Some jaw-dropping reporting this morning from Fox News Channel's Jeff Goldblatt live on "Fox & Friends" from Kiryat Shmona...that's Jeff in the pic, ducking to avoid fire. Check out what went down--he is one cool puppy:
Judge Napolitano: how many strikes have you counted thus far today, Jeff?
Jeff Goldblatt: Right now, since we've been talking, at least six. Five I’m being told. Five or six. Yesterday I was on the air, I think it was even during your show or shortly there of after, we had about 30 strikes over the course of about 15 minutes.
Alisyn Camerota: And Jeff you were saying that Kiryat Shmona is largely deserted, but you just reported that Israelis were killed [rocket right overhead]
Goldblatt: That was close!
Camerota: Oh my God. Is that the artillery?
Goldblatt: We’re ok. That one was a little close though. That one, you’ll see the plume of smoke right there.
Napolitano: Jeff, you’re cool under fire.
Goldblatt: Yeah, these katyushas, when they fly in, usually when you hear that zipping sound, it’s either very close or too late, but it sounds almost like a lance or a thunder clap coming through the sky, and you really only hear the tail-end, the whip. When you hear the outgoing, it's more of a boom, a thunder, that kind of shakes your inners and there we have again the siren, that's the third time this morning. So right now as I look around, I’d say at least 10 katyusha strikes here in Kiryat Shmona today. We had in excess of 40 yesterday coming down in the city, which at one point had been the most populated in all of northern Israel. There's another strike up in the hills. We're counting many of them right now, so we're definitely under attack here in Kiryat Shmona. Rocket fire at this hour. A second day in a row where we are in the crosshairs of katyusha rocket fire. I'm going to stop talking right now, give our viewers at home a sense of what it might feel like and also so they can hear some of the noises.
Brian Kilmeade: Jeff, do you have a place to go? For shelter?
Goldblatt: Yeah, right here on the ground actually, Brian, and we have jackets on, flak jackets.
Kilmeade: Is this a familiar site to you, Jeff?
Goldblatt: On the ridge line I’m counting one, two, three, four, five, six strikes at least and then from my other vantage point, at least two or three, including one that probably landed pretty close to us. I don't want to give specifics because we don't want to give away our position. That's another one. You hear that lancing sound, that comes through the air. That's a katyusha...that's a katyusha. Again the air raid siren goes off, and again, just because the air siren goes off doesn’t mean the crisis have been eliminated. Some katyushas have come in after the air raid siren has gone off. This would be the third day in a row where I’d say right about this time, it’s like they know that “Fox &Friends” is on, they come in with the katyushas.
Napolitano: Have they come this close to you before, Jeff?
Goldblatt: Let's just say we're getting somewhat accustomed to it in some ways, but I don't want to say how close at the risk of giving the Hezbollah any advantage as to where we might be.
