involved in an overnight strike operation according to the u.s. command in africa and involved in the operation, we understand are three b-2 stealth bombers, four marine corps harrier jets, four u.s. f-15s, and eight u.s. f-16s. this is a major new offensive in this operation. as we understand right now, no more cruise missiles launched overnight this is day two of t operation, which the mission is to basically get rid of and disable libya s air defense system this is step two of what we saw on saturday where american and british ships and submarines fired more than 110 tomahawk missiles and about 20 libyan targets were, in fact, hit. they are assessing the damage right now and this is all basically targets on the western portion on the coast of libya.
included three b-2 stealth bombers, as well as four marine corps harrier jets that took off from uss kersarge. we know the mission was initially to target those air defense systems and disable them in libya. also, this operation includes many f-15 and f-16 jets as well. we re hearing from the british memb ministry defense that four jets were involved. we know no more cruise missiles launched overnight. american and british troops, as you mentioned on ships and submarines fired more than 110 tomahawk missiles and pentagon officials say around 20 targets in libya hit off the western coast. at this point, we re creating the conditions to be able to set
reporter: marines have scrambled harrier jets and ans sprichl the downed pilot sees local villagers advancing, doesn t know if they are friend or foe and radios for help. the harrier drops two bombs in the space between the villagers and the pilot, a nonlethal way to warn them off. and the pilot is able to get on board the osprey. now, those bombs they dropped may have been met as a nonlethal method but they did spray shrapnel in the air and hearing at least five of those local villagers were injured, not kill bud injured by those bombs. mean time, the pilot s part earthquake in the other crew member, the weapons officer, fell into an area that was controlled by the rebels who are opposing moammar gadhafi. officials say that those rebels took good care and treated the weapons officer with dignity and we are told tonight that that weapons officer is now in europe, back in u.s. hands. wolf? is there any preliminary