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right now on ana cabrera reports, neck and neck, deadlocked, coin toss. call it what you want. with twie days to go, the 2024 election is anyone's game. the numbers from our new nbc polling as the candidates blitz a key battleground. plus, trump says his political opponents are enemies worse than russia, worse than foreign adversaries. his dark closing pitch to voter. also ahead, people in florida still without power and the death roll rising. where relief efforts stand as the scale of hurricane milton's

destruction comes into view. and hezbollah carries out one of the bloodiest attacks on israel since the start of their latest conflict. how the u.s. is stepping up its role in the region. good monday morning. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm ana cabrera. today, a dead heat in the polls and the pennsylvania duel that could break the tie. vice president harris and former president trump will both be in battleground pennsylvania today. the vice president goes to erie, a county that has mirrored the owcome of the entire state in four straight elections. it's her seventh visit to western pennsylvania this campaign. as trump heads east outside philadelphia. a latest nbc news poll explains the intense focus on that keystone state. harris and trump are tied nationally at 48% among registered voters. nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki is

ready with the numbers at the big board. dasha burns is in pennsylvania ahead of trump's event and also with us, msnbc political analyst and former republican congressman david jolly. and bloomberg white house correspondent akayla guardner. steve, we'll only get a few more of these big polls. what diz this show? >> a shift from our last poll in september. again, the tie here in our new poll, trump versus harris, and put that side-by-side with the last time we checked on the race, when it was a five-point harris advantage. what has changed from then to now, this poll here, where harris was up five, was taken just after that harris/trump debate in september. since then, obviously, there's been the vice presidential debate, a number of events, harris interviews. so the context of sort of the poll has changed a bit. and this might be the biggest change within the poll here. it has to do with the basic image of each candidate. we asked folks, do you have a positive or negative impression

of trump and harris. 43/51 for trump. that's negative. 43/49 for harris, not much different. they're basically even on this question. that was not the case when we polled this race a month ago. a month ago, harris was actually above water as they say, 48% favorable. and 45% negative. a month ago. so her numbers have moved in a negative direction. she had a clear advantage on this basic question of the persepg of the candidates. a month ago, that advantage now in our poll is gone. so that's a big shift there. in terms of moving those numbers around. >> given trump has been president in the past, we know voters can compare his administration to the biden administration. what are you seeing there? >> i think that's another weight that harris is sort of facing here. it's the baggage of being part of an unpopular administration. the vice president under joe biden, we asked folks, biden's job approval rating. in our poll, 43%.

obviously, not a good approval rating for the president, part of why democrats no longer have joe biden as their nominee. we also asked this question here. retrospectively, donald trump's presidency, in hindsight, do you approve or disapprove of how he did as president? in our poll, a 48% retrospective approval rating for trump, what's notable there is it's higher than biden's current rating and this is higher than trump ever got in our poll when he was actually president. so harris weighted down by this, and trump, there's sort of a bit of a positive reassessment of him since he's been president by some folks. that might be helping him as well. you see it on this question, too. are biden's policies, the biden administration policies helping or hurting your family? only a quarter of respondents in our poll say they're helping, and again, we asked it retrospectively, did the trump administration's policies help or hurt your family. look at the difference. 44%, a plurality, clear

plurality, saying the policies helped their families. >> so many interesting aspects of that polling. thank you so much, steve kornacki. so dasha, trump is back in pennsylvania tonight. this weekend, we heard some of his most alarming rhetoric yet, framing his political opponents as criminals and enemies. walk us through it. >> reporter: yeah, anna, he has really ramped up his rhetoric in the last weeks of the election, calling anyone who has opposed him or investigated him criminals, enemies from within. take a listen to some of what he said over the weekend. >> i mean, she's a criminal. she's a criminal. she really is. if you think about it. >> we have some sick people, radical left lunatics. and i think -- and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by national guard or if really necessary, by the military. we have the outside enemy and then we have the enemy from within. and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than china, russia, and all these

countries. >> reporter: and he's also heightened his rhetoric when it comes to immigration. over the weekend, calling america, quote, occupied. calling the town of aurora, colorado, conquered by venezuelan gangs. now, he is here in pennsylvania over the weekend he was in both colorado and california, notably not battleground states but he is here today in montgomery county, one of the collar counties around philly as early voting is under way here. so far, democrats taking more advantage of that option than republicans. though the former president did encourage his supporters over the weekend to vote early, vote by mail, just get out to the polls. >> dasha burns in pennsylvania, thank you. congressman jolly, your reaction to trump's messaging. what do you make of him talking about the enemy within? >> that donald trump is a dangerous leader. and that we should have reason to fear his return to the white house because we should take him at his word. he clearly has these tendencies,

