tonight. and breaking america is now responding to the attacksed thr that killed three us soldiers in jordan. so far, the u.s. militareen y launching 85 retaliatory airstrikes against iranian and e in iraq and syria. and there could be many more rounds ahead. but iran is responding now with defiance, saying they knew the u.s. would not dare attackat insidetack iran. the senior correspondent mike tobin is live in tel aviv with breaking in reactiono the to the first round of airstrikes. miked of , what are you hearing? well, trish, we re hearing dhat an iran backe paramilitary group inside of iraq is now claimingaimi that they launched a barrage of rockets at a u.s.ng t airbash west of ramadi in iraq. this in response to us strikeeae earlier today. this is we rr y. e getting the first images out of western iraq verys near o the syrian border, out of iraq, as the u.s. has battled damage assessment is currently underway. we know that iraq is not happy with the strikes inside of
home. but it turns out they didn tdidt mean a word of it. today, the bush administrationhe announced it had secured the release of an american imprisoned in russia, but ity ha was not paul whalen. it wasd a female basketball player called brittney griner, who was arrested several months ago for breaking russian drugtb laws in exchange for griner, the administration handed over an arms dealer called viktor bout, now boutnge they as indisy serious criminal. he sold weapons to terror groups that killed americans. we re not overstating that. here s a summary. victor boot.viktor in my eyes, is one of the most dangerous men on the face of dan the earth. on the face of the earth, without a doubt. mike braun, athe former chief f operations for the u.s. drugopet enforcement administration, toldions u.s us boot first expld on the scene in war torn west africa in the late 1980s, elevating bloody conflicts from machetes and single shot rifles to ak 47 not by the thousands, but by the tens of tho
. we re here in downtown l.a., this is where the event ended earlier today on the steps of city ha city hall behind us here. this is where all of the demonstrators were gathered today. now everyone has cleared out of it and that is one of the key differences that we re seeing this year. i covered this event last year as well, and there was a much larger and more substantial turnout. at this time of day when i was here last year, this would have still been very packed. so another key difference that we re seeing this year, the women s march, the organizers of this event, went to great lengths to distance themselves from that sister march in dc because of the controversy around that organization. they made a statement on their website making sure this event would be inclusive and that is a key message that i heard from demonstrators that i spoke to today. they told anyway today s march
the celebrity factor of donald trump is going to go way down. i think people are going to say, he s a fake conservative. he hasn t been a republican. is he really a republican now. senator rubio is currently running tied for fifth. senator paul is currently running tied for eighth. city ha scott walker is now tenth after starting out as the early front runner in iowa. thank you very much. kelly? meantime hillary clinton facing trouble in the hawk eye state losing her lead to bernie sanders. the vermont senator overtaking mrs. clinton 41%. what s happening? bernie sanders has two events in south carolina today. one of them begins this hour as his campaign says it is quote, delighted by the latest poll out
a lot of those folks are back here to say thank you as we ve seen today. this is a day that people will always remember here in boston. patriot s day of course is the day we run the baoston marathon on monday. as we all know from those famous words about david ortiz, this is our city and i think there s a spirit of how dare you bring this kind of violence. we will not be broken. this is our city is a sent. that a lot of us are feeling. appreciate it. one year ago the finish line of the boston marathon became a symbol of carnage and pain. it s clearly something much different, a symbol of a city ha has shown so much strength through adversity. president obama paid tribute to the victims in a statement saying this, one year later we stand in awe of the men and women who continued to inspire us learning to stand, walk and