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Missiles Exchanges Between Israel And Iran Continues; Trump Rejected Israel's Plan To Kill Supreme Leader; President Trump To Attend G7 Summit; Minnesota Authorities Continue Second Day Manhunt For Gunman; Curfews In Parts Of L.A. Amid Protests; Israel Says Iranian Missiles Struck Southern Community; CNN Reports on U.S. Open. Aired 5-6p ET

Aired June 15, 2025 - 17:00   ET

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JESSICA DEAN, CNN HOST: You're in the "CNN Newsroom." I'm Jessica Dean here in New York, and we are following breaking news tonight as police in Minneapolis are expected to hold a news conference next hour to give an update on the manhunt for the suspect accused in the attack against two state lawmakers. We will bring that to you live.

Also tonight, new missiles being launched between Iran and Israel. Is the U.S. closer to being pulled into that conflict?

And CNN has new reporting tonight about an assassination plot to take out Iran's supreme leader. Did President Trump himself reject that plan? We're going to begin in the Middle East where Iran has launched another round of missiles at Israel as the long running conflict continues to escalate there.

This was the scene a short time ago in Northern Israel. Emergency services say a building was struck. Two people were injured there. Meanwhile, Israel says it is carrying out more strikes tonight on military targets in Tehran. This is part of a larger operation to stop the regime from developing a nuclear bomb.

CNN learning tonight, President Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader. That's according to two U.S. officials. We're going to have more on that breaking news in just a moment from the White House. But first, I do want to go to Tel Aviv to CNN's Jeremy Diamond who is live there. Jeremy, what is the latest this evening?

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, tonight, Jessica, once again, millions of Israelis rushing to bomb shelters in central and in Northern Israel as the latest barrage of Iranian missiles, headed straight here. We saw some of those intercepts in the skies over Tel Aviv. And in Northern Israel, there was at least one direct hit of a missile in Haifa. The casualty toll there now rising to seven people who have been injured in that strike.

You can see in imagery from the aftermath there, a whole area engulfed in flames, vehicles and buildings damaged in what was clearly a residential area. We also understand that there was some kind of shrapnel that struck a community in Southern Israel as well where two people were injured. And this is, of course, just the latest in this escalating back and between Israel and Iran as the Israeli military makes clear that it is not stopping for a moment according to the military's chief spokesman, General Defrin, in terms of its strikes in Iran.

And we are also seeing as Israel is widening the target set in Iran as well. They started off, of course, with those decapitation strikes against senior Iranian military officials as well as nuclear scientists. Then, we also saw that they struck nuclear facilities, missile production sites, and missile silos as well.

Those military targets, now also widening to include, strategic civilian areas. We've seen gas refineries struck. Today, we also saw residential areas of the Iranian capital city of Tehran, that were hit as well, including, the building of Iran's foreign ministry.

The death toll there now rising to scores of people who have been killed in those attacks in just the last few days. And I can tell you that here in Israel, there certainly is a very different sentiment. The clear understanding that this is something far more severe, far more serious than any previous round of violence between Israel and Iran. You know, when I was on the streets of Tel Aviv today, Sunday at 6:00 p.m., which is the day of the week here, normally a very busy rush hour, the streets were almost completely empty.

People are staying near their shelters, bracing for what may come next, And everyone asking the same question, where is this all leading to? You know, the Israeli military has said that their goal is to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat altogether. But just this weekend, even Israel's national security advisor, Tzachi Hanegbi, acknowledging that Israel cannot militarily alone eliminate that threat.

And so that leads to the question of whether or not the pathway is a diplomatic one, whether it is bringing the United States into this conflict militarily, something that for now President Trump has said that he is not going to do, although he has not closed the door entirely. Jessica?

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DEAN: That is the big question tonight. Jeremy Diamond live in Tel Aviv with the very latest from there. Thank you so much for that. And in the midst of this conflict, CNN is learning President Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill the Ayatollah, Iran's supreme leader. CNN senior White House reporter Betsy Klein joining us now with more on this. So, Betsy, what more are we learning about Trump's involvement here?

