as crowds of mourners continue to file past the coffin of queen elizabeth at st giles cathedral. thousands of people have been queueing for several hours at a time to pay their respects and today is the day that the queen s coffin will leave scotland. her coffin will remain in st giles cathedral until this afternoon when it will be flown to london to raf northolt. the queen s coffin will be companied as it has been since it left balmoral by princess anne. king charles and the queen consort will spend most of the day in northern ireland, as they continue their tour of all four nations of the united kingdom. they ll hear a message of condolence on behalf of the people of northern ireland from the speaker of the stormont assembly, alex maskey, and meet representatives of political parties, and faith leaders as well. it will be charles 40th visit to northern ireland but his very first as king. that is what is to come. we have been talking to some of the people who have b
side. and, the january 6th hearing that was set for this morning aimed at trump s influence on the department of justice has been postponed. we ll tell you what s next for the investigation into the insurrection. good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 15th. i m jonathan lemire. we re learning new details about the next january 6th committee hearing which will now take place tomorrow afternoon. a hearing originally scheduled for today has been postponed. congress woman zoe lofgren said it was stemming from an overwhelming demand on staff to produce the videos they have been showing during the hearings. as for tomorrow s hearing, the focus will be on former president trump s efforts to pressure his vice president mike pence into overturning the 2020 results. vice chair of the committee liz cheney, republican, teased ahead hearing new video she posted to twitter. the select committee will examine president trump s relentless effort on january 6
the u.s. carried out this further strike, again targeting a radar facility, so much smaller set and much more specific set of strikes. it s unclear at this point if that was specifically in response to the ballistic missile fired, or if this was simply a follow on to the previous evening s strike. a senior pentagon official said the u.s. was still conducting a battle damage assessment. it s certainly possible the u.s. saw what it had been able to destroy and realized there was another target that needed to be hit or destroyed here. the u.s. again trying to send with these other countries a message of deterrence to the houthis and a warning, president joe biden saying on friday, that if the houthi attacks on shipping continued, so too would the u.s. strikes on houthi facilities. still, the strikes have tried to be limited in scope, making it clear they re not going after all houthi infrastructure, just their ability to target international shipping lanes. the question, could they conduc
previously. the u.s. targeted 30 houthi sites across the country with more than 150 precision-guided missiles including radar sites, command and control nodes as well as storage and launch facilities for anti-ship ballistic missiles, anti-cruise ship missiles as well as drones and those are the sorts of weapons houthis used to target international shipping lanes in the red sea, one of the most critical international water ways in the world. following that series of strikes we saw according to the pentagon the houthis launch an anti-ship ballistic missile into the gulf of aidan. it didn t hit anything, but following that strike, following that launch from the houthis, the u.s. carried out this further strike, again, targeting a radar facility, so a much smaller set and specific set of strikes. it s unclear at this point if that was specifically in response to the ballistic missile fired or simply a follow-on to the previous evening s strike. a senior pentagon official said the u.s. was
it s certainly possible the u.s. saw what it had been able to destroy and realized there was another target that needed to be hit or destroyed here. the u.s., again, trying to send with these other countries a message of deterrence to the houthis and a warning, president joe biden saying on friday, if the houthi attacks on shipping continued, so too would the u.s. strikes on houthi facilities. still, the strikes have tried to be limited in scope, making it clear they re not going after all houthi infrastructure, just their ability to target international shipping lanes. the question, could they conduct sort of massive barrage like we saw them do earlier in the week? senior pentagon official says he believes from what he has seen that the houthis would be unable to conduct barrage of that magnitude based on the u.s. and coalition strikes. victor and amara? thank you so much. joining us now is retired air force colonel cedric leighton. good morning to you. i want to pick up where ore