilians will be able to find any point of safety if these strikes are targeting the heart of beirut. And of course, we have been hearing now from the israeli military about these Evacuation Warnings that are coming through to civilians telling them they are according to the israeli Military Close to hezbollah targets that they need to get out for their safety the protection to move more than 500 meters. But what weve also seen over the course of yesterday and overnight is that the timeframe between these warnings coming in and the ability for civilians to actually get out is very, very narrow. So it means that many actually able to gather all their belongings together, their children, their families, and get out to safety and of course, theres really is reflecting what were seeing in gaza, as well as troubling reflection there around the evacuation orders. We have heard from the lebanese government saying that they will be providing some aid, some funding to the poorest families that have been displayed. But it is anticipated that this aid would only be distributed to around 10,000 people people again, just a fraction of the number of people that have been displaced according to Lebanons Health Minister speaking to our Cnn Colleague Jomana karadsheh around 400 to 500,000 people are believed to be displaced across the country. And it feels as though were only seeing an escalation thats certainly the feeling following prime Minister Netanyahu is addressing the Un General Assembly yeah. And again, important to keep in mind, this is a country that was already reeling from economic and political upheaval. Ivan to you in Hong Kong, israel is certainly trying to decapitate, has blocked do they explore expect more of a reaction . From iran or any other regional reaction here well, Thats Something to watch. I mean, weve heard statements from the iranian government condemning this and accusing the u. S of being complicit in the israeli attacks. There was a statement that came out of the government of syria, lebanons neighbor, also condemned what it characterized as israeli terrorism in lebanon. And you have to remember that hezbollah and its fighters helped in syria during its civil war. They fought on behalf of the syrian president Bashar Al Assad against a largely sunni muslim uprising against him it was a very unpopular intervention by hezbollah into the neighboring civil war. There has been incidents in past weeks where hootie militants have fired long range projectiles at israel and the houthis are backed by iran. Just in the last day or so, and iraq in Rocky Iran militia claimed responsibility for firing a drone at the Southern Israeli Port of a lot. But we have not seen a massive retaliation of any form from the iran backed armed groups in the region where there was a fear sure. That if this war escalated, they would all be sucked in to the conflict and then the final big question is, what has happened to hezbollah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Arch Enemy of Israel Israel claimed in its first wave of massive bombings on the southern suburbs of beirut on. Friday evening to have targeted nasrallah. We have not heard any statement from that movement about his current status. There have been some statements denying, for example israeli accusations that some of the buildings that it targeted in beirut had been Storing Weapons and weve also seen in the last hour or so a claim from hezbollah that it had fired missiles at the ramat david military Base And Airfield in israel. Weve also seen Air Raid sirens going off in israel itself. And report from the israeli military three of a surface to surface missile from Lebanon Landing in central israel without causing any damage. One final note, bizarrely, i made all this carnage in violence around beirut there are still middleeast airlines, Flights Landing and taking off from beirut airport. Even though thats just a few miles away. Stay from where the fires still burn from last nights israeli aerial blitz we were seeing some of that video there as many tried to escape lebanon at this hour. Ivan watson for us in Hong Kong under bashir in london. Thank you to both of you now, Donald Trump has been promising without any detail, we add the resolution to the war in ukraine. If hes elected will happen On Friday. The former president met with ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower in new york. From says he quote, learned a lot from meeting with zelenskyy, but he wants to see a fair deal between ukraine and russia. Take a listen to this awkward exchange between the two men we have a very good relationship. And i also have a very good relationship, as you know, with president putin. And i think we went, i think were going to get it its all very quickly, very worried. I really think were going to get more moderate nations would tango we can work out something thats good for both sides its time nominee also hit the Campaign Trail in the Battleground State of michigan On Friday during one relatively brief town hall, the former president answered questions from voters and repeated his standard Talking Points on illegal immigration and the economy. One point, he attempted to link rising Grocery Prices to immigration and at an earlier event, trump criticized Kamala Harris for visiting the Southern Border Friday she didnt go there for four years. Now, today, she shows up. I dont know. Maybe shes already gone i doubt it, but shes went to the border today. She wants to save him. She could salvage make up some lies how all the polls show Kamala Harris is vulnerable on that immigration issue. Shes not running away from it. She went to the border friday to confront the issue headon. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez has more now from arizona Vice President Kamala Harris, casting herself as the solutions oriented candidate on the u. S. Mexico border. But it was notable how she said she would do that in remarks here in arizona On Friday where she said, for example, that she would take additional action two toughen Border Security and that included barring migrants from seeking asylum unless it was at a legal port of entry, a departure from decadeslong protocol. Take a listen those who cross our border unlawfully will be apprehended and removed and barred from reentering for five years. We will pursue more severe criminal charges against repeat violators. And if someone does not make an Asylum Request at a legal Point Of Entry and instead crosses our border unlawfully. They will be barred from receiving asylum. In other Vice President , there, drawing out a difference from president Joe Biden and his administration by going a step further on Border Security. But she also said that she wanted to pursue immigration Form And Address those undocumented immigrants who have been in the united states for a long period of time, as well as those dreamers who were brought to the u. S as children. Now, the Vice President are multiple patients also needled former president Donald Trump on that bipartisan Border Measure that he and republicans tanked earlier in the year of saying the former president , quote, wants to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem, the Vice President also noting at the top of her remarks at the u. S. Is a nation of immigrants, but ultimately, these were remarks of the Vice President trying to take whats been a political vulnerability turn it on its head, and try to close that Polling Gap with former president Donald Trump on the issue of immigration still alvarez, cnn, arizona me now is a Tausche Lynch such as a professor of government at the university of essex. Good to see you. Natasha, you know, Vp Harris there she stepped way over to the right in this speech on the issue of the border. Can it work to win over independents . And some republicans, of course, without risking, you know support in her own party. I mean, what she articulated there was a fairly tough Border Policy. It could have been a republican Border Policy a few years ago thats a really good point. It does sound like the democrats are sounding more like republicans on the issue of immigration, because this is probably the issue where harris is struggling the most against trump in that more americans think that trump is doing a better job at handling immigration. And so shes trying to tackle it head on and she was also going to arizona a state of all of a seven sweepstakes. This is probably the Swing State where shes struggling. The most and where immigration would be one of the most important issues in arizona so she tried to go on the attack talking about tougher policies regarding Asylum Seekers seekers, and also trying to criticize trump as just sort of this agent of chaos that is unserious, that doesnt know the complexities of the immigration crisis. The fact that you need more funding for immigration judges, more funding for Border Agents and she tried to sell herself as a prosecutor, someone that has gone on after Drug Cartels and its tough when it comes to implementing the Rule Of Law its really not clear whether or not this is going to be enough to change the minds of those that have already decided. I would theyre pretty much set in their viewpoints whether theyre for trump or or for harris until last undecided voters and so shes trying to make a pitch to them but i dont know if its going to work. This is just one of the weaker issues for her, but she did the best she could to try to appeal to those voters that she would be tough on immigration. And as mentioned, much more towards the republicans on this issue was there a risk to highlighting it though she hasnt been to the border in years and the biden administration did have issues with recordbreaking numbers of migrants crossing the border so i dont think it was necessarily a risk to highlight it. You could also say that at the moment, and remain according to the statistics, we have the lowest number of encounters at the border, about 56,000 since september of 2020. And she can also highlight the fact that there was a bipartisan Immigration Bill that was ordered by some of the most some of the most ardent republicans and that trump basically torpedoed the bill because it wasnt going to help with his campaign so there are elements of this as she attacks it had on that might work for her in terms of trump and his meeting with zelenskyy i mean, they seem to be speaking from different planets here, but heres the thing for trump voters or even some independents. They hear donald Trump Talk about peace. They hear the biden administration talking about sending more Military Aid and helping Ukraine Fight on. I mean, at this point, is this a better stance for the former president to literally say, look, we want peace and not discuss the intricacies, intricacies of how difficult that is to get there to all. The same time that trump is saying we want peace, hes also basically saying that he supports Zelenskyy And Vladmir putin, who is considered by many to be a War Criminal A dictator who has been so aggressive in this war, in ukraine hes basically s