BETSY KLEIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, Jessica, the U.S. has been watching this back and of missile attacks that Jeremy just laid out so closely over this past weekend, but President Trump is making clear for now both privately and publicly that he does not want to see the U.S. enter the fray. Now right now, the U.S. has been involved in offering Israel some defensive support for those incoming missiles, but we've learned that the president rejected a plan by Israel to target Iran's supreme leader according to a U.S. official.

Now, a second senior U.S. official told me that Israel had an opportunity over the weekend to kill the Ayatollah. President Trump was communicated about that plan and he made clear that he did not support it. It was ultimately not executed. Of course, we should also note that an Israeli official called those reports fake.

But President Trump has made clear he does not want to see a prolonged conflict in this region. Sources familiar with the matter tells CNN that Israel has approached the U.S. about getting more militarily involved, and there are some officials in the Trump administration who believe that U.S. involvement here could help Israel achieve its objectives more quickly.

President Trump, as Jeremy noted, has left the door open to that. He said in an interview with ABC News' Rachel Scott just earlier this morning, quote, "it's possible we could get involved, but we are not at this moment involved." Now in that same interview, he told Scott that he was open to the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin playing a potentially mediating role in this conflict.

The president has also indicated that the U.S. would get involved if American facilities or personnel in the region were attacked. The president, for now, calling on both parties to make a deal.

Here's what he said in a post this morning, quote, "Iran and Israel should make a deal and will make a deal just like I got India and Pakistan to make. In that case, by using trade with the United States to bring reason, cohesion, and sanity into the talks with two excellent leaders who were able to quickly make a decision and stop. We will have peace soon between Israel and Iran. Many calls and meetings now taking place."

And to that end, we observed Secretary of State Marco Rubio departing the White House just a couple of hours ago, Jessica.

DEAN: Alright. Betsy Klein's going to keep an eye on the White House for us as the night goes on. Thank you so much for that update. And joining us now is former NATO supreme allied commander and CNN senior military analyst, Admiral James Stavridis. He's also a partner at the investment firm The Carlyle Group and author of the admiral's bookshelf. Admiral, thanks so much for being here with us as we sort through all of this.

I want to go back to a couple of things that Betsy and Jeremy were explaining. Jeremy was laying out that Israel, the government, the Israeli government has said that they cannot alone militarily eliminate this threat, that they do need help. And a big part of that is because Iran's major enrichment site, Fordow, is deep in a mountainside, and it will likely require and this is where I want your expertise to come in, but it would likely require one of these bunker buster bombs that the U.S. has at this point, but has not -- has is obviously not involved militarily. Do you think that Israel is going to ultimately need the U.S. to step in here militarily to achieve this objective? JAMES STAVRIDIS, CNN SENIOR MILITARY ANALYST: In order to take out the

deeply buried, extremely hardened sites like Fordow, yes, they are going to need this bunker busting bomb, BBB, not to be confused with a big beautiful bill in Washington these days. This is, in technical terms, a mass ordinance penetrator and we fly it, Jessica, on our biggest and most capable strategic bomber, the B2 Spirit bomber that we use and hope never to use for nuclear strikes.

So it would be a very big step for the United States to come in and do this. If we, did it, it would probably knock the Iranian program back two years, which is pretty significant. What we don't know to close is, are we sure we know where all the sites are? This is a big country, two and a half times the size of Texas, and the Iranians have been digging in literally and figuratively since the revolution 40 plus years ago.

So I think that's the decision the White House is going to have to wrestle with. The Israelis can accomplish a lot of damage by themselves. You're seeing it right now, to get at that program and really put it to bed, so to speak, at least for a period of a couple of years, would require the United States.

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DEAN: And the Israeli ambassador told ABC this week that Israel had, in his words, a number of contingencies for achieving this without the U.S. What might that look like? Does that require people on the ground then there?

STAVRIDIS: It would be some combination of boots on the ground, special forces, and certainly, we've seen over just the last series of strikes a lot of indicators that Israel has deeply penetrated the Iranian society and has people on the inside. In addition to people, there'd probably be a significant cyber component, take away the electrical grid, go in and reverse engineer those center fusions causing self-destruction. I think a element would be some drone activity, even drones that could operate in tunnels underground.

