FIRESTORM: Seek Shelter Now — CNN Coverage Interrupted by Live Emergency Alerts

A CNN anchor reporting live from Abu Dhabi was forced to seek shelter as Iran launched a counterstrike in retaliation against U.S.-led military action.

The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday after weeks of tension and failed negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Iran counterattacked by launching a wave of missiles against several Gulf Arab states, including Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, all of which house U.S. military bases.

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British journalist Rebecca ‘Becky’ Anderson was anchoring CNN’s flagship news and current affairs program from Abu Dhabi during the strikes, until the broadcast was abruptly interrupted by piercing alarms.

Anderson notified viewers that her staff had been instructed to ‘seek immediate shelter.’

She calmly turned to the camera and said her team would adhere to the order, adding, ‘Our breaking news coverage returns after this short break.’

President Donald Trump released a video message shortly after the U.S. strikes, vowing a ‘massive and ongoing’ effort against Iran to ‘raze their military industry to the ground.’

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu added in a separate statement: ‘Our joint operation will create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their fate into their own hands.’

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Interruption: CNN anchor Becky Anderson was reporting live from Abu Dhabi when her team was told to find shelter in a dramatic on-air moment

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Bomb strikes: Israel and the U.S. launched a military operation against Iran, prompting counterstrikes across the Middle East; pictured, an explosion following the missile attack

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The strikes targeted Iranian leadership, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound in Tehran. Iran has promised ‘crushing retaliation’ for the attack.

‘All occupied territories and the criminal U.S. bases in the region have been struck by the powerful blows of Iranian missiles. This operation will continue relentlessly until the enemy is decisively defeated,’ Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said.

Loud booms were heard across Abu Dhabi during the retaliatory attacks, with many receiving an alarming phone alert warning to shelter in the closest secure building and stay away from windows.

One witness told Reuters she heard five booms that made the windows in her house vibrate.

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Retaliation: Iran hit back at Trump’s ‘massive and ongoing’ attacks; pictured, a strike on a U.S. base in Bahrain

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Protection: Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst put on a bulletproof vest during his live report from Tel Aviv

Fighter jets were also seen flying around the artificial Yas Island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. One death has been reported in Abu Dhabi, according to Reuters.

Global airlines have suspended flights across the Middle East as the region braced for military action.

Trey Yingst, the chief foreign correspondent of Fox News, also found himself in a frightening on-air moment when his broadcast on the ground in Tel Aviv was interrupted by air raid sirens.

Yingst continued the broadcast, but asked his producers to grab his bulletproof vest. The cameras continued to roll as Yingst took off his jacket and put on the vest as sirens rang out, warning citizens to take shelter.

The cameraman then captured a missile interceptor piercing through the air over Tel Aviv as Israelis attempted to stop Iranian fire.

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War ready: Sky News reporter Adam Parsons was seen in a bulletproof vest and helmet as he reported live from Jerusalem

In Jerusalem, Sky News reporter and Middle East correspondent Adam Parsons reported live on the ground with a ‘Press’ ballistics vest and a helmet as sirens rang out across the land.

Parsons said the team had received reports of missiles on the way to Palestine. Loud booms from missile interceptors were heard in the background of the broadcast.

Five explosions were also heard across Dubai, with a CNN team on the ground reporting smoke rising from an area near the Jebel Ali port.

Bahrain officials have confirmed an attack at the U.S. Fifth Fleet. Video footage obtained by Reuters showed gray smoke billowing along the coastline as sirens pierced through the air.

Qatar’s military said it had intercepted Iranian strikes, resulting in heavy booms heard throughout the capital city of Doha.

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Warning: Citizens across the Middle East were told to seek shelter during the military operations. A smoke plume rising in Abu Dhabi from an Iranian missile strike is pictured above

Anwar Gargash, the UAE president’s adviser, told CNN that the military strikes present a ‘lot of challenges’ for the Middle East.

‘Our part is to work together with the United States and neighbors like Iran in order to ensure the stability and security of the region… clearly this time we have failed,’ he said.

Gargash added in his first remarks to the outlet that the UAE had not been given notice of the military operation, but officials were not surprised, given the state of Iranian-U.S. negotiations.

The death toll for the military operations remains unclear, but Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that 40 girls at a school near the strikes were killed and at least 45 others were wounded.

Syrian state television reported four people killed by an Iranian missile, while Iraqi officials reported two people killed in a drone strike.