JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday, the latest in a series of escalating attacks in a yearslong conflict between Israel and Iran and its Arab allies that threatens to push the Middle East closer toward a regionwide war.

The orange glow of missiles streaked across Israel's night sky as air raid sirens sounded and millions of residents scrambled into bomb shelters. Israel vowed retaliation for Iran’s missile barrage, which it said had caused only a few injuries.

Before Iran's attack, Israel had landed a series of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-airstrikes-suburb-617575d9c5d7c711bc02e7b81d2ba4ad">devastating blows</a>&nbsp;in recent weeks against the leadership of Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. It then ratcheted up the pressure on the militant group — which has been firing rockets into Israel since&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war">the war in Gaza</a>&nbsp;began — by launching what it said is a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon.

Israel has said it will continue to strike Hezbollah until it is safe for citizens displaced from homes near the Lebanon border to return. Hezbollah has vowed to keep firing rockets into Israel until there is a cease-fire in Gaza with Hamas, which is also supported by Iran.

Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the country’s air defenses intercepted many of the incoming missiles, though some landed in central and southern Israel.

“This strike will have consequences,” he said. He said the attack had caused only “very few” injuries, but did not elaborate.

Israel and Iran have fought a shadow war for years, but rarely have they come into direct conflict.

Israel considers Iran to be its greatest foe -- citing Iran’s repeated calls for Israel’s destruction, its support for Arab militant groups and its nuclear program. Iran denies Israeli accusations that it is developing a nuclear weapon.

Moments before Iran launched its missiles, a shooting attack in Tel Aviv left six people dead, police said, adding that the two suspects who had opened fire on a boulevard in the Jaffa neighborhood had also been killed.

In the U.S., White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called Iran’s missile attack a “significant escalation,” although he said it was ultimately “defeated and ineffective,” in part because of assistance from the U.S. military in shooting down some of the inbound missiles.

Iran launched another direct attack on Israel in April, but&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-ballistic-missiles-israel-retaliation-gaza-war-edccddf7a871b78cd5528e265e1e7317">few of its projectiles reached their targets</a>. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed in flight.

Iran said it fired the missiles into Israel as retaliation for attacks that killed leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian military. It referenced Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Revolutionary Guard Gen. Abbas Nilforushan, both killed in an Israeli airstrike last week in Beirut. It also mentioned Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader in Hamas who was assassinated in Tehran in a suspected Israeli attack in July.

Earlier on Tuesday, Israel said it had begun limited ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire pounded southern Lebanese villages, and Hezbollah responded with a barrage of rockets into Israel. There was no immediate word on casualties.

While Hezbollah denied Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year.

If true, it would be another humiliating blow for Hezbollah, the most powerful armed group in the Middle East. Hezbollah has been reeling from weeks of targeted strikes that killed&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/obituary-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-2da3789a02fd4e2e88511a7f59174d19">Nasrallah</a>&nbsp;and several of his top commanders.

On Tuesday morning, Israel warned people in southern Lebanon to evacuate to the north of the Awali River, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and much farther than the Litani River, which marks the northern edge of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/unsc-resolution-1701-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-addf018ee9da719329e1726f7156d456">a U.N.-declared zone</a>&nbsp;intended to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah after their 2006 war.

The border region has largely emptied out over the past year as the two sides have traded fire. But the scope of the evacuation warning raised questions as to how deep Israel plans to send its forces into Lebanon.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran said it fired dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday, a sharp escalation of the monthslong conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas. There were no immediate reports of casualties as Israel ordered residents to head to bomb shelters and as air raid sirens sounded across the country.

A series of window-shaking explosions were heard in Tel Aviv and near Jerusalem, though it was not immediately clear whether the sounds were from missiles landing or being intercepted by Israeli defenses, or both.

Israel and the United States have warned there would be severe consequences in the event of an attack on Israel from Iran, which backs the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris monitored the attack on Israel from the White House Situation Room.

Israeli army spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the country's air defense system was fully operational, detecting and intercepting threats. “However, the defense is not hermetic,” he said.

Orders to shelter in place were sent to Israelis’ mobile phones and announced on national television.

Iran took responsibility for launching dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel. The claim was made in a statement read aloud on state television.

In its statement, Iran referenced Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Revolutionary Guard Gen. Abbas Nilforushan, both killed in an Israeli airstrike last week in Beirut. It also mentioned Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader in Hamas who was assassinated in Tehran in a suspected Israeli attack in July. It warned this attack represented only a “first wave,” without elaborating.

The air raid alerts in Israel came a day after Israel said it had begun limited ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire pounded southern Lebanese villages where people were ordered to evacuate, and Hezbollah militants responded by firing a barrage of rockets into Israel. There was no immediate word on casualties as fighting intensified and&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-ceasefire-talks-challenges-71b59e0db03f0014ce06d4aa21bc2907">concerns of a wider regional war</a>&nbsp;grew.

A senior White House official warned of “severe consequences” should Iran launch a ballistic missile against Israel. U.S. ships and aircraft are positioned in the region to assist Israel in the event of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-mideast-tensions-hezbollah-lebanon-analysis-5020aeed3c88790d5483fdf40c9ba392">an attack from Iran</a>. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.

Hagari also warned of consequences if Iran fired missiles into Israel.

He urged the public to stay close to sheltered areas. “The Iranian strike could be widespread,” he said.

Iranian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel in April, but&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-ballistic-missiles-israel-retaliation-gaza-war-edccddf7a871b78cd5528e265e1e7317">few of its projectiles reached their targets</a>. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed in flight.

While Hezbollah denied Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year. Israel released video footage purporting to show its soldiers operating in homes and tunnels where Hezbollah kept weapons.

If true, it would be another humiliating blow for Iran-backed Hezbollah, the most powerful armed group in the Middle East. Hezbollah has been reeling from weeks of targeted strikes that killed its leader,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/obituary-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-2da3789a02fd4e2e88511a7f59174d19">Hassan Nasrallah,</a>&nbsp;and several of his top commanders.

On Tuesday morning, Israel warned people to evacuate to the north of the Awali River, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and much farther than the Litani River, which marks the northern edge of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/unsc-resolution-1701-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-addf018ee9da719329e1726f7156d456">a U.N.-declared zone</a>&nbsp;intended to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah after their 2006 war.

An Israeli airstrike hit a residential building near Beirut Tuesday, causing damage but with no immediate reports of casualties. The strike appeared to hit an apartment about 100 meters from the Iranian Embassy.

Anticipating more rocket attacks from Hezbollah, the Israeli army announced new restrictions on public gatherings and closed beaches in northern and central Israel. The military also said it was calling up thousands more reserve soldiers to serve on the northern border.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel warned Lebanese people to evacuate border communities Tuesday to avoid harm from limited ground operations it said were launched against Hezbollah, and said it would retaliate if Hezbollah ally Iran launched a missile attack on Israel that a senior U.S. official said could come “imminently.”

Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire pounded southern Lebanese villages where people were ordered to evacuate, and Hezbollah militants responded by firing a barrage of rockets into Israel. There was no immediate word on casualties as fighting intensified and concerns of a wider regional war grew.

A U.S. official warned of “severe consequences” should Iran launch a ballistic missile against Israel. U.S. ships and aircraft are positioned in the region to assist Israel in the event of an attack from Iran, which a second official said could happen tonight. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.

Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari also warned of consequences if Iran fired missiles into Israel. Iran’s state media has not suggested an attack is imminent, and Iranian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

White House officials did not immediately offer any evidence backing the intelligence finding.

An Israeli airstrike hit a residential building near Beirut Wednesday, causing damage and blowing out windows in the area. The strike appeared to hit an apartment about 100 meters from the Iranian Embassy. There was no immediate word on casualties.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran is preparing to “imminently” launch a ballistic missile attack on Israel, according to a senior U.S. administration official, who warned Tuesday of “severe consequences” should it take place.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence, said the U.S. is actively supporting Israeli defensive preparations. This comes after the Israeli military on Tuesday warned people to evacuate nearly two dozen Lebanese border communities hours after announcing what it said were limited ground operations against Hezbollah.

White House officials did not immediately offer any evidence backing its intelligence finding. The official added that the administration was confident in the determination.

Iran’s state media has not suggested any attack is imminent. Iranian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

Iran already launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel in April, but few of the Iranian projectiles reached their targets. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed while in flight. Even those that reached Israel appeared to miss their marks, experts and an AP analysis in September showed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Tuesday statement that Israel is facing “large challenges” as it fights an Iranian axis. In the videotaped statement, he urges the public to listen to public safety guidelines from the army’s Home Front Command. He made no direct mention of a missile threat.

Hezbollah denied Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, but hours later the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year. Israel released video footage purporting to show its soldiers operating in homes and tunnels where Hezbollah kept weapons.

U.S. ships and aircraft are already positioned in the region to assist Israel in the event of an attack from Iran. There are three U.S. Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea, an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Oman and fighter jets arrayed throughout the region. All have the abilities to shoot down incoming missiles.

Israel advised people to evacuate to the north of the Awali River, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and much farther than the Litani River, which marks the northern edge of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/unsc-resolution-1701-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-addf018ee9da719329e1726f7156d456">a U.N.-declared zone</a>&nbsp;that was intended to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah after their 2006 war.

“You must immediately head north of the Awali River to save yourselves, and leave your houses immediately,” said the statement posted by the Israeli military on the platform X. The warning applied to communities south of the Litani.

