the american war ship and three other commercial vessels nearby were hit. where the attacks came from and the u.s. response tonight. also breaking, israel expanding its ground invasion now battling hamas in all parts of gaza and destroying what israel says are hamas tunnels. plus the dire new warning about hospitals in gaza. terror investigation in paris. a man stabbing tourists near the eiffel tower. what he told police about why he did it. one of the palestinian-american students shot in vermont last weekend is now paralyzed from the chest down. the difficult new update from his family. the major airline merger just announced. what it means for flyers. suspected serial killer caught, four murders in four days. the controversial technology law enforcement used to locate him, and they no longer want to rock n roll all night. party every day the legendary band with one final kiss good-bye. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. there a
aware of drone attacks on the uss carney, and commercial vessels that happened earlier today. let s go right to and miss nbc s erin standing by for us at the white house. what more do we know about these developments in the red sea? alex, our pentagon team has been able to confirm from defense officials that the uss carney destroyed a houthi drone today in the southern red sea. w ase understand it, that drone was headed towards the ship at the same time itsaw at least one ballistic missil fired at commercial ship. that ship goes by the name unity explore. the carney responded t that ships distress signal at the time, and had to oot down another houthi drone that was headed towards the two ship at that point. this all apparently happened over the course of several hours today, and the official here alsosays that multiple commercial ships were attacked by yemen-based houthi missiles today. at we re getting from the houthis, and you should understand the source here, ayhat the