Happening now, breaking news, leave now.

The U.S. is urged Americans to leave the Middle East immediately.

Immediately indeed. Plus, Christy Noem testifies right now, the Homeland Security Secretary is facing serious questions from senators as concerns about Iranian retaliation against Americans clearly grows.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. This is CNN breaking news.

We're following the breaking news.

The Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Dome, is up on Capitol Hill.

Right now, she's taking questions from lawmakers about protecting the United States during this war in Iran.

And we work every single day with our intelligence agencies and law enforcement partners to make sure that

we are investigating and finding any threats to the homeland here within our borders.

We work with the FBI often and Homeland Security investigation specializes in this kind of work each and every day. Not only that,

we go back and we are revetting some of the individuals and some of the programs that we may have

concerns about, looking at social media, also going through those interviews that are necessary

for some of our programs that the Biden administration abused and perverted under their time there as well.

CNN's Priscilla Alvarez has been closely following this hearing. What else have we heard

from Nome about this? Well, this really got underway at 9 a.m. So far, she has been questioned by

Senator Chuck Grassley as well as Senator Dick Durbin. One of the first questions that she received

was what you heard from her there, which was about the conflict in the Middle East and what the Department of Homeland Security was doing to ensure the safety of Americans and the homeland. Her answer on that is exactly what you heard. She has not provided any additional detail so far as to any concerns about sleeper

sales or any additional work the department is doing on the immigration front there. She talked

about the revetting of individuals, which has been an ongoing task within the Department of Homeland

Security. The questions she received from Senator Dick Durbin, more so about immigration, especially

what happened in Minneapolis in January.

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