challenges our understanding of the cosmos. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. welcome to verified live. the houthis in yemen have said american and british strikes against them will not go without punishment or retaliation. the group says five of its fighters were killed and six were injured overnight. us central command says more than 60 houthi military targets were struck, in response to attacks on ships in the red sea. they included what the us called command and control centres, munitions depots, launching systems, production facilities and air defence radar systems. among the areas targeted the capital sanaa and the port of hudaydah. this was the moment us warplanes took off from an aircraft carrier. russia called the strikes illegitimate and requested an urgent meeting of the un security council. iran which supports the houthis condemned the strikes in yemen as a clear violation of the country s territorial integrity. as a limited, proportionate response and said
that s where you would normally see a famous bridge there, but we re going to go right now to nbc s jesse kirsch, who s in grand rapids for us. welcome, chevy. how bad is it where you are? how much worse is it going to get, not only there, but across the nation as well? yeah, alex. i don t know if you could hear it, but it is the wind that s hitting us hard right now. we are in grand rapids, michigan. the western part of this state. this part of michigan, as well as western new york and the buffalo area, could be seeing a lot more snow over the next couple of days. there s a possibility in the buffalo area, because of lake effect snow bands, that we could be seeing three more feet of snow in the buffalo area in some parts, stretching into monday. the bills were supposed to have a big game this weekend. that game has been postponed because of the weather conditions that are expected in that parts of western new york. over the next couple of days. it s just these wind gusts h
This is not just a terrorist organization. This is an organization that represents part of the state of yemen. And might we see more strikes then, if thats the case . I think its going to depend on what the houthis do next. Now they launched another Missile Yesterday or i guess this morning. And it was countered immediately. But when youre talking about what they have done over the last couple of weeks where they have launched multiple strikes first against israel and we were helping to defend israel, but then it was against shipping and trying to cut shut down the economic lanes of the Red Sea and the gulf of aidan. So, i think this was a very damaging strike that the u. S. And its allies conducted on friday and saturday morning. Im not sure were going to see that much coming out of houthi territory for a while. But we may see, you know, individual launches or some attempts to continue to harass shipping
i d say probably, this particular radar was not included in that initial set of targets. and the analyst said, you know, we ought to go back and make sure that radar is down, because alex, at the end of the day, but the houthis have been able to do is use those radars to create the targeting so that they can launch these long range cruise and ballistic missiles. so, this is a one-off, not designed to be an additional strike per se, i think at this point, everyone is going to have to stop on the coalition side, and wait and see what the houthis do next. the last 48 hours, could these actions spark a wider, more violent conflict across the region? any worries on that? yes. in the sense that s i d scored right now, alex, about a one in three chance that this thing could go high order. that being defined as u.s.,
clearly waiting to see what the houthis do next, and if the houthis do do something they will have to respond militarily again, but in the same way they have been doing, using air strikes. and as we ve seen in israel, in gaza, rather, when israel has been conducting a bombing campaign for months, and intense, unprecedented bombing campaign and it still hasn t able to defeat the mindset of hamas and i think that, you know, that will be the exact same problem that the us and its coalition, which includes the uk, will face when they are trying to get the houthis to back down. find will face when they are trying to get the houthis to back down. and we have seen that get the houthis to back down. and we have seen that with get the houthis to back down. and we have seen that with the get the houthis to back down. and we have seen that with the houthis - have seen that with the houthis themselves, haven t we? they have endured and lasted through nine years bombing in the war with the s