On Monday morning, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was forced to evacuate the network’s set in Tel Aviv, Israel, as missile sirens sounded in the city.
While Cooper was broadcasting alongside Clarissa Ward and Jeremy Diamond at just after 3 AM local time, a 10-minute warning that missiles were incoming was given.
As Cooper acknowledged the alerts, a discussion was had about what the network’s crew should do.
“The location we’re in has a verbal alarm telling people to go down into bomb shelters,” Cooper said. “So we have about a ten minute window to get down into a bomb shelter and we’ll continue to try to broadcast from that bomb shelter and even if we can, on the way down.”
“Should we go down or do you want to finish this?” Ward asked.
“We should probably go down,” replied Cooper, as he laughed awkwardly.
Later in the segment, Anderson Cooper revealed that receiving the incoming missile alerts was a unique experience since he joined CNN correspondents in the city.
“This is the first time today that we have had an alarm like this,” said Cooper. “It’s obviously something that many here in Tel Aviv have gotten used to over the last 10 or 11 days since this began. We saw one. There was one alarm shortly after, several hours after the first strike, the strikes on Iran by the United States. This is the first one we’ve had this morning.”
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