drone that was in the strait of hormuz. president trump says the drone had closed in on the u.s. navy ship and it ignored several calls to stand down. this is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by iran against vessels operating in international waters. the united states reserves the right to defend our personnel, our facilities and interests and calls upon all nations to condemn iran s attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation and global commerce. martha: seems like almost every day there s been an incident in the past several weeks. meanwhile, iranian state tv claims that their forces seized foreign oil tanker with 12 crew members who they accuse of smuggling oil. the u.s. is reportedly getting ready to send 500 troops to saudi arabia in a new show of force and iran s foreign minister said today is country
there was heavy shelling in several places, at least 35 people killed today. yesterday more than 200 died. opposition activists say regime forces are firing at people from low flying helicopters and syrian state tv claims at least three civilians and a security officer were killed in a suicide truck bombing. the syrian opposition wants kofi annan removed saying he has failed to broker a peace plan. a u.s. official tells cnn syria is believed to be moving some of its chemical weapons. why? it is unclear, the answer that is, but the question is causing significant concerns here in the u.s. and abroad. here is barbara starr. a new worry about how far al-assad will go to keep his grip on power. the u.s. now believes the syrian regime has moved some of its chemical weapons in recent days. as the fighting continues, u.s. officials will only say the weapons are still under the control of assad forces but a former cia director says make no mistake, the u.s. is urgently trying to ga
get. take a look at this graphic, and we can show you sort of the load that the u.s. military is bearing right now. of the 175 tomahawk missiles that have been fired. the u.s. has fired 168 of them. those cost well over a million dollars each. when you look at the number of sorties flown up 750 so far, the u.s. has flown about 450 of those with all the fuel costs and ammunition that went with it. the f-15 that went down the other day, that s a $30 million fighter jet. whether it was taken doubt out of sky as libyan state tv claims or as the pentagon says had a mechanical failure, either way it shows that no fly doesn t mean no risk. anytime you put those pilots in the air, u.s. assets are on the line, so to speak. those numbers seem to demonstrate sms this is a