And then fourth and finally, if what you need is a 30,000 pound bomb and all you have is 2,000 pound bombs, you just keep throwing a lot at the problem going deeper and deeper, strike after strike. Puts your pilots at more risk, but there are options for Israel not as clean as getting the U.S. to come in with one of those bunker busting bombs.

DEAN: And so okay. So to that end, you have that piece of it and the big question about if the U.S. would come in with those bombs. What capabilities does Iran or its proxies have to act against U.S. interests in the regions? I would think that would be quite a significant step though for them to do that.

STAVRIDIS: It would be. And, certainly, Iran is not going to do something against the United States while we're standing back from this because they know if they came after a U.S. embassy, launched a terror attack, attacked the U.S. cruise liner. I can think of any number of things they could do directly against the United States. But if they do that, I guarantee you right back to where we were speaking a moment ago, President Trump has made very clear he'll step up and participate in a significant way in strikes against Iran.

But what could the Iranians do? Ground operations, terrorist attacks, if you will. They could use cyber. They could try and close the Strait Of Hormuz with mines or sunken ships. They could go after high level assassinations. There are a variety of tools at their disposal. The good news, Jessica, is that many of those have been weakened over the weeks and months of the war between Israel and Iran that frankly has been going on at a high pace, really for almost two years.

DEAN: And two U.S. officials, this was what Betsy was reporting on, tells CNN that President Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader, and several top Iranian military leaders we know have been killed in these strikes as very methodically by these the Israelis. Do you think the ultimate goal here and that this is a potential outcome is regime change in Iran?

STAVRIDIS: Certainly, that's the Israeli goal, full stop. The United States, I think the Trump administration has been clear. They're willing to come to the table and have a negotiation. The objective would be to dismantle completely the Iranian nuclear program, not just nuclear weapon, but take away that ability to enrich uranium, which, of course, is the basis of a nuclear weapon.

But from what I can hear in the tone and the approach of U.S. individuals, it's still at a stage where a deal could be made. And you read a statement a moment ago from President Trump that offered, if you will, an olive branch to the Iranians. The question is, will they be capable of reaching out and taking that olive branch?

I'm not so sure they will, but I think the Trump administration is correct to continue to make that offer at least at this stage as long as you hold in reserve the ability to shrug your shoulders and say, okay, Iran has turned down this deal. Now it's time to go in with the Israelis and really end this nuclear program.

DEAN: And as all of this is transpiring, President Trump is headed to Canada for the G7 Summit. It was already going to be, of course, high stakes. It's the G7, but also with Russia and Ukraine, you know, really the front burner, now this is really on the front burner. What are you expecting to see, and what are you watching for this week as these world leaders meet?

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STAVRIDIS: I'm looking at three different scenarios that are going to be illuminated, shall we say, by what happens at the G7 Summit. You've mentioned two of them. One is Ukraine. To what degree will the G7 unify and continue to and even increase pressure on Russia to get to a negotiation? Secondly, and kind of similarly, how can the G7, the rest of the G7, the others besides the United States, be helpful in the current state of affairs in The Middle East?

I think, a show of unity from those big global economies could be helpful in convincing Tehran to get to the negotiating table. The one you haven't mentioned, which was something we talked about constantly just two or three weeks ago, of course, is trade and tariffs. Here's the president going to Canada. United States and Canada have a significant disagreement, shall we say, on trade and tariffs. Mexico, similarly. And, of course, we ought to be very concerned about US- China tariff. That's one to watch.

Again, we need unity from the G7 in order to resolve all of these. Final thought here, Jessica. The toughest trade negotiation may well end up not being Mexico, not being Canada, not being China. It could be the European Union. Here's an opportunity in Canada for the president to do some solid work getting a trade deal between the U.S. and the E.U., the two biggest economies in the world.

DEAN: Alright. Much to come on this. Admiral, thanks so much for being here with us. We really do appreciate your thoughts on all of this.

STAVRIDIS: Always a pleasure.

