developing this morning. a u. s contractor is dead in five u. s. troops are wounded after a suspected iranian backed drone hit a u. s housing facility in northeast syria. in response, president biden authorized what the u. s calls a precision strike on facilities used by the groups affiliated with iran. you re looking at the aftermath here. cnn s mj lee. is at the white house for us this morning . mg i know the president is in canada, and he made this call for the retaliation while there that s right, john. you know these were urgent deliberations that were taking place as president. biden was traveling up to canada last night. so let me just catch you up on exactly what we know from these developments overnight. we know that it suspected iranian drone struck a facility in syria that was housing us personnel and that resulted in the killing of one american contractor and injuring five u. s service members. and in response to that
that was 30 years ago where there was a deadly showdown between federal agents and an extremist group. norah: robert costa, thank you very much. there is some breaking news tonight. cbs news has learned there have been three more attacks on american bases from iran-backed forces since retaliatory air strikes overnight. it all started when a suspected iranian drone hit and killed an american and wounded at least six others. cbs s david martin reports tonight from the pentagon. reporter: the aftermath of a strike by american jets against what u.s. officials called the headquarters of the iranian-backed islamic revolutionary guards in eastern syria. the pilots observed the secondary explosion. a sign they also had an ammo dump. be prepared for us to act forcefully to protect our people. that is exactly what happened last night. reporter: president biden ordered the strike thursday as he flew to canada aboard air force one, after a drone hit an american base in northeastern
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country. many were knocked down by the ukraine air defenses but several did get through. civilian infrastructure here, electrical grid, water supply, heating systems in moscow s sites. take a look what we found in one kyiv neighborhood. it s a regular monday thing here in kyiv. at least one russian missile and a drone hit a nearby target. also knocked out the windows there, that happened around 8:00 a.m., certainly disturbing the morning routine. i saw a rocket flying over my house and heard another one. i feel bad, it s very dangerous. we spoke with kyiv s mayor, and he told us that in fact 80% of the 3 million residents of this city were without water. another 350,000 without power. there is some word tonight that some of that is being restored, but as he told us, he is very
destroyed. translator: i started to cry and scream. and then the drone hit. and after that, there was an airstrike, which, as can you see, put our homes to the ground. all of that was destroyed. what can i do? where will we go tonight? cities across southern israel have been sounding warning sirens as militant rockets streak out of gaza by the dozens. the israeli military say the majority are being shot down or hitting unpopulated areas. one did strike a high-rise building very close to gaza. one israeli resident says the situation is different from previous confrontations. take a listen. translator: this time they are hitting the islamist jihad. it s the real way to deal with the situation right now. although we know that it is not the solution. the solution is talk.