The border region has largely emptied out over the past year as the two sides have traded fire. But the scope of the evacuation warning raised questions as to how deep Israel plans to send its forces into Lebanon as it presses ahead with a rapidly escalating campaign against Hezbollah.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday, the latest in a series of escalating attacks in a yearslong conflict between Israel and Iran and its Arab allies that threatens to push the Middle East closer toward a regionwide war.<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">.<a href="https://twitter.com/PentagonPresSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PentagonPresSec</a>: The U.S. military coordinated closely with Israeli Defense Forces to help defend Israel. U.S. Navy destroyers deployed to the Middle East region supported the defense of Israel by firing approximately a dozen interceptors against the incoming Iranian missiles. <a href="https://t.co/hbE36qVR1H">pic.twitter.com/hbE36qVR1H</a>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1841202874954440848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>The orange glow of missiles streaked across Israel's night sky as air raid sirens sounded and millions of residents scrambled into bomb shelters. Israel vowed retaliation for Iran’s missile barrage, which it said had caused only a few injuries.Before Iran's attack, Israel had landed a series of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-airstrikes-suburb-617575d9c5d7c711bc02e7b81d2ba4ad">devastating blows</a>&nbsp;in recent weeks against the leadership of Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. It then ratcheted up the pressure on the militant group — which has been firing rockets into Israel since&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war">the war in Gaza</a>&nbsp;began — by launching what it said is a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon.<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">White House National Security Adviser <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSullivan46?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeSullivan46</a>: &quot;Today Iran launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles towards targets in Israel...at this time we do not know of any deaths in Israel...We do not know of any damage to aircraft or strategic military assets in Israel.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/tGhw87QvNp">pic.twitter.com/tGhw87QvNp</a>&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1841191582583619877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Israel has said it will continue to strike Hezbollah until it is safe for citizens displaced from homes near the Lebanon border to return. Hezbollah has vowed to keep firing rockets into Israel until there is a cease-fire in Gaza with Hamas, which is also supported by Iran.Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the country’s air defenses intercepted many of the incoming missiles, though some landed in central and southern Israel.“This strike will have consequences,” he said. He said the attack had caused only “very few” injuries, but did not elaborate.Israel and Iran have fought a shadow war for years, but rarely have they come into direct conflict.Israel considers Iran to be its greatest foe -- citing Iran’s repeated calls for Israel’s destruction, its support for Arab militant groups and its nuclear program. Iran denies Israeli accusations that it is developing a nuclear weapon.Moments before Iran launched its missiles, a shooting attack in Tel Aviv left six people dead, police said, adding that the two suspects who had opened fire on a boulevard in the Jaffa neighborhood had also been killed.In the U.S., White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called Iran’s missile attack a “significant escalation,” although he said it was ultimately “defeated and ineffective,” in part because of assistance from the U.S. military in shooting down some of the inbound missiles.Iran launched another direct attack on Israel in April, but&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-ballistic-missiles-israel-retaliation-gaza-war-edccddf7a871b78cd5528e265e1e7317">few of its projectiles reached their targets</a>. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed in flight.Iran said it fired the missiles into Israel as retaliation for attacks that killed leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian military. It referenced Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Revolutionary Guard Gen. Abbas Nilforushan, both killed in an Israeli airstrike last week in Beirut. It also mentioned Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader in Hamas who was assassinated in Tehran in a suspected Israeli attack in July.Earlier on Tuesday, Israel said it had begun limited ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire pounded southern Lebanese villages, and Hezbollah responded with a barrage of rockets into Israel. There was no immediate word on casualties.While Hezbollah denied Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year.If true, it would be another humiliating blow for Hezbollah, the most powerful armed group in the Middle East. Hezbollah has been reeling from weeks of targeted strikes that killed&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/obituary-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-2da3789a02fd4e2e88511a7f59174d19">Nasrallah</a>&nbsp;and several of his top commanders.On Tuesday morning, Israel warned people in southern Lebanon to evacuate to the north of the Awali River, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and much farther than the Litani River, which marks the northern edge of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/unsc-resolution-1701-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-addf018ee9da719329e1726f7156d456">a U.N.-declared zone</a>&nbsp;intended to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah after their 2006 war.The border region has largely emptied out over the past year as the two sides have traded fire. But the scope of the evacuation warning raised questions as to how deep Israel plans to send its forces into Lebanon.-------------JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran said it fired dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday, a sharp escalation of the monthslong conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas. There were no immediate reports of casualties as Israel ordered residents to head to bomb shelters and as air raid sirens sounded across the country.<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">RAW FOOTAGE: Watch as Iranian missiles rain over the Old City in Jerusalem, a holy site for Muslims, Christians and Jews. This is the target of the Iranian regime: everyone. <a href="https://t.co/rIqUZWN3zy">pic.twitter.com/rIqUZWN3zy</a>&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1841167289984397726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>A series of window-shaking explosions were heard in Tel Aviv and near Jerusalem, though it was not immediately clear whether the sounds were from missiles landing or being intercepted by Israeli defenses, or both.Israel and the United States have warned there would be severe consequences in the event of an attack on Israel from Iran, which backs the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris monitored the attack on Israel from the White House Situation Room.Israeli army spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the country's air defense system was fully operational, detecting and intercepting threats. “However, the defense is not hermetic,” he said.<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Approx. 10 million civilians are the targets of Iranian projectiles. <a href="https://t.co/680uDJm3CJ">pic.twitter.com/680uDJm3CJ</a>&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1841159354914898024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>Orders to shelter in place were sent to Israelis’ mobile phones and announced on national television.Iran took responsibility for launching dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel. The claim was made in a statement read aloud on state television.In its statement, Iran referenced Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Revolutionary Guard Gen. Abbas Nilforushan, both killed in an Israeli airstrike last week in Beirut. It also mentioned Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader in Hamas who was assassinated in Tehran in a suspected Israeli attack in July. It warned this attack represented only a “first wave,” without elaborating.The air raid alerts in Israel came a day after Israel said it had begun limited ground operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire pounded southern Lebanese villages where people were ordered to evacuate, and Hezbollah militants responded by firing a barrage of rockets into Israel. There was no immediate word on casualties as fighting intensified and&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-ceasefire-talks-challenges-71b59e0db03f0014ce06d4aa21bc2907">concerns of a wider regional war</a>&nbsp;grew.A senior White House official warned of “severe consequences” should Iran launch a ballistic missile against Israel. U.S. ships and aircraft are positioned in the region to assist Israel in the event of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-mideast-tensions-hezbollah-lebanon-analysis-5020aeed3c88790d5483fdf40c9ba392">an attack from Iran</a>. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.Hagari also warned of consequences if Iran fired missiles into Israel.He urged the public to stay close to sheltered areas. “The Iranian strike could be widespread,” he said.Iranian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel in April, but&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-ballistic-missiles-israel-retaliation-gaza-war-edccddf7a871b78cd5528e265e1e7317">few of its projectiles reached their targets</a>. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed in flight.While Hezbollah denied Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year. Israel released video footage purporting to show its soldiers operating in homes and tunnels where Hezbollah kept weapons.If true, it would be another humiliating blow for Iran-backed Hezbollah, the most powerful armed group in the Middle East. Hezbollah has been reeling from weeks of targeted strikes that killed its leader,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/obituary-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-2da3789a02fd4e2e88511a7f59174d19">Hassan Nasrallah,</a>&nbsp;and several of his top commanders.On Tuesday morning, Israel warned people to evacuate to the north of the Awali River, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and much farther than the Litani River, which marks the northern edge of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/unsc-resolution-1701-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-addf018ee9da719329e1726f7156d456">a U.N.-declared zone</a>&nbsp;intended to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah after their 2006 war.The border region has largely emptied out over the past year as the two sides have traded fire. But the scope of the evacuation warning raised questions as to how deep Israel plans to send its forces into Lebanon.An Israeli airstrike hit a residential building near Beirut Tuesday, causing damage but with no immediate reports of casualties. The strike appeared to hit an apartment about 100 meters from the Iranian Embassy.Anticipating more rocket attacks from Hezbollah, the Israeli army announced new restrictions on public gatherings and closed beaches in northern and central Israel. The military also said it was calling up thousands more reserve soldiers to serve on the northern border.--------------JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel warned Lebanese people to evacuate border communities Tuesday to avoid harm from limited ground operations it said were launched against Hezbollah, and said it would retaliate if Hezbollah ally Iran launched a missile attack on Israel that a senior U.S. official said could come “imminently.”Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire pounded southern Lebanese villages where people were ordered to evacuate, and Hezbollah militants responded by firing a barrage of rockets into Israel. There was no immediate word on casualties as fighting intensified and concerns of a wider regional war grew.A U.S. official warned of “severe consequences” should Iran launch a ballistic missile against Israel. U.S. ships and aircraft are positioned in the region to assist Israel in the event of an attack from Iran, which a second official said could happen tonight. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari also warned of consequences if Iran fired missiles into Israel. Iran’s state media has not suggested an attack is imminent, and Iranian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.White House officials did not immediately offer any evidence backing the intelligence finding.Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel in April, but&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-ballistic-missiles-israel-retaliation-gaza-war-edccddf7a871b78cd5528e265e1e7317">few of its projectiles reached their targets</a>. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed in flight.While Hezbollah denied Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year. Israel released video footage purporting to show its soldiers operating in homes and tunnels where Hezbollah kept weapons.If true, it would be another humiliating blow for Iran-backed Hezbollah, the most powerful armed group in the Middle East. Hezbollah has been reeling from weeks of targeted strikes that killed its leader,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/obituary-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-2da3789a02fd4e2e88511a7f59174d19">Hassan Nasrallah,</a>&nbsp;and several of his top commanders.On Tuesday morning, Israel warned people to evacuate to the north of the Awali River, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and much farther than the Litani River, which marks the northern edge of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/unsc-resolution-1701-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-addf018ee9da719329e1726f7156d456">a U.N.-declared zone</a>&nbsp;intended to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah after their 2006 war.The border region has largely emptied out over the past year as the two sides have traded fire. But the scope of the evacuation warning raised questions as to how deep Israel plans to send its forces into Lebanon.An Israeli airstrike hit a residential building near Beirut Wednesday, causing damage and blowing out windows in the area. The strike appeared to hit an apartment about 100 meters from the Iranian Embassy. There was no immediate word on casualties.Anticipating more rocket attacks from Hezbollah, the Israeli army announced new restrictions on public gatherings and closed beaches in northern and central Israel. The military also said it was calling up thousands more reserve soldiers to serve on the northern border.----------------JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran is preparing to “imminently” launch a ballistic missile attack on Israel, according to a senior U.S. administration official, who warned Tuesday of “severe consequences” should it take place.The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence, said the U.S. is actively supporting Israeli defensive preparations. This comes after the Israeli military on Tuesday warned people to evacuate nearly two dozen Lebanese border communities hours after announcing what it said were limited ground operations against Hezbollah.White House officials did not immediately offer any evidence backing its intelligence finding. The official added that the administration was confident in the determination.Iran’s state media has not suggested any attack is imminent. Iranian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.Iran already launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel in April, but few of the Iranian projectiles reached their targets. Many were shot down by a U.S.-led coalition, while others apparently failed at launch or crashed while in flight. Even those that reached Israel appeared to miss their marks, experts and an AP analysis in September showed.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Tuesday statement that Israel is facing “large challenges” as it fights an Iranian axis. In the videotaped statement, he urges the public to listen to public safety guidelines from the army’s Home Front Command. He made no direct mention of a missile threat.Hezbollah denied Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, but hours later the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year. Israel released video footage purporting to show its soldiers operating in homes and tunnels where Hezbollah kept weapons.If true, it would be another humiliating blow for Iran-backed Hezbollah, the most powerful armed group in the Middle East. Hezbollah has been reeling from weeks of targeted strikes that killed its leader,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/obituary-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-2da3789a02fd4e2e88511a7f59174d19">Hassan Nasrallah,</a>&nbsp;and several of his top commanders.U.S. ships and aircraft are already positioned in the region to assist Israel in the event of an attack from Iran. There are three U.S. Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea, an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Oman and fighter jets arrayed throughout the region. All have the abilities to shoot down incoming missiles.Israel advised people to evacuate to the north of the Awali River, some 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and much farther than the Litani River, which marks the northern edge of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/unsc-resolution-1701-lebanon-israel-hezbollah-addf018ee9da719329e1726f7156d456">a U.N.-declared zone</a>&nbsp;that was intended to serve as a buffer between Israel and Hezbollah after their 2006 war.“You must immediately head north of the Awali River to save yourselves, and leave your houses immediately,” said the statement posted by the Israeli military on the platform X. The warning applied to communities south of the Litani.The border region has largely emptied out over the past year as the two sides have traded fire. But the scope of the evacuation warning raised questions as to how deep Israel plans to send its forces into Lebanon as it presses ahead with a rapidly escalating campaign against Hezbollah.

