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CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield September 30, 2024

Now and see how much you can save im Elizabeth Wagmeister in Los Angeles in this is cnn ever want to thank so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean dean in washington alongside my colleague, jim sciutto, who is in Tel Aviv. And we begin in The Middle East where fears of a wider war are growing. Israel and hezbollah, again trading fire across the lebanon border today. And theres this, israel also attacking targets in houthi controlled parts of yemen the idf saying it attacked our station and a seaport. We learned just moments ago, president biden will be speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Lets send it over now to jim, who is in Tel Aviv and jim, i know youve been monitoring so during all of these developments, what are your takeaways its a multifront war, right at each of those fronts is growing. Israel and hezbollah. They continue to fire at each other today. Of course, the most extensive attacks or by israeli forces on targets inside lebanon. And now you have israel hitting targets in yemen as well. Lets bring in cnns Jeremy Diamond. Hes in haifa in the north of israel. Ben wedeman is In Beirut. Then can you give us a sense of the targets, the range of targets of these israeli airstrikes inside lebanon, both in the south and in and around beirut in the last 24 hours i certainly in and around beirut in the last 24 hours, theyve been sporadic to say the least, not the lightened sort of the tempo that weve seen in previous days. It appears that the focus of their Strikes Today was partly the Bekaa Valley where in one individuals strike they killed 21 people in 47 others as far as the targets go, his butler, Northern National News Whos Agency really go into the details of that. We also saw strikes in the south, one strike outside of sidon in the south killing more than 30 people. But its sort of the significant news from Here Today is that hezbollah conceded that two more of their senior leaders theres were killed. One is ali karki, whos was responsible for what hezbollah calls its southern front, the border with israel. And also nobilo koch, who was head of his bullets, preventative security. Hes also a member of the leadership council, somebody whos similar age to hassan nasrallah, who sorted good, it goes back to the very beginnings of hezbollah. We also heard from a lebanese Security Source that the body of nasa who was killed at 6 00 p. M. On Friday Evening in a massive strike on beirut, has been found. Now, theres a lot of question about whether or when or if theyre aware there will be a funeral held for nasrallah. Ive gone to a variety of Hezbollah Funeral for senior leadership over the past two weeks, but i suspect the group is rather hesitant to bring any of those of its leaders who are actually still still alive out in public to attend such a funeral. And the funeral would pry be held in the southern suburbs in area of beirut. Thats largely abandoned and for the most part and its a questionable whether anybody in their right mind would want to venture in there in the event of funeral is held. So thats very much up in question. But what were also seeing is that there continued to be Tens Of Thousands of people In Beirut to have basically left their homes this southern suburbs, or in the south of lebanon, or the Beqaa Valley lebanese officials have, as weve been reporting, saying, as much as 1 Million people have fled their homes. Keep in mind thats just less than 20 of the population. Now as far as his the battle is launching attacks on israel. Theyve claimed 11 so far today. But most of them seem to be the usual targets of mostly along on the border with israel. Nothing that would approximate something that you could describe as hezbollah would describe as a response a Revenge Strike for the killing of nasrallah or any other of the senior leadership who have been killed in the last two weeks. So we dont know of his bullets waiting for some sort of surprise, massive attack, or simply because of the blows they sustained over the last two weeks theyre even capable of launching such a revenge attack. Jim yeah, its not table. They could deliver the orders to given how israel seems to have dismantled the leadership, but also the Communication Networks our Jeremy Diamond, in northern Israel And Jeremy to bens point there, the pace of Rocket Missile attacks from hezbollah into Northern Israel has not picked up really measurably at all since nasrallahs killing, hear when you speak to israeli officials, are they expecting such a retaliation or is it their assessment as well that hezbollah may not be capable of a significant retaliation this point officials that ive spoken with jim telling me that they dont anticipate that kind of large Scale Retaliation in the immediate future. Because they believed that hezbollah has operational capabilities have been significantly damaged by the israeli military strikes over the course of the last couple of weeks. And they also believe that the organization is in disarray following the killing of multiple senior here commanders, including, of course, Hezbollahs Leader hassan nasrallah, the Hezbollah Today fired just over 100 rockets into at Northern Israel, according to the israeli military. And thats less about half of the amount that they were firing over the course of the last few days, last week. And so it just gives you a sense of the fact that their capabilities clearly have been damaged, that they clearly are in Oregon Positional Disarray and not able to deal the kind of blow that they might want to in this moment at the same time, these really military is certainly taking advantage of that organizational chaos within hezbollah and they are continuing being to strike targets as ben was just saying, in southern and eastern lebanon, as well as some strikes around the southern suburbs of beirut. This is an opportunity for these really military to deal as significant of a blow to hezbollah as they possibly can at this moment. And at the same time is really political and military leaders are making very clear that this is not the end, that theyre going to continue to carry out airstrikes against hezbollah. And also of course that there is this possibility of a Ground Incursion. We have seen the israeli military begins to move significant troops and military resources up to that northern border. And israeli generals have said that they are preparing for the possibility of a Ground Incursion. That order, though, has not yet come from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who we expect to be speaking with president biden very soon. Biden has made very clear that he does not want to see that kind of a Ground Incursion that he is pushing instead for a ceasefire at this time. That doesnt appear to be where the israeli military and these really government currently and so that will be very interesting to see in the days ahead whether or not the united states and the biden administration is at all capable of raining israel in at this very critical moment, at a moment when israel is feeling emboldened and where they see the an opportunity to dismantle hezbollah as much as possible in the coming days well, the recent record has shown that the israeli leader is quite willing to move forward despite us pressure, even if that Pressure Wealth Isnt insufficient, or its not sufficient in his view certainly based on most recent moves. Ben wedeman In Beirut, Jeremy Diamond in Northern Israel. 