strong man tendencies, but he's also saying that if he gets re-elected he intends to act against his political opponents. he mentioned perhaps he should revoke cbs broadcasting license. we know what he wants to do to legal and undocumented immigrants here in the united states. i think the most disconcerting part when you hear the most aggressive, darkest themes from donald trump is that you also have to consider that it reflects the support of a large portion of this country. he's never received over 50%, so it's not a majority of the country, but about 48% of the country is prepared to vote for donald trump and those messages. that suggests a deep cultural rot in the country, and donald trump is reflecting that. and you know, everything is on the line this november. we're going to choose not just a political direction of the country, the cultural direction of the country as well. and vice president harris is in a good place to lead us in a new direction. >> trump's running mate jd vance

still won't give a direct answer on who won in 2020. i want you to watch this exchange on abc. >> if i ask you 50 times, whether he lost the election, you would not acknowledge that he did. is that correct? >> martha, you ask this question. i have been asked this question ten times in the past couple weeks. of course, donald trump and i believe there were problems in 2020. you haven't asked about inflation, the -- >> no, i'm sorry. let's stick to this. i know -- i know -- >> the american people want us to talk about how to make their lives better. >> did donald trump lose? that's the question. and you know that's the question. >> martha, i have said repeatedly, i think the 2020 election had problems. you want to say rigged, you want to say he won, use whatever vocabulary term you want. >> vance seems to be trying to twist himself into a pretzel on this, trying to please trump and the base. but will this string of nonanswers on "20/20" or trump's

rhetoric, does any of that do damage with the average voter? >> well, the harris campaign certainly seems to think it does. this is the same question that jd vance had in that vp debate a few weeks ago, and the harris campaign clipped that moment, pushed it out on social media. but the thing is, voters when it comes to democracy, they tend to conflate it. it's popular both with republicans and democrats but for different reason. in some ways vance is right. voters want harris to talk about the economy and immigration and those are areas where she could really draw a separation with herself and joe biden, and that's something she's particularly under pressure to do right now, and yet she hasn't really been able to answer that question when it comes to her about how she would be different from joe biden, and that's probably in huge part because she respects the president, she's still part of the administration, and really honors biden for both choosing her to be vice president and endorsing her very early in this race. >> congressman, vance also said

trump's attorney general pick will be more important than his vp pick, if he is elected here. you're a lawyer yourself. what's your view on this? will there be any guardrails for another trump presidency? we have already talked about he has already talked about going after his political opponents. >> i don't think there will be any guardrails and you see that in his own vice president, jd vance. i think whatever people's opinion on the question of democracy, you can tell a liar when you see them try to dodge a question. i think that's the most damning part of jd vance's nonanswer. we also know that the notion of lawfare. republicans want revenge and they intend to do that through the courts. donald trump remade the party in his image. he made the supreme court in his image, and remade much of the federal circuit as well. then we saw what happened when pushback from mcconnell, mccarthy, and other so-called republican leaders came in. donald trump mowed them over.

none of the guardrails will be here. he will use the department of justice, he will use the irs to go after people. and apparently he's going to round up undocumented immigrants in the country as well. this is such a defining moment for our country. a dark moment for our country and it makes the stakes so much more critical. >> another issue that is high stakes is the abortion issue. it's interesting, in our nbc news poll, voters were asked what is the issue you feel so strongly about you will vote for or against a candidate solely on that issue. abortion was the top response. 22%. above immigration, above cost of living even. should that worry republicans? >> well, harris is certainly using this issue. this is something she has a lot of credibility on. she was talking about it before she was even running and a huge one where she has a difference from joe biden who was really frankly uncomfortable talking about the issue. this is something voters continuously say they trust her

more than donald trump on and we're seeing her push that in the media blitz. that was a huge focus of the interview with call her daddy. so the campaign is certainly trying to find ways for her to continue to message on this. it's going to be huge in arizona where abortion is on the ballot. >> part of the surge in democratic enthusiasm once president biden dropped out of this race was this idea that the race would become less a referendum on biden, more of a referendum on trump, but voters have a more favorable view of the trump years than of the biden years. has democratic messages fallen flat or why is that do you think? >> well, i also think the negative partisanship from republicans is really taking hold. we're seeing the vast spending in the last six weeks of the race where the vice president's favorable numbers were on the right side, now they're upside down. negative partisanship is the most effective campaigning tool in any race from city council to

