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intensifies its ground war in lebanon across the region, violence is escalating with fierce clashes between israel and hezbollah forces. >> the idf says that it plans to send additional troops already, eight israeli soldiers, by the way, have been killed in combat israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing iran, quote, will pay for yesterday's aerial assault, which iran says was in response to the killing of hezbollah chief hassan nasrallah and other leaders, a big question now is what role will the u.s. have in all of this? here's what president biden said a short time ago about whether he supports an israeli attack on iranian nuclear sites we answer is no i think is rarely what we're gonna do but david all seven of us agree that ever right to respond officially respond let's go live now to cnn's nic robertson. >> he is in tel aviv. nic, what

is the latest there? >> yeah. president biden is saying that he will speak relatively soon with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and that is the big open question. the one you're talking about there precisely what israel would choose to strike back at the prime minister here has been very clear. the response will come calm. it will be strong, it will look like deterrence to iran to dissuade them from attacking. again. but the scale and scope is very likely to determine the potential for escalation in the region. and a very deadly day as israel has been pressing it's ground offensive into lebanon for the second day, hezbollah saying that they targeted israeli troops in three different villages at the border the idf now saying that eight soldiers have been killed, a number of others injured a hospital near the border in the north of israel. early this morning

declared a a major major casualty event. and we understand troops from those clashes with hezbollah were taken to a number of different hospitals across the north. but this is perhaps a very tough reminder for the idf, for the prime minister of israel because previous experiences in 2006 and and 1982 until 2000 when it pull troops out of lebanon about the cost of having ground troops go inside israel. we were just talking, go inside lebanon. we were talking yesterday at the border with a lady living at the border she actually refused to evacuate. she makes food for all the soldiers and she told us and we were overlooking the area of one of the attacks before the attack happened, she told us yesterday issues really worried about the troops going across she wants and believes that they can they can deter hezbollah but she said she knows it's going to be dangerous for them because hezbollah has been expecting

the troops to come across. so this casualty toll, the prime minister offering his condolences to the families, but it is significant that it comes so soon in this ground operation nick thank you for that report from tel aviv. >> we appreciate it now to cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood, who is at the state department for us. kylie earlier, we heard president biden saying he doesn't support in israeli attack on iranian nuclear sites. what are you hearing? about? what role the u.s is going to take in all of this brianna, that's an incredibly noteworthy comment from the president because what we heard yesterday from the national security adviser from the state department's spokesperson. >> here at the department was effectively that the united states was giving israel a very low large degree of decision-making space in terms of how it responds to this attack from iran. they weren't counting anything in, they weren't counting anything out. they said that they're going to be ongoing close discussions with the israelis. but now

today it's very clear that even though the united states does expect, us officials do expect that israel's going to respond. they're not trying to prevent them from doing that with the national security advisor saying yesterday that there'll be severe consequences for iran here, the united states doesn't feel that everything should be on the table in terms of what that response looks like, because president biden is saying very clearly, no, he does not support ford, israel going after ron's nuclear facilities in response to what we saw occur yesterday, what he said was that he spoke with his counterparts from the g7 and they agreed that israel has a right to respond. it should be a proportional response. that is noteworthy. so we'll watch for now, are the ongoing discussions tween the u.s. and israel on this topic, president biden said that he is expecting to speak with prime minister netanyahu in the near term here. they have not notably spoken since the end of august. that's more than two months now watch and see what comes

out of that conversation. but the fact that the president is now saying that the united states doesn't support going after iran's nuclear facilities is noteworthy particularly given the rhetoric or that we're seeing out of israel right now, we're hearing from some former officials, prime former prime minister naftali bennett, who is saying that they should go for iran's nuclear program if they don't do it now, they may never do it. so the united states does see a need, does support israel responding, but they are in these conversations at least publicly and excuse me, at least privately. and now we know publicly with these comments from biden bit and making it clear that they don't want this to get too far out of control where it turns into an all out war. brianna. >> all right. kylie atwood live for us at the state department. thank you for the report for us. >> let's expand the conversation now with cnn military analyst and retired army general james spider marks, general. thank you so

much for being with us. you heard president there saying that israel should respond proportionally. what would that look like fair to say that israel certainly will choose when and where they want to respond. >> and i would say there are no rush. they can do this at a time of their choosing. so we're all leaning forward trying to anticipate i think it's also fair their to understand that israel wants to ensure that iran feels some increased pain. no one and i would say either in tel aviv or in tehran that they want to escalate this thing much further. there seems to be this proportional for tat type of response. bear in mind, i think it's fair to say bear in mind that israel is an incredibly resilient nation of what we saw yesterday with the attacks from iran there really is a sense of business as usual on the ground in israel. certainly there was some tragic loss of life and