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And this is cnn we are continuing to follow Breaking News out of the southeastern us, which is still recovering from hurricane helenes destructive winds and rain. The storm caused zinke widespread flooding, killing at least 64 people across five states. Search and rescue operations happening at this hour across western North Carolina as dozens of people remain unaccounted for there and many roads remain impassable right now. Thats hindering Rescue And Recovery efforts. Joining us now is a spokesperson for the North Carolina department of transportation, jamie crates or jb. Thanks so much for being here with us thank you for the time jessica, i know it is a really tough time for your state for your community walk us through what youre seeing and the magnitude of whats happening there. Well, i think this is an unprecedented storm that we are seeing across much of the Southeast And Right here in western North Carolina what people are seeing and what many of the longtime residents are saying is that they are seeing a storm, the likes of which they have never seen in their lifetime. These are catastrophic impacts. Youve got hundreds of roads that have been closed there are many people without power there are people who have lost all connectivity that theyre cut off from basically from the world. Right now because they dont have access to internet, they dont have power some people are running low on water. It is a really dire situation for many people people here in western North Carolina and i hear as youre describing, all of that, the sense of isolation and the real pragmatic effects of that youre talking about people running low on water. That if these roads are closed, its really hard for anyone to get to them much less for them to Get Out yeah. You know, jessica, thats a really good point. Its its the the central message that were trying to tell people right now is to please stay off the roads. Were seeing far too many people that want to go out and see whats going on. And we need people to stay on off the roads because theyre hindering our ability to conduct emergency response. And that goes for Transportation Crews were working very hard. Were working Night And Day. Our crews are out and theyre trying to clear roads and theyre trying to get Emergency Vehicles through and Highway Patrol through who and other Law Enforcement and other Utility Crews through so that we can restore power and get life back to normal. But we need everyone to stay off the roads in western North Carolina, its imperative right now yeah. And to that end, what would you say is your biggest challenge right now i hear you on people staying off the roads is it also debris . Is It Water . What what are your crews encountering yeah. So we have roughly about 1,500 cruise from the North Carolina department of transportation who are responding to this and theyre coming from all over the state. Weve got people not just in the west, but are they are colleagues have have chipped in as we always do, and theyre coming from the east to help out as well. And what theyre seeing is a combination of downed trees across roads. Theyre seeing mudslides that have covered up roads. Theyre seeing roads that have been destroyed or significant figured really damaged by water so we have a number of crews that are out right now as we speak and they are doing what we call them, cut and shove operations. Its basically where our Chainsaw Crews go in and they they cut the trees and they move move them off to the side. So that we can reopen the roads it is its its unprecedented really what were seeing out there right now North Carolina, governor Roy Cooper said theyre airlifting supplies to some people. I know you all are focused on getting those roads open, but is your department facilitating any part of that . Are they helping with supply dropoffs . Or are they just zeroed in on On Roads right now . So obviously, our main focus is on transportation. So were, were focused on that but were working hand in glove with all of our partners across the entire spectrum. Our Utility Crews, we worked very closely with them after all, storms you know, when they have to reopen roads, a lot of times, there are Power Lines down that are entangled in trees and so were working with them on that. Were also working to get a lot of our Emergency Crews to where they need to be because youve got people that we may not have heard from or family may not have heard from and they need somebody to get to them to check on them to make sure theyre okay. Yeah. It is it is so dire. Our hearts go out to you yet, were watching this unfold on tv. I know those north carolinians are living at and it is a terrible time for so many of you, jimmy carter. Thank you so much for updating us. We appreciate it. Thank you, jessica. Were also following more Breaking News for our crews outside of atlanta battling a huge fire at a Chemical Plant will have more on that ahead on the edge. Tonight at nine on cnn trains planes that use the power of Del Ai and intel clearing the way so. You arrive exactly where you belong what hes thinking im thinking about her honeymoon. About africa so far hot air balloon ride, swim with elephants, waiting. 34 to safari. Great question. Like everything, it takes a little planning for what the mind towards a Down Payment on a ranch in montana with horses. Lets take a look at those scenarios jpmorgan Wealth Management has advisers in Chase Branches and tools like Wealth Plan to help keep you on track when youre planning for at all, the answer is jpmorgan Wealth Management lets clear the air about air. 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