the race for president. notion that the other side is worse than ours so you have to vote against the other side. that is what republicans have unleashed on vice president harris and you're seeing those numbers. i still think, look, after an election when all is said and done, all the pollsters, all the analysts look and say wow, what was the demographic that really turned this, obviously, you need every demographic. if you're vice president harris, you're seeing support of black women, black men, latinos, you need everybody, but i really think, ana, there's going to be that quiet sleeper suburban woman vote. i think women are going to decide this election. they don't poll well. we have seen it in the reproductive right amendments and state ballot initiatives in seven states thus far where they don't poll well, they don't show up in polls but they show up. they are generally trending against donald trump. despite the poll of the revisionist history of his years, so many people adhere to the vice president's message that they're not going back.

they just don't want to go back to the chaos of the trump years. i think women are going to decide this election and i think it looks favorable for the vice president. >> we're going to dig into the female vote with ali vitali later this hour. thanks for that extra teaser. ahead of that, former congressman david jolly and akayla gardener, good to see you both. meantime, an investigation is under way after a security incident near trump's coachella rally this weekend. involving a man arrested with firearms in his vehicle, who was stopped at a checkpoint just about a quarter-mile from the event stage. the man has been booked on suspicion of carrying a loaded firearm and possession of a type of large capacity magazine outlawed in california. a federal law enforcement source tells nbc news this matter's not being considered an assassination attempt. nbc news homeland security correspondent juliaanesly is here with more on this reporting. what are you learning about this arrest? >> it's really a sign of the political climate that we're in

right now that this arrest even got as much attention as it did. that federal law enforcement official, someone i spoke to, wouldn't normally talk to reporters about someone being stopped with firearms in their car near a rally. but they wanted to get out because some of the local law enforcement were calling this a third assassination attempt. obviously, referring to what happened in butler at the rally on july 13th when someone was able to get rounds off at the president and kill someone in the crowd. then again at the west palm beach golf course where they found someone with a gun just outside the perimeter. in this case, he was less than a quarter-mile from this place. this is vin miller, age 49, who was arrested for illegal position of a loaded handgon, shotgun, and high capacity magazine. but he's been released on a $5,000 bond. and we're running down a video right now, and as soon as we verify it, we would love to bring it to viewers. it's a man who claims to be vem miller, who claims to be a

staunch trump supporter. he carries firearms with him in his car and he told law enforcement and people checking him in near the rally when he was attempting to park that he had the firearms in his car. as soon as we can verify that, we would love to share it. what it gets down to is perhaps local law enforcement were quick to identify this as an assassination attempt when in reality what it's looking like so far is this is a man who a trump supporter carrying ammunition in his car. >> context is so important. thank you, julia. keep us posted on that video as you continue to work through the vetting process on all of that. more from the campaign trail straight ahead, where democrats have deployed one of their stalwarts, former president bill clinton. the voters he's targetish for vp harris. plus, the devastation from milton in focus as the death toll rises. what the recovery looks like in florida this morning. also, new developments in the middle east, as the u.s. sends troops and a new defense

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have power. as residents return to destroyed or damaged homes and begin to figure out what comes next. take a look at some of the aerial images we're seeing showing all of that debris scattered along the coastline, the jagged shreds of material that formed a roof a week ago dangling from the top of tropicana field. this is just some of what president biden saw when he traveled to tampa yesterday to meet with first responders and to tour the total destruction left in the wake of back-to-back storms. nbc's stephanie gosk is in bradenton beach with more for us. stephanie. >> reporter: good morning, ana. life in hard-hit places like this in bradenton beach is getting a little bit easier. that shock of being hit by back-to-back powerful hurricanes is fading. what's left is the enormity of the rebuild. but floridians have done this before. when we talk to people, overwhelmingly what we hear is determination. for many here in florida, the devastation is just now sinking

in. >> i have never seen anything like this. most people living here that are alive have never seen anything like this either. >> reporter: president biden in st. petersburg toured the damage and announced $600 million in federal funds for recovery efforts, including $100 million for improving florida's power system. >> we'll not only restore power, but we'll make the region's power system stronger and more capable and reduce the frequency and duration of power outages while extreme weather events become more frequent. >> reporter: the death toll from milton has risen to 24. nearly half a million resident without power still a major problem. >> rivers are continuing to rise. there are still shelters open throughout the state of florida to go to. >> reporter: on the ground, some barrier island communities are completely destroyed. these are the front steps to a house that obviously is no longer here. the best thing that we can guess is that the house that was here was picked up by the water and

