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coverage of the breaking news out of the middle east and the u.s. strikes continues with ac 360. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. american-led air strikes in one of the most volatile hot spots in the world right now. mitts is some of the first video of explosions tonight in yemen s just north of the capital. iranian backed houthi fighters from yemen have been attacking commercial ships in the nearby red sea. there s been dozens of attacks. tonight u.s. and british forcevise struck back using air and naval assets. both surface ships and submarines with one houthi official moments ago saying multiple cities had been hit. cnn s oren leiberman at the pentagon for us tonight. m.j. lee at the white house where the president has just weighed in. i want to start at the pentagon. oren, what do we learn so far about the targets that have been hit? reporter: more than a dozen different targets were hit by u.s. aircraft and assets. it wa ....
U.s. aircraft and assets. it was also submarines that took part in this launching tomahawk attack and cruise missiles. they included also storage and launch sites for ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, as well as uavs. those three types of weapons are significant. those are the types of weapons the houthivise used to attack and frankly to try to terrorize international shipping in the red sea. it is because of that threat to one of the world s most critical international waterways that first a number of major shipping companies have chosen to avoid the red sea. but, second, that the u.s. setup what it called operation prosperity guardian, a multinational coalition to defend ships there. that was purely defensive. now, after warning repeatedly the houthis to stop these attacks, the u.s., the u.k., and backed by other countries decided they needed to take offensive action, carrying out these strikes against once again more than a dozen houthi targets across several cities in yemen. thi ....
with him. let s go to mark preston who joine joins us now from washington. cain ducked the topic during a speech last noit. do we expect him to say anything today? we do. this is something that will dog him along the campaign trail, don. something he has been battling for several weeks. several women come out and allege that he sexually harassed them during his tenure at the national restaurant association and now we have this new woman, ginger white coming out saying that she had an inappropriate relationship with mr. cain for 13 years. she spoke out about it on a local atlanta television station, as we all know, a couple days ago.addressed it th morning, again, on good morning america. do you believe that mr. cain is fit to be president or should he end his campaign? in my opinion, no, i do not. i honestly do not think that he is, in my opinion, would make a good president as far as i m concerned. my views are different than his views, but at the end of the da ....