Anderson Cooper, CNN crew evacuate live on air during Tel Aviv missile attack

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News on Jun 23, 2025

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Anderson Cooper and several of his CNN colleagues were forced to evacuate their broadcast station live on air Monday morning while reporting from Tel Aviv.

During a report from the Israeli city at 3 a.m. local time, Cooper along with international correspondent Clarissa Ward and Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond heard an emergency alert about incoming missiles from Iran and had to leave for a bomb shelter.

“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,” Cooper said on CNN as sirens blared in the background.

After Ward suggested possibly attempting to finish the segment, Cooper chuckled and said, “We should probably go down.”

The crew continued broadcasting for about four minutes as Cooper, Ward and others walked toward the shelter area, but the feed eventually cut out. Cooper said the warning that forced them underground was the first of the day.

Israel and Iran have been trading missile barrages since June 13, when Israel attacked several military installations in Iran.

The U.S. escalated the conflict on Saturday night, joining the war with three targeted strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran retaliated Monday, launching what it claimed was the exact same number of missiles at an American military base in Qatar. The missiles were intercepted, and no casualties were reported.

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