peter doocy. this just broke.g what are you hearing tonight?th speak with the first word of this is coming from the team ata the pentagon. they are saying a dozen locations with em and have beena combination of surface and air basically weapons. that means some sort of missile and then aircraft, we are told m if i can just look at my email once i can because this is all coming in. it would be f-18 uss eisenhower used in the strikes. it comes after a couple of days of johuncin kirby who works at o national security council at the white house coming to the microphone in the briefing room to say that the houthis neededod to stop doing what they were doing, which was jeopardizing d innocent lives of americand military and commercial enterests that are in th red sea. the houthis launching this s one-way drone up the coast over the red sea and it s been doing
the president tonight clearly trying to contain what is now an escalating regional conflict. it is exactly what many had feared, as the worst outcome, as we are now nearly 100 days since hamas attacked israel. cbs s charlie d agata reports tonight from tel aviv. reporter: repeated ultimatums gave way to a military action overnight, as f-18 fighter jets and support aircraft led the way in a bombing campaign against iranian-backed houthi militants, including the use of u.s. warships and a submarine. british typhoon fighters took off from bases in cyprus, covering a distance so long, they needed refueling aircraft. cockpit footage is set to show air strikes aimed at degrading houthi capabilities and weapons stocks. u.s. military officials say more than 150 precision-guided munitions struck over 60 targets at nearly 30 locations,
yemen after some two decades of brutal fighting. a war that has lifted hundreds of thousands of deaths. what the u.n. says is the worst humanitarian crisis and the world. today, a huge demonstration and yemen s biggest city protests in the u.s. says, the capital city there, the attack. leading to condemnation from many countries and the middle east. president biden is warning for their actions could follow. let s go to the pentagon where we have samantha bertrand. we are learning more about how this attack was carried out. what can you tell us? this was a large, multi faceted attack carried out by the u.s. and uk. the u.s. actually used about 20 to fix bring fighter aircraft, including f-18 fighter aircraft that launch from the eisenhower strike. the eisenhower aircraft carrier that is currently in the red sea. they launched 80 missiles against targets across yemen that are controlled by the houthis, including command and
defense secretary s absence last week. they didn t know it was cancer surgery until yesterday. nobody at the white house knew that secretary austin had prostate cancer this morning and the president was informed immediately after we were. of course, accountability has always been the hallmark of military service. critics are wondering why the general command under tyisha did not take calls before he went under the knife. yesterday iran s proxy forces in yemen launched largest drone and missile attack in the red sea to date. it took three u.s. warships and a british destroyer to shoot down 21 drones and missiles and for only the third time in history, f-18 super hornets scored air-to-air kills. back at the pentagon the officials admit they botched this issue with austin. i think, again, we recognize the need to be better, when it comes to transparency.