From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Friday, March 6th.

Here's what we're covering.

We're going to start in Lebanon,

which has rapidly become a second front in the war with Iran.

Israel's been targeting Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group there,

after it fired a volley of rockets earlier this week in solidarity with Iran.

Yesterday, a senior Israeli minister threatened widespread destruction

in the southern suburbs of Beirut in an area

known as the Dahlia, where Hezbollah holds a lot of sway. He promised it would soon look like Han Yunus,

a city in Gaza decimated by Israel's attacks on Hamas.

After Israel put out the evacuation warning, you suddenly had huge crowds of people grabbing whatever

they could from their homes and apartments, rushing to their cars, and trying to figure out

how to drive out from that area. My colleague Christina Goldbaum is on the ground in Beirut.

Across the city, you could hear these massive explosions that didn't let up until the early hours of

Friday morning. It was some of the most intense bombing in Beirut since this conflict escalated,

and now people are very afraid that there will be a full-scale Israeli ground invasion of the

South and possible occupation of southern Lebanon. So the country is

definitely on edge right now as we wait to see how this conflict escalates. Also happening right now,

Iran's revolutionary guards have launched a wave of drones and missiles at Tel Aviv in Israel in

retaliation. And the U.S.-Israeli strikes have continued in Iran with an intense bombing campaign

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