🎥U.S. forces defend Israel as Iran launches major missile attack

Jean Ann (Lancaster) Reed, died peacefully in her sleep on September 26, 2024 after a year-long battle with cancer. &nbsp;Born on August 2, 1946, Jean lived her earthly life centered around her family and friends and now is in her eternal heavenly home, surrounded by her husband, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. &nbsp;

Jean was born in, and grew up in, Topeka, Kansas. She attended Topeka West High School where she met several lifelong friends and started playing tennis. &nbsp;She graduated in 1964, and then attended Kansas State University, where she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, and played guard on the first women’s basketball team at KSU. &nbsp;She graduated in 1968, with her Physical Education degree and went on to be an assistant women’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas. &nbsp;She met many lifelong friends in her sorority and from her team. &nbsp;She met her husband, Dale Reed, at KSU, and they married on January 10, 1970, in Topeka, Kansas. &nbsp;

Jean and Dale had two children, Kristen Zimmerman and Keri Skinner (Teru), and very much enjoyed their grandchildren – Ruby Zimmerman (18) and Cole Zimmerman (15). Jean was a loving person and made everyone around her feel special, and took care of many people throughout her life – her children, her Mother, her Mother-in-law, and her husband. &nbsp;She loved her family, her church, and her many dear friends. &nbsp;

She loved K-State sports, and fried chicken, Elvis music, and holiday dinners with family. &nbsp;She was a proud American and proud Kansan, and proud of her family’s military service. &nbsp;You could count on her to listen, to take care of things, for a giggle about something silly, to organize family gatherings, to be considerate, to be on time (if not a little early), and to make little notes about everything from passwords to meal plans to inspirational quotes. &nbsp;One note in her box of things with her at the end of her life said, “Tears may come at night, but there is always joy in the morning.” &nbsp;

Her Christian faith is her foundation, and helped her through the ups and downs of life. &nbsp;

Her funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, October 3, at Sunrise Presbyterian Church, Salina, Kansas, and her burial will take place in Spring 2025 at Balch Cemetery in Formoso, Kansas. &nbsp;

In leu of flowers memorials can be made to Sunrise Presbyterian Church, Salina, Kansas.&nbsp;

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 </figure>Jean Ann (Lancaster) Reed, died peacefully in her sleep on September 26, 2024 after a year-long battle with cancer. &nbsp;Born on August 2, 1946, Jean lived her earthly life centered around her family and friends and now is in her eternal heavenly home, surrounded by her husband, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. &nbsp;Jean was born in, and grew up in, Topeka, Kansas. She attended Topeka West High School where she met several lifelong friends and started playing tennis. &nbsp;She graduated in 1964, and then attended Kansas State University, where she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, and played guard on the first women’s basketball team at KSU. &nbsp;She graduated in 1968, with her Physical Education degree and went on to be an assistant women’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas. &nbsp;She met many lifelong friends in her sorority and from her team. &nbsp;She met her husband, Dale Reed, at KSU, and they married on January 10, 1970, in Topeka, Kansas. &nbsp;Jean and Dale had two children, Kristen Zimmerman and Keri Skinner (Teru), and very much enjoyed their grandchildren – Ruby Zimmerman (18) and Cole Zimmerman (15). Jean was a loving person and made everyone around her feel special, and took care of many people throughout her life – her children, her Mother, her Mother-in-law, and her husband. &nbsp;She loved her family, her church, and her many dear friends. &nbsp;She loved K-State sports, and fried chicken, Elvis music, and holiday dinners with family. &nbsp;She was a proud American and proud Kansan, and proud of her family’s military service. &nbsp;You could count on her to listen, to take care of things, for a giggle about something silly, to organize family gatherings, to be considerate, to be on time (if not a little early), and to make little notes about everything from passwords to meal plans to inspirational quotes. &nbsp;One note in her box of things with her at the end of her life said, “Tears may come at night, but there is always joy in the morning.” &nbsp;Her Christian faith is her foundation, and helped her through the ups and downs of life. &nbsp;Her funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, October 3, at Sunrise Presbyterian Church, Salina, Kansas, and her burial will take place in Spring 2025 at Balch Cemetery in Formoso, Kansas. &nbsp;In leu of flowers memorials can be made to Sunrise Presbyterian Church, Salina, Kansas.&nbsp;

Jean Ann (Lancaster) Reed

Join 910KINA's Saturday Morning Show hosts Dave Foor and Nate King this Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m.&nbsp;<a href="http://910kina.com/">on 910AM</a>/107.5 FM.

Hear highlights about community events, public affairs, and all things happening in Salina. Their approach is friendly, informative, and entertaining. To listen to past 910KINA Saturday Morning Shows head on over to the KINA podcast homepage&nbsp;<a href="http://910kina.com/">here.</a>

United States Army National Guard 235th Regiment Commander COL. Matt Keane

American Red Cross blood drives and community announcements

Chelsey Copeland, director of community outreach at CKF

Richard Kinney and David Medina discuss the upcoming Salina VFW 1432 and American Legion Post 62 Community Family Fun Day

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 </figure>By SALINA POSTJoin 910KINA's Saturday Morning Show hosts Dave Foor and Nate King this Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m.&nbsp;<a href="http://910kina.com/">on 910AM</a>/107.5 FM.Hear highlights about community events, public affairs, and all things happening in Salina. Their approach is friendly, informative, and entertaining. To listen to past 910KINA Saturday Morning Shows head on over to the KINA podcast homepage&nbsp;<a href="http://910kina.com/">here.</a>9:05-9:30 a.m.&nbsp;United States Army National Guard 235th Regiment Commander COL. Matt Keane9:30-10:00 a.m.American Red Cross blood drives and community announcements10:05-10:30 a.mChelsey Copeland, director of community outreach at CKF10:30-11 a.m.&nbsp;Richard Kinney and David Medina discuss the upcoming Salina VFW 1432 and American Legion Post 62 Community Family Fun Day

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Reverend Fred Kirkpatrick, Jr., age 93, passed away September 11, 2024, at his home in Salina, Kansas. After 77 years of pastoring, he has gone to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.&nbsp;&nbsp;

A devoted Pastor, Husband, Father, Grandfather and Great-Grandfather, Fred dedicated his life to serving Jesus in everything he did.&nbsp;&nbsp;

He was born on <a href="http://calendar:t2:October%2021,%201930/" target="_blank">October 21, 1930</a>, in Dodge City, Kansas, to Fred Kirkpatrick, Sr. and Eva Lodema (Badgley) Kirkpatrick. The grandson of one of the early Dodge City founders, J.M. Kirkpatrick, Fred often shared stories of old Dodge City and its more raucous days which his grandfather had witnessed.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Before television was invented, his family gathered around the big old radio in the living room to listen to the gospel being preached and he found salvation in Jesus Christ. As a young boy, Fred saw the patrons frequenting the many bars and saloons along Front Street and witnessed to them about Jesus and His redemptive power.&nbsp;

At the young age of 17, Fred felt called to attend Fort Wayne Bible College (now Taylor University) in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and become a minister. During the years he attended there, he and Sally Hoofnagle, also from Dodge City, were married and began a life adventure together on <a href="http://calendar:t2:May%2030,%201950/" target="_blank">May 30, 1950</a>.  They lived in Fort Wayne until he completed Bible college.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Following graduation and ordination, the Kirkpatricks moved to Great Bend, Kansas, where they started their first church on Main Street in 1952. As that church grew, he moved the little white chapel building to East 19th street and held services. And finally, he and the congregation purchased the old County Farm west of Great Bend, where it became known as Faith Community Church and Bible College.&nbsp;&nbsp;