DEAN: Yeah. We're going to continue to follow the very latest from Minnesota where authorities are still looking for the suspect who shot and killed a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband at their home and wounded another lawmaker and his wife. That search now centering on an area where his car was just found. We're going to take you there. You're in the "CNN Newsroom."

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DEAN: We are following breaking news out of Minnesota where a frantic search is underway tonight for Vance Boelter. He's the suspect accused in the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband. Right now, we're seeing heavy police presence in Sibley County. That's just Southwest of where the shootings took place. It's also where officials say they found the suspect's vehicle this morning.

Residents in that area have received an emergency alert urging them to stay vigilant, keep all doors and cars locked, and report any suspicious activity. Now we are expecting an update from officials in the next hour. We're going to bring it to you live when it happens. In the meantime, I do want to go live to Minnesota right now where we have a team of reporters covering all angles of this breaking story.

We're going to begin with CNN's Danny Freeman who's live near Green Isle, Minnesota. That's in Sibley County. Danny, you've been there all day. You even got that alert emergency alert on your phone that we saw. What are you seeing? What are you hearing from law enforcement? What's their posture there right now?

DANNY FREEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Listen, Jessica. The posture I think right here on the ground in Sibley County is one of a tremendous amount of methodical searching at this moment. And really, we just actually had a bit of flurry of activity. But let me describe exactly where we are to put that activity that we just saw in context.

So like you said, we're about 45 miles southwest of Minneapolis in the areas where that shooting occurred. And everyone is here, so much law enforcement, so much press as well because behind me, just down this road right here, this is where law enforcement says that they found the suspect, 57-year-old Vance Boelter's car, abandoned here.

Now that prompted that emergency alert. The county sent out an alert to all of its residents saying, out of abundance of caution, we have found the suspect's car. We have not yet found the suspect though. So please, everyone lock their doors, make sure to secure your cars because we will be searching home to home.

And Jessica, that brings me to this flurry of activity that I was describing at the beginning. I was just up this block right here and where we are is really on a large amount of farmland. There's corn farms, soybean farms right here, tremendous amount of vast properties and also woods as well. And I was just watching, a number of tactical teams, with a number of lethal firearms with them, sniper teams, on top of heavily, heavily armored vehicles going door to door, checking open garages, knocking to see if homeowners were there.

It's really quite a sight to see especially for such a rural, frankly, sleepy part of Minnesota over here. I want you to listen to one resident whose home was just searched himself. His home is right behind me, not too far from here. I want you to listen how he described just this cacophony of activity over the past, really, 12 hours here in his home community.

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FREEMAN: Did you ever expect for the manhunt to come to your neighborhood?

BRIAN LIEBHARD, SIBLEY COUNTY RESIDENT: No. I didn't expect. First of all, I was really busy yesterday, so I wasn't able to watch any news or anything. I figured they would have him apprehended already because of what I did see with what he did in the cities and he ran off on foot, but I didn't think he'd be dumb enough to come back out here. You know? So I don't know. It's just -- it's crazy.

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FREEMAN: Now one thing I'll note, Jessica, law enforcement officials, they found a car that the suspect here had, back when he committed -- allegedly committed the shootings earlier on Saturday morning. That was the car that we've been talking about that looked like a police car. It had flashing lights on it. This car that law enforcement officials found here behind me, again, more than 45 miles away from where the shooting occurred, was a different vehicle.

So there are a lot of questions that I think a lot of us have for law enforcement at that press conference when it comes up about how he got to the specific vehicle and, of course, how he was able to get from all the way where these shootings occurred. Presumably, in the opinion of law enforcement to this rather rural, outpost far away from where these crimes were committed. Jessica?

DEAN: Certainly a lot of questions around that. Danny, thank you very much. I want to go now to Whitney Wild. And Whitney, you are at the site of where that press conference will be in the next hour where a lot of those questions will likely be asked. What more are you learning?

WHITNEY WILD, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRESPONDENT: Well, our CNN investigative team has done a really deep dive into Vance Boelter, and there's a couple pieces of his background that really bring more context to who he was as a person and the real gap between the man who has emerged over the last 48 hours and the man his friends thought they knew.

