CNN anchor was shocked when he encountered missiles during a live broadcast in Israel. The alarms went off and he ran away while broadcasting.
The Daily Mail reported that Anderson Cooper, a well-known anchor of CNN, encountered an Iranian air strike while live-streaming in Israel on the 23rd. The air defense alarm sounded, scaring the camera team that was supposedly live-streaming outdoors to rush indoors and retreat to a shelter. The whole process was also recorded by the camera.
Cooper was in Tel Aviv at the time, discussing the situation in the Middle East with CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond in the studio.
At this time, the air defense alarm sounded. Ward said: “We hear the alarm now.” Then Cooper explained to the audience that they all received an early warning notice from the Israeli army, saying that there might be a missile attack from Iran in 10 minutes.
Cooper explained, “Now everyone in Israel will receive an alarm on their mobile phone, with a warning time of about 10 minutes.” In addition, there are also voice alarms in the area to remind residents to go to the air defense shelter immediately.
After the alarm sounded, Cooper nervously asked the technicians: “Can we continue broadcasting while evacuating?” The team responded: “We are checking the microphones and will resume recording soon.” Cooper was so nervous that he forgot to take off his device when he left.
Then, CNN’s camera followed Cooper and his group from the hotel room to the air-raid shelter. During the period, Dimon also shared the damage he witnessed the day before caused by the Iranian air strike. The connection was interrupted when the three people took the elevator, and then it was restored. The picture showed that they arrived at the shelter. At this time, the final 90-second red alarm sounded, reminding people to take shelter immediately.
Cooper lamented: “It is actually a luxury to have a 10-minute warning.”
After the US military airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities on the 21st, Iran immediately retaliated and launched dozens of missiles in batches to attack Israel.