An engineer by trade, he worked for many decades at E.B.H. Engineers in Great Bend, designing and constructing countless community infrastructure projects. He loved that work and took the message of the Gospels with him daily. Through his testimony, many people came to know the saving Grace of Jesus Christ.&nbsp;&nbsp;

His passion for Christ drove every aspect of his life. Fred’s vision for a great revival meant not only holding thrice weekly services at Faith Community Church, but also holding nightly services in small communities and homes across Kansas – Mondays in Bunker Hill, Tuesdays in Pratt, Thursdays in Hays and Ellis, Fridays at Full Gospel Businessmen’s meetings across the entire state and Sunday afternoons at the County Jail.&nbsp;&nbsp;

He brought the Billy Graham Film Crusades, Teen Challenge meetings and Women’s Aglow to the area. He was also a State Director for Women’s Aglow for many years. Through his leadership and stewardship in these endeavors, many gave their lives to Christ and followed him into the ministry where they serve still <a href="http://calendar:t5:today/" target="_blank">today</a>.&nbsp;

After losing his wife Sally to cancer, Fred married Glenda (Mountford) Jahnke on <a href="http://calendar:t2:September%2022,%201989/" target="_blank">September 22, 1989</a>. This year marks their 35 years working together for Christ. They brought comfort to many through a ministry of teaching, singing and praising the Lord across Kansas and beyond.&nbsp;

Preaching over 15,000 sermons, Fred’s central message never wavered: The grace of God brings salvation. He always taught that God in His great love sent His only Son into the world to be sacrificed for all of mankind’s sins. And in that simple message, many found the “peace that passes all understanding.” Hearts were changed, families healed, broken bodies mended, and encouragement filled the hearts of those wherever he went.&nbsp;&nbsp;

He was preceded in death by his first wife Sally, his parents, Fred and Eva Kirkpatrick, plus siblings Kay and Kenton Kirkpatrick.&nbsp;

He is survived by his wife Glenda of the home; his loving children, Kristi (Bruce) Kraisinger, Kevin (Paula Stout) Kirkpatrick, and Linda (Doug) Basye, Dr. Lavelle (Doug Stickland) Ellis, and Rev. Broc (Alicia) Jahnke. He had 21 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren at the time of his passing.  &nbsp;

As an honor to his life’s work, he requested no funeral service so that Jesus may be glorified rather than the works of one man. There will be a praise and worship service at Faith Community Church, 293 W. Barton County Road, Great Bend, Kansas at on October 5, 2024, at 2:00 p.m.&nbsp;

Pastor Kirkpatrick planned this service in advance of his death, and he wanted to have a joyous celebration of his homecoming to heaven. The family has requested in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Faith Community Church, in care of Bryant Funeral Home, 1425 Patton Rd., Great Bend, KS 67530.&nbsp;

The family wants to extend to all friends, a generous and prayerful “thank you” for your faithfulness to God’s work down through the years. May God grant you all the Grace and Peace that Fred found those many years ago as a young man in Western Kansas. &nbsp;

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 </figure>Reverend Fred Kirkpatrick, Jr., age 93, passed away September 11, 2024, at his home in Salina, Kansas. After 77 years of pastoring, he has gone to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.&nbsp;&nbsp;A devoted Pastor, Husband, Father, Grandfather and Great-Grandfather, Fred dedicated his life to serving Jesus in everything he did.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was born on <a href="http://calendar:t2:October%2021,%201930/" target="_blank">October 21, 1930</a>, in Dodge City, Kansas, to Fred Kirkpatrick, Sr. and Eva Lodema (Badgley) Kirkpatrick. The grandson of one of the early Dodge City founders, J.M. Kirkpatrick, Fred often shared stories of old Dodge City and its more raucous days which his grandfather had witnessed.&nbsp;&nbsp;Before television was invented, his family gathered around the big old radio in the living room to listen to the gospel being preached and he found salvation in Jesus Christ. As a young boy, Fred saw the patrons frequenting the many bars and saloons along Front Street and witnessed to them about Jesus and His redemptive power.&nbsp;At the young age of 17, Fred felt called to attend Fort Wayne Bible College (now Taylor University) in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and become a minister. During the years he attended there, he and Sally Hoofnagle, also from Dodge City, were married and began a life adventure together on <a href="http://calendar:t2:May%2030,%201950/" target="_blank">May 30, 1950</a>.  They lived in Fort Wayne until he completed Bible college.&nbsp;&nbsp;Following graduation and ordination, the Kirkpatricks moved to Great Bend, Kansas, where they started their first church on Main Street in 1952. As that church grew, he moved the little white chapel building to East 19th street and held services. And finally, he and the congregation purchased the old County Farm west of Great Bend, where it became known as Faith Community Church and Bible College.&nbsp;&nbsp;An engineer by trade, he worked for many decades at E.B.H. Engineers in Great Bend, designing and constructing countless community infrastructure projects. He loved that work and took the message of the Gospels with him daily. Through his testimony, many people came to know the saving Grace of Jesus Christ.&nbsp;&nbsp;His passion for Christ drove every aspect of his life. Fred’s vision for a great revival meant not only holding thrice weekly services at Faith Community Church, but also holding nightly services in small communities and homes across Kansas – Mondays in Bunker Hill, Tuesdays in Pratt, Thursdays in Hays and Ellis, Fridays at Full Gospel Businessmen’s meetings across the entire state and Sunday afternoons at the County Jail.&nbsp;&nbsp;He brought the Billy Graham Film Crusades, Teen Challenge meetings and Women’s Aglow to the area. He was also a State Director for Women’s Aglow for many years. Through his leadership and stewardship in these endeavors, many gave their lives to Christ and followed him into the ministry where they serve still <a href="http://calendar:t5:today/" target="_blank">today</a>.&nbsp;After losing his wife Sally to cancer, Fred married Glenda (Mountford) Jahnke on <a href="http://calendar:t2:September%2022,%201989/" target="_blank">September 22, 1989</a>. This year marks their 35 years working together for Christ. They brought comfort to many through a ministry of teaching, singing and praising the Lord across Kansas and beyond.&nbsp;Preaching over 15,000 sermons, Fred’s central message never wavered: The grace of God brings salvation. He always taught that God in His great love sent His only Son into the world to be sacrificed for all of mankind’s sins. And in that simple message, many found the “peace that passes all understanding.” Hearts were changed, families healed, broken bodies mended, and encouragement filled the hearts of those wherever he went.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was preceded in death by his first wife Sally, his parents, Fred and Eva Kirkpatrick, plus siblings Kay and Kenton Kirkpatrick.&nbsp;He is survived by his wife Glenda of the home; his loving children, Kristi (Bruce) Kraisinger, Kevin (Paula Stout) Kirkpatrick, and Linda (Doug) Basye, Dr. Lavelle (Doug Stickland) Ellis, and Rev. Broc (Alicia) Jahnke. He had 21 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren at the time of his passing.  &nbsp;As an honor to his life’s work, he requested no funeral service so that Jesus may be glorified rather than the works of one man. There will be a praise and worship service at Faith Community Church, 293 W. Barton County Road, Great Bend, Kansas at on October 5, 2024, at 2:00 p.m.&nbsp;Pastor Kirkpatrick planned this service in advance of his death, and he wanted to have a joyous celebration of his homecoming to heaven. The family has requested in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Faith Community Church, in care of Bryant Funeral Home, 1425 Patton Rd., Great Bend, KS 67530.&nbsp;The family wants to extend to all friends, a generous and prayerful “thank you” for your faithfulness to God’s work down through the years. May God grant you all the Grace and Peace that Fred found those many years ago as a young man in Western Kansas. &nbsp;

Reverend Fred Kirkpatrick, Jr.

ASSISTANT HEAD COACH/SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR DAVE TOUB

Q: Has Harrison Butker done a lot to work on his range with weights or other stuff?

TOUB: “Yeah, he (Harrison Butker) has. Just like I said, I mean, he does a good job with (Head Strength &amp; Conditioning/Director of Sports Science) Ryan Reynolds (and) our strength staff, they’re really into the power lifts, you know, the Olympic lifts. I really think that’s made a big difference for him, he’s really into it. He’s a guy – he’s a kicker, I think he power cleans over 300 pounds, it’s unbelievable. He’s really jumped into that part – that aspect of it. He covers every aspect of it, really. He does it all. He does it all at 100 percent, that’s why he is what he is.”

Q: What stands out about the Chargers special teams unit and how has it changed since new Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh took over?

TOUB: “We know these guys (the Chargers) well; they changed the head coach (Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh), but the special teams coach (Special Teams Coordinator&nbsp;Ryan Ficken) is the same. It’s the same that they’ve had the last couple years and (he) does a great job, the guys fly around. They’ve gotten better and better over the years, and he certainly does an excellent job. (Chargers K Cameron) Dicker the kicker is really good and (Chargers P) JK Scott hangs the ball up, (he) punts it to the boundary most of the time, causes fair catches. They’ve had 18 punts (and) I think only five returns out of 18 punts so that says something (and) seven fair catches, so he hangs it up. (The long) snapper’s (Chargers LS Josh Harris) good and then the returner, you’ve got to notice him, (Chargers Returner) Derius Davis, great speed, 4.3 (40-yard dash) guy, hits it north and south, can run around you, he’s got it all. They’ve put a lot into their special teams over the last few years and it’s definitely something – a lot more hard to handle now than it was four years ago.”&nbsp;

Q: What is your evaluation of Mecole Hardman so far this season?

TOUB: “Good. I mean, he (Mecole Hardman) did a good job on the kick returns. He was an arm tackle away from really breaking one. We had a sideline return call there and it’s one guy away. I mean, we had blockers up in front, (and) it was only the kicker left on the one. One punt I thought he possibly could’ve gotten to, it was a bad punt, and he decided not to. You’ve got to let him make those decisions back there. Then, one punt we got, we had like a 12-yard return, but we haven’t had too many opportunities, but we had a few last week.”

DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR STEVE SPAGNUOLO

OPENING STATEMENT:&nbsp;“Alright, I don’t have a – I mean, listen, I’m happy we were able to pull that game out last week and (we’re) looking forward to our first AFC West divisional game, so with that I’ll just open it up.”

