now. it is your day. your saturday. hopefully you can maybe the best of it. we hope. i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. 8:00 on the east coast and 5:00 out west. we begin with breaking news this morning. a suspected u.s. drone strike has killed 15 people, 12 of them al qaeda suspects, three civilians in central yemen. this is the stronghold group. the terrorists were traveling in a vehicle. three civilians passing in another car. this is the same region where a chilling video of al qaeda fighters meeting with their leader surfaced on the internet just recently. we want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and our correspondent barbara starr. tom, talk us through the significance of the strike.