CNN’s Anderson Cooper Flees to Bomb Shelter on Live TV After Missile Sirens Go Off in Tel Aviv [Video]

During a live CNN broadcast from Tel Aviv, Israel Anderson Cooper and his colleagues had to evacuate in real time as missile sirens rang out early Monday morning, June 23rd.

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Cooper, 58, was speaking with Clarissa Ward and Jeremy Diamond about the growing tensions in the Middle East when an air raid siren interrupted the conversation.

“I should just say that we’re now hearing an alert,” Ward calmly told viewers as the siren blared.

Cooper quickly added context: “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 continued, “Now the location we’re in has a verbal alarm telling people to go down into bomb shelters. So we have about a ten-minute window to get down into a bomb shelter.”

Despite the urgency, Cooper made it clear the broadcast wouldn’t stop.

“And we’ll continue to try to broadcast from that, that bomb shelter. And even if we can, on the way down,” he added.

Before heading out, he asked, “Chuck, do we have capabilities as we go down?”

A crew member responded, “Just checking your microphones. Be ready in a second.”

As the team moved toward shelter, Cooper remarked that it was their first alert of the day. Diamond added, “Quite incredibly, we haven’t seen any fatalities [for] I believe a week now.”

The feed then shifted to Kristen Holmes as the crew lost signal during evacuation.