Q:&nbsp;What are your thoughts on Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins and the new-look Chargers team that favors running the football?

SPAGNUOLO:&nbsp;“(Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins) pretty positive affect, right? Listen, I have a lot of respect for (Chargers Head Coach) Jim (Harbaugh) and (Chargers Offensive Coordinator) Greg (Roman), (I’ve) known both of them for a long time. (I) kind of have a feel for, I think, what they want to do and become and you can see that they’re doing that, especially early. I know they’ve had a rash of injuries. We’re not going to overlook anything. I think Jim has a way of getting his team ready to play in any situation. The running backs, I mean both of them (Chargers RBs J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards) really fit what they do. They feel like they – that’s the identity of their team now, right? Yet, they have a quarterback (Chargers QB Justin Herbert), and we’ll see where the health is and all that, but they have a quarterback that, I think, is one of the best throwers in the league so it’s a pretty good combination for them. We’ll see who they put out there but to us, it doesn’t matter, really. We’re going to defend the scheme and try to play our best football.”

Q:&nbsp;Is there a mindset that a defense has to have specifically in the red zone?

SPAGNUOLO:&nbsp;“Yeah, no question. I think we’ve got guys that are built the right way. I mean, your back’s against the wall. Everything’s tighter down there. Offensive coaches will tell you this all the time – the windows get tighter, things close quicker, the game moves faster. There are certain guys that function really well in the red zone because of that and others that it takes a bit of time. Rookies come in and it’s the red zone and it’s the regular season and things are going fast, and you find out about guys pretty quick, but there’s definitely a mindset.”

Q:&nbsp;What have you seen from Chamarri Conner’s ability to always be around the football?

SPAGNUOLO:&nbsp;“Yeah, if you watch him (Chamarri Conner) – I showed a clip this morning – the one thing he does all the time is gets off of blocks. He doesn’t – wide receivers try to block him (and) he wants nothing to do with them. Now, not all DBs do that but he has a physical mindset. He’s a safety playing a corner position at nickel. He’s earned the right to play that, and I put the challenge on him a while back. I didn’t know if he’d be able to do it, that wasn’t what he played in college, but I think he stepped in there and (he’s) done a real nice job for us. He’s another one of those guys that I think just likes mixing it up physical-wise. We take as many of those guys as we can get because that’s defensive football, right?”

Q: Is there surprising anything about the way that Rashee Rice has started the season or did you see this coming?

NAGY:&nbsp;“No, there’s nothing surprising with the way he’s (Rashee Rice) come back in. I think we probably compare it a little bit to last year when he first got here. Remember, we talked about drinking water from the fire hydrant, and he came back right away in OTAs and looked amazing. (He) took it into training camp (and) looked great, so it’s not surprising. It takes a little bit of time, but it’s been really cool to see him grow and I know he has a lot more to go.”

Q: On what Travis Kelce has been able to teach Rashee Rice over the past year.

NAGY:&nbsp;“Just a lot of things. A lot of good teaching points that Travis (Kelce) has done over the years that is invaluable. It’s great when we’re teaching them as coaches and we give them our insight but when the guy that’s (been) doing it for a bunch of years, like Trav is and making it work the way he does, when you’re a player and you hear that come from another player that’s had success, I think means a lot. So, watching him (Rashee Rice) now take that into account and do what he’s doing from Week 1 until now has been really cool.”&nbsp;

Q: With the road you guys had to navigate on offense last year, how did that help you as a starting point this year?

NAGY:&nbsp;“A lot. A lot. It really helped glue us together and show what we can do. Mentally (and) physically – it was a long season, and you get to that mentally to the playoff game against the Dolphins. You go through a gauntlet of teams there – on the road and then in the Super Bowl. Then, you’ve got to hit he reset button. I think, as an offense, there’s an energy, there’s excitement (and) we’re winning football games. Right now, we’re getting callused how to win and there’s not a lot of 20-point wins – there’s none – but we’re learning how to win in situational football, which is great, and I think can benefit us down the road.”

Q:&nbsp;What have you seen from the Chargers and the way they approach their offense right now?

JONES:&nbsp;“They’re (the Chargers offense) physical. Nice running game – heck of a running back (Chargers J.K. Dobbins – (the Chargers) Quarterback Justin Herbert, we’ve played him multiple times, we know he has a big arm (and he) can make big plays out of the pocket. They’re (a) physical, hard-nosed football team.”

Q:&nbsp;From a teammate’s perspective, what can you say about Nick Bolton and what he means to everything you guys do?

JONES:&nbsp;“He’s (Nick Bolton) a dog. We try not to bring him off the field. We try to make sure he’s playing every play. He’s our play caller. I think he is the pillar of this defense.”

Q:&nbsp;You guys have a lot of success at stopping people in the red zone. What is the mindset that this defense has – do you take it to a different level when you have your backs against the wall?

Chiefs Coordinator QuotesSeptember 26, 2024ASSISTANT HEAD COACH/SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR DAVE TOUBQ: Has Harrison Butker done a lot to work on his range with weights or other stuff?TOUB: “Yeah, he (Harrison Butker) has. Just like I said, I mean, he does a good job with (Head Strength &amp; Conditioning/Director of Sports Science) Ryan Reynolds (and) our strength staff, they’re really into the power lifts, you know, the Olympic lifts. I really think that’s made a big difference for him, he’s really into it. He’s a guy – he’s a kicker, I think he power cleans over 300 pounds, it’s unbelievable. He’s really jumped into that part – that aspect of it. He covers every aspect of it, really. He does it all. He does it all at 100 percent, that’s why he is what he is.”Q: What stands out about the Chargers special teams unit and how has it changed since new Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh took over?TOUB: “We know these guys (the Chargers) well; they changed the head coach (Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh), but the special teams coach (Special Teams Coordinator&nbsp;Ryan Ficken) is the same. It’s the same that they’ve had the last couple years and (he) does a great job, the guys fly around. They’ve gotten better and better over the years, and he certainly does an excellent job. (Chargers K Cameron) Dicker the kicker is really good and (Chargers P) JK Scott hangs the ball up, (he) punts it to the boundary most of the time, causes fair catches. They’ve had 18 punts (and) I think only five returns out of 18 punts so that says something (and) seven fair catches, so he hangs it up. (The long) snapper’s (Chargers LS Josh Harris) good and then the returner, you’ve got to notice him, (Chargers Returner) Derius Davis, great speed, 4.3 (40-yard dash) guy, hits it north and south, can run around you, he’s got it all. They’ve put a lot into their special teams over the last few years and it’s definitely something – a lot more hard to handle now than it was four years ago.”&nbsp;Q: What is your evaluation of Mecole Hardman so far this season?TOUB: “Good. I mean, he (Mecole Hardman) did a good job on the kick returns. He was an arm tackle away from really breaking one. We had a sideline return call there and it’s one guy away. I mean, we had blockers up in front, (and) it was only the kicker left on the one. One punt I thought he possibly could’ve gotten to, it was a bad punt, and he decided not to. You’ve got to let him make those decisions back there. Then, one punt we got, we had like a 12-yard return, but we haven’t had too many opportunities, but we had a few last week.”DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR STEVE SPAGNUOLOOPENING STATEMENT:&nbsp;“Alright, I don’t have a – I mean, listen, I’m happy we were able to pull that game out last week and (we’re) looking forward to our first AFC West divisional game, so with that I’ll just open it up.”Q:&nbsp;What are your thoughts on Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins and the new-look Chargers team that favors running the football?SPAGNUOLO:&nbsp;“(Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins) pretty positive affect, right? Listen, I have a lot of respect for (Chargers Head Coach) Jim (Harbaugh) and (Chargers Offensive Coordinator) Greg (Roman), (I’ve) known both of them for a long time. (I) kind of have a feel for, I think, what they want to do and become and you can see that they’re doing that, especially early. I know they’ve had a rash of injuries. We’re not going to overlook anything. I think Jim has a way of getting his team ready to play in any situation. The running backs, I mean both of them (Chargers RBs J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards) really fit what they do. They feel like they – that’s the identity of their team now, right? Yet, they have a quarterback (Chargers QB Justin Herbert), and we’ll see where the health is and all that, but they have a quarterback that, I think, is one of the best throwers in the league so it’s a pretty good combination for them. We’ll see who they put out there but to us, it doesn’t matter, really. We’re going to defend the scheme and try to play our best football.”Q:&nbsp;Is there a mindset that a defense has to have specifically in the red zone?SPAGNUOLO:&nbsp;“Yeah, no question. I think we’ve got guys that are built the right way. I mean, your back’s against the wall. Everything’s tighter down there. Offensive coaches will tell you this all the time – the windows get tighter, things close quicker, the game moves faster. There are certain guys that function really well in the red zone because of that and others that it takes a bit of time. Rookies come in and it’s the red zone and it’s the regular season and things are going fast, and you find out about guys pretty quick, but there’s definitely a mindset.”Q:&nbsp;What have you seen from Chamarri Conner’s ability to always be around the football?SPAGNUOLO:&nbsp;“Yeah, if you watch him (Chamarri Conner) – I showed a clip this morning – the one thing he does all the time is gets off of blocks. He doesn’t – wide receivers try to block him (and) he wants nothing to do with them. Now, not all DBs do that but he has a physical mindset. He’s a safety playing a corner position at nickel. He’s earned the right to play that, and I put the challenge on him a while back. I didn’t know if he’d be able to do it, that wasn’t what he played in college, but I think he stepped in there and (he’s) done a real nice job for us. He’s another one of those guys that I think just likes mixing it up physical-wise. We take as many of those guys as we can get because that’s defensive football, right?”OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR MATT NAGYQ: Is there surprising anything about the way that Rashee Rice has started the season or did you see this coming?NAGY:&nbsp;“No, there’s nothing surprising with the way he’s (Rashee Rice) come back in. I think we probably compare it a little bit to last year when he first got here. Remember, we talked about drinking water from the fire hydrant, and he came back right away in OTAs and looked amazing. (He) took it into training camp (and) looked great, so it’s not surprising. It takes a little bit of time, but it’s been really cool to see him grow and I know he has a lot more to go.”Q: On what Travis Kelce has been able to teach Rashee Rice over the past year.NAGY:&nbsp;“Just a lot of things. A lot of good teaching points that Travis (Kelce) has done over the years that is invaluable. It’s great when we’re teaching them as coaches and we give them our insight but when the guy that’s (been) doing it for a bunch of years, like Trav is and making it work the way he does, when you’re a player and you hear that come from another player that’s had success, I think means a lot. So, watching him (Rashee Rice) now take that into account and do what he’s doing from Week 1 until now has been really cool.”&nbsp;Q: With the road you guys had to navigate on offense last year, how did that help you as a starting point this year?NAGY:&nbsp;“A lot. A lot. It really helped glue us together and show what we can do. Mentally (and) physically – it was a long season, and you get to that mentally to the playoff game against the Dolphins. You go through a gauntlet of teams there – on the road and then in the Super Bowl. Then, you’ve got to hit he reset button. I think, as an offense, there’s an energy, there’s excitement (and) we’re winning football games. Right now, we’re getting callused how to win and there’s not a lot of 20-point wins – there’s none – but we’re learning how to win in situational football, which is great, and I think can benefit us down the road.”Chiefs Player QuotesSeptember 26, 2024DT CHRIS JONESQ:&nbsp;What have you seen from the Chargers and the way they approach their offense right now?JONES:&nbsp;“They’re (the Chargers offense) physical. Nice running game – heck of a running back (Chargers J.K. Dobbins – (the Chargers) Quarterback Justin Herbert, we’ve played him multiple times, we know he has a big arm (and he) can make big plays out of the pocket. They’re (a) physical, hard-nosed football team.”Q:&nbsp;From a teammate’s perspective, what can you say about Nick Bolton and what he means to everything you guys do?JONES:&nbsp;“He’s (Nick Bolton) a dog. We try not to bring him off the field. We try to make sure he’s playing every play. He’s our play caller. I think he is the pillar of this defense.”Q:&nbsp;You guys have a lot of success at stopping people in the red zone. What is the mindset that this defense has – do you take it to a different level when you have your backs against the wall?