some property. but this is what they've lived with for the longest, longest time so there's going to be a row responsive to the part of iran. and i also think response, it will not be a decapitation of the iranian leadership although i must say they probably know they're on a hit list, there on notice. and i don't think it will be an attack against the kind of nuclear r&d facilities. i think that's much beyond the scope of what israel needs to do right now to ensure they don't want to achieve any symbolic response. they want to do impose some additional pain on the iranian regime and they can do that what would you say is the drawback from the calls from some including naftali bennett for israel to attack those nuclear sites. >> i mean, it couldn't that wind up backfiring. but if it is successful doesn't that immediately limit or ron's

capabilities as a threat to israel? broadly yeah, really, really good point. i mean, there's always that temptation to put the iranian development of a nuclear capability off the table, remove it from the table. >> all you're going to do is to ease some time in that regard, iran will still, i think in some case, tried to redefine phillip that now the iranian regime has not decided that they want to go forward with a full militarization weaponization of nuclear capabilities. they're developing that, but there's been no evidence that that's or a declaration from the leadership that that's what that's an objective so in this particular case, i think you can put that to the side let's address what is the immediate challenge that israel feels from iran? and that is wanton kinda unlimited use of drones or ballistic missiles or rockets in the case of rockets, we saw most of those yesterday, which are very, very difficult to go after can penetrate the

iron dome and arrow system that needs to be addressed, then that kind of establishes what i think is kind of a status quo moving forward i don't think either side wants this thing to blow up to the point where we now have russia more violently and more openly getting involved, or china more openly involved, or north korea acting in a, in a really spontaneous and disruptive way. united states doesn't want to be dragged into this both of those nations understand that there can be some limits to this engagement. and i think they're both worlds looking on that, fair to say, but we also have to if i can, one more thought it's going to be a decoupling of what's taking place in lebanon right now relative to the response that israel's going to impose against iran is this is the discussion about deterrence. iran wants to achieve deterrence. they haven't done it with this response israel will try to punish iran some more. but

again, i think in terms of deterrence israel clearly has the upper hand and the capacity to ensure that not so with tehran to the point you're making about deterrence and the incursion into lebanon. and these raids by the idf on hezbollah targets eight idf soldiers were killed in combat already. how do you assess the effort behind this incursion into lebanon able to push hezbollah in any part of the infrastructure that supports their military efforts, whether it's and let's be frank again, everything in lebanon is essentially tied to hezbollah. that's how it's just imbedded in the society. >> they want to get it north a little ohtani river so wonderful objective. in fact, the united nations, united nations security council resolution has indicated that it must be done. un has never been able to enforce it. i mean, it can't. lebanon has an enforced that these chosen not

to israeli. so we got we're going to push these boys north. there is going to be a cost associated with that and israel has been working desperately to try to and very aggressively to try to identify those targets that they want to go after. as a result of their decision to invade lebanon. they want to try to keep it limited, but bear in mind a limited incursion also involves hezbollah. hezbollah, i think would love to get entangled into the israeli fight. israel ends up getting to some degree bogged down much like they were in gaza israel doesn't want to do that. so they've said we're going to go after very specific targets. we have good intelligence where, where are those targets are? we want to attrit those some cases, not only a trip, we want to destroy those, and we want to push destroy as much hezbollah fighting infrastructure and fighters as we can destroy those defeat as best we can and push them north a little ohtani

bearing in mind that the missiles that hezbollah has will still be able north and latane will still be able to reach much of israel how realistic is that general to limit the potential for mission creep? >> when we've seen it specifically at that border become an metastasize into something larger than israel had previously planned in 2006, for example and when you have, as you noted, the incentive from hezbollah to try to bog that down and make it a much broader conflict yeah, bingo. >> that's the question. israel stated priority. it's going to be limited that's great. that's an objective statement on their part. hezbollah has got a vote in this. hezbollah is going to do their best to try to make it very difficult for israel to keep it limited because it the end of this, not at the end of this, but as this thing progresses, look global condemnation of israel has been so persistent since essentially

the second week after the invasion on seven october and they realize they hasbro realize if we can globally where israel down, we may not be able to eventually really threatened the sovereignty of israel, but we can get them into a box that works to their advantage. world becomes apologists for these terrorist organizations, which is difficult for us to believe, right? but that's exactly what hezbollah is trying to achieve military and military operations like this, always have in variably numerous variables that you cannot predict. and one of those clearly is going to be the time element. >> and then the cost element general spider marks always appreciate your perspective. >> thanks for being with us thank you, boris. of course. >> still ahead this hour on cnn news central, find out who viewers think won last night's very civil, very nice, vice presidential debate and perhaps

