Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight. The U.S. escalates attacks on Iran as Americans

scramble to evacuate from the region.

It is a challenge. No question about it because airports are closed. Airspace is closed.

Congress prepares for a war powers vote to limit President Trump's military authority.

We speak with the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and with Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton.

And Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem faces congressional scrutiny over the killing of two American citizens by immigration agents.

Welcome to the News Hour on this day four of the American-Israeli war with Iran.

And while U.S. and Israeli jets continue their punishing attacks inside Iran, the Islamic

Republic has widened its targets throughout the Arab states of the Gulf and against Israel.

American diplomatic targets in the Gulf were hit overnight, and almost all the civilian

airspace throughout the region remains closed.

The U.S. State Department, after telling hundreds of thousands of Americans to leave of their

own accord and on their own, reversed course today and said the U.S. is working to provide military and charter

flights to evacuate Americans wishing to leave. All the while, the death toll from the American

Israeli bombardment mounted inside Iran. Nick Schifrin again begins our coverage.

In Tehran, the iconic Freedom Square engulfed in war.

Rescue workers responded to an apparent Israeli airstrike that left cars, charred,

and pedestrians stunned.

And jets targeted what remains of Iran's leadership.

This building, housing a regime advisory council, was flattened.

Just to the south in Kholme, an Israeli official confirms it targeted a meeting of senior clerics

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