So our CNN investigative team has found that he was one of the leaders of a security company that offered armed security patrols, which suggests that that might have been how he was able to get all of this gear that made him look like a legitimate law enforcement officer. And, Jessica, one of the moments that I thought was the most compelling in in all of the press conferences yesterday was when a local police leader here said if he was standing in this room, you would think he was a real law enforcement officer. I mean, that's how realistic he looked.

Jessica, the other thing that we are learning, again, from our fantastic scene and investigative team is that he was an evangelical Christian who had preached all around the world. And in some of his, social media posts that we've reviewed and videos we've reviewed, he, at some moments, was very critical of how America approaches LGBTQ plus rights. But notably, Jessica, there isn't a lot of talk of politics in a formal way, that CNN has reviewed. And again, all of these posts and all of these videos that, we've been able to take a look at.

Several people we've spoken with expressed real shock at what police say he was capable of. I mean, you know, people we've spoken with, said that they just -- they can't understand it. And these are people who knew him, again, through his capacity as an evangelical Christian who had preached all around the world. Here's another interview that our affiliate here in Minneapolis did, Carol Levin, with a man who was friends with Vance Boelter. Hear what he has to say.

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DAVID CARLSON, SUSPECT'S ROOMMATE & FRIEND: I mean, he was a loving, caring guy. You know? Loved his family, loved his friends, and loved God. And I don't know why he did the what he did. It's just -- it's not Vance. No one will believe this. No one that grew up -- he had lots of friends. Trust me. I wish I could have been there to stop him.

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WILD: Jess, we are expecting, an update here at, again, 05:30 local times, so we'll bring you the very latest from that as soon as we get it, Jessica.

DEAN: Okay. We will see you soon. Whitney Wild, thank you so much for that. Joining us now, CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, John Miller. John, you've been tracking this since it happened. I'm curious what the latest is from your perspective right now.

JOHN MILLER, CNN CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRESPONDET: Well, it's coming at investigators from so many directions, from sightings of the man in a cowboy hat who may have broken into a car early this morning in Minneapolis, to how did they get to this location in the farmland where this other car was abandoned, to the fact that they did a search warrant at a home associated with the subject yesterday where, apparently, in the course of that search, they found what they believe is another potential hit list with another more than a dozen names of other victims that were not mentioned on the 70 person hit list.

So they've been busy today, not just searching for the suspect, over an area that now spans more than 50 miles, but they've also been going out to warn additional people that they were on a list and that he's still at large and discuss security with them. So it's been an investigation with a lot of twists and turns very quickly today.

DEAN: Yeah. Certainly. And we know that they're going to be updating everyone soon, within the next hour. What are you looking for as someone who's both been on the law enforcement side and worked in on the journalism side? What are you looking for at the -- for when we get this press conference in just a little bit?

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MILLER: Well, I've been involved in manhunts just like this, both for serial killers, people wanted for homicide, terrorists. And, you know, what you try to do is you try to really get a very granular picture of that person's world, of their friends, of their associates, of their capabilities, and then you try to shrink that world down to nothing.

Now, that may actually be the reason that they're in the middle of a farmland, having maybe squeezed the suspect out of the city environment of Minneapolis where everybody was looking at -- looking at him, looking for him.

But we also don't know, did he have a plan B? Did he have a plan C? Once he had to abandon his car at the crime scene, he was obviously able to reach out to perhaps someone or find his way to a second vehicle, and put some distance between him and the searchers. Now, they've caught up, but he is clearly ahead of them again because he's not in that car and going house to house.

And it's not just house to house. Remember where we are. We're in farmland. That means house to house, and then shed to shed, then barn to barn. Each one of these farms has a number of outbuildings. So, it's a painstaking search with a lot of places to hide. This is going to take a while and it's going to go definitely into the night.

DEAN: Yeah. And that's another piece of it, too. And it's also very spread out out there. John Miller, thank you so much. We'll be talking to you soon. Appreciate it.

Up next, California Senator Alex Padilla says he has some serious questions for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem just days after he was forcibly removed from the news conference in handcuffs. You're in the "CNN Newsroom."