Chiefs Quotes: 9-26-24

WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting director of the Secret Service was incensed at what had happened that July evening. “What I saw made me ashamed,” Ronald Rowe Jr. said. “I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.”

<a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/USSS-HSGAC-Interim-Report-Executive-Summary.pdf">Click here to read </a>the full report

The unguarded roof, easily within shooting distance of the rally stage, is just one of the myriad questions behind the worst Secret Service security failure in decades. The more that investigators unpack from that day, the more missed opportunities that could have prevented the attack are revealed.

As the United States grapples with a&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-assassination-attempt-fee81d8bcf737bfcde2ee8e5cea88465">second attempt</a>&nbsp;on Donald Trump’s life, in Florida, there remains a reckoning to be done from the Pennsylvania shooting on July 13 that killed one man and wounded three — the ex-president among them.

The Secret Service is a well-funded, historically elite force with a mission to keep presidents and other higher-ups safe — whether they're out for a bicycle ride, attending a world summit, visiting a war zone or campaigning.

But at the farm show grounds, a young nursing home aide with a rifle he borrowed from his dad outmaneuvered authorities for more than 90 minutes before firing the shots that came millimeters from killing Trump. More than two months later, everyone still wants to know:

—When rallygoers reported a man skittering on the squat rooftop of a nearby building, why didn’t anyone in law enforcement move faster?

—Why did the Secret Service exclude that building from its security perimeter, leaving it to local police, and why did the local force not station someone on the roof?

—Why could local law enforcement agencies not communicate in real time with Secret Service agents when they’re supposed to be working together?

—Why did the Secret Service decline offers by local police to use their surveillance drone at the site? And why did Secret Service agents not deploy a system that would have told them an unauthorized drone was aloft — the gunman's — until it was too late?

One overarching question may never be answered. And in these poisonous times, with the November presidential election closing in and a second attempt on Trump’s life just days in the past, it is urgent: What possessed 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to kill the former president? The public is no closer to that answer than in the immediate aftermath.

This anatomy of an attempted assassination is based on an AP review of dozens of documents, text messages and video, a congressional report and a Secret Service report on the failures, plus interviews on the record and from law enforcement officials who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss investigations that are still getting going.

Rowe sat there under the bright lights, his mouth pressed into a thin line. His voice was thick with anger as senators laid into him and his agents — questioning how on Earth some guy was able to get on top of a nearby roof as the rally was going on and fire off eight rounds, grazing Trump’s ear and ripping into three others, killing one of them.

Rowe’s voice grew louder at the July 30 Senate hearing as he squared off with lawmakers who wanted him to fire somebody — anybody — who had been on the ground that day. It wasn’t enough for them that the agency's chief, Kim Cheatle, had resigned a week earlier. But Rowe dug in.

“I will not rush to judgment," he said, snapping at a senator. “People will be held accountable, and I will do so with integrity.”

He wasn’t blaming anyone in particular, though he did throw some not-so-subtle shade at the Pennsylvania police officers who were supposed to be guarding the building complex in question.

But he also wasn’t trying to play down his agency's epic failure as it became slowly clearer to local officers that Crooks wasn’t just an oddball with a backpack. Local police did finger-pointing of their own, citing communications breakdowns that began when the face-to-face meeting the Secret Service said would happen with them before the event never did.

Secret Service agents in the line of duty have been equipped since the 1940s with various gadgets enabling them to communicate remotely in real time. Back when everyday people had to find a phone booth, these agents could be seen wearing wired earbuds or talking up their sleeves.

Yet when a man outside the perimeter of metal detectors and Secret Service scrutiny raised suspicions, then fears, then his rifle on the roof, the agency's local police backups could not get word directly to the agents closest to Trump or the federal snipers on other rooftops in time to hustle him off the stage or take down the gunman.

Last week, the Secret Service released a five-page document summarizing conclusions in a report not yet completed. Among the findings: The Secret Service did not give clear guidance to local law enforcement partners at the rally. It did not correct line-of-sight problems that left Trump open to sniper fire. And some of the agents on duty that day were complacent.

A bipartisan report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee made public Wednesday was more blunt if not scathing. It found “USSS failures in planning, communications, security, and allocation of resources for the July 13, 2024, Butler rally were foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day.”

Before the shooting, everything felt typical

It was designed to be a typical Trump rally — outdoors at the Butler Farm Show grounds with big red barns, wide-open fields and bleacher seating.

Butler County, on the western edge of a presidential swing state, is a Trump stronghold. In a place where turnout hovers around an impressive 80%, Trump won with about 66% of the vote in both 2016 and 2020. The rural area north of Pittsburgh has notoriously bad cell service, which made police communications even worse in the crisis to come. The Secret Service did not bring a system to boost device signals in such places.

Three days after the rally was announced, Crooks registered to attend. He also searched online for “how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?”

Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, while he was riding in an open convertible. Oswald concealed himself on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The Warren Commission determined he was 265.3 feet from Kennedy when he fired the fatal shot.

Crooks would fire from about double that distance. But guns have evolved since then, and the AR-style weapon Crooks borrowed from his father shoots faster and more easily than anything Oswald had on him.

On July 7, Crooks made the trip from his Bethel Park home, just south of Pittsburgh, to the Butler Farm Show grounds, and was there for about 20 minutes. FBI investigators say he was casing the area. The day before the rally, he practiced shooting at a local sports club.

On July 13, he returned to the grounds and stayed for about 70 minutes before going home. At 1:30 p.m., his dad gave him the rifle, thinking his son was headed back to the club to practice shooting. Twenty-five minutes later Crooks was buying 50 rounds of ammunition.

He parked at a gas station lot about a third of a mile from the rally, dressed in camo shorts, a black belt and a gray T-shirt with the logo of a YouTube channel dedicated to firearms. He rode a bicycle to the grounds and carried a big backpack.

Agents have cracked into his phone, searched his laptop and interviewed hundreds of people. Yet the FBI says his motive remains unknown.

Crooks was described by classmates at Bethel Park High School as smart but standoffish, often seen wearing headphones and sitting alone at lunch looking at his phone. Some said he was often mocked by other students for the clothes he wore, which included hunting outfits, and for wearing a mask even after the COVID-19 pandemic had subsided.

“He sat by himself, didn’t talk to anyone, didn’t even try to make conversation,” said 17-year-old Liam Campbell, echoing the comments of classmates who remembered the shooter. “He was an odd kid,” but nothing about him seemed dangerous, he added. “Just a normal person who seemed like he didn’t like talking to people."

After graduating high school in 2022, Crooks went on to the Community College of Allegheny County, earning an associate’s degree with honors in engineering science this past May. He also worked at a nursing home as a dietary aide.

Crooks had been registered as a Republican voter, according to state records. But there was also a $15 donation to a progressive group recorded under “Thomas Crooks” in January 2021.

Authorities received many reports beforehand

There were roughly 155 law enforcement officers at the rally that day. That included a Secret Service counter-sniper team, a Butler County SWAT team and uniformed officers. Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered to hear him speak.

The FBI says that after Crooks turned up at the site on that sunny Saturday afternoon, he flew a drone for about 11 minutes up and around the area and was getting the view directly on the controller he used. The Secret Service did not deploy its drone-detection system until later in the afternoon. And the advance team that scouts the venue ahead of time requested additional technology before the rally, but those requests were denied.

The first reported sighting of Crooks was at 4:26 p.m., more than 1½ hours before Trump would begin speaking. A Beaver County sniper team member noticed Crooks at a picnic table, thought he was acting suspiciously, and alerted other local snipers who were posted inside the AGR building complex. “He knows you guys are up there,” the sniper texted the others. “He’s sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit.”

At 5:38 p.m., a Beaver County sniper, stationed inside the building where Crooks would later shoot from the roof, sent photos of Crooks to the local team’s group chat. "I did see him with a rangefinder looking towards the stage. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.” He also said there was a bike with a backpack nearby that wasn’t seen earlier.