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campaign's pennsylvania leadership team. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. you posted on social media much like we saw in that poll that you thought the senator, one last night's debate his favorability rating actually approved among debate watchers. but as we're showing on the screen now, most of those asked still saw him as slightly more unfavorable. their opinion of him was slightly more unfavored. why do you think that is, sir? >> well, hey, good to be with you, boris. yeah. i think jd had a chance to express themselves. so as people saw him very much other than how the media frankly, much of the media has portrayed him as quote unquote, weird. i mean, there's nothing weird about are in fact, he's very pell, and articulate and, you know, in a large degree has lived the american dream, grew up real poor. and put up, put up some school, was enlisted in marines, went what the yale law

school and came back to ohio to serve. so i mean he's got some great qualities and that came out last night. i do think as well, he was just confident in the fact that he's talking about policies that in the interest of the vast majority of americans, where frankly the wolves, harris plan is not in the interests of americans. i feel i got the sense that walz is doing and harris everything they can to make people not know who they are and yet jd vance and frankly trump want people to know who they are that to me is what's happened. i think his favorables probably went up went up quite a bit last night and, you know, it's going to take a little while after people here and all these crazy things that supposedly he did and said you know, it takes a little while for people to believe who he really is he did soften his rhetoric from what we've seen on the campaign trail. >> he not only had these collegial exchanges with governor walz he also softened his tone around immigrants and

childless women, do you wish he would do more of that well, i absolutely want to express ourselves in an honest, trustworthy manner. so as people believe what we're saying, and have the fortitude and the fact facts and the right plan. >> that's in the interests. and i honestly knew jd was going to be that type of order and articulator of america. first of what it means to make america great again, i had faith, you know, people sort of criticize though, why did he pick jd? >> i knew him enough to know that he would be able to put things out in a common sense manner that made common sense for the common good, for the common man. >> if you will? >> sure. the the harris team put out an ad highlighting vance declining to directly answer whether trump lost the

2020 election. they overlaid video of january 6 on that ad we've seen in polling that this issue still drives a substantial number of voters two harris. so to your point about him answering honestly and directly and leveling with the american people. what did you think when you saw that response? >> well, you know, i think he answered it. i think he knows clearly who is in the white house, though the individual joseph biden, who received the most votes was inaugurated as the president and has served there for, unfortunately for close to four years so joe biden won the election was there some disputes and questions here in pennsylvania? >> oh, yeah. we could do a whole show on that on that boris. but the fact is joe biden won the election. >> and now we fortunately have gotten through that time period.

>> now we're on to the next election. >> do you wish you to responded the way that you just did know, i think that jd knows how to choose his words and that i think in the end, he acknowledges as we all clearly do because joe biden has occupied the white house so look, it's one of those things that it's not necessary. >> it is a yes. but there's more to it don't characterize it in any way to get the fraud forget this. we get that but it does deserve what happened like in pennsylvania. election rules were changed two or three weeks before the election by an appoint that secretary of state, that favorite one side over another now, it got through we've a very liberal supreme court in pennsylvania, so they didn't say, oh no time and place and manner is up to the state legislator, which they should have said. so it got through. so it gets a little it gets a little

difficult in some to some people to just acknowledge that straight out without having questions to be associated with the answer. >> i think part of the difficulty there congressman, is that there were substantial claims of fraud and respectfully, not everyone has accepted, as you noted, that joe biden gotten more votes than donald trump. namely donald trump himself. nevertheless, do you think trump has to debate harris one more time before election day you know boris. >> i mean that's that's obviously up to them. i mean, i know you're asking me my opinion here. the campaign needs to do what we need to do to win. it's really that simple. you cannot govern if you don't win, do you think he needs to debate her one more time to win? >> i don't know. that's what's being calculated. right? i mean, the plan is to win now, if the plan is to accommodate to the harris campaign, if that doesn't help us win, then no, we don't need

that accommodation president trump makes himself extremely available at as does jd, boy. oh boy. but it rallies. he takes questions from anybody who's who's got one as does president trump's. so i think the american people have a good understanding of who he is. and i think the harris campaign is looking for another opportunity to express platitudes rather than, rather than engage in a a real policy discussion i mean, come on you can commit yourself that the exposes she's given to the general public as far less than trump-vance. i mean, for crying out loud, i thought walz was in witness protection for a few weeks before the debate. >> she has done substantially fewer interviews, but it's interesting that you would argue that not doing another debate would actually benefit the trump campaign. nevertheless, congressman dan meuser, we appreciate the time. thanks so much for being with us. >> same flores. thanks. >> of course. >> next more than 1 million