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welcome back. in the so-called comeback kid comes back to the campaign trail. we have live pictures right now. this is in georgia where former president bill clinton is about to speak to voters. this is in columbus, georgia. he's there to campaign for the vice president, and it is his second day in the peach state before he will head to another state that's up for grabs, north carolina. democrats are hoping clinton can appeal to those southern rural voters. and joining us now, nbc news white house correspondent monica alba. and democratic strategist and former adviser to bill and hillary clinton, richard

goodsteen. monica, bill clinton speaking this hour. we're awaiting his arrival in columbus. what can we expect from him? >> reporter: where he's campaigning tells you a lot about what the harris campaign is thinking here. they're deploying former president clinton to super rural areas as you just identified in georgia and later in north carolina because they want him to go to places where harris surrogates really haven't stepped foot, let alone a former president, to deliver an economic message to tout the vice president's record, and to do that in a way that they believe only someone like bill clinton can do, which is to have these intimate events. yesterday, he was at a church service, then he was at a fish fry talking essentially about what he views as this race boiling down to. again, in a way that from his own history and experience only he can really speak to as somebody who years ago was brought in as the explainer in chief to try to help former president obama when he was up for re-election, specifically on

the economy post recession. they're trying to replicate a little bit of that. here's a little more of what the former president had to say in georgia yesterday. >> this whole election and the future of the country is turning out to be what people who were sort of on the fence about voting are going to do in the next three and a half weeks. don't feel guilty or anything, but the whole future of the country is on the line. >> reporter: now, i'm told he was very eager to do this. that he will be out there campaigning beyond the events that i just mentioned, and hitting all of the battleground states before election day is here. but again, he's going to be having a bit of a different strategy than what we saw former president obama do, which is to go to big cities, to those centers and hold large rallies. so they're trying to have this

contrasting approach with the two former presidents. and he's going to be doing that in these areas where they really think if they can drive up the margins even just a little bit beyond the major cities, beyond big atlanta, for example, and georgia, there where he was, that could make all the difference. so they're leaning in as much as they can to that. then i'm told in about a week or so, you're going to start to see former secretary of state and former democratic nominee hillary clinton out campaigning again, rounding out that list of the top democratic high profile surrogates. >> we're just about three weeks away from election day. thank you so much, monica, for that reporting. richard, harris campaign spokesman ian sands kind of teased this campaign swing posting this, the harris campaign unleashes the big dog. talktuse about what you think clinton brings to the harris campaign. >> a few things. first, the contrast between every substantial democrat, obama, clinton, hillary clinton, you name it, is out there for

kamala harris as opposed to every leading republican, bush, romney, pence, none of whom said that trump should be in the white house. and people like dick and liz cheney who affirmatively are supporting kamala harris. there's a big contrast there if you're sitting back there as a swing voter, you think what did these people, trump's pormer chief of staff know that i don't know if they're saying he's unfit. two, bill clinton does have a unique ability to speak to these rural blue collar voters not just in north carolina and georgia but again, he'll go into what they call the t of pennsylvania, the kind of, again, middle america, the midwestern part of pennsylvania. and michigan, and wisconsin. and speak to these people in a way that frankly a lot of democrats haven't been able to figure out how to do. and i would say that, right now, it's on the eve of early voting starting in north carolina and georgia, and there's some

evidence all of this is working. trump is just going for the bros whereas the harris campaign is reaching out to nontraditional voters and we're seeing from the early vote, they're way outperforming what they did in 2020. i think the signs are good. i see what steve said about the polls but in terms of the early vote, the signs are actually quite good for democrats. >> when you talk about where he's going, targeting those more rural voters, some of the blue collar voters in those communities, i'm wondering what you see as the key message. bill clinton and only bill clinton can deliver to connect with some of those voters. >> so, bill clinton when he was president presided over an economy the likes of which donald trump could only dream about, in terms of gdp growth and job creation, as we know, trump was the first president in 100 years to leave office with fewer people working than when he started. i think bill clinton can speak about the economy, yes, inflation is on people's mind,

