this is the source. we start with breaking news. as the u.s. retaliation for the deaths of three american soldiers is underway tonight. the u.s. hitting more than 85 targets in iraq and syria against iranian-backed militias. b1 bombers flying nonstop from an air force base in texas ultimately striking 7 facilities in a mission the white house says was successful but also not over yet. it is without a doubt a sharp escalation of the war in the middle east. those bombers in the air today as president biden was attending the dignified transfer for those three soldiers at dover air force base. we start with team coverage tonight. oren leiberman at the pentagon, retired air force colonel cedric leighton in washington, and nic robinson in tel aviv. the pentagon confirming these strikes and laying out their rationale. what s the latest you re learning tonight? the u.s. carrying out strikes in iraq and syria. going after not specifically iran. the u.s. didn t strike directly in i
this is not business as usual and shows how dire the situation has become. some families have turned to hospitals to help feed their children and that includes four babies in south carolina who could not tolerate other formulas when their usual product sold out. one estimate says at least 45% of formula products were sold out last week nationwide and hoarding is only making things worse. one woman in massachusetts filled a shopping cart full of baby formula and was confronted by another shopper. take a look. look at this. look at all this. i need it for my baby. look at the shelves. you don t think i need it for my baby, too. you take all the formula off the shelf. you come after me. i don t know you get this one. i m saying this is the whole reason there s a formula shortage. you come and buy all the formula at once and there are kids who need formula today who won t be able to get it because you just bought it to stock up. we ve got to work together on this. y
the new york congressman defended himself outside the capitol just minutes ago. a truce extended for now. moments before it was set too expire, israel and hamas agree to continue the pause in hostilities with more hostages set to be leased today. and elon musk with choice words, four letter words, for companies who pulled their ads from twitter while telling disney to go blank itself win hearts and minds. i m john berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news central. this morning republican congressman george santos speaking defiantly from outside the capitol where he could make history as the sixth member of congress to be expelled from the people s house. if i leave, they win. if i leave, the bullies take this is bullying. the chair of the committee putting out a motion to expel just introducing it was designed to force me to resign. reality is it is all theater. it is theater for the cameras, theater for the microphones, it is theater for the american people. at t
hi everyone. thanks so much for joining me. i m jessica dean in for fredicka whitfield. the focus of israel s war in gaza has become al shifa hospital, israel long says that hamas uses that hospital to cover up what it says is an extensive terror network underground. israel believes it s building its case with the exposure of what it says is a tunnel shaft on the hospital s grounds. cnn s oren liebermann entered gaza with the israeli defense forces saturday night to see the tunnel shaft and what lies beneath. cnn reported from gaza under idf supervision. submitting footage to the israeli military for its review. reporter: we go in under cover of darkness. it s lights out. we switch into an armored personnel carrier for the final stretch. through a night vision screen you can see the magnitude of the destruction on the seats of gaza city. we offload at al shifa hospital. we have to keep our lights off most of the time or risk exposing our position. cnn reported from gaza und
Is wives when she was coming back to him. James phillips middle east analyst, who by the way his own writings were discovered in bin laden even ladens treasure trove. Bob, let me kick it off what struck me most his obsession with killing americans and not as much furthering this notion of Islamic State. Let me read what he wrote. Quote, you should ask him to avoid insisting on the formation of an Islamic State at the time being but to work on breaking the power of our main enemy by attacking the american embassies in the african countries to attack the american oil companies. Why do you think he was so against this motion of expanding the Islamic State unlike what were seeing now . I just looked at the books he had on his book shelf and what he had on hard drives. And this man was not obviously he was never politically sophisticated, but i never realized how naive he was. How do you mean . Well, he was reading all these conspiracy theories. Even conspiracy theyre theories about 9 11. W