CNN’s Anderson Cooper forced to evacuate after incoming missile alert during live broadcast in Israel
CNN’s Anderson Cooper evacuated from his location in Tel Aviv, Israel, early Monday morning, during a live broadcast after missile alarms warned of attack.
Cooper, 58, shared during the broadcast the alarm is a 10-minute warning of incoming missiles.
“So these…are the alerts that go out on all of our phones when you’re in Israel. It’s a 10-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 10-minute window to get down into a bomb shelter.
Cooper was broadcasting with international correspondent Clarissa Ward and Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond about the Middle East conflict.
“All right. I think we’re going to head down to the shelters. Chuck, do we have capabilities as we go down?,” Cooper asked a member of his crew.
Cooper noted the alarm was the first day as they made their way to a shelter.
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