good deal. see you later. j good evening. i m bret baier we are coming to you live from frigid iowa. for the 2024 presidential cycle. thousands of iowans gathering in homes, schools, churches to make their voices heard in meetings known as caucuses. they are doing this in spite of incredibly cold temperatures, hostile weather conditions throughout the state. we have fox team coverage. some of them are out there, including the latest information from our fox voter analysis just in. bill melugin is at the ron desantis headquarters in west des moines. asha has my is at the des moines headquarters nikki haley. we begin with senior national correspondent rich edson at the bales of operations for former president donald trump. good evening, rich. rich: good evening, bret. former trump says locked in tonight and campaign has every precinct in the state covered. is he going to visit one of those caucus sites tonight before coming here to watch party in des moines. trump, for mont
By terrorist in israel. The israelis are calling it a coordinated terrorist attack. Two assailants are now in custody monitoring them. Houthi rebels attacked a u. S. Cargo Ship Today in the gulf of yemen. They fired two ballistic missiles from yemen. Officials report minor damage and no injuries. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been released from the Hospital Today following complications from prostate cancer surgery. Austin was admitted january 1st. But White House officials were not notified two days later. Stock markets were closed today for the Martin Luther King jr. Holiday up next. The Freezing Forecast for iowa and much of the rest of the nation from Janice Dean from the Fox Weather Center in new york. And later there are no democratic caucuses this time. So we will check in on bidens reelection effort
convoy steaming toward yemen. and believed to be carrying heavy weapons for rebels fighting there. they are watching this developing story. just as nuclear negotiations resume in geneva a serious military stand off between the u.s. and iranian warships in the gulf of yemen. the aircraft carrier uss roosevelt entered the gulf of a den and launching aircraft and f8 hornets to fly manned recognizance of the nine ship in the iranian convoy consist of freighters suspected of carrying weapons to the rebels in yemen. and they are escorted by iranian war ships. and one of the concerns that we have with the iranian behavior in the destabling
translator: everything happened rapidly. they grabbed him and shoved him in the car. i saw them doing this and saying get in, but wasn t sure that was my husband. the cars then sped off like a rocket. reporter: al libi, a senior al qaeda operative wanted for the 1998 embassy bombings in africa, is now on a u.s. navy ship in the mediterranean. ikrima, the target of the somalia raid, remains at large. the operations show america s increasing focus on the growing terror threat emanating from africa. in mali and algeria, al qaeda and the islamic magreb and just across the gulf of yemen, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. unlike in iraq and afghanistan, now the u.s. is relying on smaller, swifter operations. james liddy is a former navy s.e.a.l. commando. the united states is showing once again that it s not going to let terrorists dictate the war on terror. a surgical strike makes a lot of sense to try to minimize the