Means fired from some place other than directly above the target in a place like syria but nonetheless, a kind of triple strike by three different nations on three different locations in syria. The stated goal. The mission tonight was to degrade syrias ability to deploy chemical weapons again. As we said the president in effect made the announcement. 9 00 there were early indications something could be afoot and weve heard in the last two hours from briefers in the pentagon. They were the chairman of the joint chiefs and the secretary of defense. Our n bks C National Security reporter is still on duty with what is known about tonights strike. Tell the story from the top as we know it. You rrer absolutely right that the strikes were from u. S. Stand off weapons. There were manned aircraft from u. S. Navy ships in the mediterranean. And you mentioned this is an attack on the syrian are regime chemical infrastructure. So there were three targets. One was a chemical weapons storage facilit