Secret Service sniper teams were posted on the roof closest to where Trump was to speak, but officials say the teams were never notified.

At 5:45 p.m., a local sniper recommended that the command post, where team leaders were stationed, be alerted about Crooks. There were two posts; the Secret Service agents were only in one.

“They’re asking for a direction of travel,” one local sniper says.

“Not sure,” Beaver County SWAT sniper Gregory Nicol responded in a message at 6 p.m., about 11 minutes before Crooks would fire. “He was up against the building. If I had to guess toward the back. Away from the event.”

“I assumed that there would be somebody coming out to — you know, to speak with this individual or, you know, find out what’s going on,” Nicol later told ABC News.

The AGR (American Glass Research) complex is a warren of buildings, and Crooks eventually got to the roof of the building closest to the rally site. Nicol was trying to shadow Crooks from within the buildings but lost sight of him.

Footage shows Crooks walking back to his car, parked near where the other local snipers were parked. There were improvised explosive devices inside the car, but no one knew.

Bystanders saw Crooks again shortly after. They took mobile phone video of him pulling himself up to the top of the roof and slithering into position. They called the cops. These rally-goers were on alert for what the authorities either hadn't noticed or hadn't treated with the urgency that might have made a difference. You could say security in this moment was crowdsourced.

By 6:08 p.m., law enforcement had eyes on Crooks again. A Secret Service counter sniper saw law local officers running toward the building with their guns drawn, but he didn't think to alert Trump's protective detail to pull the GOP candidate from the stage.

Three minutes later, a local officer was hoisted up the squat roof by another officer, who saw Crooks with the rifle, laying down and pointing the weapon toward him. “He’s armed,” the officer radioed to his squad. “He’s got a long gun.”

That message did not make it to key Secret Service officials. The shots were fired 30 seconds later.

Trump changed — and didn't — after the attack

Days after the shooting, Trump spent more than 10 minutes of his speech to the Republican National Convention giving vivid detail of what happened to him on the “warm, beautiful day in the early evening in Butler Township in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”

The crowd was rapt. Some in it would later don ear bandages like his in a show of support. Even some of Trump's fiercest critics conceded his turn on the stage in Butler had been masterful — raising his fist as blood trickled down his face, mouthing “fight” as he was hustled away.

That episode joins the history books on pages inhabited by Teddy Roosevelt, who was shot in the chest on his way to a campaign address in Milwaukee in 1912 and insisted on giving his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&amp;club_id=991271&amp;module_id=338394">90-minute speech</a>&nbsp;before going to the hospital — an audacious display of Bull Mooseness.

In another 90-minute speech in Milwaukee more than a century later, Trump told his convention “the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life.” It was not an exaggeration, or at least not much of one.

Those who tuned in at the start of his speech saw a man trying, for once, to reach a wider audience than his MAGA millions. “The discord and division in our society must be healed,” Trump said. “We must heal it quickly.”

He proclaimed: “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.”

That didn't last long. Most of the rest of his speech returned to standard operating procedure — the bombast, the falsehoods, the depictions of a United States rotting under Democrats.

President Joe Biden, who often cast Trump as a threat to democracy given his refusal to accept his 2020 election loss and his stoking of supporters who rampaged at the Capitol, asked Americans to turn the temperature down.

“Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy,” Biden said from the Oval Office, but politics should never devolve into a “killing field.”

“While we may disagree, we are not enemies,” Biden went on.

The temperature has not cooled since. After the episode at the golf course, Trump and his allies now are trying to lay blame directly on Democratic rhetoric for making him a literal target.

In that case, officials said, the suspect did not get off any shots, never had Trump in his line of sight and fled from the scene after a Secret Service agent spotted and fired at him. He was later captured.

By those measures, it was a more successful security operation than in Butler. Yet the Secret Service, once again, has much to answer for. The man was able to lurk on the perimeter of Trump's property for nearly 12 hours, police said, evading detection as he lay in wait with a rifle, scope, video camera and food.

Investigators have done more than 1,000 interviews. They’ve fielded more than 2,000 tips. In addition to getting into Crooks' phone, they've searched his home and sent the explosive devices found in his car to a lab for testing.

Yet deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate says authorities have had to grapple with a “general absence of other information to date." That means no motive has been identified, no co-conspirators found. The Secret Service shot and killed the gunman on the scene.

Law enforcement officers are trained to look for and assess suspicious-looking people. But they don’t arrest everyone they deem suspicious; most are harmless. On the day of the rally, they were tracking other people as well.

Crooks’ behavior didn’t rise to the level of alarm at first. Secret Service officers only were told about a suspicious person the local authorities were worried about. The counter sniper who saw the officers running with guns drawn never make the connection to get Trump off the stage. In these moments, officers are listening for escalatory words like “threat” or “gun.”

Such words came later, in the final seconds, but the message didn't land. There was no one radio frequency all the multi-agency officers could hop on. Instead, local officers had to radio the joint command center, where the Secret Service would relay messages to Trump's detail.

Even that failed, Rowe told lawmakers. "None of that information ever made it over our net.”

Jason Woods, team leader for Beaver County’s Emergency Services Unit and SWAT sniper section, told ABC News his people had no contact with the agents on Trump’s security detail. “We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service members whenever they arrived, and that never happened,” Woods said. “So I think that was probably a pivotal point, where I started thinking things were wrong because it never happened. We had no communication — not until after the shooting.”

<a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-report-secret-service-50af5692ca1489771144ac399d491e5e">The Senate committee report</a>&nbsp;is only preliminary and promises more details, but plainly states the massive Secret Service failures.

Congressional inquiries are bound to escalate in the hothouse of the presidential campaign and as law enforcement learns more. At the first one, Rowe, the acting Secret Service chief, implied that the local officers might bear some responsibility for the failure, too.

“Controlling high ground is something that’s a must for us whenever we go into a location,” Rowe said. “We made an assumption” that local teams were covering the AGR building.

“If they had just held their post and looked left," Rowe said, his voice trailing off. “Maybe.”

He didn't press the point much. Later, he told a news conference: “This was a Secret Service failure.”