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DEAN: Calm but tense. That's how the atmosphere is being described today in Los Angeles after the mayor said more than 30,000 people went to the 'no kings' rallies there yesterday. And California Senator Alex Padilla says he has some serious questions after he was forcibly removed from a news conference, pinned to the ground, and handcuffed.

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SEN. ALEX PADILLA (D-CA): Alex I do think there are some serious questions. How does the Cabinet secretary not know the -- the senator from California when she steps foot into Los Angeles? She came through the Senate for confirmation at one point. And certainly, how does the secretary of Homeland Security not know how to deescalate a situation? It's because she can't or because they don't want to.

And it sets the tone. Donald Trump and secretary have set the tone for the Department of Homeland Security and the entire administration in terms of escalation and extreme enforcement actions.

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DEAN: And just to be clear, that happened at a news conference with the secretary separate from the protests that happened yesterday. CNN correspondent Veronica Miracle is joining us now. Veronica, you are there in Los Angeles. What is the situation like today thinking back to one week ago when those protests really reached a fever pitch over those ICE raids?

VERONICA MIRACLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jessica, relative calm today here in Los Angeles after a very tumultuous week, as you said. And yesterday considered an overall success. There were tens of thousands of protesters peacefully protesting from the early morning hours all throughout the day.

It wasn't until the very late in the evening when the law enforcement, they were trying to clear Downtown Los Angeles as they were approaching curfew. That's when there were some confrontations, some skirmishes, some tear gas was deployed, but there were only five arrests made and a few dozen citations.

So, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says that overall, she saw this as a relative success. She was actually in the sky, in a helicopter, monitoring all different areas across the city, and she said that she saw it being peaceful as she was monitoring from her perspective in the air.

She also says she didn't see any Marines on the ground, and she wants the National Guard to leave. Take a listen.

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MAYOR KAREN BASS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: We don't want them here. They don't need to be here. Our local law enforcement have complete control of this situation. And I will tell you that 30,000 people were at Downtown L.A. There were protests in 15 different locations in our city. I flew over each one of them, and they were overwhelmingly peaceful.

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MIRACLE: So, what will happen in the coming week weeks rather? There are still reports of raids happening in the Los Angeles area. Even yesterday, while those protests were happening, many areas in the L.A. County are considered ghost towns. People are going underground. You're not seeing street vendors. There's a lot of fear still here in this community.

So, will those protests continue? That remains to be seen, but we do know that the curfew in Downtown Los Angeles remains in effect indefinitely. Jessica?

DEAN: All right, Veronica Miracle in Los Angeles, thanks so much for that. U.S. investigators are now at the scene of that deadly Air India crash. What they're going to be looking for. That's next right here on the "CNN Newsroom."

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DEAN: Tonight, Israeli authorities saying Iranian missiles struck a residential community in the south of the country amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Now, this comes shortly after emergency services say Iran struck a building in Haifa, starting a massive fire and injuring at least two people with sirens warning residents of incoming attacks. Israelis are once again running for their shelters for cover.

Oren Liebermann has more.

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OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Glued to the news, Rivi Ginzburg waits for the order she knows is coming. Her husband, who doesn't want to be on camera, checks his phone for the latest from Israel's Home Front Command. The last two nights have been a race between the bedroom and the mamad, the Hebrew word for bomb shelter.

This is our shelter, Rivi tells me. You see how we get used to it here. We have mattresses. We came to realize that most of the action is at night.

An afterthought for so long, the room has become a home within a home, cleared out to make room for 10 people and three generations. We have mattresses so three kids can sleep on them at night, some toys, coloring books.

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We just don't know, Rivi says.

Red alerts warning of incoming missiles and drones across the country have sent families scrambling to bomb shelters and reaching for their phones. Everyone checks everyone, she says. Immediately, you're in touch with everyone.

As soon as Israel carried out its strikes on Iran late Thursday night, Israel's government ordered its citizens to stay near shelters for safety. But the system has not been perfect, and Iranian ballistic missiles have pierced Israel's missile defenses. The damage and the deaths have brought the realities of war once again directly into Israel's homes.

RIVI GINZBURG, CENTRAL ISRAEL RESIDENT (through translator): We would have preferred that they first sort out the operation in Gaza. That has lasted so long and the hostages are not returned. And only then turn to other fronts. No one asks us.

