Anderson Cooper runs for cover in Israel during on-air segment

CNN's Anderson Cooper and his team were forced to flee as they were doing a live broadcast in Israel on Monday when air raid sirens sounded off, warning of an incoming threat.  

Cooper, 58, was doing a live media hit in Tel Aviv when the sirens blared, warning him and the team that they needed to evacuate the area.  

He was speaking to CNN’s chief international correspondent, Clarissa Ward, as well as the network's Jerusalem correspondent, Jeremy Diamond, when a warning went out to them. “I should just say that we’re now hearing an alert,” Ward said. Cooper followed the interjection by Ward, explaining the warning.  

“So there are these alerts that go out on all of our phones when you’re in Israel. It’s a ten-minute warning of incoming missiles or something incoming from Iran."

“So now the location we’re in has a verbal alarm telling people to go down into bomb shelters. So we have about a ten-minute window to get down into a bomb shelter," Cooper added.

The CNN host asked if it was possible to continue, and then added, “And we’ll continue to try to broadcast from that, that bomb shelter. And even if we can, on the way down,” he said, asking the camera team to continue filming as they went down to the shelter. “All right. I think we’re going to head down to the shelters. Chuck, do we have capabilities as we go down?"

The camera staffer responded, “Just checking your microphones. Be ready in a second,” the crew member said. There was an error with the connection, but the stream quickly resumed as Cooper and his camera team went towards the bomb shelter.

As they made their way down, Cooper continued the newscast before the "red alert" sirens went off, and added, “It is a luxury to have a 10-minute warning."