Im Chris Jansing live at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. A day of terror, fear, and pain continues to multiply. As we speak, the war that began with the hamas Attacks On Israel One year ago today shows no sign of ending, with thousands dead, millions more suffering. Among them, the parents of an israeliamerican hostage still being held, Omar Nutra. They will join me later this hour. Plus, the shockingly Powerful Storm Bearing down on western florida. Hurricane milton surging from a tropical storm to a Category 5 in the span of just 24 hours. Now, as Residents Race to get out of its path, Emergency Officials already stretched thin by Hurricane Helene Scramble to be ready when it hits. And the Supreme Court back on the bench today. Its first time hearing cases since dropping that huge decision on president ial immunity back in july. How this terms cases from transgender rights and ghost guns to Flavored Vapes will impact the lives of americans. A lot to get to, but we begin by marki
Jessica dean in washington, alongside my colleague Jim Sciutto in Tel Aviv. And welcome to our viewers in the u. S. Us. And around the world. Were going to begin with Breaking News as tensions in the Middle East threatened to boil over. Israel today, turning its firepower on targets in houthi controlled parts of yemen. The idf saying it atactic Power Station and a seaport. The iranbacked group is behind a recent Rocket Attacks on israel and us warship ships in the region. And this all comes as hezbollah confirmed, another of its senior leaders was killed in fridays massive israeli strike on beirut that killed the Groups Leader lets send it over now to jim in Tel Aviv jim walk us through whats happening and what these attacks on the houthi targets tell us listen, you could reliably call this a multifront War Today more than its been even in recent weeks and months. Israel says it has struck dozens of hezbollah targets near the, near a Village South of beirut. This in addition to those a
This is bbc news. Lets go straight back to that breaking news of the last few minutes. We will you knew the live scenes In Beirut. A massive explosion in the last little while from beirut. There you see the seconds after the explosion. We are hearing that there have been multiple explosions. That is coming to us from our correspondents on the ground in terms of the pictures you can see. Hugo bachegais pictures you can see. Hugo bachega is In Beirut for us, telling us this explosion is in one of the strongholds in the south of beirut. The Israeli Military also updating in the last few minutes, saying that they are currently striking Terror Targets, that is how they describe it, currently striking Terror Targets belong to hezbollah in the southern lebanon. This happened about five or seven minutes ago. You can see just the skyline, beirut, and the size of that explosion. Of course that fits entirely with what we have seen in terms of tactics from israel since monday, the sort of strikes.