president and his team today retaliatory strike by the united states in syria, the pentagon says president biden authorized the strike after an american contractor was killed and five u. s service members injured in syria. the administration says the americans were attacked by a drone officials say came from iran. let s begin at the pentagon with cnn s oren liebermann or what are you learning about the u. s personnel involved here and how frequently attacks like this happen? the latest update we have on the u. s personnel involved here is that there were five service members injured. they are in stable condition. two of them were treated at the scene. three of them had to be taken to coalition medical facilities in iraq. there was also one other u. s contractor injured that, in addition, according to the pentagon to the one u. s contractor who was killed in this one way, you wavy attackers. suicide drone attack . the pentagon says the drone was of iranian origin, likely indic
numbers and weaknesses as they gear up for a major counter. offensive. a source close to the ukrainian president vladimir zelensky, telling cnn that ukraine has already altered some of its military plans because of this leak. another source says that the crumpled documents that look like they were shoved in somebody s pocket and removed from a secure location. just department has now launched an investigation. there is major concern that america s intelligence sources deep inside the russian government. might be in danger or cut off because of the leak. serious implications here. cnn s chief law enforcement and intelligence analysts is mr john miller. he joins us now, john. good morning to you. morning how does it leak like this happened? what happened? i mean in the intelligence community, and i remember this when i was in the director of national intelligence office, you know you go into your morning cash in the emails and to get up to date just the way we do. there s a lot
civilians. nothing much has changed on that front. reporter: it s an utterly ghastly scene. hundreds of rescuers combing through the damage to the apartment blocks where we now know the death poll to be 13, 80 people injured. bare this in mind, totally innocent civilian block by what appears to have been six cruise missiles and possibly 16 anti-aircraft missiles, fired by a strategic bomber and stealth jet flying into ukraine. the cruise missiles frequently used across ukraine. antiaircraft missiles being deployed because the inventory of other missiles is depleted. this isn t the first time zaporizhzhia has been hit, jim. this week it s one of a number of attacks we ve seen. it forms part of a pattern that ukrainians say is indiscriminate bombing against civilian targets. some wonder if this is retaliation for the attack on the bridge, the vital part of the russian frvgt that feeds the occupation of crimea, the ukrainian peninsula they illegally annexed in 2014. zaporizhzh
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