command in chief receive the bodies of the three killed in jordan. i m sandra smith here in new york. john: sad moment in american history. this is america reports . deadly attack happened last saturday in jordan and the u.s. has pinned it on iranian-backed proxies but yet to take any sort of action in response and critics say the delay may be giving the militia groups time to prepare for a strike and protect. sandra: rich edson is live at the white house as we await the transfer. do we know what the response will look like? we know it s coming and will have several layers but the specifics beyond that are very unclear, that s what senior officials are saying, an umbrella group of iran-backed militias in the regions killed the three. few other details about the strike. since mid october, attacked u.s. positions more than 160 times, mostly in iraq and syria. the u.s. struck the groups several times. lloyd austin says the pentagon has planned for a more substantial respo
conflict. all of that of course on the line tonight and of course this saturday morning where will is right now.w. thanank you all l for being g w and thanksks to will. it s time now for ac 360. tonight, which candidate benefits when the roads to the white house freezes over. we re live in iowa where blizzard conditions and subzero temperatures threaten to be a decisive factor in monday s caucuses. also a night after the u.s. and british air strikes on houthi targets in yemen a new message from a top houthi leader. and later cnn s donee o sullivan investigating how skeptical officials can face backlash from conspiracy theorists. thank you for joining us. we begin with iowa three days from the caucuses and the state is being hammered by winter weather. this is video of the capital des moines where the temperature is now 9 degrees. the wind chill is minus 13, and a blizzard warning is in effect. cnn s jeff zeleny is there for us tonight. jeff, i don t know how we conv
tonight which candidate benefits when the road to the white house freezes over we are live in iowa. also, tonight after u.s. and british airstrikes on targets in yemen, fighters try to make good on their threat of revenge. later, investigating how even skeptical officials can face backlash. we begin with iowa. the state is being hammered by winter weather. this is video of the capital, des moines, where the windchill is -13. a blizzard warning is in effect. jeff, how did we convince you to stand outside? how is it feeling there and how is the campaign being affected tonight? it is chilly, there is no doubt about it. the wind is the biggest issue. this is as warm as it is going to be between now and the caucuses. over the weekend it will increasingly become colder and colder. the snow is not a big concern, iowans are used to snow. it is the dangerously cold temperatures that are making the campaigns make backup plans for how to get supporters to the caucuses. excuse me, it i
the houthis in yemen. a strike for stability or a step towards escalation? the prime minister praised the success of the mission targeting the ability of the houthis to threaten commercial cargoes in the red sea, but uk maritime trade operations said there were multiples reports of small boats approaching ships tonight. as protestors filled the streets of the yemeni capital, will this escalation serve as a warning or could the west be doing exactly what the iranian backed forces want? israel is encircled. we ll hearfrom a human rights activist who s in yemen and the former cia director general david petraeus. the oil price jumped today on fears of a wider conflict involving disruption to energy flows out of the persian gulf could all this upend tentative signs of turnaround in the world economy? and with the pm in ukraine trying to help shift a stalemate, israel at the international court ofjustice over south african accusations of genocide in gaza, and china threatening ta
zakaria and general clark. what s your reaction to those drone strikes? i m glad we followed up. we ve got to do a better job of targeting. and the way you do it is you strike. you put the eyes and ears back on the area. you watch the reaction. you look at it carefully, and you build your target packages. but in every case i would hope that we would try to achieve escalation dominance over the houthis. if they fire one missile, we take out three targets. if they fire three missiles, we take out six targets. in other words, we try to stay away from a tit for tat. and ultimately if we can t take out the assets they re using to strike these ships, then we ve got to go and find assets they value more highly. fareed, one of these strikes both last night and this latest round, what do you think it means for the prospects of a wider conflict in the region? so it definitely increases