Its time to wake up because shingles could wake up in, you solomon in new york cnn coming out swinging President Biden, hammering donald trump on the Campaign Trail while his republican rival returns the favor with insults as the race heats up following last weeks state of the Union Address. Meantime, the rebuttal to that speech leading to controversy of its own. Senator katie britt wanted to focus on which she describes as President Bidens failures, but now the spotlight is on one of her own mistakes we have more fallout from britts response as she denies misleading the country with a story she told in her speech and out of the public eye, but very much on their minds, people in britain and really the whole world want to know what is going on with the princess of wales as an edited photo only fuels concerns about her health were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central were going to be hearing from President Biden soon from th
situation room. happening now, breaking news, the first deaths are reported from a powerful earthquake that flattened homes and unleashed a wall of water in japan. stand by for new images and information on the massive 7.5 quake and its aftermath. also this hour, at a critical moment in israel s fight against hamas, the nation s high court striking down a key part of a controversial government plan to limit the power of the judiciary. the unprecedented decision now threatening to fan par time tensions and division. plus, 2024 is here. the first presidential votes are now just two weeks away. we ll get the lay of the political landscape as donald trump s rivals battle to be the last republican standing in his way to the nomination. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar, and this is the situation room special report. we begin with breaking news. the earthquake disaster in japan turning deadly. at
contractor was killed and five u. s service members injured when an iranian made drone struck a base in northeastern syria. the us then retaliated with an air strike to the south. this is video posted online that reportedly captures the strike on one facility linked to iran s revolutionary guard in syria. cnn s natasha bertrand is at the pentagon for us, natasha what more are you learning? brianna will we are learning that those wounded u. s service members are now in stable condition and we are told that this drone the suspected iranian drone that targeted that coalition military base in northeastern syria, it was a quote suicide drone. it was used as a one and done type drone just to attack and then depart. and we are told that the us did retaliate. of course they did target facilities inside syria that they believe that the iranian proxy groups were using in order to store munitions as well as gather intelligence. and this is not the first time that the us has targeted ira
Individuals have been arrested recently, or people who who they know have been involved in gang activity, and it s his only a matter of time before that sort of intelligence operation gives you some leads in terms of identifying and locating these individuals. they say, this is gang related. that s how they re investigating it. what are the trends that we re seeing right now? when it comes to violent crime related to gangs? you know, violent crime is gang activity is always the source of a large percentage of the violent crime in a in a in a urban area, particularly violent crime that s fueled by guns. so i was looking just before we came on to date and philadelphia they have had 98 homicides in 2023, which is actually a 14% reduction in 20 since 2022. but the statistic that really jumps out at me brianna is they ve had about 350 shoes. shootings in philadelphia just in this year, 74 of which have been fatal if
Brianna and john. i appreciate that. when you re talking about undercover operations or human sources infiltrating criminal organizations, when you re talking about domestic extremists you have to be extremely careful because you have to have a nexus of criminal activity to actually work in here and clearly in this case from the court reportings there was that criminal nexus. and just by being involved at that capitol, that brought the ability for the fbi and law enforcement to use that technique of undercover operations. and i mean, it s a game of when is it going to be that person going from flash to bang. i think that the fbi did an unbelievably good job here in getting in front of potential violence. you can t wait until something happens and then use your undercover operations. this has to be done beforehand. but you have to have the authorities. it s a tool in the tool box that gets you to the point where you