but he can kind of talk about it. there was a reason he was explainer in chief, because he could talk about these issues in a way that connects with people who otherwise feel like democrats are a bunch of elites and i think clinton has a way of communicating with them, and he demonstrated himself when he was on the ballot and he's demonstrated by going out campaigning for others since then. >> we have seen the trump campaign has had some strength when it comes to young men voters in particular. we heard former president obama address that as well last week, specifically talking to young black men voters. but you know, while both clinton and obama have a lot of popularity with the democratic base, i can't help but wonder, are they able to have the same kind of appeal to new voters, people who are of the younger generations who were either too young to vote or some maybe not even born when these two former presidents were in office. >> yeah, it stands to reason that most young voters weren't

alive when bill clinton was president. obviously by dedefinition. but what he can do is speak to people in ways, again, democrats have struggled to do to put where we are in the economy in context. as we know, the "wall street journal" called the u.s. economy the envy of the world. we know that if you look at, by all indicators, this economy is doing quite well. people don't feel it. i think bill clinton has a way of communicating however old you are with these people about what exactly is going on and to keep in perspective what the stakes are. and i think in that regard, people who regretted voting for trump in 2016, maybe came around in 2020, are kind of reminded why they did that and why they need to keep that trend going forward. >> richard, good to have you here. nice to see you. we'll keep an eye on that bill clinton event in georgia and bring any highlights from that. meantime, let's turn our attention to another key group of voters.

white women. in 2016, white women helped send donald trump to the white house. in 2020, they stuck by the former president. but will it be the same in this election? or will one critical issue peel them away? nbc news correspondent ali vitali joins us now. you spoke to women in erie county, pennsylvania. what did you find? >> an absolutely critical county, of course, because we look at how important pennsylvania is and erie county has in the past two cycles been a predictor of how the state will go writ large. you guys were right to be talking about the gender gap and you were talking of course about the male side of that equation. i went to erie, pennsylvania, to look at the gender gap from a women's perspective, specifically around white women, as we see a history, as you mentioned, of them going for the republican but an entirely new issue set now that could potentially turn them another way. watch. >> i changed my voter registration the day after the dobbs decision. >> from what to what?

>> from republican to independent. >> dr. theresa wheeling had always been a republican. >> i felt embarrassed to call myself a republican after the dobbs decision. >> in 2020, wheeling went for trump because she believed her kids' jobs hinged on the policies of the sdrag. >> i thought it would be hypocritical if i did not vote for trump. >> when you think about voting in this election cycle, do you have a sense of who you're going to vote for? >> absolutely. i'm going to vote for kamala harris. four years ago, i might have said no. now i do think she's more moderate and i absolutely cannot vote for trump. >> voters like theresa in areas like this one, erie, pennsylvania, could decide the election. white women are the largest voting bloc in the country. and since 2000, the gop presidential ticket has won a majority of them. in 2016, the group including deb and lisa helped trump win the presidency. >> his message about wanting to break away from the status quo of politicking was appealing.

>> i voted for trump. it was a struggle for me, and i ended up voting for trump, and i regret it. >> trump grew his support with white women in 2020. despite losing voters like lisa and deb. >> i always thought women liked me. >> nbc news data shows white women shifting left with their party preference in recent years from a gop advantage in 2012 to a growing gap after 2016. do you see that leftward shift? >> we do see it. >> jackie payne runs a nonpartisan group, galvanize action. they have been tracking the same 6500 moderate white women across ten swing states since may. a margin of error race throughout, but a new poll shows harris has a slight edge, 46 to 44%. >> it is a game of inches. like, it is so, so close. >> the economy is a top issue for these voters. nearly half of them believe republicans are better on the issue than democrats. preserving democracy, fixing immigration, and strengthening abortion rights are also key.

