new concerns the reason could become a bigger tineder box. smoke rises over the skyline of gaza this morning. i m mike he manual in for bill hemmer. claudia, great to be with you. claudia: this is a special edition of america s newsroom. the u.s. going after hezbollah targets in iraq after a christmas day attack against american troops. defense secretary lloyd austin says his prayers are with the brave americans who were injured. that attack one of the more than 100 against our forces since the hamas massacre in israel october 7th. trey yengst is live in tel aviv with more. good morning, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targets belonging to militants in iraq. we do know according to u.s. central command that three different strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of kataib hezbollah militants in response to a drone attack against the erbil air base that houses u.