Terrifying moment CNN anchor forced to evacuate set while reporting live on-air from Israel
Topics: Israel, Iran, US News, World News
Niamh Shackleton
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Topics: Israel, Iran, US News, World News
The terrifying moment a CNN anchor was forced to take shelter in Israel was documented on camera during a live report.
Anderson Cooper, a staple of the news network, is currently in Tel Aviv where he's been reporting on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
Donald Trump has been weighing in on the matter for some time, with the president going on to order air strikes on Iran over the weekend, directly implicating America in the strife.
Sadly the tensions don't look to be easing any time soon, as demonstrated during a live report in the early hours of this morning (June 23) by Cooper and his crew in Israel.
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Anderson was chatting to fellow news correspondents when all their phones started playing out a worrying alert noise.
"These are the alerts that go out on all of our phones when you're in Israel," Cooper explained to the camera. "It's a ten-minute warning of incoming missiles or something incoming from Iran."
Cooper continued: "So now the location we're in has a verbal alarm telling people to go down into bomb shelters. So we have about a ten-minute window to get down into a bomb shelter."
A couple of minutes later Cooper and his team to decided to move to the shelter.
See the moment here:
The camera then proceeds to follow the anchor down to the shelter, where he, Clarissa Ward, and Jeremy Diamond continued their discussion.
As they made their way down to the bunker, Cooper noted that it's a 'luxury' that they even get a ten minute warning in such circumstances.
Diamond then weighed in saying that the Israel death toll was at 24 at the time of the report, a number that will have been dramatically worse if it wasn't for such warnings and the numerous bomb shelters scattered throughout Tel Aviv.
"We're waiting for the red alert which is the final minute and a half warning before any kind of an impact," Cooper went on to say to the camera.
The Iranian strikes on Israel came just hours after the US attacked three of Iran's key nuclear sites.
The strikes were ordered by Trump, who hailed the attack a 'success'.
"Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success," the POTUS said.
"Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace - if they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier."