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Conflict escalating even more this morning, israeli airstrikes have targeted 140 hezbollah sites in beirut including weapons storage, and missile facilities embedded beneath civilian buildings. Thats according to the idf, the strikes are part of an ongoing campaign by israel to degrade hezbollahs military capability. The lebanese government, responding to the widespread destruction calling for intervention on an international basis, the country has recorded more than 100,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. Authorities claimed that number is actually much higher. Our chief national Security Analyst, Jim Sciutto in Tel Aviv with the very latest jim, tell us first, who was this . Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah was a defining figure in hezbollah in the region for more than three decades. ....
reporter: it is different. and part of it is that these threats are going directly to the united states and at a rapidfire pace. that s what s really alarming here because it s not just going to south korea. it s going to the international community, the biggest fish out there being the united states. then you toss in that we have two new leaders. in south korea, a female president, the very first in this country s history, untested in a male-dominated society. she has something to prove. the guy to the north, young, he is 28, 29 years old. you look at video of him. he looks awkward. he is like an overgrown kid. that is the impression the outside world has, certainly south korea has. his own people have it. and so he has something to prove. you put all this together in a caldron and it is an extremely hot situation. that s why we re starting to see the united states try to turn a corner, trying to cool things here on the peninsula. thank you, kyung. appreciate it. ....
Place an hour south of the dmz and has an hour larger bull s eye on it in the entire region. if it feels it will be the target of a missile attack, that s something most people here in the capital do not think will happen. part of it, don, though, is because they re just numb to it. they re told every other week from north korea that they re going to be melted down into a sea of fire. they can t possibly live this close to their neighbors to the north and be able to cope and hear all of this and actually think they re going to come under attack. kyung, is anything different about this time versus previous threats? reporter: it is different. and part of it is that these threats are going directly to the united states and at a rapidfire pace. that s what s really alarming here because it s not just going to south korea. it s going to the international community, the biggest fish out there being the united states. then you toss in that we have two new leaders. in south korea, a female ....
The united states and at a rapidfire pace. that s what s really alarming here because it s not just going to south korea. it s going to the international community, the biggest fish out there being the united states. then you toss in that we have two new leaders. in south korea, a female president, the very first in this country s history, untested in a male-dominated society. she has something to prove. the guy to the north, young, he is 28, 29 years old. you look at video of him. he looks awkward. he is like an overgrown kid. that is the impression the outside world has, certainly south korea has. his own people have it. and so he has something to prove. you put all this together in a caldron and it is an extremely hot situation. that s why we re starting to see the united states try to turn a corner, trying to cool things here on the peninsula. thank you, kyung. appreciate it. how did one handshake help change america, one simple moment and its ripple effects ....