>> primary importance is women's rights. >> what's important to me is our democracy right now. >> the whole political discourse i feel like is getting very negative. >> a reckoning that could decide the election. even if it's just for now. >> is this a permanent realignment for you? >> maybe with my registration, but not with my voting. the voting is always based upon the person, the character, and the issue. >> so ana, the on the ground view from erie and on to the big board for the data. you see in our exit polling from 2020 in pennsylvania specifically, joe biden of course won all women. that tracks with how things go historically for democrats, but then you look and see it was trump who was able to gain an advantage with white women, again, in pennsylvania, in 2020. then you look at our new poll that just came out yesterday over the weekend, you see for example that in september, when we did this poll, trump was trailing harris by six points among white women. harris had a pretty healthy majority when you looked there. but then, of course, if you look just a month later in the poll

we released over the weekend, you see trump was then able to, again, have plus six over here for harris over in september, now he's up plus two among white women voters. and it is a pretty stark swing. but i think the other thing for us to remember here is, again, going back the way he has campaigned and polled with white women over the course of time that he's been running for office. 2016, of course, you see him according to our exit polls with white women backing him 52%. in 2020, he improves that margin by three points, 55%. and then of course, in 2024, this is the big question that we're waiting to see how voters actually poll, but again, you look here, you saw him at 55% in 2020 himself. now, he's just kind of pulling more in line with where he was the last time he was on the presidential ballot. you're battling historic voting patterns combined with an entirely new issue set on abortion, on the economy. which one wins out in the minds of white women voters.

whatever it ends up being, this is a game of inches. it could be decided by a few thousand voters in key states. these are issues where we don't know what the x-factor is yet. >> when you hear those women and look at the polls it goes to show this could go either way with that specific group, just as the broader electorate could go either way. thank you, ali vitali. we're tracking new developments in the middle east this morning. and the u.s. sending troops and an anti-missile system to the region. plus, there's a good reason everyone on your screen is losing their minds here. the spacex engineering feat that elon musk is calling science fiction without the fiction. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they start. and treatment is 4 times a year. in a survey, 91% of users wish they'd started sooner. so why wait? talk to your doctor. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection

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we have breaking news now from the middle east. a new report just in from reuters. the israeli military saying sirens have sounded in a number of areas in central israel due to projectiles fired from lebanon. this follows a fresh round of violence overnight. israel saying at least four are dead and 61 injures after a hezbollah drone attack. it marks one of the deadliest attacks on israel since its ground invasion of lebanon two weeks ago. the u.s. embassy in lebanon out with a security alert strongly encouraging u.s. citizens in lebanon to depart now as the u.s. deepens its own involvement in the region by providing an anti-missile defense system to israel. joining us from beirut is nbc news international correspondent matt bradley, also with us is

lieutenant general steph twitty, former deputy commander of european command. matt, bring us up to speed on all these developments. this drone attack by hezbollah. where do things stand this morning? >> reporter: that's right, in the past 30 minutes, the idf has announced some 90 projectiles have been fired, you just heard that now. an explosion behind me here in beirut. this sounds like definitely incoming from the israelis. we don't know for sure. it could be a sonic boom. we'll have more on that later. we just heard from the idf saying some 90 projectiles have been fired from lebanon into israel. here's our report. >> today, fresh carnage in the gaza strip. palestinian health officials said three israeli air strikes throughout gaza killed dozens of people and injured hundreds more. sending ablaze through a camp for displaced people in a hospital courtyard.

overnight, sirens and missiles in israel's northern front with lebanon. a drone strike by hezbollah evaded the anti-missile systems killing four soldiers and injured more than 60 in one of the deadliest attacks since october 6th last year. the spokesman said we'll learn from this event. it comes as the first major conflict with troop deployment since the war began. they'll send one of their most advanced missile defense systems along with 100 troops to operate it to israel to protect against any further missile attacks from iran. meanwhile, peace keepers in lebanon coming under israeli fire. two israeli tanks rammed a u.n. base in southern lebanon after demanding last week the u.n. force leave the border areas with israel. but the peace keepers stood their ground. yesterday, israel's prime minister addressed the u.n. directly. >> mr. secretary-general, get the forces out of harm's way.