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doing, but also about the challenges that you're facing with water and doing that absolutely, yes. >> so world central kitchen is just an incredible organization. on sunday, they were reaching out to us. they were already sending people down here to start setting up kitchens to cook for the cook meals for the community. sunday afternoon, we started prepping meals for the community or, able to do it because world central kitchen is trucking water in for us to be able to use. they are just logistics geniuses and they act fast. so we have personally prepared 20 are restaurants, 2,400 meals so far it'll be 3,000 by the end of today. and we started on sunday and will do at least 1,000 meals every day and then they have other satellite kitchens that are also producing meals for the community. and then they helicopter those meals to people who are completely cut off from road access there's so many challenges yeah.

>> i mean, you're helicoptering there, helicoptering meals. can you talk to us a little bit about your staff and how long it took. just do account for them because you were cut off from them for days, right? >> yes. yeah. our last contact communication with them was thursday evening because friday morning all cell coverage in the whole area was out, as well as power. and we had no way of getting in touch with them. it took us until sunday to account that each and every one of our employees was safe and we have got 100 britain, 60 employees in our company and it was it was incredibly scary or those couple of days at the road to recovery though is incredibly long and i worry for them as well and all the businesses and asheville some restaurants, businesses, homes, completely wiped away either by flooding or trees and we were fortunate we had power, which is why we can produce meals here for the community and also our staff. but i think it's going to be

weeks before we have water running water in asheville in the area of asheville? which i can't even imagine how we're going to make weeks without running water. >> yes. i see you thinking about it before our eyes here trying to figure it out. there. are you getting any feedback from people who are getting meals from you? what is their experience? they've been oh struggling to get food up until this point >> i mean, particularly the people who are completely cut off. i mean, they may have had the food that they had in their homes, but after the weekend that is running out, they're very grateful for the supplies world central kitchen is also bringing them water because they don't i have water water. so if you can think about food and water and shelter, i mean, those are the three things that we've really been struggling in this community to have access to. i can't even believe that we are in this

situation right now so you have a good process going on with world central kitchen. >> you're getting meals to people full do you feel like local officials and other officials understand the challenges that you are facing, both at the restaurant, but also on the personal level of your staffs of your staff members, so that they can help you guys recover? >> i don't think anyone has thought through the magnitude of the impact of this disaster. i mean, being close to having our restaurant closed for could be a month depending on we cannot reopen until water comes back. their businesses can reopen until we have water restaular. so we're trying to figure that out and i don't think that they've realized the financial impact and also our employees and their livelihoods. and how are they going to continue to take care of their loved ones

so i think we'll see what happens. i appreciate these kinds of opportunities to share that it is a dire situation here in asheville. >> yeah, it's dire. it's such a shock. i think that's where we're hearing over and over kt from people is how shocked they were ended up at this magnitude it caught us all completely. >> i mean, we knew that there was a storm coming, but no one could have imagined the level of destruction. and i mean, i was in my home with my two children and watching the trees just all around it rang one wouldn't hit the house and we were very lucky that we didn't have our house hit with a tree, but it was an incredibly scary moment and then understanding being cut off with self-service power, no water, and trying to piece those things back together. but knowing it's going to be a long time before most of western north carolina it gets power and water back. i

mean, that is just unfathomable to me yeah. >> we'll listen, we're so glad that you're all all right. >> and it's amazing to see you guys overcoming these challenges to help out people in your community. thank you so much for talking to us about it. katie thank you. >> it's really i say and things like moments like this. one thing that is amazing is how everyone steps up to help one another, whether they're cutting down trees because they have a chainsaw or they're bringing meals to their neighbors or jumping in back to work with world central kitchen so we can feed people i mean, everyone's really they that feels really good here yeah, it's amazing to see katie button. >> thank you so much. we do appreciate your time today communities, of course, across helene's 500 mile path of destruction are in need of basic necessities. you heard it there. and for ways that you can help go to cnn cnn.com/impact will be right back

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