steve: good morning this is fox & friends for friday, january 12th, 2024. ainsley: we have breaking news. joint strikes by the u.s. and u.k. hitting dozen of houthi targets in yemen in an effort to stop their attacks on the ships in the red sea iran backed group says they are not backing down. jack keane joining us on the military action taking place as our defense secretary still remains in the hospital. lawrence: texas national guard seizing control of a park stop the surge of illegal migrants crossing the border i jurent returned and got a firsthand look at what is happening on the ground. plus, country music star jelly roll giving emotional testimony on capitol hill on the deadly fentanyl epidemic. i have attended more funerals than i care to share with you all. this committee i could sit here and cry for days about the caskets i have carried of people i loved. i was a part of the problem. i m here now standing as a man that wants to be part of the solution.
now. ainsley: it is the #:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends on the east coast. it is friday, january 12th. steve: thank you very much for joining us. we have breaking news on this friday. joint strikes by the united states and united kingdom hit dozens of houthi targets in yemen after a number of attacks are in the red sea. the iranian back the group says we are not backing down. brings it on. this able unraveling as defense secretary lloyd austin still in the hospital calling the shots from his bed. lawrence: plus, nikki haley pulls ahead in the latest polling in iowa with the caucuses on monday. for us it s always been slow and steady wins the race. it s the people that decides. while everybody else wants to discount us, i will tell you we keep moving and we are moving for a reason to believe. brian: california police department offering $75,000 bonuses to recruit officers. and guess what? still not enough. fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, your morni
7:00 a.m. in the wes asian country of yemen where breaking to night the united states and allies launched a retaliation strike on the hugh think rebels. a more than a dozen air targets were hit. u.s. and uk force conducted the attacks using fighter jets and warships and submarines. this is after months of hugh think attacks in the red sea. president biden and partners are sending a message that provocation will not go unpunished and the question now is if the hugh thinks respond with more attacks. the military keith kellogg are standing by but first kevin with late-breaking information. we begin live on the ground with our middle east correspondent trey. good evening tonight the region is bracing for the possibility of hugh think retaliation following those strikes earlier today. we understand around a dozen took place conducted by the united kingdom and the united kingdom and the united states. this started with attacks in mid october against commercial shipping vessels in
coverage of the breaking news out of the middle east and the u.s. strikes continues with ac 360. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. american-led air strikes in one of the most volatile hot spots in the world right now. mitts is some of the first video of explosions tonight in yemen s just north of the capital. iranian backed houthi fighters from yemen have been attacking commercial ships in the nearby red sea. there s been dozens of attacks. tonight u.s. and british forcevise struck back using air and naval assets. both surface ships and submarines with one houthi official moments ago saying multiple cities had been hit. cnn s oren leiberman at the pentagon for us tonight. m.j. lee at the white house where the president has just weighed in. i want to start at the pentagon. oren, what do we learn so far about the targets that have been hit? reporter: more than a dozen different targets were hit by u.s. aircraft and assets. it was also
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