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 </figure>WASHINGTON (AP) — The acting director of the Secret Service was incensed at what had happened that July evening. “What I saw made me ashamed,” Ronald Rowe Jr. said. “I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.”<a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/USSS-HSGAC-Interim-Report-Executive-Summary.pdf">Click here to read </a>the full reportThe unguarded roof, easily within shooting distance of the rally stage, is just one of the myriad questions behind the worst Secret Service security failure in decades. The more that investigators unpack from that day, the more missed opportunities that could have prevented the attack are revealed.As the United States grapples with a&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-fbi-assassination-attempt-fee81d8bcf737bfcde2ee8e5cea88465">second attempt</a>&nbsp;on Donald Trump’s life, in Florida, there remains a reckoning to be done from the Pennsylvania shooting on July 13 that killed one man and wounded three — the ex-president among them.The Secret Service is a well-funded, historically elite force with a mission to keep presidents and other higher-ups safe — whether they're out for a bicycle ride, attending a world summit, visiting a war zone or campaigning.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/7/1720913971898.png" alt="Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)" />
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 </figure>But at the farm show grounds, a young nursing home aide with a rifle he borrowed from his dad outmaneuvered authorities for more than 90 minutes before firing the shots that came millimeters from killing Trump. More than two months later, everyone still wants to know:—When rallygoers reported a man skittering on the squat rooftop of a nearby building, why didn’t anyone in law enforcement move faster?—Why did the Secret Service exclude that building from its security perimeter, leaving it to local police, and why did the local force not station someone on the roof?—Why could local law enforcement agencies not communicate in real time with Secret Service agents when they’re supposed to be working together?—Why did the Secret Service decline offers by local police to use their surveillance drone at the site? And why did Secret Service agents not deploy a system that would have told them an unauthorized drone was aloft — the gunman's — until it was too late?One overarching question may never be answered. And in these poisonous times, with the November presidential election closing in and a second attempt on Trump’s life just days in the past, it is urgent: What possessed 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to kill the former president? The public is no closer to that answer than in the immediate aftermath.This anatomy of an attempted assassination is based on an AP review of dozens of documents, text messages and video, a congressional report and a Secret Service report on the failures, plus interviews on the record and from law enforcement officials who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss investigations that are still getting going.<h2>The Secret Service faces a reckoning</h2>Rowe sat there under the bright lights, his mouth pressed into a thin line. His voice was thick with anger as senators laid into him and his agents — questioning how on Earth some guy was able to get on top of a nearby roof as the rally was going on and fire off eight rounds, grazing Trump’s ear and ripping into three others, killing one of them.Rowe’s voice grew louder at the July 30 Senate hearing as he squared off with lawmakers who wanted him to fire somebody — anybody — who had been on the ground that day. It wasn’t enough for them that the agency's chief, Kim Cheatle, had resigned a week earlier. But Rowe dug in.“I will not rush to judgment," he said, snapping at a senator. “People will be held accountable, and I will do so with integrity.”He wasn’t blaming anyone in particular, though he did throw some not-so-subtle shade at the Pennsylvania police officers who were supposed to be guarding the building complex in question.But he also wasn’t trying to play down his agency's epic failure as it became slowly clearer to local officers that Crooks wasn’t just an oddball with a backpack. Local police did finger-pointing of their own, citing communications breakdowns that began when the face-to-face meeting the Secret Service said would happen with them before the event never did.Secret Service agents in the line of duty have been equipped since the 1940s with various gadgets enabling them to communicate remotely in real time. Back when everyday people had to find a phone booth, these agents could be seen wearing wired earbuds or talking up their sleeves.Yet when a man outside the perimeter of metal detectors and Secret Service scrutiny raised suspicions, then fears, then his rifle on the roof, the agency's local police backups could not get word directly to the agents closest to Trump or the federal snipers on other rooftops in time to hustle him off the stage or take down the gunman.Last week, the Secret Service released a five-page document summarizing conclusions in a report not yet completed. Among the findings: The Secret Service did not give clear guidance to local law enforcement partners at the rally. It did not correct line-of-sight problems that left Trump open to sniper fire. And some of the agents on duty that day were complacent.A bipartisan report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee made public Wednesday was more blunt if not scathing. It found “USSS failures in planning, communications, security, and allocation of resources for the July 13, 2024, Butler rally were foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day.”<h2>Before the shooting, everything felt typical</h2>It was designed to be a typical Trump rally — outdoors at the Butler Farm Show grounds with big red barns, wide-open fields and bleacher seating.Butler County, on the western edge of a presidential swing state, is a Trump stronghold. In a place where turnout hovers around an impressive 80%, Trump won with about 66% of the vote in both 2016 and 2020. The rural area north of Pittsburgh has notoriously bad cell service, which made police communications even worse in the crisis to come. The Secret Service did not bring a system to boost device signals in such places.Three days after the rally was announced, Crooks registered to attend. He also searched online for “how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?”Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, while he was riding in an open convertible. Oswald concealed himself on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The Warren Commission determined he was 265.3 feet from Kennedy when he fired the fatal shot.Crooks would fire from about double that distance. But guns have evolved since then, and the AR-style weapon Crooks borrowed from his father shoots faster and more easily than anything Oswald had on him.On July 7, Crooks made the trip from his Bethel Park home, just south of Pittsburgh, to the Butler Farm Show grounds, and was there for about 20 minutes. FBI investigators say he was casing the area. The day before the rally, he practiced shooting at a local sports club.On July 13, he returned to the grounds and stayed for about 70 minutes before going home. At 1:30 p.m., his dad gave him the rifle, thinking his son was headed back to the club to practice shooting. Twenty-five minutes later Crooks was buying 50 rounds of ammunition.He parked at a gas station lot about a third of a mile from the rally, dressed in camo shorts, a black belt and a gray T-shirt with the logo of a YouTube channel dedicated to firearms. He rode a bicycle to the grounds and carried a big backpack.Agents have cracked into his phone, searched his laptop and interviewed hundreds of people. Yet the FBI says his motive remains unknown.Crooks was described by classmates at Bethel Park High School as smart but standoffish, often seen wearing headphones and sitting alone at lunch looking at his phone. Some said he was often mocked by other students for the clothes he wore, which included hunting outfits, and for wearing a mask even after the COVID-19 pandemic had subsided.“He sat by himself, didn’t talk to anyone, didn’t even try to make conversation,” said 17-year-old Liam Campbell, echoing the comments of classmates who remembered the shooter. “He was an odd kid,” but nothing about him seemed dangerous, he added. “Just a normal person who seemed like he didn’t like talking to people."After graduating high school in 2022, Crooks went on to the Community College of Allegheny County, earning an associate’s degree with honors in engineering science this past May. He also worked at a nursing home as a dietary aide.Crooks had been registered as a Republican voter, according to state records. But there was also a $15 donation to a progressive group recorded under “Thomas Crooks” in January 2021.<h2>Authorities received many reports beforehand</h2>There were roughly 155 law enforcement officers at the rally that day. That included a Secret Service counter-sniper team, a Butler County SWAT team and uniformed officers. Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered to hear him speak.The FBI says that after Crooks turned up at the site on that sunny Saturday afternoon, he flew a drone for about 11 minutes up and around the area and was getting the view directly on the controller he used. The Secret Service did not deploy its drone-detection system until later in the afternoon. And the advance team that scouts the venue ahead of time requested additional technology before the rally, but those requests were denied.The first reported sighting of Crooks was at 4:26 p.m., more than 1½ hours before Trump would begin speaking. A Beaver County sniper team member noticed Crooks at a picnic table, thought he was acting suspiciously, and alerted other local snipers who were posted inside the AGR building complex. “He knows you guys are up there,” the sniper texted the others. “He’s sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit.”At 5:38 p.m., a Beaver County sniper, stationed inside the building where Crooks would later shoot from the roof, sent photos of Crooks to the local team’s group chat. "I did see him with a rangefinder looking towards the stage. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.” He also said there was a bike with a backpack nearby that wasn’t seen earlier.Secret Service sniper teams were posted on the roof closest to where Trump was to speak, but officials say the teams were never notified.At 5:45 p.m., a local sniper recommended that the command post, where team leaders were stationed, be alerted about Crooks. There were two posts; the Secret Service agents were only in one.“They’re asking for a direction of travel,” one local sniper says.“Not sure,” Beaver County SWAT sniper Gregory Nicol responded in a message at 6 p.m., about 11 minutes before Crooks would fire. “He was up against the building. If I had to guess toward the back. Away from the event.”“I assumed that there would be somebody coming out to — you know, to speak with this individual or, you know, find out what’s going on,” Nicol later told ABC News.The AGR (American Glass Research) complex is a warren of buildings, and Crooks eventually got to the roof of the building closest to the rally site. Nicol was trying to shadow Crooks from within the buildings but lost sight of him.Footage shows Crooks walking back to his car, parked near where the other local snipers were parked. There were improvised explosive devices inside the car, but no one knew.Bystanders saw Crooks again shortly after. They took mobile phone video of him pulling himself up to the top of the roof and slithering into position. They called the cops. These rally-goers were on alert for what the authorities either hadn't noticed or hadn't treated with the urgency that might have made a difference. You could say security in this moment was crowdsourced.By 6:08 p.m., law enforcement had eyes on Crooks again. A Secret Service counter sniper saw law local officers running toward the building with their guns drawn, but he didn't think to alert Trump's protective detail to pull the GOP candidate from the stage.Three minutes later, a local officer was hoisted up the squat roof by another officer, who saw Crooks with the rifle, laying down and pointing the weapon toward him. “He’s armed,” the officer radioed to his squad. “He’s got a long gun.”That message did not make it to key Secret Service officials. The shots were fired 30 seconds later.<h2>Trump changed — and didn't — after the attack</h2>Days after the shooting, Trump spent more than 10 minutes of his speech to the Republican National Convention giving vivid detail of what happened to him on the “warm, beautiful day in the early evening in Butler Township in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”The crowd was rapt. Some in it would later don ear bandages like his in a show of support. Even some of Trump's fiercest critics conceded his turn on the stage in Butler had been masterful — raising his fist as blood trickled down his face, mouthing “fight” as he was hustled away.That episode joins the history books on pages inhabited by Teddy Roosevelt, who was shot in the chest on his way to a campaign address in Milwaukee in 1912 and insisted on giving his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&amp;club_id=991271&amp;module_id=338394">90-minute speech</a>&nbsp;before going to the hospital — an audacious display of Bull Mooseness.In another 90-minute speech in Milwaukee more than a century later, Trump told his convention “the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life.” It was not an exaggeration, or at least not much of one.Those who tuned in at the start of his speech saw a man trying, for once, to reach a wider audience than his MAGA millions. “The discord and division in our society must be healed,” Trump said. “We must heal it quickly.”He proclaimed: “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America.”That didn't last long. Most of the rest of his speech returned to standard operating procedure — the bombast, the falsehoods, the depictions of a United States rotting under Democrats.President Joe Biden, who often cast Trump as a threat to democracy given his refusal to accept his 2020 election loss and his stoking of supporters who rampaged at the Capitol, asked Americans to turn the temperature down.“Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy,” Biden said from the Oval Office, but politics should never devolve into a “killing field.”“While we may disagree, we are not enemies,” Biden went on.The temperature has not cooled since. After the episode at the golf course, Trump and his allies now are trying to lay blame directly on Democratic rhetoric for making him a literal target.In that case, officials said, the suspect did not get off any shots, never had Trump in his line of sight and fled from the scene after a Secret Service agent spotted and fired at him. He was later captured.By those measures, it was a more successful security operation than in Butler. Yet the Secret Service, once again, has much to answer for. The man was able to lurk on the perimeter of Trump's property for nearly 12 hours, police said, evading detection as he lay in wait with a rifle, scope, video camera and food.<h2>The investigation goes on</h2>Investigators have done more than 1,000 interviews. They’ve fielded more than 2,000 tips. In addition to getting into Crooks' phone, they've searched his home and sent the explosive devices found in his car to a lab for testing.Yet deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate says authorities have had to grapple with a “general absence of other information to date." That means no motive has been identified, no co-conspirators found. The Secret Service shot and killed the gunman on the scene.Law enforcement officers are trained to look for and assess suspicious-looking people. But they don’t arrest everyone they deem suspicious; most are harmless. On the day of the rally, they were tracking other people as well.Crooks’ behavior didn’t rise to the level of alarm at first. Secret Service officers only were told about a suspicious person the local authorities were worried about. The counter sniper who saw the officers running with guns drawn never make the connection to get Trump off the stage. In these moments, officers are listening for escalatory words like “threat” or “gun.”Such words came later, in the final seconds, but the message didn't land. There was no one radio frequency all the multi-agency officers could hop on. Instead, local officers had to radio the joint command center, where the Secret Service would relay messages to Trump's detail.Even that failed, Rowe told lawmakers. "None of that information ever made it over our net.”Jason Woods, team leader for Beaver County’s Emergency Services Unit and SWAT sniper section, told ABC News his people had no contact with the agents on Trump’s security detail. “We were supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service members whenever they arrived, and that never happened,” Woods said. “So I think that was probably a pivotal point, where I started thinking things were wrong because it never happened. We had no communication — not until after the shooting.”<a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-report-secret-service-50af5692ca1489771144ac399d491e5e">The Senate committee report</a>&nbsp;is only preliminary and promises more details, but plainly states the massive Secret Service failures.Congressional inquiries are bound to escalate in the hothouse of the presidential campaign and as law enforcement learns more. At the first one, Rowe, the acting Secret Service chief, implied that the local officers might bear some responsibility for the failure, too.“Controlling high ground is something that’s a must for us whenever we go into a location,” Rowe said. “We made an assumption” that local teams were covering the AGR building.“If they had just held their post and looked left," Rowe said, his voice trailing off. “Maybe.”He didn't press the point much. Later, he told a news conference: “This was a Secret Service failure.”

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