least a half a dozen targets now largely in eastern syria have been picked by u.s. forces right now where the focus seems to be on getting those that were behind the attacks on those u.s. soldiers, killing three of them and injuring better than 40 last sunday. that was then. the attack is on now. we re told it s a widespread attack zone. but there s some wondering about the sites that were included in this. that these proxy sites, again those sponsored by iran, are the oned targeted. so far no such moves in i ran itself as though some expected. let s get the latest from jennifer griffin, what she s hearing at the pentagon. jennifer? i apologize. we have dan hoffman with us first from moscow. what you know of this right now, what can you tell us and what do you think? yeah, you know, syrian media reports that six targets were struck as many as six or seven may have been killed. take that with a grain of salt. this is the initial forray by the united states. they re hitting t
good afternoon, everybody. i m martha maccallum. this is the story this afternoon. a somber scene as president biden and the first lady receive the dignified transfer of three american soldiers coming home. they were killed in the drone attack in jordan at a place that is known as tower 22. there members of our armed forces supply and reinforced the protection of civilians in syria and iraq and during that attack more than 40 other service members were injured by an iranian-made drone. so the president also met with the families of these three fallen soldiers today at doer air force base in delaware. they are 46-year-old sergeant william rivers, 23-year-old specialist breonna moffett and 24-year-old specialist kennedy sanders. moffett and sanders were promoted to sergeant post posth posthumously. the president has said he has decided how to retaliate for the death of these three americans. so far we have not seen that response. dana perino is with me here in new york with a
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
right now. out front next, the breaking news u.s. air strikes in the middle east tonight. u.s. fighter jets right now striking parts of yemen with tomahawk missiles. we are waiting to hear directly from president biden as the entire middle east and the world right now are on edge. and more breaking news tonight. trump s tirade, a judge shutting the former president down after an outburst at his fraud trial in new york. could this be the beginning of the end for trump s business empire? and christie s hot mic moment everybody s been talking about. we have the man on the other end, who was speaking to christie on that mic. what else did he say and what was it really an accident? let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett, and we do begin out front tonight with the breaking news, the united states striking the middle east this hour. a u.s. official telling cnn that right now the u.s. military is carrying out strikes with fighter jets and tomahawk missiles on ye
things, need a thick skin to be president. sandra: that s all for us. john: the story with martha in iowa starts right now. martha: good afternoon, everybody. via martha maccallum maccallum and this is the story live in freezing, snowy des moines, iowa, the center of the political world for the next few days during the iowa caucuses which happened on monday. today my camping trail interviews with nikki haley and ron desantis coming up on the story. but first, this. the pentagon says that the united states does expect iran-back to houthis will retaliate. that after the united states and allies carried out massive strikes last evening against the group in yemen. take a listen now to this new threat as articulated a short time ago, watch. this rally is the first to condemn this aggression against the republic of yemen last night. it is also a message to britain and the united states of america in particular that they will pay a heavy price for this aggression. these