welcome to this special edition of jesse waters on a friday on a fr night.s i m pete hegseth. and we start tonight with a fox news alert. the u.s. military has just ag launched retaliatory attacksd against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria. u.s. central command says over 85 targets were struck.st these strikes come just days the after three american soldiers were killed in a deadly droneon attack the b on the border in j. for the latest, let s bringet in international correspondent mike tobin. mike, what do we know? well, we know that we ve got the first images coming out of irathe f comq. you just had them up a second ago, al.com, iraq. this is the very western part of iraq on the border, with syria, very near some of of the other locationthes. erent as you mentioned, some 85 targets were hitlo in seven different locations, both in iraq and syria, hit by 125 munitions. thos sevene seven locationsia are divided up to four inside of syria., three of them inside
pete hegseth, and we start tonight out with a fox news alert. the us military has just launched retaliatory attacks against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria. the us central command says over 85 targets were struck. these strikes come just days after three american soldiers were killed in a deadly drone attack on the border in jordan. for the latest, let s bring in international correspondent mike tobin. mike, what do we know? well we know that we ve got the first images coming out of iraq. you just had them up a second ago. al-qa im iraq. this is the very western part of iraq on the border with syria, very near some of the other locations, as you mentioned, some 85 targets were hit in seven different locations, both in iraq and syria. hit by 125 munitions. those seven locations are divided up to four inside of syria. three of them inside of iraq. the us says that the targets were all iranian revolution guard, command and control weapons storage, logistics, support fo
holding last-ditch talks tonight fighting to win the speaker s job. we ll tell you who s been heading into his office. also, the suspect in the brutal stabbing deaths of four college students is expected in court tomorrow. authorities seeking his return to idaho to face first degree murder charges, even as they remain silent about a possible mo motive. a deadly new year of war in ukraine. russia suffers today what may be the biggest loss of life since the start of the invasion. ukraine claiming a major strike against russian forces as moscow unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles and drones, including in kyiv. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a very big cloud of uncertainty hanging over republican kevin mccarthy s bid to be the next speaker. lawmakers will vote tomorrow on whether kevin mccarthy should hold one of the most powerful positions in washington that puts him second
you. i m jim sciutto. a busy day on this monday. the first day of the new year. new details about the 19-year-old suspect who is accused of attacking three nypd officers in times square on new year s eve. we re learning he was interviewed by the fbi and also on a terrorist watch list. officials say in his diary he detailed a desire to join the taliban and to die a martyr. and the man arrested in connection with those brutal stabbing deaths of four idaho college students set to make his first court appearance. now his family is speaking out for the first time. i ve been in touch with his family. as you can imagine, the holidays brutal for them. the january 6th committee releasing a trove of new documents overnight detailing calls by president trump ahead of the insurrection. what sort of payment rudy giuliani requested for his post-election legal services and what the committee wanted to ask former chief of staff mark meadows in a deposition. more on that in a moment.
Mainly down to a campaign, a charity called the campaign for wool. The patron is his majesty king charles iii. Nowadays, its reallyjust symbolic, done as a charity fundraiser. Any event of this nature in the city is going to attract a flock of people to come and watch. If you are in the city of london, you can expect to get lambushed by a herd of sheep. Now its time for a look at the weather with darren. The wind continuing to strengthen, cloud across the uk, a short spell of rain that moves away from scotland and Northern Ireland this evening, the wind direction changes, a northerly wind will bring in some showers. Not quite as cold as last night, temperatures in Eastern Scotland and North East England down to 7 degrees. By the time we get to tomorrow morning, the Weather Front bringing the rain band is in the english channel, and we have this run of much stronger northerly winds across the uk bringing colder air all the way from iceland, a mixture of sunshine and showers, pushed in o