hello and welcome everyone. i m michael holmes in atlanta. appreciate your company. we begin with breaking news, and concerns about a possible widening of conflict in the middle east. the u.s. and uk have been striking houthi targets in yemen following a surge of attacks by the iran-backed rebels against commercial vessels in the red sea. have a look at these images that came in a short time ago, showing american fighter jets taking off from the uss eisenhower aircraft carrier. a senior u.s. military official says it is unclear what percentage of who the assets were destroyed inside yemen, but said the amount was significant. houthis say they retaliated. we are told u.s. and coalition forces hit more than 60 targets at 16 of the locations, and those targets included the militants radar systems along with storage and launch sites for ballistic myself, cruise missiles, and drones. i can show you where they are located. you can see there on the map, the u.s. has carried out s
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
breaking news this hour, the u.s. ant britain going after militants backed and funded by iran. not long ago, iran condemned the strikes calling them a violation of international law. and russia has requested an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council later today. the coalition strikes are a direct response to the worsening surge of attacks on ships in the red sea from houthi. many of the houthi launches have been intercepted by the u.s. led coalition that had been playing defense until now. american fighter jets have been taking off from the uss dwight d eisenhower aircraft carrier to carry out their mission. the u.s. president issued this statement. these targeted strikes are a clear message that the united states will not allow attacks on ore personnel or imperil freedom of navigation. i will not hesitate to take further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary. we are also hearing from the pentagon. we reserve the rig
Learn facts on capitol hill well, hello, and welcome into our view is joining us from Around The World. Im Becky Anderson. It is monday, may the 20, nine in am here in london. It is 11 30 a. M. In iran, where the government is expressing condolences over the deaths of president Ebrahim Raisi the countrys president , and the Foreign Minister and seven others in a helicopter, crash, rescuers are trans sparing the bodies of those killed from the crash side. And irans East Azerbaijan province to the city of tabriz. Iranian Officials Say the Helicopter Ran into trouble amid heavy fog on sunday afternoon. At the time of the crash, there were lowhanging clouds and Cool Temperatures across the region with fog settling in as the sunset will images of the Crash Site Show the remote mountainous area where the aircraft went down. The president and other officials have been attending and Inauguration Ceremony of a new near the border with azerbaijan ive and watson following action from around the r
least this is what they re saying. one of which we re looking at right here. sana in yemen, north of sana itself. when you think about yemen itself and where we now understand where these strikes were at least coming up from the houthi side where they were struck, what does that say to you? first, it goes to the level of planning. let s compare to iraq and syria when the u.s. carries out a strike there. that s normally one target or a couple of targets. this was on a much broader scale than that, which requires a level of coordination especially when you re doing this with an ally and other partners backing you up. this isn t something you can plan on your own. you can try to plan it quickly, but that of course all takes time. knowing where your targets are, knowing what kind of assets you have to use and then coordinating that between different assets launching your attack, and that is fighter jets, surface vessels as well as submarines, and using an ally to