it should be done right now immediately. >> reporter: israeli troops have injured more than a dozen over the past week. do you feel some of these incidents might be retaliation for the decision to hold their ground? >> we rur asked to leave from all these positions close to the line, and immediately after, a few days later, our peace keepers and our positions were targeted and targeted not because there was an ongoing exchange of fire. >> reporter: turning keepers of peace into casualties of war. so ana, we have geared up now as a way of explanation because we don't know exactly what that was, whether or not it was some sort of israeli bombardment, whether it was one of the frequent breaking of the sound barriers we have seen the israelis with the flyovers. more on that uniaffil spokesman. he did say that there has been no warning by the israelis when they have attacked these

positions and the israelis have said they're not deliberately attacking the peace keepers but at the same time, we heard from benjamin netanyahu and others saying that hezbollah is using these peace keepers as human shields. ana. >> matt bradley, thank you. make sure you're in a safe spot, my friend. general twitty, we just heard about this new fighting between israel, gaza, lebanon. wee hearing those bangs in the background. there was the overnight strikes that even led to a camp for displaced palestinians, setting fire. where do you see this headed? >> yeah, well, as you are indicating, this is total chaos right now. and what you're seeing is if you remember a couple weeks ago, the israelis did a pretty good job going after the senior leadership of hezbollah. now, what they have to do is really get in there and root out the foot soldiers. root out where these

ballistic -- correction, where these missiles and rockets are coming from. as you know, hezbollah has over 150,000 missiles, so that's a lot of capability on top of that, they have a significant amount of drones. all that has to be dismantled. when you're dealing with an asymmetric threat such as hezbollah, it's not about the top leadership. it's about the foot soldiers who have minimal orders coming from the top that can inflict massive damage. and those are the folks that israel have to go after and destroy. >> 150,000 missiles, you say, is part of the arsenal of hezbollah. now you have the u.s. sending s military assets to help support that. can you tell us a bit about how this works and what makes it different from israel's more commonly known iron dome? >> sure. well, this system is the most sophisticated in the world. it comes out of the united

states army and we only have a few batteries. i think we only have seven batteries. most of them come out of fort bliss, texas. the insulation that i commanded back in the early days, and this system right here is a system to augment israel's capability. if you remember, over 200 missiles were fired at israel a couple of weeks ago. that will stress the iron dome capabilities, and so in my view, what's going on here is an attack by israel on iran is imminent and so they want to set this thaad batter to help augment the capability of israel because we know and the iranians have said they plan to counterattack and so 200 missiles coming. we'll probably end up being around 400 or higher and we want

to have the capability to be able to assist israel and its defense and help take down some of these ballistic missiles that are probably come back once this attack occurs. >> israel has narrowed down the options for what it may hit in the retaliatory strike against iran for the missiles that were launched into israel last week, but it's likely to be against military and energy infrastructures are reporting. however, there is no indication israel will target nuclear facilities or carry out assassinations according to our reporting. what do you see is the most likely targets for israel and what kind of response could iran have? i think the big question is could this continue to escalate? >> well, to come down off the nuclear capability is a good thing. for sure, it would escalate that. i see them being the israeli, absolutely going after the ballistic missile capability.

again, 200 ballistic missiles fired at israel. israel wants to take out some of that capability there in iran. i also see them going after the iran republican guard corps in syria and also located in iraq. the republican guards, they've been the facilitators of many of these missiles coming into lebanon. they have a route that goes from iran into iraq into syria and makes it the capabilities make their way into lebanon for hezbollah's use. they want to take out that capability, as well. in terms of the -- of the energy, i don't see them really hitting the energy hard. i think they'll go after the forces more so than anything else. >> lieutenant general twitty, more to come in this

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mission to discover venus' moon. europa to on the search for extraterrestrial life. it comes after this historic catch landing from spacex yesterday. you see it right there. the starship rock the booster headed to the tower and as you can see, it sort of gently returns that booster using the giant mechanical chop stick arms. how is today's mission and talk us to about the significance about going to jupiter's moon. >> hi, ana. good to be with you. this is a mission delayed because of hurricane milton and we're hoping it can lift off at 12:06 to be exact, but when we look at this in the context of the big mission yesterday we are earning a new era in space flight and space travel. so i want to take you to the

visualizations that we've seen europa clipper. it will explore one of jupiter's 95 moons. it's captured scientist's fascination. it is the fourth largest moon among jupiter and the one believed to have the largest, most vast expanse of ocean beneath the icy surfaces and this is why they're exploring it to answer this fundamental question, could one of jupiter's moons sustain life? big question that, of course, all kinds of researchers, astronauts, astro physicists are trying to answer not just in terms of looking for life in the solar system and the future of humanity. when we look at the big mission that happened yesterday all in the context of the fundamental question of could humans live somewhere beyond argue in the future? this mission right here will take about six years, five and a half, to be exact, for it to arrive into jupiter's orbit and it will spend four years gathering data, ana. >> marisa parra.

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