Anderson Cooper Makes Emergency Evacuation During Live Broadcast From Israel, Caught on Camera
Anderson Cooper had to evacuate during a live broadcast.
The 58-year-old CNN journalist was broadcasting live from Tel Aviv, Israel, as a missile alarm warned of an impending attack on Monday (June 22).
Anderson could be seen evacuating as the missile attack alarm sounded. The alarm givves a ten-minute warning of incoming missiles.
Anderson was speaking to international correspondent Clarissa Ward and Jerusalem Correspondent Jeremy Diamond about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East when the alarm was heard on the broadcast.
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“I should just say that we’re now hearing an alert,” Clarissa said.
Anderson then noted that meant a missile attack was expected in the next 10 minutes.
“So these…are the alerts that go out on all of our phones when you’re in Israel. It’s a ten-minute warning of incoming missiles or something incoming from Iran,” he said.
“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,” he continued.
“And we’ll continue to try to broadcast from that, that bomb shelter. And even if we can, on the way down,” he added.
“All right. I think we’re going to head down to the shelters. Chuck, do we have capabilities as we go down?,” he asked a crew member.
The crew member responded, “Just checking your microphones. Be ready in a second.”
As they went into the bomb shelter, Anderson explained that the alarm was the first one they’d heard that day.
CNN's Anderson Cooper, Clarissa Ward and Jeremy Diamond evacuate after receiving a 10-minute warning of an incoming missile in Tel Aviv, Israel. pic.twitter.com/h0MfOjwcXj
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Jeremy spoke to the damage that had been done following previous airstrikes before pointing out, “quite incredibly, we haven’t seen any fatalities [for] I believe a week now.”
The broadcast then lost signal as video switched to senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes. Watch the evacuation moment happen live above.
Israel and Iran have been in conflict for days, resulting in missiles and drones sent each other’s way. The evacuation occurred after Donald Trump launched a military strike against Iran. Here’s what the President said about it.