middle east. and i am jackie ibanez and back to regular programming in progress. laura: of course rumors ofws the strikes have been around for hours. knows how effective they are and in fact the wall street journal says and anticipation, the houthi with equipment andhi fortified other positions while houthi militants evacuatesed the red cy city. a what we know is that we have a middle east raging out of control while the white houseag and the pentagon give thees impression, at least nothingsi more than listless vessels driving the american people into this understanding that there is just no one at the home. joining me now is fox news e correspondent peter doocy. this just broke.g what are you hearing tonight?th speak with the first word of this is coming from the team ata the pentagon. they are saying a dozen locations with em and have beena combination of surface and air basically weapons. that means some sort of missile and then aircraft, we are told m if i can just l
taking place as we speak between israel and hamas inside the gaza strip the houthi fired on commercialsp shipping vessels appear they have taken over the galaxyat leader and cargo ship. it is japanese flag and theyeric hold that vessel today.oi they havnge threatened american forces eff in the reach him.it there has been ongoing effort by e united states and allies to come up with coalition tome respond tomb the ongoing attackw by t houthis. the secretary of defense lloyd austin meeting with israeli counterpar gt here in tel aviv operation prosperity guardian,sg an effort to respond to the houthi attacks against thef red sea shipping lanes. tit is significant because u.s. secretary of state antont y blinken was in the middle east over the past week. v he was meeting with his counterparts. the during those visits, heip discussed that this hapis done o the region and global shippingba as a whole, saving 20% of globaa