Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight. Israel says it killed another top Hezbollah leader. The third major strike on the Lebanese militant group in as many days. In-person early voting begins in this year's hotly contested election.

We look at the potential impact split ticket voters could have on the

race for the White House and control of Congress. And in a new memoir, renowned

TV journalist Connie Chung pulls back the curtain on how she managed to inspire a generation of women despite rampant sexism.

I decided that I would be one of them. I would try to be one of the boys. I would take pages from their

playbook. Welcome to the news hour. For nearly a year the US has tried to prevent the war in

Gaza from expanding. But tonight there are new concerns of escalation. After an

Israeli airstrike killed atop Hezbollah commander following earlier

unprecedented attacks on the militant group's communications network and

all more than 35 in Lebanon have died.

Thousands have been wounded and tensions along the shared border are at their

highest level in years.

Nick Schifran reports.

Israel has promised a new phase of the war and is delivering it in southern Beirut.

Where today an airstrike destroyed an entire residential building and Israel said it killed

Ibrahim Akil, commander of Hezbollah's special forces and about 10 of his soldiers.

Earlier this week Israel's infiltration of Hezbollah's communication network,

turned Hezbollah walkie-talkies and pagers into bombs and Israel launched one of its

largest bombing campaigns yet targeting Hezbollah rockets. Thousands of Hezbollah rank and file are injured. The group is in disorder

and after today's strike without a member of its leadership council.

At the time of the strike, Akil and the commanders of the Radwan forces were gathered underground

under a residential building in the heart of the Dhaka in Beirut, hiding among Lebanese civilians, them as human shields.

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