Live on-air in Tel Aviv, Israel, CNN's Anderson Cooper, Clarissa Ward, and Jeremy Diamond had to evacuate to safety when a warning came in about incoming Iranian missiles.
00:15So the, again, you can hear the sirens going off.
00:20This is from the hotel. They're warning all the hotel guests to go down.
00:24Dear guests, we expect an alarm in the next 10 minutes.
00:27Please prepare to stay near.
00:28This is the first time today that we have had an alarm like this.
00:35It's obviously something that many here in Tel Aviv have gotten used to over the last 10 or 11 days since this began.
00:43We saw one, there was one alarm shortly after, or several hours after the first strike, the strikes on Iran by the United States.
00:54This is the first one we've had this morning.
00:58So I'm just going to be done here.
01:14Here with Jeremy Diamond.
01:17So in terms of the, this is the first one today, isn't it?
01:21It's the first one. Not today, because 7 in the morning was the last one.
01:24I think we're all a little bit upside down.
01:25We're at 3 a.m.
01:26Oh, we're at 3 a.m.
01:27Yes, so it is the first one of the day.
01:30But what we've noticed, I think, is fewer barrages, but quite high intensity, particularly this morning.
01:36I mean, Jeremy, you were there on the scene.
01:37The damage was...
01:39Yeah, I mean, there's also been reports that the Iranians have been using different types of ballistic missiles,
01:44some reports of cluster munition use as well, and we've seen the kind of impact that that can have on the scene.
01:50Today I was at a site in the north of Tel Aviv, in Ramataviv, where you saw a residential block that was almost, you know,
02:02completely obliterated by the power of that blast.
02:07You guys got to press down the basement, please?
02:08Well, you know, the damage is enormous.
02:16More of these ballistic missiles that are indeed getting through those air defense systems.
02:21But, you know, quite incredibly, we haven't seen any fatalities in, I believe, a week now, right?
02:27The last Monday morning was the last time we saw a fatality.
02:30That's, of course, a credit to the aerial defense systems, but more importantly, perhaps,
02:35to the early warnings that are getting us into bomb shelters and getting millions of other Israelis.
02:51Yeah, and I'm going to take over here from the White House.
02:53Kristen Holmes is the senior White House correspondent.
02:55As they go into that shelter, we are losing service there, but we expect to get them back at any moment.
03:00Of course, hoping that they are safe as this is continuing.
03:03Now, I think we have our signal back?
03:06Okay, great.
03:06It is a luxury to have a 10-minute warning.
03:10Obviously, in a situation like this, in many cases, obviously, you know, rockets from Gaza,
03:17generally there isn't that, like, a 10-minute window.
03:20No, but it's a different level of threat, right?
03:24I mean, Israelis have been living with rockets from Hamas and Hezbollah for many years.
03:29I have never seen Israelis running to the shelter quite so quickly as they have with this because it's a totally different ballgame.
03:37The damage and destruction that has been, you know, been done by these Iranian ballistic missiles is completely different to anything they've seen in many decades.
03:46And there's no question that without those warning sirens, without the bomb shelters, I mean, you would be seeing, you know, many people dying in each one of these strikes.
03:56And the fact that the death toll is only 24 as of now in Israel is indeed a credit to all those systems that we've been talking about.
