night with a fox news alert retaliatory airstrikes have begun in the middle east, according to the pentagon strikes against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria striking more than 85 targets, the u.s. says it hit command and control open raigsdz and intelligence centers. this comes after three american soldiers were killed dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. launched by of course iranian proxies. iran is responsible pretty much for all the trouble in the region. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. any word why the targets were not in iran considering they re the source of these proxy and terror attacks? well sean officials i spoke to said they were ruling out striking inside iran in this first set of strikes, and they want to message to iran they re not tryinging to to war with iran. they re hoping iran gets the message based on these strikes against their proxies and against the irgc sites they hit tonight. the strikes las
explosions seen across russia s capital from the russian kamikaze drone strike. at least four people were killed in kyiv, including a pregnant woman. a ukrainian official says they were able to shoot down most of the drones. like this one. caught on dramatic police body cam video. the words for beldograv written on the drone. here s what she saw there. reporter: i think you can see behind me, this is an ongoing rescue effort, this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from the air. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighbors building. if we sort of look around at just how chaotic this scene is. there are dozens and dozens of paramedics, firemen, rescue workers. officials say at least 19 people were rescued from that building alone. let s start our coverage with fred pleitgen in ukraine. fred, earlier, you were at a power plant that was targeted by the russians.
and decent is an entirely different order. really, truly lost someone special today. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home this evening. california congressman kevin mccarthy, the shortest, serving speaker of the house in over 140 years is ending his extraordinary 2023 by throwing in the towel. now it is time to pursue my passion in a new arena. while i ll be departing the house at the end of this year, i will never, ever give up fighting for this country that i love so much. if you blinked, you might have missed mr. mccarthy s 10-month term as the country s highest public elected official, and that s not because it was so short, it was entirely unproductive. mccarthy bargained away basically everything to win the speaker s gavel, and he got nothing in return for it. that is the lesson for people who court the far right, who do the bidding of donald trump, who look the other way. and right now republicans all across the country are learning that lesson. remember