Anderson Cooper and other CNN journalists fled to a bomb shelter during a live broadcast from Israel after receiving a “10-minute warning of incoming missiles” from Iran overnight on Monday.
The 58-year-old was anchoring his Anderson Cooper 360° show from an outdoor terrace in Tel Aviv with CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond when their phones simultaneously chimed with an alert.
“So, these are the alerts that go out on all of our phones when you’re in Israel,” Cooper said. “It’s a 10-minute warning of incoming missiles or something, incoming from Iran.
“So now the location we’re in has a verbal alarm telling people to get down into bomb shelters. So, we’ve got a 10-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.”
Ward asked Cooper if “we should finish this,” first, apparently referring to the segment. Anderson appeared to laugh and said, “Er, we should probably go down!”
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
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) June 23, 2025
Anderson then spoke to a colleague named Chuck off-screen, asking about their ability to remain broadcasting, and he was subsequently handed a microphone to allow him to continue on air as the group headed to realtive safety.
The camera followed the group through a hotel, which was broadcasting its own warning to its guests, as they walked through corridors and into an elevator before arriving at the shelter.
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