In what could be the early days of another war, Ginzburg has tried her best to find moments to laugh with her family.

The situation is far from funny, she says, but you have to keep your sanity, you have to keep your normalcy with the family. You know?

Oren Liebermann, CNN, Central Israel.

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DEAN: Oren, thank you.

Two breaking stories coming up. Israel now saying missiles are incoming right now. We're going to take you back there in just a moment. We're also minutes away from a police update on the manhunt in Minnesota as the search for a gunman in what is being called a politically-motivated assassination. We're back in just a moment.

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DEAN: Play just resuming in the U.S. Open golf championship final in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. It was paused, thanks to heavy rain there. American golfer Sam Burns leading the scoreboard, inching toward his first major title. Meanwhile, the world number one, Scottie Scheffler, is several strokes behind.

We bring in CNN's Patrick Snell. Patrick, take it from there. What's the very latest? PATRICK SNELL, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Jessica. Yes, welcome to Oakmont, which had an absolute deluge here. Thankfully, play, as you just said, has resumed within the last few minutes. A big roar coming up from the crowds as well when the horn went off to signal the resumption of play.

So, all the focus now on will we get a winner and will it be Sam Burns of the USA, this young American player seeking his first career major. He has a two-shot lead right now over Australia's Adam Scott.

But he's a five-time PGA Tour winner. He's got great game when it comes to closing out victories on the PGA Tour. But what he would give, Jessica, for a big major title, what a huge difference that would make to his career.

He has been sharing a house all week with Scottie Scheffler, his close friend. The two families have been sharing a home, and he must be hoping that some of that magic from Scheffler, his own three-career majors today, rubs off on him, and he can finally get his hands on one of them. We shall see.

Now, I mentioned Adam Scott just a short while ago. This is a remarkable story. Adam Scott, the popular Australian, many neutrals out here would love to see him go on and make it a second career victory. His first one came in 2013. That was back at the Masters that year when he became the first Australian player ever to get his hands on the green jacket.

He is now 44 years of age. He's actually turning 45 next month, and it would be remarkable if he could go on and become the second oldest player ever in U.S. Open history after Hale Irwin.

Let's hear from Scott now as he reflects on how important it would be to add another career major to really boost his already standout career. Take a listen.

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ADAM SCOTT, AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: I'd like to win lots more tournaments. And -- and -- and any of them. To be perfectly honest, I'd like to win something.

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But, you know, I have a nice -- put together a nice career, but I think another major or more would really go a long way in, you know, fulfilling my own -- my own self when it's all said and done.

UNKNOWN (voice-over): How would you describe your window to win one of these?

SCOTT: Ajar.

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(END VIDEO CLIP) SNELL: Ajar is a very good way to put it. He won't be giving up hope just yet. He's only two shots back, Jessica. But I think we're going to get an enthralling and really interesting last couple of hours here providing the weather behaves itself.

DEAN: We shall see. It looks a little gray behind you, but we're crossing our fingers. Patrick Snell in Pennsylvania, thank you so much for that.

We are just minutes away now from a news conference in Minnesota where that manhunt continues for the suspect police say shot two Democratic lawmakers, killing one of them and their husbands. We are going to bring it to you live. You're in the "CNN Newsroom."

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UNKNOWN (voice-over): This is CNN Breaking News.

DEAN: And you are in the "CNN Newsroom." I'm Jessica Dean in New York. We begin this hour in the Middle East where right now Israel is bracing for incoming missiles from Iran. This is the IDF, says it has launched fresh attacks on targets in central Iran.

I want to go right to Jeremy Diamond, who is live in Tel Aviv. And Jeremy, now it is this waiting game where you do get the notice that there is incoming and -- and waiting to see exactly how that plays out.

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, that's right. This is part of this kind of new warning system that Israel has developed amid this intensified round of fighting with Iran.

Israelis just got notification about 20 minutes ago now, I believe it was, telling people to be close to protected areas, and that is a warning of about 15 to 30 minutes before the next missile barrage is expected.

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And that's because the Israelis have detected -- have developed an even earlier warning system.